0:00:15 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:23University Challenge. Asking the questions -
0:00:23 > 0:00:24Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello, tonight's match is between two Cambridge colleges
0:00:32 > 0:00:35who emerged among the walking wounded from round one.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Although each lost their first contest,
0:00:37 > 0:00:40they did so with scores higher than some winning totals in other games.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Whichever team wins tonight will take the final place
0:00:43 > 0:00:45in the second round.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48The team from Homerton College Cambridge were defeated
0:00:48 > 0:00:50rather convincingly in their first round match
0:00:50 > 0:00:54with 145 points against the 230 of New College Oxford
0:00:54 > 0:00:55but, even so, they impressed us
0:00:55 > 0:00:58with their knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence,
0:00:58 > 0:00:59Arabic calligraphy
0:00:59 > 0:01:02and how much the names of capital cities would be worth
0:01:02 > 0:01:05it they were allowed in the game of Scrabble.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07Representing one of the University's newest colleges
0:01:07 > 0:01:11and with an average age of 19, let's meet the Homerton team again.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Hi, I'm Jack Hooper from Altrincham in Cheshire
0:01:14 > 0:01:16and I'm sitting natural sciences.
0:01:16 > 0:01:17Hi, I'm Michael Angland.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20I'm from Cork in Ireland and I'm studying Arabic and Spanish.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23- And their captain. - Hi, my name's Luke Fitzgerald.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26I'm from Hadley in Suffolk and I'm studying history.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27Hello, my name is Drew Miley.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30I'm from the city of Durham and I'm reading mathematics.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34APPLAUSE
0:01:34 > 0:01:36Now, King's College may be
0:01:36 > 0:01:39the more senior of the two Cambridge institutions competing tonight
0:01:39 > 0:01:41but their first-round scores are identical.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45King's earned their 145 points against a team of medics
0:01:45 > 0:01:47from St George's London.
0:01:47 > 0:01:48They trailed for most of the match
0:01:48 > 0:01:51but took the lead with only five minutes to go,
0:01:51 > 0:01:54merely to lose it again and find themselves 30 points adrift at the gong.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58With an average age of 20, let's meet the King's team again.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Hello there, I'm Curtis Gallant.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03I'm from North London and I'm a first year classics undergraduate.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Hello, I'm Amber Ace.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09I'm from Crieff in Perthshire and I'm also studying classics.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12- And now their captain introduces herself.- Hi, I'm Fran Middleton.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14I'm from Chorleywood in Hertfordshire
0:02:14 > 0:02:16and I'm doing a PhD in classics.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20Hello, I'm James Gratrex. I'm from Leeds and I'm reading physics.
0:02:20 > 0:02:25APPLAUSE
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Well, let's get on with it then, everyone. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Etymologically unrelated, meanings of what three letter word
0:02:33 > 0:02:37include a shrub with aromatic leaves used in cookery
0:02:37 > 0:02:39and for triumphal crowns, a brown horse...
0:02:39 > 0:02:40BUZZER
0:02:40 > 0:02:41Bay.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44- Bay is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:02:44 > 0:02:47So, the first set of bonuses go to you, King's College.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49They are on trijunctions or tripoints.
0:02:49 > 0:02:53In other words, places where three geographical boundaries meet.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55Firstly, the hill known as the Vaalserberg
0:02:55 > 0:02:59lies close to the point where the border of Germany meets
0:02:59 > 0:03:01that separating which two other countries?
0:03:01 > 0:03:04THEY WHISPER
0:03:08 > 0:03:11- It's not Switzerland. - Czech Republic, maybe.
0:03:11 > 0:03:12Poland and the Czech Republic?
0:03:12 > 0:03:14No, it's Belgium and the Netherlands.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17Secondly, giving its name to an agreement of 1985
0:03:17 > 0:03:21aimed at simplifying border controls, the town of Schengen
0:03:21 > 0:03:25lies close to the tripoint of which three countries?
0:03:28 > 0:03:29China?
0:03:29 > 0:03:35No, no, no. There's the Euro agreement is based on Schengen.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Yeah, that's...
0:03:37 > 0:03:38THEY WHISPER
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Italy, France, Switzerland.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42No, it's Germany, France and Luxembourg.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46And finally, which major city lies immediately to the south
0:03:46 > 0:03:48of the trijunction of Germany, France and Switzerland?
0:03:51 > 0:03:56THEY WHISPER
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Zurich.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00No, it's Basel. Right, 10 points for this.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03Rudolph I who became king of Germany in 1273 is often
0:04:03 > 0:04:06described as the founder of which European dynasty?
0:04:06 > 0:04:09A principal sovereign dynasty from the 15th century,
0:04:09 > 0:04:12its prominent members included Maria Teresa and...
0:04:12 > 0:04:14BELL
0:04:14 > 0:04:15The Habsburgs.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:04:18 > 0:04:23These bonuses are on biographies by Peter Ackroyd, Homerton College.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Peter Ackroyd's 1995 biography of which poet and artist
0:04:26 > 0:04:30describes his birth as taking place above a hosier's shop
0:04:30 > 0:04:33in Soho on a November evening in 1757?
0:04:33 > 0:04:37THEY WHISPER
0:04:44 > 0:04:45Daniel Defoe.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47No, it's William Blake.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51Published in 1984, Ackroyd's biography of which poet and Nobel laureate describes him
0:04:51 > 0:04:54on his entrance to Harvard in 1906 as having,
0:04:54 > 0:05:00"That clean cut listlessness which is characteristic of well bred Americans?"
0:05:00 > 0:05:04THEY WHISPER
0:05:07 > 0:05:08Frost.
0:05:08 > 0:05:09No, it's TS Eliot.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Who was the subject of Ackroyd's biography of 2006 in which,
0:05:12 > 0:05:14describing his subject's birth,
0:05:14 > 0:05:18he notes that in 1564 it was the custom in Warwickshire
0:05:18 > 0:05:23to feed a suckling child the brain of a hare cooked down to a jelly?
0:05:23 > 0:05:26THEY WHISPER
0:05:26 > 0:05:28William Shakespeare.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Correct. Right, another starter question now.
0:05:30 > 0:05:36Quote, a large black circle with three 60 degree sections removed
0:05:36 > 0:05:39and a smaller black circle inscribed at the centre usually on a yellow...
0:05:39 > 0:05:40BELL
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Radioactivity.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:05:45 > 0:05:47These bonuses are on English counties
0:05:47 > 0:05:50whose customary abbreviations, when read aloud, become a homophone
0:05:50 > 0:05:52or near homophone of a common word.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56For example, fastenings in a length of string gives knots
0:05:56 > 0:05:58so the answer would be Nottinghamshire.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01In each case give the name of the county whose abbreviation
0:06:01 > 0:06:03corresponds to the definition.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07Firstly, brightness or lustre on a smooth surface.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16THEY WHISPER
0:06:16 > 0:06:17We don't know.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19That's Gloucestershire, as in as in gloss.
0:06:19 > 0:06:23Cheers, invigorates or throws a rider.
0:06:24 > 0:06:25Buckinghamshire.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26Correct.
0:06:26 > 0:06:31Loses energy or confidence or droops through lack of water.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33- Wiltshire.- Wiltshire.
0:06:33 > 0:06:34Correct. Wilts.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36- APPLAUSE - 10 points for this.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38What French surname links the philosopher who wrote
0:06:38 > 0:06:42The Structuralist Histories, The Birth Of The Clinic and The Order Of Things
0:06:42 > 0:06:45and the physicist whose proof that the Earth rotates about its axis
0:06:45 > 0:06:48was demonstrated by the pendulum that now bears his name?
0:06:48 > 0:06:49BUZZER
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Foucault.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55- Foucault is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:06:55 > 0:06:57These bonuses are on physics, King's.
0:06:57 > 0:07:02Expressed in SI-based units, what quantity is given by
0:07:02 > 0:07:088.85 x 10 to the -12 seconds to the fourth ampere squared per cubic metre kilogram?
0:07:09 > 0:07:12Nominate Gratrex.
0:07:12 > 0:07:13Permittivity of a vacuum.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17Correct. Determining the strength of the electric field within
0:07:17 > 0:07:20a medium for a given arrangement of electric charges, permittivity
0:07:20 > 0:07:25is more conveniently expressed in SI-derived units of Farads per what?
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Per metre?
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Correct. If you take a normal pressure
0:07:35 > 0:07:37air filled parallel plate capacitor of one micro farad
0:07:37 > 0:07:40then double the separation between its conducting plates
0:07:40 > 0:07:45and replace the air with a dielectric of relative permittivity
0:07:45 > 0:07:50of 1,000, what, in micro farads, is the new device's capacitance?
0:07:50 > 0:07:54HE WHISPERS
0:07:54 > 0:07:55500.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58- Correct. Well done. - APPLAUSE
0:07:58 > 0:08:02Right, level pegging and we're going to take our first picture round.
0:08:02 > 0:08:03For your picture starter,
0:08:03 > 0:08:06you'll see a diagram of some of the UK's tallest buildings.
0:08:06 > 0:08:1010 points if you can give me the precise name of the one highlighted.
0:08:11 > 0:08:12BELL
0:08:12 > 0:08:14Canary Wharf.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16No. I want the precise name.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18BUZZER
0:08:18 > 0:08:19One Canada Square.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:08:23 > 0:08:24That gives you the lead.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27These bonuses are three more of the UK's tallest buildings.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Five points for each you can name.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32Firstly, the building highlighted here.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36WHISPERING
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Pass. We don't know.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49That's the Beetham Tower here in Manchester.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Secondly, this specific address of this building.
0:08:55 > 0:09:00It's the Gherkin but it's the 30 St Mary's Axe something.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Nominate Gallant.
0:09:02 > 0:09:0630 St Mary's Axe.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Yeah, I'll accept that. 30 St Mary Axe.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Yes, the Gherkin. Well done.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13And finally, by what name has this been known since 1998?
0:09:16 > 0:09:21THEY WHISPER
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Sorry, we don't know.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25That's Tower 42 previously known as the NatWest Tower.
0:09:25 > 0:09:2710 points for this.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30Named after the French biologist who published it in the early 1800s,
0:09:30 > 0:09:34which now discredited theory of biological evolution held that...
0:09:34 > 0:09:36BELL
0:09:36 > 0:09:37Lamarckism.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:09:41 > 0:09:45These bonuses, Homerton College, are on American photographers.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Firstly, for five, married to the painter Roland Penrose,
0:09:48 > 0:09:50which photographer born in 1907 is remembered
0:09:50 > 0:09:52both for her fashion shoots
0:09:52 > 0:09:57and for her evocative photographs of the liberation of Paris in 1944?
0:09:57 > 0:10:02Do we know any American photographers?
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Anne Leibovitz.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07No, it's Lee Miller.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Together with her huddled children, Florence Owens Thompson,
0:10:10 > 0:10:13an impoverished pea-picker in California,
0:10:13 > 0:10:15became the subject in 1936 of Migrant Mother,
0:10:15 > 0:10:19the most celebrated image of which photographer?
0:10:21 > 0:10:22Anne... Pardon?
0:10:23 > 0:10:24Anne Leibovitz.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27No. That was Dorothea Lange.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30And finally, best known for her work for Rolling Stone
0:10:30 > 0:10:32and Vanity Fair, Annie Leibovitz
0:10:32 > 0:10:34took the last portraits of which performer
0:10:34 > 0:10:37on the day he died in December 1980?
0:10:37 > 0:10:41THEY WHISPER
0:10:41 > 0:10:42John Belushi.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44No, it's John Lennon. 10 points for this.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47The birthplace of Karl Marx in 1818,
0:10:47 > 0:10:50which German city close to the border with Luxembourg
0:10:50 > 0:10:53is the location of the Porta Nigra gate and the basilica
0:10:53 > 0:10:56that is the largest intact Roman structure outside Rome?
0:10:56 > 0:10:57BELL
0:10:57 > 0:10:59Cologne.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Anyone like to buzz from King's College?
0:11:03 > 0:11:04It's Trier or Treves.
0:11:04 > 0:11:0610 points for this.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08What name did Edouard Manet give
0:11:08 > 0:11:11to his controversial 1863 portrait of Victorine Meurent?
0:11:11 > 0:11:12BUZZER
0:11:12 > 0:11:13Olympia.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17- Olympia is right, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:11:17 > 0:11:20These bonuses, King's College, are on Chinese history.
0:11:20 > 0:11:25Born around 45 BCE, the short rule of the usurper Wang divides
0:11:25 > 0:11:29the Western and Eastern periods of which Chinese dynasty?
0:11:29 > 0:11:32THEY WHISPER
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Qing?
0:11:34 > 0:11:36No, its the Han.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38An Lushan was a general of Central Asian descent
0:11:38 > 0:11:40who rebelled against which dynasty?
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Though suppressed, the rebellion caused great loss of life
0:11:42 > 0:11:45and a weakening of central authority.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49THEY WHISPER
0:11:49 > 0:11:50Tan?
0:11:50 > 0:11:52No, I can't accept Tan. It's Tang.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56And finally, the Taiping and Nien rebellions
0:11:56 > 0:11:59were major disturbances during which Chinese dynasty?
0:11:59 > 0:12:04THEY WHISPER
0:12:04 > 0:12:07- Ming?- No, It's the Qing. Right, another starter question.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Answer as soon as your named.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12If two bananas and one apricot cost 70 pence
0:12:12 > 0:12:15and one banana and two apricots cost 80 pence,
0:12:15 > 0:12:18how much does one banana and one apricot cost?
0:12:20 > 0:12:21BUZZER
0:12:21 > 0:12:2450p.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27- Correct. Yes. - APPLAUSE
0:12:27 > 0:12:30Right, these bonuses are on place names, King's College.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34Lying on Akrotiri Bay, what is the English name of the chief port
0:12:34 > 0:12:37and second-largest city of the republic of Cyprus?
0:12:37 > 0:12:41THEY WHISPER
0:12:41 > 0:12:46It's not... When Nicosia was the capital... There's...
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Let's have it, please.
0:12:50 > 0:12:51Lefkandi?
0:12:51 > 0:12:53No, it's Limassol.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Limavady in Northern Ireland is associated with
0:12:56 > 0:13:00which traditional folk tune first transcribed there in the mid-19th century?
0:13:02 > 0:13:04THEY WHISPER
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Yeah, that makes sense.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Nominate Ace.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Londonderry Air.
0:13:10 > 0:13:15Correct. Yes. And finally, the island of Limasawa where Ferdinand Magellan landed
0:13:15 > 0:13:19in 1521 after crossing the Pacific is in which present-day country?
0:13:19 > 0:13:21I think that might be the Philippines.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23The Philippines.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25Correct. 10 points for this. Particularly associated with
0:13:25 > 0:13:28continental Europe during the first half of the 18th century,
0:13:28 > 0:13:31which artistic style is thought to derive its name from
0:13:31 > 0:13:33either a French word for shell work
0:13:33 > 0:13:36or the Italian word for the earlier baroque period?
0:13:36 > 0:13:37BELL
0:13:37 > 0:13:39Orinoco.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42No. King's college? One of you buzz?
0:13:42 > 0:13:43BUZZER
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Rococo.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47- Rococo is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:13:47 > 0:13:49The Orinoco is a river.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52Right, a set of bonuses now for King's College on crystallography.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Born in 1811, which French physicist gives his name
0:13:55 > 0:13:59to the infinite set of points generated by discrete transactions
0:13:59 > 0:14:01of the primitive vectors of a lattice?
0:14:06 > 0:14:10THEY WHISPER
0:14:10 > 0:14:11Nominate Gratrex.
0:14:11 > 0:14:12Brillouin.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16No, it's Auguste Bravais. What name is given, secondly, to the lattice of vectors K
0:14:16 > 0:14:19such that E to the IKR equals 1
0:14:19 > 0:14:23where R is a vector in the Bravais lattice?
0:14:23 > 0:14:24- Reciprocal lattice.- Correct.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27After a French physicist born 1889,
0:14:27 > 0:14:30what name is given to the primitive unit cell of the reciprocal lattice?
0:14:30 > 0:14:32- That's Brillouin.- Nominate Gratrex.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34That's Brillouin.
0:14:34 > 0:14:35It is indeed, yes.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Right, we are going to take a music round now.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41For your music starter you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:41 > 0:14:4410 points if you can give me the name of the German composer.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:51 > 0:14:52BELL
0:14:52 > 0:14:55Brahms.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57No. You can hear a little more, King's College.
0:14:57 > 0:15:01MUSIC RESUMES
0:15:05 > 0:15:06BUZZER
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Schumann.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11No, it's Bruch. It's his Scottish Fantasy.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14So, music bonuses shortly. Another starter question now.
0:15:14 > 0:15:18The name of which are addictive drug is an anagram of an adjective
0:15:18 > 0:15:21that means pertaining to large expanses of sea,
0:15:21 > 0:15:23for example the Atlantic and Pacific.
0:15:23 > 0:15:24BELL
0:15:24 > 0:15:26Cocaine.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28Cocaine is correct, yes.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31So, following on from Bruch, your music bonuses
0:15:31 > 0:15:34you get, Homerton, they are three more pieces
0:15:34 > 0:15:36all inspired by Scotland.
0:15:36 > 0:15:42In each case I simply want you to name the composer. Firstly, this 19th century French composer.
0:15:42 > 0:15:46CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Debussy?
0:16:00 > 0:16:02No, that's Berlioz's Overture To Rob Roy.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05Secondly, this 20th century English composer.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Vaughan Williams.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25No, that's Peter Maxwell Davies's Orkney Wedding With Sunrise.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29And finally, this 19th century French composer.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:33 > 0:16:35Debussy?
0:16:35 > 0:16:36That is Debussy. Marche Ecossaise.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38Right, 10 points for this.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41The centre of a diocese dating to the sixth century,
0:16:41 > 0:16:43which locality in Denbighshire had its city status
0:16:43 > 0:16:47restored in 2012 to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee?
0:16:49 > 0:16:50BUZZER
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Chelmsford.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56In Denbighshire? Homerton, one of you buzz.
0:16:56 > 0:16:57BELL
0:16:57 > 0:16:59St Albans.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01No, it's... In Denbighshire again?
0:17:01 > 0:17:03No, it's St Asaph. 10 points for this.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Listen carefully. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Four months of the year have exactly the same spelling
0:17:08 > 0:17:11in both German and English. For 10 points, name two of them.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13BELL
0:17:13 > 0:17:14April and September.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Yes, the others are August and November.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19So, a set of bonuses for you now, Homerton College,
0:17:19 > 0:17:21on mammalian physiology.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23Firstly, for five points,
0:17:23 > 0:17:26comprising Bowman's capsule, convoluted tubule and loop of Henle,
0:17:26 > 0:17:30what is the basic structural and functional unit of the kidney?
0:17:30 > 0:17:34THEY WHISPER
0:17:34 > 0:17:36- Nominate Hooper.- The renal tubule.
0:17:36 > 0:17:37No, it's the nephron.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40Receiving blood from an afferent renal arteriole,
0:17:40 > 0:17:43what name is given to the network of capillaries in Bowman's capsule?
0:17:43 > 0:17:45THEY WHISPER
0:17:45 > 0:17:47- Nominate Hooper.- The glomerulus.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50Correct. What term denotes the fine muscular ducts
0:17:50 > 0:17:53that propel urine from the kidneys to the bladder?
0:17:53 > 0:17:57THEY WHISPER
0:17:57 > 0:17:59- Ureter.- That's correct.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Another starter question. Nantwich Town,
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Truro City and Whitley Bay are among recent winners
0:18:03 > 0:18:05of which football competition? It replaced...
0:18:05 > 0:18:07BELL
0:18:07 > 0:18:08FA Vase.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12- FA Vase is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Homerton, these bonuses are on the names of politicians.
0:18:15 > 0:18:20Luiz Inacio Da Silva added which short nickname to his legal name?
0:18:20 > 0:18:23He was elected as his country's president in 2002.
0:18:23 > 0:18:24- Lula.- Correct.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28The politician born in 1913 and named Herbert Frahm
0:18:28 > 0:18:31adopted what name in order to evade arrest
0:18:31 > 0:18:35after the Nazis came to power and he became German Chancellor in 1969?
0:18:35 > 0:18:39THEY WHISPER
0:18:39 > 0:18:41- Brandt.- Correct.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45Born Leslie Lynch King Jr in 1913.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Who was renamed after his stepfather
0:18:47 > 0:18:49and served briefly as vice president
0:18:49 > 0:18:51and then president of the United States?
0:18:51 > 0:18:54THEY WHISPER
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Lyndon Baines Johnson.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02No, it was Gerald Ford.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04The scores are 100 point apiece. A second picture round.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07For your picture starter, you're going to see a fresco.
0:19:07 > 0:19:1010 points if you can give me the name of the artist, please.
0:19:10 > 0:19:11BUZZER
0:19:12 > 0:19:13Raphael.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16Raphael is correct. It's the School of Athens.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19Now, some of the depictions within it are open to conjecture.
0:19:19 > 0:19:20Others are regarded as certain
0:19:20 > 0:19:24and from those I want you to identify the following philosophers.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Firstly.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29THEY WHISPER
0:19:29 > 0:19:30- Socrates.- That is Socrates. Secondly.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34THEY WHISPER
0:19:34 > 0:19:36- Diogenes the Cynic.- Correct.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40And finally, from the central point of the composition, both these figures.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42THEY WHISPER
0:19:42 > 0:19:43Plato and Aristotle.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46Indeed. How useful to have three classicists on your team.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48APPLAUSE
0:19:48 > 0:19:49Right, 10 points for this.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52An alkene produced by plants, what gas functions as...
0:19:52 > 0:19:54BELL
0:19:54 > 0:19:55- Ethene.- Correct.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57APPLAUSE
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Your bonuses this time, Homerton College,
0:19:59 > 0:20:04are on terms that begin with the prefix syn, that's S-Y-N.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06In each case give the word from the definition.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09Firstly, an adjective applied to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke
0:20:09 > 0:20:12meaning they described events from a similar point of view.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14- Synoptic.- Correct.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17A verb meaning to displace the beats or accents in music
0:20:17 > 0:20:21so that strong beats become weak or vice versa.
0:20:21 > 0:20:22Syncopate.
0:20:22 > 0:20:23Correct. And finally,
0:20:23 > 0:20:25a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent
0:20:25 > 0:20:27the whole or the reverse.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31For example, England beat Australia by 10 wickets.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32Synecdoche.
0:20:32 > 0:20:33Synecdoche is correct.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35- 10 points for this. - APPLAUSE
0:20:35 > 0:20:39"I suppose the body to be just a statue or a machine made of earth."
0:20:39 > 0:20:43Which French philosopher made that statement in the 1633 work
0:20:43 > 0:20:44Treaties On Man?
0:20:44 > 0:20:46BELL
0:20:46 > 0:20:49- Descartes.- Descartes is correct. You get the lead.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Your bonuses are on fictional planets.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54In each case name the author who created the following.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58Firstly, Caladan, Chusuk, Parmentier and Arrakis.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02THEY WHISPER
0:21:02 > 0:21:05- Terry Pratchett.- No, it's Frank Herbert in the Dune novels.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Secondly, Urras, Davenant, Rokanan and Gethen.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Terry Pratchett.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15No, that's Ursula K Le Guin.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18And finally, Kalgan, Helicon, Askone, Trantor and Terminus.
0:21:18 > 0:21:23THEY WHISPER
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Let's have it, please.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28- HG Wells?- No, it's Isaac Asimov in the Foundation series.
0:21:28 > 0:21:3010 points for this. In optics
0:21:30 > 0:21:32what unit is used to classify the power of a lens
0:21:32 > 0:21:35with a dimensional value of inverse metres?
0:21:35 > 0:21:36BELL
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Is it dioptre?
0:21:38 > 0:21:40- It is dioptre, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:21:40 > 0:21:44Your bonuses are on medical terminology, Homerton College.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47In each case give the anatomical feature denoted by the following
0:21:47 > 0:21:48Greek derived prefixes.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Firstly, blepharo.
0:21:50 > 0:21:51THEY WHISPER
0:21:51 > 0:21:52Eyes?
0:21:52 > 0:21:54No, it's the eyelid.
0:21:54 > 0:21:55Secondly, spondylo.
0:21:55 > 0:22:00THEY WHISPER
0:22:00 > 0:22:04- Fingertips.- No, it's the vertebrae or spine. And finally, myo.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06THEY WHISPER
0:22:06 > 0:22:08- Heart.- No, it's muscle.
0:22:08 > 0:22:1010 points for this.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12"Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse
0:22:12 > 0:22:16"and brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse."
0:22:16 > 0:22:19Which poet wrote those words in the 1809 satire
0:22:19 > 0:22:21English Bards and Scotch Reviewers?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23BUZZER
0:22:23 > 0:22:24Byron.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27- Byron is correct. Yes. - APPLAUSE
0:22:27 > 0:22:30Your bonuses this time are on an EU member state, King's College.
0:22:30 > 0:22:34The Gulf of Finland separates Finland from the Russian Federation
0:22:34 > 0:22:36and which former Soviet republic?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38- Estonia.- Correct.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40A little smaller than the Western Isles, what is the largest
0:22:40 > 0:22:44island of Estonia and the second largest in the Baltic Sea?
0:22:44 > 0:22:46- Pass, sorry.- It's Saaremaa.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50And finally, Estonia joined the Eurozone on January the 1st of which year?
0:22:50 > 0:22:54THEY WHISPER
0:22:54 > 0:22:562010.
0:22:56 > 0:22:57No, it's 2011.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Four minutes or so to go. 10 points for this.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02In an Acts of the Apostles, to which city was Saul of Tarsus travelling
0:23:02 > 0:23:04when he experienced...
0:23:04 > 0:23:05BUZZER
0:23:05 > 0:23:07- Damascus.- Damascus is correct.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09APPLAUSE
0:23:09 > 0:23:12These bonuses are on British history, as you retake the lead.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14In each case named the 20th century prime minister
0:23:14 > 0:23:17who was served by the following chancellors of the Exchequer.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Firstly, Anthony Barber.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22THEY WHISPER
0:23:22 > 0:23:23MacMillan.
0:23:23 > 0:23:24MacMillan.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27No, it was Edward Heath. Secondly, Philip Snowden.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30THEY WHISPER
0:23:30 > 0:23:31- Who?- Attlee.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33- Attlee. - No, that was Ramsay MacDonald.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35And finally, David Lloyd George.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38- Oh, that was Asquith.- Asquith.
0:23:38 > 0:23:39Correct. 10 points for this.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42What surname is shared by two men who were appointed Home Secretary
0:23:42 > 0:23:46within 12 years of each other in 1992 and 2004 respectively?
0:23:49 > 0:23:51BUZZER
0:23:51 > 0:23:52Green.
0:23:52 > 0:23:53No. One of you buzz.
0:23:53 > 0:23:54BELL
0:23:54 > 0:23:56Reid.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59No, it's Clarke. Kenneth and Charles Clarke. 10 points for this.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02In 1013, which king of England was forced into exile in Normandy
0:24:02 > 0:24:03by the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05He's commonly known by a nickname that means...
0:24:05 > 0:24:06BELL
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Canute.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11No. I'm afraid you lose five points. A nickname that means ill-advised.
0:24:11 > 0:24:12BUZZER
0:24:12 > 0:24:14- Ethelred.- Ethelred is correct.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17APPLAUSE
0:24:17 > 0:24:19These bonuses are on a Scottish town.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22The traditional haddock dish called a smokie is named after
0:24:22 > 0:24:25which town situated on the east coast of Scotland
0:24:25 > 0:24:27around 50 miles from Dundee?
0:24:27 > 0:24:28Nominate Ace.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30- Arbroath.- Correct.
0:24:30 > 0:24:34Arbroath lies in which unitary authority region created in 1996?
0:24:34 > 0:24:37It has Forfar as its administrative headquarters.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41I want to say Dumfries and Galloway.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43GRATREX: East Fife?
0:24:43 > 0:24:44East Fife?
0:24:44 > 0:24:48No, it's Angus. And finally, the declaration of Arbroath,
0:24:48 > 0:24:50a document sent to the Pope in 1320,
0:24:50 > 0:24:52was written with the aim of establishing which leader
0:24:52 > 0:24:54as King of Scotland in preference to Edward I?
0:24:54 > 0:24:58THEY WHISPER
0:25:01 > 0:25:03- Let's have it, please.- James I of Scotland.- No, it's Robert I.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06Robert the Bruce. 10 points for this.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Which US Canadian singer-songwriter
0:25:08 > 0:25:11made his debut as a composer of opera in 2009 with Prima Donna?
0:25:11 > 0:25:13BUZZER
0:25:13 > 0:25:15- Rufus Wainwright.- Correct.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18APPLAUSE
0:25:18 > 0:25:20These bonuses, King's College, are on protozoan diseases.
0:25:20 > 0:25:25Which site of the human body is infected by Entamoeba histolytica?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28THEY WHISPER
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Large intestine.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Yes, I'll accept that. The alimentary canal,
0:25:34 > 0:25:36the intestine, the gut generally.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38What is the insect vector of leishmaniasis?
0:25:38 > 0:25:40THEY WHISPER
0:25:40 > 0:25:42The liver.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Sandflies.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47What is the insect vector of trypanosomiasis
0:25:47 > 0:25:49or African sleeping sickness?
0:25:49 > 0:25:50Would that be the tsetse fly?
0:25:50 > 0:25:54- Nominate...him...Gratrex. - LAUGHTER
0:25:54 > 0:25:56The tsetse fly?
0:25:56 > 0:25:57The tsetse fly
0:25:57 > 0:26:00is correct, yes. Right, another starter question.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Bergamia, sinensis and aurantium
0:26:02 > 0:26:04are three species of which citrus fruit?
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Their common names are Bergamot, Sweet and Seville.
0:26:07 > 0:26:08BUZZER
0:26:08 > 0:26:09Oh, sorry, orange.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Orange is correct, yes.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14These bonuses are also on fruit.
0:26:14 > 0:26:18Used in Japanese cuisine, the Yuzu, Sudachi and Mikan
0:26:18 > 0:26:21are among fruit of what genus?
0:26:21 > 0:26:25THEY WHISPER
0:26:25 > 0:26:27- Come on, let's have it.- Lychee. - No, it's citrus.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Taking the second part of its binomial from its Japanese name,
0:26:30 > 0:26:36Diospyros kaki bears sweet, orange fruit that resemble large tomatoes.
0:26:36 > 0:26:37What is its common name?
0:26:37 > 0:26:39It's not a persimmon, is it? I'm not sure.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41A what? Nominate Ace.
0:26:41 > 0:26:42Persimmon?
0:26:42 > 0:26:43Correct. Or a Sharon fruit.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Often known by the Japanese name nashi,
0:26:45 > 0:26:50Pyrus pyrifolia bears a crisp, apple-shaped type of what fruit?
0:26:50 > 0:26:52THEY WHISPER
0:26:52 > 0:26:53A plum?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55No, it's a pear. 10 points for this.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57The Webster-Ashburton Treaty
0:26:57 > 0:27:01of 1842 adjusted the boundary between the New Brunswick in Canada
0:27:01 > 0:27:02and which US state?
0:27:02 > 0:27:03BELL
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Maine.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Maine is correct. Your bonuses this time are on
0:27:07 > 0:27:09the city of Dublin, Homerton College.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12The two components of the name Dublin have the same meaning
0:27:12 > 0:27:15as those of the name of which English town
0:27:15 > 0:27:18located about 130 miles across the Irish Sea?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20- Blackpool.- Correct.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22After an annual fair that was outlawed in the 1850s,
0:27:22 > 0:27:25the name of which area of Dublin has come to mean
0:27:25 > 0:27:27a scene of uproar or disorder?
0:27:29 > 0:27:31I don't know that.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33- Crumlin.- No, it's Donnybrook.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36The Shadow Of A Gunman is the first of the so-called Dublin trilogy
0:27:36 > 0:27:40of plays by which Irish writer born in 1880?
0:27:40 > 0:27:41Sean O'Casey.
0:27:41 > 0:27:42Correct. Another starter.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45Regarded as a major aspect of Portuguese architecture,
0:27:45 > 0:27:47- what form of decorative item... - GONG
0:27:47 > 0:27:49And, at the gong,
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Homerton College Cambridge have 160,
0:27:51 > 0:27:54King's College Cambridge have 205.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56APPLAUSE
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Well, Homerton,
0:28:02 > 0:28:05it was a pretty closely fought match for the first half
0:28:05 > 0:28:07but they just drew away from you in the second half
0:28:07 > 0:28:09so we shall have to say goodbye to you.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Congratulations, King's College.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13We'll look forward to seeing you in round two. Well done.
0:28:13 > 0:28:14I hope you can join us next time
0:28:14 > 0:28:16for the first of the second round matches.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18But, until then, it's goodbye
0:28:18 > 0:28:20- from Homerton College Cambridge. - Goodbye.
0:28:20 > 0:28:24- Goodbye from King's College Cambridge.- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27APPLAUSE
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