0:00:16 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:24University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. It's the first match in the second round tonight.
0:00:31 > 0:00:3416 teams have made it through to this stage of the contest
0:00:34 > 0:00:38and they're playing now for one of the eight places in the quarterfinals.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41The team from Pembroke College, Cambridge, scored 200
0:00:41 > 0:00:43in their first-round match against Lancaster University.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47They knew about annular eclipses and Hans Holbein,
0:00:47 > 0:00:49maths is a form of recreation for them,
0:00:49 > 0:00:53and they clearly read the Ladybird history books when they were younger.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Let's meet them again.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57I'm Robert Scanes, I'm from North London
0:00:57 > 0:01:00and I'm studying natural sciences.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Hello, I'm Emily Maw from Oxford, and I'm studying maths.
0:01:03 > 0:01:04Let's re-meet their captain.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Hello, I'm Tom Foxall, I'm from Birmingham
0:01:06 > 0:01:08and I'm studying classics.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11I'm Jemima Hodkinson, I'm from Portsmouth
0:01:11 > 0:01:12and I'm studying natural sciences.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15APPLAUSE
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Now the team from Bath University, who won their first-round match
0:01:20 > 0:01:24against Liverpool by 125 points to 110
0:01:24 > 0:01:25in a somewhat diffident performance,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28with some answers plucked from the further reaches of likelihood.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32But they were strong on scientists, plums, the tesla,
0:01:32 > 0:01:33and the Aleutian Islands.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Let's see what they can come up with tonight.
0:01:36 > 0:01:41Hi, I'm Joe Kendall, I'm from Bristol and I'm studying economics and international development.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Hi, I'm Adam Salvesen, I'm from Oxford,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46- and I'm studying biology. - And this is their captain.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Hello, I'm Matthew Wise, I'm originally from Surrey,
0:01:49 > 0:01:52and I'm studying for an MSc in modern applications of mathematics.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Hi, I'm Toby Smith, I'm from Clitheroe in Lancashire
0:01:55 > 0:01:56and I'm studying physics.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59APPLAUSE
0:02:01 > 0:02:04OK, you all know the rules. Fingers on the buzzers,
0:02:04 > 0:02:05here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09Covering his life from his birth in Oxford during the Second World War
0:02:09 > 0:02:12to his theories on black holes and the formation of the universe,
0:02:12 > 0:02:15a recorded speech entitled A Brief History Of Mine...
0:02:15 > 0:02:17BELL
0:02:17 > 0:02:19- Stephen Hawking?- Stephen Hawking is correct, yes.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21APPLAUSE
0:02:22 > 0:02:25So you get the first set of bonuses, Pembroke College,
0:02:25 > 0:02:28they're on countries that lie on the Tropic of Capricorn.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31In each case, identify the country from the description.
0:02:31 > 0:02:32Firstly, for five points.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35A landlocked country, whose dictator, Alfredo Stroessner,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38was deposed in 1989.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45Uruguay, possibly? Or Paraguay?
0:02:45 > 0:02:46- Paraguay.- Paraguay.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50- Paraguay.- It is Paraguay, yes.
0:02:50 > 0:02:56Independent since 1960, which island nation is described as a biodiversity hot spot,
0:02:56 > 0:02:59with a large proportion of its species found nowhere else on Earth?
0:02:59 > 0:03:01- I think that's Madagascar.- Yes, yes.
0:03:01 > 0:03:02- Madagascar.- Correct.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Finally, independent since 1990,
0:03:05 > 0:03:08which country's coastal region is mainly desert?
0:03:08 > 0:03:11It gains access to the Zambezi River via the Caprivi Strip.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16- Mozambique? - Mozam...is that...
0:03:16 > 0:03:19I don't think that's...has it got coastline?
0:03:19 > 0:03:23- It's got coastline, yes.- Oh, has it? Mozambique then. Mozambique.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26No, it's Namibia. Ten points for this. In recognition
0:03:26 > 0:03:29of the role played by drama and poetry in its cultural life, and among other things,
0:03:29 > 0:03:32the quality and diversity of its publishing,
0:03:32 > 0:03:38which British city was the world's first UNESCO City Of Literature in 2004?
0:03:40 > 0:03:41BUZZER
0:03:41 > 0:03:44- Bath?- Er, no.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Pembroke, one of you buzz?
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Well, it clearly didn't work as an advertising exercise, it's Edinburgh.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54Ten points for this. Marie and Pierre Curie shared
0:03:54 > 0:03:58the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics with which French physicist
0:03:58 > 0:04:01who discovered penetrating radiation coming from uranium salts?
0:04:01 > 0:04:02BUZZER
0:04:02 > 0:04:03Was it Becquerel?
0:04:03 > 0:04:04Becquerel is correct.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06APPLAUSE
0:04:07 > 0:04:11So you're off the mark and your bonuses are on drinking in Shakespeare.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14Referring to the local habit of imbibing to excess,
0:04:14 > 0:04:18which of Shakespeare's title characters warns his visiting friend,
0:04:18 > 0:04:21"We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart."
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Toby Belch, Aguecheek...Hamlet?
0:04:25 > 0:04:28THEY WHISPER
0:04:29 > 0:04:31- Hamlet.- Hamlet?- It is Hamlet, yes.
0:04:31 > 0:04:36Which character in Twelfth Night berates Sir Toby Belch
0:04:36 > 0:04:39and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, both of whom are drunk,
0:04:39 > 0:04:42for making "an alehouse of my lady's house"?
0:04:44 > 0:04:45Twelfth Night...
0:04:45 > 0:04:48I can't remember.
0:04:48 > 0:04:49No idea. Pass.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52- Pass.- It's Malvolio. And finally,
0:04:52 > 0:04:55in the pockets of which of Shakespeare's characters is discovered a paper
0:04:55 > 0:04:59on which are listed - a capon at two shillings and tuppence,
0:04:59 > 0:05:04sauce at fourpence, and two gallons of sack at five shillings and eightpence?
0:05:04 > 0:05:07- Any idea?- No.- Oh, Falstaff?
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Yes!
0:05:09 > 0:05:13Ten points for this. Opening in 1869, on the corner
0:05:13 > 0:05:16of the Rue Richter and the Rue Trevise in the 9th arrondissement,
0:05:16 > 0:05:19which venue was the first music hall to be opened in Paris
0:05:19 > 0:05:22and was immortalised in the last major painting by Edouard Manet?
0:05:22 > 0:05:24BUZZER
0:05:24 > 0:05:26- Folies Bergere?- Correct.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28APPLAUSE
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Bath, your bonuses are on evolutionary theory, this time.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36Which British scientist was the author of Zoonomia in 1794
0:05:36 > 0:05:39which made a claim similar to that later put forward by Lamarck,
0:05:39 > 0:05:43that changes in an organism are caused by the direct influence of the environment?
0:05:43 > 0:05:46I need both his given name and surname.
0:05:46 > 0:05:47No.
0:05:47 > 0:05:48No idea.
0:05:48 > 0:05:49It's Eramus Darwin.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52An apparent flaw in the theory of evolution
0:05:52 > 0:05:56by means of natural selection, as proposed by Eramus' grandson Charles Darwin,
0:05:56 > 0:06:00was resolved by the rediscovery of which geneticist's work
0:06:00 > 0:06:03on the process by which offspring inherit characteristics from their parents?
0:06:03 > 0:06:05- Gregor Mendel.- Gregor Mendel.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09Correct. Born in 1825, which scientist defended Darwin's theory of evolution
0:06:09 > 0:06:13and is credited with introducing the word "agnosticism"
0:06:13 > 0:06:14into the English language?
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Is it God Delusion...
0:06:16 > 0:06:20No, 1825. Huxley.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23- Try Huxley?- Specifically?
0:06:23 > 0:06:26- Oh, later, sorry, no. Thomas!- Thomas.
0:06:26 > 0:06:27TH Huxley's correct, yes.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Ten points for this. Listed in the Domesday Book,
0:06:30 > 0:06:34which village in Surrey was the home of the pioneering computer programmer Ada Lovelace
0:06:34 > 0:06:37from 1835, and is traditionally believed to have been
0:06:37 > 0:06:40the birthplace in the 13th century of the Franciscan friar
0:06:40 > 0:06:44associated with the principle, "Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity"?
0:06:44 > 0:06:46BELL
0:06:46 > 0:06:48- Ockham.- Ockham is right, yes.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50APPLAUSE
0:06:51 > 0:06:55Your bonuses, Pembroke College, are on the terminology of takeover bids.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Firstly, for five points, which arcade game gives its name to a defence
0:06:58 > 0:07:01in which a firm which is the subject of a takeover bid,
0:07:01 > 0:07:04makes a bid itself for the acquiring firm?
0:07:05 > 0:07:08THEY CONFER
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Pac-Man then. Pac-Man.
0:07:14 > 0:07:15Pac-Man defence is correct.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Which character in Monty Python And The Holy Grail shares a name
0:07:18 > 0:07:22with a firm that launches an unwelcome contested takeover bid for another firm?
0:07:25 > 0:07:27I'm not sure.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30- Any guesses?- No.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32- We don't know.- It's Black Knight.
0:07:32 > 0:07:37Which large hystricomorph rodent gives its name to a form of complex agreement
0:07:37 > 0:07:40between a firm and its suppliers, customers and creditors,
0:07:40 > 0:07:44thereby making integration difficult for an acquiring firm?
0:07:44 > 0:07:49- Weasel?- Weasel...no, that's "must"... Beaver?
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Beaver.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53No, it's a porcupine.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Ten points for this. It's a picture round.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58For your picture starter, you're going to see a tag line
0:07:58 > 0:08:01used as part of the international advertising campaign
0:08:01 > 0:08:05for a well-known film. Ten points if you can give me the name of the film.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12BELL
0:08:12 > 0:08:14- Eight And A Half?- No, Bath, one of you buzz.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19You all look blank.
0:08:21 > 0:08:22OK, let's see it in English then.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Er, that was the tag line for Alien.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29So, picture bonuses shortly. Ten points, fingers on the buzzer.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:08:31 > 0:08:36The word "carbon" can be spelt using the symbols for which chemical elements?
0:08:38 > 0:08:39BELL
0:08:39 > 0:08:43Calcium, rubidium, oxygen, nitrogen.
0:08:43 > 0:08:44Correct, yes!
0:08:44 > 0:08:46APPLAUSE
0:08:48 > 0:08:51OK, so you get the picture bonuses, having taken the lead.
0:08:51 > 0:08:57You'll recall the starter was the slogan for Alien, in Italian.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Your picture bonuses are three more film tag lines as they appeared
0:08:59 > 0:09:02on one of the film's international release posters.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06In each case, I want the film each poster publicised.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07Firstly, for five.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09You are not alone?
0:09:09 > 0:09:10You are not alone, er...
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Er, ET...
0:09:16 > 0:09:17Er, maybe...
0:09:17 > 0:09:18ET?
0:09:18 > 0:09:21No. Let's have a look at it in English.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24That was Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
0:09:24 > 0:09:25Secondly...
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Is it Jaws?
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Yeah, "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..."
0:09:32 > 0:09:36- Jaws?- No, it's Jaws 2! Let's see the whole thing.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40And finally...
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Oh, Star Wars...
0:09:43 > 0:09:44"A long, long time..."
0:09:44 > 0:09:48- Star Wars.- Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope is correct, yes.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51In Spanish, of course. Ten points for this.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Used in English in discussions of political philosophy,
0:09:53 > 0:09:56what five-letter Greek word forms part of the names
0:09:56 > 0:09:59of a Persian city, sacked by Alexander The Great in 330 BC,
0:09:59 > 0:10:01the location of the US naval academy,
0:10:01 > 0:10:04and the hill on which the Parthenon is situated?
0:10:07 > 0:10:08BUZZER
0:10:08 > 0:10:09Polis?
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Polis is correct, yes.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12APPLAUSE
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Persepolis, Annapolis, Acropolis and Metropolis.
0:10:16 > 0:10:20You get a set of bonuses now on Beatrix Potter.
0:10:20 > 0:10:21Firstly, for five.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25Which tale by Beatrix Potter takes place mainly on Owl Island
0:10:25 > 0:10:29and results in an impertinent rodent losing his tail to the owl?
0:10:31 > 0:10:32I don't know.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36There's the shrew but I can't remember what it's called.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39It's the Tale Of Mickey The Shrew!
0:10:39 > 0:10:41The Tale Of The Shrew?
0:10:41 > 0:10:44No, that's The Tale Of Squirrel Nutkin.
0:10:44 > 0:10:45Secondly, which of Potter's title characters
0:10:45 > 0:10:48helps his cousin Peter retrieve the coat and shoes he lost
0:10:48 > 0:10:51in Mr McGregor's garden?
0:10:52 > 0:10:56- It's Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail...- Which one?
0:10:56 > 0:10:59- Flopsy.- Flopsy?
0:10:59 > 0:11:01No, that's Benjamin Bunny.
0:11:01 > 0:11:05Finally, which of Beatrix Potter's title characters grows "quite stout"
0:11:05 > 0:11:09and "quite rich", after mice help him to complete an embroidered waistcoat?
0:11:09 > 0:11:11- Peter Rabbit?- No, no.
0:11:11 > 0:11:15- It's fox, isn't it? - I don't know, sorry.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19- Pass.- That was The Tailor Of Gloucester. Never has Beatrix Potter
0:11:19 > 0:11:23caused so much pain! Visible pain too! Ten points for this.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26What adjective links a large autonomous region in Northern China,
0:11:26 > 0:11:31islands such as Islay, Jura and Skye, one of the Inns of Court,
0:11:31 > 0:11:34and the part of the ear that contains organs of the senses...
0:11:34 > 0:11:36BELL
0:11:36 > 0:11:39- Inner.- Inner is correct, yes.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41You retake the lead, Pembroke College,
0:11:41 > 0:11:43and your bonuses are on American critics.
0:11:43 > 0:11:49A theorist of gynocritics, Elaine Showalter is known for her 1985 study
0:11:49 > 0:11:51of which so-called "female malady",
0:11:51 > 0:11:55the name of which derives from the Greek word for uterus?
0:11:55 > 0:11:57- Hysteria.- Hysteria.- Correct.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59Author of the 1990 work Gender Trouble,
0:11:59 > 0:12:05which US feminist philosopher argues that gender is a cultural meaning that is ascribed to human bodies?
0:12:05 > 0:12:06Judith Butler.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Called "The Dark Lady Of American Letters" on her death in 2004,
0:12:09 > 0:12:15which cultural commentator studied the language of illness in Illness As Metaphor
0:12:15 > 0:12:17and Aids And Its Metaphors?
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Don't know.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Not sure.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26SHE WHISPERS
0:12:26 > 0:12:27We don't know.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30That was Susan Sontag. 10 points for this. Born 1679,
0:12:30 > 0:12:34the German rationalist philosopher Christian Wolff coined what term
0:12:34 > 0:12:37to refer to the opinion that everything is composed of, or reducible to,
0:12:37 > 0:12:41a single substance or principle, in contrast with the viewpoints
0:12:41 > 0:12:43set forth by pluralism or dualism?
0:12:45 > 0:12:47BUZZER
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Universalism?
0:12:48 > 0:12:50No, Pembroke, one of you buzz?
0:12:50 > 0:12:51BELL
0:12:51 > 0:12:54- Monism?- Monism is correct, yes.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56APPLAUSE
0:12:56 > 0:13:00These bonuses, Pembroke College, are on former Soviet republics,
0:13:00 > 0:13:04from the opening sentence of the country's introduction in the CIA World Factbook,
0:13:04 > 0:13:06hence, of course, the split infinitives.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09In each case, identify the country from the description.
0:13:09 > 0:13:14Which former Soviet republic, quote, "prides itself on being the first nation
0:13:14 > 0:13:17"to formally adopt Christianity in the early 4th century"?
0:13:17 > 0:13:19- Armenia.- Armenia.- Definitely.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22- Armenia.- Correct. Secondly...
0:13:22 > 0:13:25"A central Asian country of incredible natural beauty and proud nomadic traditions,
0:13:25 > 0:13:30"most of this country was formally annexed to Russia in 1876."
0:13:30 > 0:13:34- I think that is Kazakhstan. - Are we OK?
0:13:34 > 0:13:36- Kazakhstan.- No, it's Kyrgyzstan.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40And finally, "the centre of the first eastern Slavic state,
0:13:40 > 0:13:45"which, during the 10th and 11th centuries, was the largest and most powerful state in Europe."
0:13:45 > 0:13:48Bulgaria, possibly?
0:13:48 > 0:13:50I would say Ukraine, but...
0:13:50 > 0:13:53- Ukraine.- I don't know.
0:13:53 > 0:13:54Up to you.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58- Bulgaria.- No, it's Ukraine.- Sorry!
0:13:58 > 0:14:02Time for a music round. Your music starter is a piece of popular music.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06Ten points if you can give me the band performing and the name of the track.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09LOUD ROCK GUITAR MUSIC
0:14:11 > 0:14:15# Cos we need each other
0:14:15 > 0:14:19# We believe in one another
0:14:19 > 0:14:25# And I know we are going to uncover what's sleepin' in our... #
0:14:25 > 0:14:27BUZZER
0:14:27 > 0:14:28Oasis, Slide Away?
0:14:28 > 0:14:31No. Got any ideas?
0:14:32 > 0:14:35OK, I'll tell you. It was Oasis, it was Acquiesce though.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39So, music bonuses shortly. Another starter question.
0:14:39 > 0:14:43In the following approximations, how many zeros follow the number given?
0:14:43 > 0:14:45If the number of stars in the Milky Way is 400,
0:14:45 > 0:14:48the number of base pairs in the human genome is three,
0:14:48 > 0:14:51and the number of bytes in a gigabyte is one?
0:14:55 > 0:14:57BELL
0:14:57 > 0:14:59- Nine.- Nine is correct, yes.
0:14:59 > 0:15:00APPLAUSE
0:15:02 > 0:15:06I'm afraid you're going to have to revisit the music for the bonuses.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09That track you heard, Acquiesce, by Oasis, originally appeared
0:15:09 > 0:15:12as a B-side to the Oasis single, Some Might Say,
0:15:12 > 0:15:15but was later released as a single in its own right.
0:15:15 > 0:15:21Your music bonuses are three A-sides that have been matched or eclipsed in popularity by their B-sides.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25In each case, listen to the A-side but give me the name of the B-side.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Firstly, for five, what was the B-side of this song?
0:15:27 > 0:15:32# If I gave you time to change my mind
0:15:33 > 0:15:37# I'd find a way, just to leave the past... #
0:15:37 > 0:15:40- Maggie May?- It was Maggie May, yes.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Rod Stewart. Secondly, what is the B-side of this song
0:15:43 > 0:15:46which reached number one when released as a single in its own right?
0:15:46 > 0:15:50ELECTRONIC MUSIC
0:15:51 > 0:15:53Er...Tour De France!
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Kraftwerk.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59- Tour De France?- No, it was The Model, Kraftwerk.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03And finally, name either of the two B-sides of this single.
0:16:03 > 0:16:10# William, William, it was really nothing... #
0:16:10 > 0:16:11The Smiths, er...
0:16:11 > 0:16:14# William, William, it was... #
0:16:14 > 0:16:16How Soon Is Now?
0:16:16 > 0:16:17How Soon Is Now? The other one was
0:16:17 > 0:16:20Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want by The Smiths.
0:16:20 > 0:16:2310 points for this. Which former Portuguese territory
0:16:23 > 0:16:26consisted of two islands and a peninsular projecting into the Pearl River estuary?
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Since 1999, it's been one of China's two special...
0:16:29 > 0:16:30BELL
0:16:30 > 0:16:32- Macau.- Macau is correct.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34APPLAUSE
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Your bonuses are on plant nutrition, Pembroke College.
0:16:37 > 0:16:44What three primary macronutrient mineral elements are required by plants? I need all three.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47THEY CONFER
0:16:49 > 0:16:51- Phosphate?- No, no, macronutrients.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55- Water?- Shall we just go for it?
0:16:55 > 0:16:56CO2.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00- Water, air, carbon dioxide. - Water, air and carbon dioxide.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02No, it's nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05Five points for this. What term denotes the overall process
0:17:05 > 0:17:09in the soil carried out by the bacteria nitrosomonas and nitrobacter?
0:17:09 > 0:17:14It converts ammonium to nitrates, the form in which nitrogen is assimilated by plants.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16- Nitrogen fixation. - Nitrogen fixation.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19- Nitrogen fixation.- No, it's not nitrogen fixation,
0:17:19 > 0:17:22it's nitrification. And finally,
0:17:22 > 0:17:26what two compounds supply plants with the three non-mineral macronutrient elements,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29carbon, hydrogen and oxygen?
0:17:31 > 0:17:35- That's photosynthesis, isn't it? - Was it what...
0:17:35 > 0:17:38- Photosynthesis...- Yeah.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41- Photosynthesis.- No, it's carbon dioxide and water.
0:17:41 > 0:17:4210 points for this. Give all three
0:17:42 > 0:17:48of the rhyming words that mean a narrow propagating stream of particles or energy,
0:17:48 > 0:17:53the gaseous phase of water, and a concept that spreads via the internet.
0:17:53 > 0:17:54BELL
0:17:54 > 0:17:56- Beam, steam and meme.- Correct.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58APPLAUSE
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Your bonuses, this time, Pembroke College, are on kings and queens.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06Widow of the Duke Of Brittany, Joan Of Navarre married which English king
0:18:06 > 0:18:08four years after he seized the throne?
0:18:08 > 0:18:11The mother of eight children by her first marriage,
0:18:11 > 0:18:13she outlived him and his son and successor.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Edward IV...
0:18:18 > 0:18:22- Henry III...- No, Henry III lived for a while.
0:18:22 > 0:18:23He lived a long time, didn't he?
0:18:23 > 0:18:27- Henry II? I don't know.- Edward III. - Edward III.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30- Edward III.- No, it's Henry IV.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33Joan, sometimes known as the "Fair Maid Of Kent",
0:18:33 > 0:18:36was the mother of Henry's predecessor, Richard II.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Which royal figure, who died in 1376, was his father?
0:18:42 > 0:18:45THEY WHISPER
0:18:48 > 0:18:49The Black Prince?
0:18:49 > 0:18:53- The Black Prince?- It was the Black Prince. Edward, Prince Of Wales.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Joan Beaufort, daughter of the Earl Of Somerset,
0:18:56 > 0:18:59married which Scottish king in 1424?
0:19:01 > 0:19:03James the... James the something.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06James III?
0:19:06 > 0:19:08- James III.- No, it was James I. 10 points for this.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10In 1917,
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Sir Arthur Lee and his American wife, Ruth,
0:19:12 > 0:19:17turned which Buckinghamshire house into a trust to be used as an official country residence
0:19:17 > 0:19:19for successive prime ministers?
0:19:19 > 0:19:20BELL
0:19:20 > 0:19:21- Chequers.- Chequers is right.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24APPLAUSE
0:19:24 > 0:19:27These bonuses are on bacterial genetics.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30What term denotes the process of one-way genetic transfer
0:19:30 > 0:19:35between two bacteria cells, joined by a tube-like structure, through which genetic material passes?
0:19:35 > 0:19:37- Conjugation.- Conjugation.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40- Conjugation.- Correct. In transduction,
0:19:40 > 0:19:43genetic material is transferred into a host by an infectious vector.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46What is the vector of bacterial transduction?
0:19:46 > 0:19:47- Plasmid.- Plasmid?
0:19:49 > 0:19:50What?
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Bacteriophage?
0:19:52 > 0:19:53Yeah, yeah, yeah!
0:19:53 > 0:19:56- Bacteriophage.- Correct.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59Plasmids are small self-replicating molecules of DNA
0:19:59 > 0:20:03in a bacterium. What genetic information do "R" plasmids carry?
0:20:03 > 0:20:06- RNA.- RNA...
0:20:06 > 0:20:08No, no, it's not.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11It's the ability to conjugate, I think.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Or just resistance? Antibiotic resistance.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Let's have it, please.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17- Resistance.- Indeed.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19Antibiotic resistance. We're going to take a second picture round.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22For your picture starter, you'll see the front cover of a novel
0:20:22 > 0:20:25in the Gollancz Science Fiction Masterworks series.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28Ten points if you can give me its title and its author.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Any helpful wording has, of course, been removed.
0:20:32 > 0:20:33BELL
0:20:33 > 0:20:36The Invisible Man, HG Wells.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38Yes, it is. We'll see the whole thing, there it is. Well done.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43Your picture bonuses, three more covers from Gollancz Science Fiction Masterworks series,
0:20:43 > 0:20:45all of novels written in the 1960s.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Again, five points if you can give me the title and the author
0:20:48 > 0:20:51of each novel, which has been removed in each case.
0:20:51 > 0:20:52Firstly, for five.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55THEY CONFER
0:20:58 > 0:21:01Is it The Necronomicon by HP Lovecraft?
0:21:01 > 0:21:04- Let's have it, please. - The Necronomicon, HP Lovecraft.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06No, it's Frank Herbert's Dune, there it is.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Secondly...
0:21:12 > 0:21:13Don't know.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16- No...- We don't know.
0:21:16 > 0:21:21That's The Left Hand Of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin.
0:21:21 > 0:21:22And finally...
0:21:28 > 0:21:31- Metropolis?- No...
0:21:31 > 0:21:32We don't know that either, sorry.
0:21:32 > 0:21:37That's Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
0:21:37 > 0:21:39A starter question. What building term denotes an arrangement
0:21:39 > 0:21:42of sloping boards, laths or slips of glass overlapping each other...
0:21:42 > 0:21:43BELL
0:21:43 > 0:21:45- Louvre.- Louvre is correct, yes.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48APPLAUSE
0:21:48 > 0:21:52These bonuses are on Italian cheeses, Pembroke College.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Belonging to the Stracchino family of cheeses,
0:21:54 > 0:21:57which of the so-called "great blue cheeses" takes its name
0:21:57 > 0:22:00from the village near Milan where it was first made?
0:22:00 > 0:22:03- Is it Gorgonzola?- Or Dolcelatte?
0:22:04 > 0:22:07- I'd go for Gorgonzola.- Dolcelatte is just "sweet milk".
0:22:07 > 0:22:09- Gorgonzola.- Correct.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12The village of Gorgonzola and the valley of Taleggio,
0:22:12 > 0:22:14which produces a soft cheese in the French style,
0:22:14 > 0:22:17are both in which region of Italy?
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Piedmont, possibly?
0:22:20 > 0:22:23I don't know.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26- Could be.- Piedmont. - No, it's Lombardy.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29What is the Italian name for a cheese made of sheep's milk,
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Romano being a well-known variety?
0:22:31 > 0:22:34- Pecorino.- Pecorino. - Pecorino is correct.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37Five minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39According to Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte claimed
0:22:39 > 0:22:41that which of her title characters was based on her sister...
0:22:41 > 0:22:43BUZZER
0:22:43 > 0:22:46- Jane Eyre?- I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:22:46 > 0:22:51..based on her sister Emily, if only Emily "had been placed in health and prosperity"?
0:22:54 > 0:22:56I need an answer, please.
0:22:56 > 0:22:57BELL
0:22:57 > 0:23:01- Villette.- No, it's Shirley. Ten points for this.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Meanings of what seven-letter word include an anatomical structure
0:23:04 > 0:23:07resembling a bird's beak, a type of camera used to produce animated films,
0:23:07 > 0:23:10and a platform for public speaking?
0:23:11 > 0:23:12BELL
0:23:12 > 0:23:14- Rostrum.- Rostrum is correct, yes.
0:23:14 > 0:23:15APPLAUSE
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Your bonuses are on fountains.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22The Fountain Of The Four Rivers in Rome's Piazza Navona
0:23:22 > 0:23:25is the work of which 17th-century sculptor,
0:23:25 > 0:23:27whose works also include The Ecstasy Of St Teresa?
0:23:27 > 0:23:30THEY WHISPER
0:23:30 > 0:23:32- Bernini?- Bellini?
0:23:32 > 0:23:36- Bellini or Bernini?- Bernini.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38- Bernini.- Bernini is right.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Created by Joseph Paxton, the gravity-fed Emperor Fountain
0:23:41 > 0:23:45is a feature of the gardens of which Derbyshire stately home?
0:23:45 > 0:23:48- Chatsworth, isn't it? - I think it's Chatsworth.
0:23:48 > 0:23:49- Chatsworth.- Correct.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Installed in its present position in 1951,
0:23:51 > 0:23:54and shooting water to a height of 140m,
0:23:54 > 0:23:59the Jet d'Eau fountain is a landmark of which Swiss city?
0:24:00 > 0:24:04- Geneva.- Is that French-speaking?- Yes. - Yes.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06- Geneva.- Geneva is correct.
0:24:06 > 0:24:0810 points for this starter question. Which country contains
0:24:08 > 0:24:13the World Heritage Sites of Sangay National Park, the Galapagos Islands...
0:24:13 > 0:24:14BUZZER
0:24:14 > 0:24:16- Ecuador.- Ecuador is correct.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:24:18 > 0:24:21Your bonuses are on underwater exploration.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24For what do the five letters of the acronym SCUBA stand?
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30Correct. The first successful scuba set was developed in 1943
0:24:30 > 0:24:33by two French oceanographers. Emile Gagnan was one.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Who was his more famous collaborator?
0:24:36 > 0:24:38- Yes, try that.- Jacques Cousteau?
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Correct. Named after a Greek nymph, which converted minesweeper
0:24:41 > 0:24:44did Cousteau use to explore the continental shelf?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50No, don't know.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52That was Calypso. 10 points for this.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54In physics, by what factor is the voltage increased
0:24:54 > 0:24:57in a step-up transformer with ten turns in the secondary coil
0:24:57 > 0:24:59and two turns in the primary coil?
0:25:01 > 0:25:02BUZZER
0:25:02 > 0:25:0425?
0:25:04 > 0:25:05Anyone like to buzz from Cambridge?
0:25:05 > 0:25:07BELL
0:25:07 > 0:25:08- Five.- Five is correct, yes.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11APPLAUSE
0:25:11 > 0:25:15This set of bonuses are on words that contain three vowels and one consonant.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17In each case, give me the word from the definition.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21Firstly, a nickname of Richard Nash, a man of fashion,
0:25:21 > 0:25:24born 1674, and associated with the city of Bath.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25- Beau.- Correct.
0:25:25 > 0:25:26The capital of Samoa.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Don't know.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31What's the capital of Samoa?
0:25:31 > 0:25:33I think you either know it or don't.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36- No. Oahu?- No, it's Apia.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Finally, an opera by Verdi, set in ancient Egypt.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42- Aida...- Yes.- Aida.- Correct.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Another starter question. Included by Linnaeus as a cephalopod
0:25:44 > 0:25:48in his Systema Naturae, what mythological beast
0:25:48 > 0:25:52is the subject of a poem by Tennyson and an apocalyptic novel of 1953
0:25:52 > 0:25:54by John Wyndham?
0:25:55 > 0:25:56BELL
0:25:56 > 0:25:58- Kraken.- The Kraken is correct, yes.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01APPLAUSE
0:26:02 > 0:26:06Your bonuses this time are on American fiction, Pembroke College.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10Originating in the title of an essay by the 19th-century writer John William De Forest,
0:26:10 > 0:26:14what literary concept or aspiration is denoted by the acronym GAN?
0:26:14 > 0:26:17- Great American novel.- Yes. - The Great American novel.
0:26:17 > 0:26:22Correct. Published in 1973, The Great American Novel is the title of a work by which American author?
0:26:22 > 0:26:26Philip Roth? Sounds like it's something he might say.
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Philip Roth.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29Correct. In the New York Times poll of 2006,
0:26:29 > 0:26:32which novel by Toni Morrison was voted the single best work
0:26:32 > 0:26:37of American fiction published in the previous 25 years?
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Beloved or The Bluest Eye? Beloved...
0:26:39 > 0:26:41- Beloved.- Correct.
0:26:41 > 0:26:4310 points for this. In geomorphology,
0:26:43 > 0:26:47what term, from the Spanish, denotes a flat area of silt or sand,
0:26:47 > 0:26:49usually characterised by salt deposits
0:26:49 > 0:26:53that lies at the bottom of a desert basin and is dry except after rain?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55BELL
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Arroyo?
0:26:57 > 0:26:59No. One of you buzz from Bath.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Free run at it, come on.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06It's a playa. 10 points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:27:06 > 0:27:11What are the two possible answers to the calculation 5 plus the square root of 4?
0:27:12 > 0:27:13BUZZER
0:27:13 > 0:27:157 and 3?
0:27:15 > 0:27:177 and 3 is correct, yes.
0:27:17 > 0:27:18APPLAUSE
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Your bonuses are on mathematics too.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26With 16 vertices, the tesseract, or regular octachoron, is an analogue
0:27:26 > 0:27:29of the cube in how many dimensions?
0:27:31 > 0:27:33GONG
0:27:33 > 0:27:35At the gong, Bath University have 75.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Pembroke College, Cambridge, have 255.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48You were a bit whipped but you kept going to the end
0:27:48 > 0:27:50so I admire you for that.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52Pembroke College, another very convincing performance.
0:27:52 > 0:27:57We shall look forward to seeing much more of you in the rest of this series.
0:27:57 > 0:27:58I hope you can join us next time.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01Until then, it's goodbye from Bath University...
0:28:01 > 0:28:03- ALL: Goodbye. - It's goodbye from Pembroke College, Cambridge.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05- ALL: Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
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