Episode 18

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0:00:18 > 0:00:21University Challenge.

0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello. Last time, we saw Pembroke College, Cambridge, take the first of the eight places

0:00:32 > 0:00:34in the quarter-finals.

0:00:34 > 0:00:38The next place goes to whichever team wins tonight.

0:00:38 > 0:00:43The University of York beat the Trinity Laban Conservatoire by 185 points

0:00:43 > 0:00:45to 105 in their first round match.

0:00:45 > 0:00:53They knew about cravings for food, the composition of the Chimera and the use of the guillotine

0:00:53 > 0:00:58and they were especially strong on things that are coloured green. Let's meet them.

0:00:58 > 0:01:01Hi, my name is Alex Leonhardt. I'm from South Wales

0:01:01 > 0:01:05and I'm studying for a Masters degree in Political Philosophy.

0:01:05 > 0:01:08I'm Robin Virgo from Lincolnshire and I'm studying Chemistry.

0:01:08 > 0:01:12- And their captain. - Hi, I'm Rebecca Woods from Chester

0:01:12 > 0:01:15and I'm studying for my MA in Psycholinguistics.

0:01:15 > 0:01:17I'm Edward Haynes from Warwickshire

0:01:17 > 0:01:20and I'm studying for a PhD in Biology.

0:01:20 > 0:01:22APPLAUSE

0:01:24 > 0:01:30New College, Oxford, scored 230 points against the 145 of Homerton College, Cambridge,

0:01:30 > 0:01:35in a barnstorming performance in which they knew a lot about Greek mythology,

0:01:35 > 0:01:39Pythagoras' Theorem and the War of Jenkins' Ear.

0:01:39 > 0:01:45Just about their only Achilles heel was the career of the late Ken Russell. Let's meet them again.

0:01:45 > 0:01:48Hi, I'm Remi Beecroft from Hertfordshire

0:01:48 > 0:01:51and I'm studying Psychology and Philosophy.

0:01:51 > 0:01:54I'm India Lenon from London and I'm studying Classics.

0:01:54 > 0:01:57- Their captain. - I'm Andy Hood from Warwickshire

0:01:57 > 0:02:00and I'm studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

0:02:00 > 0:02:04I'm Tom Cappleman from Berkshire and I'm studying Mathematics.

0:02:04 > 0:02:06APPLAUSE

0:02:08 > 0:02:13OK, you all know the rules by now. Here we go then. First starter for ten.

0:02:13 > 0:02:18Three prizes awarded each year for writing in different media are named after which British author

0:02:18 > 0:02:23who aspired to make political writing into an art and who died in 1950?

0:02:23 > 0:02:26The prize was founded in 1993 by Bernard Crick

0:02:26 > 0:02:31and funded in part from the royalties of his biography of the author.

0:02:31 > 0:02:34- Orwell. - George Orwell is correct, yes.

0:02:36 > 0:02:41Your bonuses are on philosophy and literature, New College.

0:02:41 > 0:02:47Which Latin-derived philosophical term was popularised by Turgenev's 1862 novel Fathers And Sons

0:02:47 > 0:02:53where it was used to describe the crude scientism espoused by the character Bazarov?

0:02:55 > 0:03:02- Reductionism?- No, nihilism. The anarchist Sergey Nechayev became the model for a self-described nihilist

0:03:02 > 0:03:08in The Possessed, sometimes called The Devils, a novel of 1872 by which Russian writer?

0:03:10 > 0:03:14- Dostoyevsky.- Correct. Written in 1880, Vera; Or, The Nihilists

0:03:14 > 0:03:18was the first stage work of which Irish literary figure?

0:03:18 > 0:03:22- George Bernard Shaw.- Oscar Wilde. Ten points for this.

0:03:22 > 0:03:26The oncoviruses, lentiviruses and foamy viruses belong

0:03:26 > 0:03:29to which family of enveloped, single-stranded RNA viruses?

0:03:29 > 0:03:32They all possess the enzyme reverse transcriptase

0:03:32 > 0:03:36which allows integration of pro-viral DNA into the host genome.

0:03:36 > 0:03:38- Retroviruses.- Correct.

0:03:39 > 0:03:42Your bonuses are on Foreign Secretaries

0:03:42 > 0:03:45in the words of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website.

0:03:45 > 0:03:50In each case, name the Labour Prime Minister in whose Cabinet the following served.

0:03:50 > 0:03:57Patrick Gordon Walker - a good linguist, he was one of the few Foreign Secretaries this century

0:03:57 > 0:04:01who could converse in German with a German Foreign Minister.

0:04:01 > 0:04:04- Ramsay MacDonald. - No, that was Harold Wilson.

0:04:04 > 0:04:10Secondly, Arthur Henderson - known affectionately as Uncle Arthur, he was a teetotaller,

0:04:10 > 0:04:16a non-smoker and a Methodist lay preacher, an unusual combination in the Foreign Office.

0:04:17 > 0:04:19WHISPERING

0:04:25 > 0:04:31- Ramsay MacDonald.- Ramsay MacDonald, yes. Herbert Morrison - did not quite have the diplomatic touch.

0:04:31 > 0:04:36He once joked, "Foreign policy would be OK except for the bloody foreigners!"

0:04:36 > 0:04:38WHISPERING

0:04:40 > 0:04:43- Clement Attlee.- Correct. Ten points for this.

0:04:43 > 0:04:49What Anglicised surname was shared by two explorers? The father became a Venetian citizen in 1476,

0:04:49 > 0:04:53but later helped lay the groundwork for the British claim to Canada.

0:04:53 > 0:04:57His son, born in Bristol or Venice, was a cartographer to Henry VIII

0:04:57 > 0:05:01and drew a map of the world now in the National Library of France.

0:05:03 > 0:05:06- Columbus.- No.

0:05:08 > 0:05:12- Cabot.- Cabot is correct, yes. John and Sebastian Cabot.

0:05:13 > 0:05:19So, your bonuses are on diseases named after islands, New College.

0:05:19 > 0:05:22Malta or Maltese fever is another name for which contagious disease,

0:05:22 > 0:05:29usually contracted by drinking infected milk or through close contact with infected animals?

0:05:31 > 0:05:34- Hepatitis B? - Brucellosis or undulant fever.

0:05:34 > 0:05:41Tangier disease, a rare, inherited, genetic condition characterised by very low HDL cholesterol levels,

0:05:41 > 0:05:47takes its name from an island in which North American bay, bounded by Maryland and Virginia?

0:05:48 > 0:05:53- Chesapeake.- Correct. Causing symptoms including fever and chest pain,

0:05:53 > 0:05:58Bornholm disease is an infection named after an island of which Nordic country

0:05:58 > 0:06:01where it was first observed in the 1930s?

0:06:01 > 0:06:04- Norway.- Denmark. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.

0:06:04 > 0:06:08In his "we shall fight on the beaches" speech of June 4th, 1940,

0:06:08 > 0:06:14Churchill named four other general locations as places where "we shall fight".

0:06:14 > 0:06:16For ten points, name three of them.

0:06:18 > 0:06:21- Towns, streets, fields?- No.

0:06:21 > 0:06:23One of you buzz from New College.

0:06:25 > 0:06:31- Skies, towns...- No, it was landing grounds, fields, streets and hills. Ten points for this.

0:06:31 > 0:06:37What is the three-letter stage name of the London-born musician of Sri Lankan descent, Mathangi Arul...

0:06:37 > 0:06:40- MIA.- MIA is right, yes.

0:06:41 > 0:06:44These bonuses are on pairs of names.

0:06:44 > 0:06:50In each case, the surname of the first person described is the given name of the second,

0:06:50 > 0:06:53for example, Jane Austen and Austen Chamberlain.

0:06:53 > 0:06:58Your answer must include the given name and surname of both people described.

0:06:58 > 0:07:02Firstly, the 18th century inventor of the marine chronometer H4

0:07:02 > 0:07:08and the actor whose film roles include John Book in Witness and Rick Deckard in Blade Runner?

0:07:08 > 0:07:12- That's Harrison Ford.- Harrison Ford.

0:07:12 > 0:07:18- John Harrison and Harrison Ford. - Correct. Secondly, the author of The World According To Garp

0:07:18 > 0:07:21and the composer of White Christmas?

0:07:21 > 0:07:25- Bing Crosby and...? - I'm thinking Chandler.

0:07:25 > 0:07:29- Chandler Bing and Bing Crosby.- No, it's John Irving and Irving Berlin.

0:07:29 > 0:07:35Finally, the broadcaster and author whose works include Cultural Amnesia

0:07:35 > 0:07:39and the navigator who landed at Botany Bay in 1770?

0:07:39 > 0:07:41James Cook?

0:07:42 > 0:07:45- Do you know what the...? - Henry James?

0:07:45 > 0:07:49- Henry James and James Cook? - No, it's Clive James and James Cook.

0:07:49 > 0:07:55For your picture starter on this picture round, you'll see a map showing some historic trade routes.

0:07:55 > 0:08:00Ten points if you can tell me the name by which these routes are most commonly known.

0:08:01 > 0:08:04- The Silk Road? - They are silk roads, yes.

0:08:07 > 0:08:13For your picture bonuses, three more maps showing significant historic trading routes.

0:08:13 > 0:08:19I want you to identify the commodity principally traded along the route and after which the route is named.

0:08:19 > 0:08:22Firstly for five, this trading route in Europe?

0:08:24 > 0:08:26WHISPERING

0:08:31 > 0:08:33- Timber?- No, that's salt.

0:08:33 > 0:08:35Secondly?

0:08:37 > 0:08:39WHISPERING

0:08:44 > 0:08:47- Amber.- That is amber, from the Baltic to Venice.

0:08:47 > 0:08:51Finally, the commodity after which this route is named?

0:08:52 > 0:08:54WHISPERING

0:08:55 > 0:09:00- Frankincense.- I'll accept that. Incense I would have taken too. Ten points for this.

0:09:00 > 0:09:06In ornithology, what is the common name of the distinctively patterned black-and-white wader

0:09:06 > 0:09:09of the Recurvirostra genus, characterised by an upturned bill?

0:09:09 > 0:09:13- Avocet.- Avocet is correct, yes.

0:09:15 > 0:09:17Your bonuses are on zoology, York.

0:09:17 > 0:09:21What name is that of a 19th century British naturalist

0:09:21 > 0:09:27and has been given to the boundary between the regions of Oriental and Australian fauna?

0:09:27 > 0:09:30- I think it's Wallace.- Sorry?- Wallace.

0:09:30 > 0:09:32- Wallace.- Correct, the Wallace Line.

0:09:32 > 0:09:38Having awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal for advances in evolutionary biology every 50 years from 1908,

0:09:38 > 0:09:44what organisation announced that it would start giving the award annually from 2010?

0:09:45 > 0:09:48WHISPERING

0:09:50 > 0:09:55- The Royal Zoological Society.- No, it's the Linnean Society of London.

0:09:55 > 0:09:59Absent in the original edition and first used in publication by Herbert Spencer,

0:09:59 > 0:10:04Wallace encouraged Darwin to incorporate what four-word phrase

0:10:04 > 0:10:07into later editions of The Origin Of Species?

0:10:07 > 0:10:11- "Survival of the fittest."- Correct. Ten points for this starter.

0:10:11 > 0:10:15The first British cyclist in 46 years to win the World Road Racing...

0:10:15 > 0:10:18- Mark Cavendish.- Correct.

0:10:20 > 0:10:23Your bonuses, New College, are on women astronomers.

0:10:23 > 0:10:29Hired to work in his observatory by the Harvard Professor of Astronomy Edward Pickering

0:10:29 > 0:10:34for whom she worked as a housekeeper, Williamina Fleming is credited with numerous discoveries,

0:10:34 > 0:10:39including, in 1888, that of which nebula in the constellation of Orion?

0:10:40 > 0:10:45- Horsehead.- Correct. What two words complete the mnemonic for star classification,

0:10:45 > 0:10:47devised by Annie Jump Cannon,

0:10:47 > 0:10:54Fleming's successor as Curator of Astronomical Photographs at Harvard? It begins, "Oh, be a fine girl..."

0:10:54 > 0:10:57- Sorry, we don't know. - It's "kiss me".

0:10:57 > 0:11:02Henrietta Leavitt discovered the variable period-luminosity relationship

0:11:02 > 0:11:08of what class of stars, making it possible to measure the distance between these stars and the Earth?

0:11:08 > 0:11:11- Quasars.- No, it's Cepheids. Ten points for this.

0:11:11 > 0:11:17The name of which type of popular cuisine begins place names denoting a region of the Karakoram Mountains,

0:11:17 > 0:11:22the largest city of Maryland and a sea of northern Europe that is almost land...

0:11:22 > 0:11:25- Balti.- Balti is correct, yes.

0:11:27 > 0:11:33These bonuses are on philosophical views, York. Which concept holds that there are no universals

0:11:33 > 0:11:39and that truth, morals and culture can only be understood in their own socio-historic context?

0:11:39 > 0:11:41Relativism, it could be.

0:11:41 > 0:11:46- Relativism.- Correct. What term describes any philosophy that magnifies the role

0:11:46 > 0:11:51played by unaided reason in the acquisition and justification of knowledge?

0:11:51 > 0:11:54Adherents include Descartes and Leibniz.

0:11:54 > 0:11:59- Rationalism.- Correct. What is the view that experience, especially of the senses,

0:11:59 > 0:12:05is the only source of knowledge? It is associated with Locke, Berkeley and Hume.

0:12:05 > 0:12:10- Nominate Leonhardt.- Empiricism. - Correct. Ten points for this starter question.

0:12:10 > 0:12:16Rayleigh-Taylor, Kelvin-Helmholtz and Rayleigh-Benard are all types of what general physical phenomenon,

0:12:16 > 0:12:20characterised by the unbounded growth of small disturbances?

0:12:21 > 0:12:24- Butterfly effect?- No.

0:12:24 > 0:12:26Anyone want to buzz from New College?

0:12:26 > 0:12:29It's instability. Ten points for this.

0:12:29 > 0:12:32To which nearby island in the Venetian lagoon

0:12:32 > 0:12:36were the glassmaking factories of Venice transferred at the end...

0:12:36 > 0:12:38- Murano.- Murano is correct, yes.

0:12:42 > 0:12:44These bonuses are on world rulers.

0:12:44 > 0:12:50I'll read a list of rulers who were in power during the first year of a century of the Common Era.

0:12:50 > 0:12:57I simply want the century. Firstly, Robert III of Scotland, Charles VI or the Well-Beloved of France

0:12:57 > 0:12:59and the Asian conqueror Tamerlane?

0:13:01 > 0:13:04WHISPERING

0:13:04 > 0:13:06- 1600s?- No, it's the 15th century.

0:13:06 > 0:13:11Raja Raja the Great of the Chola Empire of South India,

0:13:11 > 0:13:15Boleslav the Valiant of Poland, and Aethelred the Unready of England?

0:13:18 > 0:13:20- 10th century?- No, the 11th century.

0:13:20 > 0:13:25And finally, Emperor He of the Eastern Han Dynasty,

0:13:25 > 0:13:29Pacorus II of Parthia and the Roman Emperor Trajan?

0:13:30 > 0:13:32WHISPERING

0:13:36 > 0:13:39- 3rd century? - No, it's the 2nd century.

0:13:39 > 0:13:43Time for a music round. Your starter is a piece of popular music.

0:13:43 > 0:13:45Ten points if you can name the band.

0:13:45 > 0:13:48# Well, this is a good idea... #

0:13:49 > 0:13:53- Arctic Monkeys?- It is, Leave Before The Lights Come on.

0:13:56 > 0:14:00The band members of The Arctic Monkeys were raised in Sheffield.

0:14:00 > 0:14:06For your bonuses, you'll hear three more pieces of music by artists or bands associated with Sheffield.

0:14:06 > 0:14:10Five points for each act you can name. Firstly, this band?

0:14:10 > 0:14:13# If it seems a little time is needed

0:14:13 > 0:14:15# Decisions to be made

0:14:15 > 0:14:17# Hey, hey, hey, hey

0:14:17 > 0:14:21# The good advice of friends unheeded

0:14:21 > 0:14:24# For the best of plans mislaid... #

0:14:24 > 0:14:29- Human League? - It was indeed Human League. Secondly, this artist, please?

0:14:29 > 0:14:32# Open up your door

0:14:35 > 0:14:39# I can't see your face no more

0:14:42 > 0:14:45# Love is so hard to find... #

0:14:45 > 0:14:47Sorry, we don't know.

0:14:47 > 0:14:51That's Richard Hawley. Finally, can you identify this band?

0:14:53 > 0:14:55# Do you remember the first time...? #

0:14:55 > 0:14:57- Pulp.- That is Pulp, yes.

0:14:57 > 0:15:01Ten points for this starter. Described as "the first world war"

0:15:01 > 0:15:06by Winston Churchill in A History Of The English-Speaking Peoples,

0:15:06 > 0:15:10which war was fought in Europe, North America and Asia from 1756...

0:15:11 > 0:15:15- Seven Years' War. - Seven Years' War is correct, yes.

0:15:18 > 0:15:20New College, these bonuses are on a symbol.

0:15:20 > 0:15:25Seen to represent self-reflexivity or the cyclical nature of life,

0:15:25 > 0:15:30the symbol known by the Greek term Uroboros takes the form of a serpent or dragon doing what?

0:15:31 > 0:15:34- Eating its own tail.- Correct.

0:15:34 > 0:15:39A self-eating, legless, spherical animal may have been the first living thing in the Universe,

0:15:39 > 0:15:43according to Timaeus in the dialogue by which Greek philosopher?

0:15:43 > 0:15:47- Plato.- Correct. The German chemist August Kekule sometimes claimed

0:15:47 > 0:15:52that a day-dream of a snake seizing its own tail inspired him in his discovery

0:15:52 > 0:15:55of the structure of which molecule?

0:15:56 > 0:15:59- Benzene.- Benzene is correct.

0:15:59 > 0:16:02Ten points for this. Level-pegging.

0:16:02 > 0:16:06Listen carefully. Of the 118 elements of the Periodic Table,

0:16:06 > 0:16:12two have symbols which, when read as ordinary English words, become personal pronouns.

0:16:12 > 0:16:15One is iodine. What's the other?

0:16:16 > 0:16:19- Helium.- Helium is correct, yes.

0:16:22 > 0:16:28These bonuses are on mathematics. Given the following real-valued functions of a real variable,

0:16:28 > 0:16:31give the values of X at which they are not differentiable.

0:16:31 > 0:16:35F of X equals the absolute value of X?

0:16:35 > 0:16:39- Zero.- Correct. F of X equals X-squared?

0:16:41 > 0:16:44WHISPERING

0:16:44 > 0:16:48- Nominate Cappleman.- There are none. - Yes, the empty set, correct.

0:16:48 > 0:16:53F of X equals 1 when X is rational and 0 when X is irrational?

0:16:53 > 0:16:56- Everywhere.- Everywhere. - Yes, all X, correct.

0:16:56 > 0:17:03Ten points for this. Also noted for the Berners Street Hoax and for sending the first picture postcard,

0:17:03 > 0:17:08the Victorian eccentric Theodore Hook launched which weekly publication in 1820,

0:17:08 > 0:17:11noted for its invective and High Toryism?

0:17:12 > 0:17:16- Punch?- No. York, one of you have a go.

0:17:17 > 0:17:21- Spectator.- No, it's John Bull Magazine. Ten points for this.

0:17:21 > 0:17:25In the following approximations, how many zeroes follow the number given

0:17:25 > 0:17:30if the Earth's circumference in metres is 40, the number of seconds in a year is 31

0:17:30 > 0:17:34and the number of identified insect species is one?

0:17:37 > 0:17:41- Seven.- Anyone like to have a go from New College?

0:17:42 > 0:17:44- Six.- Six is correct, yes.

0:17:47 > 0:17:52Your bonuses are on homonyms - pairs of words that are spelt and pronounced the same,

0:17:52 > 0:17:58but have different meanings and etymologies. In each case, give the word from the definition.

0:17:58 > 0:18:03All three have five letters. Firstly, "to pursue or approach stealthily",

0:18:03 > 0:18:07"a slender support or stem of an object or of part of an organism"

0:18:07 > 0:18:10and "to stride in a stiff or pompous way"?

0:18:10 > 0:18:15- Stalk.- Correct. "Thin or diaphanous" and "to swerve or change course quickly"?

0:18:21 > 0:18:23- WHISPERING - Come on, let's have it.

0:18:23 > 0:18:26- Veer?- No, the answer is "sheer".

0:18:26 > 0:18:31Finally, "rhythmic throbbing of the arteries" and "edible seed of a leguminous plant"?

0:18:31 > 0:18:33- Pulse.- "Pulse" is correct. Ten points for this.

0:18:33 > 0:18:38Slightly larger than the UK, which oil-rich African country has a flag

0:18:38 > 0:18:44with three horizontal bands of green, yellow and blue, the yellow being said to symbolise the Equator?

0:18:44 > 0:18:47- Angola?- No. York, have a buzz?

0:18:47 > 0:18:51- Central African Republic? - No, it's Gabon. Ten points for this.

0:18:51 > 0:18:58What single-digit number links the element boron, the fourth root of 625 and the planet...

0:18:58 > 0:19:00- 5.- 5 is correct, yes.

0:19:04 > 0:19:06Your bonuses this time are on place names.

0:19:06 > 0:19:13In English place names, the name of which tree follows Burnt in Barnet, Gospel in Camden...

0:19:13 > 0:19:15- Oak.- ..and Seven in Kent? Correct.

0:19:15 > 0:19:20Four English rivers, including one that flows through Derby and another in the Lake District,

0:19:20 > 0:19:23share what name meaning "where oak trees grow"?

0:19:23 > 0:19:29- Sorry, we don't know. - That's Derwent. And finally, designated a World Heritage Site,

0:19:29 > 0:19:35which port in south-eastern Croatia has a name meaning "grove of oak trees"?

0:19:35 > 0:19:39- Dubrovnik.- Correct. Time for a picture round again.

0:19:39 > 0:19:45You'll see a portrait depicting an Impressionist painter for your starter. Ten points if you name him.

0:19:47 > 0:19:51- Monet?- No. One of you buzz from York?

0:19:52 > 0:19:55- Manet?- No, it's Degas.

0:19:55 > 0:20:00So, picture bonuses shortly. Ten points at stake. Fingers on the buzzers. Here's a starter.

0:20:00 > 0:20:05In early 2012, two US states marked the centenary of their admission to the union.

0:20:05 > 0:20:07For ten points, name either of them.

0:20:09 > 0:20:11- Texas.- No.

0:20:11 > 0:20:13New College?

0:20:14 > 0:20:19- Alaska?- No, they were New Mexico and Arizona. Another starter question.

0:20:19 > 0:20:21Answer as soon as you buzz.

0:20:21 > 0:20:25In an urn containing five balls all of different colours,

0:20:25 > 0:20:30how many different combinations of colours are possible if you draw out three?

0:20:34 > 0:20:3615?

0:20:36 > 0:20:38Anyone like to buzz from New College?

0:20:38 > 0:20:41- Ten?- Ten is correct, yes.

0:20:44 > 0:20:48Which means we revert to the picture bonuses.

0:20:48 > 0:20:51You saw for that starter question a portrait of Degas,

0:20:51 > 0:20:55painted by Marcellin Desboutin, one of the lesser known Impressionists.

0:20:55 > 0:21:00Picture bonuses, three more portraits by Impressionist painters of their contemporaries.

0:21:00 > 0:21:06I want the name of the artist depicted and the artist who painted it in that order. Firstly for five?

0:21:10 > 0:21:12WHISPERING

0:21:16 > 0:21:20- Seurat by Monet?- No, it's Monet painted by Manet. Secondly?

0:21:30 > 0:21:34- Manet by Degas? - No, that's Sisley by Renoir.

0:21:34 > 0:21:38Finally, the figure on the left and the artist who's painted him?

0:21:40 > 0:21:43- Is that Toulouse-Lautrec by Degas? - No, it's Manet by Degas.

0:21:43 > 0:21:48Ten points for this. Used by the poet Baudelaire to describe the writer

0:21:48 > 0:21:51as a detached, mocking dandy in a city crowd,

0:21:51 > 0:21:57what seven-letter word comes from the French for "to saunter" or "stroll aimlessly"?

0:21:57 > 0:21:59- Flaneur.- Flaneur is correct, yes.

0:22:03 > 0:22:09Your bonuses are on Louis Pasteur. In 1885, Louis Pasteur's treatment of the nine-year-old Joseph Meister

0:22:09 > 0:22:13saw the first successful inoculation against which deadly disease?

0:22:13 > 0:22:15WHISPERING

0:22:15 > 0:22:18- Smallpox.- No, it's rabies.

0:22:18 > 0:22:22Pasteur discovered that which microbe caused puerperal fever?

0:22:22 > 0:22:28He named it after the Greek for a bunch of grapes in reference to its appearance under a microscope.

0:22:28 > 0:22:30WHISPERING

0:22:32 > 0:22:35- Anything?- I can't think of anything.

0:22:35 > 0:22:38- Come on.- No idea. - It's staphylococcus.

0:22:38 > 0:22:43Pasteur gives his name to what laboratory equipment used for liquids?

0:22:43 > 0:22:48- Pipette.- Pipette.- Pipettes is correct. Five minutes to go. Another starter question.

0:22:48 > 0:22:53Directed by Lu Chuan, the 2009 film City Of Life And Death

0:22:53 > 0:22:56deals with the 1937 massacre by the Imperial Japanese...

0:22:56 > 0:22:58- Nanjing.- Nanjing is correct, yes.

0:23:00 > 0:23:05And your bonuses are on cinema. Name the British director of the following films.

0:23:05 > 0:23:09Firstly, A Life Less Ordinary, 28 Days Later and Sunshine?

0:23:09 > 0:23:12- Danny Boyle.- Correct.

0:23:12 > 0:23:16Welcome To Sarajevo, A Cock And Bull Story and The Killer Inside Me?

0:23:19 > 0:23:21WHISPERING

0:23:22 > 0:23:26- Let's have it.- Sorry, we don't know. - That's Michael Winterbottom.

0:23:26 > 0:23:31Finally, Twenty Four Seven, Dead Man's Shoes and This Is England?

0:23:31 > 0:23:34- Shane Meadows.- Correct. Another starter question.

0:23:34 > 0:23:39Taxing To Prevent Inflation, Price Theory and A Program For Monetary Stability

0:23:39 > 0:23:42are among the works of which US economist...

0:23:42 > 0:23:48- Milton Friedman.- Correct. Your bonuses are on the legislative assemblies of EU member states.

0:23:48 > 0:23:52Name the city in which the following parliament buildings are located.

0:23:52 > 0:23:56Firstly for five points, the Binnenhof?

0:23:59 > 0:24:02- Vienna?- No, that's in The Hague.

0:24:02 > 0:24:05Secondly, Toompea Castle?

0:24:07 > 0:24:11- Let's have it, please. - Denmark?- No, that's Tallinn.

0:24:11 > 0:24:14And finally, the Grand Master's Palace?

0:24:16 > 0:24:19- Come on.- Sorry, we don't know. - That's in Valletta.

0:24:19 > 0:24:22Ten points for this. Who was President of France

0:24:22 > 0:24:26when Denmark, Ireland and the UK joined the Common Market?

0:24:26 > 0:24:31- Valery Giscard d'Estaing.- No. Anyone want to buzz from New College?

0:24:31 > 0:24:33- Georges Pompidou.- Correct.

0:24:33 > 0:24:37Your bonuses are on counties of the Republic of Ireland.

0:24:37 > 0:24:42In an alphabetical list of the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland, which comes first?

0:24:42 > 0:24:45WHISPERING

0:24:45 > 0:24:50- Quickly!- Armagh? - No, that's not in the Republic of Ireland. It's Carlow.

0:24:50 > 0:24:57Three counties in the Republic of Ireland have a name beginning with M. Name two of them.

0:25:04 > 0:25:07- Come on!- Monaghan and...Mull.- Mull?!

0:25:07 > 0:25:11That's an island off Scotland. Mayo and Meath are the other ones.

0:25:11 > 0:25:17Finally, only one county in the Republic of Ireland has a name beginning with S. What is it?

0:25:19 > 0:25:21Sorry, we don't know.

0:25:21 > 0:25:23That's Sligo. Ten points for this.

0:25:23 > 0:25:30What quantity increases from 6,357 to 6,378 kilometres as latitude decreases?

0:25:32 > 0:25:34Distance to the centre of the Earth.

0:25:34 > 0:25:40I'll accept that. Earth's radius is the more precise term I was looking for, but I'll accept that.

0:25:40 > 0:25:46Your bonuses are on years. What multiple of three is the year in which Henry VIII came to the throne?

0:25:46 > 0:25:49WHISPERING

0:25:49 > 0:25:53- Come on, come on, come on! - 1530.- No, it's 1509.

0:25:53 > 0:25:58What multiple of four is the year in which Edward VIII abdicated?

0:25:58 > 0:26:00Nineteen-thirty...nine?

0:26:00 > 0:26:03- 1938.- No, it's 1936.

0:26:03 > 0:26:09Which English king came to the throne in August of the year whose factors include 3, 5, 99 and 297?

0:26:12 > 0:26:15- Henry II.- Henry VII. Ten points for this.

0:26:15 > 0:26:22Who, in 1705, predicted an event of 1758 based on observations made in 1456...

0:26:22 > 0:26:25- Halley. - Edmond Halley is correct, yes.

0:26:25 > 0:26:27Your bonuses are on mathematics.

0:26:27 > 0:26:33For each of the following sets of real numbers, I want you to tell me their supremum or least upper bound.

0:26:33 > 0:26:40Firstly, the set of fractions in the form N divided by N plus 1 where N is a positive integer?

0:26:40 > 0:26:44- 2.- No, it's 1. The set of real numbers whose square is less than 2?

0:26:46 > 0:26:52- 1.- No, the square root of 2. The set of real numbers whose logarithm is at most zero?

0:26:52 > 0:26:54- The empty set.- It's 1. Ten points for this.

0:26:54 > 0:26:58In the Cartesian RGB system of colour, what would be seen

0:26:58 > 0:27:02if red, green and blue were of equal value and at their maxima?

0:27:02 > 0:27:08- White.- Correct. Bonuses on Scottish dukes. The holder of which dukedom is the Premier Peer of Scotland

0:27:08 > 0:27:11and hereditary keeper of the Palace of Holyroodhouse?

0:27:11 > 0:27:14- Argyll?- Come on. - Argyll.- No, Hamilton.

0:27:14 > 0:27:20Floors Castle in the Scottish Borders is the family seat of which Scottish dukedom?

0:27:20 > 0:27:25- Glamis.- No, Roxburghe. The holder of which dukedom is the only man in Britain permitted

0:27:25 > 0:27:30to have a private army, an honour bestowed by Queen Victoria?

0:27:30 > 0:27:32- Argyll.- Atholl. Ten points for this.

0:27:32 > 0:27:36Give the US city and state that is the location of the third oldest

0:27:36 > 0:27:39of the Ivy League universities, founded in 1746?

0:27:42 > 0:27:46- Cambridge, Massachusetts.- No. Quickly, New College, somebody buzz.

0:27:46 > 0:27:51- Stanford, California.- No, Princeton, New Jersey. The mean population...

0:27:51 > 0:27:57- GONG - At the gong, York University have 145, New College, Oxford, have 215.

0:28:04 > 0:28:08We'll have to say goodbye to you, York. You didn't give up. That was great fun.

0:28:08 > 0:28:13New College, a terrific performance. We shall look forward to seeing you

0:28:13 > 0:28:15in the latter stages of the competition.

0:28:15 > 0:28:22- Join us next time for the next match in this series, but until then, it's goodbye from York.- Goodbye.

0:28:22 > 0:28:25- Goodbye from New College, Oxford. - Goodbye.- And goodbye from me.

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