0:00:20 > 0:00:24University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. Pembroke College, Cambridge and New College, Oxford
0:00:31 > 0:00:33have already earned themselves
0:00:33 > 0:00:35places in the quarterfinal stage of this contest.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39Whichever team wins tonight will join them.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41The University of Warwick had rather an easy ride of it
0:00:41 > 0:00:43in their first-round match
0:00:43 > 0:00:45against a bunch of dormice from Aberdeen.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Warwick knew a lot about US presidents, cave systems,
0:00:48 > 0:00:50and things to do with Swindon.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52But they certainly will never appear
0:00:52 > 0:00:55on Strictly Come Dancing as they can't tell a fandango or a minuet
0:00:55 > 0:00:56from a bunch of bananas.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59With an average age of 21 let us meet the Warwick team again.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Hi there, I am Sean Quinn, I am from Derry in Ireland,
0:01:03 > 0:01:05and I'm studying Classical Civilisation.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Hi, my name is Sarah Jane Bodell. I am from Western Kentucky
0:01:08 > 0:01:10and I study the History Of Medicine.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12And their captain.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15I am Andrew Shaw, I am from Ipswich and I am studying Maths.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Hi, I am James Wheatley, I am from Sudbury in Suffolk
0:01:17 > 0:01:19and I am studying Chemistry.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23APPLAUSE
0:01:23 > 0:01:26King's College Cambridge lost their first-round match against the
0:01:26 > 0:01:29medics from St George's London but survived as one of the highest
0:01:29 > 0:01:31scoring losing teams from that round
0:01:31 > 0:01:34and then beat Homerton College, Cambridge in their play-off.
0:01:34 > 0:01:38On that occasion they knew a lot about Ethelred the Unready, the
0:01:38 > 0:01:39permittivity of the vacuum,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42and Raphael's Fresco of the School of Athens.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Oddly though they seem to have some trouble remembering each other's
0:01:45 > 0:01:48names so the usual introductions may be especially helpful to them.
0:01:48 > 0:01:49Let us meet them.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Hello, I am Curtis Gallant, from North London,
0:01:52 > 0:01:54and I am studying Classics.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57Hello. I am Amber Ace, I am from Crieff in Perthshire,
0:01:57 > 0:01:59and I am also studying Classics.
0:01:59 > 0:02:00And their captain.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03Hi, I am Fran Middleton, from Chorleywood in Hertfordshire
0:02:03 > 0:02:04and am doing a PhD in Classics.
0:02:04 > 0:02:09Hi, I'm James Gratrex, I'm from Leeds and I'm reading Physics.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13APPLAUSE
0:02:13 > 0:02:16OK, you all know the rules by now, so fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Here is your first starter for 10.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22According to the US psychologist Robert J Sternberg what human
0:02:22 > 0:02:26mood or emotion can be described using the triangular theory in which
0:02:26 > 0:02:30it is deconstructed into the three components of passion, intimacy...
0:02:30 > 0:02:32BUZZER
0:02:32 > 0:02:33Love.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Correct.
0:02:35 > 0:02:36APPLAUSE
0:02:36 > 0:02:39You get the first set of bonuses, King's College.
0:02:39 > 0:02:40They are on grammar and literature.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Firstly, although there are numerous examples in the works
0:02:43 > 0:02:45of Shakespeare and other authors,
0:02:45 > 0:02:49putting the word "from" before what six letter adverb is often
0:02:49 > 0:02:52cited as a solecism because its meaning is already
0:02:52 > 0:02:54"from what place"?
0:02:54 > 0:02:55Whence.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59Correct. "He got a good estate by merchandise and leaving off his trade lived
0:02:59 > 0:03:03"afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother."
0:03:03 > 0:03:05This sentence forms part of the opening lines of which
0:03:05 > 0:03:07novel of 1719?
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Tristram Shandy. Tristram Shandy.
0:03:12 > 0:03:13No, it is Robinson Crusoe.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help."
0:03:16 > 0:03:19In which book of the Old Testament do those words appear?
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Moses doing stuff with bushes.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Exodus.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29No, it is Psalm 21.
0:03:29 > 0:03:3010 points for this.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34In a play first performed in 1775, who describes Captain Absolute
0:03:34 > 0:03:37as "The very pineapple of politeness" and declares...
0:03:37 > 0:03:39BUZZER
0:03:39 > 0:03:40The Rivals.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42No, you lose five points.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45..And declares Lydia Languish
0:03:45 > 0:03:49to be "As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile"?
0:03:52 > 0:03:53I will tell you. It is Mrs Malaprop.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56It is of course in The Rivals but I wanted the name of the character.
0:03:56 > 0:03:5810 points for this.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Suggested in a letter to the Cambridge professor Adam Sedgwick,
0:04:00 > 0:04:05what term was adopted in 1905 by William Bateson, later the first
0:04:05 > 0:04:09director of the John Innes Horticultural Institution, to describe the study of heredity?
0:04:09 > 0:04:10BELL
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Genealogy.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15No. Anyone like to buzz from King's?
0:04:17 > 0:04:19I'll tell you. It's genetics. 10 points for the starter question.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Fully elaborating his structuralist approach to
0:04:22 > 0:04:23culture in the 1962 work...
0:04:23 > 0:04:25BUZZER
0:04:25 > 0:04:26Levi-Strauss.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Levi-Strauss is right.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30APPLAUSE
0:04:30 > 0:04:34These bonuses are on official residences, King's College.
0:04:34 > 0:04:38Having had its first unmarried couple move in during 2010,
0:04:38 > 0:04:41The Lodge is the official residence of the Prime Minister
0:04:41 > 0:04:42of which country?
0:04:44 > 0:04:46THEY CONFER
0:04:52 > 0:04:54- Australia.- Australia.
0:04:54 > 0:04:55Correct.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Located in Vienna, what is the name of the former imperial palace that
0:04:58 > 0:05:02serves as the official residence of the president of Austria?
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- It's not Hapsburg Palace, is that..? - No. Just say it.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09- The Hapsburg Palace.- No, it's the Hofburg Imperial Palace.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Finally, standing in the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory,
0:05:12 > 0:05:16the 19th-century house at Number 1 Observatory Circle
0:05:16 > 0:05:19is a residence and workplace of the holder of which office?
0:05:22 > 0:05:26- The head of the CIA? - Head of defence or something?
0:05:26 > 0:05:28- Head of the CIA.- Head of the CIA.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30No, it's the US vice president.
0:05:30 > 0:05:3210 points for this. Listen carefully.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36Words meaning "hold close as a way of showing affection,"
0:05:36 > 0:05:37"stick used as a weapon,"
0:05:37 > 0:05:40and "partly digested food in the mouth of a ruminant"
0:05:40 > 0:05:43are among the small number of dictionary headwords
0:05:43 > 0:05:45that begin with which three letters?
0:05:47 > 0:05:50- C-U-D.- Correct.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52APPLAUSE
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Right. These bonuses are on medicine, King's College.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00From the Greek for "brought forth by a healer",
0:06:00 > 0:06:02what adjective describes a disease
0:06:02 > 0:06:05produced by a doctor or health care professional, for example
0:06:05 > 0:06:08a side-effect or complication resulting from a treatment?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10THEY CONFER
0:06:11 > 0:06:14I'm sure there's a more normal word for it, though.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18- Like what would be...?- Should I just say that? Iatrogenic.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Iatrogenic is correct, yes! What word describes...
0:06:20 > 0:06:23It is useful being a classicist sometimes, isn't it?
0:06:23 > 0:06:26What word describes an infection of animals that may be communicated
0:06:26 > 0:06:30to humans, an example being bovine tuberculosis?
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Don't know.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34THEY CONFER
0:06:34 > 0:06:37LAUGHTER
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Zoogenic?
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Er, no, it's zoonosis, or zoonose.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44And finally, what Greek-derived word describes those infections
0:06:44 > 0:06:49known as HAIs, that is, hospital acquired or healthcare associated?
0:06:49 > 0:06:51THEY CONFER
0:06:53 > 0:06:55What does MRSI stand for?
0:06:55 > 0:07:00Yeah, there is a word that would describe that. Oh, um.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01Hospital diseases.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04It's nosocomial. We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07For your picture starter you'll see a table of results
0:07:07 > 0:07:11in a Formula 1 world championship, in race order.
0:07:11 > 0:07:12For 10 points I want you to give me
0:07:12 > 0:07:15the single winning driver whose name is missing.
0:07:19 > 0:07:20BUZZER
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Mika Hakkinen.
0:07:22 > 0:07:23Yes!
0:07:23 > 0:07:27APPLAUSE
0:07:27 > 0:07:30World champion in 1988 and 1999.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33You get three more Formula 1 championship tables
0:07:33 > 0:07:36for your bonuses. In each case, name the single missing driver
0:07:36 > 0:07:39who won the whole championship. Firstly, this winning driver.
0:07:40 > 0:07:45- Is that Jacques Villeneuve? It could be.- Jacques Villeneuve.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48No, it was Alain Prost. Secondly, this champion.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52- '68?- '68.
0:07:52 > 0:07:53THEY CONFER
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Do we know any old drivers?
0:07:56 > 0:08:00- Old drivers?- Do you know anyone, James, from that era?
0:08:00 > 0:08:02No.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06- Pass, sorry.- That was Graham Hill. And finally, this champion.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11THEY CONFER
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Where's Vettel? It'll be Vettel.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16No, wait. Is it? Yeah, Vettel.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18- What?- Sebastian Vettel.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20- Vettel, with a V?- Yeah.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Vettel. Vettel?
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Vettel is correct, yes. Sebastian Vettel.
0:08:24 > 0:08:28- You've never heard of him, have you?- No!
0:08:28 > 0:08:30OK. 10 points for this starter question.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33The ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Kartli, Iberia,
0:08:33 > 0:08:38are part of the territory of which present-day country.
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Georgia?
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Georgia is correct, yes.
0:08:41 > 0:08:42APPLAUSE
0:08:44 > 0:08:47King's College, your bonuses are on westernmost locations.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49To give you a little help, each place name
0:08:49 > 0:08:50begins with the word "saint".
0:08:50 > 0:08:53Firstly, what is the westernmost town in England?
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Slightly to the east of Cape Cornwall,
0:08:55 > 0:08:57it gives its name to a former mining district
0:08:57 > 0:09:00and World Heritage Site slightly to the north of the town itself.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03THEY CONFER
0:09:03 > 0:09:05St Ives?
0:09:05 > 0:09:08No, it's St Just. Around 110 miles from the Scottish mainland,
0:09:08 > 0:09:11which archipelago or contains the westernmost islands of the Hebrides?
0:09:11 > 0:09:16The largest, Hirta, has the highest sea cliffs in the UK.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18THEY CONFER
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Is St Kilda western?
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Yeah. It could be.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28- I just think St Kilda might be a single island.- St Kilda.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30St Kilda is correct. Yes.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33And finally, which rocky promontory marks the start
0:09:33 > 0:09:37of the coast-to-coast walk and is the westernmost point of Cumbria?
0:09:38 > 0:09:41THEY CONFER
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- Just try St David's.- St David's.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49No, it's St Bees. St Bees Head. 10 points for this.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53The early 20th-century composers Tailleferre, Durey...?
0:09:53 > 0:09:54Les Six.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Les Six is correct, yes.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59APPLAUSE
0:09:59 > 0:10:02OK, you're away. Your bonuses, Warwick,
0:10:02 > 0:10:04are on surnames and their anagrams.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07In each case, give both words or names
0:10:07 > 0:10:08from the explanation or definition.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12Generalissimo and head of Nationalist China from 1928
0:10:12 > 0:10:14until his death in 1975,
0:10:14 > 0:10:17and being in persistent dull pain,
0:10:17 > 0:10:19for example of the head or teeth.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23THEY CONFER
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Some sort of ache?
0:10:32 > 0:10:37- Aching and Chiang.- The Chiang Kai-Shek, that's correct.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Irene, described as a well-known adventuress
0:10:39 > 0:10:42in the Sherlock Holmes story A Scandal In Bohemia,
0:10:42 > 0:10:47and Alnus glutinosa, a native British tree of the birch family.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- Alder and Adler. - Adler and Alder.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52Correct. Author of The Little Mermaid,
0:10:52 > 0:10:54and entangled or caught in a trap.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57Andersen and...
0:10:57 > 0:10:59- Ensnared. - Anderson and ensnared.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Yes! Ten points for this.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03APPLAUSE
0:11:04 > 0:11:07The English term for an inhabitant of which Mediterranean island
0:11:07 > 0:11:10is an anagram of words meaning "drink of the gods",
0:11:10 > 0:11:14"half conscious state induced by hypnosis", and...
0:11:14 > 0:11:17- Cretan.- Cretan is correct, yes.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19APPLAUSE
0:11:20 > 0:11:23These bonuses are on the architect Frank Gehry.
0:11:23 > 0:11:28Co-designed with Vlado Milunic, the so-called Dancing House in Prague
0:11:28 > 0:11:32is also known by the name of which American duo?
0:11:32 > 0:11:35THEY CONFER
0:11:36 > 0:11:39Are Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers English? American?
0:11:39 > 0:11:42- No, they're American.- Oh! Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
0:11:42 > 0:11:43Correct. Fred and Ginger.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46Der Neue Zolhof consists of three buildings in close proximity
0:11:46 > 0:11:48on the riverfront of which city,
0:11:48 > 0:11:51the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia?
0:11:51 > 0:11:53THEY CONFER
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Is that Stuttgart?)
0:11:55 > 0:11:58- It's not Cologne, is it?- No.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02- Stuttgart.- No, it's Dusseldorf. Completed in 2003,
0:12:02 > 0:12:05which Gehry-designed Los Angeles concert hall
0:12:05 > 0:12:08is named after the recipient of 59 Oscar nominations?
0:12:08 > 0:12:10Oh, that's, er... I think it's Disney.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Disney?
0:12:12 > 0:12:13It is Walt Disney.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16The Walt Disney Concert Hall. 10 points for this.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20First coined by Matt Stum on a Stash Hunt mailing list in 2000,
0:12:20 > 0:12:24what term describes a real-world, outdoor treasure-hunting hobby
0:12:24 > 0:12:28in which players try to locate hidden containers using GPS?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30Geo-caching.
0:12:30 > 0:12:31Geo-caching is correct, yes.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33APPLAUSE
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Warwick, these bonuses are on mathematical groups.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40What name is given to the seven distinct groups which correspond
0:12:40 > 0:12:41to designs in the plane which are
0:12:41 > 0:12:44translationally invariant in one direction?
0:12:47 > 0:12:49THEY CONFER
0:12:52 > 0:12:54- Symmetry groups? - No, they're frieze groups.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57Secondly for five points, what term is used for the 17 groups
0:12:57 > 0:13:01which describe two-dimensional repetitive patterns in the plane?
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Shall I try it again?
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Symmetry groups.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Plain symmetry, yep.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10What name is given to the generalisation of wallpaper groups
0:13:10 > 0:13:12to three-dimensional space?
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Er...tessellation groups?
0:13:16 > 0:13:19No, they're space groups, or crystallographic objects.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24For your music starter you'll hear an excerpt
0:13:24 > 0:13:26from an Academy Award nominated film soundtrack.
0:13:26 > 0:13:2910 points if you can give me the name of the film.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33MUSIC PLAYS
0:13:34 > 0:13:35Gladiator.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Correct.
0:13:37 > 0:13:38APPLAUSE
0:13:40 > 0:13:42That was composed by Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Your music bonuses are more excerpts from film soundtracks
0:13:45 > 0:13:49written or cowritten by female composers or lyricists,
0:13:49 > 0:13:51all of whom won Academy Awards for their film scores.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54In each case, I simply want you to name the film.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Firstly, this film, released in the 1980s.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59# May the light
0:13:59 > 0:14:02# Of the spring candle
0:14:02 > 0:14:05# Illuminate the night... #
0:14:05 > 0:14:06Yentl.
0:14:06 > 0:14:10Yentl is correct. Secondly, this film, released in the 1990s.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:18 > 0:14:20THEY CONFER
0:14:24 > 0:14:27- Life Is Beautiful.- No, it's Emma.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31And finally, this film, also released in the 1990s.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:45 > 0:14:50- What sort of film is it? - Dick Tracy or something?
0:14:50 > 0:14:53Dick Tracy? That's the name of the film?
0:14:53 > 0:14:55- Dick Tracy, yeah.- Dick Tracy?
0:14:55 > 0:14:58No, that's The Full Monty. 10 points for this.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02Which cricketer was the oldest man to score a test century,
0:15:02 > 0:15:04doing so in the 1928 to 29 season?
0:15:04 > 0:15:08A Surrey and England player, he was the sports most prolific batsman,
0:15:08 > 0:15:10scoring 197 first-class centuries.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17- WG Grace?- No. Warwick, one of you buzz?
0:15:18 > 0:15:20No, sorry.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22No, it was Sir Jack Hobbs. 10 points for this.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26Plasmodiophora brassicae causes which fungal disease
0:15:26 > 0:15:29afflicting crops such as sprouts and cabbages?
0:15:29 > 0:15:30The infection is difficult to treat
0:15:30 > 0:15:33and the fungus may remain in the soil for many years.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39- Blight.- No. One of you buzz from King's College.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46You're not going to buzz, are you? You're not going to tell me. OK.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Fine, it's club root. Ten points for this.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Commissioned by the Ministry of Education, which 1946 work
0:15:51 > 0:15:54by Benjamin Britten consists of a series of variations...?
0:15:54 > 0:15:56A Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra.
0:15:56 > 0:15:57Correct.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00APPLAUSE
0:16:00 > 0:16:03These bonuses are on epitaphs, Warwick University.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06F Scott Fitzgerald's grave in Maryland bears the inscription,
0:16:06 > 0:16:09"So we beat on, boats against the current,
0:16:09 > 0:16:11"borne back ceaselessly into the past" -
0:16:11 > 0:16:14lines taken from which of his novels?
0:16:14 > 0:16:16- The Great Gatsby?- Correct.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20What's the significance of the 35 digits engraved on the tombstone
0:16:20 > 0:16:23of the 17th-century Dutch mathematician Ludolph van Ceulen?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28First 35 primes, or something?
0:16:28 > 0:16:30- First 35 digits of pi? - Worth a try.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33We'll try the first 35 digits of pi.
0:16:33 > 0:16:34That's correct, yes.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38Written in Gaelic, to meet the approval of the Chichester diocese,
0:16:38 > 0:16:40the epitaph "I told you I was ill"
0:16:40 > 0:16:43appears on the headstone of which writer and comedian
0:16:43 > 0:16:45who died in 2002?
0:16:45 > 0:16:47- Spike Milligan?- Yeah.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49- Spike Milligan.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52APPLAUSE
0:16:52 > 0:16:54After the Shannon, Severn and Thames,
0:16:54 > 0:16:56what is the longest river of Britain and Ireland?
0:16:56 > 0:16:59It's also the longest that doesn't empty into the sea
0:16:59 > 0:17:00under its own name.
0:17:07 > 0:17:08- Tay.- No.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Trent.
0:17:12 > 0:17:13It is the Trent, yes!
0:17:13 > 0:17:15APPLAUSE
0:17:15 > 0:17:18These bonuses could give you the lead. They're on Africa.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21In each case the answer is a Commonwealth member state.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23Firstly, the socialist-leaning Julius Nyerere
0:17:23 > 0:17:26was president of which African country from independence
0:17:26 > 0:17:30in 1962 until he stepped down voluntarily in 1985?
0:17:30 > 0:17:33THEY CONFER
0:17:38 > 0:17:41- Zimbabwe?- No.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48- Let's have an answer, please. - We'll try Kenya.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50No, it's Tanzania.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53Kenneth Kaunda led which country to independence from Britain in 1964
0:17:53 > 0:17:57and served as its president until he was voted out of office in 1991?
0:17:59 > 0:18:03- Try Kenya again? Might as well. - Any other ideas? Rwanda?
0:18:05 > 0:18:08- We'll try Kenya again. - No, it was Zambia.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11And finally, Dr Hastings Banda was the leader
0:18:11 > 0:18:12of which southern African country
0:18:12 > 0:18:16which he governed from independence until 1994?
0:18:20 > 0:18:23- Could be Namibia?- Southern Africa?
0:18:23 > 0:18:27- Libya?- I said Namibia.- Oh, Namibia! Namibia.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29No, it's Malawi. 10 points for this.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Garlando, Bonzini and Leonhart
0:18:32 > 0:18:35are among brands of table used for official competitions
0:18:35 > 0:18:36in which indoor sport
0:18:36 > 0:18:38known in various countries by names
0:18:38 > 0:18:42including gitone, baby-foot and kicker?
0:18:44 > 0:18:48- Table tennis?- No. Anyone want to buzz from Warwick?
0:18:48 > 0:18:49Table football.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52Correct!
0:18:52 > 0:18:54APPLAUSE
0:18:54 > 0:18:58You've got the lead. Bonuses on survivors now. Sole survivors.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01Elizabeth Butler's painting Remnants Of An Army depicts
0:19:01 > 0:19:04the surgeon William Brydon reaching Jalalabad in 1842
0:19:04 > 0:19:07as the sole survivor of the British force that occupied
0:19:07 > 0:19:09which capital city?
0:19:09 > 0:19:12THEY CONFER
0:19:13 > 0:19:15I think it was Afghanistan...
0:19:15 > 0:19:17- Go with Kabul?- It's the capital. - Kabul?
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Kabul is correct.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21A Mustang horse called Comanche
0:19:21 > 0:19:24is often cited as the only survivor of the losing side
0:19:24 > 0:19:28in which battle of June 25, 1876?
0:19:28 > 0:19:30THEY CONFER
0:19:30 > 0:19:32The Alamo?
0:19:32 > 0:19:37- Comanche would be like Native American.- Little Big Horn, maybe?
0:19:37 > 0:19:41No, because the Native Americans won Little Big Horn.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43- No, they didn't.- Didn't they?
0:19:43 > 0:19:45- I can't remember.- Wounded Knee.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47- No, it's Little Big Horn.- Sorry!
0:19:47 > 0:19:50And finally, John King was the sole survivor
0:19:50 > 0:19:53of which ill-fated Australian exhibition led by and named after
0:19:53 > 0:19:56an Irish police officer and an English surveyor?
0:19:56 > 0:19:58- Was that Burke and Hare?- Really?
0:19:58 > 0:20:00OK. Burke and Hare?
0:20:00 > 0:20:02LAUGHTER
0:20:02 > 0:20:04No, it's Burke and Wills. Bad luck.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Right, we're going to take a picture starter now.
0:20:07 > 0:20:08For your picture round
0:20:08 > 0:20:11you're going to see a prominent 20th-century figure.
0:20:11 > 0:20:1310 points if you can give me his name.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21- Eisenhower?- It is Eisenhower, yes.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23APPLAUSE
0:20:25 > 0:20:28You will recall he served as Supreme Commander of Allied forces
0:20:28 > 0:20:30in Europe during the Second World War.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34Your bonuses - three more Axis and Allied figures who held high command
0:20:34 > 0:20:36at the time of the D-Day landings.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Five points for each name you can give me. Firstly...
0:20:41 > 0:20:44- Is that Erwin Rommel? - Rommel, I think it is.- Rommel?
0:20:44 > 0:20:46That is Erwin Rommel. Secondly...
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Von Manstein?
0:20:51 > 0:20:56- Any ideas? We'll try von Manstein. - No, that's von Rundstedt.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59And finally...
0:20:59 > 0:21:01- Montgomery.- It is Montgomery, yes.
0:21:01 > 0:21:0210 points for this.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05In aerodynamics, what adjective is generally used to describe
0:21:05 > 0:21:08speeds that are equal to or greater than...?
0:21:10 > 0:21:13- Supersonic?- No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16Greater than mach five.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18- Hypersonic. - Hypersonic is correct, yes.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21APPLAUSE
0:21:21 > 0:21:23These bonuses are on a physicist.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27In 1955, Thomas Harvey, the Chief Pathologist of Princeton Hospital
0:21:27 > 0:21:31conducted an autopsy on which scientist and public figure
0:21:31 > 0:21:34during which he took the controversial decision to remove the brain?
0:21:34 > 0:21:35It's got to be Einstein.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37- Einstein?- Correct.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39During World War II, Einstein contributed to
0:21:39 > 0:21:42the United States war effort by putting up for auction
0:21:42 > 0:21:45the manuscript of what paper of 1905?
0:21:49 > 0:21:54- Theory Of General Relativity?- No. General Relativity was later.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58It's on the Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies or Special Relativity.
0:21:58 > 0:21:59In 1952, Einstein was offered
0:21:59 > 0:22:02but declined the presidency of which country?
0:22:02 > 0:22:05- Israel.- Israel is correct. Six minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:22:07 > 0:22:11What is the sum of the natural numbers from one to 1,000?
0:22:16 > 0:22:19- 500,500.- Correct, yes
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Right, these bonuses are on the Civil Rights Movement, King's College.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29Formed 1964, the organisation known as the OAAU was a major
0:22:29 > 0:22:34campaigning group on civil rights issues in the 1960s.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37For what do the letters AAU stand?
0:22:39 > 0:22:40African-American union?
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Afro-American Unity is correct.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Which civil rights campaigner formed the OAAU
0:22:44 > 0:22:47and was assassinated a year later?
0:22:48 > 0:22:51- Malcolm X?- Yeah.- Malcolm X.- Correct.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53Who was the president of the United States
0:22:53 > 0:22:56when the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed?
0:22:58 > 0:23:01- Lyndon Johnson. - Correct. 10 points for this.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05From a Latin word meaning to begin, what term for the beginning
0:23:05 > 0:23:10of a project or undertaking provides the title of a film...?
0:23:10 > 0:23:12- Inception.- Correct.- Nice!
0:23:14 > 0:23:17Your bonuses this time are on fictional villages and towns.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20In each case, name the location from its inhabitants.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Firstly, Caleb Garth, Fred Vincy
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Sir James Chettam and Celia Brooke.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27That's, er, Middlemarch.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29- Middlemarch.- Correct.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Secondly, James Harthouse, Josiah Bounderby and Thomas Gradgrind.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35That's in Dickens.
0:23:35 > 0:23:39- One of the Dickens, possibly...- Where, where?
0:23:41 > 0:23:45- Nicholas Nickleby, does that help? - No. Nickleby Town.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48- LAUGHTER - Good guess but completely wrong.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50No, it's Coketown in Hard Times.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53And finally, Abel Whittle, Christopher Coney,
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Donald Farfrae and Michael Henchard.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00- Sorry, we don't know.- It's Casterbridge. Four minutes to go.
0:24:00 > 0:24:0110 points for this.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04Signed on March 25, 1957, which treaty was the first
0:24:04 > 0:24:07and founding act of the European Economic...?
0:24:07 > 0:24:10- The Treaty Of Rome.- Correct.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14These bonuses are on the average number of days in a month
0:24:14 > 0:24:15during a leap year.
0:24:15 > 0:24:20What is the mode number of days in a month during a leap year?
0:24:23 > 0:24:24- 31.- Correct.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28What is the mean number of days in a month during a leap year?
0:24:28 > 0:24:31God, er, 20... 30.
0:24:31 > 0:24:36- 30.- No, it's 30.5. 366 divided by 12.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40Finally, what is the median number of days in a month during a leap year?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- Are there six that are 31?- Yeah.
0:24:43 > 0:24:47So there is five that are under 31.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51- Is it still 31?- 31.- Correct. 10 points for this starter question.
0:24:51 > 0:24:52Born 1848,
0:24:52 > 0:24:57Sir Hubert Parry is perhaps best known for setting the words...
0:24:57 > 0:24:58- Jerusalem.- Correct.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02You retake the lead. Your bonuses are on ophthalmology.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06What is the common name of the eye condition known as strabismus?
0:25:08 > 0:25:09Floaters?
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- Come on, let's have it, please. - Floaters.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17No, it's a squint or a misalignment of the eyes.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20Protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia
0:25:20 > 0:25:23are all examples of what vision defect?
0:25:23 > 0:25:26Like, double vision...
0:25:26 > 0:25:29- Multiple vision? - No, it's colour-blindness.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Finally, what refractive eye defect is indicated
0:25:32 > 0:25:35if convex corrective lenses are prescribed?
0:25:39 > 0:25:43- It's long sightedness.- Are you sure? - Yes.- Come on.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- Long sightedness.- Correct. 10 points for the starter question.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49What common five letter word denotes the distance
0:25:49 > 0:25:51between the adjacent threads on a screw?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55I'll tell you it's a pitch. 10 points for this.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59In which EU member state are the walled city of Piran,
0:25:59 > 0:26:04Triglav National Park and Maribor, a European capital of culture in 2012?
0:26:05 > 0:26:11- Hungary.- No, King's College, one of you buzz.- Estonia.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13No, it's Slovenia. 10 points for this.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16Which noble achievement of navigation was completed in 1522
0:26:16 > 0:26:19by a ship under the command of the Basque mariner...?
0:26:19 > 0:26:22- Circumnavigating the globe. - Correct, yes.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26These bonuses are on the works of John Masefield.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29In each case, identify the poems in which the lines appear.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31"Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir..."
0:26:31 > 0:26:32- Cargoes.- Correct.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36"Out into street I ran uproarious The devil dancing in me glorious."
0:26:36 > 0:26:40Oh, er...no, I don't know.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43- Pass. - It's The Everlasting Mercy.
0:26:43 > 0:26:49- "All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."- Oh, that's...
0:26:49 > 0:26:51- "We must go down, my dear, to the sea, the sea...- The sea.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54No, it's Sea Fever. 10 points for this.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56What six letter adjective links
0:26:56 > 0:27:01titles of works by Sebastian Barry, Donna Tartt and...
0:27:01 > 0:27:03- Secret.- Correct, you take the lead.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07Your bonuses are on names that begin and end with the same letter.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10In each case simply give the name from the description.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14A major battle firstly fought in southern Pennsylvania in July 1863.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19- Sorry, what year?- 1863.- Come on, let's have it.- Sorry, don't know.
0:27:19 > 0:27:25It's Gettysburg. The most populous province of China.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27- Don't know, sorry. - That's Guangdong.
0:27:27 > 0:27:32Finally, a planet of genus Panax cultivated especially in East Asia
0:27:32 > 0:27:36for its supposedly restorative and medicinal properties.
0:27:36 > 0:27:40- Ginseng.- Correct. Another starter question now.
0:27:40 > 0:27:45Gunn, Whipple, Tempel-Tuttle and Hale-Bopp are examples of what...?
0:27:45 > 0:27:47- Comets.- Correct.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Your bonuses this time are on Greek nymphs.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53What collective name was given to
0:27:53 > 0:27:56the 15 daughters of the goddess Doris, derived from...?
0:27:56 > 0:27:59- GONG - And at the gong, Warwick University have 160,
0:27:59 > 0:28:01King's College - Cambridge have 185.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03APPLAUSE
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Well, it was a very good game. Thank you very much, Warwick.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15You know, I thought you were going to win it at one point.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17In fact, so did they!
0:28:17 > 0:28:19Congratulations, King's,
0:28:19 > 0:28:21we look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23I hope you can join us next time.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26- But until then it is goodbye from the University of Warwick.- Goodbye.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28- It's goodbye from King's College - Cambridge.- Goodbye.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32APPLAUSE
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