Episode 2

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0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman!

0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. The Greek poet Archilochus wrote that

0:00:31 > 0:00:35"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing".

0:00:35 > 0:00:37We're hoping to see foxes tonight,

0:00:37 > 0:00:40as two teams compete for a place in the second round.

0:00:40 > 0:00:42Hedgehogs might also get to play again,

0:00:42 > 0:00:44if their score is high enough.

0:00:44 > 0:00:47St George's is a medical college of the University of London.

0:00:47 > 0:00:50It was established in 1733 on Hyde Park Corner,

0:00:50 > 0:00:52but is now based in Tooting,

0:00:52 > 0:00:56and is one of the largest and oldest medical schools in the UK.

0:00:56 > 0:00:59It shares its campus with the buildings of St George's Hospital,

0:00:59 > 0:01:02so during lectures, students will often hear the sound of patients

0:01:02 > 0:01:04being trolleyed to their wards and consultants

0:01:04 > 0:01:08schedule their lectures around their daily surgeries.

0:01:08 > 0:01:11Its alumni include Henry Grey, author of The Anatomy -

0:01:11 > 0:01:14the medical manual, that is, not the TV series - Edward Jenner,

0:01:14 > 0:01:18the pioneer of the smallpox vaccine, and the comedian Harry Hill.

0:01:18 > 0:01:22With an average age of 23 and representing around 3,000 students,

0:01:22 > 0:01:25let's meet the St George's team.

0:01:25 > 0:01:29I'm Shashank Sivaji, originally from Southend-on-Sea in Essex, and I'm studying medicine.

0:01:29 > 0:01:33I'm Alexander Suebsaeng, I'm from London, and I'm also studying medicine.

0:01:33 > 0:01:34And their captain.

0:01:34 > 0:01:38I'm Rebecca Smoker, from County Kildare, and I'm studying medicine.

0:01:38 > 0:01:41I'm Sam Mindel, from London, also studying medicine.

0:01:41 > 0:01:43APPLAUSE

0:01:45 > 0:01:49Now, King's College, Cambridge was founded in 1441 by Henry VI,

0:01:49 > 0:01:53and began life as The King's College of Our Lady and St Nicholas

0:01:53 > 0:01:57for a Provost and 70 scholars from Eton, but those days are long gone.

0:01:57 > 0:02:00Its world-renowned architecture may be one reason that students seem

0:02:00 > 0:02:03to have some difficulty in tearing themselves away from the place.

0:02:03 > 0:02:06The mediaevalist and author of ghost stories MR James

0:02:06 > 0:02:10was a student there, and later became a Fellow and then its Provost.

0:02:10 > 0:02:13Alan Turing was also a student and later a Fellow,

0:02:13 > 0:02:16and EM Forster, another former undergraduate,

0:02:16 > 0:02:18was elected an honorary Fellow in 1946,

0:02:18 > 0:02:21and hardly budged from the place for the rest of his life.

0:02:21 > 0:02:23Representing around 700 students,

0:02:23 > 0:02:26and with an average age of 20, let's meet the King's team.

0:02:26 > 0:02:31Hello, there. I'm Curtis Gallant, I'm from north London, and I'm a first-year Classics undergraduate.

0:02:31 > 0:02:36Hi, I'm Amber Ace, I'm from Perthshire, and I'm also studying Classics.

0:02:36 > 0:02:38And their captain.

0:02:38 > 0:02:41Hi, I'm Fran Middleton, I'm from Chorleywood, in Hertfordshire,

0:02:41 > 0:02:44and I'm also doing Classics, but to a PhD.

0:02:44 > 0:02:48Hi, I'm James Gratrex, I'm from Leeds, and I'm reading Physics.

0:02:48 > 0:02:50APPLAUSE

0:02:55 > 0:02:58OK. It's too tedious to recite the rules, so let's just get on with it.

0:02:58 > 0:03:00Here's your first starter for ten.

0:03:00 > 0:03:03"They resisted to the last, with their swords,

0:03:03 > 0:03:07"if they had them, and, if not, with their hands and teeth."

0:03:07 > 0:03:10These words of Herodotus described the defeated Spartans

0:03:10 > 0:03:11at which battle...

0:03:13 > 0:03:14Thermopylae?

0:03:14 > 0:03:16Thermopylae is correct, yes.

0:03:18 > 0:03:21You're the one non-classicist on that team!

0:03:21 > 0:03:24Right, your bonuses. They're on a preserve.

0:03:24 > 0:03:27According to the Oxford English Dictionary, which preserve

0:03:27 > 0:03:30was originally a sweet, solid, quince jelly,

0:03:30 > 0:03:34flavoured by rosewater and musk or ambergris, and cut into squares for eating?

0:03:36 > 0:03:37Marmalade?

0:03:39 > 0:03:41Any other ideas?

0:03:41 > 0:03:42Marmalade?

0:03:42 > 0:03:44Marmalade?

0:03:44 > 0:03:47Correct. The name marmalade is derived from marmelo,

0:03:47 > 0:03:51the word for quince in the language of which country, from which most of

0:03:51 > 0:03:54the early imports of both the fruit and the preserve came to Britain?

0:03:54 > 0:03:55Italy?

0:03:55 > 0:03:59- Yeah, that's what I'd say. Unless it's Portugal. Italy.- Italy?

0:03:59 > 0:04:01No, it's Portugal.

0:04:01 > 0:04:03The fruit Citrus aurantium, now most commonly used

0:04:03 > 0:04:07in the manufacture of marmalade, is commonly known by what name?

0:04:11 > 0:04:14- It's bitter orange, I think. - Just orange.

0:04:14 > 0:04:16Orange? Bitter orange? Oh, no.

0:04:16 > 0:04:19Bitter orange I will accept. It's Seville orange, yes.

0:04:19 > 0:04:22Right, ten points for this starter question.

0:04:22 > 0:04:25Its name derived from an Arabic word meaning coastal,

0:04:25 > 0:04:27and originally written in Arabic script,

0:04:27 > 0:04:30what language is used as a lingua franca in much of East Africa,

0:04:30 > 0:04:33and is an official language of Kenya and Tanzania?

0:04:33 > 0:04:35Is it Swahili?

0:04:35 > 0:04:37It is, yes.

0:04:37 > 0:04:42Right, St George's. Your first bonuses are on French literature.

0:04:42 > 0:04:45Born in 1533, Michel de Montaigne is generally credited with

0:04:45 > 0:04:48the introduction of which literary genre?

0:04:48 > 0:04:51Its name comes from the French for attempt.

0:04:51 > 0:04:52The essay?

0:04:52 > 0:04:54Correct.

0:04:54 > 0:04:57Which 17th-century poet wrote Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers,

0:04:57 > 0:05:02a work whose title was shortened to Fables in its 1804 English translation?

0:05:02 > 0:05:04La Fontaine.

0:05:04 > 0:05:05La Fontaine?

0:05:05 > 0:05:07Correct. Denoting a form of epigram or aphorism,

0:05:07 > 0:05:10what word appears in the title of a prominent 17th-century

0:05:10 > 0:05:13collection by Francois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld?

0:05:14 > 0:05:16Maxim.

0:05:16 > 0:05:18Maxim?

0:05:18 > 0:05:20Correct. Right, that gives you the lead.

0:05:20 > 0:05:22Another starter, now.

0:05:22 > 0:05:25"Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing,

0:05:25 > 0:05:27"why the universe exists, why we exist.

0:05:27 > 0:05:31"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper

0:05:31 > 0:05:33"and set the universe going."

0:05:33 > 0:05:37Who made that claim in his 2010 book...

0:05:37 > 0:05:39Is it Richard Dawkins?

0:05:39 > 0:05:41No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:05:41 > 0:05:44..in his 2010 book The Grand Design?

0:05:45 > 0:05:46Stephen Hawking?

0:05:46 > 0:05:48Stephen Hawking is correct, yes.

0:05:50 > 0:05:52Right, your bonuses, King's, are on a shared name.

0:05:52 > 0:05:56Which millenarian group of the 1650s believed that Christ's second coming was imminent

0:05:56 > 0:05:58and took their name from the desire

0:05:58 > 0:06:02for a successor to the four empires of Assyria, Persia, Greece and Rome?

0:06:03 > 0:06:06No, I don't know.

0:06:06 > 0:06:09Quad-something?

0:06:09 > 0:06:11Quadrilets?

0:06:11 > 0:06:13No, they were Fifth Monarchists.

0:06:13 > 0:06:17Danaus plexippus, commonly called the Monarch

0:06:17 > 0:06:21and noted for its lengthy migrations from Canada to Mexico, is a species of which insect?

0:06:21 > 0:06:24- Butterfly. - I think it's a butterfly, as well.

0:06:24 > 0:06:26Butterfly?

0:06:26 > 0:06:29Correct. Situated on the Continental divide at an altitude of more

0:06:29 > 0:06:32than 11,000 feet, the Monarch Pass is in which US state?

0:06:36 > 0:06:40I think it might be Texas, I'm not sure.

0:06:40 > 0:06:42I don't know. Go for Texas?

0:06:42 > 0:06:43Texas?

0:06:43 > 0:06:45No, it's Colorado. Another starter question, now.

0:06:45 > 0:06:48Having its origins as an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire,

0:06:48 > 0:06:53which federal state of Germany, recreated in 1990 upon reunification,

0:06:53 > 0:06:59has as its capital, Potsdam, and surrounds but does not include the city of Berlin?

0:07:00 > 0:07:02Brandenburg?

0:07:02 > 0:07:04Correct.

0:07:06 > 0:07:08Right, these bonuses are on physics.

0:07:08 > 0:07:142,260,000 joules is the quantity of heat required to vaporise

0:07:14 > 0:07:16one kilogram of what common fluid?

0:07:17 > 0:07:19Water?

0:07:19 > 0:07:23Correct. What is the saturated vapour pressure in pascals of water

0:07:23 > 0:07:26at 100 degrees Celsius at standard atmospheric pressure?

0:07:26 > 0:07:28You can have 2,000 either way.

0:07:35 > 0:07:37It's 101,000, I think.

0:07:37 > 0:07:39101,000?

0:07:39 > 0:07:42Indeed, very good. 101,500, to be precise.

0:07:42 > 0:07:45What property of water falls from a value of about

0:07:45 > 0:07:48one millipascal second at 20 degrees Celsius

0:07:48 > 0:07:52to less than 0.2 millipascal seconds at 100 degrees Celsius?

0:08:03 > 0:08:04Come on, let's have it, please.

0:08:06 > 0:08:08Permeability? I don't know.

0:08:08 > 0:08:09Permeability?

0:08:09 > 0:08:12No, it's viscosity, but those bonuses have given you the lead,

0:08:12 > 0:08:15and we're going to take a picture round. For your picture starter,

0:08:15 > 0:08:19you're going to see the route of one of the five world marathon majors.

0:08:19 > 0:08:22Ten points if you can identify the host city from the route.

0:08:29 > 0:08:31New York?

0:08:31 > 0:08:35No. One of you want to buzz from King's?

0:08:35 > 0:08:37Boston?

0:08:37 > 0:08:39Boston is correct, yes.

0:08:42 > 0:08:44For your picture bonuses, three more marathon routes,

0:08:44 > 0:08:47this time all of cities in Europe.

0:08:47 > 0:08:50Five points for each you can identify, then. Firstly...

0:08:59 > 0:09:01Is that Berlin?

0:09:01 > 0:09:02Konigsberg?

0:09:05 > 0:09:06Have we got any other ideas?

0:09:08 > 0:09:10Berlin?

0:09:10 > 0:09:12No, that's Stockholm. Secondly...

0:09:15 > 0:09:17What does that say?

0:09:17 > 0:09:18I don't know, but...

0:09:18 > 0:09:19It might be Amsterdam.

0:09:21 > 0:09:23Amsterdam?

0:09:23 > 0:09:25No, it's Rotterdam. And finally...

0:09:29 > 0:09:30Somewhere in England.

0:09:30 > 0:09:33Is it? Where is the Spree?

0:09:33 > 0:09:34Could be London, actually.

0:09:37 > 0:09:38No, it's not. It's...

0:09:40 > 0:09:43Maybe try Dublin.

0:09:43 > 0:09:45Dublin?

0:09:45 > 0:09:47That's certainly not Dublin. No, it's Berlin.

0:09:47 > 0:09:49Right, ten points for this starter question.

0:09:49 > 0:09:52Although its origins can be traced to French doctors in the 1920s,

0:09:52 > 0:09:56what term has also been credited to the New York beauty salon owner,

0:09:56 > 0:10:00Nicole Ronsard, who, in 1973, wrote a book about diet-resistant

0:10:00 > 0:10:03fat deposits that give the skin a dimpled appearance?

0:10:05 > 0:10:06Cellulite?

0:10:06 > 0:10:08Yes.

0:10:10 > 0:10:13Right, these bonuses, King's, are on an office of state.

0:10:13 > 0:10:15After the death of a British sovereign,

0:10:15 > 0:10:19which of the great offices of state is responsible for arranging

0:10:19 > 0:10:23both the funeral and the accession and coronation of the new monarch?

0:10:27 > 0:10:28Yeah, that's plausible.

0:10:28 > 0:10:30Do you have any ideas?

0:10:30 > 0:10:33- Archbishop of Canterbury? - No, it's the Earl Marshal.

0:10:33 > 0:10:37Since 1672, the office of Earl Marshal has been a hereditary position

0:10:37 > 0:10:39occupied by the holder of which dukedom?

0:10:44 > 0:10:46It might be Clarence.

0:10:51 > 0:10:54Kent?

0:10:54 > 0:10:55Kent.

0:10:55 > 0:10:56No, it's Norfolk.

0:10:56 > 0:10:59And, finally, a former brother-in-law of Henry VIII,

0:10:59 > 0:11:02which Lord Treasurer and Lord Protector of the Realm

0:11:02 > 0:11:06held the post of Earl Marshal between 1547 and 1549?

0:11:09 > 0:11:12- Former brother-in-law, so... - Oh.

0:11:12 > 0:11:13Would have been.

0:11:13 > 0:11:15- Could be Thomas someone?

0:11:15 > 0:11:17- Married to.

0:11:17 > 0:11:19- Thomas? Thomas Parr?

0:11:19 > 0:11:20Thomas Parr?

0:11:20 > 0:11:22Come on, let's have it.

0:11:22 > 0:11:24Thomas Parr?

0:11:24 > 0:11:27No, it was Edward Seymour, Jane Seymour's brother. Ten points for this.

0:11:27 > 0:11:29From the Greek meaning pure, what name was given to

0:11:29 > 0:11:32the Christian sect which flourished in southern France...

0:11:32 > 0:11:34Is it Cathars?

0:11:34 > 0:11:37Cathars is correct, yes.

0:11:39 > 0:11:41You can retake the lead with these bonuses.

0:11:41 > 0:11:44They're on 20th-century novels, St George's.

0:11:44 > 0:11:47What's the title of the semi-autobiographical novel

0:11:47 > 0:11:49written by Sylvia Plath and published in 1963,

0:11:49 > 0:11:52shortly before her death, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas?

0:11:58 > 0:12:00The Bell Jar?

0:12:00 > 0:12:03Correct. Of Human Bondage, published in 1915,

0:12:03 > 0:12:08is a semi-autobiographical novel by which novelist and playwright?

0:12:08 > 0:12:09Somerset Maugham.

0:12:09 > 0:12:14Correct, and finally, which US author wrote the semi-autobiographical novel

0:12:14 > 0:12:15The Dharma Bums, published in 1958,

0:12:15 > 0:12:18a year after the novel for which he is best known?

0:12:23 > 0:12:24Faulkner?

0:12:24 > 0:12:26No, it was Jack Kerouac. Ten points for this.

0:12:26 > 0:12:29Used in acoustics and telecommunications

0:12:29 > 0:12:31to indicate the degree to which a sound or picture reproduced or

0:12:31 > 0:12:36transmitted by any device resembles the original, what word is used...

0:12:36 > 0:12:38Fidelity.

0:12:38 > 0:12:40Correct.

0:12:40 > 0:12:45Your bonuses this time, St George's, are on religious relics.

0:12:45 > 0:12:48The church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, in Rome,

0:12:48 > 0:12:52contains part of a panel reputedly once nailed to Christ's cross,

0:12:52 > 0:12:55and bearing which word relating to his origins?

0:12:57 > 0:12:59Inre?

0:12:59 > 0:13:03No, it's Nazarene, written in Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

0:13:03 > 0:13:07Secondly, "More valuable than precious stones and finer than refined gold."

0:13:07 > 0:13:11These words describe the remains of which saint,

0:13:11 > 0:13:15a second century Bishop of Smirna, who was martyred at the age of 86?

0:13:19 > 0:13:21- Pass.- It's Saint Polycarp.

0:13:21 > 0:13:24And finally, which Indian state is home to the basilica

0:13:24 > 0:13:28of Bom Jesus, that contains the relics of St Francis Xavier?

0:13:28 > 0:13:31Kerala.

0:13:32 > 0:13:34Kerala?

0:13:34 > 0:13:35No, it's Goa.

0:13:35 > 0:13:37Right, we're going to take a music round.

0:13:37 > 0:13:40For your music starter question, you're going to hear a piece of classical music.

0:13:40 > 0:13:43Ten points if you can name the composer.

0:13:45 > 0:13:46Dvorak.

0:13:47 > 0:13:50No, you can hear a little more, King's.

0:13:51 > 0:13:52Saint-Saens.

0:13:52 > 0:13:54Saint-Saens is correct, yes.

0:13:57 > 0:14:00He taught for four years at the Ecole Niedermeyer in Paris,

0:14:00 > 0:14:02so for your bonuses, I want you to identify,

0:14:02 > 0:14:06first, one of his pupils, then a pupil of that pupil, and so on.

0:14:06 > 0:14:09Firstly, name this pupil of Saint-Saens, who was also French.

0:14:12 > 0:14:13It's Faure, definitely.

0:14:13 > 0:14:15Faure.

0:14:15 > 0:14:18Correct. Secondly, this pupil of Faure, who was also French.

0:14:25 > 0:14:30Berlioz is too early. It'll be Debussy, if anyone, but I don't know.

0:14:30 > 0:14:32Debussy.

0:14:32 > 0:14:33No, that's Ravel's waltz.

0:14:33 > 0:14:36And finally, this pupil of Ravel, who was British.

0:14:39 > 0:14:42- That's Vaughan Williams. - Vaughan Williams.

0:14:42 > 0:14:46Vaughan Williams' Fantasium, by Thomas Tallis.

0:14:46 > 0:14:48Now, ten points for this.

0:14:48 > 0:14:50Which Italian city achieved independence in 1183

0:14:50 > 0:14:52and was ruled by the...

0:14:53 > 0:14:55San Marino?

0:14:55 > 0:14:56I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:14:56 > 0:14:59..was ruled by the Sforza family from the mid-15th century?

0:14:59 > 0:15:03The Habsburgs gained it in 1535, but lost it in 1796 to Napoleon,

0:15:03 > 0:15:06who made it the capital of his Kingdom of Italy.

0:15:07 > 0:15:09Milan.

0:15:09 > 0:15:11Correct.

0:15:11 > 0:15:15OK, so you get the bonuses. They're on Anglo-Saxon literature.

0:15:15 > 0:15:19Meaning "knowing", what term denotes a type of metaphorical phrase often

0:15:19 > 0:15:23used in Anglo-Saxon poetry, such as "The whale's-road", meaning the sea?

0:15:26 > 0:15:27Ken? Kenning?

0:15:27 > 0:15:29Kenning is correct, yes.

0:15:29 > 0:15:31In Beowulf, the line

0:15:31 > 0:15:34"that sword edge was not useless to the warrior now"

0:15:34 > 0:15:39is an example of what figure of speech, defined as an ironic negative understatement?

0:15:46 > 0:15:48Litotes.

0:15:48 > 0:15:49Litotes?

0:15:49 > 0:15:53Correct. Which English city gives its name to the book of Anglo-Saxon poetry

0:15:53 > 0:15:55which includes The Wanderer and The Seafarer,

0:15:55 > 0:15:57and also contains over 90 riddles?

0:16:05 > 0:16:07Canterbury?

0:16:07 > 0:16:10No, it's Exeter. Ten points for this starter question.

0:16:10 > 0:16:12Launched by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai,

0:16:12 > 0:16:15which mobile phone application is a social networking service

0:16:15 > 0:16:19and geolocation game that, on October 8th, 2010,

0:16:19 > 0:16:25awarded the UK's first Superswarm badge to 300 users who all checked into the...

0:16:26 > 0:16:27Foursquare?

0:16:27 > 0:16:30Foursquare is correct, yes.

0:16:31 > 0:16:34St George's, these bonuses are on geometry.

0:16:34 > 0:16:37What name is given to a set of points in the plane,

0:16:37 > 0:16:41the sum of whose distances from two fixed points called the foci is a constant?

0:16:41 > 0:16:43Ellipse.

0:16:43 > 0:16:44Ellipse?

0:16:44 > 0:16:47Correct. What name is given to a set of points in the plane which

0:16:47 > 0:16:50are equidistant from a given line and a given point not on the line?

0:16:50 > 0:16:54For example, the graph of the function Y = X squared?

0:16:54 > 0:16:55Parabola.

0:16:55 > 0:16:57Parabola.

0:16:57 > 0:17:00Correct. What name is given to an ellipse whose foci coincide?

0:17:00 > 0:17:02Circle.

0:17:02 > 0:17:03Circle.

0:17:03 > 0:17:05Correct. Another starter question.

0:17:07 > 0:17:10What three-word term is used of an overall statement of a country's

0:17:10 > 0:17:15economic transactions with the rest of the world over a given period...

0:17:15 > 0:17:17Gross national product.

0:17:17 > 0:17:19No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:17:19 > 0:17:21..with the rest of the world over a given period,

0:17:21 > 0:17:23or the difference between total receipts

0:17:23 > 0:17:26and expenditure in any category of payments?

0:17:27 > 0:17:30Gross...

0:17:30 > 0:17:32Gross domestic produce?

0:17:33 > 0:17:37No, that is the wealth of the country. It's the balance of payments.

0:17:37 > 0:17:41Ten points for this. Its first three letters denoting billion electron volts,

0:17:41 > 0:17:44which particle accelerator...

0:17:45 > 0:17:46Tevetron?

0:17:46 > 0:17:49No, you lose five points.

0:17:49 > 0:17:52..which particle accelerator at the Lawrence Berkeley laboratory

0:17:52 > 0:17:54was used to discover antiprotons?

0:17:54 > 0:17:56One of you may buzz from St George's.

0:18:01 > 0:18:03Gigatron?

0:18:03 > 0:18:05It's the Bevatron.

0:18:05 > 0:18:09Ten points for this. Ending a record-breaking 541 days of political deadlock,

0:18:09 > 0:18:13December 2011 saw the swearing in of a new government in which European...

0:18:14 > 0:18:16Belgium.

0:18:16 > 0:18:18Correct.

0:18:19 > 0:18:22King's, your bonuses are on the arts.

0:18:22 > 0:18:25In each case, give me the decade that links the following.

0:18:25 > 0:18:29Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat, Flaubert's Madame Bovary,

0:18:29 > 0:18:32and the first performance of Verdi's La Traviata.

0:18:38 > 0:18:391860s?

0:18:39 > 0:18:40No, it's the 1850s.

0:18:40 > 0:18:43Secondly, Manet's A Bar at the Folies Bergeres,

0:18:43 > 0:18:48Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, and the first performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture.

0:18:52 > 0:18:541880s?

0:18:54 > 0:18:57Correct. And finally, Picasso's blue period, EM Forster's A Room with a View,

0:18:57 > 0:19:00and the premiere of Puccini's Madame Butterfly.

0:19:04 > 0:19:061920s?

0:19:06 > 0:19:08No, it was the 1900s, between 1900 and 1910.

0:19:08 > 0:19:10Right, ten points for this.

0:19:10 > 0:19:13Etymologically unrelated, meanings of what three letter word

0:19:13 > 0:19:16include fixed but unproductive behaviour pattern

0:19:16 > 0:19:20and annual period of sexual activity in male deer and other mammals?

0:19:22 > 0:19:23Rut.

0:19:23 > 0:19:26Rut is correct, yes.

0:19:27 > 0:19:29These bonuses are on astronomy, King's College.

0:19:29 > 0:19:32The two most abundant gases in the tenuous atmosphere

0:19:32 > 0:19:35of the Earth's Moon are hydrogen and helium.

0:19:35 > 0:19:37Name either of the next two.

0:19:45 > 0:19:49- In the Earth's atmosphere? - No, the moon's atmosphere. What are the next two?

0:19:49 > 0:19:50Come on.

0:19:50 > 0:19:51Nitrogen?

0:19:51 > 0:19:53No, it's neon or argon.

0:19:53 > 0:19:56By contrast, the moon is one of the densest satellites

0:19:56 > 0:19:59in the solar system, second only to which Jovian moon?

0:20:02 > 0:20:03Io?

0:20:03 > 0:20:05Correct. What name is given to the lunar soil, a blanket of

0:20:05 > 0:20:10fragments up to ten metres thick, weathered by meteoroid impacts?

0:20:10 > 0:20:12Moondust?

0:20:12 > 0:20:15No, it's regolith. We'll take our second picture round.

0:20:15 > 0:20:19For your picture starter, you'll see a close-up of the bark of a tree.

0:20:19 > 0:20:21For ten points, I want the name of the tree's genus.

0:20:21 > 0:20:24You can give the common English name or the scientific name.

0:20:26 > 0:20:28Silver Birch.

0:20:28 > 0:20:31Birch is correct, yes.

0:20:32 > 0:20:34Following on from the Silver Birch,

0:20:34 > 0:20:38your picture bonuses are three more photographs of tree trunks.

0:20:38 > 0:20:40Again, all species are native to Britain.

0:20:40 > 0:20:41I want the name of the tree's genus.

0:20:41 > 0:20:43In each case, you can give me

0:20:43 > 0:20:46the name either in common English or the scientific version.

0:20:46 > 0:20:47Firstly, for five.

0:20:53 > 0:20:55Pine?

0:20:55 > 0:20:58No, that's the Hawthorn. Secondly.

0:21:03 > 0:21:05Cedar?

0:21:05 > 0:21:06No, that's the Yew. And finally.

0:21:09 > 0:21:11Oak?

0:21:11 > 0:21:12No, that's the pine.

0:21:12 > 0:21:14They were difficult, though. Right, ten points for this.

0:21:14 > 0:21:16Answer as soon as you buzz.

0:21:16 > 0:21:20Give the dictionary spelling of the first half of the binomial E. Coli,

0:21:20 > 0:21:22that is, Escherichia.

0:21:26 > 0:21:28E-S-C-H-E-R-I-A.

0:21:30 > 0:21:31No.

0:21:31 > 0:21:35E-S-C-H-O-R...

0:21:35 > 0:21:39No, it's E-S-C-H-E-R-I-C-H-I-A.

0:21:39 > 0:21:41Right, ten points for this starter question.

0:21:41 > 0:21:45Answer as soon as you buzz. What is the eighth prime number?

0:21:47 > 0:21:4819?

0:21:48 > 0:21:50Correct.

0:21:52 > 0:21:55Your bonuses, King's College, are on place names in French.

0:21:55 > 0:21:57The name of which historical region of France

0:21:57 > 0:22:01appears in the French name for the Bay of Biscay?

0:22:03 > 0:22:04Aquitaine?

0:22:04 > 0:22:06No, it's Gascony.

0:22:06 > 0:22:09Which department of Northern France shares its name

0:22:09 > 0:22:12with the French name for the Strait of Dover?

0:22:14 > 0:22:16Could be Calais?

0:22:16 > 0:22:18Calais, yeah.

0:22:18 > 0:22:19Calais?

0:22:19 > 0:22:22No, it's the Pas de Calais. I needed the whole term.

0:22:22 > 0:22:26And finally, which historical region of France appears

0:22:26 > 0:22:29in adjectival form in the French name for the Channel Islands?

0:22:31 > 0:22:33Could that be Normandy?

0:22:35 > 0:22:38That's not an adjective. Normandy?

0:22:38 > 0:22:39Normandy is correct, yes.

0:22:39 > 0:22:42There's about four and three quarter minutes left,

0:22:42 > 0:22:43and ten points for this.

0:22:43 > 0:22:45The covers of which annual publication

0:22:45 > 0:22:47carry a Latin inscription meaning

0:22:47 > 0:22:50"The book of things past and the song of the future"?

0:22:50 > 0:22:52It first appeared in November 2005.

0:22:55 > 0:22:57The Guinness Book of Records?

0:22:57 > 0:22:59No. St George's, one of you buzz.

0:23:02 > 0:23:03It's Schott's Almanac.

0:23:03 > 0:23:06Ten points for this. A consequence of Noether's theorem,

0:23:06 > 0:23:11the conservation of what physical quantity is associated with time in variance?

0:23:12 > 0:23:13Spin.

0:23:13 > 0:23:15No. King's...

0:23:15 > 0:23:17Hamiltonian?

0:23:17 > 0:23:18Yes, or energy.

0:23:18 > 0:23:21So, you get a set of bonuses now, King's College, on a US state.

0:23:21 > 0:23:23Which Midwestern state gives its name to the battleship

0:23:23 > 0:23:26known as Mighty Mo,

0:23:26 > 0:23:30on which the Japanese surrender was signed on September 2nd, 1945?

0:23:34 > 0:23:37- Do you guys have any ideas? - Come on, let's have it, please.

0:23:37 > 0:23:39Kansas.

0:23:39 > 0:23:40No, it's Missouri.

0:23:40 > 0:23:45Lamar, Missouri was the birthplace of which US President in office at the time of the Japanese surrender?

0:23:45 > 0:23:47That's Truman, isn't it?

0:23:47 > 0:23:49Truman?

0:23:49 > 0:23:52It was, indeed. That gives you the lead.

0:23:52 > 0:23:55At Fulton, Missouri, in March 1946, a speech made by Winston Churchill

0:23:55 > 0:23:59popularised what two-word term for a political boundary?

0:23:59 > 0:24:01Iron Curtain.

0:24:01 > 0:24:02Correct. Ten points for this.

0:24:02 > 0:24:05The poet Geoffrey Chaucer was born during the reign

0:24:05 > 0:24:06of which English king?

0:24:11 > 0:24:12Henry II?

0:24:12 > 0:24:15No. St George's, one of you like to have a try?

0:24:15 > 0:24:16Henry I?

0:24:16 > 0:24:19No, it was Edward III. Ten points for this.

0:24:19 > 0:24:21Which of Shakespeare's tragedies links operas

0:24:21 > 0:24:23by Bloch, Shostakovich and Verdi?

0:24:26 > 0:24:27Macbeth.

0:24:27 > 0:24:31Macbeth is correct. You get a set of bonuses on medical prefixes.

0:24:31 > 0:24:34In each case, give the part of the body indicated by the following.

0:24:34 > 0:24:38Firstly, orcheo, for example, in the term orchitis,

0:24:38 > 0:24:40an inflammation of which organ?

0:24:51 > 0:24:53Ear?

0:24:53 > 0:24:57No, it's the testicle. Myelo, as in myeloma, a malignant disease of which tissue?

0:24:58 > 0:25:00That's in the skin.

0:25:00 > 0:25:01That's melanin.

0:25:03 > 0:25:06- - Fat tissue? I don't know. - Fat tissue.

0:25:06 > 0:25:07No, it's bone marrow.

0:25:07 > 0:25:11And finally, nephro, for example, in the term nephralgia, indicating pain in which organ?

0:25:11 > 0:25:14Kidneys, I think.

0:25:14 > 0:25:15Kidneys?

0:25:15 > 0:25:17It is kidneys, yes.

0:25:17 > 0:25:19Ten points for this.

0:25:19 > 0:25:23In chemistry, what term denotes the direct change of state of a substance from a solid to a gas...

0:25:23 > 0:25:25Sublimation.

0:25:25 > 0:25:28Sublimation is correct, yes.

0:25:28 > 0:25:31Your bonuses are on member organisations

0:25:31 > 0:25:32of the Trades Union Congress.

0:25:32 > 0:25:36Firstly, in the name RMT, for what do the letters RMT stand?

0:25:39 > 0:25:41Nominate Sivaji.

0:25:41 > 0:25:44Er, railway and maritime transport?

0:25:44 > 0:25:48Correct. In the name BALPA, for what do the letters ALP stand?

0:25:51 > 0:25:53Pass.

0:25:53 > 0:25:56It's airline pilots. In the name of the union BECTU,

0:25:56 > 0:26:00the final three letters stand for Cinematograph and Theatre Union.

0:26:00 > 0:26:02For what do the letters BE stand?

0:26:05 > 0:26:06British Entertainment?

0:26:06 > 0:26:10No, it's Broadcasting and Entertainment. Ten points at stake for this.

0:26:10 > 0:26:12Vialone nano, carnaroli,

0:26:12 > 0:26:17baldo and arborio are among Italian varieties of which...

0:26:17 > 0:26:18Rice?

0:26:18 > 0:26:20Rice is correct, yes.

0:26:22 > 0:26:24These bonuses will give you the lead again.

0:26:24 > 0:26:26They're on an Asian country, if you get them.

0:26:26 > 0:26:29Which Asian country is bounded by Laos and Cambodia to the east,

0:26:29 > 0:26:31by Malaysia to the south and by Burma to the west?

0:26:31 > 0:26:32Thailand?

0:26:32 > 0:26:37Correct. Which islands give their name to the sea off the west coast of Thailand and Burma?

0:26:37 > 0:26:40Andaman?

0:26:40 > 0:26:43Correct. Which major river rises on the Tibetan plateau

0:26:43 > 0:26:46and forms much of the border between Thailand and Laos?

0:26:46 > 0:26:48Mekong.

0:26:48 > 0:26:51Correct. Another starter question.

0:26:51 > 0:26:55Gap, Day Age, Old Earth and Young Earth are versions of what belief...

0:26:55 > 0:26:57Creationism.

0:26:57 > 0:26:59Creationism is correct, yes.

0:27:01 > 0:27:04Your bonuses, this time, are on the French Revolution.

0:27:04 > 0:27:07Give the year in which the following took place.

0:27:07 > 0:27:10An armed Parisian mob stormed the Bastille on July 14.

0:27:10 > 0:27:121790?

0:27:12 > 0:27:15No, it was 1789. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were both executed.

0:27:15 > 0:27:17- 1792.- 1792.

0:27:17 > 0:27:18No, 1793.

0:27:18 > 0:27:22The reign of terror ended with the fall of Robespierre in...?

0:27:23 > 0:27:251794.

0:27:25 > 0:27:27Correct, yes. Another starter question.

0:27:27 > 0:27:30The surname of which recent Booker Prize-winning author

0:27:30 > 0:27:31means overcoat in German?

0:27:35 > 0:27:36GONG

0:27:45 > 0:27:47It was, of course, Hilary Mantel,

0:27:47 > 0:27:51but you were just a split second too late, there, so, King's, 145,

0:27:51 > 0:27:53it was a great game, actually.

0:27:53 > 0:27:54It was very, very close,

0:27:54 > 0:27:57much closer than a 30-point gap seems to suggest.

0:27:57 > 0:28:00You might come back as one of the highest scoring losing teams, who knows?

0:28:00 > 0:28:02But thank you very much for joining us,

0:28:02 > 0:28:05and St George's, we look forward to seeing you in the next stage.

0:28:05 > 0:28:06It was a great game.

0:28:06 > 0:28:09I hope you can join us next time for another first round match,

0:28:09 > 0:28:12but until then, it's goodbye from King's College, Cambridge.

0:28:12 > 0:28:13Goodbye.

0:28:13 > 0:28:16- It's goodbye from St George's, London.- Goodbye.

0:28:16 > 0:28:18And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

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