0:00:16 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. There are eight places in the quarterfinals of this contest
0:00:31 > 0:00:35and three have already been taken by Pembroke College, Cambridge,
0:00:35 > 0:00:38New College, Oxford, and King's College, Cambridge.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Whichever team wins tonight will join them.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43St George's is a medical school at the University of London.
0:00:43 > 0:00:49In the first round, the team proved that sharing the same specialism needn't be a disadvantage,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52as they held the lead until the half-way mark against King's College, Cambridge.
0:00:52 > 0:00:57Then they seemed to nod off a bit and allowed their opponents to take the lead
0:00:57 > 0:01:01but they wrested it back from them in the final minutes to be 30 points ahead at the gong.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04With an average age of 23, let's meet them again.
0:01:04 > 0:01:10Hello, I'm Shashank Sivaji, originally from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:10 > 0:01:11Hello. I'm Alexander Suebsaeng.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14I'm from London and I'm also studying medicine.
0:01:14 > 0:01:15And this is their captain.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19Hi, I'm Rebecca Smoker from County Kildare and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22I'm Sam Mindel, from London, also studying medicine.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25APPLAUSE
0:01:27 > 0:01:32Lancaster University lost to Pembroke College, Cambridge in their first-round match.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35But their score qualified them to compete again in the play-offs
0:01:35 > 0:01:40when they beat Lincoln College, Oxford, by 165 points to 120.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42They know a lot about the flags of Latin America,
0:01:42 > 0:01:45people with missing hands, and things to do with the aardvark,
0:01:45 > 0:01:49but completely failed to recognise a series of songs by Elvis Presley,
0:01:49 > 0:01:53who, apparently, is the king of rock'n'roll throughout the entire Western hemisphere
0:01:53 > 0:01:55except in Lancaster!
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Let's meet them again.
0:01:57 > 0:02:02Hi. I'm Alan Webster from Blackpool, studying for a Masters in Resource and Environmental Management.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06Hi. I'm Ann Kretzschmar, originally from Chesterfield in Derbyshire
0:02:06 > 0:02:09and I'm studying for a PhD in Environmental Modelling.
0:02:09 > 0:02:10And this is their captain.
0:02:10 > 0:02:15Hello. I'm George Pinkerton from Surrey, studying History, Philosophy and Politics.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Hi. I'm Ian Dickson, from Stirling.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20I'm studying for an M.Sc in Ecology and the Environment.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23APPLAUSE
0:02:24 > 0:02:30The rules are the same as ever. Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:30 > 0:02:35Originally referring to the privileges bestowed by certain Popes on their so-called nephews,
0:02:35 > 0:02:36often their illegitimate...
0:02:36 > 0:02:39- Nepotism.- Nepotism is correct, yes.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45The first set of bonuses are on infinity, Lancaster.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47"To see a world in a grain of sand
0:02:47 > 0:02:49"and a heaven in a wild flower,
0:02:49 > 0:02:53"hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Which poet wrote those lines in Auguries of Innocence?
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Blake?
0:03:03 > 0:03:04Alexander Pope?
0:03:04 > 0:03:06No, it was William Blake.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, and shares the nature of infinity."
0:03:10 > 0:03:13Which poet wrote those lines in his verse drama The Borderers,
0:03:13 > 0:03:16first published 1842?
0:03:16 > 0:03:18Walter Scott?
0:03:19 > 0:03:21- Walter Scott? - No, that was Wordsworth.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25And finally, in a major scientific work of 1687,
0:03:25 > 0:03:28who wrote of God, "He endures from eternity to eternity
0:03:28 > 0:03:31"and he's present from infinity to infinity."
0:03:32 > 0:03:331680s.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Leibniz?
0:03:41 > 0:03:43No, it was Newton. 10 points for this.
0:03:43 > 0:03:48Initially an adjective of abuse derived from a Portuguese phrase meaning "imperfect pearls",
0:03:48 > 0:03:52what term denotes the style of art that succeeded Mannerism?
0:03:52 > 0:03:57Noted exponents include Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Guido Reni and Francesco Borromini.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00- Is it Baroque?- It is Baroque, yes.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07Your first bonuses are on a historical figure, St George's.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10Of the Queens Consorts of England since 1066,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13who is the only one to have married four times?
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Her royal wedding at Hampton Court in 1543 was the third of them.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33- Mary Tudor. - No, it was Catherine Parr.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37Catherine Parr's second marriage in 1534 was to which peer,
0:04:37 > 0:04:41a member of the same family as Warwick the Kingmaker of the previous century?
0:04:48 > 0:04:51- Thomas Seymour.- No, it was to John Neville, Baron Latimer.
0:04:51 > 0:04:55Finally, Catherine Parr's fourth and final marriage in 1547,
0:04:55 > 0:04:57the same year that Henry VIII died,
0:04:57 > 0:05:02was to Thomas, the brother of which of Henry's other wives?
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- Thomas Seymour. - No, it was Jane Seymour.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09Ten points for this. Sometimes referred to as "the mother of all senses",
0:05:09 > 0:05:12which sense, said usually to be capable or responding to a stimulus
0:05:12 > 0:05:15around the end of the eighth week of gestation,
0:05:15 > 0:05:17is the first to develop in the human...
0:05:18 > 0:05:22- Hearing.- No, you lose five points.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23..human embryo.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31- Sight.- No, it's touch. Next time, if you buzz, you must answer straightaway, please.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Ten points for this. Which people's mythology
0:05:34 > 0:05:36held that the creator God Viracocha...
0:05:38 > 0:05:40- The Incas.- Inca is correct, yes.
0:05:43 > 0:05:48Your bonuses are on ISO 4217 international currency abbreviations,
0:05:48 > 0:05:51specifically, those that spell words.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55For example, the abbreviation of the Cuban peso spells the word "cup".
0:05:55 > 0:06:00In each case, give the country and currency whose abbreviation corresponds to the following.
0:06:00 > 0:06:05Firstly, to apply with friction or pressure, for example, ointment or sun cream.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09- Rub.- Right. The ruble. Russian.
0:06:09 > 0:06:10The Russian ruble is correct, yes.
0:06:10 > 0:06:15Secondly, a 1969 film directed by Ken Loach, set in a mining village.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17It tells of a troubled young boy and a bird of prey.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34OK. We don't know.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38It's Kes, of course, the film. Kenyan shilling is what the abbreviation's for.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42And finally, a man who behaves dishonourably towards women.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44- Cad.- Canadian dollar.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47- Canadian dollar.- Correct.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Ten points for this starter question.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52"The British approach to diplomacy was rather like their approach to sex.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56"Romantically remote from the distressing biological crudities."
0:06:56 > 0:06:58These words of the historian Correlli Barnett
0:06:58 > 0:07:02refer specifically to which decade of the 20th century?
0:07:05 > 0:07:071950s.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09No. One of you buzz from Lancaster.
0:07:10 > 0:07:1219...20s.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15No, it was the 1930s. Ten points for this.
0:07:15 > 0:07:21With an inherent energy of 10.2 electron volts and a wavelength of 121.6 nanometres,
0:07:21 > 0:07:25which spectral line can be used to trace the position and motion
0:07:25 > 0:07:27of distant clouds of hydrogen in the universe?
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Balma.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33No. I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37It's often seen as a forest over absorption lines
0:07:37 > 0:07:39with wavelengths red-shifted to various degrees.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47No? It's the Lyman-alpha line. Ten points for this.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49"This is a film about our times.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53"The Arab Spring, protest movements, the Tottenham riots. They're all there.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55These words of Ralph Fiennes refer to a...
0:07:56 > 0:07:58- Coriolanus.- Correct.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05These bonuses are on chemistry. After a Greek letter,
0:08:05 > 0:08:09what terms denotes a molecular orbital formed when the S-orbitals overlap
0:08:09 > 0:08:10directly between the nuclei?
0:08:10 > 0:08:12For example, in a hydrogen molecule.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14- Sigma.- Sigma.- Correct.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17For main group chemical compounds,
0:08:17 > 0:08:21what five-letter acronym denotes the method for predicting molecular geometry
0:08:21 > 0:08:23which was introduced by Sidgwick and Powell in 1940?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25VSEPR.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29- VSEPR.- Yes, Vesper, correct.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32In the gas phase, what is the angle to the nearest degree
0:08:32 > 0:08:34between the OH bonds in a water molecule?
0:08:34 > 0:08:37109.5.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39- 110.- 110.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43No, it's 104. We're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46For your picture starter, you'll see a map with a lake highlighted.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Ten points if you can give me its name.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54- Lake Baikal.- It is Lake Baikal, yes.
0:08:57 > 0:09:03The deepest lake in the world. Your bonuses are maps showing three more of the deepest lakes.
0:09:03 > 0:09:07In each case, I want the name of the lake. Firstly for five.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12- Tanganyika.- It is Lake Tanganyika.
0:09:12 > 0:09:17Secondly, either of the two historical figures this lake is named after.
0:09:26 > 0:09:27Nominate Webster.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Ritamoreno.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31No, it's O'Higgins Lake or San Martin Lake.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33And finally.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45- Lake Como.- Spot on. Ten points for this.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49First performed in 1824, which piece of music is, in Japan,
0:09:49 > 0:09:50traditionally played as part...
0:09:50 > 0:09:53- Beethoven's Ninth. - It is, indeed. Yes.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59Bonuses this time on archaic names of animals, Lancaster.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02First appearing in 1997 which fictional character
0:10:02 > 0:10:04in a series of novels for younger readers
0:10:04 > 0:10:08has a surname which is an archaic name for a bumblebee?
0:10:10 > 0:10:13- Dumbledore.- Dumbledore in the Harry Potter novels.
0:10:13 > 0:10:17Not to be confused with the term for a small enclosed field under pasture,
0:10:17 > 0:10:22which archaic term for a toad is used by the second witch in the opening scene of Macbeth?
0:10:26 > 0:10:30- A paddock. - Paddock or puddock is correct.
0:10:30 > 0:10:31When, in Tolkien's The Hobbit,
0:10:31 > 0:10:34Bilbo Baggins taunts the giant inhabitants of Mirkwood
0:10:34 > 0:10:38with the words, "Attercop, attercop, you cannot trap me",
0:10:38 > 0:10:42he's using an old English word for which arthropod?
0:10:42 > 0:10:45- Spider.- Spiders. - Correct. Ten points for this.
0:10:45 > 0:10:51Its name derived from that of an ancient area of Syria.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54Which Semitic language was used as a lingua-franca
0:10:54 > 0:10:56in the Near East from around the 6th century BC
0:10:56 > 0:10:59and is thought by many to have been spoken by Jesus...
0:11:01 > 0:11:03- Aramaic.- Aramaic is correct, yes.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10These bonuses, St George's, are on synthetic fibres.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14For five. First introduced commercially in 1976,
0:11:14 > 0:11:17which fabric is engineered to be a breathable water and windproof material
0:11:17 > 0:11:21and, since 1989, has carried as its registered trademark
0:11:21 > 0:11:24the words, "Guaranteed to keep you dry"?
0:11:24 > 0:11:26- Gore-Tex.- Gore-Tex.- Correct.
0:11:26 > 0:11:30In 1941, two British scientists, John Whinfield and James Dickson,
0:11:30 > 0:11:34were involved in the creation of the first polyester fibre. What name was it given?
0:11:34 > 0:11:37- Rayon?- No, rayon's cellulose.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40- It could be nylon. - Nylon.- No, it's Terylene.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44Finally, what generic name describes a polyurethane based fibre
0:11:44 > 0:11:46created in the late 1950s
0:11:46 > 0:11:49and able to stretch and then return to its original shape?
0:11:49 > 0:11:52It came to replace the rubber used in women's underwear.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56- Latex.- No, Spandex or Elastane.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Ten points for this starter question. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01If a siren is moving away from a stationary observer
0:12:01 > 0:12:03at half the speed of sound,
0:12:03 > 0:12:08by what factor is the siren's frequency decreased due to the Doppler Effect?
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Five.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17No. St George's, one of you buzz.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22One quarter.
0:12:22 > 0:12:23No, it's two-thirds. Two over three.
0:12:23 > 0:12:29Ten points for this. Thought to have been coined by the scientists Herve This and Nicholas Kurti,
0:12:29 > 0:12:32which two-word term, according to the chef Ferran Adria,
0:12:32 > 0:12:37describes the movement that studies the chemical physical processes of cuisine?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Gastronomy. Molecular gastronomy.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Molecular gastronomy is correct, yes.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50Your bonuses now are on meteor showers, St George's.
0:12:50 > 0:12:55The asteroid Phaethon is thought to be a parent body of which meteor shower?
0:12:55 > 0:12:58Having a name derived from a constellation of the zodiac,
0:12:58 > 0:13:00it reaches its maximum in December.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06- Levins?- No, it's Geminids.
0:13:06 > 0:13:10Comet Swift-Tuttle is associated with which meteor shower?
0:13:10 > 0:13:15Reaching its maximum around August 12, it's named after the offspring of a Greek hero
0:13:15 > 0:13:17and his wife, Andromeda.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20- Perseus.- No, it's Perseids. I can't accept that.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24The Orionid and Eta Aquarid meteor showers in October and May
0:13:24 > 0:13:29are caused by the passage of Earth through the debris stream of which comet?
0:13:35 > 0:13:37- Could be Halley's Comet.- Halley's. - Correct.
0:13:37 > 0:13:42Right. We're going to take a music round now. We're about half-way through.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44You'll hear an excerpt from a piece of popular music.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47Ten points if you can give me the name of the artist performing.
0:13:47 > 0:13:52# You fill up my senses
0:13:52 > 0:13:57# Like a night in a forest
0:13:57 > 0:14:01# Like the mountains in spring time... #
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Is it Andrea Bocelli?
0:14:05 > 0:14:07No. You can hear a little more, Lancaster.
0:14:07 > 0:14:12# Like a walk in the rain
0:14:12 > 0:14:17# Like a storm in the desert
0:14:17 > 0:14:19# Like a sleepy blue ocean... #
0:14:21 > 0:14:24- Is it Pavarotti?- No, it's not. It's Placido Domingo.
0:14:24 > 0:14:28So music bonuses shortly. Ten points in the meantime for this starter question.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32From a Latin word for a parchment cleaned for re-use,
0:14:32 > 0:14:37what term denotes a manuscript from which writing has been partly or completely erased
0:14:37 > 0:14:39to make room for another text?
0:14:40 > 0:14:42- Palimpsest?- Palimpsest is correct.
0:14:44 > 0:14:50So we follow on from Placido Domingo whom you failed to identify, his rendition of Annie's Song,
0:14:50 > 0:14:52with music bonuses.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56Three more pieces of popular music performed by artists better known for their classical repertoire.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00In each case, I'd like you to identify the singer. Firstly...
0:15:00 > 0:15:05# On a clear day
0:15:05 > 0:15:09# Rise and look around you
0:15:09 > 0:15:17# And you'll see who you are
0:15:17 > 0:15:20# On a clear day... #
0:15:21 > 0:15:24- Andrea Bocelli. - No, that was Bryn Terfel.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26Who's this?
0:15:26 > 0:15:27# I feel pretty
0:15:27 > 0:15:29# Oh, so pretty
0:15:29 > 0:15:33# I feel pretty and witty and bright
0:15:33 > 0:15:35# And I pity
0:15:35 > 0:15:39# Any girl who isn't me tonight... #
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Lesley Garrow?
0:15:41 > 0:15:45It's Lesley Garrett, and it wasn't her, it was Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.
0:15:45 > 0:15:50Finally, a clue for the last one - it's not Elvis Presley!
0:15:50 > 0:15:53# Yes, there were times
0:15:53 > 0:15:55# I'm sure you knew... #
0:15:55 > 0:15:58Pavarotti is the last name we've got.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Yes, you're right. Well done!
0:16:01 > 0:16:05Ten points for this. Often cited as the UK's most inhabited island,
0:16:05 > 0:16:08which island gives its name both to a shipping forecast...
0:16:08 > 0:16:12- Rockall.- No, you lose five points.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14..both to a shipping forecast area...
0:16:14 > 0:16:16You could have heard some more. It's too late.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19- Fair Isle. - Fair Isle is correct, yes.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22This set of bonuses, St George's, are on a territory.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Quote: "A barren rock with nary a house upon it."
0:16:25 > 0:16:30These words of Lord Palmerston described which island ceded to Britain in 1842?
0:16:30 > 0:16:33QUIET CONFERRING
0:16:43 > 0:16:45- Let's have it, please.- Malta.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48No, Hong Kong. Which city on the Yangtze
0:16:48 > 0:16:50gives its name to the treaty of 1842
0:16:50 > 0:16:52that ended the first Opium War
0:16:52 > 0:16:55and resulted in the cession of Hong Kong to Britain?
0:16:59 > 0:17:01- Nanking.- Nanking.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04- Nanking.- Correct. Which former Conservative politician
0:17:04 > 0:17:06became the last governor of Hong Kong
0:17:06 > 0:17:09after losing his seat in the 1992 general election.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12- Chris Patten.- Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:17:12 > 0:17:17Which century links the appearance of Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love,
0:17:17 > 0:17:21Boccaccio's Decameron, Dante's Divine Comedy and...
0:17:22 > 0:17:25- The 13th.- No. I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27..and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?
0:17:30 > 0:17:32- 14th century. - 14th century is correct, yes.
0:17:36 > 0:17:41These bonuses are on national sports of the Americas. Get any of them, you take the lead.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45A decree of 1953 established Pato, P-A-T-O,
0:17:45 > 0:17:50also known as horse ball to be the national sport of which South American country?
0:17:51 > 0:17:56- Argentina.- A combination of dance and fighting performed to music,
0:17:56 > 0:18:00Capoeira was recognised as which country's national sport in 1974?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02- Brazil.- Correct.
0:18:02 > 0:18:07A 1994 National Sports Act recognised which game as Canada's national winter sport?
0:18:09 > 0:18:11- Ice hockey.- Correct. Another starter question.
0:18:12 > 0:18:17In 1811, which chemist first proposed the statement
0:18:17 > 0:18:19that equal volumes of gases at the same...
0:18:19 > 0:18:22- Avogadro.- Avogadro is correct, yes.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27These bonuses are on a shape, St George's.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30A pair of point masses under Newtonian gravity
0:18:30 > 0:18:32can follow a range of different orbits,
0:18:32 > 0:18:37all of them equivalent to cross-sections through what three-dimensional shape?
0:18:38 > 0:18:44- Cone.- Correct. Which scientist made an early practical application of conic sections in 1609
0:18:44 > 0:18:47when he derived his first law of planetary motion?
0:18:49 > 0:18:51- Kepler.- Kepler.- Correct.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53In Einstein's General Theory of Relativity,
0:18:53 > 0:18:57the region causally connected to a given point in space/time
0:18:57 > 0:18:59is known as what?
0:19:03 > 0:19:08- Event horizon?- Event horizon. - No, it's the light cone. Ten points for this.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Which poet wrote these lines?
0:19:10 > 0:19:12"Weave a circle round him thrice
0:19:12 > 0:19:14"and close your eyes with..."
0:19:14 > 0:19:17- Samuel Taylor Coleridge.- Correct.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23These bonuses, St George's, are on an author.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25In 2011, which novelist won the Man Booker prize
0:19:25 > 0:19:29having been shortlisted on three previous occasions?
0:19:35 > 0:19:38- Anne Honhurst?- No, Julian Barnes.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41In which novel by Barnes does Geoffrey Braithwaite
0:19:41 > 0:19:45seek a stuffed bird that once inspired a French novelist?
0:19:47 > 0:19:52- Flaubert's Parrot.- Correct. Finally, Barnes' 2005 historical novel Arthur and George
0:19:52 > 0:19:56features which author as the hero in a story based on real events?
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Rambo?
0:20:00 > 0:20:04I misheard you. I thought you meant Sylvester Stallone for a second!
0:20:04 > 0:20:08No, it's Arthur Conan Doyle. Right. A picture round now.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10For your starter, you'll see a painting. For ten points,
0:20:10 > 0:20:12simply name the artist.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17I'm sorry. I don't know.
0:20:17 > 0:20:18One of you buzz, St George's.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23- Casper David Friedrich.- Correct.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31Friedrich was a German romantic painter noted for his sublime landscapes,
0:20:31 > 0:20:35that is, in Edmund Burke's terms, "Landscapes that bring out what is awesome and terrible about nature,
0:20:35 > 0:20:37"rather than what is pleasant or beautiful."
0:20:37 > 0:20:42For your picture bonuses, three more examples of the romantic sublime in painting.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45In each case, I just want you to name the artist.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47For five, this French painter.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57- (Gericault.)- Gericault.
0:20:57 > 0:20:58Correct.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Secondly, this British painter,
0:21:00 > 0:21:02better known for his industrial scenes.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13- (Lowry?)- Lowry?
0:21:14 > 0:21:17As in L.S.Lowry? No, not at all!
0:21:17 > 0:21:20It's Joseph Wright of Derby. And finally, this British painter.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31- Blake?- No, that's J.M.W.Turner. Ten points for this.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34Believing that knowledge evolves from experience of the mind,
0:21:34 > 0:21:35which Austrian-born philosopher
0:21:35 > 0:21:39formulated the principle of falsifiability and...
0:21:39 > 0:21:42- Karl Popper.- Karl Popper is correct, yes.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47These bonuses, Lancaster, are on education.
0:21:47 > 0:21:51Introduced in all government-funded primary schools in England in 1998
0:21:51 > 0:21:54for what do the letters N.L.S stand?
0:21:59 > 0:22:02- National Learning... - National Literacy Standards.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05No, it's National Literacy Strategy.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Secondly, although scrapped in 2006, which internet initiative
0:22:08 > 0:22:10was announced by the government in 1997
0:22:10 > 0:22:13and abbreviated to N.G.F.L?
0:22:13 > 0:22:17- The National Grid for Learning. - Correct.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20And lastly, young people with one or more abilities developed to a level
0:22:20 > 0:22:23significantly ahead of their year group
0:22:23 > 0:22:26are classed as G&T, representing what?
0:22:26 > 0:22:28- Gifted and Talented.- Well done.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Another starter question.
0:22:30 > 0:22:34The Annals Histories, Agricola and Germania...
0:22:35 > 0:22:37- Tacitus.- Tacitus is correct, yes.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43St George's, your bonuses are on words from the Greek.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48To make it easier, they all end with the same three letters.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52Firstly, a tall jar or jug with two handles and a narrow neck.
0:22:54 > 0:22:58- Nemaphor.- No, it's amphora, which I'm sure is what you were thinking of.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Secondly, an excess or over-abundance of something.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07- Plethora.- Plethora is correct.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11And finally, a public open space used for markets or assemblies.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14- Agora.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16A turning point of World War II,
0:23:16 > 0:23:19which battle is commemorated in the name of a Paris metro station
0:23:19 > 0:23:21close to the Gard du Nord?
0:23:22 > 0:23:24- Stalingrad.- Stalingrad is correct.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28Your bonuses this time are on 20th-century politicians.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32Who was the first UK prime minister to have been born in the 20th century?
0:23:32 > 0:23:34He is also the only one to have played first-class cricket.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42- Nominate Shashank. - Sir Alec Douglas-Home.- Correct.
0:23:42 > 0:23:46Who was the first French president to have been born in the 20th century?
0:23:56 > 0:23:58- Come on.- I don't know.- Pompidou.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02Correct. Who was the first US president to have been born in the 20th century?
0:24:05 > 0:24:07- Eisenhower. - No, it was John F. Kennedy.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11Ten points for this. Give any of the three near homophones
0:24:11 > 0:24:15that mean incense burner, one who decides what is fit to publish...
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Censer.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Censer is correct, yes.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23These bonuses are on nutrition, Lancaster.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26The US bio-chemist Elmer McCollum is generally credited with
0:24:26 > 0:24:30the invention of the alphabetical system of naming which group of organic compounds?
0:24:31 > 0:24:32- Vitamins.- Correct.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Which letter of the alphabet is associated with the vitamin
0:24:35 > 0:24:39that can be described as anti-rachitic, or preventing the development of rickets?
0:24:39 > 0:24:41It's D.
0:24:41 > 0:24:46- D.- D is correct. Which letter of the alphabet is associated with the vitamin
0:24:46 > 0:24:49that may be described as anti-scorbutic?
0:24:52 > 0:24:55- C.- Correct. Two and a half minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59What given name links the authors of The Magic Mountain,
0:24:59 > 0:25:01The Rights of Man and the...
0:25:01 > 0:25:03- Thomas.- Correct, yes.
0:25:04 > 0:25:08These bonuses are on hotels and popular cultures, St George's.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Which field sport traces its origins
0:25:10 > 0:25:13to a meeting at the George Hotel in Huddersfield in 1895?
0:25:17 > 0:25:20- Field hockey?- No, it's rugby league.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22First prepared in the original Raffles Hotel,
0:25:22 > 0:25:26which cocktail was invented by the barman Ngiam Tong Boon?
0:25:26 > 0:25:29Its ingredients include gin, cherry brandy, Benedictine and Cointreau.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30Singapore Sling.
0:25:30 > 0:25:34Correct. Agatha Christie was a regular guest at the Pera Palas Hotel in Istanbul
0:25:34 > 0:25:39and is said to have written part of which 1934 novel in room 411?
0:25:39 > 0:25:42- Murder on the Orient Express. - Correct. Another starter question.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46The six-letter name of which African country is an anagram of a word
0:25:46 > 0:25:51describing a clock that shows the time by means of a pointer or dial?
0:25:52 > 0:25:55- Angola.- Angola is correct. Here are your bonuses.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57They're on poets' initials.
0:25:57 > 0:26:02In each case, identify the poet's two given names. First, T.S.Eliot.
0:26:02 > 0:26:03I don't know.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Come on.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07- Thomas Selburn?- No, Thomas Stearns.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09W.H.Auden?
0:26:13 > 0:26:16- William Harvey?- Wystan Hugh. Finally, W.B.Yeats.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20- William Butler.- William Butler. - Correct.
0:26:20 > 0:26:26Ten points for this. Shell, carbon, radio, quark and Wolf-Rayet are all varieties of what object?
0:26:28 > 0:26:31- Particle.- No. St George's, one of you buzz.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35- Star.- Star is correct, yes.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39These bonuses, St George's, are on mathematics.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42In each case, express the number five in the following bases.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43Base two.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47- Come on.- Two one.- Two one.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50No, it's one-zero-one. Secondly, base three.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56One, three, two. One-two.
0:26:56 > 0:26:57- One-two.- Correct.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Lastly, base five.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02- One.- One.- No, it's one-zero.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Ten points for this starter question.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06What term derives from the Latin for earth
0:27:06 > 0:27:09and refers to the low frequency natural electric current
0:27:09 > 0:27:12that travels over large areas at or near the Earth's surface?
0:27:13 > 0:27:16- Terrestrial.- No. Anyone want to buzz from St George's?
0:27:16 > 0:27:19- Orbital.- No, it's telluric. The telluric current.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22Ten points for this. In 1973, Erasmus University
0:27:22 > 0:27:25was founded out of several existing institutions
0:27:25 > 0:27:27in which Dutch city?
0:27:29 > 0:27:32- Rotterdam.- Rotterdam is correct. You get a set of bonuses now
0:27:32 > 0:27:34on Irish food festivals.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Since 1954, Galway has held an annual festival
0:27:37 > 0:27:40celebrating the opening of the season for which...
0:27:40 > 0:27:43- GONG - And at the gong, Lancaster University have 140 points,
0:27:43 > 0:27:46St George's Medical School have 230.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53You were doing well in the early stages, but you seemed to fade a bit.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56We have to say goodbye to you, Lancaster, but thank you for playing.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59St George's, that was another terrific performance from you.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01We look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04I hope you can join us next time. But until then,
0:28:04 > 0:28:06it's goodbye from Lancaster University...
0:28:06 > 0:28:09- Bye.- ..and it's goodbye from St George's, London...
0:28:09 > 0:28:11- Goodbye!- ..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye!
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