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APPLAUSE

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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

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Hello. There are eight places in the quarterfinals of this contest

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and three have already been taken by Pembroke College, Cambridge,

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New College, Oxford, and King's College, Cambridge.

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Whichever team wins tonight will join them.

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St George's is a medical school at the University of London.

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In the first round, the team proved that sharing the same specialism needn't be a disadvantage,

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as they held the lead until the half-way mark against King's College, Cambridge.

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Then they seemed to nod off a bit and allowed their opponents to take the lead

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but they wrested it back from them in the final minutes to be 30 points ahead at the gong.

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With an average age of 23, let's meet them again.

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Hello, I'm Shashank Sivaji, originally from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and I'm studying medicine.

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Hello. I'm Alexander Suebsaeng.

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I'm from London and I'm also studying medicine.

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And this is their captain.

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Hi, I'm Rebecca Smoker from County Kildare and I'm studying medicine.

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I'm Sam Mindel, from London, also studying medicine.

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APPLAUSE

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Lancaster University lost to Pembroke College, Cambridge in their first-round match.

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But their score qualified them to compete again in the play-offs

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when they beat Lincoln College, Oxford, by 165 points to 120.

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They know a lot about the flags of Latin America,

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people with missing hands, and things to do with the aardvark,

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but completely failed to recognise a series of songs by Elvis Presley,

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who, apparently, is the king of rock'n'roll throughout the entire Western hemisphere

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except in Lancaster!

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Let's meet them again.

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Hi. I'm Alan Webster from Blackpool, studying for a Masters in Resource and Environmental Management.

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Hi. I'm Ann Kretzschmar, originally from Chesterfield in Derbyshire

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and I'm studying for a PhD in Environmental Modelling.

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And this is their captain.

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Hello. I'm George Pinkerton from Surrey, studying History, Philosophy and Politics.

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Hi. I'm Ian Dickson, from Stirling.

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I'm studying for an M.Sc in Ecology and the Environment.

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APPLAUSE

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The rules are the same as ever. Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.

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Originally referring to the privileges bestowed by certain Popes on their so-called nephews,

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often their illegitimate...

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-Nepotism.

-Nepotism is correct, yes.

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The first set of bonuses are on infinity, Lancaster.

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"To see a world in a grain of sand

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"and a heaven in a wild flower,

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"hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."

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Which poet wrote those lines in Auguries of Innocence?

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Blake?

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Alexander Pope?

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No, it was William Blake.

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"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, and shares the nature of infinity."

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Which poet wrote those lines in his verse drama The Borderers,

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first published 1842?

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Walter Scott?

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-Walter Scott?

-No, that was Wordsworth.

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And finally, in a major scientific work of 1687,

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who wrote of God, "He endures from eternity to eternity

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"and he's present from infinity to infinity."

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1680s.

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Leibniz?

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No, it was Newton. 10 points for this.

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Initially an adjective of abuse derived from a Portuguese phrase meaning "imperfect pearls",

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what term denotes the style of art that succeeded Mannerism?

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Noted exponents include Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Guido Reni and Francesco Borromini.

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-Is it Baroque?

-It is Baroque, yes.

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Your first bonuses are on a historical figure, St George's.

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Of the Queens Consorts of England since 1066,

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who is the only one to have married four times?

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Her royal wedding at Hampton Court in 1543 was the third of them.

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-Mary Tudor.

-No, it was Catherine Parr.

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Catherine Parr's second marriage in 1534 was to which peer,

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a member of the same family as Warwick the Kingmaker of the previous century?

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-Thomas Seymour.

-No, it was to John Neville, Baron Latimer.

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Finally, Catherine Parr's fourth and final marriage in 1547,

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the same year that Henry VIII died,

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was to Thomas, the brother of which of Henry's other wives?

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-Thomas Seymour.

-No, it was Jane Seymour.

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Ten points for this. Sometimes referred to as "the mother of all senses",

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which sense, said usually to be capable or responding to a stimulus

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around the end of the eighth week of gestation,

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is the first to develop in the human...

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-Hearing.

-No, you lose five points.

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..human embryo.

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-Sight.

-No, it's touch. Next time, if you buzz, you must answer straightaway, please.

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Ten points for this. Which people's mythology

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held that the creator God Viracocha...

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-The Incas.

-Inca is correct, yes.

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Your bonuses are on ISO 4217 international currency abbreviations,

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specifically, those that spell words.

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For example, the abbreviation of the Cuban peso spells the word "cup".

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In each case, give the country and currency whose abbreviation corresponds to the following.

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Firstly, to apply with friction or pressure, for example, ointment or sun cream.

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-Rub.

-Right. The ruble. Russian.

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The Russian ruble is correct, yes.

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Secondly, a 1969 film directed by Ken Loach, set in a mining village.

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It tells of a troubled young boy and a bird of prey.

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OK. We don't know.

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It's Kes, of course, the film. Kenyan shilling is what the abbreviation's for.

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And finally, a man who behaves dishonourably towards women.

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-Cad.

-Canadian dollar.

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-Canadian dollar.

-Correct.

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Ten points for this starter question.

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"The British approach to diplomacy was rather like their approach to sex.

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"Romantically remote from the distressing biological crudities."

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These words of the historian Correlli Barnett

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refer specifically to which decade of the 20th century?

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1950s.

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No. One of you buzz from Lancaster.

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19...20s.

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No, it was the 1930s. Ten points for this.

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With an inherent energy of 10.2 electron volts and a wavelength of 121.6 nanometres,

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which spectral line can be used to trace the position and motion

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of distant clouds of hydrogen in the universe?

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Balma.

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No. I'm afraid you lose five points.

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It's often seen as a forest over absorption lines

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with wavelengths red-shifted to various degrees.

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No? It's the Lyman-alpha line. Ten points for this.

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"This is a film about our times.

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"The Arab Spring, protest movements, the Tottenham riots. They're all there.

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These words of Ralph Fiennes refer to a...

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-Coriolanus.

-Correct.

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These bonuses are on chemistry. After a Greek letter,

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what terms denotes a molecular orbital formed when the S-orbitals overlap

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directly between the nuclei?

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For example, in a hydrogen molecule.

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-Sigma.

-Sigma.

-Correct.

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For main group chemical compounds,

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what five-letter acronym denotes the method for predicting molecular geometry

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which was introduced by Sidgwick and Powell in 1940?

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VSEPR.

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-VSEPR.

-Yes, Vesper, correct.

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In the gas phase, what is the angle to the nearest degree

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between the OH bonds in a water molecule?

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109.5.

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-110.

-110.

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No, it's 104. We're going to take a picture round now.

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For your picture starter, you'll see a map with a lake highlighted.

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Ten points if you can give me its name.

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-Lake Baikal.

-It is Lake Baikal, yes.

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The deepest lake in the world. Your bonuses are maps showing three more of the deepest lakes.

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In each case, I want the name of the lake. Firstly for five.

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-Tanganyika.

-It is Lake Tanganyika.

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Secondly, either of the two historical figures this lake is named after.

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Nominate Webster.

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Ritamoreno.

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No, it's O'Higgins Lake or San Martin Lake.

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And finally.

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-Lake Como.

-Spot on. Ten points for this.

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First performed in 1824, which piece of music is, in Japan,

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traditionally played as part...

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-Beethoven's Ninth.

-It is, indeed. Yes.

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Bonuses this time on archaic names of animals, Lancaster.

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First appearing in 1997 which fictional character

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in a series of novels for younger readers

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has a surname which is an archaic name for a bumblebee?

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-Dumbledore.

-Dumbledore in the Harry Potter novels.

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Not to be confused with the term for a small enclosed field under pasture,

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which archaic term for a toad is used by the second witch in the opening scene of Macbeth?

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-A paddock.

-Paddock or puddock is correct.

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When, in Tolkien's The Hobbit,

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Bilbo Baggins taunts the giant inhabitants of Mirkwood

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with the words, "Attercop, attercop, you cannot trap me",

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he's using an old English word for which arthropod?

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-Spider.

-Spiders.

-Correct. Ten points for this.

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Its name derived from that of an ancient area of Syria.

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Which Semitic language was used as a lingua-franca

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in the Near East from around the 6th century BC

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and is thought by many to have been spoken by Jesus...

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-Aramaic.

-Aramaic is correct, yes.

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These bonuses, St George's, are on synthetic fibres.

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For five. First introduced commercially in 1976,

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which fabric is engineered to be a breathable water and windproof material

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and, since 1989, has carried as its registered trademark

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the words, "Guaranteed to keep you dry"?

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-Gore-Tex.

-Gore-Tex.

-Correct.

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In 1941, two British scientists, John Whinfield and James Dickson,

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were involved in the creation of the first polyester fibre. What name was it given?

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-Rayon?

-No, rayon's cellulose.

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-It could be nylon.

-Nylon.

-No, it's Terylene.

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Finally, what generic name describes a polyurethane based fibre

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created in the late 1950s

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and able to stretch and then return to its original shape?

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It came to replace the rubber used in women's underwear.

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-Latex.

-No, Spandex or Elastane.

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Ten points for this starter question. Answer as soon as you buzz.

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If a siren is moving away from a stationary observer

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at half the speed of sound,

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by what factor is the siren's frequency decreased due to the Doppler Effect?

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Five.

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No. St George's, one of you buzz.

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One quarter.

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No, it's two-thirds. Two over three.

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Ten points for this. Thought to have been coined by the scientists Herve This and Nicholas Kurti,

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which two-word term, according to the chef Ferran Adria,

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describes the movement that studies the chemical physical processes of cuisine?

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Gastronomy. Molecular gastronomy.

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Molecular gastronomy is correct, yes.

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Your bonuses now are on meteor showers, St George's.

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The asteroid Phaethon is thought to be a parent body of which meteor shower?

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Having a name derived from a constellation of the zodiac,

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it reaches its maximum in December.

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-Levins?

-No, it's Geminids.

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Comet Swift-Tuttle is associated with which meteor shower?

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Reaching its maximum around August 12, it's named after the offspring of a Greek hero

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and his wife, Andromeda.

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-Perseus.

-No, it's Perseids. I can't accept that.

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The Orionid and Eta Aquarid meteor showers in October and May

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are caused by the passage of Earth through the debris stream of which comet?

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-Could be Halley's Comet.

-Halley's.

-Correct.

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Right. We're going to take a music round now. We're about half-way through.

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You'll hear an excerpt from a piece of popular music.

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Ten points if you can give me the name of the artist performing.

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# You fill up my senses

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# Like a night in a forest

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# Like the mountains in spring time... #

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Is it Andrea Bocelli?

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No. You can hear a little more, Lancaster.

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# Like a walk in the rain

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# Like a storm in the desert

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# Like a sleepy blue ocean... #

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-Is it Pavarotti?

-No, it's not. It's Placido Domingo.

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So music bonuses shortly. Ten points in the meantime for this starter question.

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From a Latin word for a parchment cleaned for re-use,

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what term denotes a manuscript from which writing has been partly or completely erased

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to make room for another text?

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-Palimpsest?

-Palimpsest is correct.

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So we follow on from Placido Domingo whom you failed to identify, his rendition of Annie's Song,

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with music bonuses.

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Three more pieces of popular music performed by artists better known for their classical repertoire.

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In each case, I'd like you to identify the singer. Firstly...

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# On a clear day

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# Rise and look around you

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# And you'll see who you are

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# On a clear day... #

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-Andrea Bocelli.

-No, that was Bryn Terfel.

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Who's this?

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# I feel pretty

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# Oh, so pretty

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# I feel pretty and witty and bright

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# And I pity

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# Any girl who isn't me tonight... #

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Lesley Garrow?

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It's Lesley Garrett, and it wasn't her, it was Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.

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Finally, a clue for the last one - it's not Elvis Presley!

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# Yes, there were times

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# I'm sure you knew... #

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Pavarotti is the last name we've got.

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Yes, you're right. Well done!

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Ten points for this. Often cited as the UK's most inhabited island,

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which island gives its name both to a shipping forecast...

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-Rockall.

-No, you lose five points.

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..both to a shipping forecast area...

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You could have heard some more. It's too late.

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-Fair Isle.

-Fair Isle is correct, yes.

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This set of bonuses, St George's, are on a territory.

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Quote: "A barren rock with nary a house upon it."

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These words of Lord Palmerston described which island ceded to Britain in 1842?

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QUIET CONFERRING

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-Let's have it, please.

-Malta.

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No, Hong Kong. Which city on the Yangtze

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gives its name to the treaty of 1842

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that ended the first Opium War

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and resulted in the cession of Hong Kong to Britain?

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-Nanking.

-Nanking.

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-Nanking.

-Correct. Which former Conservative politician

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became the last governor of Hong Kong

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after losing his seat in the 1992 general election.

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-Chris Patten.

-Correct. Ten points for this starter question.

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Which century links the appearance of Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love,

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Boccaccio's Decameron, Dante's Divine Comedy and...

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-The 13th.

-No. I'm afraid you lose five points.

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..and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?

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-14th century.

-14th century is correct, yes.

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These bonuses are on national sports of the Americas. Get any of them, you take the lead.

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A decree of 1953 established Pato, P-A-T-O,

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also known as horse ball to be the national sport of which South American country?

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-Argentina.

-A combination of dance and fighting performed to music,

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Capoeira was recognised as which country's national sport in 1974?

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-Brazil.

-Correct.

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A 1994 National Sports Act recognised which game as Canada's national winter sport?

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-Ice hockey.

-Correct. Another starter question.

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In 1811, which chemist first proposed the statement

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that equal volumes of gases at the same...

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-Avogadro.

-Avogadro is correct, yes.

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These bonuses are on a shape, St George's.

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A pair of point masses under Newtonian gravity

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can follow a range of different orbits,

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all of them equivalent to cross-sections through what three-dimensional shape?

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-Cone.

-Correct. Which scientist made an early practical application of conic sections in 1609

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when he derived his first law of planetary motion?

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-Kepler.

-Kepler.

-Correct.

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In Einstein's General Theory of Relativity,

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the region causally connected to a given point in space/time

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is known as what?

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-Event horizon?

-Event horizon.

-No, it's the light cone. Ten points for this.

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Which poet wrote these lines?

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"Weave a circle round him thrice

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"and close your eyes with..."

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-Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

-Correct.

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These bonuses, St George's, are on an author.

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In 2011, which novelist won the Man Booker prize

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having been shortlisted on three previous occasions?

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-Anne Honhurst?

-No, Julian Barnes.

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In which novel by Barnes does Geoffrey Braithwaite

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seek a stuffed bird that once inspired a French novelist?

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-Flaubert's Parrot.

-Correct. Finally, Barnes' 2005 historical novel Arthur and George

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features which author as the hero in a story based on real events?

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Rambo?

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I misheard you. I thought you meant Sylvester Stallone for a second!

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No, it's Arthur Conan Doyle. Right. A picture round now.

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For your starter, you'll see a painting. For ten points,

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simply name the artist.

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I'm sorry. I don't know.

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One of you buzz, St George's.

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-Casper David Friedrich.

-Correct.

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Friedrich was a German romantic painter noted for his sublime landscapes,

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that is, in Edmund Burke's terms, "Landscapes that bring out what is awesome and terrible about nature,

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"rather than what is pleasant or beautiful."

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For your picture bonuses, three more examples of the romantic sublime in painting.

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In each case, I just want you to name the artist.

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For five, this French painter.

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-(Gericault.)

-Gericault.

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Correct.

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Secondly, this British painter,

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better known for his industrial scenes.

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-(Lowry?)

-Lowry?

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As in L.S.Lowry? No, not at all!

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It's Joseph Wright of Derby. And finally, this British painter.

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-Blake?

-No, that's J.M.W.Turner. Ten points for this.

0:21:270:21:31

Believing that knowledge evolves from experience of the mind,

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which Austrian-born philosopher

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formulated the principle of falsifiability and...

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-Karl Popper.

-Karl Popper is correct, yes.

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These bonuses, Lancaster, are on education.

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Introduced in all government-funded primary schools in England in 1998

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for what do the letters N.L.S stand?

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-National Learning...

-National Literacy Standards.

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No, it's National Literacy Strategy.

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Secondly, although scrapped in 2006, which internet initiative

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was announced by the government in 1997

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and abbreviated to N.G.F.L?

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-The National Grid for Learning.

-Correct.

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And lastly, young people with one or more abilities developed to a level

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significantly ahead of their year group

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are classed as G&T, representing what?

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-Gifted and Talented.

-Well done.

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Another starter question.

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The Annals Histories, Agricola and Germania...

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-Tacitus.

-Tacitus is correct, yes.

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St George's, your bonuses are on words from the Greek.

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In each case, give the word from the definition.

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To make it easier, they all end with the same three letters.

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Firstly, a tall jar or jug with two handles and a narrow neck.

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-Nemaphor.

-No, it's amphora, which I'm sure is what you were thinking of.

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Secondly, an excess or over-abundance of something.

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-Plethora.

-Plethora is correct.

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And finally, a public open space used for markets or assemblies.

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-Agora.

-Correct. Ten points for this.

0:23:110:23:14

A turning point of World War II,

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which battle is commemorated in the name of a Paris metro station

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close to the Gard du Nord?

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-Stalingrad.

-Stalingrad is correct.

0:23:220:23:24

Your bonuses this time are on 20th-century politicians.

0:23:240:23:28

Who was the first UK prime minister to have been born in the 20th century?

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He is also the only one to have played first-class cricket.

0:23:320:23:34

-Nominate Shashank.

-Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

-Correct.

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Who was the first French president to have been born in the 20th century?

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-Come on.

-I don't know.

-Pompidou.

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Correct. Who was the first US president to have been born in the 20th century?

0:23:580:24:02

-Eisenhower.

-No, it was John F. Kennedy.

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Ten points for this. Give any of the three near homophones

0:24:070:24:11

that mean incense burner, one who decides what is fit to publish...

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Censer.

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Censer is correct, yes.

0:24:170:24:19

These bonuses are on nutrition, Lancaster.

0:24:190:24:23

The US bio-chemist Elmer McCollum is generally credited with

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the invention of the alphabetical system of naming which group of organic compounds?

0:24:260:24:30

-Vitamins.

-Correct.

0:24:310:24:32

Which letter of the alphabet is associated with the vitamin

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that can be described as anti-rachitic, or preventing the development of rickets?

0:24:350:24:39

It's D.

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-D.

-D is correct. Which letter of the alphabet is associated with the vitamin

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that may be described as anti-scorbutic?

0:24:460:24:49

-C.

-Correct. Two and a half minutes to go. Ten points for this.

0:24:520:24:55

What given name links the authors of The Magic Mountain,

0:24:550:24:59

The Rights of Man and the...

0:24:590:25:01

-Thomas.

-Correct, yes.

0:25:010:25:03

These bonuses are on hotels and popular cultures, St George's.

0:25:040:25:08

Which field sport traces its origins

0:25:080:25:10

to a meeting at the George Hotel in Huddersfield in 1895?

0:25:100:25:13

-Field hockey?

-No, it's rugby league.

0:25:170:25:20

First prepared in the original Raffles Hotel,

0:25:200:25:22

which cocktail was invented by the barman Ngiam Tong Boon?

0:25:220:25:26

Its ingredients include gin, cherry brandy, Benedictine and Cointreau.

0:25:260:25:29

Singapore Sling.

0:25:290:25:30

Correct. Agatha Christie was a regular guest at the Pera Palas Hotel in Istanbul

0:25:300:25:34

and is said to have written part of which 1934 novel in room 411?

0:25:340:25:39

-Murder on the Orient Express.

-Correct. Another starter question.

0:25:390:25:42

The six-letter name of which African country is an anagram of a word

0:25:420:25:46

describing a clock that shows the time by means of a pointer or dial?

0:25:460:25:51

-Angola.

-Angola is correct. Here are your bonuses.

0:25:520:25:55

They're on poets' initials.

0:25:550:25:57

In each case, identify the poet's two given names. First, T.S.Eliot.

0:25:570:26:02

I don't know.

0:26:020:26:03

Come on.

0:26:030:26:05

-Thomas Selburn?

-No, Thomas Stearns.

0:26:050:26:07

W.H.Auden?

0:26:070:26:09

-William Harvey?

-Wystan Hugh. Finally, W.B.Yeats.

0:26:130:26:16

-William Butler.

-William Butler.

-Correct.

0:26:160:26:20

Ten points for this. Shell, carbon, radio, quark and Wolf-Rayet are all varieties of what object?

0:26:200:26:26

-Particle.

-No. St George's, one of you buzz.

0:26:280:26:31

-Star.

-Star is correct, yes.

0:26:330:26:35

These bonuses, St George's, are on mathematics.

0:26:360:26:39

In each case, express the number five in the following bases.

0:26:390:26:42

Base two.

0:26:420:26:43

-Come on.

-Two one.

-Two one.

0:26:440:26:47

No, it's one-zero-one. Secondly, base three.

0:26:470:26:50

One, three, two. One-two.

0:26:530:26:56

-One-two.

-Correct.

0:26:560:26:57

Lastly, base five.

0:26:570:26:59

-One.

-One.

-No, it's one-zero.

0:26:590:27:02

Ten points for this starter question.

0:27:020:27:04

What term derives from the Latin for earth

0:27:040:27:06

and refers to the low frequency natural electric current

0:27:060:27:09

that travels over large areas at or near the Earth's surface?

0:27:090:27:12

-Terrestrial.

-No. Anyone want to buzz from St George's?

0:27:130:27:16

-Orbital.

-No, it's telluric. The telluric current.

0:27:160:27:19

Ten points for this. In 1973, Erasmus University

0:27:190:27:22

was founded out of several existing institutions

0:27:220:27:25

in which Dutch city?

0:27:250:27:27

-Rotterdam.

-Rotterdam is correct. You get a set of bonuses now

0:27:290:27:32

on Irish food festivals.

0:27:320:27:34

Since 1954, Galway has held an annual festival

0:27:340:27:37

celebrating the opening of the season for which...

0:27:370:27:40

-GONG

-And at the gong, Lancaster University have 140 points,

0:27:400:27:43

St George's Medical School have 230.

0:27:430:27:46

You were doing well in the early stages, but you seemed to fade a bit.

0:27:500:27:53

We have to say goodbye to you, Lancaster, but thank you for playing.

0:27:530:27:56

St George's, that was another terrific performance from you.

0:27:560:27:59

We look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals.

0:27:590:28:01

I hope you can join us next time. But until then,

0:28:010:28:04

it's goodbye from Lancaster University...

0:28:040:28:06

-Bye.

-..and it's goodbye from St George's, London...

0:28:060:28:09

-Goodbye!

-..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye!

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