0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge!
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman!
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. Tonight's teams are each playing on behalf of institutions
0:00:31 > 0:00:35with a formidable reputation in this contest, but only one of them
0:00:35 > 0:00:38will be able to take a place in the quarter-finals,
0:00:38 > 0:00:40and we will be saying goodbye to the losers.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43The team from Magdalen College, Oxford, played their
0:00:43 > 0:00:46first-round match against Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge,
0:00:46 > 0:00:48and were neck-and-neck until the halfway mark,
0:00:48 > 0:00:51when their eclectic knowledge of Cistercians, Stoicism
0:00:51 > 0:00:54and crochet stitches put them comfortably ahead
0:00:54 > 0:00:57of their opponents, with 205 points to 125 at the gong.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Representing an institution which has won the contest
0:01:00 > 0:01:04four times in the past, and with an average age of 20,
0:01:04 > 0:01:06let's meet the Magdalen team again.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Hi. My name's Will,
0:01:08 > 0:01:10I'm from Kew, and I'm studying history.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Hi. I'm Rob Mangan, I'm from Nottingham and I study chemistry.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15- This is their captain... - Hello. I'm Henry Watson,
0:01:15 > 0:01:19I'm from Wimbledon and I'm reading philosophy, politics and economics.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Hi. I'm Richard Purkiss. I'm from Richmond in south-west London,
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and I'm reading for a masters in medieval history.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29APPLAUSE
0:01:29 > 0:01:32There is a maxim to the effect that it's not about winning,
0:01:32 > 0:01:35it's about taking part, which the team from Manchester University
0:01:35 > 0:01:37seemed to be taking a little too literally
0:01:37 > 0:01:39in their first-round match -
0:01:39 > 0:01:41they stayed on a minus score for the first few minutes,
0:01:41 > 0:01:44and continued to trail Lincoln College, Oxford,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46for most of the rest of the match, but an impressive rally
0:01:46 > 0:01:50in the final stages saw them five points ahead at the gong.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Their university have won this contest three times in the past,
0:01:53 > 0:01:55and are also the reigning champions.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59With an average age of 28, let's meet the Manchester team again.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Hi. I'm David Brice.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04I'm from Kingston-upon-Thames, and I study economics.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Hi. I'm Adam Barr. I'm from Muswell Hill in north London,
0:02:08 > 0:02:10and I'm studying physics with astrophysics.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13- And now their captain introduces himself...- Hello.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15I'm Richard Gilbert. I'm from Warwickshire,
0:02:15 > 0:02:16and I study linguistics.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Hi. I'm Debbie Brown. I'm from Buxton in Derbyshire,
0:02:19 > 0:02:23and I'm studying for a PhD in pain epidemiology.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26APPLAUSE
0:02:27 > 0:02:30OK, you can all recite the rules in your sleep,
0:02:30 > 0:02:33so fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36The name of which European city links treaties
0:02:36 > 0:02:40that ended the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars in 1229,
0:02:40 > 0:02:42the Seven Years War in 1763
0:02:42 > 0:02:45- the American War of Independence in 17... - BELL
0:02:45 > 0:02:46Paris?
0:02:46 > 0:02:48Paris is correct, yes.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50APPLAUSE
0:02:50 > 0:02:53First set of bonuses then to you, Magdalen College,
0:02:53 > 0:02:57they're on poets' epitaphs. Which poet's name is absent from his
0:02:57 > 0:03:00tombstone? It describes him instead as a young English poet, who,
0:03:00 > 0:03:02on his deathbed, in the bitterness of his heart
0:03:02 > 0:03:04at the malicious power of his enemies,
0:03:04 > 0:03:08desired these words to be engraven on his tombstone -
0:03:08 > 0:03:11"Here lies one whose name was writ in water"?
0:03:13 > 0:03:14Keats?
0:03:14 > 0:03:16- Give it a try.- Er, Keats?
0:03:16 > 0:03:19It was John Keats, yes. "Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth
0:03:19 > 0:03:23"suffer a sea change into something rich and strange."
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Which of the romantic poets, who died by drowning,
0:03:25 > 0:03:28has a grave in Rome which bears these words,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31and from which play by Shakespeare are they taken?
0:03:32 > 0:03:34(Drowning, that's Shelley...)
0:03:34 > 0:03:35Shelley?
0:03:36 > 0:03:38Erm, Shelley and The Tempest?
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Correct! And finally, "My epitaph shall be my name alone."
0:03:41 > 0:03:45These words appear in Hours Of Idleness, a collection
0:03:45 > 0:03:47of 1807 by which poet?
0:03:48 > 0:03:50Who's left? Go for Byron?
0:03:51 > 0:03:52- Try it.- Byron?
0:03:52 > 0:03:55- Byron's right. 10 points for this starter question... - APPLAUSE
0:03:55 > 0:03:58For an 1816 production of which of Mozart's operas
0:03:58 > 0:04:01did the Prussian architect and set designer Karl Friedrich Schinkel
0:04:01 > 0:04:04create a star-stuffed backdrop,
0:04:04 > 0:04:07since then much-imitated, for the entrance of the Queen of the Night?
0:04:07 > 0:04:09- BUZZER - Magic Flute.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12- The Magic Flute is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Your first bonuses, Manchester, are on the year 1812.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture commemorates the retreat
0:04:19 > 0:04:23of the French Army following which major battle of September 1812,
0:04:23 > 0:04:26around 100km west of Moscow?
0:04:26 > 0:04:28- Borodino.- Correct.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Now docked in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which American
0:04:31 > 0:04:33frigate was nicknamed "Old Ironsides"
0:04:33 > 0:04:36after its role in the war of 1812 against Great Britain?
0:04:36 > 0:04:38- Constitution.- Correct.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41In May 1812, which British prime minister was assassinated
0:04:41 > 0:04:44in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham?
0:04:44 > 0:04:47- Spencer Percival.- Correct. 10 points for this starter question. - APPLAUSE
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Which two initials link the Scottish-born writer
0:04:50 > 0:04:54whose most famous creation first appeared in The Little White Bird
0:04:54 > 0:04:57in 1902, the Irish author of The Playboy Of The Western World
0:04:57 > 0:05:00and the South African novelist and Nobel Laureate...?
0:05:00 > 0:05:02- BUZZER - JM.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- JM is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:05:05 > 0:05:08These bonuses, Manchester, are on tests. Firstly -
0:05:08 > 0:05:11after the physiologist who introduced it in 1879
0:05:11 > 0:05:14after a railway disaster at Lagerlunda, Sweden,
0:05:14 > 0:05:17the Holmgren test was an early scientific test
0:05:17 > 0:05:20of what condition?
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Hypothermia, maybe?
0:05:24 > 0:05:25I don't know.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28- Hypothermia.- No, it's colour vision, or colour blindness.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Named after the Japanese ophthalmologist who devised it,
0:05:31 > 0:05:34which common test for colour blindness consists of plates,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37each composed of dots of different colours closely packed together?
0:05:37 > 0:05:40- Isihara.- Isihara?- I think so, yes.
0:05:40 > 0:05:41OK. Isihara?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Ishihara is correct, yes.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46And finally, explaining our ability to perceive colour in
0:05:46 > 0:05:49ambient-coloured environments, the retinex theory of colour vision
0:05:49 > 0:05:53was proposed by which scientist and inventor of the Polaroid camera?
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Don't know.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Do you know who invented the camera?
0:05:59 > 0:06:01I only know Eastman, who was involved in films.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03We'll go for that, then. We don't know. Eastman.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06No, it was Edwin H Land. 10 points for this.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10A professor of radio astronomy at Manchester University from 1951,
0:06:10 > 0:06:14who was responsible for building the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank?
0:06:14 > 0:06:16It was used to trace Sputnik in the 1960s
0:06:16 > 0:06:18and was renamed after the astronomer...
0:06:18 > 0:06:19BUZZER
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Bernard Lovell.
0:06:21 > 0:06:22Bernard Lovell is correct, yes.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24APPLAUSE
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Bonuses this time, Manchester,
0:06:26 > 0:06:29are on English history and Italian opera.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Rossini had already used his overture to The Barber Of Seville
0:06:32 > 0:06:36in an earlier opera about which Queen of England, written in 1815?
0:06:37 > 0:06:40THEY CONFER
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Was it a sovereign Queen or was it a Queen Regent?
0:06:45 > 0:06:49I think it's probably going to be about the reigning sovereign.
0:06:49 > 0:06:50Elizabeth I?
0:06:50 > 0:06:51It was.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55Produced at Milan in 1830, the opera Anna Bolena was the first
0:06:55 > 0:06:59work to achieve international recognition for which composer?
0:06:59 > 0:07:01THEY CONFER
0:07:11 > 0:07:12Monteverdi.
0:07:12 > 0:07:13No, it was Donizetti.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17And finally, premiered in Paris in 1835, Vincenzo Bellini's final
0:07:17 > 0:07:21opera, I Puritani, is a love story set during the time of which war?
0:07:24 > 0:07:25The English Civil War.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Correct. We are going to take a picture round now.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29For your picture starter, you're going to see
0:07:29 > 0:07:32a section of the family tree of characters in a 19th-century novel.
0:07:32 > 0:07:3510 points if you can give me the missing name
0:07:35 > 0:07:38and you can give me either her maiden or her married surname,
0:07:38 > 0:07:40but I want her given name, as well.
0:07:43 > 0:07:44BUZZER
0:07:44 > 0:07:45Bertha Rochester.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Yes! Well done.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49APPLAUSE
0:07:49 > 0:07:53So, following on that diagram of familiar relations
0:07:53 > 0:07:55in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, you're going to see three more
0:07:55 > 0:07:58family trees of characters in novels by the Bronte sisters.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02In each case, five points if you can give me the missing given name
0:08:02 > 0:08:04and the novel in which the character appears.
0:08:04 > 0:08:05Firstly, for five...
0:08:11 > 0:08:12I don't know.
0:08:14 > 0:08:15Pass.
0:08:15 > 0:08:20That is Shirley as in Shirley. Shirley Gerard Moore nee Keeldar.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22And secondly...
0:08:29 > 0:08:31THEY CONFER
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Cathy, Wuthering Heights.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40No, that's Frederick Lawrence in The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41And finally...
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Heathcliff.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49- There's a Heathcliff up there. - No, it's Heathcliff.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51- There's another Heathcliff? - Oh, right, yeah.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53I think it's Heathcliff.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55OK, if you say so. Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58No, it's Hareton Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights.
0:08:58 > 0:08:5910 points for this starter question.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Apparently adorning the walls in the Gryffindor common room
0:09:02 > 0:09:03in the Harry Potter films,
0:09:03 > 0:09:07what title is given to the series of six 15th-century tapestries
0:09:07 > 0:09:09more properly housed in the Cluny Museum in Paris?
0:09:11 > 0:09:12BUZZER
0:09:12 > 0:09:13The Bayeux tapestry.
0:09:13 > 0:09:14No.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Manchester, one of you buzz.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20The Lady And The Unicorn. 10 points for this.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22What term is used in chemistry for the absorption
0:09:22 > 0:09:25and retention of a gas within the interstices of the crystal lattice
0:09:25 > 0:09:27of a metal or other solid?
0:09:27 > 0:09:30In medicine, it indicates total or partial obstruction
0:09:30 > 0:09:33of a blood vessel, especially by thrombosis.
0:09:33 > 0:09:34BUZZER
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Clot.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38No. Manchester, one of you buzz.
0:09:38 > 0:09:39BUZZER.
0:09:39 > 0:09:40Occlusion.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Occlusion is correct.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44APPLAUSE
0:09:44 > 0:09:47This set of bonuses, Manchester, are on Antarctica.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50Which Antarctic sea is named after the British navigator who
0:09:50 > 0:09:52discovered it in 1823?
0:09:52 > 0:09:54He also gets his name to a type of seal.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58THEY CONFER
0:10:00 > 0:10:01Weddell.
0:10:01 > 0:10:02Weddell is correct.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Lying off the western coast of the Antarctic Peninsula,
0:10:05 > 0:10:07which sea bears the name of the Russian explorer
0:10:07 > 0:10:11who, in 1821, lead the first circumnavigation of Antarctica?
0:10:14 > 0:10:17- The Ross Sea is the one... - Russian.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20THEY CONFER
0:10:23 > 0:10:24We don't know that one.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26It's the Bellingshausen Sea. And finally,
0:10:26 > 0:10:29which sea shares its name with the ice shelf at its head...
0:10:29 > 0:10:31- That's Ross.- ..lying directly south of New Zealand?
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Both are named after a 19th-century British explorer.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34Ross.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Correct. 10 points for this.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Which informal term for anyone putting independently of party lines
0:10:39 > 0:10:42is thought to have come first to prominence in describing
0:10:42 > 0:10:43Republicans who backed
0:10:43 > 0:10:46the Democrat Grover Cleveland against the Republican
0:10:46 > 0:10:50candidate James G Blaine in the US presidential election of 1884?
0:10:50 > 0:10:52BUZZER
0:10:52 > 0:10:53Floating voter.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55No, one of you buzz from Magdalen.
0:10:55 > 0:10:56BUZZER
0:10:56 > 0:10:57Cabin burners.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59No, they are mugwumps.
0:10:59 > 0:11:0110 points for this. Give not the nationality
0:11:01 > 0:11:05but the name of the national anthem of which the first words,
0:11:05 > 0:11:08in translation, are, "Arise children of the Fatherland..."
0:11:08 > 0:11:10BUZZER
0:11:10 > 0:11:11Marseillaise.
0:11:11 > 0:11:12That's correct, yes.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15APPLAUSE
0:11:15 > 0:11:19Right, these bonuses are on the '30s poets, Manchester.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22During the 1930s, WH Auden wrote plays including
0:11:22 > 0:11:25The Dog Beneath The Skin and The Ascent Of F6
0:11:25 > 0:11:28in collaboration with which English-born writer
0:11:28 > 0:11:30who emigrated to the USA with him in 1939?
0:11:32 > 0:11:35THEY CONFER
0:11:39 > 0:11:41JL Carr?
0:11:41 > 0:11:42JL Carr.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45No, it was Christopher Isherwood.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Born in Belfast,
0:11:47 > 0:11:50which poet collaborated with Auden on the 1937 Letters From Iceland,
0:11:50 > 0:11:53his other works include Autumn Journal
0:11:53 > 0:11:55and The Burning Perch?
0:11:57 > 0:11:59THEY CONFER
0:12:03 > 0:12:06It's too early but Seamus Heaney.
0:12:06 > 0:12:07No, it was Louis MacNeice.
0:12:07 > 0:12:12And finally, which poet edited Oxford Poetry with Auden in 1927?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Noted for his translations of Virgil,
0:12:14 > 0:12:17he succeed John Masefield as Poet Laureate in 1968.
0:12:20 > 0:12:21Betjeman.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24No, it was C Day-Lewis. Right, another starter question.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26"I pressed the fire control and ahead of me
0:12:26 > 0:12:28"rockets blazed through the sky."
0:12:28 > 0:12:31These words appear in which 1963 painting...?
0:12:31 > 0:12:32BUZZER
0:12:32 > 0:12:33Whaam!
0:12:33 > 0:12:35That's correct, yes.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Roy Lichtenstein.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41Your bonuses this time are on geophysics, Manchester.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44What title did the geophysicist Inge Lehmann
0:12:44 > 0:12:46use for her article of 1936, presenting evidence
0:12:46 > 0:12:49that the earth had a relatively small inner core?
0:12:49 > 0:12:53It's one of the shortest titles of an academic paper ever published.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58THEY CONFER
0:12:58 > 0:13:00I've never heard of it.
0:13:02 > 0:13:03- The core.- The core.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05No, it's P".
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Able to travel through solids but not liquids, what type
0:13:07 > 0:13:11of seismic wave motion is transverse to the direction of propagation?
0:13:13 > 0:13:16THEY CONFER
0:13:16 > 0:13:17P-waves.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23Primary, secondary...
0:13:23 > 0:13:26It's S-waves because transverse waves...
0:13:26 > 0:13:29I'm going to nominate you, OK.
0:13:29 > 0:13:30- Nominate Barr.- S-waves.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34S-waves or secondary waves is correct, yes.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36After the title of nobility to which the physicist
0:13:36 > 0:13:40John William Strutt succeeded in 1873, what term describes
0:13:40 > 0:13:43a seismic surface wave that rolls along the ground?
0:13:43 > 0:13:45Kelvin maybe. Kelvin wave.
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Kelvin wave?
0:13:49 > 0:13:51No, it's a Rayleigh wave.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53We are going to take a music round now.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56For your music starter, you will hear a piece of classical music.
0:13:56 > 0:13:5910 points if you can give me the name of the composer.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:07 > 0:14:09BUZZER
0:14:09 > 0:14:10Mahler.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13No, you can hear a little more, Manchester.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21BUZZER
0:14:21 > 0:14:22Brahms.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26No, it's Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. So, music bonuses shortly.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Fingers on the buzzers. Here's another starter.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32"The most politic historiographer that ever writ."
0:14:32 > 0:14:34These words of Thomas Hobbes refer to which historian?
0:14:34 > 0:14:37Born near Athens in around 460 BC,
0:14:37 > 0:14:39he was the author of the History Of The...
0:14:39 > 0:14:40BUZZER
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Herodotus.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45No, you lose five points. ..History Of The Peloponnesian War.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51I'll tell you. It's Thucydides. 10 points for this.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands are examples of what
0:14:55 > 0:14:59type of speciation occurring when a small population colonises
0:14:59 > 0:15:02a new habitat at the periphery of the original population?
0:15:04 > 0:15:05BUZZER
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Implantation.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09No. Manchester, one of you buzz.
0:15:09 > 0:15:10BUZZER
0:15:10 > 0:15:11Microevolution.
0:15:11 > 0:15:12No, it's periparty.
0:15:12 > 0:15:1510 points for this. Listen carefully.
0:15:15 > 0:15:20The three letter ISO4217 currency codes for the Tongan pa'anga
0:15:20 > 0:15:25and the Colombian peso together form what rhyming expression,
0:15:25 > 0:15:28a colloquial expression for a senior police officer?
0:15:30 > 0:15:32BUZZER
0:15:32 > 0:15:33Top brass.
0:15:33 > 0:15:34Anyone buzz from Manchester?
0:15:34 > 0:15:36BUZZER
0:15:36 > 0:15:37Top cop.
0:15:37 > 0:15:38Top cop is correct, yes.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41APPLAUSE
0:15:41 > 0:15:43You'll recall that sometime last week
0:15:43 > 0:15:46we heard Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49Your music bonuses are three more classical pieces by composers
0:15:49 > 0:15:52who were awarded Mendelssohn scholarships
0:15:52 > 0:15:54established by admirers of the composer
0:15:54 > 0:15:58after his death in 1847 to help support promising musicians.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01In each case, all you have to do is name the composer.
0:16:01 > 0:16:05Firstly, this German composer who received a scholarship in 1879.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:15 > 0:16:18THEY CONFER
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Schumann.
0:16:38 > 0:16:39No, it was Engelbert Humperdinck.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42Secondly, another German-born composer who received
0:16:42 > 0:16:44a scholarship in 1919.
0:16:44 > 0:16:45MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:45 > 0:16:52# Surabaya Johnny Though you're rotten, I know
0:16:53 > 0:17:00# Surabaya Johnny God, I love you so
0:17:02 > 0:17:09# Surabaya Johnny Why can't I let you go?
0:17:10 > 0:17:14# You've got no heart, Johnny... #
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Exactly, that's what I was saying...
0:17:17 > 0:17:20Let's have it, please.
0:17:21 > 0:17:22Kurt Weill.
0:17:22 > 0:17:23That's correct, yes.
0:17:23 > 0:17:27And finally, this English composer who received a scholarship in 1948.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:34 > 0:17:35THEY CONFER
0:17:53 > 0:17:54Rutter?
0:17:54 > 0:17:57No, it's Sir Malcolm Arnold, part of his English Dances.
0:17:57 > 0:17:5810 points for this.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01"I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart
0:18:01 > 0:18:04"that can only be cured with gold."
0:18:04 > 0:18:06These words formed part of a message...
0:18:06 > 0:18:07BUZZER
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Hernan Cortes.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12That's correct. His message to Montezuma.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Right, after that period of indolence, Magdalen,
0:18:15 > 0:18:17you get some bonuses on bells.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Inscribed with a verse from the book of Leviticus,
0:18:20 > 0:18:23the bell in Philadelphia that was held at the first public reading of
0:18:23 > 0:18:25the US Declaration Of Independence is commonly known by what name?
0:18:25 > 0:18:27The Liberty Bell.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30Correct. Weighing approximately 24,000 kg, the St Peter's Bell
0:18:30 > 0:18:33or Fat Peter is the largest in which German Cathedral
0:18:33 > 0:18:35close to the River Rhine?
0:18:35 > 0:18:37THEY CONFER
0:18:37 > 0:18:38Cologne.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42Correct. The cracked Tsar Bell also known as the Tsar Kolokol
0:18:42 > 0:18:47is a giant bell that stands in the grounds of which building complex?
0:18:47 > 0:18:48I would guess the Kremlin.
0:18:48 > 0:18:49The Kremlin.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Correct. Right, another starter question.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Listen carefully and answer as soon as your name is called.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00If the integers from one to 100 are written in Roman numerals
0:19:00 > 0:19:04and then placed in alphabetical order, which comes last?
0:19:05 > 0:19:06BUZZER
0:19:06 > 0:19:08Five.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Anyone like to buzz from Manchester?
0:19:10 > 0:19:11BUZZER
0:19:11 > 0:19:13X, sorry, ten.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16No, it's 38. 10 points for this.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20One of the three women awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011,
0:19:20 > 0:19:24Tawakul Karman became a prominent figure in the Arab Spring
0:19:24 > 0:19:25protests in which country?
0:19:25 > 0:19:27BUZZER
0:19:27 > 0:19:28Tunisia.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31- One of you buzz from Manchester. - BUZZER
0:19:31 > 0:19:32Egypt.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34No, it's Yemen. 10 points for this.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36The inactivated vaccine Havrix
0:19:36 > 0:19:41confers immunity against which specific strain of a viral disease?
0:19:41 > 0:19:42BUZZER
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Meningitis C.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Anyone want to have a go from Manchester?
0:19:46 > 0:19:48BUZZER
0:19:48 > 0:19:49Meningitis B.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52No, it's hepatitis A. 10 points for this starter question.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56Cape Verde, Oman, St Lucia and Bangladesh are among countries that
0:19:56 > 0:19:59joined the United Nations during which decade?
0:19:59 > 0:20:00BUZZER
0:20:00 > 0:20:011970s.
0:20:01 > 0:20:02Correct.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05APPLAUSE
0:20:05 > 0:20:08These bonuses are on carpets.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11Carpet was first manufactured in England in which Wiltshire town
0:20:11 > 0:20:14with its loom being patented in 1741?
0:20:14 > 0:20:17Competitors soon included Kidderminster and Axminster.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19THEY CONFER
0:20:25 > 0:20:26Salisbury.
0:20:26 > 0:20:27No, it's Wilton.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29Named after a town in north-west Iran,
0:20:29 > 0:20:32which exhibit in the V&A Museum in London as the world's oldest
0:20:32 > 0:20:36dated carpet, having been completed around 1540?
0:20:42 > 0:20:43Pass.
0:20:43 > 0:20:44It's the Ardabil Carpet.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48And finally, which German painter who died in 1543 gave his name
0:20:48 > 0:20:49to the small-pattern
0:20:49 > 0:20:53and large-pattern types of Turkish rug that appeared in this work?
0:20:55 > 0:20:57THEY CONFER
0:20:59 > 0:21:00Kranich.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02No, it was Hans Holbein the Younger.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Right, we are going to take another picture round now.
0:21:05 > 0:21:06For your picture starter,
0:21:06 > 0:21:10you will see a still from a film adaptation of a 19th-century novel.
0:21:10 > 0:21:1310 points if you can give me the name of the character you see.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17BUZZER
0:21:17 > 0:21:18Fagan.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Anyone like to buzz from Manchester?
0:21:20 > 0:21:21BUZZER
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Van Helsing.
0:21:23 > 0:21:24It is Van Helsing, yes.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26APPLAUSE
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Following on from Anthony Hopkins as the vampire hunter
0:21:29 > 0:21:32in Francis Ford Coppola's version of Dracula,
0:21:32 > 0:21:34your picture bonuses are three more actors who've played
0:21:34 > 0:21:37Van Helsing in film versions of Bram Stoker's novel.
0:21:37 > 0:21:42In each case, all I want you to do is to identify the actor.
0:21:42 > 0:21:43Firstly for five...
0:21:44 > 0:21:46- Peter Cushing.- Peter Cushing.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Correct. Secondly, from a rather loose adaptation...
0:21:50 > 0:21:53Mel Brooks. It's Mel Brooks.
0:21:53 > 0:21:54It's absolutely Mel Brooks.
0:21:54 > 0:21:55Mel Brooks.
0:21:55 > 0:21:56It is. And finally...
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Is that Laurence Olivier?
0:22:02 > 0:22:04It does look like him.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05I'm going to go for it.
0:22:05 > 0:22:06Laurence Olivier.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Yes.
0:22:08 > 0:22:09APPLAUSE
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Fingers on buzzers. Here's another starter.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14King Stephen, The Ruins Of Athens, Coriolan
0:22:14 > 0:22:18and Egmont are among the overtures of which composer born in...
0:22:18 > 0:22:20BUZZER
0:22:20 > 0:22:21Beethoven.
0:22:21 > 0:22:22Correct.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24APPLAUSE
0:22:24 > 0:22:27These bonuses are on orbits.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30An orbital solution of the two body problem in Newtonian gravity
0:22:30 > 0:22:33and approximated by the paths of long-period comets
0:22:33 > 0:22:36in the solar system, what class of orbit results when
0:22:36 > 0:22:39an object's kinetic energy plus its potential energy is equal to 0?
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Stable?
0:22:44 > 0:22:45Stable?
0:22:45 > 0:22:47No, it's parabolic. What class of orbit results
0:22:47 > 0:22:52when an object's kinetic energy is -1/2 of its potential energy?
0:22:52 > 0:22:53Hyperbolic?
0:22:56 > 0:22:57Hyperbolic?
0:22:57 > 0:22:58No, it's circular.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01And finally, what type of orbit has positive kinetic plus
0:23:01 > 0:23:02potential energy?
0:23:02 > 0:23:04Elliptical, maybe.
0:23:04 > 0:23:05Elliptical?
0:23:05 > 0:23:08No, that was hyperbolic. 10 points for this.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12Excluding the sex chromosomes, how many matched pairs of chromosomes
0:23:12 > 0:23:15are there in a normal human somatic cell?
0:23:15 > 0:23:16BUZZER
0:23:16 > 0:23:1722.
0:23:17 > 0:23:18Correct, yes.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21APPLAUSE
0:23:21 > 0:23:24These bonuses are on a royal appointment, Manchester.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26During the reign of Charles I, Nicolas Lanier became
0:23:26 > 0:23:29the first person appointed to which largely ceremonial position
0:23:29 > 0:23:32responsible for composing and performing music
0:23:32 > 0:23:33for state occasions?
0:23:33 > 0:23:35THEY CONFER
0:23:37 > 0:23:38Master Of The King's Music.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Correct. Who was appointed Master Of The King's Music in 1942?
0:23:41 > 0:23:44His works include the tone poem Tintagel
0:23:44 > 0:23:47and the score for the 1948 film Oliver Twist?
0:23:49 > 0:23:50THEY CONFER
0:23:55 > 0:23:56Walton.
0:23:56 > 0:23:57No, it's Sir Arnold Bax.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00And finally, the opera The Lighthouse is a work
0:24:00 > 0:24:03by which composer, appointed Master Of The Queen's Music in 2004?
0:24:03 > 0:24:06That's Peter Maxwell Davies.
0:24:06 > 0:24:07Peter Maxwell Davies.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Correct. Three-and-a-half minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11"One day, sir, you may tax it,"
0:24:11 > 0:24:14was reportedly the response of Michael Faraday when...
0:24:14 > 0:24:15BUZZER
0:24:15 > 0:24:16Electricity.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Electricity is correct.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19APPLAUSE
0:24:19 > 0:24:22Bonuses this time are on exclamation marks, Manchester.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25The name of which village on the Bideford Bay is taken from the title
0:24:25 > 0:24:26of the novel by Charles Kingsley
0:24:26 > 0:24:28and is unusual among British place names
0:24:28 > 0:24:30in that it contains an exclamation mark?
0:24:30 > 0:24:33THEY CONFER
0:24:33 > 0:24:34Westward Ho!
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Correct. Released in 1968, what was the first film
0:24:37 > 0:24:39with an exclamation mark in the title
0:24:39 > 0:24:41to win an Oscar for best picture?
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Could it be Hello, Dolly?
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Would '68 be a bit late for that?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52But I'm going to go for it.
0:24:52 > 0:24:53Hello, Dolly!?
0:24:53 > 0:24:54Hello, Dolly!
0:24:54 > 0:24:56No, it's Oliver!
0:24:56 > 0:24:58In 1965, tow UK number one songs
0:24:58 > 0:25:01had exclamation marks in their titles.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04Go now! by The Moody Blues was one. What was the other?
0:25:04 > 0:25:07I want the name of the song and band.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10THEY CONFER
0:25:10 > 0:25:11Help! by the Beatles.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Correct. 10 points for this.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16In addition to the title character, Tennyson's 1842 poem
0:25:16 > 0:25:19The Lady Of Shalott mentions one other person by name.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21BUZZER
0:25:21 > 0:25:22Sir Lancelot.
0:25:22 > 0:25:23Correct.
0:25:23 > 0:25:24APPLAUSE
0:25:24 > 0:25:26These bonuses are on English monarchs.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29What relation was King Stephen to Henry I?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32THEY CONFER
0:25:32 > 0:25:33Cousin?
0:25:33 > 0:25:34Cousin.
0:25:34 > 0:25:39No, he was nephew. James I and VI bore what relation to Henry VII?
0:25:41 > 0:25:43THEY CONFER
0:25:44 > 0:25:46Great-grandson?
0:25:46 > 0:25:47No, great-great-grandson.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51And finally, what relation was Edward I to Henry III?
0:25:52 > 0:25:54THEY CONFER
0:25:55 > 0:25:56Come on.
0:25:56 > 0:25:57Son.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59He was his son. 10 points for this.
0:25:59 > 0:26:03Terms meaning a very small amount of money, an alarmist person,
0:26:03 > 0:26:06a light wire mesh and a cowardly disposition
0:26:06 > 0:26:07are linked by which bird?
0:26:07 > 0:26:08BUZZER
0:26:08 > 0:26:09Chicken.
0:26:09 > 0:26:10Correct, yes.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12APPLAUSE
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Bonuses, this time, on the states of India.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17In which popular state is the city of Varanasi,
0:26:17 > 0:26:20one of the seven sacred cities of Hinduism?
0:26:20 > 0:26:23THEY CONFER
0:26:23 > 0:26:24Let's have it, please.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26- Nominate Barr.- Uttar Pradesh.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28Correct. Bordering Uttar Pradesh to the east,
0:26:28 > 0:26:30in which state is the city of Gaya,
0:26:30 > 0:26:34near which Shakyamuni Buddha attained enlightenment?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Let's have it, please.
0:26:40 > 0:26:41Punjab.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43No, it's Bihar. The Golden Temple Of Amritsar,
0:26:43 > 0:26:47the most important place of Sikh pilgrimage is in which state?
0:26:47 > 0:26:48Punjab.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50That is in Punjab, yes. 10 points for this.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53The open-air collection of sculptures called the Vigeland Park
0:26:53 > 0:26:55the Kon-Tiki Museum and the Munch Museum
0:26:55 > 0:26:57are in which European capital?
0:26:57 > 0:26:58BUZZER
0:26:58 > 0:26:59Oslo.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03Oslo is right. Your bonuses, this time, are on novels whose titles
0:27:03 > 0:27:05are based on phrases from the plays of Shakespeare.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07In each case, name the author of the book
0:27:07 > 0:27:09and the play from which the title comes.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Firstly, the 1929 novel The Sound And The Fury.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18William Faulkner.
0:27:18 > 0:27:19Hamlet.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21Faulkner and Hamlet.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23No, it's William Faulkner and Macbeth.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Secondly, 1962 novel Pale Fire.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29THEY CONFER
0:27:29 > 0:27:30Let's have it, please.
0:27:30 > 0:27:31We don't know.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Vladimir Nabokov and Timon Of Athens.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36And finally, the 1932 novel Brave New World.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38Huxley, and it's from the Tempest.
0:27:38 > 0:27:39Huxley and the Tempest.
0:27:39 > 0:27:40Correct. 10 points for this.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42GONG
0:27:42 > 0:27:43CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:27:43 > 0:27:45At the Gong, Magdalen College Oxford have 90,
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Manchester University have 220.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Well, we're going to have to say
0:27:54 > 0:27:55goodbye to you, Magdalen.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58It's not really a fair representation of the contest,
0:27:58 > 0:27:59I think, that margin of difference.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01But we'll have to say goodbye to you, I'm afraid.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Congratulations, Manchester, it's a great score.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07We look forward to seeing you in the quarter-finals. Congratulations.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10I hope you can join us next time for another second-round match,
0:28:10 > 0:28:11but until then it's goodbye
0:28:11 > 0:28:13- from Magdalen College Oxford...- Bye.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15- ..it's goodbye from Manchester University...- Goodbye.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20APPLAUSE
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