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 > 0:00:29Hello. It's the penultimate match
0:00:29 > 0:00:31in the second round of this contest tonight,
0:00:31 > 0:00:34with a place in the quarterfinals for the winners.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36The team now from University College London
0:00:36 > 0:00:38started their first round match
0:00:38 > 0:00:40with a score in the minuses,
0:00:40 > 0:00:41and then trailed for a few minutes,
0:00:41 > 0:00:44before they remembered why they were there.
0:00:44 > 0:00:45But once they'd done that,
0:00:45 > 0:00:47they dominated the rest of the contest,
0:00:47 > 0:00:49and at the gong, had 260 points,
0:00:49 > 0:00:51the highest score in the entire first round
0:00:51 > 0:00:53against a team from Exeter University,
0:00:53 > 0:00:57whose almost Trappist reticence left them with a paltry 85.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01With an average age of 25, let's meet the UCL team again.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Hello, again. I'm Adam Papaphilippopoulos.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08I'm from London, and I'm reading for an MA in Philosophy.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09Hi, I'm Tom Tyszczuk Smith.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11I'm from Cambridge, and I'm studying Medicine.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13- This is their captain. - Hi, I'm Simon Dennis.
0:01:13 > 0:01:14I'm also from London,
0:01:14 > 0:01:17and I'm studying the History And Philosophy Of Science.
0:01:17 > 0:01:18Hi, I'm Tom Parton.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20I'm originally from Penkridge in Staffordshire,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22and I'm studying Natural Sciences.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26APPLAUSE
0:01:26 > 0:01:28The team from Jesus College, Oxford,
0:01:28 > 0:01:31had a similar experience in their first-round match,
0:01:31 > 0:01:34when a little confusion over Sherlock Holmes
0:01:34 > 0:01:36put them in the minuses, but they, too, quickly rallied
0:01:36 > 0:01:39and prevented their opponents, Queen Mary, London,
0:01:39 > 0:01:41from having much of a look-in for the rest of the match.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45By the gong, they were ahead by 150 points to 120.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48With an average age of 20, let's meet them again.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Hi, I'm Matt Hitchings from London,
0:01:50 > 0:01:54and I'm reading for a Masters in Mathematical Modelling.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57Hi, I'm Frankie Goodway, also from London, and I'm reading English.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59And this is their captain.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01Hello, I'm Guy Brindley from Worcestershire,
0:02:01 > 0:02:02and I'm reading Classics.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Hi, I'm Johnny Woodward, and from Manchester,
0:02:04 > 0:02:06and I'm studying Engineering.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10APPLAUSE
0:02:10 > 0:02:14OK, the rules are the same as ever, so fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Often featuring in photographic illusions
0:02:19 > 0:02:21caused by forced perspective,
0:02:21 > 0:02:23which structure was begun in 1173
0:02:23 > 0:02:27as the third and final structure of its city's cathedral complex?
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Designed to be 56m high, improvements to the foundations
0:02:30 > 0:02:34since 1990 have diminished its distinctive aberration.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36BUZZER
0:02:36 > 0:02:38- The Leaning Tower Of Pisa.- Correct.
0:02:38 > 0:02:39APPLAUSE
0:02:39 > 0:02:43The first set of bonuses are on US history, Jesus College.
0:02:43 > 0:02:44From 1804-06, which two men
0:02:44 > 0:02:48led a journey of exploration across the American continent,
0:02:48 > 0:02:52helping to establish the US claim to the Louisiana Purchase?
0:03:01 > 0:03:04- Clark and Johnson. - No, it was Lewis and Clark.
0:03:04 > 0:03:08Secondly, first appearing in print in 1845,
0:03:08 > 0:03:11what two-word phrase invoked the idea of divine sanction
0:03:11 > 0:03:14for the territorial expansion of the United States?
0:03:16 > 0:03:18- Manifest destiny.- Correct.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20President James Knox Polk oversaw a great expansion
0:03:20 > 0:03:23of the territory of the United States,
0:03:23 > 0:03:27partly as a result of the war of which country from 1846-48?
0:03:27 > 0:03:29- Mexico.- Correct.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Another starter question now. Listen carefully.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35Which three successive letters of the alphabet follow the letter O
0:03:35 > 0:03:38in forming the ancient name of the Amu Darya River,
0:03:38 > 0:03:42bivalve molluscs, devoured by The Walrus And The Carpenter,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45and a toxic gas formed from oxygen by electrical discharges.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47BUZZER
0:03:47 > 0:03:49- X, Y and Z.- Correct.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52APPLAUSE
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Oxus, oysters and ozone.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57And your bonuses this time are on classical music, Jesus College.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01Meaning "sung" in Italian, what term describes a musical composition
0:04:01 > 0:04:03often using a sacred text,
0:04:03 > 0:04:06comprising recitatives, arias, and choruses?
0:04:11 > 0:04:13- Canto?- It's cantata.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Which scenic cantata was based on texts from the Middle Ages
0:04:16 > 0:04:19that were rediscovered in a Bavarian monastery in 1803?
0:04:19 > 0:04:23It opens with the movement, Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25- Carmina Burana?- Correct.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27With words by Walt Whitman,
0:04:27 > 0:04:30which English composer wrote the 1907 cantata,
0:04:30 > 0:04:31Toward The Unknown Region?
0:04:31 > 0:04:34His other cantatas including Willow-Wood.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39- Elgar.- No, it was Ralph Vaughan Williams.
0:04:39 > 0:04:40Ten points for this.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
0:04:42 > 0:04:45is a 2009 biography of which English scientist,
0:04:45 > 0:04:48who applied Einstein's theory of relativity
0:04:48 > 0:04:49to quantum mechanics...?
0:04:49 > 0:04:50BELL
0:04:50 > 0:04:53- Paul Dirac.- Paul Dirac is correct.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55APPLAUSE
0:04:55 > 0:04:56So you're off the mark,
0:04:56 > 0:04:58and your first bonuses are on physics,
0:04:58 > 0:05:00University College London.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Firstly, what adjective describes the optical property
0:05:03 > 0:05:05of a substance such as tourmaline,
0:05:05 > 0:05:07which polarises light waves
0:05:07 > 0:05:10by absorbing one component of the wave's electric field?
0:05:17 > 0:05:19- Translucent.- No, it's dichroic.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22What two-word term describes a substance such as quartz,
0:05:22 > 0:05:24that can rotate the plane of polarisation
0:05:24 > 0:05:26of light passing through it?
0:05:32 > 0:05:35- Optically polarising. - No, it's optically active.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37And finally, what precise term
0:05:37 > 0:05:39describes a substance such as calcite,
0:05:39 > 0:05:43that has different refractive indices in different directions,
0:05:43 > 0:05:45and which can therefore produce a double image?
0:05:50 > 0:05:52- Dispersive.- No, it's birefringent.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Right, ten points for this.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Sometimes confused with an expression of surprise or horror,
0:05:57 > 0:06:00for example, on finding a cockroach and a bag of crisps,
0:06:00 > 0:06:02which three-letter palindrome
0:06:02 > 0:06:05means to make something last longer by supplementing it...?
0:06:05 > 0:06:07BUZZER
0:06:07 > 0:06:09- Eek.- Eek is correct, yes.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11APPLAUSE
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Right, these bonuses are on internet deception, Jesus College.
0:06:16 > 0:06:17After a type of toy,
0:06:17 > 0:06:20what name is given to internet users who, for deceptive purposes,
0:06:20 > 0:06:23log on to a messageboard or other web community
0:06:23 > 0:06:24under an assumed name?
0:06:25 > 0:06:29- Troll.- No, it's a sock puppet, or sock puppetry.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Widely reproduced since its 1993 publication in the New Yorker,
0:06:32 > 0:06:35a cartoon by Peter Steiner states that,
0:06:35 > 0:06:38"On the internet, no-one knows that you're..." What?
0:06:45 > 0:06:46In your underpants.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48LAUGHTER
0:06:48 > 0:06:51I don't want to think about that! No, it's a dog.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55It's a dog at a keyboard, you see, and he's on the internet.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57- That's the joke. - LAUGHTER
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Five points for this.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01Author of A People's Tragedy: A History Of The Russian Revolution,
0:07:01 > 0:07:03which historian admitted posting
0:07:03 > 0:07:05anonymously written derogatory reviews
0:07:05 > 0:07:08of his rivals' books on Amazon in April 2010?
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Orlando Figes, however you pronounce it.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13You've got the right person. Orlando Figes.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:15 > 0:07:16For your picture starter,
0:07:16 > 0:07:19you're going to see a flag of a non-sovereign territory.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Ten points if you can identify the territory.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24BUZZER
0:07:24 > 0:07:26- No, sorry. - Anyone like to buzz from UCL?
0:07:26 > 0:07:28BELL
0:07:28 > 0:07:30- Greenland.- It is Greenland, yes.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33APPLAUSE
0:07:34 > 0:07:36That's a non-sovereign territory,
0:07:36 > 0:07:39under the administration of Denmark as you know, of course.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41So your picture bonuses are three more flags
0:07:41 > 0:07:44of non-sovereign territories, all of them also islands.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47In each case, I want the name of the territory
0:07:47 > 0:07:49AND the administering country. Firstly...
0:07:55 > 0:07:57THEY MUMBLE
0:08:00 > 0:08:02The Galapagos Islands and Ecuador.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05No, it's New Caledonia, which is administered by France. Secondly...
0:08:10 > 0:08:13THEY MUMBLE
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Guadalupe and France.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27No, that's Christmas Island which is administered by Australia.
0:08:27 > 0:08:28And finally...
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Cook Islands and New Zealand.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42No, that's Guam, administered by the United States.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Right, another starter question now.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Sao Vicente, Boa Vista and Santiago
0:08:47 > 0:08:49are among the islands of which republic?
0:08:49 > 0:08:52It gains its independence from Portugal in 1975,
0:08:52 > 0:08:54has a population of around half a million,
0:08:54 > 0:08:58and is situated 600km from the coast of West Africa.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00BELL
0:09:00 > 0:09:01- Cape Verde Islands.- Correct.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05APPLAUSE
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Right, these bonuses are on a poet, UCL.
0:09:07 > 0:09:12When in 1601, his secret marriage to Anne More became known,
0:09:12 > 0:09:14which poet and clergyman was briefly imprisoned
0:09:14 > 0:09:16and dismissed from his role
0:09:16 > 0:09:19as secretary to the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal?
0:09:29 > 0:09:32- Milton.- No, it was John Donne.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Which insect is the title of a poem by Donne,
0:09:34 > 0:09:37in which the speaker tries to convince his lover
0:09:37 > 0:09:39that by crushing the insect, she commits,
0:09:39 > 0:09:41"three sins in killing three?"
0:09:41 > 0:09:43- The Flea.- Correct.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46Which five words from a meditation by Donne
0:09:46 > 0:09:49did Ernest Hemingway take as the title
0:09:49 > 0:09:51of a 1940 novel set in Spain?
0:09:51 > 0:09:53- For Whom The Bell Tolls.- Indeed.
0:09:53 > 0:09:54Ten points for this starter.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Its results variously described by his detractors as,
0:09:57 > 0:10:00"flabby, squishy, pappy and tasteless,"
0:10:00 > 0:10:02the Chorleywood process...
0:10:02 > 0:10:03BELL
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Bread.
0:10:05 > 0:10:06Bread is correct, yes.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08APPLAUSE
0:10:09 > 0:10:12These bonuses, University College London,
0:10:12 > 0:10:13are on a historical event.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16"We are doing all this alone, except for France,
0:10:16 > 0:10:19"opposed by the world, in defiance of the world."
0:10:19 > 0:10:21These words of the Labour leader, Hugh Gaitskell
0:10:21 > 0:10:23refer to which event of 1956?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28- The Suez Crisis.- Correct.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30The name of which French entrepreneur,
0:10:30 > 0:10:31a chief instigator of the Suez Canal,
0:10:31 > 0:10:35was used as a code word by the Egyptian Premier, Nasser,
0:10:35 > 0:10:36in the speech that gave orders
0:10:36 > 0:10:39for Egyptian forces to take control of the Canal zone?
0:10:45 > 0:10:47- Nominate Parton.- Lesseps.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49De Lesseps is correct, yes.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52Later Chancellor of the Exchequer under Harold Macmillan,
0:10:52 > 0:10:55who was Foreign Secretary at the time of the Suez Crisis?
0:11:05 > 0:11:07- No, pass.- It was Selwyn Lloyd.
0:11:07 > 0:11:08Ten points for this.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Born near Nantes in 1079,
0:11:10 > 0:11:11which philosopher provided
0:11:11 > 0:11:14the initial programme for the scholastic method...
0:11:14 > 0:11:17BELL Thomas Aquinas.
0:11:17 > 0:11:18I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22..for the scholastic method in his work, Sic Et Non,
0:11:22 > 0:11:23and is also remembered
0:11:23 > 0:11:25for an ill-fated romance with his student, Eloise?
0:11:25 > 0:11:27BUZZER
0:11:27 > 0:11:28- Abelard.- Abelard is correct.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32- Peter Abelard, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:11:32 > 0:11:35So you get another set of bonuses, Jesus College, on comets.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Which year saw the first sighting of The Great Comet,
0:11:38 > 0:11:39believed by some to have been
0:11:39 > 0:11:42a portent of Napoleon's invasion of Moscow?
0:11:44 > 0:11:46- 1812.- No, it was 1811.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Which Italian astronomer gives his name
0:11:48 > 0:11:51to the comet he first observed on June the 2nd, 1858,
0:11:51 > 0:11:53the first to be photographed
0:11:53 > 0:11:55and the most brilliant since that of 1811?
0:12:01 > 0:12:02- Pass, I'm afraid.- It was Donati.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05And finally, around 1,000 times brighter
0:12:05 > 0:12:07than Halley's Comet at the same distance,
0:12:07 > 0:12:10what is the most distant comet ever discovered by amateurs?
0:12:10 > 0:12:14It was clearly visible in the night sky in 1996 and 1997.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19- I'm afraid we don't know, sorry. - That was Hale-Bopp.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Another starter question now.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23"In the darkening twilight, I saw a lone star,
0:12:23 > 0:12:25"hovered gem-like above the bay."
0:12:25 > 0:12:29This was the last diary entry of which explorer
0:12:29 > 0:12:33written on January 5th, 1922 at Grytviken...?
0:12:33 > 0:12:35BUZZER
0:12:35 > 0:12:37- Ernest Shackleton.- Yes.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39APPLAUSE
0:12:41 > 0:12:44These bonuses, Jesus College, are on the films of Stanley Kubrick.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47The 1957 film, Paths Of Glory,
0:12:47 > 0:12:49was based on a novel by Humphrey Cobb,
0:12:49 > 0:12:54which took its title from an elegy of 1751 by which English poet?
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Gray. It is.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Which film of 1975 by Stanley Kubrick
0:13:00 > 0:13:01is based on the novel by Thackeray,
0:13:01 > 0:13:06about the life and exploits of an 18th-century Irish adventurer?
0:13:08 > 0:13:10- Barry Lyndon.- Correct.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14Born in 1862, the Austrian author, Arthur Schnitzler's short story,
0:13:14 > 0:13:17Traumnovelle, or Dream Story, was the basis for which film,
0:13:17 > 0:13:19the last Kubrick completed before his death?
0:13:22 > 0:13:24- Eyes Wide Shut.- That's correct.
0:13:24 > 0:13:25We're going to take a music round,
0:13:25 > 0:13:27it being about halfway through the contest.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33Ten points if you can name the singer.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35# Would you know my name... #
0:13:35 > 0:13:37BELL Eric Clapton.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39It is Eric Clapton.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41APPLAUSE
0:13:41 > 0:13:45It was a song by him about the death of his four-year-old son,
0:13:45 > 0:13:46Tears In Heaven.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49It was an entry in a poll for the world's saddest music
0:13:49 > 0:13:52on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54For your bonuses, you're going to hear
0:13:54 > 0:13:55three more pieces of music
0:13:55 > 0:13:57which made it into that unhappy top five.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59First, I want the German composer of this piece.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:21 > 0:14:22Mendelssohn.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25No, that's by Richard Strauss. It's his Metamorphosen.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28And secondly, this American artist singing.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32# Gloomy is Sunday
0:14:32 > 0:14:35# With shadows I spend it all... #
0:14:35 > 0:14:37- Billie Holiday.- It is indeed.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39The Hungarian Suicide Song.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42And finally, the Austrian composer of this piece.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:14:45 > 0:14:49- Mahler.- It is Mahler, yes. Well done. Right, ten points for this.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51In cytogenics, what term describes
0:14:51 > 0:14:53the entire chromosomal complement of a cell
0:14:53 > 0:14:56which may be observed during mitotic metaphase?
0:14:59 > 0:15:01- Karyotype?- Correct!
0:15:01 > 0:15:03APPLAUSE
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Get these bonuses, you'll take the lead. They're on desert vegetation.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09The name of what wood preservative
0:15:09 > 0:15:12is also part of the common name of Larrea tridentata,
0:15:12 > 0:15:14a shrub of the US south-west,
0:15:14 > 0:15:17because of the acrid smell it gives off after rain?
0:15:23 > 0:15:24- Creosote?- Correct.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27What is the common name of Artemisia tridentata,
0:15:27 > 0:15:30an aromatic shrub found throughout the US south-west?
0:15:37 > 0:15:40- Wintergreen?- No, it's sagebrush.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41What common two-word name
0:15:41 > 0:15:45is given to various tropical cacti of the genus Opuntia,
0:15:45 > 0:15:47which grow in clumps of spiny paddles?
0:15:50 > 0:15:52- Prickly pear?- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Another starter question now.
0:15:54 > 0:15:55What two-word term
0:15:55 > 0:15:58describes the petition passed by Parliament in November 1641
0:15:58 > 0:16:02that listed the alleged misdeeds of the reign of Charles I?
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Grand Remonstrance?
0:16:04 > 0:16:06- Yes! - APPLAUSE
0:16:09 > 0:16:12These bonuses will give you back the lead if you get them.
0:16:12 > 0:16:13Firstly, what ratio is measured
0:16:13 > 0:16:18by centrifuging blood in a graduated capillary known as a haematocrit?
0:16:24 > 0:16:26Volume of red blood cells?
0:16:26 > 0:16:29- To...?- Percentage of volume of blood.- That's correct.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Which cells are used to classify blood groups
0:16:31 > 0:16:35by the presence or absence of particular surface antigens?
0:16:40 > 0:16:44- White blood cells?- No, they're erythrocytes. Red blood cells.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46In the ABO blood group system,
0:16:46 > 0:16:49what is the blood group of a universal recipient?
0:16:57 > 0:16:58AB positive?
0:16:58 > 0:17:00- Correct! - APPLAUSE
0:17:00 > 0:17:01Ten points for this.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04The name of which symbol of the French Republic is an anagram
0:17:04 > 0:17:09for an inhabitant of the west Asian country whose capital is Yerevan?
0:17:11 > 0:17:12- Marianne.- Marianne is correct, yes.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14APPLAUSE
0:17:14 > 0:17:17Anagram of "Armenian".
0:17:17 > 0:17:20Right, these bonuses, which could give you the lead, if you take them,
0:17:20 > 0:17:22they're on Scottish traditions.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Up Helly Aa is the annual Viking fire festival
0:17:24 > 0:17:27that takes place in the Shetland capital, Lerwick,
0:17:27 > 0:17:29on the last Tuesday of which month?
0:17:35 > 0:17:37- February.- No, it's January.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Recalling the lawlessness of local life in earlier times,
0:17:39 > 0:17:42which summer tradition takes the form of mass rides on horseback
0:17:42 > 0:17:45in several towns in the Scottish Borders?
0:17:48 > 0:17:51- No, pass.- They're Common Ridings.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54And finally, held every August, the Cowal gathering at Dunoon
0:17:54 > 0:17:57is one of the largest events of what type in Scotland?
0:18:05 > 0:18:06- Highland games?- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Gives you the lead. Ten points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:18:09 > 0:18:14Two of the seven SI base units are named after scientists.
0:18:16 > 0:18:17Kevin and newton?
0:18:17 > 0:18:21Nope. You can hear the rest of it, too. ..named after scientists.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23For ten points, name both, Jesus College.
0:18:28 > 0:18:29Newton and pascal?
0:18:29 > 0:18:32No, it's kelvin and ampere, or amp.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Right, level pegging again. Ten points for this.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37Who comes next in this list of German chancellors,
0:18:37 > 0:18:39given in reverse chronological order?
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Angela Merkel, Gerhard Schroeder and...?
0:18:44 > 0:18:47- Helmut Kohl.- Correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Bonuses on literature this time, UCL.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53His name an anagram of that of the author,
0:18:53 > 0:18:58Vivian Darkbloom is a minor character in a novel of 1955
0:18:58 > 0:19:00by which Russian-born novelist?
0:19:02 > 0:19:04- Nabokov.- Correct.
0:19:04 > 0:19:08The six-letter name of a legendary French chivalric figure
0:19:08 > 0:19:12is an anagram of the surname of the English poet who wrote Rose Aylmer.
0:19:12 > 0:19:13Give both names.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Roland and Orland.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27No, it's Roland and Landor, Walter Savage Landor.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30And finally, Martianism is a term
0:19:30 > 0:19:33applied to a movement in British poetry in the 1970s and '80s.
0:19:33 > 0:19:38The term's also an anagram of the name of which of its practitioners?
0:19:45 > 0:19:47- Martin Amis?- Correct, yes!
0:19:47 > 0:19:50- APPLAUSE - Second picture round now.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52For your starter, you'll see a photograph
0:19:52 > 0:19:54of a species whose habitat and therefore survival
0:19:54 > 0:19:57is threatened in the UK. Ten points if you can name the species.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03- Natterjack toad.- It is a natterjack road, yes.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05APPLAUSE
0:20:07 > 0:20:10Your picture bonuses are three more photographs of species
0:20:10 > 0:20:14which are the subject of UK Biodiversity Action Plans,
0:20:14 > 0:20:17the same conservation concerns, therefore, in each case.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19Five points for each species you can identify.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23Firstly, the two-word common name of this insect.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29- Stag beetle.- Correct.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31The two-word name of this bird?
0:20:44 > 0:20:45- Turtle dove?- Correct.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48And finally, the name of this mammal?
0:20:59 > 0:21:02- Dormouse?- Dormouse is correct. Hazel dormouse, yes.
0:21:02 > 0:21:03APPLAUSE
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Right, another starter question.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09The Neolithic settlement of Choirokoitia
0:21:09 > 0:21:11and the necropolis known as the Tombs Of The Kings
0:21:11 > 0:21:14are among the archaeological sites on which Mediterranean island,
0:21:14 > 0:21:17a major source of copper in Roman times?
0:21:18 > 0:21:21- Crete.- No. One of you buzz.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23- Cyprus.- Cyprus is right. Of course, yes.
0:21:23 > 0:21:24APPLAUSE
0:21:26 > 0:21:31Your bonuses are on scientific terms beginning with the prefix syn-.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37Firstly, in geology, a trough or fold of stratified rock
0:21:37 > 0:21:40in which the strata slope upwards from the axis.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51- Let's have it, please.- Er... We don't know, I'm afraid.
0:21:51 > 0:21:52It's a syncline.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55In automotive engineering, a system of gear changing
0:21:55 > 0:21:58in which the driving and driven gear wheels
0:21:58 > 0:22:00revolve at the same speed during engagement
0:22:00 > 0:22:02by means of friction clutches.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05- Synchromesh?- Correct.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08In anatomy, a junction between two nerve cells
0:22:08 > 0:22:12in the form of a minute gap across which impulses can pass.
0:22:12 > 0:22:13- Synapse.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Ten points for this starter question.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Footnotes in Gaza is a 2009 graphic novel
0:22:17 > 0:22:21by which Maltese-born American cartoonist and reporter?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23- Joe Sacco.- Joe Sacco is correct.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25APPLAUSE
0:22:25 > 0:22:28These bonuses are on geography, University College London.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30In each case, name the peninsula
0:22:30 > 0:22:32whose bounds include the following bodies of water.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36First, for five points, the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42The Indo-Chinese?
0:22:42 > 0:22:44No, it's the Malay or Thai-Malay.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Secondly, the Bay of Campeche and the Gulf of Honduras.
0:22:50 > 0:22:51- The Yucatan.- Correct.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Finally, the Gulf of Suez, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58- Arabian Peninsula.- Sinai. Ten points for this.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01In geological time, what is the third and most recent epoch
0:23:01 > 0:23:03of the Palaeogene period,
0:23:03 > 0:23:06following the Eocene and preceding the Miocene?
0:23:08 > 0:23:11- Oligocene.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Your bonuses this time are on winners of the Man Booker Prize.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17In each case, name the country of birth
0:23:17 > 0:23:19that links the authors of the following novels.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Firstly, Vernon God Little, Schindler's Ark
0:23:21 > 0:23:23and Oscar and Lucinda.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30- The United States? - No, it's Australia.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34Secondly, The Sea, The Gathering and The Sea, The Sea.
0:23:40 > 0:23:41- The UK.- No, it's Ireland.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45And finally, The Inheritance Of Loss, The God Of Small Things
0:23:45 > 0:23:46and The White Tiger.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48- India.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Which element has a name deriving from the Greek meaning "artificial"
0:23:51 > 0:23:54because it was the first to be prepared synthetically?
0:23:54 > 0:23:58- Technetium.- Technetium is right. - APPLAUSE
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Your bonuses, UCL, are on US universities.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04In each case, I want the city and state
0:24:04 > 0:24:05in which the following are based.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09Firstly, Johns Hopkins University, founded 1876.
0:24:09 > 0:24:10- Baltimore, Maryland.- Correct.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Duke University, founded 1838.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Let's have it, please.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26- Come on!- Charlotte...
0:24:26 > 0:24:28No, it's Durham, North Carolina.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32And finally, Brown University, founded 1764.
0:24:32 > 0:24:33- Providence, Rhode Island.- Correct.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35- Ten points for this. - APPLAUSE
0:24:35 > 0:24:39Which sport is the subject of the books Paper Lion by George Plimpton,
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Friday Night Lights by HG Bissinger...
0:24:42 > 0:24:44- American football.- Correct.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47You get a set of bonuses this time on a physicist.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49Five points for this. In reference to the fact
0:24:49 > 0:24:51that it can be characterised by only three parameters,
0:24:51 > 0:24:53namely mass, spin and charge,
0:24:53 > 0:24:57what, according to the US physicist John Archibald Wheeler, has no hair?
0:25:03 > 0:25:05- Come on!- An electron?
0:25:05 > 0:25:06No, it's a black hole.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09In addition to popularising the expression "black hole",
0:25:09 > 0:25:10what term did Wheeler coin
0:25:10 > 0:25:13for a hypothetical topological structure in space
0:25:13 > 0:25:16first proposed by Hermann Weyl in 1924?
0:25:20 > 0:25:22- A singularity?- No, it's a wormhole.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26Wheeler co-authored the 1939 paper The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission
0:25:26 > 0:25:28with which European physicist?
0:25:31 > 0:25:32Come on.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37- Bohr.- It was. Two-and-a-half minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39Which London landmark appears in the title of the sonnet
0:25:39 > 0:25:43that begins "Earth hath not anything to show..."
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- Westminster Bridge. - Lines Composed Upon... Yes.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48APPLAUSE
0:25:48 > 0:25:49Your bonuses are on EU member states.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52In each case, give the English name for the following.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56What EU member state is known as Paises Bajos in Spanish?
0:25:57 > 0:25:58- The Netherlands.- Correct.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01What country is referred to as Lettonie in French?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06- Estonia.- No, it's Latvia. And finally,
0:26:06 > 0:26:12the name of which EU member state is in German Vereinigtes Koenigreich?
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Come on, let's have it.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23- The UK.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29If Cuba is copper and Canada is calcium, what is Australia?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32- Gold.- Gold is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:26:32 > 0:26:36It's internet addresses and chemical symbols.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Your bonuses now are on flame tests in chemistry.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40In each case, tell me what colour's expected
0:26:40 > 0:26:42in the presence of the following elements.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43Firstly, for five points, copper.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47- Green.- Blue-green or green is correct.
0:26:47 > 0:26:48Second, calcium.
0:26:52 > 0:26:53Come on!
0:26:54 > 0:26:57- Yellow.- No, it's red. Brick red.
0:26:57 > 0:26:58Finally, sodium.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06- Orange.- Yes, yellow. Orange or yellow, yes.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08- APPLAUSE - Ten points for this.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Which modern four-string orchestral instrument
0:27:10 > 0:27:14is, unlike other members of that family, normally tuned in fourths?
0:27:16 > 0:27:19- The double bass?- It is, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:27:20 > 0:27:23These bonuses are on Irish literature, UCL.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26The Cattle Raid of Cooley and Bricriu's Feast
0:27:26 > 0:27:30are found in which cycle of stories, sometimes called The Ulaid,
0:27:30 > 0:27:33about the heroic age of the people of north-eastern Ireland?
0:27:35 > 0:27:37- Come on.- No. No, pass.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39They're The Ulster Cycle.
0:27:39 > 0:27:40Born 1865, which Irish poet
0:27:40 > 0:27:43wrote the verse plays Deirdre and The Death of Cuchulain,
0:27:43 > 0:27:45both drawn from The Ulster Cycle?
0:27:48 > 0:27:49- Yeats? - GONG
0:27:49 > 0:27:52It was, yes. And at the gong, Jesus College, Oxford have 180,
0:27:52 > 0:27:54University College London have 215.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56APPLAUSE
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Well, it started better than it finished, really,
0:28:02 > 0:28:05for you guys at Jesus, didn't it? Thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08UCL, 215 is another terrific score from you.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11We shall look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinal stages.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14I hope you can join us next time for another second-round match,
0:28:14 > 0:28:15but until then, it's goodbye
0:28:15 > 0:28:17- from Jesus College, Oxford... - ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19..it's goodbye from University College London...
0:28:19 > 0:28:21- ALL: Goodbye. - ..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24APPLAUSE
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