0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. Out of the 28 teams who qualified for this contest,
0:00:31 > 0:00:3419 have already been consigned to oblivion.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Seven are through to the quarter-finals.
0:00:37 > 0:00:42They'll be joined by whichever team wins this, the last of the second round matches.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46Bangor University took an early lead in their first round match against St Andrews,
0:00:46 > 0:00:50then lost it, regained it and just held on to it until the gong,
0:00:50 > 0:00:53despite their opponents snapping at their heels.
0:00:53 > 0:00:59The team will doubtless know that no Welsh institution has yet taken the series title in this contest.
0:00:59 > 0:01:05A win tonight will get them closer to changing that shameful state of affairs. Let's meet them again.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07Hi, I'm Adam Pearce, from Barry
0:01:07 > 0:01:10and I'm studying for a PhD in Translation Studies.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14I'm Mark Stevens from Cheshire and I'm studying Environmental Science.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17- Their captain. - Hi, I'm Nina Grant from London
0:01:17 > 0:01:21and I'm studying for a degree in French and Linguistics.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Hi, I'm Simon Tomlinson, originally from Manchester,
0:01:24 > 0:01:28and I'm studying for a PhD in Neuropsychology.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30APPLAUSE
0:01:31 > 0:01:37The team from Durham University are representing an institution which has taken the title twice before.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41Their first round match this time was something of a breeze
0:01:41 > 0:01:46and they came away with the second highest of all the first round scores -
0:01:46 > 0:01:48245 against Strathclyde University
0:01:48 > 0:01:53over whose performance we'll draw a veil and merely say they scored a lot, lot less.
0:01:53 > 0:01:59Durham proved they are good at anagrams, they know about geology, compound words and Mandelbrot,
0:01:59 > 0:02:05but after a bonus set on cocktails, you maybe wouldn't want them to mix you a drink. Let's meet them again.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09Hi, I'm Philip Ferry from Ponteland in Northumberland, studying Maths.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13Hi, I'm Katie Vokes from Edinburgh and I'm also studying Maths.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17- Their captain.- I'm Richard Thomas from Hook in Hampshire
0:02:17 > 0:02:19and I'm studying Politics.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22Hi, I'm Dominic Everett Riley from Farnham in Surrey
0:02:22 > 0:02:24and I'm studying English.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26APPLAUSE
0:02:29 > 0:02:33You all know the rules, so fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:33 > 0:02:39In various spellings, what surname links the American imagist poet known as HD,
0:02:39 > 0:02:43a US airman who led a daring raid on Tokyo in 1942...
0:02:43 > 0:02:45- Doolittle.- Doolittle is correct, yes.
0:02:48 > 0:02:53First blood to you and first bonuses are on confectionery.
0:02:53 > 0:02:58Deriving its name from the Latin word for "nut", which confection is particularly associated
0:02:58 > 0:03:00with the French town of Montelimar?
0:03:00 > 0:03:03- Nougat.- Correct.
0:03:03 > 0:03:08Its ingredients including crushed almonds, a German variety of which confection is a speciality
0:03:08 > 0:03:11of the Hanseatic city of Lubeck?
0:03:11 > 0:03:13- Marzipan.- Correct.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Its recipe including both nougat and marzipan,
0:03:16 > 0:03:22the confectionery first created by Paul Furst in Salzburg in 1890 is named after which composer?
0:03:25 > 0:03:27WHISPERING
0:03:27 > 0:03:30- Austrian composer?- Mozart?- Strauss?
0:03:30 > 0:03:34- Strauss?- No, it's Mozart. Ten points for this.
0:03:34 > 0:03:40Which Christian revivalist movement originated in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century
0:03:40 > 0:03:46and is inspired by the experiences of the Apostles in the 50 days after the Resurrection of Christ?
0:03:48 > 0:03:50- Pentecostal Movement.- Correct.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57These bonuses, Bangor, are on the Peloponnese.
0:03:57 > 0:04:03Give either the name of the ancient city state in the Peloponnese or the adjective deriving from it
0:04:03 > 0:04:07which means "characterised by austerity or lack of comfort".
0:04:07 > 0:04:12- Spartan.- Correct. Give the name of the region of the Peloponnese or the adjective deriving from it
0:04:12 > 0:04:17which means "sententiously brief", supposedly a characteristic of its people?
0:04:17 > 0:04:23- Laconic.- Correct. Again give the name of the city in the Peloponnese or the adjective deriving from it
0:04:23 > 0:04:26which means "excessively elaborate"
0:04:26 > 0:04:32and links an order of classical architecture and a number of originally amateur sports teams.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34- Corinthian.- Correct.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Ten points for this.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40In zoology, what term denotes a common chamber
0:04:40 > 0:04:44into which intestinal, genital and urinary tracts open?
0:04:44 > 0:04:49The chamber is often seen in vertebrates such as reptiles and birds.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Its name is derived from the Latin for "sewer".
0:04:54 > 0:04:56- Cloaca.- Correct.
0:05:00 > 0:05:04Right, Bangor, these bonuses are on the anatomy of the eye.
0:05:04 > 0:05:11Name the white, fibrous outer layer of the eyeball which, at the front of the eye, becomes the cornea.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14WHISPERING
0:05:19 > 0:05:24- Sclera?- Correct. Which shallow depression in the retina contains a large number of cones
0:05:24 > 0:05:28and is therefore the area of greatest acuity of vision?
0:05:28 > 0:05:32- Nominate Tomlinson.- Fovea.- Correct.
0:05:32 > 0:05:37Which delicate mucous membrane covers the front of the eye and lines the inside of the eyelid?
0:05:37 > 0:05:40- The conjunctiva.- Correct.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45Time for you to get going, Durham. Ten points for this.
0:05:45 > 0:05:50An unusual combination in English, what two letters, both vowels,
0:05:50 > 0:05:54begin words meaning the principal Turkic people of western China,
0:05:54 > 0:05:56an Afrikaans word...
0:05:57 > 0:05:59- U-I.- U-I is correct, yes.
0:06:02 > 0:06:06OK, you're with us now. Your bonuses are on European history, Durham.
0:06:06 > 0:06:12Treaties signed in Munster and Osnabruck at the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648
0:06:12 > 0:06:16are given what collective name after a region of north Germany?
0:06:16 > 0:06:19- Peace of Westphalia.- The treaties reaffirmed that the ruler's faith
0:06:19 > 0:06:26became the official denomination of his state. What four-word Latin expression encapsulates this point?
0:06:28 > 0:06:31- Cuius regio eius religio.- Correct.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35Who was on the throne of France at the time of the Peace of Westphalia?
0:06:35 > 0:06:39- 1648, um...- That could be Louis XIV.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41- Louis XIV?- Correct.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46Picture round now. For your starter,
0:06:46 > 0:06:50you'll see a euro coin showing a landmark in a European capital city.
0:06:50 > 0:06:56Ten points if you can identify the city, any helpful wording having been removed.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02- Madrid.- It is Madrid.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05It's the Puerta de Alcala.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09That's one of a series of five euro coins showing major landmarks
0:07:09 > 0:07:12in each of the 50 provincial capitals of Spain.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16Your picture bonuses are three more coins in the series.
0:07:16 > 0:07:22I want you to identify the Spanish city that the coin represents. Any helpful wording has been removed.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26WHISPERING
0:07:28 > 0:07:30Is that Cordoba or Granada?
0:07:30 > 0:07:32- Granada.- Granada?
0:07:32 > 0:07:35- Just the city?- Yeah.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39- Granada?- No, that's Cordoba. That's the mosque there. Secondly?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Could be Valencia.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47WHISPERING
0:07:48 > 0:07:53- Anything?- There's one in Santander like that.- Go for Santander?
0:07:53 > 0:07:56- Santander?- No, that's Palma de Mallorca. And finally?
0:07:58 > 0:08:03- That's the Guggenheim. Bilbao? - Yeah...- Guggenheim?
0:08:03 > 0:08:07- Bilbao?- That is Bilbao. Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:08:07 > 0:08:12"The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible
0:08:12 > 0:08:15"from one class of citizens to give it to the other."
0:08:15 > 0:08:18This statement is from the Dictionnaire Philosophique,
0:08:18 > 0:08:21a work of 1764 by which Enlightenment figure?
0:08:22 > 0:08:25- Voltaire.- Voltaire is correct, yes.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33Your bonuses this time, Bangor, are on the Nobel Prize for Literature.
0:08:33 > 0:08:38The 1932 winner John Galsworthy was awarded the prize for which series of novels,
0:08:38 > 0:08:43described by the Academy as having taken his "distinguished art of narration" to its highest form?
0:08:43 > 0:08:49- The Forsyte Saga.- Correct. "This great novel...has won steadily increased recognition
0:08:49 > 0:08:52"as one of the classic works of contemporary literature."
0:08:52 > 0:08:58These words of the Academy refer to which novel by the 1929 laureate Thomas Mann?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Death In Venice.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03- Death In Venice? - No, it's Buddenbrooks.
0:09:03 > 0:09:09When Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in 1954, which of his novels did the Academy highlight
0:09:09 > 0:09:13as a particularly fine example of "his mastery of the art of narrative"?
0:09:13 > 0:09:16- The Old Man And The Sea.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:09:16 > 0:09:21"An eccentric and bohemian club, of which the absolute condition of membership lies in this,
0:09:21 > 0:09:26"that the candidate must have invented the method by which he earns his living."
0:09:26 > 0:09:30These words describe which fictional club created by GK Chesterton
0:09:30 > 0:09:33in The Tremendous Adventures Of Major Brown?
0:09:35 > 0:09:39None of you knows? It's the Club of Queer Trades. Ten points for this.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43Resulting from the action of sulphuric acid upon alcohol,
0:09:43 > 0:09:46which colourless, volatile liquid shares its name
0:09:46 > 0:09:49with the substance once believed to pervade all space...
0:09:49 > 0:09:51- Ether.- Ether is correct, yes.
0:09:54 > 0:10:00Bonuses are on Foreign Secretaries in the words of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website.
0:10:00 > 0:10:05Identify the minister from the description. All three served before 1968.
0:10:05 > 0:10:10"A former Prime Minister, he cultivated a fine taste for good food, lawn tennis and philosophy.
0:10:10 > 0:10:17"At the Paris Peace Conference, his behaviour was likened to that of a choir boy at a funeral service."
0:10:18 > 0:10:21- When was the Paris Peace Conference? - Was that at Versailles?
0:10:21 > 0:10:26- Is there a former Prime Minister at that time?- Palmerston?
0:10:26 > 0:10:30- That's a bit early. Early 20th century.- Campbell-Bannerman?
0:10:30 > 0:10:35- Go for that.- Campbell-Bannerman?- No, it was Balfour. "His subordinates found him unusually modest.
0:10:35 > 0:10:41"He nevertheless became the first British Foreign Secretary to win the Nobel Peace Prize,
0:10:41 > 0:10:44"following his negotiation of the Treaty of Locarno in 1925."
0:10:44 > 0:10:47- Austen Chamberlain.- Correct.
0:10:47 > 0:10:53"At the important Anglo-German meeting at Berchtesgaden in 1938, he mistook Hitler for a doorman."
0:10:55 > 0:10:58Was Halifax the Foreign Secretary?
0:11:00 > 0:11:06- Lord Halifax, I'm not sure... - Halifax?- It was Viscount Halifax, yes. Ten points for this.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10Tragic, Resurrection, Titan and Ode To Heavenly...
0:11:10 > 0:11:12- Mahler.- Correct.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15You get a set of bonuses this time on mathematics.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19In each case, name the mathematical function described.
0:11:19 > 0:11:24Firstly, its value is zero for negative numbers and one for positive numbers?
0:11:27 > 0:11:29WHISPERING
0:11:30 > 0:11:33- Natural? - No, that's the step function.
0:11:33 > 0:11:40Secondly, the derivative of that step function, sharing its designation with a geographical
0:11:40 > 0:11:43or, more specifically, a fluvial feature?
0:11:43 > 0:11:45River?
0:11:49 > 0:11:53- Bank?- No, that's the delta function.
0:11:53 > 0:11:59And finally, a polynomial of the third degree, also the adjectival form of a platonic solid?
0:12:02 > 0:12:07- Cubic.- Cubic.- Cubic is right. Ten points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11What is the minimum number of people that guarantees...
0:12:12 > 0:12:16- Oh, no. A quorum?- I'm sorry. You're going to lose five points.
0:12:16 > 0:12:21..that guarantees at least three will have their birthdays on the same day?
0:12:25 > 0:12:27368.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30No, it's 733. Right, another starter question.
0:12:30 > 0:12:35Which US President was in office during the period often known as The Era of Good Feeling
0:12:35 > 0:12:38when partisan rivalry in politics diminished?
0:12:38 > 0:12:43He gives his name to a foreign policy doctrine that asserted US hegemony...
0:12:43 > 0:12:46- Monroe.- Monroe is correct, yes.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Your bonuses this time are on psychology, Bangor.
0:12:51 > 0:12:57A complex in psychology that relates to an impulsive desire of a man to kill his mother is named
0:12:57 > 0:13:03after which figure in Greek mythology? The son of Agamemnon, he murders his mother, Clytemnestra.
0:13:03 > 0:13:04Jocasta?
0:13:04 > 0:13:07WHISPERING
0:13:10 > 0:13:11- Jocasta? - Jason?
0:13:11 > 0:13:15- - Jocasta? - No, that's wrong.- Jason?
0:13:15 > 0:13:19- Isn't there the Electra Complex? - That's Jung.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21- Come on!- You're the psychologist.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23- Jason.- Jason?
0:13:23 > 0:13:28- Jason.- No, it's Orestes. Secondly, which complex in psychology is described
0:13:28 > 0:13:32by the Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler in The Neurotic Constitution
0:13:32 > 0:13:36as "a compensation in the sense of an enhancement of self-esteem"?
0:13:41 > 0:13:44WHISPERING
0:13:44 > 0:13:48- Inferiority complex.- Correct. After the Roman goddess of the moon,
0:13:48 > 0:13:53what is the name of the complex in which a woman has a repressed desire to become a man?
0:13:55 > 0:13:58- Is it Selene? - Selene is the goddess of the moon.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02- Selene?- Yes.- Selene Complex. - No, it's the Diana Complex.
0:14:02 > 0:14:07We're going to take a music round. You'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:07 > 0:14:12- 10 points for the band performing. - # You can go your own way... #
0:14:12 > 0:14:14- Fleetwood Mac.- It is, yes.
0:14:16 > 0:14:22Go Your Own Way from 1977. You're going to hear a cover of a Fleetwood Mac song,
0:14:22 > 0:14:27then a chain of covers - each artist covering a song by the artist before them.
0:14:27 > 0:14:32In each case, I simply want the name of the band or solo artist.
0:14:32 > 0:14:36Firstly, who's covering this Fleetwood Mac song?
0:14:36 > 0:14:42# If you wake up and don't want to smile If it takes just a little while
0:14:42 > 0:14:46# Open your eyes and look at the day
0:14:46 > 0:14:50# You'll see things in a different way
0:14:50 > 0:14:55# Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
0:14:55 > 0:14:59# Don't stop It'll soon be here
0:14:59 > 0:15:03# It'll be better than before Yesterday's gone... #
0:15:04 > 0:15:10- Mick Hucknall?- No, Elton John. Secondly, who is covering this Elton John song?
0:15:10 > 0:15:15# Mars ain't the kind of place to raise the kids
0:15:17 > 0:15:20# In fact, it's cold as hell
0:15:23 > 0:15:30# And there's no one there to raise them if you did... #
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Let's have an answer, please.
0:15:35 > 0:15:42- What did I say? Bjork? - No, that's Kate Bush. Finally, who's covering this Kate Bush song?
0:15:42 > 0:15:47# Oh oh, oh oh oh The hounds of love are calling
0:15:47 > 0:15:53# Oh oh, oh oh oh I've always been a coward
0:15:53 > 0:15:59# Oh oh, oh oh oh And I don't know what's good for me
0:16:00 > 0:16:04# Well, here I go... #
0:16:04 > 0:16:08Shall we go for Razorlight? We'll go for Razorlight.
0:16:08 > 0:16:12No, it's the Futureheads. Right, another starter question.
0:16:12 > 0:16:18Frequently attacked by the Teutonic knights in the Middle Ages, the city of Kaunas was...
0:16:18 > 0:16:20- Lithuania.- Lithuania is correct.
0:16:23 > 0:16:29These bonuses are on linguistics. Best known for a hypothesis further developed by Benjamin Lee Whorf,
0:16:29 > 0:16:37which US linguist was the author of 1921's Language: An Introduction To The Study of Speech?
0:16:37 > 0:16:40Is it Chomsky?
0:16:40 > 0:16:43Anyone better than Chomsky? Chomsky?
0:16:43 > 0:16:47Edward Sapir. Compiled from lecture notes after his death in 1913,
0:16:47 > 0:16:54which Swiss scholar's Course In General Linguistics is credited with founding modern linguistics?
0:16:54 > 0:16:57- We don't know any linguists.- No.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08- Come on!- Berger? - No, that's Ferdinand de Saussure.
0:17:08 > 0:17:15Which US academic and philosopher was the author in 1957 of Syntactic Structures,
0:17:15 > 0:17:20which first presented the idea of transformational generative grammar?
0:17:20 > 0:17:23- Chomsky?- That was Chomsky, yes.
0:17:23 > 0:17:2910 points for this. In the mid-19th century, the father and son Evan and James James of Pontypridd
0:17:29 > 0:17:33together wrote which song, words of which are inscribed on...
0:17:33 > 0:17:36- Land of My Fathers?- It is, yes.
0:17:40 > 0:17:45They wouldn't have let you back if you hadn't got that! Your bonuses are on phases in science.
0:17:45 > 0:17:51What word describes the transition of a substance from a solid phase to a gas phase
0:17:51 > 0:17:54without passing through a liquid phase?
0:17:54 > 0:17:59- Sublimation.- In cell division, which phase of mitosis follows metaphase?
0:17:59 > 0:18:05It's the stage during which chromatids move towards opposite poles.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Let's have an answer, please.
0:18:16 > 0:18:23- Pass.- That's anaphase. What phase of the Moon is seen when the ecliptic longitude of the Sun and Moon
0:18:23 > 0:18:26differ by 180 degrees?
0:18:33 > 0:18:38- 180 degrees.- Come on. - Half Moon?- No, it's full.
0:18:38 > 0:18:4410 points for this starter. Published in 2012, The World America Made is a work by which US historian
0:18:44 > 0:18:51and foreign policy commentator? His previous works include Of Paradise and Power.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57- Gore Vidal?- Nope.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59Durham, one of you buzz.
0:19:00 > 0:19:06- Niall Ferguson?- No. Absolutely not. He's Scottish. Robert Kagan. 10 points for this.
0:19:06 > 0:19:11What happens to a thixotropic material if it is exposed to increasing shear stress,
0:19:11 > 0:19:14for example, if it is shaken?
0:19:14 > 0:19:18- It gets less viscous.- It does. Viscosity decreases or it thins.
0:19:18 > 0:19:25You get a set of bonuses on the arts. In each case, give the decade that links the following.
0:19:25 > 0:19:30Constable's The Hay Wain, de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater
0:19:30 > 0:19:35and the first performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony?
0:19:36 > 0:19:42I'm thinking around 1850s. What's your input? You know this better than me.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46- 1830s... - Let's have an answer, please.
0:19:46 > 0:19:52- 1820s.- Correct. Manet's Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
0:19:52 > 0:19:57and the first performance of Brahms's German Requiem - which decade?
0:19:57 > 0:20:01- Late 19th century? - 1870s I'd go with.
0:20:01 > 0:20:06- That's just a guess.- 1870s? - No, it's the 1860s.
0:20:06 > 0:20:11And the decade linking Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol, Edvard Munch's The Scream
0:20:11 > 0:20:15and the first performance of Dvorak's New World Symphony?
0:20:15 > 0:20:21- 1890s.- 1890s is correct. We'll take a second picture round now.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26Your starter is a painting that inspired a work by a major English poet.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30Ten points if you can tell me the name of the poet.
0:20:35 > 0:20:40- William Blake? - No. One of you may buzz from Durham.
0:20:40 > 0:20:46- Tennyson? Oh, sorry... - No, Wordsworth. It's Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm,
0:20:46 > 0:20:51which inspired Wordsworth's Elegiac Stanza. Picture bonuses shortly.
0:20:51 > 0:20:57Another starter in the meantime. Meaning self-reliance, juche is the national ideology...
0:20:57 > 0:21:00- North Korea.- Well done.
0:21:03 > 0:21:10That painting was by Sir George Beaumont, inspiration for Wordsworth's Elegiac Stanzas.
0:21:10 > 0:21:15Your picture bonuses are three more paintings about which poems have been written.
0:21:15 > 0:21:22This time you'll see photographs of the poets. In each case, I want you to identify the painter and poet.
0:21:22 > 0:21:27Firstly, the painter of this work and the American poet it inspired.
0:21:39 > 0:21:44- Nominate Everett Riley. - Paul Cezanne and Wallace Stevens?
0:21:44 > 0:21:50No, you're right on the painting. It is by Cezanne, but the poet there is Ginsberg.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54Secondly, the painter of this work and the poet it inspired.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Anyone?
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Come on, let's have it, please.
0:22:05 > 0:22:11- Manet and Auden. - No, it's Brueghel's Fall of Icarus and it is Auden, the poet.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15Finally, the painter of this work and the British poet it inspired?
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Let's have it, please.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32- Da Vinci and Rossetti. - Is he English?- Yes.
0:22:32 > 0:22:39- Da Vinci and Rossetti?- It is. Virgin of the Rocks and Rossetti. Right, ten points for this.
0:22:39 > 0:22:44The Italian word "pigrizia", the German "Faulheit" and the French "paresse"
0:22:44 > 0:22:48indicate which negative human attribute...
0:22:48 > 0:22:52- Laziness.- Laziness is right, yes.
0:22:54 > 0:22:58Your bonuses are on an Asian country, Bangor.
0:22:58 > 0:23:03In which country is Dien Bien Phu, the scene of a catastrophic defeat for French forces in 1954?
0:23:03 > 0:23:09- Vietnam.- Who became President of South Vietnam in 1955, following US intervention in the country?
0:23:09 > 0:23:14He was assassinated eight years later during a coup d'etat.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21- Pass.- That was Diem. Finally, who led the August Revolution in 1945
0:23:21 > 0:23:25as the head of the organisation known as the Viet Minh?
0:23:25 > 0:23:31He was subsequently President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam until his death in 1969.
0:23:31 > 0:23:37- Ho Chi Minh.- Correct. 10 points for this. Give the names of all three non-metallic elements
0:23:37 > 0:23:41which have alphabetically successive one-letter symbols.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47- Nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus. - Correct!
0:23:49 > 0:23:53Your bonuses are on satire. "It is difficult not to write satire."
0:23:53 > 0:23:59These are the words of which poet, banished to Egypt after writing 16 satires that exposed
0:23:59 > 0:24:01the immorality of Roman society?
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Juvenal. He wrote satires.
0:24:03 > 0:24:08- Juvenal?- Correct. "Satire is a lesson," wrote Vladimir Nabokov.
0:24:08 > 0:24:13What similar genre of writing did he describe as a game?
0:24:13 > 0:24:16What's similar to satire?
0:24:16 > 0:24:23- Come on.- Comedy?- Parody. "Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any."
0:24:23 > 0:24:27Who wrote these words in the preface to his 1704 work A Tale of A Tub?
0:24:27 > 0:24:31- That's Swift.- Swift. - Jonathan Swift is right.
0:24:31 > 0:24:3510 points for this. A scientific and medical adviser to Elizabeth I,
0:24:35 > 0:24:40which mathematician, natural philosopher and student of the occult is the subject
0:24:40 > 0:24:42of an opera of 2011...
0:24:42 > 0:24:45- Dee.- Dr John Dee is correct.
0:24:48 > 0:24:55These bonuses are on chemical elements. Give the name of the heavy precious metal, atomic number 78,
0:24:55 > 0:25:02whose two-letter symbol is the same as the SI-consistent abbreviation for 10 to the 15 tonnes?
0:25:06 > 0:25:09- It's platinum, isn't it? - I think so.- Platinum?- Correct.
0:25:09 > 0:25:15Which element is indicated by the abbreviation for 10 to the 12 metres?
0:25:18 > 0:25:22- Magnesium? - No, it's going to be something m.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31- Come on.- Tm, so... - Nominate Vokes.
0:25:31 > 0:25:38- Thulium.- Correct. Which element is indicated by the SI abbreviation for 10 to the 18 seconds?
0:25:40 > 0:25:42Einsteinium.
0:25:42 > 0:25:47- Einsteinium?- Correct! 10 points for this.
0:25:47 > 0:25:54"Nature's torn" is an anagram of the name of what type of astrophysical object,
0:25:54 > 0:25:58which creates extreme distortions in spacetime?
0:25:59 > 0:26:02- Neutron star.- Correct!
0:26:02 > 0:26:07Your bonuses could give you the lead. They're on royal divorces.
0:26:07 > 0:26:13Whose marriage to Louis VII of France was annulled in 1152 on the grounds of consanguinity?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15She later married Henry Plantagenet.
0:26:15 > 0:26:22- Eleanor of Aquitaine.- Which English churchman, who in 1504 became the Catholic Bishop of Rochester,
0:26:22 > 0:26:28earned Henry VIII's disfavour by opposing his divorce from Catherine of Aragon?
0:26:28 > 0:26:33- Come on, let's have it, please. - Cardinal Wolsey.- No, John Fisher.
0:26:33 > 0:26:38In 1527, which sibling of Henry VIII obtained an annulment of her marriage to the Earl of Angus?
0:26:38 > 0:26:42She had earlier been married to King James IV of Scotland.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46- Come on.- Mary?- No, Margaret Tudor.
0:26:46 > 0:26:51Civil Disobedience is a work of 1849 by which US author,
0:26:51 > 0:26:55also noted for A Week On The Concord and Merrimack River and Walden?
0:26:57 > 0:26:59- Henry David Thoreau.- Correct!
0:26:59 > 0:27:03Your bonuses now are on football, Bangor.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07Which club won the FA Cup five times in the trophy's first seven seasons,
0:27:07 > 0:27:13but was disbanded fewer than 10 years after winning the trophy for the last time? Come on.
0:27:13 > 0:27:20- Go on.- Royal Engineers?- No, Wanderers. The first Football League competition took place in 1888/89
0:27:20 > 0:27:23- and was won by which club... - GONG
0:27:23 > 0:27:27And at the gong, Durham have 165, Bangor have 175.
0:27:39 > 0:27:44If you hadn't had that fallow period, you might have won, Durham. Thanks for taking part.
0:27:44 > 0:27:51It was a good, high-scoring game. Bangor, congratulations. We'll see you in the quarter-finals.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55I hope you can join us next time. Until then, goodbye from Durham,
0:27:55 > 0:27:59goodbye from Bangor and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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