0:00:16 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:25'Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman...'
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. Last time, we saw Manchester University
0:00:30 > 0:00:34earn the first of the two quarterfinal victories they'll need
0:00:34 > 0:00:36if they're to qualify for the semifinals.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Tonight, two more teams embark on their journey
0:00:38 > 0:00:41through the labyrinthian third round.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43University College London had a very convincing win
0:00:43 > 0:00:46against Exeter University in their first round-match,
0:00:46 > 0:00:50but a much closer fight in the second round against Jesus College Oxford.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53The lead changed hands several times
0:00:53 > 0:00:55but UCL were 35 points ahead at the gong,
0:00:55 > 0:00:59helped by the knowledge of Paul Dirac, the Cape Verde Islands
0:00:59 > 0:01:02and the industrialisation of bread-making.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Let's meet them for the third time.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Hello again. I'm Adam Papaphilippopoulos.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10I'm from London and I'm reading for an MA in philosophy.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14Hi, I'm Tom Tyszczuk Smith, from Cambridge. I'm studying medicine.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17- Here's their captain. - I'm Simon Dennis, also from London,
0:01:17 > 0:01:19and I'm studying the history and philosophy of science.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Hi, I'm Tom Parton, originally from Penkridge in Staffordshire,
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and I'm studying natural sciences.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27APPLAUSE
0:01:29 > 0:01:33Now, the team from the University of Bangor beat St Andrews in the first round,
0:01:33 > 0:01:38and Durham University in the second, in a closely-fought match which saw them ten points ahead at the gong.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41They showed us that they can find their way around the Peloponnese,
0:01:41 > 0:01:45they know the works of Voltaire, the human eyeball
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and they relieved the entire population of the principality
0:01:48 > 0:01:51by recognising the writers of the Welsh national anthem.
0:01:51 > 0:01:52Let's meet the again.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Hi, I'm Adam Pearce, I'm from Barry in South Wales,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58and I'm studying for a PhD in translation studies.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02I'm Mark Stevens, from Cheshire and I'm studying environmental science.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06- This is their captain. - Hi, I'm Nina Grant from London
0:02:06 > 0:02:09and I'm studying for a degree in French and linguistics.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13Hi, I'm Simon Tomlinson, originally from Manchester,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15and I'm studying for a PhD in neuropsychology.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18APPLAUSE
0:02:20 > 0:02:24OK, let's crack on with it. Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:24 > 0:02:30Mark Twain wrote that "A young lady has no sex, while a turnip has.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33"Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip,
0:02:33 > 0:02:36"and what callous disrespect for the girl."
0:02:36 > 0:02:40Which language was he describing, on account of the difficulty he had in learning it?
0:02:41 > 0:02:43- German?- German is correct, yes.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46APPLAUSE
0:02:46 > 0:02:51The first set of bonuses, Bangor, are on a 16th-century treatise.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54"All states, all powers that have held or hold rule over men
0:02:54 > 0:02:58"have been and are either republics or principalities."
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Which treatise of 1532 begins with those words?
0:03:02 > 0:03:03(The Prince by Machiavelli.)
0:03:03 > 0:03:05- The Prince by Machiavelli.- Correct.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07Machiavelli wrote "The Prince" whilst in exile
0:03:07 > 0:03:12and dedicated it to Lorenzo di Piero, the ruler of Florence from 1513,
0:03:12 > 0:03:14and a member of which family?
0:03:14 > 0:03:15- The Medici family.- Correct.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18"Though some speak openly against my book,
0:03:18 > 0:03:22"Yet will they read me and thereby attain to Peter's chair."
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Which play by Marlowe has those lines in its prologue,
0:03:25 > 0:03:27spoken by Machievel?
0:03:27 > 0:03:29THEY WHISPER
0:03:32 > 0:03:35- Dr Faustus. - No, it's The Jew of Malta.
0:03:35 > 0:03:3910 points for this. In 1937, WB Yeats, as editor of the Oxford Book of Modern Verse,
0:03:39 > 0:03:43decided to omit the work of which poet from the anthology,
0:03:43 > 0:03:48commenting that "Passive suffering is not a theme for poetry"?
0:03:48 > 0:03:50The poet in question had been killed in action
0:03:50 > 0:03:53in the last week of the First World War.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56- Wilfred Owen.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:03:58 > 0:04:01These bonuses are on 19th-century periodicals, Bangor.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05Which novelist launched the weekly Household Words in 1850
0:04:05 > 0:04:08and used it to serialise much of his later writing?
0:04:08 > 0:04:11(Charles Dickens?)
0:04:11 > 0:04:12- Charles Dickens?- It was.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15Established by John and Leigh Hunt in 1808,
0:04:15 > 0:04:18what was the name of the Reformist weekly periodical
0:04:18 > 0:04:23that championed the work of poets including Shelley and Keats?
0:04:27 > 0:04:30- The Edinburgh Quarterly? - No, it was The Examiner.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33Founded in 1843 by James Wilson and still in print,
0:04:33 > 0:04:37which periodical was launched in an attempt to advance the repeal of the Corn Laws?
0:04:37 > 0:04:42It described itself as a "Political, Literary and General Newspaper".
0:04:42 > 0:04:44(The Manchester Guardian?)
0:04:44 > 0:04:46- The Manchester Guardian? - No, The Economist.
0:04:46 > 0:04:5010 points for this. Which is the only group of the periodic table
0:04:50 > 0:04:54to include elements existing in the form of all three states of matter
0:04:54 > 0:04:56at standard pressure and temperature?
0:04:57 > 0:05:00- The halogens.- Yes, indeed. Group 17.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02APPLAUSE
0:05:02 > 0:05:06Your bonuses, the first set for you, UCL, are on a Greek philosopher.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Born in Sicily around 490 BC,
0:05:08 > 0:05:12which philosopher taught that everything in existence
0:05:12 > 0:05:15is composed of the four underived and indestructible roots
0:05:15 > 0:05:18of fire, water, earth and air?
0:05:18 > 0:05:21THEY WHISPER
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- Demosthenes.- I'm not sure.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27- Demosthenes?- No, it's Empedocles.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29And secondly, in his poem "On Nature",
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Empedocles argued that the four elements mingle and separate
0:05:32 > 0:05:36under the influence of which two opposing forces?
0:05:40 > 0:05:41No. Pass.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44That was Love and Strife.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47Empedocles leapt into the crater of which volcano
0:05:47 > 0:05:50in order that he might be thought a god?
0:05:50 > 0:05:52- Etna.- Correct.
0:05:52 > 0:05:5710 points for this. Which national newspaper established itself in the market in the 1850s
0:05:57 > 0:05:59by undercutting other dailies in price
0:05:59 > 0:06:02and becoming London's first penny daily newspaper?
0:06:04 > 0:06:06- The Times.- No. You lose five points.
0:06:06 > 0:06:11Its political views were radical, and only later did it come to be regarded
0:06:11 > 0:06:14as embodying the outlook of Conservative Middle England.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17You may not confer. One of you may buzz.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21- The Daily Telegraph. - The Daily Telegraph is correct, yes.
0:06:21 > 0:06:22APPLAUSE
0:06:22 > 0:06:27Your bonuses are on place names in England, Bangor.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Your answer will be two towns or cities
0:06:30 > 0:06:32whose names share a common suffix,
0:06:32 > 0:06:34for example, London and Swindon.
0:06:34 > 0:06:40Firstly, the town that gives its name to a treaty of 1328 confirming Scottish independence,
0:06:40 > 0:06:45and the port of departure of the RMS Titanic in April 1912?
0:06:48 > 0:06:51THEY WHISPER
0:06:56 > 0:06:59- Northampton and Southampton? - Correct.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03Two English cities, ones of which is home to the National Media Museum,
0:07:03 > 0:07:08and the other to the Mappa Mundi, probably the largest medieval map still in existence?
0:07:08 > 0:07:11- Bradford and Hereford.- Correct.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Two cathedral cities, around 30 miles apart,
0:07:13 > 0:07:16on the River Severn?
0:07:16 > 0:07:20- Ludlow?- Bristol?- Bristol, no.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23THEY WHISPER ..on the Severn...
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Shrewsbury and...
0:07:25 > 0:07:29Canterbury! No.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31THEY WHISPER
0:07:34 > 0:07:38- Shrewsbury and...?- Come along! - Shrewsbury and Salisbury?- No.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41It's Gloucester and Worcester.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Time for a picture round.
0:07:43 > 0:07:48You are going to see a passport issued by an EU member state, the name of which has been removed.
0:07:48 > 0:07:5210 points if you can identify the country of issue.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58- Austria.- Austria is correct, yes.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00APPLAUSE
0:08:00 > 0:08:05Picture bonuses are three more passports issued by EU member states.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08All you have to do is to identify the country of issue,
0:08:08 > 0:08:10the name having been removed in each case.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Firstly, for five...
0:08:14 > 0:08:17- (Hungary.) - THEY WHISPER
0:08:17 > 0:08:19- Hungary.- It is Hungary.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Secondly...
0:08:21 > 0:08:24(That's the Czech Republic.) Agreed.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27- Czech Republic. - Correct. And finally...
0:08:28 > 0:08:32(Is that Malta? It's got a Maltese Cross.)
0:08:32 > 0:08:35- Malta.- It is Malta, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:08:38 > 0:08:4010 points for this starter question. Quote,
0:08:40 > 0:08:44"You see in me the Chief Minister of Police in Europe.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48"I keep an eye on everything. My contacts are such that nothing escapes me."
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Mycroft Holmes?
0:08:51 > 0:08:53No. You lose five points.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56These are the words of which Austrian statesman
0:08:56 > 0:09:00who was Head of Government from 1815 to '48?
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Metternich. Metternich is right, yes.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07APPLAUSE
0:09:07 > 0:09:11These bonuses are on works of the French Enlightenment.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14From around 1745 to 1772,
0:09:14 > 0:09:18which philosopher served as chief editor of the work known as the "Encyclopedie",
0:09:18 > 0:09:22an unofficial manifesto for the Enlightenment?
0:09:22 > 0:09:24(Is it Voltaire?)
0:09:24 > 0:09:26- Voltaire?- No, it's Diderot.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30Born 1689, which novelist's best-known contribution to political theory
0:09:30 > 0:09:35was the work of 1748 "On the Spirit of the Laws"?
0:09:35 > 0:09:37THEY WHISPER
0:09:38 > 0:09:41- Maupassant?- No. That was Montesquieu.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44Starting with a pledge to hide nothing,
0:09:44 > 0:09:47which work of 1782 by the Swiss-born thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau
0:09:47 > 0:09:52is regarded as a significant development in the genre of autobiography?
0:09:52 > 0:09:54- The Confessions?- Correct.
0:09:54 > 0:09:5610 points for this starter question.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59Meanings of what five-letter word include
0:09:59 > 0:10:03"the membrane joining the cap to the stem of an immature mushroom,
0:10:03 > 0:10:06"the margin of the bell of a jellyfish that helps in propulsion,
0:10:06 > 0:10:09"and the retractable..."
0:10:09 > 0:10:11- Gill.- No. You lose five points.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13"..and the retractable fabric awning
0:10:13 > 0:10:16used to shelter the audience in Roman theatres"?
0:10:19 > 0:10:23None of you is going to buzz from UCL? It's the velum. 10 points for this...
0:10:23 > 0:10:27"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom,
0:10:27 > 0:10:30"and a great empire and little minds go ill together."
0:10:30 > 0:10:35These are the words of which Irish politician, speaking in parliament in 1775?
0:10:37 > 0:10:38Jonathan Swift?
0:10:38 > 0:10:41No. You lose five points.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45He was later the author of "Reflections on the Revolution in France".
0:10:46 > 0:10:48- Edmund Burke.- Of course.
0:10:48 > 0:10:5015 points for these bonuses.
0:10:50 > 0:10:57They're on physics. The sentences: "Smart People Don't Fail" and "Silly People Drive Fast"
0:10:57 > 0:11:01are mnemonics to help to remember the identification of what?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03(S-P-D-F.)
0:11:03 > 0:11:06THEY WHISPER
0:11:06 > 0:11:10- (Force, speed and direction...) - Methods of heat conduction?
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Methods of conversion?
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Come on!
0:11:18 > 0:11:19I don't know.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22- Methods of heat conduction? - No. They're atomic or molecular orbitals.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25In the SPDF Notation Scheme,
0:11:25 > 0:11:29for what does the letter "S" stand?
0:11:30 > 0:11:33- Standard or Specialist.- Standard?
0:11:33 > 0:11:35- Standard?- No. It's "Sharp".
0:11:35 > 0:11:39- For what does the letter "F" stand? - (Flat?)
0:11:39 > 0:11:42- Flat?- No. It's "Fundamental"! - LAUGHTER
0:11:42 > 0:11:4710 points for this. Deriving from a Latin word meaning "Mother Church",
0:11:47 > 0:11:53what term denotes secular vocal music compositions of the Renaissance and Baroque eras?
0:11:54 > 0:11:58- Madrigal?- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:11:59 > 0:12:04Your bonuses are on novels of the 1960s, UCL.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08In each case, identify the work from its opening lines.
0:12:08 > 0:12:12"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16"One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his."
0:12:16 > 0:12:18- Slaughterhouse-Five.- Correct.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21"She was so deeply embedded in my consciousness
0:12:21 > 0:12:24"that for the first year of school I seem to have believed
0:12:24 > 0:12:28"that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise."
0:12:32 > 0:12:36That's not "The Catcher in the Rye", is it?
0:12:36 > 0:12:38I'm not sure.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41- The Catcher in the Rye? - It's "Portnoy's Complaint".
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Finally, which British novel of 1962 begins with the words
0:12:44 > 0:12:47"What's it going to be then, eh?"
0:12:47 > 0:12:50- Brighton Rock.- Hm?- Brighton Rock.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52- Brighton Rock. - No. It's "A Clockwork Orange".
0:12:52 > 0:12:5310 points for this...
0:12:53 > 0:12:58What natural insecticide is obtained from the flowers of chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium?
0:12:58 > 0:13:01It is neurotoxic for insects and, whilst toxic to other animals,
0:13:01 > 0:13:07is considered one of the safest insecticides for use in food plants.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13- Paraquat?- Certainly not!
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Bangor?
0:13:15 > 0:13:18One of you buzz. It's pyrethrin or pyrethrum.
0:13:18 > 0:13:2010 points for this...
0:13:20 > 0:13:24Words meaning "one who refused to attend services of the Church of England"
0:13:24 > 0:13:27and "legendary figures, half-man, half-horse"
0:13:27 > 0:13:32are anagrams of the name of which ancient Italian civilisation?
0:13:34 > 0:13:38- Etruscan.- Etruscan is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:13:39 > 0:13:43Your bonuses, UCL, are on an art gallery.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46Established in 1897, the collection of which London gallery includes
0:13:46 > 0:13:48"The Laughing Cavalier" by Frans Hals
0:13:48 > 0:13:52and Poussin's "A Dance to the Music of Time"?
0:13:52 > 0:13:55It could be The Wallace Collection, but I don't know.
0:13:55 > 0:13:56The Wallace Collection.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00Indeed. The Wallace Collection includes a number of works by which artist,
0:14:00 > 0:14:03active in Paris in the first two decades of the 18th century
0:14:03 > 0:14:08and often credited with the invention of the genre known as Fetes Galantes?
0:14:11 > 0:14:15- Pass.- That's Watteau. And finally, both in the Wallace Collection,
0:14:15 > 0:14:18"Perseus and Andromeda" and "The Rape of Europa"
0:14:18 > 0:14:23are works by which Venetian artist, born around 1488?
0:14:28 > 0:14:29Titian.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32- Titian.- Titian is correct, yes.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34We're going to take a music round now.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37You'll hear the final moments in the lives of two operatic characters.
0:14:37 > 0:14:4010 points if you can name both characters.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43DRAMATIC MUSIC
0:14:57 > 0:15:00- Romeo and Juliet.- Indeed! Gounod's rendering thereof, yes.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03APPLAUSE
0:15:03 > 0:15:08Right, for your bonuses, some more operatic characters on the point of death.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11All three are based on figures in works of literature.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15I want the name of the character. Firstly for five...
0:15:15 > 0:15:18SOMBRE MUSIC
0:15:33 > 0:15:36- Is it the character name? - It's the character.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39THEY WHISPER
0:15:39 > 0:15:43- No? No, pass. - That's Othello. And secondly...
0:15:43 > 0:15:45DRAMATIC MUSIC
0:15:57 > 0:15:58Sorry. Pass.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02That's Tristan from Richard Wagner. And finally...
0:16:02 > 0:16:06SOMBRE MUSIC # When I am laid... #
0:16:06 > 0:16:08It's Dido.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11- Dido.- It is Dido,
0:16:11 > 0:16:14from "Dido and Aeneas" by Purcell. Well done. 10 points for this...
0:16:14 > 0:16:19What is the English title of the memoir of the French journalist and stroke victim Jean-Dominique Bauby?
0:16:21 > 0:16:25- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. - Correct, yes.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28APPLAUSE
0:16:28 > 0:16:30These bonuses are on a name, UCL.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Which is the largest of Neptune's moons
0:16:32 > 0:16:37and is the only large satellite in the solar system to move in a retrograde orbit?
0:16:37 > 0:16:38- Triton.- Correct.
0:16:38 > 0:16:43A triton is a sub-atomic particle composed of one proton and two neutrons,
0:16:43 > 0:16:45and is the nucleus of Tritium,
0:16:45 > 0:16:47a radioactive isotope of which element?
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Hydrogen.
0:16:49 > 0:16:50- Hydrogen.- Correct.
0:16:50 > 0:16:55Triton cristatus is a crested species of which amphibian, native to Britain?
0:16:55 > 0:16:57- Is it a newt?- Newt.
0:16:57 > 0:16:58- Newt.- Correct.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02The efficiency of cooking achieved by hexagonal close-packing
0:17:02 > 0:17:05in a four-plus-five-plus-four arrangement
0:17:05 > 0:17:12is thought by some to be the origin of what two-word term, dating to the 13th century?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Hotch-potch.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21No.
0:17:24 > 0:17:25Mass production?
0:17:25 > 0:17:27No. It's baker's dozen.
0:17:27 > 0:17:2910 points for this... In terms of population,
0:17:29 > 0:17:33what state is to the USA as Uttar Pradesh is to India,
0:17:33 > 0:17:37Sao Paulo to Brazil and New South Wales to Australia?
0:17:37 > 0:17:39- California.- Correct.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42- The most populous, of course. - APPLAUSE
0:17:42 > 0:17:45If you get all these bonuses, you're level-pegging.
0:17:45 > 0:17:50Which organisation was formed at a conference in Cairo in March 1945
0:17:50 > 0:17:52by representatives of seven countries?
0:17:52 > 0:17:54It currently has 22 member states.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56- The Arab League.- Correct.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58When Egypt was suspended from the Arab League for 10 years
0:17:58 > 0:18:01after the signing of the Camp David Agreement,
0:18:01 > 0:18:04to which country were the headquarters relocated?
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Syria, I guess. I'm not sure.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09- Syria.- No. Tunisia.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13Which island nation, lying in the Indian Ocean to the northwest of Madagascar,
0:18:13 > 0:18:18is the only member of the Arab League to lie wholly within the Southern Hemisphere?
0:18:18 > 0:18:21Seychelles? Or Mauritius?
0:18:21 > 0:18:24I don't know.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27Mauritius... THEY WHISPER
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- Er, Mauritius.- No. It's the Comoros.
0:18:29 > 0:18:3410 points for this... In fine art, the rubbing technique known as frottage
0:18:34 > 0:18:39is particularly associated with which German-born Dada and Surrealist artist,
0:18:39 > 0:18:42who used it extensively in his 1926...
0:18:43 > 0:18:45Hans Jean Arp.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47No. You lose five points.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50..used it extensively in his 1926 portfolio "Histoire Naturelle"?
0:18:51 > 0:18:55- Gustav Klimt.- No. It was Max Ernst. 10 points for this...
0:18:55 > 0:18:59One of the Archimedean solids, a cuboctahedron,
0:18:59 > 0:19:02has six equal square faces joined at the corners
0:19:02 > 0:19:06and connected by eight of which plane figure?
0:19:06 > 0:19:09- Triangles.- Triangle is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:19:11 > 0:19:14These bonuses are on Spanish wine, UCL.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18According to a widely-circulated remark, Sir Alexander Fleming said
0:19:18 > 0:19:20"If penicillin can cure those that are ill"
0:19:20 > 0:19:25which Spanish drink can "bring the dead back to life"?
0:19:27 > 0:19:29Sherry.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37- Madeira, maybe? That's Portuguese. - Let's have it, chaps.- Sherry.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39- Sherry.- Correct.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Sharing its name with a elevated plateau in the centre of the country,
0:19:42 > 0:19:47which Spanish wine region is said to be the world's largest continuous vine-growing region?
0:19:47 > 0:19:48La Mancha.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50- La Mancha.- That gives you the lead.
0:19:50 > 0:19:56Which region's wineries are divided into the three districts of Alavesa, Alta and Baja?
0:19:56 > 0:20:01- Rioja.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:20:01 > 0:20:05With the scores on 110 and 100, we take our second picture round.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09Your picture starter is an illustration of a 19th century poem.
0:20:09 > 0:20:1310 points if you can identify the poem and its author.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16BUZZER
0:20:16 > 0:20:18Is it The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson?
0:20:18 > 0:20:21- It is indeed, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Get these, you'll retake the lead.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27Following on from that painting by Walter Crane,
0:20:27 > 0:20:31your bonuses are three more 19th-century paintings of The Lady of Shalott.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Five points for each artist you can identify.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Firstly, for five...
0:20:35 > 0:20:37THEY WHISPER
0:20:42 > 0:20:44(Rossetti.)
0:20:44 > 0:20:47- (Holman Hunt.)- Huh?- Holman Hunt.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49- Come on.- Nominate Tomlinson.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51- Holman Hunt.- It is indeed, yes.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Secondly...
0:20:55 > 0:20:57THEY WHISPER
0:20:58 > 0:21:01No? OK.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03- Rossetti? - No. That's John Atkinson Grimshaw.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Finally...
0:21:07 > 0:21:09THEY WHISPER
0:21:12 > 0:21:15- Waterhouse.- It is Waterhouse, yes.
0:21:18 > 0:21:2010 points for this... "The liberties of England
0:21:20 > 0:21:23"and the Protestant religion I will maintain."
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Which royal figure made that claim when...
0:21:26 > 0:21:30- I was going to say Elizabeth I, but no...- You lose five points.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33..when he landed at Brixham in Devon in 1688?
0:21:35 > 0:21:37William I.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38No!
0:21:38 > 0:21:43William I? I'm sorry, that's the wrong answer! You know it's very wrong!
0:21:43 > 0:21:45It's only out by about 600 years or so!
0:21:45 > 0:21:47It's William of Orange. William III.
0:21:47 > 0:21:51Another starter question now. Around 200 kilometres southeast of Delhi,
0:21:51 > 0:21:56which former Mughal capital is best known as the site of the Taj Mahal?
0:21:56 > 0:21:58- Agra.- Agra is correct.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00You get a set of bonuses,
0:22:00 > 0:22:02having retaken the lead, on a physicist.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Who was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics
0:22:05 > 0:22:09for the "invention and development of the holographic method"?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11I don't know.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13- No. Pass.- Dennis Gabor.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15The initial experiments in basic holography
0:22:15 > 0:22:20were an attempt to improve what laboratory apparatus for resolving atomic lattices?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Electron microscope.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25OK. Electron microscope.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28Correct. Gabor took British citizenship in 1946,
0:22:28 > 0:22:33and in 1958 was appointed Professor of Applied Physics at which institution?
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Maybe Manchester.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Manchester's pretty hot on physics.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44- Manchester University? - No, it's Imperial College London.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Five minutes to go.
0:22:46 > 0:22:47Born near Paris in 1882,
0:22:47 > 0:22:52which artist is regarded to have been the co-founder, with Picasso, of the Cubist Movement?
0:22:53 > 0:22:57- Georges Braque.- Yes. - APPLAUSE
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Your bonuses are on northern England.
0:22:59 > 0:23:04At an altitude of 893 metres, what is the highest point on the Pennine Way
0:23:04 > 0:23:07and the highest in England, outside the Lake District?
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Erm...
0:23:09 > 0:23:13Kinder Scout, maybe.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15- Kinder Scout.- No. It's Cross Fell.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18The western slopes of Cross Fell are the source of which strong wind,
0:23:18 > 0:23:21occurring particularly during the spring?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Mistral wind!
0:23:25 > 0:23:28- No idea.- That's the Helm Wind.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32Rising near the summit of Cross Fell, which river flows east for more than 80 miles
0:23:32 > 0:23:35and reaches the North Sea, south of Hartlepool?
0:23:35 > 0:23:37The Trent.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40I'm not sure. The Trent?
0:23:40 > 0:23:44It's the Tees. Four-and-a-bit minutes to go.
0:23:44 > 0:23:4710 points for this... In physics, force divided by acceleration,
0:23:47 > 0:23:51or momentum divided by velocity, gives what...?
0:23:51 > 0:23:55- Mass.- It does give mass, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:23:56 > 0:24:01Your bonuses, UCL, are on novels whose titles include one or more points of the compass.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03In each case, give the title from the description.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06Firstly, a 1952 work by John Steinbeck,
0:24:06 > 0:24:10the film version of which starred James Dean in his first major screen role?
0:24:10 > 0:24:12- East of Eden.- Correct.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Secondly, a 1992 novel by Haruki Murakami
0:24:15 > 0:24:18in which Hajime, a successful jazz bar owner,
0:24:18 > 0:24:23tries to decide between an enigmatic childhood friend and his wife?
0:24:25 > 0:24:28THEY WHISPER
0:24:32 > 0:24:33Let's have it, please!
0:24:33 > 0:24:36- We don't know.- South of the Border, West of the Sun.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40Finally, an industrial novel of 1854 by Elizabeth Gaskell,
0:24:40 > 0:24:43its characters include Margaret Hale and John Thornton?
0:24:43 > 0:24:45- North and South.- Correct.
0:24:45 > 0:24:46Another starter question.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48"Twelve Angry Men", "Serpico",
0:24:48 > 0:24:51"The Fugitive Kind" and "Dog Day Afternoon"
0:24:51 > 0:24:54are among the films of which prolific...?
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Sidney Lumet.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59- Sidney Lumet is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:25:01 > 0:25:04These bonuses are on botany. Name all three structures that form the carpel
0:25:04 > 0:25:08of a typical angiosperm.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11- I don't know.- No?- Mm...
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Come on!
0:25:13 > 0:25:15- Pass.- It's the stigma, the style and the ovary.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18After fertilisation, which part of the carpel
0:25:18 > 0:25:22develops into the pericarp of the fruit?
0:25:22 > 0:25:25THEY WHISPER
0:25:25 > 0:25:26Come on.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30- The ovary.- Specifically?
0:25:31 > 0:25:32I don't know.
0:25:32 > 0:25:37I'm sorry, I need a precise answer. It's the ovary wall, the outer layer of the ovary.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40Finally, what short term denotes a dry indehiscent fruit,
0:25:40 > 0:25:44usually containing a single seed with lignified pericarp?
0:25:44 > 0:25:46Is that a nut?
0:25:46 > 0:25:49- A nut.- Correct. 10 points for this...
0:25:49 > 0:25:52The one-word name of which south-east Asian country
0:25:52 > 0:25:56is an anagram for a common word meaning "in addition"?
0:25:57 > 0:25:59- Laos.- Correct.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02These bonuses are on place names.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05All three answers begin with the same two letters.
0:26:05 > 0:26:10One of the shallowest in the world, which sea is linked to the Black Sea by the Strait of Kerch?
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- Azov.- Correct.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15What is the modern name of the village in the Pas-de-Calais
0:26:15 > 0:26:19that is the site of a battle of October 1415?
0:26:19 > 0:26:22- Agincourt?- Erm...
0:26:22 > 0:26:25But it's got to be "AZ", because the first two letters..
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Agincourt?
0:26:27 > 0:26:29It was Azincourt.
0:26:29 > 0:26:34Which group of islands includes Graciosa, Pico and Sao Miguel?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36- Azores.- Correct.
0:26:36 > 0:26:42Another starter question. In optics, what is the focal length of a perfectly planar mirror?
0:26:44 > 0:26:47- Zero.- Anyone like to buzz from...?
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- Infinity.- Infinity is correct, yes.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52APPLAUSE
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Your bonuses, Bangor, are on people born in the city of Rouen.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59"Le Cid", "La Veuve" and "Cinna" are among the tragedies of which dramatist,
0:26:59 > 0:27:03born in Rouen in 1606 and a rival of Racine?
0:27:04 > 0:27:06- Moliere?- No. It's Corneille.
0:27:06 > 0:27:11Born 1791, which influential painter's work includes "The Charging Chasseur",
0:27:11 > 0:27:14"Portrait of a Kleptomaniac" and "The Raft of the Medusa"?
0:27:14 > 0:27:17- Erm...- (Delacroix.)
0:27:17 > 0:27:19- Delacroix.- Gericault.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23Born in Rouen in 1864, the author Maurice Leblanc
0:27:23 > 0:27:25created which gentleman thief,
0:27:25 > 0:27:29sometimes seen as a counterpart to Sherlock Holmes?
0:27:30 > 0:27:32- (Raffles?)- (Yes.)
0:27:32 > 0:27:35- Come on.- Pass.- It's Arsene Lupin. 10 points for this...
0:27:35 > 0:27:37In the subtitle of a 1947 book,
0:27:37 > 0:27:41what was defined by Stephen Potter as "The Art Of Winning Games Without..."
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- END-OF-QUIZ GONG - And at the gong,
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Bangor University have 125,
0:27:46 > 0:27:50University College London have 190.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59For much of that, it looked as if you were going to win, Bangor!
0:27:59 > 0:28:02Congratulations to you, University College London.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05Terrific score, after you finally woke up!
0:28:05 > 0:28:08We shall look forward to seeing you, for sure.
0:28:08 > 0:28:13Bangor, you will have to come back and win twice more to go through to the semifinals.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.
0:28:15 > 0:28:19- Until then, it's goodbye from Bangor University...- ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22- ..it's goodbye from UCL. - ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25- ..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye. - APPLAUSE
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