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APPLAUSE

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'Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman...'

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Hello. Last time, we saw Manchester University

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earn the first of the two quarterfinal victories they'll need

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if they're to qualify for the semifinals.

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Tonight, two more teams embark on their journey

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through the labyrinthian third round.

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University College London had a very convincing win

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against Exeter University in their first round-match,

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but a much closer fight in the second round against Jesus College Oxford.

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The lead changed hands several times

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but UCL were 35 points ahead at the gong,

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helped by the knowledge of Paul Dirac, the Cape Verde Islands

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and the industrialisation of bread-making.

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Let's meet them for the third time.

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Hello again. I'm Adam Papaphilippopoulos.

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I'm from London and I'm reading for an MA in philosophy.

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Hi, I'm Tom Tyszczuk Smith, from Cambridge. I'm studying medicine.

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-Here's their captain.

-I'm Simon Dennis, also from London,

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and I'm studying the history and philosophy of science.

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Hi, I'm Tom Parton, originally from Penkridge in Staffordshire,

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and I'm studying natural sciences.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, the team from the University of Bangor beat St Andrews in the first round,

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and Durham University in the second, in a closely-fought match which saw them ten points ahead at the gong.

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They showed us that they can find their way around the Peloponnese,

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they know the works of Voltaire, the human eyeball

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and they relieved the entire population of the principality

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by recognising the writers of the Welsh national anthem.

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Let's meet the again.

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Hi, I'm Adam Pearce, I'm from Barry in South Wales,

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and I'm studying for a PhD in translation studies.

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I'm Mark Stevens, from Cheshire and I'm studying environmental science.

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-This is their captain.

-Hi, I'm Nina Grant from London

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and I'm studying for a degree in French and linguistics.

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Hi, I'm Simon Tomlinson, originally from Manchester,

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and I'm studying for a PhD in neuropsychology.

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APPLAUSE

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OK, let's crack on with it. Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.

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Mark Twain wrote that "A young lady has no sex, while a turnip has.

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"Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip,

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"and what callous disrespect for the girl."

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Which language was he describing, on account of the difficulty he had in learning it?

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-German?

-German is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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The first set of bonuses, Bangor, are on a 16th-century treatise.

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"All states, all powers that have held or hold rule over men

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"have been and are either republics or principalities."

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Which treatise of 1532 begins with those words?

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(The Prince by Machiavelli.)

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-The Prince by Machiavelli.

-Correct.

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Machiavelli wrote "The Prince" whilst in exile

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and dedicated it to Lorenzo di Piero, the ruler of Florence from 1513,

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and a member of which family?

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-The Medici family.

-Correct.

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"Though some speak openly against my book,

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"Yet will they read me and thereby attain to Peter's chair."

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Which play by Marlowe has those lines in its prologue,

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spoken by Machievel?

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THEY WHISPER

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-Dr Faustus.

-No, it's The Jew of Malta.

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10 points for this. In 1937, WB Yeats, as editor of the Oxford Book of Modern Verse,

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decided to omit the work of which poet from the anthology,

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commenting that "Passive suffering is not a theme for poetry"?

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The poet in question had been killed in action

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in the last week of the First World War.

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-Wilfred Owen.

-Correct.

-APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on 19th-century periodicals, Bangor.

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Which novelist launched the weekly Household Words in 1850

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and used it to serialise much of his later writing?

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(Charles Dickens?)

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-Charles Dickens?

-It was.

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Established by John and Leigh Hunt in 1808,

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what was the name of the Reformist weekly periodical

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that championed the work of poets including Shelley and Keats?

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-The Edinburgh Quarterly?

-No, it was The Examiner.

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Founded in 1843 by James Wilson and still in print,

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which periodical was launched in an attempt to advance the repeal of the Corn Laws?

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It described itself as a "Political, Literary and General Newspaper".

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(The Manchester Guardian?)

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-The Manchester Guardian?

-No, The Economist.

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10 points for this. Which is the only group of the periodic table

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to include elements existing in the form of all three states of matter

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at standard pressure and temperature?

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-The halogens.

-Yes, indeed. Group 17.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, the first set for you, UCL, are on a Greek philosopher.

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Born in Sicily around 490 BC,

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which philosopher taught that everything in existence

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is composed of the four underived and indestructible roots

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of fire, water, earth and air?

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THEY WHISPER

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-Demosthenes.

-I'm not sure.

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-Demosthenes?

-No, it's Empedocles.

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And secondly, in his poem "On Nature",

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Empedocles argued that the four elements mingle and separate

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under the influence of which two opposing forces?

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No. Pass.

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That was Love and Strife.

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Empedocles leapt into the crater of which volcano

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in order that he might be thought a god?

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-Etna.

-Correct.

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10 points for this. Which national newspaper established itself in the market in the 1850s

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by undercutting other dailies in price

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and becoming London's first penny daily newspaper?

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-The Times.

-No. You lose five points.

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Its political views were radical, and only later did it come to be regarded

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as embodying the outlook of Conservative Middle England.

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You may not confer. One of you may buzz.

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-The Daily Telegraph.

-The Daily Telegraph is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on place names in England, Bangor.

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Your answer will be two towns or cities

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whose names share a common suffix,

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for example, London and Swindon.

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Firstly, the town that gives its name to a treaty of 1328 confirming Scottish independence,

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and the port of departure of the RMS Titanic in April 1912?

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THEY WHISPER

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-Northampton and Southampton?

-Correct.

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Two English cities, ones of which is home to the National Media Museum,

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and the other to the Mappa Mundi, probably the largest medieval map still in existence?

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-Bradford and Hereford.

-Correct.

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Two cathedral cities, around 30 miles apart,

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on the River Severn?

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-Ludlow?

-Bristol?

-Bristol, no.

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THEY WHISPER ..on the Severn...

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Shrewsbury and...

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Canterbury! No.

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THEY WHISPER

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-Shrewsbury and...?

-Come along!

-Shrewsbury and Salisbury?

-No.

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It's Gloucester and Worcester.

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Time for a picture round.

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You are going to see a passport issued by an EU member state, the name of which has been removed.

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10 points if you can identify the country of issue.

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-Austria.

-Austria is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Picture bonuses are three more passports issued by EU member states.

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All you have to do is to identify the country of issue,

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the name having been removed in each case.

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Firstly, for five...

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-(Hungary.)

-THEY WHISPER

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-Hungary.

-It is Hungary.

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Secondly...

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(That's the Czech Republic.) Agreed.

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-Czech Republic.

-Correct. And finally...

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(Is that Malta? It's got a Maltese Cross.)

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-Malta.

-It is Malta, yes.

-APPLAUSE

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10 points for this starter question. Quote,

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"You see in me the Chief Minister of Police in Europe.

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"I keep an eye on everything. My contacts are such that nothing escapes me."

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Mycroft Holmes?

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No. You lose five points.

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These are the words of which Austrian statesman

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who was Head of Government from 1815 to '48?

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Metternich. Metternich is right, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on works of the French Enlightenment.

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From around 1745 to 1772,

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which philosopher served as chief editor of the work known as the "Encyclopedie",

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an unofficial manifesto for the Enlightenment?

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(Is it Voltaire?)

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-Voltaire?

-No, it's Diderot.

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Born 1689, which novelist's best-known contribution to political theory

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was the work of 1748 "On the Spirit of the Laws"?

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THEY WHISPER

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-Maupassant?

-No. That was Montesquieu.

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Starting with a pledge to hide nothing,

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which work of 1782 by the Swiss-born thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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is regarded as a significant development in the genre of autobiography?

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-The Confessions?

-Correct.

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10 points for this starter question.

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Meanings of what five-letter word include

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"the membrane joining the cap to the stem of an immature mushroom,

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"the margin of the bell of a jellyfish that helps in propulsion,

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"and the retractable..."

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-Gill.

-No. You lose five points.

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"..and the retractable fabric awning

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used to shelter the audience in Roman theatres"?

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None of you is going to buzz from UCL? It's the velum. 10 points for this...

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"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom,

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"and a great empire and little minds go ill together."

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These are the words of which Irish politician, speaking in parliament in 1775?

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Jonathan Swift?

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No. You lose five points.

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He was later the author of "Reflections on the Revolution in France".

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-Edmund Burke.

-Of course.

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15 points for these bonuses.

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They're on physics. The sentences: "Smart People Don't Fail" and "Silly People Drive Fast"

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are mnemonics to help to remember the identification of what?

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(S-P-D-F.)

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THEY WHISPER

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-(Force, speed and direction...)

-Methods of heat conduction?

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Methods of conversion?

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Come on!

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I don't know.

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-Methods of heat conduction?

-No. They're atomic or molecular orbitals.

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In the SPDF Notation Scheme,

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for what does the letter "S" stand?

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-Standard or Specialist.

-Standard?

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-Standard?

-No. It's "Sharp".

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-For what does the letter "F" stand?

-(Flat?)

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-Flat?

-No. It's "Fundamental"!

-LAUGHTER

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10 points for this. Deriving from a Latin word meaning "Mother Church",

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what term denotes secular vocal music compositions of the Renaissance and Baroque eras?

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-Madrigal?

-Correct.

-APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on novels of the 1960s, UCL.

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In each case, identify the work from its opening lines.

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"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

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"One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his."

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-Slaughterhouse-Five.

-Correct.

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"She was so deeply embedded in my consciousness

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"that for the first year of school I seem to have believed

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"that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise."

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That's not "The Catcher in the Rye", is it?

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I'm not sure.

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-The Catcher in the Rye?

-It's "Portnoy's Complaint".

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Finally, which British novel of 1962 begins with the words

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"What's it going to be then, eh?"

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-Brighton Rock.

-Hm?

-Brighton Rock.

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-Brighton Rock.

-No. It's "A Clockwork Orange".

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10 points for this...

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What natural insecticide is obtained from the flowers of chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium?

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It is neurotoxic for insects and, whilst toxic to other animals,

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is considered one of the safest insecticides for use in food plants.

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-Paraquat?

-Certainly not!

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Bangor?

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One of you buzz. It's pyrethrin or pyrethrum.

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10 points for this...

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Words meaning "one who refused to attend services of the Church of England"

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and "legendary figures, half-man, half-horse"

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are anagrams of the name of which ancient Italian civilisation?

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-Etruscan.

-Etruscan is correct, yes.

-APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, UCL, are on an art gallery.

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Established in 1897, the collection of which London gallery includes

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"The Laughing Cavalier" by Frans Hals

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and Poussin's "A Dance to the Music of Time"?

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It could be The Wallace Collection, but I don't know.

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The Wallace Collection.

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Indeed. The Wallace Collection includes a number of works by which artist,

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active in Paris in the first two decades of the 18th century

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and often credited with the invention of the genre known as Fetes Galantes?

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-Pass.

-That's Watteau. And finally, both in the Wallace Collection,

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"Perseus and Andromeda" and "The Rape of Europa"

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are works by which Venetian artist, born around 1488?

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Titian.

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-Titian.

-Titian is correct, yes.

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We're going to take a music round now.

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You'll hear the final moments in the lives of two operatic characters.

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10 points if you can name both characters.

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DRAMATIC MUSIC

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-Romeo and Juliet.

-Indeed! Gounod's rendering thereof, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, for your bonuses, some more operatic characters on the point of death.

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All three are based on figures in works of literature.

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I want the name of the character. Firstly for five...

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SOMBRE MUSIC

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-Is it the character name?

-It's the character.

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THEY WHISPER

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-No? No, pass.

-That's Othello. And secondly...

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DRAMATIC MUSIC

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Sorry. Pass.

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That's Tristan from Richard Wagner. And finally...

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SOMBRE MUSIC # When I am laid... #

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It's Dido.

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-Dido.

-It is Dido,

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from "Dido and Aeneas" by Purcell. Well done. 10 points for this...

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What is the English title of the memoir of the French journalist and stroke victim Jean-Dominique Bauby?

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-The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

-Correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on a name, UCL.

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Which is the largest of Neptune's moons

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and is the only large satellite in the solar system to move in a retrograde orbit?

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-Triton.

-Correct.

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A triton is a sub-atomic particle composed of one proton and two neutrons,

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and is the nucleus of Tritium,

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a radioactive isotope of which element?

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Hydrogen.

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-Hydrogen.

-Correct.

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Triton cristatus is a crested species of which amphibian, native to Britain?

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-Is it a newt?

-Newt.

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-Newt.

-Correct.

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The efficiency of cooking achieved by hexagonal close-packing

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in a four-plus-five-plus-four arrangement

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is thought by some to be the origin of what two-word term, dating to the 13th century?

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Hotch-potch.

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No.

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Mass production?

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No. It's baker's dozen.

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10 points for this... In terms of population,

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what state is to the USA as Uttar Pradesh is to India,

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Sao Paulo to Brazil and New South Wales to Australia?

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-California.

-Correct.

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-The most populous, of course.

-APPLAUSE

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If you get all these bonuses, you're level-pegging.

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Which organisation was formed at a conference in Cairo in March 1945

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by representatives of seven countries?

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It currently has 22 member states.

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-The Arab League.

-Correct.

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When Egypt was suspended from the Arab League for 10 years

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after the signing of the Camp David Agreement,

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to which country were the headquarters relocated?

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Syria, I guess. I'm not sure.

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-Syria.

-No. Tunisia.

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Which island nation, lying in the Indian Ocean to the northwest of Madagascar,

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is the only member of the Arab League to lie wholly within the Southern Hemisphere?

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Seychelles? Or Mauritius?

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I don't know.

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Mauritius... THEY WHISPER

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-Er, Mauritius.

-No. It's the Comoros.

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10 points for this... In fine art, the rubbing technique known as frottage

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is particularly associated with which German-born Dada and Surrealist artist,

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who used it extensively in his 1926...

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Hans Jean Arp.

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No. You lose five points.

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..used it extensively in his 1926 portfolio "Histoire Naturelle"?

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-Gustav Klimt.

-No. It was Max Ernst. 10 points for this...

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One of the Archimedean solids, a cuboctahedron,

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has six equal square faces joined at the corners

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and connected by eight of which plane figure?

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-Triangles.

-Triangle is correct, yes.

-APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on Spanish wine, UCL.

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According to a widely-circulated remark, Sir Alexander Fleming said

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"If penicillin can cure those that are ill"

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which Spanish drink can "bring the dead back to life"?

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Sherry.

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-Madeira, maybe? That's Portuguese.

-Let's have it, chaps.

-Sherry.

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-Sherry.

-Correct.

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Sharing its name with a elevated plateau in the centre of the country,

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which Spanish wine region is said to be the world's largest continuous vine-growing region?

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La Mancha.

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-La Mancha.

-That gives you the lead.

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Which region's wineries are divided into the three districts of Alavesa, Alta and Baja?

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-Rioja.

-Correct.

-APPLAUSE

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With the scores on 110 and 100, we take our second picture round.

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Your picture starter is an illustration of a 19th century poem.

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10 points if you can identify the poem and its author.

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BUZZER

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Is it The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson?

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-It is indeed, yes.

-APPLAUSE

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Get these, you'll retake the lead.

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Following on from that painting by Walter Crane,

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your bonuses are three more 19th-century paintings of The Lady of Shalott.

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Five points for each artist you can identify.

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Firstly, for five...

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THEY WHISPER

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(Rossetti.)

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-(Holman Hunt.)

-Huh?

-Holman Hunt.

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-Come on.

-Nominate Tomlinson.

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-Holman Hunt.

-It is indeed, yes.

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Secondly...

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THEY WHISPER

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No? OK.

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-Rossetti?

-No. That's John Atkinson Grimshaw.

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Finally...

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THEY WHISPER

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-Waterhouse.

-It is Waterhouse, yes.

0:21:120:21:15

10 points for this... "The liberties of England

0:21:180:21:20

"and the Protestant religion I will maintain."

0:21:200:21:23

Which royal figure made that claim when...

0:21:230:21:25

-I was going to say Elizabeth I, but no...

-You lose five points.

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..when he landed at Brixham in Devon in 1688?

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William I.

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No!

0:21:370:21:38

William I? I'm sorry, that's the wrong answer! You know it's very wrong!

0:21:380:21:43

It's only out by about 600 years or so!

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It's William of Orange. William III.

0:21:450:21:47

Another starter question now. Around 200 kilometres southeast of Delhi,

0:21:470:21:51

which former Mughal capital is best known as the site of the Taj Mahal?

0:21:510:21:56

-Agra.

-Agra is correct.

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You get a set of bonuses,

0:21:580:22:00

having retaken the lead, on a physicist.

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Who was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics

0:22:020:22:05

for the "invention and development of the holographic method"?

0:22:050:22:09

I don't know.

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-No. Pass.

-Dennis Gabor.

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The initial experiments in basic holography

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were an attempt to improve what laboratory apparatus for resolving atomic lattices?

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Electron microscope.

0:22:200:22:22

OK. Electron microscope.

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Correct. Gabor took British citizenship in 1946,

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and in 1958 was appointed Professor of Applied Physics at which institution?

0:22:280:22:33

Maybe Manchester.

0:22:360:22:39

Manchester's pretty hot on physics.

0:22:390:22:41

-Manchester University?

-No, it's Imperial College London.

0:22:410:22:44

Five minutes to go.

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Born near Paris in 1882,

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which artist is regarded to have been the co-founder, with Picasso, of the Cubist Movement?

0:22:470:22:52

-Georges Braque.

-Yes.

-APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on northern England.

0:22:570:22:59

At an altitude of 893 metres, what is the highest point on the Pennine Way

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and the highest in England, outside the Lake District?

0:23:040:23:07

Erm...

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Kinder Scout, maybe.

0:23:090:23:13

-Kinder Scout.

-No. It's Cross Fell.

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The western slopes of Cross Fell are the source of which strong wind,

0:23:150:23:18

occurring particularly during the spring?

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Mistral wind!

0:23:230:23:25

-No idea.

-That's the Helm Wind.

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Rising near the summit of Cross Fell, which river flows east for more than 80 miles

0:23:280:23:32

and reaches the North Sea, south of Hartlepool?

0:23:320:23:35

The Trent.

0:23:350:23:37

I'm not sure. The Trent?

0:23:370:23:40

It's the Tees. Four-and-a-bit minutes to go.

0:23:400:23:44

10 points for this... In physics, force divided by acceleration,

0:23:440:23:47

or momentum divided by velocity, gives what...?

0:23:470:23:51

-Mass.

-It does give mass, yes.

-APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, UCL, are on novels whose titles include one or more points of the compass.

0:23:560:24:01

In each case, give the title from the description.

0:24:010:24:03

Firstly, a 1952 work by John Steinbeck,

0:24:030:24:06

the film version of which starred James Dean in his first major screen role?

0:24:060:24:10

-East of Eden.

-Correct.

0:24:100:24:12

Secondly, a 1992 novel by Haruki Murakami

0:24:120:24:15

in which Hajime, a successful jazz bar owner,

0:24:150:24:18

tries to decide between an enigmatic childhood friend and his wife?

0:24:180:24:23

THEY WHISPER

0:24:250:24:28

Let's have it, please!

0:24:320:24:33

-We don't know.

-South of the Border, West of the Sun.

0:24:330:24:36

Finally, an industrial novel of 1854 by Elizabeth Gaskell,

0:24:360:24:40

its characters include Margaret Hale and John Thornton?

0:24:400:24:43

-North and South.

-Correct.

0:24:430:24:45

Another starter question.

0:24:450:24:46

"Twelve Angry Men", "Serpico",

0:24:460:24:48

"The Fugitive Kind" and "Dog Day Afternoon"

0:24:480:24:51

are among the films of which prolific...?

0:24:510:24:54

Sidney Lumet.

0:24:540:24:56

-Sidney Lumet is correct, yes.

-APPLAUSE

0:24:560:24:59

These bonuses are on botany. Name all three structures that form the carpel

0:25:010:25:04

of a typical angiosperm.

0:25:040:25:08

-I don't know.

-No?

-Mm...

0:25:080:25:11

Come on!

0:25:110:25:13

-Pass.

-It's the stigma, the style and the ovary.

0:25:130:25:15

After fertilisation, which part of the carpel

0:25:150:25:18

develops into the pericarp of the fruit?

0:25:180:25:22

THEY WHISPER

0:25:220:25:25

Come on.

0:25:250:25:26

-The ovary.

-Specifically?

0:25:260:25:30

I don't know.

0:25:310:25:32

I'm sorry, I need a precise answer. It's the ovary wall, the outer layer of the ovary.

0:25:320:25:37

Finally, what short term denotes a dry indehiscent fruit,

0:25:370:25:40

usually containing a single seed with lignified pericarp?

0:25:400:25:44

Is that a nut?

0:25:440:25:46

-A nut.

-Correct. 10 points for this...

0:25:460:25:49

The one-word name of which south-east Asian country

0:25:490:25:52

is an anagram for a common word meaning "in addition"?

0:25:520:25:56

-Laos.

-Correct.

0:25:570:25:59

These bonuses are on place names.

0:25:590:26:02

All three answers begin with the same two letters.

0:26:020:26:05

One of the shallowest in the world, which sea is linked to the Black Sea by the Strait of Kerch?

0:26:050:26:10

-Azov.

-Correct.

0:26:100:26:12

What is the modern name of the village in the Pas-de-Calais

0:26:120:26:15

that is the site of a battle of October 1415?

0:26:150:26:19

-Agincourt?

-Erm...

0:26:190:26:22

But it's got to be "AZ", because the first two letters..

0:26:220:26:25

Agincourt?

0:26:250:26:27

It was Azincourt.

0:26:270:26:29

Which group of islands includes Graciosa, Pico and Sao Miguel?

0:26:290:26:34

-Azores.

-Correct.

0:26:340:26:36

Another starter question. In optics, what is the focal length of a perfectly planar mirror?

0:26:360:26:42

-Zero.

-Anyone like to buzz from...?

0:26:440:26:47

-Infinity.

-Infinity is correct, yes.

0:26:470:26:50

APPLAUSE

0:26:500:26:52

Your bonuses, Bangor, are on people born in the city of Rouen.

0:26:520:26:55

"Le Cid", "La Veuve" and "Cinna" are among the tragedies of which dramatist,

0:26:550:26:59

born in Rouen in 1606 and a rival of Racine?

0:26:590:27:03

-Moliere?

-No. It's Corneille.

0:27:040:27:06

Born 1791, which influential painter's work includes "The Charging Chasseur",

0:27:060:27:11

"Portrait of a Kleptomaniac" and "The Raft of the Medusa"?

0:27:110:27:14

-Erm...

-(Delacroix.)

0:27:140:27:17

-Delacroix.

-Gericault.

0:27:170:27:19

Born in Rouen in 1864, the author Maurice Leblanc

0:27:190:27:23

created which gentleman thief,

0:27:230:27:25

sometimes seen as a counterpart to Sherlock Holmes?

0:27:250:27:29

-(Raffles?)

-(Yes.)

0:27:300:27:32

-Come on.

-Pass.

-It's Arsene Lupin. 10 points for this...

0:27:320:27:35

In the subtitle of a 1947 book,

0:27:350:27:37

what was defined by Stephen Potter as "The Art Of Winning Games Without..."

0:27:370:27:41

-END-OF-QUIZ GONG

-And at the gong,

0:27:410:27:44

Bangor University have 125,

0:27:440:27:46

University College London have 190.

0:27:460:27:50

For much of that, it looked as if you were going to win, Bangor!

0:27:560:27:59

Congratulations to you, University College London.

0:27:590:28:02

Terrific score, after you finally woke up!

0:28:020:28:05

We shall look forward to seeing you, for sure.

0:28:050:28:08

Bangor, you will have to come back and win twice more to go through to the semifinals.

0:28:080:28:13

I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.

0:28:130:28:15

-Until then, it's goodbye from Bangor University...

-ALL: Goodbye.

0:28:150:28:19

-..it's goodbye from UCL.

-ALL: Goodbye.

0:28:190:28:22

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

-APPLAUSE

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