Episode 27

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0:00:18 > 0:00:20University Challenge.

0:00:20 > 0:00:23Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:23 > 0:00:26APPLAUSE

0:00:28 > 0:00:33Hello, under the rule apparently devised by Kafka on one of his off-days,

0:00:33 > 0:00:38we've already seen Manchester University and University College London win the first

0:00:38 > 0:00:43of the two quarter-final victories they need to qualify for the semi-finals.

0:00:43 > 0:00:47Tonight, two more teams are looking for their first quarter-final win.

0:00:47 > 0:00:53With only 20 points between their accumulated scores so far, they could have a pretty close fight.

0:00:53 > 0:00:58Pembroke College, Cambridge, were runners-up last year and made a good start in this year's bid

0:00:58 > 0:01:02to go one step further with a comfortable win over Lancaster in Round 1

0:01:02 > 0:01:05and a pushover against Bath in Round 2.

0:01:05 > 0:01:10With an average age of 19, let's meet the Pembroke team for the third time.

0:01:10 > 0:01:14I'm Robert Scanes, I'm from London and I'm studying Natural Sciences.

0:01:14 > 0:01:18Hello, I'm Emily Maw from Oxford and I'm studying Maths.

0:01:18 > 0:01:22- And their captain.- I'm Tom Foxall from Birmingham, studying Classics.

0:01:22 > 0:01:26I'm Jemima Hodkinson from Portsmouth and I'm studying Natural Sciences.

0:01:26 > 0:01:28APPLAUSE

0:01:30 > 0:01:37The more senior of tonight's teams with an average age of 23 is the team from St George's, London,

0:01:37 > 0:01:42who proved that being science specialists need not be a handicap in this contest

0:01:42 > 0:01:46with a close win over King's College, Cambridge, in Round 1,

0:01:46 > 0:01:51then in Round 2 they too beat Lancaster University. Let's meet the St George's team again.

0:01:51 > 0:01:54Hello, I'm Shashank Sivaji from Southend-on-Sea

0:01:54 > 0:01:56and I'm studying Medicine.

0:01:56 > 0:02:00I'm Alexander Suebsaeng from London and I'm studying Medicine.

0:02:00 > 0:02:03- Their captain.- I'm Rebecca Smoker from County Kildare

0:02:03 > 0:02:05and I'm studying Medicine.

0:02:05 > 0:02:08I'm Sam Mindel from London, also studying Medicine.

0:02:08 > 0:02:10APPLAUSE

0:02:12 > 0:02:17The rules are the same as ever. Fingers on the buzzer, your first starter for ten.

0:02:17 > 0:02:22Which regnal name links the last Bourbon King of France, the last Habsburg King of Spain,

0:02:22 > 0:02:25the man who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor...

0:02:25 > 0:02:28- Charles.- Charles is correct, yes.

0:02:31 > 0:02:35The first set of bonuses are on British currency, St George's.

0:02:35 > 0:02:38In 1696, which architect, a founder of the Royal Society,

0:02:38 > 0:02:45proposed a decimal coinage based on a silver noble divided into ten primes and one hundred seconds?

0:02:45 > 0:02:47WHISPERING

0:02:49 > 0:02:52- Wren.- It was Sir Christopher Wren.

0:02:52 > 0:02:56Equivalent to one tenth of a pound and named ultimately after an Italian city,

0:02:56 > 0:03:02which coin was introduced in 1849 as a tentative step towards a decimal currency?

0:03:02 > 0:03:04- Florin.- Correct.

0:03:04 > 0:03:09In which decade was full decimalisation finally introduced in the United Kingdom?

0:03:09 > 0:03:13- 1970s.- Correct. Ten points for this starter question.

0:03:13 > 0:03:18"The basis of his attacks on Shakespeare is really the charge, quite true, of course,

0:03:18 > 0:03:23"that Shakespeare wasn't an enlightened member of the Fabian Society."

0:03:23 > 0:03:27These words of George Orwell refer to which Irish playwright...

0:03:27 > 0:03:30- George Bernard Shaw.- Correct.

0:03:32 > 0:03:36These bonuses are on a 16th century publication, St George's.

0:03:36 > 0:03:42Although aided by several contributors, which 16th century English chronicler gave his name

0:03:42 > 0:03:48to The Chronicles Of England Scotland And Ireland, used as a source by Shakespeare?

0:03:49 > 0:03:53Geoffrey of Monmouth? I think he might be earlier. He was earlier.

0:03:53 > 0:03:57It's one of these things I used to know, but...

0:04:00 > 0:04:04- Try Geoffrey of Monmouth. I think it's wrong.- Geoffrey of Monmouth.

0:04:04 > 0:04:09Raphael Holinshed. Holinshed had access to the manuscripts of which chaplain to Henry VIII

0:04:09 > 0:04:16who acted as the King's antiquary? His papers can now be seen in the Bodleian and British Museums.

0:04:18 > 0:04:20I have no idea.

0:04:22 > 0:04:24- No idea.- Pass.- That was John Leland.

0:04:24 > 0:04:30Holinshed's Chronicles give details of an uprising of Kentish rebels against Henry VI.

0:04:30 > 0:04:32Who was its leader?

0:04:32 > 0:04:36- I think that was Wat Tyler. - Maybe it's later.

0:04:37 > 0:04:40WHISPERING

0:04:40 > 0:04:43It could be Wat Tyler.

0:04:44 > 0:04:48- Wat Tyler?- No, Jack Cade. Ten points for this.

0:04:48 > 0:04:53Known as Kelvin's Wedge, the angle enclosed by the wake of a vessel travelling in deep water

0:04:53 > 0:04:57is theoretically constant regardless of the velocity of the vessel.

0:04:57 > 0:05:02To within five degrees, what is the numerical value of this angle?

0:05:03 > 0:05:06- 90 degrees.- No. Pembroke, one of you buzz?

0:05:08 > 0:05:13- 45 degrees.- No. I'd have taken 44 because the real answer is 39.

0:05:13 > 0:05:18Ten points for this. The author of the 1944 work Full Employment In A Free Society,

0:05:18 > 0:05:23which economist gives his name to the curve that is a graphical depiction of the relationship

0:05:23 > 0:05:28between the level of unemployment in an economy and the level of vacancies?

0:05:28 > 0:05:32- Keener... Keynes, sorry.- No. One of you buzz from Pembroke?

0:05:34 > 0:05:40- The Laffer curve.- No, that's to do with taxation and income. It's William Beveridge I was looking for.

0:05:40 > 0:05:44In a 1954 book on The Nature Of the eponymous subject,

0:05:44 > 0:05:51what did the US psychologist Gordon W Allport describe as "a feeling, favourable or unfavourable,

0:05:51 > 0:05:55"toward a person or thing prior to, or not based on, actual experience"?

0:05:58 > 0:06:00- Prejudice.- Correct.

0:06:03 > 0:06:06These bonuses are on US Presidents.

0:06:06 > 0:06:11As the candidate of the Free Soil Party, which former President won 10% of the popular vote

0:06:11 > 0:06:18at the 1848 Presidential election, thus swinging the victory to the Whig, Zachary Taylor?

0:06:23 > 0:06:27- Andrew Jackson.- Andrew Jackson? - No, it's Martin Van Buren.

0:06:27 > 0:06:31Who acceded to the Presidency on the death of Zachary Taylor in 1850?

0:06:31 > 0:06:37At the 1856 Presidential election he was the candidate of the American or Know Nothing Party

0:06:37 > 0:06:39and polled 22% of the vote.

0:06:43 > 0:06:48- Try John Quincy Adams. - John Quincy Adams. - No, it was Millard Fillmore.

0:06:48 > 0:06:54In the Presidential election of 1912, which former President ran as the Progressive Party candidate,

0:06:54 > 0:06:57attracting 27% of the popular vote?

0:06:57 > 0:07:02- Theodore Roosevelt.- Correct. We're going to take our first picture round.

0:07:02 > 0:07:05For your starter, you'll see a set of flags.

0:07:05 > 0:07:11Ten points if you can work out the sequence they represent from 1972 to the present day.

0:07:22 > 0:07:25Declarations of independence?

0:07:25 > 0:07:27No. Pembroke College, one of you may buzz.

0:07:28 > 0:07:32- Secretaries of the United Nations. - I'll accept that.

0:07:32 > 0:07:36Secretaries-General of the UN, the last five nationalities thereof.

0:07:36 > 0:07:42Following on from that sequence of flags, your bonuses are three more sets of flags,

0:07:42 > 0:07:45representing sequences in world current affairs.

0:07:45 > 0:07:49Five points if you can work out the sequence they represent. Firstly...?

0:07:51 > 0:07:53WHISPERING

0:07:56 > 0:07:58World Cup winners?

0:07:58 > 0:08:00It could be, yeah.

0:08:02 > 0:08:07- World Cup winners.- No, nationalities of the last five Presidents of the European Commission.

0:08:07 > 0:08:09Secondly...?

0:08:11 > 0:08:13WHISPERING

0:08:20 > 0:08:26- Heads of the World Bank. - No, the locations of the last five G8 summits. And finally...?

0:08:31 > 0:08:33- Any ideas?- No.

0:08:36 > 0:08:42- We don't know.- Last five countries to join the United Nations, South Sudan being the most recent.

0:08:42 > 0:08:47Ten points for this. Founded in 1638 as Fort Christina by Swedish settlers,

0:08:47 > 0:08:53which city in Delaware is the largest in the state and shares its name with a village in East Sussex,

0:08:53 > 0:08:58famed for the giant figure of a Long Man carved into the South Downs hillside?

0:08:59 > 0:09:01- Wilmington.- Correct.

0:09:04 > 0:09:09Right, your bonuses are on biochemistry. I want the name of the class of enzyme,

0:09:09 > 0:09:14allocated by the Enzyme Commission of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,

0:09:14 > 0:09:18for the following reactions. Firstly, for five points,

0:09:18 > 0:09:21what are enzymes EC number 1.1?

0:09:21 > 0:09:27They transfer hydrogen and oxygen atoms or electrons from one substrate to another,

0:09:27 > 0:09:30for example, dehydrogenases and oxidases.

0:09:36 > 0:09:39- Oxo-reductases?- Oxo-reductases?

0:09:39 > 0:09:41- Shall we go with that?- Try that.

0:09:41 > 0:09:45- Oxo-reductase? - No, they're oxido-reductases.

0:09:45 > 0:09:51What are enzymes EC number 4? They catalyse the removal or addition of groups without hydrolysis,

0:09:51 > 0:09:55often forming a new double bond. Decarboxylases are examples.

0:10:06 > 0:10:09- Transferase.- Transferase. - No, they're lyases.

0:10:09 > 0:10:16What are enzymes EC number 6? They join together two molecules forming new bonds,

0:10:16 > 0:10:20while simultaneously hydrolysing ATP, for example, synthetases?

0:10:21 > 0:10:24- Ligase?- Ligase?

0:10:27 > 0:10:30- Yeah, try it.- Ligase?- Yeah.

0:10:30 > 0:10:34- Ligase.- Ligase is correct. Ten points for this.

0:10:34 > 0:10:40According to details on packaging, which common cleansing agent may contain ingredients including:

0:10:40 > 0:10:44aqua, hydrated silica, sodium bicarbonate, propylene glycol,

0:10:44 > 0:10:49pentasodium triphosphate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, sodium lauryl sulphate, sodium...

0:10:49 > 0:10:52Soap.

0:10:52 > 0:10:54No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:10:54 > 0:10:57..sodium saccharin and calcium peroxide?

0:10:57 > 0:11:00- Toothpaste. - Toothpaste is correct, yes.

0:11:02 > 0:11:0715 points for these bonuses. They're on columns in The Economist newspaper.

0:11:07 > 0:11:14Covering British current affairs, which column is named after the figure who became editor in 1861

0:11:14 > 0:11:17and later published The English Constitution?

0:11:17 > 0:11:20- Bagehot.- Bagehot.- Correct.

0:11:20 > 0:11:26Which column on public policy is named after a Biblical metaphor for the absolute power of the state,

0:11:26 > 0:11:29envisaged in an eponymous work of 1651?

0:11:29 > 0:11:31WHISPERING

0:11:34 > 0:11:37- Public policy. - It's not Leviathan?

0:11:37 > 0:11:39Yeah, it could be Leviathan.

0:11:39 > 0:11:45- Leviathan.- Correct. Named after a tree that stores water in an unusually thick trunk,

0:11:45 > 0:11:48the Baobab column is concerned with which continent?

0:11:48 > 0:11:52- Africa.- Africa.- Correct. Ten points for this.

0:11:52 > 0:11:57Which year saw the birth of the mathematician Alfred North Whitehead,

0:11:57 > 0:12:02the death of Albert, the Prince Consort, the abolition of serfdom in Russia

0:12:02 > 0:12:05and the start of the American Civil War?

0:12:06 > 0:12:08- 1861.- Correct.

0:12:11 > 0:12:15These bonuses are on the Venetian School of Renaissance artists.

0:12:15 > 0:12:21Firstly, who painted St Francis In Ecstasy, now in New York's Frick Collection,

0:12:21 > 0:12:25and the portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan in the National Gallery?

0:12:25 > 0:12:30- Bellini.- Correct. The Tempest, The Three Philosophers and Sleeping Venus

0:12:30 > 0:12:34are among the rare surviving works of which of Bellini's pupils?

0:12:39 > 0:12:42I thought Titian, but it's not rare, so it can't be Titian.

0:12:42 > 0:12:44There are lots of them.

0:12:47 > 0:12:49- Crivelli?- Crivelli?

0:12:49 > 0:12:53No, Giorgione. Left unfinished on Giorgione's untimely death,

0:12:53 > 0:12:59the landscape in the Sleeping Venus is thought to have been added by which painter,

0:12:59 > 0:13:02considered to be the greatest of the Venetian School?

0:13:02 > 0:13:06- Titian.- Titian is right, yes. We're going to take a music round.

0:13:06 > 0:13:10For your starter, you'll hear an excerpt from an 18th century song.

0:13:10 > 0:13:13Ten points if you can tell me who's singing.

0:13:13 > 0:13:19# Plaisir d'amour

0:13:19 > 0:13:22# Ne dure... #

0:13:22 > 0:13:25- Charlotte Church. - It is Charlotte Church, yes.

0:13:29 > 0:13:33She won the British Artist of the Year Award at the Classical Brit Awards in 2000.

0:13:33 > 0:13:40For your bonuses, music from other recipients of the Classical Brit Awards. Five points for each one.

0:13:40 > 0:13:45Firstly, the soloist here who was winner of the Male Artist of the Year Award in 2003?

0:13:45 > 0:13:47CLASSICAL VIOLIN MUSIC

0:14:15 > 0:14:21- We don't know. - It took a long time to come to that conclusion! It's Nigel Kennedy.

0:14:21 > 0:14:26Secondly, this Composer of the Year winner in 2009.

0:14:26 > 0:14:28MUSIC: "Red Dwarf" THEME

0:14:40 > 0:14:46- John Rutter. - No, that's Howard Goodall, from the Red Dwarf Series One opening.

0:14:46 > 0:14:50And, finally, these performers who won Album of the Year in 2010.

0:14:50 > 0:14:56CHOIR: # In fields of sacrifice

0:14:58 > 0:15:04# Heroes paid the price... #

0:15:04 > 0:15:10- Il Divo?- No, it's Only Men Aloud. Ten points for this. In ecology,

0:15:10 > 0:15:15what five-letter word describes the role or functional position of a species...

0:15:15 > 0:15:18- Niche?- Niche is right, yes.

0:15:21 > 0:15:23These bonuses are on epidemiology.

0:15:23 > 0:15:31In which type of retrospective epidemiological study is the exposure of a certain risk factor

0:15:31 > 0:15:36compared between two groups of individuals, who either have or do not have the outcome of interest

0:15:36 > 0:15:39at the present time?

0:15:43 > 0:15:46- Cohorts?- No, a case-control study.

0:15:46 > 0:15:52In which type of prospective epidemiological study is a group of subjects specified in advance

0:15:52 > 0:15:57and followed up in the future to determine which individuals develop the outcome of interest?

0:15:57 > 0:16:02- Cohorts.- Correct. Which type of epidemiological study uses population groups,

0:16:02 > 0:16:09such as those in different countries, rather than individuals as the basic unit of comparison?

0:16:16 > 0:16:19Population study? I don't know.

0:16:21 > 0:16:24- Population study?- Ecological study.

0:16:24 > 0:16:2810 points for this starter. What is the largest integer n

0:16:28 > 0:16:34for which the Fermat equation x to the n plus y to the n equals z to the n

0:16:34 > 0:16:38possesses a solution in positive integers?

0:16:38 > 0:16:41- Two.- Two is correct, yes.

0:16:43 > 0:16:46These bonuses are on pilgrims' paths.

0:16:46 > 0:16:53The 130-mile ancient trackway called The Pilgrims' Way leads to Thomas A Becket's shrine at Canterbury.

0:16:53 > 0:16:58In which cathedral city does it begin?

0:17:01 > 0:17:03Norwich?

0:17:04 > 0:17:06To Canterbury. Could be.

0:17:06 > 0:17:09- Yeah.- Norwich? - No, it's in Winchester.

0:17:09 > 0:17:15The Edge of Wales Walk follows an ancient pilgrimage route to which Welsh island,

0:17:15 > 0:17:21the site of a religious house founded by Saint Cadfan in the 6th century?

0:17:21 > 0:17:25- Anglesey.- No, Bardsey Island. St Cuthbert's Way begins at Melrose

0:17:25 > 0:17:29and finishes on which island, where the Saint was a bishop from 685?

0:17:31 > 0:17:37- Lindisfarne.- Correct. 10 points for this. Expressed in a book with the translated English title

0:17:37 > 0:17:43Classic of the Way, which philosophy, stressing the unity of humanity and the universe,

0:17:43 > 0:17:47was founded more than 2,000 years ago by Lao-Tzu?

0:17:47 > 0:17:51- Daoism?- Daoism or Taoism is correct, yes.

0:17:53 > 0:17:55These bonuses are on world capitals.

0:17:55 > 0:18:02In each case, name the city and also tell me the independent sovereign country of which it is the capital.

0:18:02 > 0:18:07Which city appears in the title of a 1985 film directed by Woody Allen?

0:18:07 > 0:18:13It concerns a fictional character who steps out of a cinema screen to enter the real world.

0:18:23 > 0:18:25Try Paris, France.

0:18:25 > 0:18:27That's a good guess.

0:18:27 > 0:18:32- Paris, France?- No Cairo, Egypt, as in The Purple Rose of Cairo.

0:18:32 > 0:18:36Secondly, along with the title of a novel by Vladimir Nabokov,

0:18:36 > 0:18:41which city appears in the title of a 2003 memoir by Azar Nafisi?

0:18:44 > 0:18:46Anyone know Nabokov?

0:18:53 > 0:19:01- Nabokov. Shall we try Moscow?- Come on.- Moscow, Russia?- Tehran, Iran, as in Reading Lolita In Tehran.

0:19:01 > 0:19:07Finally, the given name of the popular music performer who married David Beckham in 1999?

0:19:07 > 0:19:11- Victoria. Where's that the capital of?- Where's Victoria?

0:19:19 > 0:19:24- Is it a Caribbean state? - It could be.

0:19:24 > 0:19:26- St Lucia?- Let's have it, please.

0:19:26 > 0:19:32- Victoria, St Lucia?- No, Victoria, Seychelles. 10 points for this.

0:19:32 > 0:19:37At the crossing point of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the River Ob,

0:19:37 > 0:19:41what is the largest city of Siberia and third-largest of the Russian Republic?

0:19:41 > 0:19:46- Yakutsk?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Pembroke College?

0:19:49 > 0:19:53- Nizhny Novgorod?- No, Novosibirsk. 10 points for this.

0:19:53 > 0:19:59What word may precede "fracture", an injury where a broken bone pierces the skin,

0:19:59 > 0:20:03and "eye" in the name of a sight organ, composed...

0:20:03 > 0:20:05- Compound.- Compound is correct, yes.

0:20:07 > 0:20:11These bonuses are on vertebrate bone structure.

0:20:11 > 0:20:17From the Greek meaning "growing through", what term denotes the mid-section of long-limb bones?

0:20:17 > 0:20:22In adults, their central medullary cavities are filled with yellow marrow.

0:20:27 > 0:20:30- Metatropic?- No...I don't know.

0:20:36 > 0:20:42- Metatropic?- No, diaphysis. What term denotes the expanded ends of limb bones?

0:20:42 > 0:20:48They contain red marrow and articulate with adjacent bones to form joints.

0:21:02 > 0:21:06- Foot.- All the other team know! It's epiphyses.

0:21:06 > 0:21:12What connective tissue forms the smooth articulating surface of the epiphyses of long bones?

0:21:12 > 0:21:16- Cartilage.- Correct. We'll take our second picture round.

0:21:16 > 0:21:21For your picture starter, tell me the name of this object.

0:21:26 > 0:21:30- The Hubble Space Telescope? - It is, yes!

0:21:31 > 0:21:39It was launched into orbit in 1990. Your bonuses are three stellar objects photographed by the Hubble.

0:21:39 > 0:21:43Firstly for five, what term denotes a galaxy of this type?

0:21:43 > 0:21:48It's not a quasar, I don't think, but it's tempting to say quasar.

0:21:48 > 0:21:53- It could be... - Is it a spiral galaxy?

0:21:53 > 0:21:56It doesn't look like a spiral.

0:21:56 > 0:22:00- OK, try it.- Quasar or spiral? - Not a quasar.- Spiral.

0:22:00 > 0:22:06No, it's a starburst galaxy. Secondly, the popular name of this nebula?

0:22:07 > 0:22:09Something eye nebula. What is it?

0:22:15 > 0:22:17Let's have it, please.

0:22:17 > 0:22:21- Owl's Eye?- No, Crab Nebula. And finally...

0:22:21 > 0:22:25- That's Mars.- Mars? - That is Mars, yes.

0:22:25 > 0:22:28Right, 10 points for this.

0:22:28 > 0:22:34In 2003, Paul Crake of Australia set the record of 9 minutes 33 seconds for running a vertical distance

0:22:34 > 0:22:40of more than 300 metres up the 1,576 steps and 86 storeys of which landmark?

0:22:41 > 0:22:45- The BT Tower.- No. Anyone want to buzz from St George's?

0:22:46 > 0:22:49- Empire State Building?- Correct.

0:22:51 > 0:22:57Your bonuses are on politicians. A Labour MP from 1987 to 2010,

0:22:57 > 0:23:00who published the novel A Very British Coup in 1982?

0:23:00 > 0:23:05His third volume of diaries, entitled A Walk-On Part, came out in 2011.

0:23:05 > 0:23:08- Tony Benn? - That's what I thought.

0:23:08 > 0:23:13- 2010 seems a bit late. - I think he'd left by then. Try it.

0:23:13 > 0:23:17- Tony Benn?- Tony Benn? No, he's not so modest. It's Chris Mullin.

0:23:17 > 0:23:23Who was elected Conservative MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire in 2010? She previously published works

0:23:23 > 0:23:30in the chick-lit genre, including Sparkles, Glamour and The Devil You Know.

0:23:30 > 0:23:36- Louise Mensch?- Correct. Who published her debut novel The Clematis Tree in 2000

0:23:36 > 0:23:42- when she was Conservative MP for Maidstone and The Weald? - Could that be Ann Widdecombe?

0:23:42 > 0:23:45- Ann Widdecombe? - Correct, yes. 10 points for this.

0:23:45 > 0:23:51In chess, a position in which every legal move gives a clear advantage to the opponent

0:23:51 > 0:23:55is known by what German term, literally meaning "move obligation"?

0:24:00 > 0:24:06It's Zugzwang. 10 points for this. Varroa Destructor is a parasitic mite on the larvae of which species

0:24:06 > 0:24:09of the genus apis, an insect...

0:24:09 > 0:24:15- Wasps.- No, you lose 5 points. ..an insect important both economically and ecologically?

0:24:15 > 0:24:19- Honey bee. - Honey bee is correct, yes.

0:24:20 > 0:24:26These bonuses are on a composer. Which Hungarian composer and pianist received minor orders

0:24:26 > 0:24:30in the Catholic Church in 1865? His religious works include Christus.

0:24:30 > 0:24:35- Liszt.- Correct. Liszt had three children by the Comtesse d'Agoult,

0:24:35 > 0:24:42one being their daughter Cosima who, in 1870, became the wife of which German composer?

0:24:47 > 0:24:54- Come on.- Wagner.- Correct. Which Chinese concert pianist marked the bicentenary of Liszt's birth

0:24:54 > 0:24:59with the release in 2011 of his album Liszt: My Piano Hero?

0:24:59 > 0:25:02- Lang Lang.- Correct. 10 points for this.

0:25:02 > 0:25:07The Welsh word for "small" shares a spelling with the surname of which family of composers?

0:25:07 > 0:25:12Its best-known member was born in Eisenach in 1685.

0:25:14 > 0:25:17- Bach?- Bach is correct, yes.

0:25:17 > 0:25:21These bonuses are on fictional architects.

0:25:21 > 0:25:27Gary Cooper played the architect Howard Roark in a 1949 film adaptation of The Fountainhead,

0:25:27 > 0:25:29a novel by which author?

0:25:31 > 0:25:38- Pass.- Ayn Rand. Architecture is a talent of Erik, title character of which 1910 Gaston Leroux novel,

0:25:38 > 0:25:42adapted for the stage and screen on numerous occasions?

0:25:45 > 0:25:51- Phantom of the Opera?- Correct. Halvard Solness is the title character in which play by Ibsen?

0:25:54 > 0:25:57Try... Oh, The Master Builder.

0:25:57 > 0:26:02- Yeah.- The Master Builder? - Correct. 10 points for this. What designation links

0:26:02 > 0:26:05Leamington Spa in 1838, Tunbridge Wells in...

0:26:05 > 0:26:09- Royal.- Royal is correct, yes.

0:26:09 > 0:26:15Your bonuses are on organic chemistry. The symbol R is used for which group, formed from an alkane

0:26:15 > 0:26:20by the removal of a single hydrogen atom?

0:26:22 > 0:26:28- Alkyl?- Correct. What name is given to the simplest alkyl group, also known as the CH3 group?

0:26:29 > 0:26:35- Methyl.- Correct. Which methyl is a flammable toxic liquid used as a solvent and anti-freeze?

0:26:35 > 0:26:39It can be catalytically converted to petrol and has the formula CH3OH.

0:26:43 > 0:26:50- Methanol?- Correct. 10 points for this. In physics, an alpha particle is what kind of atomic nucleus?

0:26:51 > 0:26:54- Hydrogen.- No. Anyone buzz from Pembroke?

0:26:54 > 0:26:58- Helium.- Helium is correct, yes.

0:26:58 > 0:27:03Your bonuses are on novels whose titles are taken from plays by Shakespeare.

0:27:03 > 0:27:10Cakes and Ale, taken from a line in Twelfth Night, is a novel of 1930 by which author?

0:27:12 > 0:27:18- Come on.- Somerset Maugham?- Correct. Which novel of 1827 by Thomas Hardy takes its title...

0:27:18 > 0:27:25- Far From The Madding Crowd. - No. From As You Like It, it's Under The Greenwood Tree.

0:27:25 > 0:27:30Finally, forming the title of a 1968 novel by Agatha Christie, which six words precede,

0:27:30 > 0:27:35"Something wicked this way comes," spoken by a witch in Macbeth?

0:27:35 > 0:27:41- By the pricking of my thumbs. - Correct. Censured in 2004 for referring to the Queen...

0:27:41 > 0:27:43GONG

0:27:51 > 0:27:55You didn't seem to be on song, Pembroke, but never mind.

0:27:55 > 0:28:02We'll see both of you again. I hope you can join us next time for another quarter-final match.

0:28:02 > 0:28:08Until then, goodbye from Pembroke College, goodbye from St George's and goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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