0:00:15 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:18 > 0:00:23University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello. So far, we've seen University College, London, Manchester University
0:00:32 > 0:00:36and St George's, London, win the first of the two quarter-final victories
0:00:36 > 0:00:41our draconian rules demand if they're to secure a place in the semi-finals.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43Tonight, Oxford plays Cambridge
0:00:43 > 0:00:45with two sister colleges competing
0:00:45 > 0:00:48for the first of their quarter-final victories.
0:00:48 > 0:00:52Whichever team loses will then have just one more chance to stay in the contest.
0:00:52 > 0:00:57A full copy of the quarter-final procedure is available on our website - in Sanskrit!
0:00:57 > 0:00:59The team from New College, Oxford,
0:00:59 > 0:01:01dominated Homerton College, Cambridge,
0:01:01 > 0:01:03throughout their first-round match
0:01:03 > 0:01:05and were 85 points ahead at the gong.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08They then had a slow start against York University in Round Two
0:01:08 > 0:01:11before drawing even around the half-way mark.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13After which they had things pretty much their own way
0:01:13 > 0:01:15and eventually won by a margin of 70 points.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19With an average age of 20, let's meet the New College team again.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Hello. I'm Remy Beecroft.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25I'm from Hertfordshire, studying Psychology and Philosophy.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Hi. I'm India Lenon.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29I'm from London and I'm studying Classics.
0:01:29 > 0:01:36- And their captain.- Hi, I'm Andrew Hood, from Warwickshire, studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38I'm Tom Cappleman from Bracknell in Berkshire
0:01:38 > 0:01:40and I'm studying Mathematics.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43APPLAUSE
0:01:44 > 0:01:47Also with an average age of 20,
0:01:47 > 0:01:49the team from King's College, Cambridge,
0:01:49 > 0:01:52took their time getting here, losing their first-round match
0:01:52 > 0:01:54against the medics of St George's, London.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58They survived by the clemency of the highest-scoring losers rule
0:01:58 > 0:02:01and then they, too, beat Homerton College, Cambridge, in their play-offs.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Round Two saw them win against Warwick University
0:02:04 > 0:02:08even though they scored their points only in the opening and closing minutes.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12Let's see if they can manage to stay alert throughout the whole contest this time
0:02:12 > 0:02:14as we meet them for the fourth time.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Hello. I'm Curtis Gallant.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19I'm from north London, studying Classics.
0:02:19 > 0:02:25Hi. I'm Amber Ace, from Crieff in Perthshire, and I'm also studying Classics.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28- And their captain.- Hi. I'm Fran Middleton from Chorleywood in Hertfordshire
0:02:28 > 0:02:30and I'm doing a PhD in Classics.
0:02:30 > 0:02:35Hi. I'm James Gratrex. I'm from Leeds and I'm reading Physics.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43OK. You all know the rules better than I do, doubtless,
0:02:43 > 0:02:45so fingers on buzzers. Here's the first starter for ten.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49What surname is shared by the 13th-century philosopher and scientist
0:02:49 > 0:02:51also known as Dr Mirabilis,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54a philosopher and statesman knighted by James I
0:02:54 > 0:02:58and a Dublin-born artist who painted the 1945...
0:02:59 > 0:03:01- Bacon.- Bacon is correct, yes.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Your bonuses are on rule books, King's College.
0:03:07 > 0:03:08First published in 1844,
0:03:08 > 0:03:11the book commonly referred to as Erskine May
0:03:11 > 0:03:15is a reference work detailing the laws, privileges and procedures
0:03:15 > 0:03:17of which body?
0:03:20 > 0:03:22- Stars.- No, Parliament.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Also known by the name of the peer who endorsed them,
0:03:25 > 0:03:28"No shoes or boots with springs allowed",
0:03:28 > 0:03:30and "no hugging",
0:03:30 > 0:03:32are among the rules drawn up in 1867 for which sport?
0:03:32 > 0:03:34- Boxing?- Boxing.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Correct. Marquis of Queensberry's rules.
0:03:36 > 0:03:41"Of obedience", "Of humility" and "Of excommunication for faults"
0:03:41 > 0:03:44are chapters in the monastic rule of which saint
0:03:44 > 0:03:47who gives his name to a major monastic order?
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Benedict. Or Dominic as well.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56I don't know. I don't know which one.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58- Francis of Assisi?- No, St Benedict.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Ten points for this.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02From the Greek for "belonging to the whole world",
0:04:02 > 0:04:05what adjective is used to...
0:04:06 > 0:04:09- Cosmopolitan.- No, you lose five points.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12..is used to mean representing the whole of the Christian church
0:04:12 > 0:04:15and is specifically applied to the General Councils of the early church
0:04:15 > 0:04:17and of the present-day Roman Catholic church?
0:04:19 > 0:04:24- Catholic.- No, it's ecumenical. Ten points for this.
0:04:24 > 0:04:29What polygon links the 18 segments of the James Webb space telescope mirror,
0:04:29 > 0:04:3220 of the faces of the Buckminsterfullerene molecule,
0:04:32 > 0:04:36most of the basalt columns in the Giant's Causeway...
0:04:37 > 0:04:39- Hexagon.- Hexagon is correct, yes.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46Your first set of bonuses, New College, are on roses.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
0:04:48 > 0:04:49"Old time is still a-flying
0:04:49 > 0:04:51"And this same flower that smiles today
0:04:51 > 0:04:53"Tomorrow will be dying."
0:04:53 > 0:04:56Who wrote those words in a poem in a poem of 1648,
0:04:56 > 0:04:59part of the collection known as Hesperides?
0:05:09 > 0:05:12- John Dunne.- No, it was by Herrick.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15"The rainbow comes and goes, and lovely is the rose."
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Which romantic poet wrote those words?
0:05:19 > 0:05:23- Byron.- Wordsworth. Intimations of Immortality.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27Finally, "Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29"They last while they last."
0:05:29 > 0:05:33Who made this statement in a speech at the Elysee Palace in 1963?
0:05:35 > 0:05:39- Charles de Gaulle.- Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42The figure of which ancient Greek god
0:05:42 > 0:05:45appears in the wedding procession of Theseus and Hippolyta
0:05:45 > 0:05:48in The Two Noble Kingsmen, attributed to Shakespeare and Fletcher.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51In As You Like It, he restores Rosalind to her father
0:05:51 > 0:05:53and performs the nuptial ritual.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59- Apollo?- No. King's College, one of you buzz.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Hermes?
0:06:02 > 0:06:04No, it's Hymen. Ten points for this.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06The Australian philosopher D.C.Stove
0:06:06 > 0:06:09used the name of which fictional character
0:06:09 > 0:06:12to describe an effect whereby a philosophical theory
0:06:12 > 0:06:14makes a sole exception of itself,
0:06:14 > 0:06:18and thereby claims to escape from the fate to which it condemns all other discourse.
0:06:18 > 0:06:23The idea comes from the words, "And I only am escaped to tell thee,"
0:06:23 > 0:06:26in the character's epilogue to Moby Dick.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Ahab.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32No. New College, one of you buzz.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40- Billy Budd.- Billy Budd?! No, it's Ishmael! Ten points for this.
0:06:40 > 0:06:45What four-letter prefix links the name of the layer of the Earth's atmosphere
0:06:45 > 0:06:48between the stratosphere and the thermosphere...
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Meso.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Meso is correct. Yes.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56These bonuses are on chemistry, New College.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58The winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903,
0:06:58 > 0:07:02which Swedish scientist defined an acid as a substance
0:07:02 > 0:07:07"that can yield hydrogen ions when it dissociates in a solution"?
0:07:07 > 0:07:09- Niels Bohr?- No, it's Arrhenius.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12Secondly, based on independently postulated theories
0:07:12 > 0:07:15by the Danish and English chemists after whom it is named,
0:07:15 > 0:07:18which definition of an acid describes it as a substance
0:07:18 > 0:07:24that can transfer a proton to another substance such as the solvent when it occurs in solution?
0:07:29 > 0:07:31- We don't know.- Bronsted-Lowry.
0:07:31 > 0:07:36And finally, in 1923, which US chemist gave an even more general definition of an acid
0:07:36 > 0:07:41as a substance with an affinity for electron pairs contributed by bases
0:07:41 > 0:07:44which themselves contain unshared electron pairs?
0:07:44 > 0:07:47- We don't know.- Gilbert Lewis.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Right. Our first picture round.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53For your picture starter, you'll see a map of the flight path of an air operation
0:07:53 > 0:07:54of the Second World War.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Ten points if you can name the operation.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05- Dambusters.- Dambusters' Operation Chastise. Yes.
0:08:08 > 0:08:13Your bonuses, New College, are maps of three more air operations of World War II,
0:08:13 > 0:08:16all involving carrier-borne aircraft.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19You'll see a mark on a map where the battle took place.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Five points if you can name the battle.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24Firstly, this map depicts which sea battle?
0:08:28 > 0:08:32- The Battle of Medway?- No, I can't accept Medway. It's Midway.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Secondly, identify the sea port attacked here.
0:08:43 > 0:08:44- Taranto?- Correct.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48Finally, this map shows the operation to sink which ship?
0:08:51 > 0:08:52- The Bismarck.- Correct.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Ten points for this.
0:08:54 > 0:08:59"Nice to see you", "Tea, Ern", "Please yourselves", and "Ooh, no, missus",
0:08:59 > 0:09:01are among over 1,000 catchphrases
0:09:01 > 0:09:04displayed on a comedy carpet of concrete and granite
0:09:04 > 0:09:08unveiled in October 2011 in which seaside town?
0:09:10 > 0:09:11Brighton.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Anyone want to buzz from New College?
0:09:15 > 0:09:18- Blackpool.- Blackpool is correct, yes.
0:09:21 > 0:09:26These bonuses, New College, are on 20th-century French theatre.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30Firstly, for five points, the works of which French playwright
0:09:30 > 0:09:35include Antigone in 1943 and Beckett in 1959,
0:09:35 > 0:09:39the latter being adapted for the cinema with Richard Burton in the title role?
0:09:44 > 0:09:47- Sartre.- No, Jean Anouilh.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Secondly, for five points, one of the most prominent playwrights of the late 20th century
0:09:51 > 0:09:56whose work includes Sallinger, Roberto Zucco and In the Solitude of the Cottonfields.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Bernard Henri Levy?
0:10:03 > 0:10:05No, Bernard-Marie Koltes.
0:10:05 > 0:10:11And finally, which 1955 play by Yasmina Reza concerns the argument between three friends
0:10:11 > 0:10:16over a 200,000-franc white on white painting?
0:10:16 > 0:10:18- We don't know.- "Art".
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Ten points for this.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23Listen carefully. By counting the number of letters in each word,
0:10:23 > 0:10:29the mnemonic "To disrupt a playroom is commonly a practice of children..."
0:10:30 > 0:10:32- E.- E is correct, yes.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Right. Your bonuses, this time, New College,
0:10:39 > 0:10:41are on African countries and their coastlines,
0:10:41 > 0:10:44according to the CIA World Factbook.
0:10:44 > 0:10:45Five points for this.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Ahead of South Africa and Morocco,
0:10:47 > 0:10:50which country has the longest coastline of any on the African continent,
0:10:50 > 0:10:53more than 3,000 kilometres in length?
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Um, Mauritania?
0:11:01 > 0:11:02No, Somalia.
0:11:02 > 0:11:07Of the countries of West Africa, two have coastlines of less than 100 kilometres.
0:11:07 > 0:11:08One is Gambia. Which is the other?
0:11:12 > 0:11:15- Let's go Benin.- No, it's Togo.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Benin is a bit longer, apparently.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19Finally, the shortest coastline of any country in Africa
0:11:19 > 0:11:21is 37 kilometres long
0:11:21 > 0:11:24on either side of the estuary of which major river
0:11:24 > 0:11:26after which the country is named?
0:11:29 > 0:11:32INAUDIBLE
0:11:35 > 0:11:36Nominate Beecroft.
0:11:36 > 0:11:40- The Republic of Congo.- No, I asked for the river. It's The Congo. Ten points for this.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43The name of which flower can be preceded by the words
0:11:43 > 0:11:46pot, corn, French and marsh?
0:11:46 > 0:11:49It's sometimes said to be named after the Virgin Mary
0:11:49 > 0:11:52and the common or pot species has the binomial...
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- Marigold.- Correct, yes.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01New College, these bonuses are on thought experiments.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04In his 1641 work, Meditations on First Philosophy,
0:12:04 > 0:12:07which French philosopher examined the nature of scepticism
0:12:07 > 0:12:10by invoking a putative "deceiver"?
0:12:10 > 0:12:12- Descartes.- Correct.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16In the 1981 work, Reason, Truth and History,
0:12:16 > 0:12:19which US philosopher considers the possibility
0:12:19 > 0:12:21that life is a delusive experience
0:12:21 > 0:12:25produced by the electrical stimulation of a brain in a vat?
0:12:25 > 0:12:28- Hilary Putnam.- Correct.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Born in 1831, which Scottish physicist
0:12:31 > 0:12:34created a hypothetical demon in his Theory of Heat,
0:12:34 > 0:12:38to illustrate the possibility of violating the second law of thermodynamics?
0:12:41 > 0:12:43- James Maxwell?- Correct.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45APPLAUSE
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49If the names of all the English cities
0:12:49 > 0:12:51that contain a Church of England cathedral
0:12:51 > 0:12:53are listed in alphabetical order,
0:12:53 > 0:12:56which comes last?
0:12:58 > 0:13:00- York.- York is correct, yes.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07Your bonuses, New College, are on given names and their anagrams.
0:13:07 > 0:13:11In each case, give both words from the explanation or definition.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15Firstly, the given name of the author of Nights at the Circus
0:13:15 > 0:13:18and the principal ore of lead.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25- No, we don't know.- It's Angela, as in Carter and galena.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28Secondly, the regnal name of six popes,
0:13:28 > 0:13:33including one Englishman, and the derived Si unit of plane angle.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Radian and Adrian.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41- Radian and Adrian.- Correct.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Finally, the king of Wessex
0:13:43 > 0:13:45who excelled in both rule and scholarship
0:13:45 > 0:13:51and a term meaning wider at one end than the other, as of nostrils or trousers.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53- Alfred and flared.- Correct.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55We're going to take a music round.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00All you have to do to get ten points is name the composer.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Oh. Um...Schubert.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09It is Schubert, yes. Symphony Number Eight.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16Which you, of course, know was performed 37 years after the composer's death.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19For your music bonuses, you'll hear three more classical pieces
0:14:19 > 0:14:21first performed posthumously.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Again, in each case, I want the name of the composer, please.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26Firstly, this French composer.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29JAUNTY ORCHESTRAL PIECE
0:14:49 > 0:14:50Nominate Gratrex.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53- Delibes.- No, it's Bizet,
0:14:53 > 0:14:55his Symphony in C.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Secondly, this Czech composer.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL PIECE
0:15:12 > 0:15:14- Dvorak?- Dvorak is correct.
0:15:14 > 0:15:19Symphony Number One. Finally, the Italian composer of this opera.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21WOMAN SINGS LAMENT
0:15:30 > 0:15:34- Puccini?- It is, from Turandot. Yes. Ten points for this.
0:15:34 > 0:15:39In which order of mammals are the structures known as baleen plates seen?
0:15:39 > 0:15:40Composed...
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Um, whales.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Correct. Yes. Cetacea.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49These bonuses, King's College, are on gases.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51In joules per Kelvin per mole,
0:15:51 > 0:15:54what is the numerical value to the nearest integer
0:15:54 > 0:15:58of the gas constant that appears in the ideal or perfect gas equation?
0:15:58 > 0:16:018.21, so eight.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03To the nearest integer. OK. Eight.
0:16:03 > 0:16:08Correct. What name is given to the ratio of the molar volume of a non-perfect gas
0:16:08 > 0:16:13to the molar volume of a perfect gas at the same pressure and temperature?
0:16:17 > 0:16:21- No idea. Two to one.- Two to one. - No, the compression factor.
0:16:21 > 0:16:22Derived from the Latin for "force",
0:16:22 > 0:16:25what name is given to the series of coefficients
0:16:25 > 0:16:29that appear in the generalised formulation of the perfect gas equation for non-perfect gases?
0:16:34 > 0:16:37- The Latin for force. - Oh, Latin for force. Sorry.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39I don't know.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43- Vis?- No, it's virial coefficients.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45Ten points for this.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48The letters NSS stand for which pressure group?
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Founded by Charles Bradlaugh in 1866, it describes...
0:16:53 > 0:16:55- The National Secular Society. - Correct.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01These bonuses are on the solar system, New College.
0:17:01 > 0:17:06The extensive volcanic region known as Elysium Planitia is found on which planet?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16- Venus.- No, it's Mars.
0:17:16 > 0:17:21The Valhalla multi-ringed impact crater is on which moon of Jupiter?
0:17:24 > 0:17:26- Io.- No, it's Callisto.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30Finally, which moon of Saturn has many of its geographical regions
0:17:30 > 0:17:32named after mythological paradises
0:17:32 > 0:17:35including the Ancient Egyptian Aaru,
0:17:35 > 0:17:37Malaysian Belet and Sumerian Dilmun?
0:17:47 > 0:17:50- Titan.- Correct. Another starter question.
0:17:50 > 0:17:57"Eternal President of the Republic" is, according to the preface of his country's revised 1998 constitution,
0:17:57 > 0:17:58the formal...
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Kim Jong-il.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04No. You lose five points. ..the formal title of which political figure
0:18:04 > 0:18:06who had died four years earlier?
0:18:09 > 0:18:11- Kim Il-sung.- Kim Il-sung is correct, yes.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Your bonuses are on a 16th-century pope.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18Which pope gives his name to a reform of the Julian calendar
0:18:18 > 0:18:20introduced in 1582?
0:18:20 > 0:18:24It was finally adopted in Britain in 1752.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Gregor.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28The fourth.
0:18:28 > 0:18:29No, Gregory XIII.
0:18:29 > 0:18:36At which event in Paris in August 1572 did Gregory celebrate with a Te Deum mass
0:18:36 > 0:18:40and the striking of a commemorative medal bearing the Latin words "Ugunottorum Strages"?
0:18:47 > 0:18:51- Easter.- No, it's The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Finally, built by Gregory in 1574,
0:18:53 > 0:18:56which palace in Rome has, since 1948,
0:18:56 > 0:18:58been the residence of the Italian president?
0:19:06 > 0:19:08- Sorry, don't know.- The Quirinale.
0:19:08 > 0:19:14Ten points for this. What final three letters link the surname of the author of The Motorcycle Diaries
0:19:14 > 0:19:18and the first cricketer to score 500 runs in...
0:19:19 > 0:19:21- A-R-A.- Correct.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Your bonuses, now, New College, are on world rulers.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30I will read a list of rulers who were on the throne or in power
0:19:30 > 0:19:32during the first year of a given century.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36In each case, just give me the century.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40Firstly, Vasudeva the first of the Kushan empire,
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Vologaeses the fifth of Parthia,
0:19:42 > 0:19:44and the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus?
0:19:51 > 0:19:53- The third century.- Correct.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58Yohl Ik'nal, queen of the Maya city of Palenque,
0:19:58 > 0:20:01the Byzantine Emperor Maurice
0:20:01 > 0:20:03and the Empress Suiko of Japan.
0:20:16 > 0:20:17- 12th.- No, it was the seventh century.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Finally, Charles the Simple of France,
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Arpad, Prince of the Hungarians
0:20:22 > 0:20:25and Edward the Elder, King of the Anglo-Saxons.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33- Tenth.- It is the tenth, yes.
0:20:33 > 0:20:37Another picture round now. For your picture starter you'll see a painting of a Biblical scene.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40For ten points I want the name of the figure on the left.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49- Bathsheba.- No. Anyone like to buzz from King's College?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Jezebel.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55No, it's Salome, the daughter of Herodius.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57So picture bonuses shortly.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00Another starter question in the meantime.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03Mutually intelligible with Hindi to a great extent,
0:21:03 > 0:21:05but written in a different script...
0:21:05 > 0:21:08- Urdu.- Urdu is correct, yes.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13In the picture starter you saw a painting by Gustav Moreau
0:21:13 > 0:21:15of Salome dancing before King Herod.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18Your picture bonuses are three more paintings of Salome.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20In each case, simply name the artist.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Firstly, for five, this Italian painter.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28- Caravaggio.- No, that's by Titian.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Secondly, this German painter.
0:21:40 > 0:21:45- Who painted at that sort of era? - It's not Hieronymus Bosch, is it?
0:21:45 > 0:21:46Hieronymus Bosch.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48No, it's Cranach the Younger.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Finally, this Italian painter.
0:21:50 > 0:21:55- That could be Caravaggio. I don't know.- Caravaggio.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57It is, yes. Ten points for this.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59In organic chemistry, which flammable gas
0:21:59 > 0:22:03has the molecular formula C3H8?
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Ephine? No.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Anyone like to buzz from New College?
0:22:11 > 0:22:13- Propane.- Propane is correct.
0:22:15 > 0:22:20These bonuses, New College, are on lines about books in plays by Shakespeare.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23In each case identify the play and the character speaking.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25"Knowing I love my books,
0:22:25 > 0:22:27"he furnished me from mine own library
0:22:27 > 0:22:30"with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
0:22:32 > 0:22:36- Hamlet.- No, it's Prospero in The Tempest.
0:22:36 > 0:22:42"I'll read enough when I do see the very book indeed where all my sins are writ, and that's myself."
0:22:51 > 0:22:54- Othello.- No, that's Richard II in Richard II.
0:22:54 > 0:23:00And finally, "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters."
0:23:00 > 0:23:03- Macbeth.- It is Macbeth, but the character?
0:23:03 > 0:23:08- Macduff?- No, it's Lady Macbeth. Ten points for this.
0:23:08 > 0:23:14What word of four letters forms compound nouns when preceding fall, fill, form, line,
0:23:14 > 0:23:17lord, lady, mark and slide?
0:23:18 > 0:23:20- Land.- Correct.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25These bonuses are on physics, King's College.
0:23:25 > 0:23:29The phase speed of a surface ocean wave travelling in deep water
0:23:29 > 0:23:33depends on the restoring force raised to what power?
0:23:38 > 0:23:40- Two.- Two.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42No, it's half.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45Small waves on the surface of water, called capillary waves
0:23:45 > 0:23:48are subject to what main restoring force?
0:23:55 > 0:23:57- Air resistance.- No, surface tension.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00What is the dominant restoring force at larger scales?
0:24:07 > 0:24:10You know, sort of gravity. The moon.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12- Gravity.- Gravity is correct, yes!
0:24:12 > 0:24:14Four minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:24:14 > 0:24:19In which Asian capital is Coronation Park, the site of several durbars, or assemblies,
0:24:19 > 0:24:23including one of 1911 that marked the coronation of King George V?
0:24:25 > 0:24:28- Delhi.- Delhi is correct, yes.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32Your bonuses this time are on Greek mythology.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35In each case, name the third member of the trio described.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39As named by Hesiod, who is the third of the Graces after Aglaea and Euphrosyne?
0:24:39 > 0:24:43- Charite, is it?- Charite.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45No, it's Thaleia. As named by Virgil,
0:24:45 > 0:24:48who is the third of the Furies, after Alekto and Megaera?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50I know this.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59- We don't know. Sorry. - It's Tisiphone.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01And finally, also named by Hesiod,
0:25:01 > 0:25:04who was the third of the Gorgons after Stheno and Euryale?
0:25:04 > 0:25:08- Medusa.- Medusa is right. Ten points for this. Three minutes to go.
0:25:08 > 0:25:13Which major city in the Ukraine was the scene of the mutiny on The Battleship Potemkin
0:25:13 > 0:25:15in 1905?
0:25:18 > 0:25:21- Kiev?- No. King's College, one of you buzz.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Dnipropetrovsk.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28No, it's Odessa. Ten points for this.
0:25:28 > 0:25:33Founded in 1961, the IUGS is a body devoted to international cooperation
0:25:33 > 0:25:35in which field of science?
0:25:37 > 0:25:39- Geology.- Correct.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Bonuses are on ancient art, this time.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47In which country is Blombos Cave, the site of the discovery
0:25:47 > 0:25:52of several pieces of engraved ochre that date to before 75,000 BC?
0:25:54 > 0:25:56- Norway.- No, South Africa.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Discovered in the 1860s,
0:25:58 > 0:26:00which cave in the Spanish region of Cantabria
0:26:00 > 0:26:04contains rock paintings that date to around 14,000 BC?
0:26:10 > 0:26:12No. Don't know. Sorry.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Altamira. Which cave in the Dordogne region of France
0:26:15 > 0:26:18is also noted for its prehistoric rock paintings
0:26:18 > 0:26:21discovered by accident by a group of children in 1940?
0:26:21 > 0:26:22- Lascaux.- Correct.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25Ten points for this. The main cemetery of which city
0:26:25 > 0:26:29is the last resting place of composers including Brahms, Schubert and Beethoven?
0:26:33 > 0:26:34Berlin.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Anyone like to buzz from New College? Quickly.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40- Salzburg.- No, Vienna. Ten points for this.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44A set of knotted cords hanging from a bar or central cord...
0:26:45 > 0:26:47Incan empire. Incas.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Inca is correct, yes.
0:26:52 > 0:26:53Your bonuses are on Scottish monarchs.
0:26:53 > 0:26:58Which king of Scotland died fighting a rebellion at the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488?
0:27:01 > 0:27:03- James IV.- No, James III.
0:27:03 > 0:27:10James IV invaded England and was killed when his army was decisively defeated at which battle of 1513?
0:27:12 > 0:27:13- Flodden.- Battle of Flodden.- Correct.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16James V died in 1542
0:27:16 > 0:27:20shortly after his army's defeat in which battle named in part after a major British estuary?
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Come on.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27- Tyne.- No. Solway Moss.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31Ten points for this. What illegal activity links "Swing" in 1830
0:27:31 > 0:27:33with "Gordon" in 1780...
0:27:34 > 0:27:35- Riots.- Riots is correct.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40These bonuses are about blood clotting.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41During the blood clotting process,
0:27:41 > 0:27:45which enzyme converts fibrinogen, a soluble protein,
0:27:45 > 0:27:47into fibrin, an insoluble one?
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Quickly.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51- Protease.- No, thrombin.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Which anticoagulant produced in the body
0:27:54 > 0:27:56inhibits the action of the enzyme thrombin...
0:27:56 > 0:27:59- GONG - At the gong, King's College Cambridge have 125.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01New College Oxford have 165.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08Well, you were coming back at the end,
0:28:08 > 0:28:11but you didn't come back far enough or fast enough, I'm afraid.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14But you do get to play again, sorry to have to tell you,
0:28:14 > 0:28:17and New College, you get to play again as well.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21That's the first of your necessary two victories to go through to the semi-finals.
0:28:21 > 0:28:25I hope you can join us next time for another quarter-final match.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28- Until then, it's goodbye from King's College Cambridge.- Bye!
0:28:28 > 0:28:30- And goodbye from New College Oxford. - Bye.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32And goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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