0:00:16 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:26'Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman...'
0:00:28 > 0:00:33Hello. By the end of tonight's match, we'll know the first of the four teams
0:00:33 > 0:00:36who'll be competing in the semifinals of this contest.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40Both institutions already have one quarterfinal victory behind them
0:00:40 > 0:00:44so whoever wins tonight will qualify automatically,
0:00:44 > 0:00:47while the losers will get one last chance to do so.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51Manchester are the reigning University Challenge champions.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54This team has already seen off two Oxford institutions -
0:00:54 > 0:01:00Lincoln College, only very narrowly in Round One, and Magdalen College, by a much wider margin in Round Two.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Last time we saw them, they beat Imperial College London
0:01:02 > 0:01:06to notch up the first of their quarterfinal wins.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Let's see if tonight gives them their second.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Hi, I'm David Brice, I'm from Kingston upon Thames
0:01:11 > 0:01:14and I study economics.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18I'm Adam Barr, I'm from Muswell Hill and I'm studying physics with astrophysics.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20- And their captain... - Hi, I'm Richard Gilbert,
0:01:20 > 0:01:23I'm from Warwickshire and I'm studying linguistics.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Hello. I'm Debbie Brown, I'm from Buxton in Derbyshire
0:01:26 > 0:01:29and I'm studying for a PhD in pain epidemiology.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32APPLAUSE
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Three institutions have already been demolished
0:01:38 > 0:01:41by tonight's team from University College London.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43Exeter University were the first victims,
0:01:43 > 0:01:46Jesus College, Oxford succumbed in Round Two
0:01:46 > 0:01:51and Bangor University lost out to them in their first quarterfinal appearance.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54Let's meet the team from University College London again.
0:01:54 > 0:01:59Hello, I'm Adam Papaphilippopoulos, I'm from London and I'm reading for an MA in philosophy.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03I'm Tom Tyszczuk Smith, I'm from Cambridge and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06- Let's meet their captain.- Hi, I'm Simon Dennis, also from London
0:02:06 > 0:02:09and I'm studying the history and philosophy of science.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12Hi, I'm Tom Parton, I'm from Penkridge in Staffordshire
0:02:12 > 0:02:14and I'm studying natural sciences.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16APPLAUSE
0:02:18 > 0:02:22Right, you all know the rules. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26Probably derived from a related English dialect word for "fool",
0:02:26 > 0:02:31which short word has been defined as "an unfashionable or socially inept person",
0:02:31 > 0:02:34but when attached to a modifier such as "computer",
0:02:34 > 0:02:36can also denote "a knowledgeable..."
0:02:37 > 0:02:40- Nerd.- No. You lose five points.
0:02:40 > 0:02:44.."knowledgeable and obsessive enthusiast"?
0:02:44 > 0:02:46- Geek.- Geek is correct, yes.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51These bonuses are on peace, Manchester.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54"Since wars begin in the minds of men,
0:02:54 > 0:02:58"it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed."
0:02:58 > 0:03:04These are the opening words of the constitution of which agency of the United Nations?
0:03:04 > 0:03:06The Security Council?
0:03:06 > 0:03:08That's something different.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Shall I say the Security Council?
0:03:11 > 0:03:14- Go for Security Council. - The Security Council?
0:03:14 > 0:03:16No, it's UNESCO.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20Secondly, from which congress did Benjamin Disraeli return in 1878 saying,
0:03:20 > 0:03:25"Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace but a peace I hope with honour"?
0:03:25 > 0:03:28- Berlin.- Yes.- Berlin. - The Congress of Berlin is correct.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30In 2011, which European leader said,
0:03:30 > 0:03:35"No-one should think a further half century of peace and prosperity is assured. It isn't.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39"That is why I say if the euro fails, Europe will fail"?
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Merkel.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44- Angela Merkel.- Correct. 10 points for this starter question.
0:03:44 > 0:03:4620 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead
0:03:46 > 0:03:51and Berggasse 19 in the Alsergrund district of Vienna
0:03:51 > 0:03:54are now both museums, having been the homes...
0:03:55 > 0:03:59- Sigmund Freud. - Sigmund Freud is correct, yes.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03Your first bonuses, UCL, are on a US composer.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07In 1932, the musical "Of Thee I Sing"
0:04:07 > 0:04:09won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama,
0:04:09 > 0:04:12but because it was the first musical to win the prize
0:04:12 > 0:04:15only the lyricist and authors of the book were recognised,
0:04:15 > 0:04:20excluding the contribution of which composer?
0:04:20 > 0:04:23- Bernstein? - It's kind of early for Bernstein.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26It could be Gershwin, I guess.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Gershwin?
0:04:27 > 0:04:28It was George Gershwin.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Opening with a distinctive clarinet trill and glissando,
0:04:31 > 0:04:37which Gershwin concert work was a 1924 commission from the conductor Paul Whiteman?
0:04:37 > 0:04:40- Rhapsody in Blue.- Rhapsody in Blue.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Correct. "Summertime" and "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin"
0:04:42 > 0:04:48are songs from which opera by George and Ira Gershwin, based on a novel and play by DuBose Heyward?
0:04:48 > 0:04:51- Porgy and Bess.- Correct. Another starter question now.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54In 2011, the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft
0:04:54 > 0:04:59discovered that Venus, along with Earth and Mars, has what layer in its atmosphere
0:04:59 > 0:05:02at around 100 kilometres above the planet's surface?
0:05:02 > 0:05:04It's formed when sunlight breaks down...
0:05:05 > 0:05:09- The ozone layer? - Ozone layer is correct, yes.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11APPLAUSE
0:05:11 > 0:05:15These bonuses, Manchester, are on chemistry. Listen carefully.
0:05:15 > 0:05:20The atomic masses of sodium and chlorine are approximately 23 and 35.5 respectively.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24How many grams of sodium chloride should be added to one litre of water
0:05:24 > 0:05:28to form a 2 molar solution?
0:05:30 > 0:05:32- 97.- 97?- Yes.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35- 97?- No, it's 117 grams.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38What is the molar concentration in moles per litre
0:05:38 > 0:05:42of a solution that contains 29.25 grams of sodium chloride
0:05:42 > 0:05:45in 100 cubic centimetres of water?
0:05:45 > 0:05:49That's... How many moles of sodium chloride?
0:05:49 > 0:05:5129.25?
0:05:51 > 0:05:54- So... - HE MUMBLES
0:05:54 > 0:05:55Erm...
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Half a mole...
0:05:58 > 0:06:00- Five.- Five?
0:06:00 > 0:06:01Five?
0:06:01 > 0:06:02Five is correct, yes.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05How many extra litres of water should be added to a solution
0:06:05 > 0:06:09that contains 90 grams of sodium chloride, dissolved in one litre of water,
0:06:09 > 0:06:15to form a solution that contains 30 grams of sodium chloride per litre?
0:06:17 > 0:06:18Two...
0:06:18 > 0:06:23- I'll go for what you say because you know what you're doing. - I don't!- I'm lost.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25- Two?- Two is correct, yes!
0:06:25 > 0:06:2610 points for this.
0:06:26 > 0:06:31After a general in the Mexican Army during the MexicanAmerican War of 1846 to '48,
0:06:31 > 0:06:33what name is given to the neighbourhood of San Francisco,
0:06:33 > 0:06:37noted since the late 1960s as a centre of gay activism?
0:06:37 > 0:06:41- The Castro.- The Castro is correct.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45These bonuses are on hyperreality.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Firstly, in an essay published in the 1970s,
0:06:48 > 0:06:52which Italian novelist claimed that hyperreality was the defining...?
0:06:52 > 0:06:54- Umberto Eco.- Correct.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57Which French thinker, once described as a philosopher of consumerism,
0:06:57 > 0:07:00illustrated his concept of hyperreality
0:07:00 > 0:07:03by reading his poetry in a bar in Las Vegas
0:07:03 > 0:07:06dressed in a gold lame suit?
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Nominate Papaphilippopoulos.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11- Baudrillard. - Baudrillard is correct, yes.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13"It's meant to be an infantile world,
0:07:13 > 0:07:17"in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the 'real' world."
0:07:17 > 0:07:21These words by Baudrillard refer to what construction in Anaheim, California,
0:07:21 > 0:07:26cited by both him and Eco as an example of hyperreality?
0:07:26 > 0:07:28- Disneyland.- Disneyland is correct.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35You are going to see a graph of a function in the form of
0:07:35 > 0:07:37R equals F of theta.
0:07:37 > 0:07:4110 points if you can identify the function.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54X.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56- Nope! - LAUGHTER
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Elliptical.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01No, it's R equals sin of theta.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Picture bonuses shortly. 10 points for this starter question.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Quote, "Even such is time,
0:08:06 > 0:08:09"which takes in trust Our youth, our joys and all we have,
0:08:09 > 0:08:12"And pays us but with age and dust."
0:08:12 > 0:08:16These are the first lines of the epitaph of which courtier and explorer,
0:08:16 > 0:08:19written by him the night before his execution...?
0:08:20 > 0:08:21Walter Raleigh.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24- Sir Walter Raleigh is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:08:25 > 0:08:28You get the picture bonuses, polar graphs of functions,
0:08:28 > 0:08:32all of which are transformations of the function "R equals sin of theta".
0:08:32 > 0:08:38In each case, I want you to identify the function plotted on the graph.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Firstly for five...
0:08:44 > 0:08:48- Maybe R equals sin squared theta. - OK. Yes?
0:08:48 > 0:08:50R equals sin squared theta?
0:08:50 > 0:08:53No. It's R equals sin of two theta.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Secondly, for five points...
0:09:04 > 0:09:06R equals sin half theta.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09R equals sin half theta.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11No. It's R equals sin squared theta.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14And finally...
0:09:16 > 0:09:18R equals two sin theta.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21- R equals two sin theta. - That is correct.
0:09:21 > 0:09:2410 points for this... Meaning a "source of evil or a poison",
0:09:24 > 0:09:29what short word is found in the common name of the plant Aconitum lycoctonum
0:09:29 > 0:09:33thought to deter wolves, and the composite...?
0:09:33 > 0:09:37- Bane.- Bane is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:09:38 > 0:09:42Your bonuses this time are on language diversity,
0:09:42 > 0:09:47using data published by UNESCO in 2009. Listen carefully.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50The Diversity Index states the probability
0:09:50 > 0:09:55that any two people of a given country, selected at random, will have different mother tongues.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59By this index, Papua New Guinea has the greatest diversity,
0:09:59 > 0:10:02with an index of 0.990,
0:10:02 > 0:10:06taking into account more than 50 immigrant languages.
0:10:06 > 0:10:11What is the index of the UK? You can have 0.05 either way.
0:10:17 > 0:10:200.2 or something?
0:10:20 > 0:10:220.2.
0:10:22 > 0:10:23No. It's 0.14.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27And secondly, of the 27 EU member states,
0:10:27 > 0:10:31which Western European country has the highest language diversity index
0:10:31 > 0:10:35at 0.734?
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Germany?
0:10:37 > 0:10:38I was going to say Belgium.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41THEY CONFER
0:10:42 > 0:10:45I'd guess a small one.
0:10:45 > 0:10:46Why not?
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Belgium.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Correct. Five EU member states have indexes below 0.1.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Those with the lowest are Malta and Portugal.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57For five points, name one of the others.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Another small one.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04- Denmark?- Somewhere like Denmark, Norway, somewhere like that.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08They've got a lot of immigrants.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11ALL CONFER AT ONCE
0:11:11 > 0:11:12I reckon Denmark.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16- Denmark.- Yes. The others are Poland and the Czech Republic.
0:11:16 > 0:11:1710 points for this...
0:11:17 > 0:11:21What annual event was held at the Baltic Gallery in Gateshead in 2011 and...?
0:11:23 > 0:11:25The Turner Prize ceremony.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27I'll accept that, yes. Turner Prize exhibition.
0:11:27 > 0:11:31You get the bonuses, then, UCL. They're on fictional characters.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34Queequeg, a Polynesian prince-turned-whaler
0:11:34 > 0:11:37who both eats and shaves with his harpoon,
0:11:37 > 0:11:40is a character in which novel of 1851?
0:11:40 > 0:11:42- Moby Dick.- Correct.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46Daniel Quilp, described as being "so low in stature as to be quite a dwarf,
0:11:46 > 0:11:49"though his head and face were large enough for the body of a giant"
0:11:49 > 0:11:52appears in which novel by Charles Dickens?
0:11:52 > 0:11:54THEY WHISPER
0:11:54 > 0:11:59Nickleby. Nicholas Nickleby. I don't know.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01- Nicholas Nickleby. - No. It's The Old Curiosity Shop.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05And finally, Mr Quelch is the form-master at Greyfriars School
0:12:05 > 0:12:08in a series of books by Frank Richards
0:12:08 > 0:12:10about which eponymous character?
0:12:10 > 0:12:13- Billy Bunter. - Correct. 10 points for this...
0:12:13 > 0:12:17Giving your answer as the actual value, rather than an expression of it,
0:12:17 > 0:12:23what is the highest common factor of the following two numbers given in their prime factorisation -
0:12:23 > 0:12:27two to the power 100 times three cubed
0:12:27 > 0:12:31and two cubed times three to the power 100?
0:12:35 > 0:12:372... Er, 216?
0:12:37 > 0:12:40- Correct! - APPLAUSE
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Your bonuses are on mathematics, UCL.
0:12:43 > 0:12:48Renowned for his list of problems posed at the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians,
0:12:48 > 0:12:50which German mathematician...?
0:12:50 > 0:12:52- David Hilbert.- Correct.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55A concatenation of the Greek for "straight and angled",
0:12:55 > 0:12:58what word is used to describe two points in a Hilbert space,
0:12:58 > 0:13:01whose inner product is zero?
0:13:02 > 0:13:07- I didn't hear the first part!- A concatenation of straight and angled.
0:13:07 > 0:13:08HE MUMBLES
0:13:09 > 0:13:11THEY WHISPER
0:13:11 > 0:13:12Perpendicular.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15- Perpendicular.- No. It's orthogonal.
0:13:15 > 0:13:20Which well-known theorem of geometry generalises to all Hilbert spaces
0:13:20 > 0:13:24where it asserts that the squared norm of the sum of two orthogonal vectors
0:13:24 > 0:13:27is equal to the sum of their squared norms?
0:13:30 > 0:13:32THEY WHISPER
0:13:32 > 0:13:33- Pythagoras' theorem.- Correct.
0:13:33 > 0:13:3610 points for this... Listen carefully.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40Which girl's name can be spelled out using letters of the NATO spelling alphabet,
0:13:40 > 0:13:42represented in order
0:13:42 > 0:13:45by words that correspond to a Shakespearean character,
0:13:45 > 0:13:47a Greek letter, a month,
0:13:47 > 0:13:49a nymph in Greek mythology...?
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Janet.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Correct. I didn't even get to dance - tango.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58APPLAUSE
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Your bonuses are on an empire.
0:14:00 > 0:14:06Firstly for five points... Exiled by the British to Rangoon, where he died in 1862,
0:14:06 > 0:14:10Bahadur Shah II was the last emperor of which dynasty,
0:14:10 > 0:14:13whose power had been in decline since the mid-18th century?
0:14:13 > 0:14:15The Mughal Empire.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19Correct. A direct descendant of both Timur and Genghis Khan,
0:14:19 > 0:14:21who founded the Mughal Empire in 1526?
0:14:21 > 0:14:24He was succeeded by Humayun four years later.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27- Akbar.- Yes.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29- Akbar?- No. It's Babur.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33Completed in 1648 and known in Hindi as "Lal Qila",
0:14:33 > 0:14:37which complex in Delhi was built by the Emperor Shah Jahan
0:14:37 > 0:14:40and is named after its massive enclosing walls of sandstone?
0:14:40 > 0:14:43- Red Fort.- Red Fort?- Yes.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45- Red Fort?- It is the Red Fort.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48We'll take a music round now, with the scores on 60 and 120.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51You'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:51 > 0:14:5410 points if you can name the German composer.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58GENTLE, LILTING MUSIC
0:15:00 > 0:15:02Schubert.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04No. You can hear more, Manchester.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06MUSIC RESUMES
0:15:14 > 0:15:17- Strauss.- It is Richard Strauss, yes.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20APPLAUSE
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Beim Schlafengehen.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26It was selected by Nick Clegg in the Radio 3 programme Private Passions.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28You bonuses are three more classical pieces
0:15:28 > 0:15:31chosen by prominent politicians as their Private Passions.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34In each case, all you have to do is name the composer.
0:15:34 > 0:15:39Firstly, the name of this Spanish composer, the piece chosen by Michael Portillo.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42DARK, DRAMATIC MUSIC
0:15:45 > 0:15:48MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Nominate Brice.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07- Albeniz? - No. That was Manuel de Falla.
0:16:07 > 0:16:12Secondly, the name of this Italian composer, the piece chosen by Vince Cable?
0:16:12 > 0:16:15UPLIFTING, PLAYFUL MUSIC
0:16:29 > 0:16:32MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:16:38 > 0:16:39- I don't know.- Verdi.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42No. It's Bellini, part of "I Puritani".
0:16:42 > 0:16:46And finally, the name of this German composer, the piece chosen by Neil Kinnock?
0:16:46 > 0:16:49JOYOUS, UPLIFTING MUSIC
0:16:51 > 0:16:54MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Mendelssohn, maybe?
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Let's have an answer.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19- Bach.- No. That's Bruch, part of his Violin Concerto No 1.
0:17:19 > 0:17:2110 points for this starter...
0:17:21 > 0:17:27In microbiology, what term denotes the short, often circular molecules of DNA in bacteria...?
0:17:27 > 0:17:29- Plasmid.- Correct.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31APPLAUSE
0:17:32 > 0:17:36University College London, these bonuses are on magazines.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40Les Temps Modernes was founded in Paris in 1945 by which couple,
0:17:40 > 0:17:44both of whom were existentialist philosophers and novelists?
0:17:44 > 0:17:45Satre and de Beauvoir.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Correct. Still in print,
0:17:47 > 0:17:51which weekly publication was founded by Beatrice and Sidney Webb in 1913
0:17:51 > 0:17:53as a voice for socialism?
0:17:53 > 0:17:57- Is that the, erm... - New Internationalist, maybe?
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Possibly. Or the New Statesman, maybe?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Is it? I'll try it.
0:18:02 > 0:18:03- New Statesman.- Correct.
0:18:03 > 0:18:08The Egoist, founded in London in 1914 by the feminist Dora Marsden,
0:18:08 > 0:18:11was greatly influenced by which US poet,
0:18:11 > 0:18:13the leader of the Imagists?
0:18:14 > 0:18:16- Ezra...- Ezra Pound?
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Why not? Ezra Pound.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Correct. 10 points for this starter question...
0:18:22 > 0:18:27The name of which country is the origin of the names of a slow dance or promenade,
0:18:27 > 0:18:29a lively dance in 2-4 time
0:18:29 > 0:18:32and a highly radioactive metallic element...?
0:18:33 > 0:18:36- Poland.- Poland is correct, yes.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38APPLAUSE
0:18:38 > 0:18:42This set of bonuses are on occupational diseases, UCL.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45What two-word name was commonly given to phosphorus necrosis,
0:18:45 > 0:18:48a disease once prevalent in workers in match factories
0:18:48 > 0:18:51and caused by exposure to high levels of phosphorous?
0:18:51 > 0:18:54THEY CONFER Nominate Parton.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57- Phossy jaw.- Phossy jaw is correct.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59Byssinosis is a respiratory disorder,
0:18:59 > 0:19:04particularly common in workers inhaling dust particles produced by which crop?
0:19:05 > 0:19:08Maize or something? Maize?
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Come on.
0:19:12 > 0:19:13OK. Er, maize.
0:19:13 > 0:19:14No. It's cotton.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18What two-word name is given to coal workers' pneumoconiosis
0:19:18 > 0:19:23because of the visible effect of coal dust on the respiratory system?
0:19:23 > 0:19:27- Black lung?- Correct. We're going to take a second picture round.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29You'll see an illustration.
0:19:29 > 0:19:3210 points if you can name the artist.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Breughel.
0:19:40 > 0:19:41Nope!
0:19:41 > 0:19:44Is one of you going to buzz from Manchester?
0:19:44 > 0:19:46I'll tell you. It's Arthur Rackham.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Picture bonuses shortly. 10 points for this starter...
0:19:49 > 0:19:53Sacked in 612 BC by the Babylonians and others,
0:19:53 > 0:19:55which city, close to Mosul in modern-day Iraq,
0:19:55 > 0:19:58was the capital of the Assyrian Empire...?
0:19:59 > 0:20:02- Nineveh.- Nineveh is correct, yes.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04APPLAUSE
0:20:04 > 0:20:06We revert to the picture round.
0:20:06 > 0:20:10You saw an illustration by Rackham of Queen Guinevere.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14Your picture bonuses are three more of Rackham's illustrations of Malory's Mort D'Arthur.
0:20:14 > 0:20:19I want the name of the character or characters portrayed.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Firstly for five, the two characters here...
0:20:24 > 0:20:27Is it Mordred?
0:20:27 > 0:20:30- It's Morgana. I don't know.- Yes?
0:20:30 > 0:20:34- Morgana and Mordred.- No. It's Merlin and the Lady of the Lake.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37Secondly, the two characters doing battle here?
0:20:37 > 0:20:40THEY CONFER
0:20:41 > 0:20:43Arthur and Mordred.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47Correct. And finally, the character in the foreground here?
0:20:47 > 0:20:50VARIOUS: Lancelot?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52There's a lot of killing.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55I say Lancelot.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56Yes, go for Lancelot.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59- Lancelot.- That is Lancelot, yes.
0:20:59 > 0:21:0210 points for this... What sesamoid bone of the human skeleton
0:21:02 > 0:21:06is situated in the tendon of the quadriceps muscle of the thigh?
0:21:06 > 0:21:08- Patella.- Correct.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11APPLAUSE
0:21:12 > 0:21:16These bonuses are on words that begin with the letters "TRI"
0:21:16 > 0:21:19but have no connection with the number three.
0:21:19 > 0:21:24Give the word from the definition. The study of the interaction of sliding surfaces,
0:21:24 > 0:21:28including friction, lubrication and bearings?
0:21:30 > 0:21:32HE WHISPERS
0:21:32 > 0:21:37Erm... I probably knew it at one time, but I can't remember.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39- THEY CONFER - Come on, let's have it, please.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41- Trinamics?- No. It's tribology.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44The study of the hair and scalp?
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Trichology.
0:21:46 > 0:21:47- Trichology.- Correct. And finally,
0:21:47 > 0:21:52in Ancient Rome, a legionary officer or an official who represented the plebeians?
0:21:52 > 0:21:54- Tribune.- Correct. 10 points for this.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58Extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism
0:21:58 > 0:22:00and openness to experience or intellect
0:22:00 > 0:22:03are considered to be the big five dimensions
0:22:03 > 0:22:05of what concept in psychology?
0:22:06 > 0:22:09- Personality.- Personality is right. - APPLAUSE
0:22:11 > 0:22:14This set of bonuses are on US states.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17Name the state of which the following
0:22:17 > 0:22:20is the most populous county... Firstly,
0:22:20 > 0:22:24Maricopa County, the fourth most populous county in the USA,
0:22:24 > 0:22:26with almost four million inhabitants?
0:22:26 > 0:22:28- Arizona.- Correct.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31Secondly, Harris County, the third most populous county in the USA,
0:22:31 > 0:22:34with more than four million inhabitants?
0:22:34 > 0:22:36- Pennsylvania?- No, it's in Texas.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Finally, Cook County, the second most populous county in the USA,
0:22:39 > 0:22:42with more than five million inhabitants?
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Oh, I know this one!
0:22:44 > 0:22:48Is that in New Jersey?
0:22:48 > 0:22:51- Come on.- You think it's Illinois?
0:22:51 > 0:22:53- Illinois.- Correct.
0:22:53 > 0:22:5710 for this... Noted for significant contributions in the 1920s
0:22:57 > 0:22:59to the study of longterm fluctuations,
0:22:59 > 0:23:02which Russian economist, born in 1892,
0:23:02 > 0:23:06gives his name to a business cycle of very long duration?
0:23:07 > 0:23:09"Krinchev"?
0:23:09 > 0:23:11No. Anyone like to buzz from UCL?
0:23:13 > 0:23:15It's Nikolai Kondratiev. 10 for this...
0:23:15 > 0:23:19Telling the story of Frank and April Wheeler's failing marriage,
0:23:19 > 0:23:21which novel of 1961
0:23:21 > 0:23:23by the US writer Richard Yates was adapted...?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Revolutionary Road.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:23:29 > 0:23:33These bonuses are on European cities, UCL.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Turku, at the mouth of the Aura River,
0:23:36 > 0:23:40is the oldest city and a former capital of which EU member state?
0:23:40 > 0:23:43- (Is it Estonia?)- Maybe.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46- I think it's a Baltic state.- Maybe.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49- I don't know.- Come on.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52- Estonia.- No. It's Finland.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56Trondheim, the seat of the 12th-century Nidaros Cathedral,
0:23:56 > 0:23:57was a medieval capital of which country?
0:23:57 > 0:23:59- Norway.- Correct.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Now a major financial centre, which city on the River Main
0:24:02 > 0:24:07was the capital of the Confederation of the Rhine from 1806 to 1815?
0:24:07 > 0:24:08- Frankfurt.- Correct.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11Another starter question. Born in Leipzig in 1646,
0:24:11 > 0:24:14which German mathematician and philosopher is...?
0:24:15 > 0:24:16- Leibniz.- Leibniz is right.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19APPLAUSE
0:24:19 > 0:24:23Just over three minutes to go. Your bonuses are on insect morphology.
0:24:23 > 0:24:27The respiratory system of insects consists of a series of tubes or trachea.
0:24:27 > 0:24:32What term denotes the trachea openings in the exoskeleton that allow for gas exchange?
0:24:32 > 0:24:34- Spiracle. Spiracles?- Correct.
0:24:34 > 0:24:39What organs on the head of an insect consist of three parts, scape, pedicle, and flagellum?
0:24:39 > 0:24:41- The antennae?- Yes.- The antennae?
0:24:41 > 0:24:44Correct. Especially prominent in parasitic wasps,
0:24:44 > 0:24:47which egg-laying organ is found on the abdomen of female insects?
0:24:47 > 0:24:49- Ovipositor.- Correct.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53In international law, what Latin-derived term denotes a state or individual
0:24:53 > 0:24:55engaged in a war or conflict?
0:24:55 > 0:25:00In every day speech, the same word is an adjective meaning hostile or aggressive.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02- Belligerent.- Correct.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06Your bonuses now are on French volcanos, Manchester.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10Name the French overseas department in which the following are located.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Firstly, La Grande Soufriere,
0:25:12 > 0:25:16which erupted several times during the 1970s?
0:25:16 > 0:25:19THEY CONFER
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- Martinique.- It's Guadeloupe.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25Piton de la Fournaise, active several times since 1925?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28Is that Martinique? Or Guiana?
0:25:28 > 0:25:30- Go Martinique. - Come on, let's have it.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32- Martinique.- No. It's Reunion.
0:25:32 > 0:25:36And finally, Mount Pelee, which destroyed the town of St Pierre in 1902?
0:25:36 > 0:25:39- Martinique?!- Yes!
0:25:39 > 0:25:41- Martinique?- That is Martinique, yes!
0:25:41 > 0:25:43- APPLAUSE - 10 points for this...
0:25:43 > 0:25:47For what do the letters QR stand when denoting a two-dimensional barcode,
0:25:47 > 0:25:51designed for fast readability and large storage capacity?
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Quantity Reading.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58No. Anyone from Manchester?
0:25:58 > 0:26:01- Quick Read?- No. It's Quick Response. 10 points for this...
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside Asia,
0:26:03 > 0:26:07lies close to the border between which two countries?
0:26:08 > 0:26:10- Chile and Argentina?- Correct.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13Your bonuses now are on popular science writers.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16In each case, name the British author from their works.
0:26:16 > 0:26:21Firstly, "The Red Queen", "Genome" and "Nature via Nurture"?
0:26:23 > 0:26:25- Robert Winston. - Let's have it, please.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28- Robert Winston?- No. That's Matt Ridley. Viscount Ridley.
0:26:28 > 0:26:33"The Global Warming Survival Kit", "The God Effect" and "Upgrade Me"?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41- No.- Brian Clegg. And finally,
0:26:41 > 0:26:45"The Big Bang", "The Code Book" and "Fermat's Last Theorem"?
0:26:45 > 0:26:46Simon Singh.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49- Simon Singh.- Correct. In his book, "Pudd'nhead Wilson"
0:26:49 > 0:26:52Mark Twain wrote that which vegetable
0:26:52 > 0:26:55"is nothing but a cabbage with a college education"?
0:26:56 > 0:26:58- Cauliflower.- Correct.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00- APPLAUSE - Your bonuses are on cricket.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04I will read the names of two opposing captains in the Cricket World Cup Final.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08In each case, give me the two teams and the decade in which the match took place.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11Clive Lloyd and Mike Brearley?
0:27:11 > 0:27:13That's England, West Indies.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15That's in the '80s.
0:27:15 > 0:27:16Let's have it, please.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20- England and West Indies. It's the '80s.- No. It's the '70s.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23Ricky Ponting and Sourav Ganguly?
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Australia, India and...
0:27:25 > 0:27:28- END-OF-QUIZ GONG - At the gong, Manchester have 150,
0:27:28 > 0:27:31University College London have 230.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Manchester, you get a chance to come back.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45Next time you play, you must win if you want to go through to the semifinals.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Congratulations, University College London.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49You are the first to go through to the semifinals. Well done.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55- Until then, it's goodbye from Manchester.- ALL: Goodbye.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58- It's goodbye from University College London.- ALL: Goodbye.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01- And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye. - APPLAUSE
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