0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:23University Challenge. Asking the questions,
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. Two teams of students
0:00:30 > 0:00:33face another 30 minutes of general knowledge pick and mix
0:00:33 > 0:00:35for a place in the second round
0:00:35 > 0:00:38for whichever of them comes out the stronger.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Wadham College, Oxford, was founded in 1610
0:00:40 > 0:00:45by Dorothy Wadham, administering the estate of her late husband, Nicholas, a Somerset landowner.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47Under her original and somewhat stringent statutes,
0:00:47 > 0:00:51the college was famously forbidden from employing any women
0:00:51 > 0:00:54except those laundresses of such unbending morals
0:00:54 > 0:00:57and forbidding appearance as to pose no threat
0:00:57 > 0:01:00to the chaste slumbers of an all-male student body.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03But when the mountain of dirty socks grew too great,
0:01:03 > 0:01:05a mere 364 years later,
0:01:05 > 0:01:08the college started admitting women as undergraduates.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Not that you'd guess it from tonight's team!
0:01:10 > 0:01:14Alumni include Christopher Wren, the libertine poet, the Earl of Rochester,
0:01:14 > 0:01:17the diarist, Francis Kilvert, the politician, Michael Foot
0:01:17 > 0:01:20and the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Tonight's team is one of the youngest in the competition,
0:01:23 > 0:01:25with an average age of 19,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28playing on behalf of around 600 fellow students.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Let's meet them.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32Hi. My name's Alistair Smout,
0:01:32 > 0:01:35I'm from Harpenden in Hertfordshire
0:01:35 > 0:01:38and I'm reading politics, philosophy and economics.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Hi, I'm Jonathan Hall, I'm from Sheffield
0:01:40 > 0:01:42- and I'm studying physics. - And their captain.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46I'm Jonathan Stanhope from Durham, reading history and politics.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50Hi, I'm Oliver Forrest, originally from London and I'm reading English.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53APPLAUSE
0:01:53 > 0:01:56The University of Bristol dates back
0:01:56 > 0:01:58to the 1870s and is the brainchild
0:01:58 > 0:02:02of John Percival, the headmaster of Clifton College.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05He got the support of Benjamin Jowett of Balliol College, Oxford,
0:02:05 > 0:02:08and a donation from the Fry family of chocolate manufacturers
0:02:08 > 0:02:13to see University College Bristol established in 1876.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16A further donation from the Wills family of tobacco magnates
0:02:16 > 0:02:20secured the establishment of the university in 1909.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Alumni include the physicist Paul Dirac
0:02:22 > 0:02:26and, more recently, comedy actors David Walliams and Matt Lucas.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28The author David Nicholls was a student there
0:02:28 > 0:02:31and drew on his experiences for his pleasingly-titled novel
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Starter For Ten.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37Representing a student body about 30 times the size of their opponents
0:02:37 > 0:02:40and with an average age of 26,
0:02:40 > 0:02:42let's meet the Bristol team.
0:02:42 > 0:02:43Hi. My name is James Xiao.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46I'm from Hampshire and I'm studying chemistry.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49My name's Andy Suttie, I'm originally from Kelso in the Scottish Borders
0:02:49 > 0:02:52and I'm studying for an MA in history and philosophy of science.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55- And their captain. - Hi, I'm Will Brady,
0:02:55 > 0:02:57I'm from Hertford and I'm studying maths.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Hello, my name is Madeline Fforde, I'm from Wiltshire
0:03:00 > 0:03:02and I'm studying for an MA in classics and ancient history.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06APPLAUSE
0:03:06 > 0:03:09The rules are the same as they have been for 50 years,
0:03:09 > 0:03:12but I'll remind you. Starter questions are worth 10 points,
0:03:12 > 0:03:14bonuses are worth 15 points.
0:03:14 > 0:03:15Here's your first starter for 10.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17"No praise is too high for him in my view
0:03:17 > 0:03:20"and no celebration of his genius, excessive."
0:03:20 > 0:03:23These words of the Booker prize-winner Howard Jacobson
0:03:23 > 0:03:26refer to which novelist on the bicentenary of his birth...
0:03:26 > 0:03:28Charles Dickens?
0:03:28 > 0:03:32Correct. So, you get the first set of bonuses, Wadham College.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34They are on quotations about money.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Firstly, for five points, the sentence -
0:03:36 > 0:03:40"Stealing money is wrong has no factual meaning,
0:03:40 > 0:03:44"that is it expresses no proposition which can be either true or false" -
0:03:44 > 0:03:49these are the words of which English philosopher in a work of 1936?
0:03:49 > 0:03:52- Bertrand Russell? - No, it's A.J. Ayer.
0:03:52 > 0:03:56"From virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual
0:03:56 > 0:03:58"and to the state" - these words
0:03:58 > 0:04:00are attributed to which Greek philosopher?
0:04:00 > 0:04:04THEY WHISPER
0:04:04 > 0:04:07- Aristotle?- No, it's Socrates.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10In his essays of 1625, what did Francis Bacon compare to money,
0:04:10 > 0:04:14saying that it is not good except it be spread?
0:04:15 > 0:04:19THEY WHISPER
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Is it love?
0:04:21 > 0:04:25No, it's muck. 10 points for this. What's being described?
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Building on models in place since 1939,
0:04:27 > 0:04:31it came into force in the UK on January 1, 1949.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34It was increased to a two-year commitment in 1950...
0:04:34 > 0:04:36- National service?- Correct, yes.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40APPLAUSE
0:04:40 > 0:04:42So, your first bonuses, Bristol,
0:04:42 > 0:04:46are on a 19th-century literary figure.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48"Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
0:04:48 > 0:04:51"the pen is mightier than the sword."
0:04:51 > 0:04:54These are the words of which literary figure
0:04:54 > 0:04:57in the 1838 stage work, Richelieu?
0:04:57 > 0:05:00I don't know. I don't know.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06- Pass.- They were Edward Bulwer-Lytton's words.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09What is the opening line of Bulwer-Lytton's novel Paul Clifford?
0:05:09 > 0:05:12It's since become synonymous with cliched writing
0:05:12 > 0:05:13in horror or thriller fiction.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17- It was a dark and stormy night. - Correct.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20"Out-babying Wordsworth and out-glittering Keats."
0:05:20 > 0:05:25Of which 19th century poet laureate did Bulwer-Lytton say those words?
0:05:27 > 0:05:29(Tennyson?)
0:05:29 > 0:05:31- Tennyson.- Correct.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Ten points for this starter question.
0:05:33 > 0:05:34An hepaticostomy
0:05:34 > 0:05:38is a surgical operation in which an opening is made into the main duct
0:05:38 > 0:05:41carrying which thick, alkaline fluid that helps...?
0:05:42 > 0:05:44- Bile.- Bile is correct, yes.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47APPLAUSE
0:05:47 > 0:05:51Right, these bonuses this time are on elements discovered
0:05:51 > 0:05:53in 1817, Bristol.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Experimenting on zinc compounds in 1817,
0:05:56 > 0:05:58the German chemist Friedrich Stromeyer found an impurity
0:05:58 > 0:06:02in zinc carbonate that he identified as which new element?
0:06:02 > 0:06:05A toxic, silver-white, ductile metal.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10- Thallium.- No, it's cadmium.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Also credited with having devised
0:06:12 > 0:06:15the modern system of chemical symbols and formulae,
0:06:15 > 0:06:17which Swedish chemist discovered silicon,
0:06:17 > 0:06:21cerium, thorium and, in 1817, selenium?
0:06:27 > 0:06:29(S-C-H-something.)
0:06:35 > 0:06:38- Come on.- Nominate Xiao. - Scheele.- No, it's Berzelius.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42Discovered by one of his students in 1817,
0:06:42 > 0:06:44which element was named by Berzelius from the Greek for stone?
0:06:46 > 0:06:48- Lithium.- Correct.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Ten points for this. What surname links the authors
0:06:50 > 0:06:54of Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa published in 1857
0:06:54 > 0:06:57and If Voting Changed Anything, They'd Abolish It,
0:06:57 > 0:06:59published in 1987?
0:07:05 > 0:07:08- Benn? - Anyone like to buzz from Wadham?
0:07:10 > 0:07:13It's David and Ken Livingstone. Ten points for this.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17Named after the Pyrenean town where they were discovered in 1904,
0:07:17 > 0:07:20the Homilies of Organya date to the late 13th century
0:07:20 > 0:07:23and are one of the earliest texts of which romance language?
0:07:27 > 0:07:30- Basque, I was going to say. - Anyone like to buzz from Bristol?
0:07:34 > 0:07:36- Catalan.- Catalan is correct, yes.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39APPLAUSE
0:07:39 > 0:07:43Right, your bonuses this time, Bristol, are on US place names.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Founded by William Penn, which major city shares its name with that
0:07:46 > 0:07:49of a community in Asia Minor, the sixth of the seven churches,
0:07:49 > 0:07:51according to the Book of Revelation,
0:07:51 > 0:07:54to receive letters containing messages from God?
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Syracuse.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03No, it's Philadelphia. For five points,
0:08:03 > 0:08:05its name derived from the place in Ephraim, where,
0:08:05 > 0:08:08according to some sources, the Ark of the Covenant was once kept.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11Which church meeting house in Tennessee gives its name
0:08:11 > 0:08:16to a battle of 1862, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing?
0:08:19 > 0:08:21(Memphis.)
0:08:21 > 0:08:22(Memphis? Gettysburg?)
0:08:23 > 0:08:26- Gettysburg.- No, it's Shiloh.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29And for a possible five points further,
0:08:29 > 0:08:31which city is the largest in Tennessee and takes its name
0:08:31 > 0:08:34from that of an ancient capital also known as Noph mentioned
0:08:34 > 0:08:37by Isaiah, Jeremiah and other prophets in their condemnation
0:08:37 > 0:08:39of Israel's misplaced trust in Egypt?
0:08:39 > 0:08:41- Memphis.- Correct.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44We'll take a picture round now. For your picture starter,
0:08:44 > 0:08:47you'll see a representation of a national flag.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51Ten points if you can give me the name of the country, please.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55- Libya.- Yes, it is, yes.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57APPLAUSE
0:08:59 > 0:09:01The flag of the former Kingdom of Libya,
0:09:01 > 0:09:04the design was re-introduced as the official national flag
0:09:04 > 0:09:05in August 2011.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08For your bonuses, you're going to see three more national flags
0:09:08 > 0:09:09of African countries,
0:09:09 > 0:09:12all of which have been introduced in the last decade.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15In each case, I want you to name the country, please. For five,
0:09:15 > 0:09:19this flag, introduced with a new constitution in 2006.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23- (Democratic Republic of Congo.) - Democratic Republic of Congo.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26Correct. Secondly, this flag, introduced in 2006
0:09:26 > 0:09:29to celebrate 40 years of independence.
0:09:33 > 0:09:39- (Erm. Malawi has a new flag, but I'm not sure if that's it.)- Malawi.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41No, that's Lesotho.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43And, finally, this flag.
0:09:45 > 0:09:46(South Sudan, maybe.)
0:09:48 > 0:09:49South Sudan.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51It is South Sudan, yes.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53APPLAUSE
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Very recently invented country.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Right, ten points for this. His seven opponents,
0:09:57 > 0:10:00having devoted much of their campaigns to praising his rule,
0:10:00 > 0:10:05President Berdimuhamedov captured 97% of the vote in an election
0:10:05 > 0:10:10of February 2012 to win a new five-year term as ruler
0:10:10 > 0:10:12of which Central Asian state?
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Uzbekistan.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18No. Anyone want to buzz from Bristol?
0:10:19 > 0:10:21- Kazakhstan.- No, it's Turkmenistan.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Ten points for this - Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York,
0:10:24 > 0:10:27was executed during the reign of which king?
0:10:27 > 0:10:29He criticised the King's taxation of the clergy
0:10:29 > 0:10:33and joined the Percy rebellion after the Battle of Shrewsbury.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Henry VI.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41Anyone like to buzz from Bristol?
0:10:41 > 0:10:44- Henry VIII.- No, it's Henry IV. Ten points for this.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48Roquet, peel and cannon are strokes and the...?
0:10:50 > 0:10:52- Croquet.- Croquet is correct, yes.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54APPLAUSE
0:10:55 > 0:10:58Your bonuses this time, Bristol, are on female prophets.
0:10:58 > 0:11:03Executed at Tyburn in 1534 for prophesying against Henry VIII,
0:11:03 > 0:11:07Elizabeth Barton was known as the Nun of which county?
0:11:11 > 0:11:13- Lancashire.- No, it's Kent.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Which prophetess is commonly identified
0:11:15 > 0:11:18as the woman born as Ursula Southiel
0:11:18 > 0:11:22in around 1488 near Knaresborough in Yorkshire?
0:11:29 > 0:11:32- Margaret Shipton.- No, it's Mother Shipton of well fame.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35And finally, Good Omens: The Nice And Accurate Prophecies
0:11:35 > 0:11:40Of Agnes Nutter, Witch is a collaborative novel of 1990
0:11:40 > 0:11:44by Terry Pratchett and which other British fantasy writer?
0:11:53 > 0:11:55- Neil Gateman.- I can't accept.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Neil Gaiman is his name, I can't accept that, I'm sorry.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Right, another starter question.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Noted for an early statement of the principle of the conservation of energy,
0:12:03 > 0:12:05which German chemist, born in 1806, gives his name
0:12:05 > 0:12:10to a balance used to determine density by weighing a solid...?
0:12:10 > 0:12:11Bulsman.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15No, I'm afraid you lose five points. ..when suspended in air
0:12:15 > 0:12:17and to the salt ferrous, ammonium sulfate?
0:12:19 > 0:12:20- Hess.- No, it's Mohr.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Ten points for this.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Narrated by the subject's servant Tiro,
0:12:24 > 0:12:28Impirium and Lustrum are the first and second novels...?
0:12:29 > 0:12:30Robert Harris.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34No, you lose five points. ..second novels in Robert Harris's trilogy
0:12:34 > 0:12:38about which Roman statesmen, writer and orator?
0:12:38 > 0:12:40- Cicero.- Correct.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42APPLAUSE
0:12:42 > 0:12:46Right, your bonuses, Wadham, are on the Nobel Prize.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50Firstly, for five, a joint recipient with Oliver E Williamson,
0:12:50 > 0:12:53the US academic Elinor Ostrom became, in 2009,
0:12:53 > 0:12:55the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in which field?
0:12:57 > 0:13:00- (Economics, I think.) - Economics.- Correct.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03Who became the first US Nobel laureate in economics in 1970?
0:13:03 > 0:13:06He published the best-selling textbook Economics in 1948.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Oh, Solow, Solow.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16- Solow?- Yeah.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Solow.
0:13:18 > 0:13:19No, it's Paul Samuelson.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22And finally, the first Asian recipient of the award,
0:13:22 > 0:13:25which Indian pioneer in welfare economics is the author of
0:13:25 > 0:13:29On Economic Inequality And Development As Freedom?
0:13:29 > 0:13:32- Amartya Sen.- Nominate Smout. - Amartya Sen.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34Amartya Sen's correct.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36That puts it on level pegging, 50 points a piece
0:13:36 > 0:13:37and ten points for this.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Named after a Pacific atoll that had been the site
0:13:40 > 0:13:42of nuclear testing a few days earlier...?
0:13:42 > 0:13:44- Bikini.- Bikini is correct.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46APPLAUSE
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Right, these bonuses are on Danish scientists, Bristol.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55In 1676, the astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer used eclipses
0:13:55 > 0:13:58of Jupiter's moon to make what is generally regarded
0:13:58 > 0:14:00as the first reasonable approximation
0:14:00 > 0:14:03of what physical constant?
0:14:05 > 0:14:06- The speed of light.- Correct.
0:14:06 > 0:14:10Secondly, born 1777, which pioneer of electromagnetism
0:14:10 > 0:14:14gives his name to the CGS unit of magnetic field strength?
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Come on.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32- Faber. - No, it's Hans Christian Oersted.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35And finally, born in 1853, which biologist gives his name
0:14:35 > 0:14:38to a staining technique for the preliminary identification
0:14:38 > 0:14:39of bacteria?
0:14:46 > 0:14:48- Gram.- Gram is correct, yes.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51Right, a music round now.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54For your music starter, you're going to hear an extract from an opera.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Ten points if you can give me
0:14:56 > 0:14:58the name of the character singing.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02# Finch'han dal vino calda la testa una gran festa... #
0:15:02 > 0:15:05- Figaro.- No, you can hear a little more, Wadham.
0:15:05 > 0:15:10#..qualche ragazza teco ancor quella cerca menar... #
0:15:12 > 0:15:14- Don Giovanni? - Don Giovanni is correct, yes.
0:15:14 > 0:15:18APPLAUSE
0:15:18 > 0:15:22Your music bonuses are three more operatic arias sung by the eponymous character
0:15:22 > 0:15:25each of whom is also known by the title, "Don".
0:15:25 > 0:15:29I simply want the character's name in each case. Firstly, for five points.
0:15:29 > 0:15:35AN ARIA PLAYS
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Don Juan?
0:15:44 > 0:15:46Er, Don Juan?
0:15:46 > 0:15:50No, it's Don Quixote in Massenet's version of the story. Secondly:
0:15:50 > 0:15:58AN ARIA PLAYS
0:16:00 > 0:16:01Er, Don Carlos?
0:16:01 > 0:16:06No, that's Don Pasquale in Donizzetti's opera. Finally...
0:16:06 > 0:16:12AN ARIA PLAYS
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Er, Don Juan.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19No, that WAS Don Carlos!
0:16:19 > 0:16:22Ten points for this. Words meaning ungrateful person,
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Moroccan port on the straits of Gibraltar,
0:16:24 > 0:16:26an act of ripping or rending
0:16:26 > 0:16:29are all anagrams of the name of which igneous rock?
0:16:36 > 0:16:40- Granite.- Yes, the anagrams are ingrate, Tangier and tearing.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43Your bonuses now are on authors and their pleasures.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45"I'm entitled to my share of lightheartedness
0:16:45 > 0:16:49"and there is nothing wrong with enjoying oneself simply like a boy."
0:16:49 > 0:16:51This remark of Leo Tolstoy
0:16:51 > 0:16:55refers to his learning to do what at the age of 67?
0:16:59 > 0:17:01- Ride a bike.- Correct.
0:17:01 > 0:17:06Taming the Bicycle is the title of an essay by which US humorist and author?
0:17:06 > 0:17:09It describes his attempts to master the vehicle
0:17:09 > 0:17:11during the early 1880s
0:17:11 > 0:17:13around his home town of Hartford, Connecticut.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16THEY WHISPER
0:17:29 > 0:17:32- Walt Whitman?- No, it was Mark Twain.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Hoop Driver, a draper's assistant and Jesse, a young lady in grey,
0:17:35 > 0:17:37share cycling idylls in The Wheels of Chance,
0:17:37 > 0:17:42an 1896 work by which prolific novelist?
0:17:48 > 0:17:51- Edgar Allan Poe.- No, it's HG Wells. Ten points for this.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Three alumni of both Harvard University
0:17:53 > 0:17:56and its long-running humorous periodical
0:17:56 > 0:18:00were the founders in 1970 of which US magazine...?
0:18:00 > 0:18:03The Onion.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06No, you lose five points. It ceased publication in 1998.
0:18:08 > 0:18:09The New Yorker.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13It's The National Lampoon. The Onion's still going. Ten points for this.
0:18:13 > 0:18:18In oil refining, what term describes the process by which heat, catalysts and often pressure...
0:18:19 > 0:18:21- Cracking.- Cracking is correct.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24APPLAUSE
0:18:24 > 0:18:27These bonuses, Bristol, are on recent non-fiction works.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31Under what title has Tim Hartford written a column for The Financial Times,
0:18:31 > 0:18:35the title also being used for his bestselling book of 2005,
0:18:35 > 0:18:39which explains the fundamental principles of the modern economy.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44- The Lex column.- No, it's The Undercover Economist.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48Secondly, for five points, what type of person defined by food choice
0:18:48 > 0:18:53is named in the title of the 2006 work by the US journalist and academic, Michael Pollan,
0:18:53 > 0:18:58that studies the systems and processes behind modern-day eating?
0:19:03 > 0:19:06- The Vegetarian. - No, it's an omnivore. The Omnivore's Dilemma.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09What tool commonly used in the building industry and DIY
0:19:09 > 0:19:15gives its name to the title of the 2009 book by the epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett,
0:19:15 > 0:19:17a study of the social effects of inequality?
0:19:23 > 0:19:25- Hammer.- No, it's the spirit level.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28Ten points for this. An attempt to create a privatised form
0:19:28 > 0:19:29of international censorship
0:19:29 > 0:19:33was one verdict on a bill introduced into the US Congress...
0:19:34 > 0:19:37- SOPA.- No, you lose five points.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39..in late 2011 and known as SOPA.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41For what do the letters SOPA stand?
0:19:41 > 0:19:44- Stop Online Piracy Act. - Correct.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46So you get the bonuses, Wadham.
0:19:46 > 0:19:47APPLAUSE
0:19:47 > 0:19:49These are on households pests.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53In each case, give the common name of the following insects. For five points -
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Blattaria, an order of large exopterygote insects,
0:19:56 > 0:20:00they're dorsoventrally compressed and hide in crevices during daytime.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06Woodlouse.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08No, they're cockroaches.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11Secondly, Lepisma saccharina, about one centimetre long
0:20:11 > 0:20:14with a shiny metallic appearance and prominent antennae,
0:20:14 > 0:20:18they feed on food scraps, especially carbohydrates.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22- Woodlouse? - No, those are silver fish.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26And finally, the larvae of Tineola bisselliella, regarded as a pest
0:20:26 > 0:20:28since they feed on the fibrous protein keratin,
0:20:28 > 0:20:33traditionally naphthalene has been used as a control measure.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35THEY WHISPER
0:20:42 > 0:20:44Lice.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46No, they're clothes moths.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51For your starter, you're going to see a photo of a fortified city.
0:20:51 > 0:20:5310 points if you can give me its name.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Heidelberg?
0:21:02 > 0:21:04No. Bristol, one of you buzz?
0:21:06 > 0:21:07I need a buzz or I'm going to tell you.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09I'll tell you, it's Carcassonne.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Picture bonuses shortly, another starter question in the meantime.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Flannel, flummery, penguin,
0:21:15 > 0:21:18crag, coracle and corgi
0:21:18 > 0:21:19are among modern English words
0:21:19 > 0:21:22that are thought to derive from which language?
0:21:22 > 0:21:25- Welsh.- Welsh is correct, yes.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27APPLAUSE
0:21:27 > 0:21:29OK, you'll recall that for the picture starter,
0:21:29 > 0:21:32you were shown a photograph of Carcassonne.
0:21:32 > 0:21:33You're going, for your bonuses,
0:21:33 > 0:21:36to see three other notable fortified cities in Europe.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38For five points, I want you to name the city
0:21:38 > 0:21:40and the country in which it's located.
0:21:40 > 0:21:41Firstly...
0:21:43 > 0:21:47- Looks like southern Spain. - Yeah, oh, what's the...
0:21:47 > 0:21:48Granada?
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Granada, in Spain.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53It IS Spain, but it's Avila. And, secondly...
0:21:55 > 0:21:59Cannons... A famous place with cannons.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04- A French one?- Is it Toulon?
0:22:06 > 0:22:08- Toulon in France. - No, that's Valletta in Malta.
0:22:08 > 0:22:09And finally...
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Let's have an answer, please.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23Toulon, in France.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24No, Dubrovnik in Croatia.
0:22:24 > 0:22:2610 points for this, fingers on buzzers, please.
0:22:26 > 0:22:30Ruby and sapphire are gemstone varieties of which mineral?
0:22:31 > 0:22:35- Corundum. - Corundum is correct, yes.
0:22:35 > 0:22:36APPLAUSE
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Your bonuses, Bristol, this time, are on battlefields in Scotland.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43The site of a decisive defeat for Edward II's English army in 1314,
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Bannockburn is a village immediately south
0:22:45 > 0:22:48of which city of central Scotland?
0:22:52 > 0:22:54- Stirling.- Stirling is right.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57The site of a battle during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1689,
0:22:57 > 0:22:59the Pass of Killiecrankie is around 30 miles north
0:22:59 > 0:23:02of which Royal Borough on the River Tay?
0:23:03 > 0:23:05THEY WHISPER
0:23:16 > 0:23:18- Dundee.- No, it's Perth.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22Giving its name to the final battle of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46,
0:23:22 > 0:23:26the village of Culloden is a few miles east of which city?
0:23:29 > 0:23:31- Inverness.- Inverness is right.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Four and a half minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:23:33 > 0:23:34Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:23:34 > 0:23:39What is A if G is 289,
0:23:39 > 0:23:41F is 169 and E is...
0:23:43 > 0:23:45One.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47No, you lose five points.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49..and E is 121?
0:23:53 > 0:23:5649.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58No, it's four. It's squares of primes in descending order.
0:23:58 > 0:24:0010 points for this starter question.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03Two former American presidents died on July 4th 1826,
0:24:03 > 0:24:06the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08For 10 points, name either of them.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13- Thomas Jefferson.- Thomas Jefferson is right. John Adams was the other.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16APPLAUSE
0:24:16 > 0:24:19These bonuses are on oddities of English spelling, Wadham.
0:24:19 > 0:24:24The Gaelic derived name of which member of the grouse family
0:24:24 > 0:24:26is spelt with an initial silent letter
0:24:26 > 0:24:29originally added to suggest Greek etymology.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31- Ptarmigan.- Correct.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Which short word has a silent third letter inserted
0:24:33 > 0:24:36to link it to a Latin word with the same meaning?
0:24:36 > 0:24:40It's rendered as "trespasses" in some versions of the Lord's Prayer.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43THEY WHISPER
0:24:50 > 0:24:51Sin.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53No, it's debts.
0:24:53 > 0:24:58And finally, what common geographical term has, since the 15th century,
0:24:58 > 0:25:01been spelt with a silent letter after the first vowel
0:25:01 > 0:25:05to make it resemble Latin and French words with the same meaning?
0:25:12 > 0:25:13(Mountain?)
0:25:15 > 0:25:17- Let's have it, please.- Pass.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19It's island. 10 points for this -
0:25:19 > 0:25:22which three letters, referring to a property of fractions,
0:25:22 > 0:25:25also denote a technology used in image projection or display.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31- LCD.- Correct, yes.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33APPLAUSE
0:25:34 > 0:25:37Your bonuses this time, Bristol, are on mountains.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39On which large island is Puncak Jaya,
0:25:39 > 0:25:41also known as Carstensz Pyramid?
0:25:41 > 0:25:454,884 metres in height, it is the highest point
0:25:45 > 0:25:47between the Himalayas and the Andes
0:25:47 > 0:25:50and the highest island peak in the world.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53THEY WHISPER
0:25:58 > 0:26:00- Java?- No, it's on New Guinea.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03On which island is Mauna Kea, the second highest island peak?
0:26:07 > 0:26:09THEY WHISPER
0:26:10 > 0:26:14- Hawaii.- Correct. Finally, on which large island is Mount Kinabalu,
0:26:14 > 0:26:17just over 4,000 metres in height?
0:26:19 > 0:26:20THEY WHISPER
0:26:21 > 0:26:23Madagascar.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25No, the answer's Borneo. Right, another starter question.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28Of the landlocked countries of Europe, which is the largest,
0:26:28 > 0:26:30being around four-fifths of the size of the UK?
0:26:32 > 0:26:34- Austria.- No, Bristol?
0:26:35 > 0:26:36Romania.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38No, it's Belarus.
0:26:38 > 0:26:4010 points for this - what short botanical term
0:26:40 > 0:26:43links a mass of crystals forming from a solution,
0:26:43 > 0:26:46the directory or folder structure of the hard drive and a genealogical...
0:26:47 > 0:26:49- Tree.- Tree is correct, yes.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51APPLAUSE
0:26:51 > 0:26:54Your bonuses this time, Wadham,
0:26:54 > 0:26:57are on scientific terms with the same Greek prefix.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Give the term from the definition.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01In botany, the type of flowering plants
0:27:01 > 0:27:04characterised by the presence of one food-storing leaf in the seed.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Monoclamideas.
0:27:10 > 0:27:11- Monoclamideas. - No, monocotyledon.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15In astronomy, an inconspicuous constellation
0:27:15 > 0:27:19on the celestial equator near to Orion and Canis Minor.
0:27:19 > 0:27:20Nominate Hall.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22- Monoceros.- Correct.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24In mathematics, an algebraic expression
0:27:24 > 0:27:26consisting of only one term.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28GONG
0:27:28 > 0:27:31And at the gong, Wadham have 105, Bristol University have 120.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34APPLAUSE
0:27:37 > 0:27:39The algebraic expression, by the way, is monomial.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Wadham, I think we're going to have to say goodbye to you,
0:27:42 > 0:27:44but thank you very much for joining us
0:27:44 > 0:27:46in this first round of this latest series
0:27:46 > 0:27:48and Bristol, many congratulations to you,
0:27:48 > 0:27:50we look forward to seeing you in stage two.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56- Goodbye from Wadham College Oxford. - ALL: Goodbye.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58- Goodbye from Bristol University. - ALL: Goodbye.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02APPLAUSE
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