0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:33Hello. Eight teams have been stretched on the rack of the quarter-finals of this contest.
0:00:33 > 0:00:39Three could take no more and have gone home. Another three are through to the semi-finals -
0:00:39 > 0:00:44University College, London, New College, Oxford, and Manchester.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47For tonight's two teams, the torment is almost over.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51They each have one quarter-final victory as well as one defeat.
0:00:51 > 0:00:57Whichever of them wins tonight will take the one remaining place.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01The last time a team from Bangor made the semi-finals was in 1999,
0:01:01 > 0:01:05but this team has made a valiant attempt to emulate that achievement.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09They beat St Andrews in Round One, Durham University in Round Two
0:01:09 > 0:01:16and Imperial College, London, in one quarter-final match, but they lost to University College, London,
0:01:16 > 0:01:22so a win tonight is essential if they're to go any further. Let's meet the Bangor team again.
0:01:22 > 0:01:28Hello. I'm Adam Pearce from Barry and I'm studying for a PhD in Translation Studies.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32Hi, I'm Mark Stevens from Cheshire, studying Environmental Science.
0:01:32 > 0:01:39- Their captain...- Hi. I'm Nina Grant from Enfield, studying for a degree in French and Linguistics.
0:01:39 > 0:01:46Hello. I'm Simon Tomlinson, originally from Manchester, studying for a PhD in Neuropsychology.
0:01:50 > 0:01:55The team from King's College, Cambridge, are almost part of the furniture now.
0:01:55 > 0:02:00This is their sixth appearance. They lost their First Round match,
0:02:00 > 0:02:05but survived as highest-scoring losers, then won their play-off and Second Round match.
0:02:05 > 0:02:11In the quarter-finals they lost to New College, Oxford, but then beat - just - Pembroke College, Cambridge.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Let's have the pleasure of seeing them again.
0:02:14 > 0:02:19Hi, I'm Curtis Gallant, from North London, studying Classics.
0:02:19 > 0:02:24Hello. I'm Amber Ace, from Crieff, and I'm also studying Classics.
0:02:24 > 0:02:29- And this is their captain... - Hi, I'm Fran Middleton and I'm doing a PhD in Classics.
0:02:29 > 0:02:34Hi, I'm James Gratrex, from Leeds, and I'm reading Physics.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Right, let's crack on with it. Here's your first starter.
0:02:42 > 0:02:48The UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992
0:02:48 > 0:02:53and its successors in 1997 and 2002 are commonly known by what two-word name?
0:02:56 > 0:02:58- Kyoto Accord?- Nope.
0:03:00 > 0:03:04- Rio Summit?- No, Earth Summits. 10 points for this.
0:03:04 > 0:03:12Eryhtro-, leuco- and cyano- are prefixes denoting which triplet of colours?
0:03:13 > 0:03:17- Er, red, yellow and blue? The primary colours.- No. Bangor?
0:03:18 > 0:03:23- Red, white and black.- No, red, white and blue. 10 points for this.
0:03:23 > 0:03:28What six-letter word can precede bagger, bombing and shark...
0:03:29 > 0:03:31- Carpet.- Carpet is correct, yes.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38So the first set of bonuses are on existentialism.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42Which French philosopher's maxim, "Existence precedes essence," has been described
0:03:42 > 0:03:47as the most succinct statement of existentialism?
0:03:47 > 0:03:51- Sartre.- Sometimes described as one of the founders of existentialism,
0:03:51 > 0:03:56which German philosopher's works include Reason And Existenz?
0:03:56 > 0:04:01Persecuted by the Nazis, he remained in Germany until after the war.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04- Nominate Stevens.- Heidegger.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08No, Karl Jaspers. Born in Copenhagen in 1813,
0:04:08 > 0:04:13who is the first modern philosopher to be commonly described as an existentialist?
0:04:13 > 0:04:19- Kierkegaard.- Correct. 10 points for this. Which French scientist's law of fluid pressure states
0:04:19 > 0:04:24that the pressure in a fluid exerts a force of constant magnitude on...
0:04:24 > 0:04:26- Pascal.- Pascal is correct.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32These bonuses are on a Greek island.
0:04:32 > 0:04:39According to Herodotus, which Aegean island was notable for its temple of Hera and tunnel of Eupalinos,
0:04:39 > 0:04:45an early aqueduct? Both now form part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
0:04:47 > 0:04:53- Crete?- No, it's Samos. A native of Samos, which third century astronomer
0:04:53 > 0:04:58anticipated Copernicus by asserting that the Earth moves around the Sun?
0:05:04 > 0:05:07- Heraclitus?- ..No.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11It's Aristarchus. Finally, born in Samos around 570 BC,
0:05:11 > 0:05:16which scientist and mystic founded a religious colony in South Italy
0:05:16 > 0:05:21and is credited with a large number of mathematical discoveries?
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- Pythagoras. - Correct. 10 points for this.
0:05:24 > 0:05:30Proust's A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu and other series of novels linked by common characters
0:05:30 > 0:05:36are sometimes referred to by what two-word French term, literally meaning "river novel"?
0:05:40 > 0:05:42- Roman fleuve?- Correct.
0:05:44 > 0:05:50These bonuses are on the documentaries of Werner Herzog.
0:05:50 > 0:05:55The 2010 3D film Cave of Forgotten Dreams saw Herzog gain exclusive access
0:05:55 > 0:05:59to which cave in southern France, discovered in 1994?
0:06:06 > 0:06:09- Lascaux.- No, the Chauvet cave.
0:06:09 > 0:06:15Environmentalist and bear activist Timothy Treadwell is the title subject of which 2005 documentary?
0:06:15 > 0:06:22- Grizzly Man.- Correct. The 1999 documentary My Best Fiend concerns Herzog's relationship
0:06:22 > 0:06:27with which German actor, reputed to be somewhat difficult?
0:06:27 > 0:06:31He played the title roles in Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44- Fritz Lang?- Fritz Lang?! No, it's Klaus Kinski.
0:06:44 > 0:06:49A blending of two Latin words meaning boundary and threshold,
0:06:49 > 0:06:54what term denotes a horizontal piece of timber or stone placed over a door, window or fireplace
0:06:54 > 0:06:57to discharge the weight on it?
0:06:57 > 0:07:00- Lintel.- Lintel is correct.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06These bonuses are on 20th century US Presidents.
0:07:06 > 0:07:11After his second term, who retired to Missouri to write his memoirs?
0:07:11 > 0:07:16He received the first Medicare card when the scheme began in 1965.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31- Eisenhower.- Harry S Truman. Eight years after his term of office,
0:07:31 > 0:07:37which former President became Chief Justice of the US, the only person to have held both offices?
0:07:48 > 0:07:51- Woodrow Wilson. - No, William Howard Taft.
0:07:51 > 0:07:58More than 20 years after his presidency, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work
0:07:58 > 0:08:00on conflict resolution and human rights?
0:08:00 > 0:08:05- Jimmy Carter.- Correct. We're going to take a picture round.
0:08:05 > 0:08:10You will see a stylized version of the Beatus Map, an influential 8th century mappa mundi,
0:08:10 > 0:08:16drawn by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liebana. For 10 points, give me the modern English name
0:08:16 > 0:08:18of the highlighted river.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25- The Nile.- It is the Nile, yes.
0:08:29 > 0:08:34For your picture bonuses, three more areas highlighted on that map.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38Simply identify the place Beatus located at each point.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42Firstly, I want the name of this city.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45- Jerusalem.- Correct.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Secondly, I want the name of this country.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52- India?- Correct.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Finally, please, the name of this island.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01- Britain.- Correct!
0:09:02 > 0:09:07Begun during the reign of Vespasian in around AD 70-72,
0:09:07 > 0:09:12which elliptical structure is said to have taken its name from the giant statue of Nero...
0:09:12 > 0:09:15- The Colossus.- No, lose 5 points.
0:09:15 > 0:09:20..from the giant statue of Nero that stood nearby in the Via Sacra?
0:09:22 > 0:09:26- The Colloseum?- Colloseum is correct.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33Your bonuses are on asexual reproduction in plants.
0:09:33 > 0:09:39I will describe three vegetative structures. I want the botanical term for each.
0:09:39 > 0:09:45The horizontal underground stem seen in stinging nettles. It grows in soil, rooting at nodes
0:09:45 > 0:09:47to produce new plantlets.
0:09:48 > 0:09:53- Rhizomes.- Correct. The bud-like masses of cells, often in the form of cups or discs,
0:09:53 > 0:10:00that become detached and grow into new plants, characteristic of liverworts or flowering plants,
0:10:00 > 0:10:03for example, sundew.
0:10:06 > 0:10:11- Nominate Stevens.- Are they saurae? - No, they're gemmae. And finally,
0:10:11 > 0:10:16horizontal stems arising from axillary buds seen in plants such as strawberries.
0:10:16 > 0:10:21They grow along the surface of the ground and new plantlets arise from nodes.
0:10:23 > 0:10:28- Nominate Stevens.- Mycorrhiza? - No, they're runners or stolon.
0:10:28 > 0:10:3410 points for this. From a verb meaning to thrash or beat, what adjective is applied to extra weight
0:10:34 > 0:10:40carried in horseracing and to a boxer or wrestler who is between a lightweight and a middleweight?
0:10:40 > 0:10:43- Welter.- Welter is correct.
0:10:46 > 0:10:52These bonuses are on a car manufacturer. One of the biggest flops in motor industry history,
0:10:52 > 0:10:57the 1958 Edsel car was named after the son of which manufacturer?
0:10:57 > 0:11:04- Henry Ford. - Born 1891, which Sardinian Marxist coined the term Fordism
0:11:04 > 0:11:10to illustrate how new American production techniques meant a new epoch in capitalist development?
0:11:21 > 0:11:26- Pass.- It's Antonio Gramsci. Finally, the jungle city of Fordlandia was Ford's attempt
0:11:26 > 0:11:32to create small-town America and secure cheap rubber in the rainforest of which country?
0:11:36 > 0:11:38- Indonesia?- No, it was Brazil.
0:11:38 > 0:11:45Maths - what describes real numbers with terminating or eventually periodic decimal expansion?
0:11:45 > 0:11:48In everyday language, the same word...
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- Rational?- Correct!
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Your bonuses are on artists born in the 1880s.
0:11:58 > 0:12:03Active mainly in Paris, which Italian artist is noted for portraiture
0:12:03 > 0:12:07characterised by asymmetrical compositions and elongated figures?
0:12:07 > 0:12:12His dissolute lifestyle contributed to an early death from tuberculosis.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16- Klimt?- No, it's Modigliani.
0:12:16 > 0:12:22Noted for depictions of Montmartre, which French artist received his name from a Spanish art critic
0:12:22 > 0:12:26who recognised him as his son in order to help him?
0:12:26 > 0:12:31- Montmartre?- Yeah. - I think that's Toulouse-Lautrec.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34- Toulouse-Lautrec?- No, Utrillo.
0:12:34 > 0:12:39Which Russian-born artist is noted for his illustrations of La Fontaine's Fables
0:12:39 > 0:12:46and for stained glass such as that in Tudeley Church in Kent? He gives his name to a museum in Nice.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Chagall?
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Nominate Gallant.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54- Chagall?- It IS Marc Chagall!
0:12:54 > 0:12:55Yes!
0:12:57 > 0:13:0310 points for this. Which city in the French Basque country is noted for a sweet liqueur, Izarra,
0:13:03 > 0:13:06and an air-dried salted ham,
0:13:06 > 0:13:11and is believed to have given its name to an edged weapon usually fixed...
0:13:11 > 0:13:14- Bayonne.- Bayonne is correct, yes.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Your bonuses are on game designers.
0:13:18 > 0:13:24"The father of computer gaming", which creator of "god games" is noted for Civilization
0:13:24 > 0:13:26and Railroad Tycoon?
0:13:26 > 0:13:29- Nominate Pearce.- Sid Meier.- Correct.
0:13:29 > 0:13:37The "father of modern video games", which Japanese designer created the Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong
0:13:37 > 0:13:40and Legend of Zelda franchises?
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Miyazaki?
0:13:42 > 0:13:43No...
0:13:46 > 0:13:49- Pass.- That's Shigeru Miyamoto.
0:13:49 > 0:13:56Creator of a gaming style that emphasised learning and invention, US designer Will Wright developed
0:13:56 > 0:14:01which 1989 game that let players build their own virtual urban world?
0:14:05 > 0:14:08SimCity is the first.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10- SimCity.- Correct.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12We're going to take a music round.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16You'll hear an excerpt for your starter from a classical oratorio.
0:14:16 > 0:14:21Ten points if you can give me the Biblical figure after whom the oratorio is named.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24ORATORIO PLAYS
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Jesus the Messiah?
0:14:36 > 0:14:39No. You can hear a little more, King's College.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41ORATORIO CONTINUES
0:14:44 > 0:14:46Bathsheba?
0:14:46 > 0:14:51No, it's St Matthew. It's part of Bach's Matthew Passions.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54Music bonuses shortly. Ten points for a starter question.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Listen carefully. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01If a ball is cast straight up at 20 metres per second
0:15:01 > 0:15:05and the acceleration due to gravity is ten metres per second squared,
0:15:05 > 0:15:09then what is the maximum height of the ball?
0:15:11 > 0:15:14- Two metres.- No. King's, one of you buzz?
0:15:17 > 0:15:19- One metre.- One metre?!
0:15:19 > 0:15:23No, it's 20 metres. So another starter question.
0:15:23 > 0:15:28Which Russian-born poet was sentenced to internal exile for "social parasitism" in 1964
0:15:28 > 0:15:31and moved to the United States in the 1970s
0:15:31 > 0:15:35where he published collections such as A Part Of Speech?
0:15:35 > 0:15:38He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 19...
0:15:38 > 0:15:44- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.- No, you lose five points. ..the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978?
0:15:45 > 0:15:47- Bakhtin.- No, it was Joseph Brodsky.
0:15:47 > 0:15:52During the 1980s, which Cabinet post was held by Lord Carrington,
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Francis Pym, Geoffrey Howe...
0:15:54 > 0:15:58- Defence Secretary or Minister for Defence.- No, you lose five points.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02..Geoffrey Howe, John Major and Douglas Hurd?
0:16:02 > 0:16:07- Home Office.- No, it was Foreign Secretary. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:16:07 > 0:16:13The SI unit of time, the second, is defined in reference to the transition between two...
0:16:13 > 0:16:15- Caesium.- Caesium is correct, yes.
0:16:19 > 0:16:24Right, we go back to the music questions we were looking at earlier, I'm afraid to tell you.
0:16:24 > 0:16:30Following on from that starter from St Matthew's Passion, your bonuses are three more classical pieces,
0:16:30 > 0:16:36all inspired by Biblical figures. In each case, I want you to name the figure or figures singing.
0:16:36 > 0:16:41Firstly for five, the name of these two figures singing after whom the work is named?
0:16:41 > 0:16:43OPERATIC ARIA
0:16:53 > 0:16:55- Samson and Delilah?- It is, yes.
0:16:55 > 0:17:01By Saint-Saens. Secondly, the name of this figure singing after whom the work is named?
0:17:01 > 0:17:03ORATORIO PLAYS
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Elijah?
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Is that opera?
0:17:08 > 0:17:11- Elijah.- It is Elijah, yes.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14Finally, the name of these two Biblical figures singing?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17ORATORIO PLAYS
0:17:23 > 0:17:26CONFERRING
0:17:27 > 0:17:31- Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. - Solomon and the Queen of Sheba?
0:17:31 > 0:17:35No, it's Adam and Eve from Haydn's Creation. Ten points for this.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38"I have lost my eldest son, but I am glad."
0:17:38 > 0:17:43Referring to their mutual hostility, these were the words of which British monarch
0:17:43 > 0:17:48on receiving the news of the death of his son Prince Frederick, the Prince of Wales?
0:17:49 > 0:17:52George III.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Anyone want to buzz from Bangor?
0:17:56 > 0:17:59- George II.- It was George II, yes.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Your bonuses are on an economist.
0:18:05 > 0:18:12The Canadian-born US economist Myron S Scholes shared the 1997 Nobel Prize with Robert C Merton
0:18:12 > 0:18:16for a new method of determining the value of which financial contracts,
0:18:16 > 0:18:21their name being a generic term for futures, options and swaps?
0:18:21 > 0:18:27- Derivatives.- Correct. Along with Scholes, who gives his name to an options pricing model
0:18:27 > 0:18:33that led to the development of a major new financial market? It enables traders to diversify risk.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37WHISPERING
0:18:38 > 0:18:43- An open market?- No, it's Fischer Black, the Black-Scholes Formula.
0:18:43 > 0:18:48Finally, Scholes has been called the "intellectual father" of which instrument,
0:18:48 > 0:18:54an insurance-like contract that will cover losses on certain securities in the event of a default?
0:18:56 > 0:19:00- The hedge fund? - No, it's a credit default swap.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04Ten points for this. Richard Wagner was inspired to create which opera of 1843
0:19:04 > 0:19:09by his experience four years earlier of a dangerous sea crossing from Riga...
0:19:09 > 0:19:12- The Flying Dutchman.- Yes.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19These bonuses are on geometry, King's College.
0:19:19 > 0:19:25What formula gives the volume of a ball of radius "r" in three dimensions?
0:19:25 > 0:19:28- Four-thirds pi r-cubed. - Just nominate him.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31- Nominate Gratrex. - Four-thirds pi r-cubed.- Correct.
0:19:31 > 0:19:37Which two names are associated with the paradox proving a ball of radius one can be decomposed
0:19:37 > 0:19:39into a finite number of pieces
0:19:39 > 0:19:44which can then be re-assembled to form two new balls of radius one?
0:19:44 > 0:19:47I know of the paradox, but it's gone
0:19:47 > 0:19:49WHISPERS
0:19:49 > 0:19:54- It's a modern paradox. I don't know.- Smith-Wilson. - No, it's the Banach-Tarski paradox.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58The Banach-Tarski theorem relies on which axiom of set theory
0:19:58 > 0:20:03which, to paraphrase Russell, is necessary to select one sock
0:20:03 > 0:20:06from each of infinitely many pairs, but not necessary for shoes?
0:20:06 > 0:20:09- Axiom of choice. - Axiom of choice.- Correct.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Ten points for this starter question.
0:20:12 > 0:20:18In human anatomy, what part of the upper respiratory tract is posterior to the buccal and nasal cavities
0:20:18 > 0:20:21and superior to the oesophagus and larynx?
0:20:22 > 0:20:24- The pharynx.- Correct.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30These bonuses are on French detectives, Bangor.
0:20:30 > 0:20:35In each case, I want the surname of the fictional character described and his creator.
0:20:35 > 0:20:41A character who made his first appearance in the 1841 short story Murders In The Rue Morgue
0:20:41 > 0:20:46before the word "detective" existed? His surname relates to a pine tree or trees.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50WHISPERING
0:21:00 > 0:21:04- Come on.- Dupont and Edgar Allan Poe?
0:21:04 > 0:21:07It's Dupin and Edgar Allan Poe. Bad luck.
0:21:07 > 0:21:13A detective who appeared in more than 70 novels from 1931 to '72? His surname means "thin person".
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Maigret.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19- Maigret.- And?- Georges Simenon.
0:21:19 > 0:21:25- Georges Simenon.- Correct. Finally, a detective who made his first appearance in a film of 1963?
0:21:25 > 0:21:28The two elements of his surname mean "nail" and "bucket".
0:21:28 > 0:21:32- Clouseau.- And who created it?
0:21:32 > 0:21:34WHISPERING
0:21:35 > 0:21:39No, no, no. Blake? What was the name? Blake...?
0:21:41 > 0:21:43The director, Blake...?
0:21:43 > 0:21:48- Let's have it, please.- Clouseau, but we can't remember the creator.
0:21:48 > 0:21:53- Blake Edwards.- Edwards! - Can't give you the point, I'm afraid. Another picture round.
0:21:53 > 0:21:58You'll see a portrait of a scientist. Ten points if you can tell me her name.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03- Marie Curie.- No.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Can anyone tell me from King's?
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Ada Lovelace.
0:22:09 > 0:22:15No, it's Caroline Herschel. We'll take another starter question and pick up the picture bonuses shortly.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19South Sudan became the world's newest nation in July 2011
0:22:19 > 0:22:23with an independent ceremony in which city...
0:22:23 > 0:22:25- Juba.- Juba is correct, yes.
0:22:28 > 0:22:34You saw the astronomer Caroline Herschel who was named one of the most influential British women
0:22:34 > 0:22:37in the history of science by Fellows of the Royal Society in 2010.
0:22:37 > 0:22:42For your bonuses you'll see three more British scientists on that list.
0:22:42 > 0:22:47Five points for each you can identify. Firstly for five, this crystallographer?
0:22:49 > 0:22:52- Rosalind Franklin. - No, Kathleen Lonsdale.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Secondly, this physician?
0:23:00 > 0:23:05- Harriet James.- No, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. And finally, this chemist?
0:23:07 > 0:23:09WHISPERING
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Do we have any names?
0:23:13 > 0:23:17- Sorry. We don't know.- That's Dorothy Hodgkin. Right, ten points for this.
0:23:17 > 0:23:22Also known as the Cryptozoic, what term, deriving in part from a Latin name for Wales,
0:23:22 > 0:23:25denotes the span of geological time that...
0:23:25 > 0:23:29- Cenozoic.- No. ..that preceded...
0:23:29 > 0:23:33- Cambrian.- No, Precambrian. You shoul have let me finish the question.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36We'll carry on with another starter question.
0:23:36 > 0:23:41Customs In Common, Whigs And Hunters and The Making Of The English Working Class are among the works
0:23:41 > 0:23:44of which historian who died in 1993?
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Eric Hobsbawm.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52No. Anyone want to buzz from King's College?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Toynbee?
0:23:55 > 0:23:58No, it was EP Thompson. Ten points for this.
0:23:58 > 0:24:03Founded in 1971 by Michael Stern Hart, which internet project provides free online access
0:24:03 > 0:24:07to thousands of e-books and is named after a German...
0:24:07 > 0:24:10- Project Gutenberg.- Correct.
0:24:13 > 0:24:18Right, these bonuses, Bangor, are on the works of Thomas Paine.
0:24:18 > 0:24:23An expression of republicanism, which 1791 work was Paine's answer to Edmund Burke's attack
0:24:23 > 0:24:29on the uprising of the French people in Reflections On The Revolution In France?
0:24:29 > 0:24:31WHISPERING
0:24:31 > 0:24:35- Common Sense. - No, it was The Rights Of Man.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Published in Philadelphia in 1776,
0:24:37 > 0:24:43which anti-monarchical pamphlet by Paine sold more than half a million copies within a few months?
0:24:43 > 0:24:47- Common Sense.- Correct. Deistic in its political philosophy,
0:24:47 > 0:24:53which 1794 pamphlet was his last major work and was an exposition of the place of religion in society?
0:24:53 > 0:24:56It contributed to his notoriety as an atheist.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03- Sorry. Pass.- The Age Of Reason. Ten points for this.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07Appearing in the dictionary between "sublunary" and "sub-machine-gun",
0:25:07 > 0:25:11what medical term denotes a partial dislocation or displacement...?
0:25:11 > 0:25:16- Subluxation.- Correct. These bonuses are on physics now, Bangor.
0:25:16 > 0:25:21A particle whose position x obeys the differential equation:
0:25:21 > 0:25:28d2x/dt squared, equals minus omega squared x, is said to be executing what kind of motion?
0:25:28 > 0:25:33- Speeding up? Slowing down? - Acceleration?- Let's have it, please.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37- Acceleration?- Simple harmonic motion. In terms of omega,
0:25:37 > 0:25:43what is the frequency of oscillation of the particle?
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- Pass. Sorry.- It's omega/2 pi.
0:25:46 > 0:25:52Finally, an oscillator which is not oscillating in simple harmonic motion is known as what?
0:25:52 > 0:25:54- Stationary? - Try it.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57- Stationary.- No, it's... - LAUGHTER
0:25:57 > 0:26:00It's an anharmonic oscillator. Ten points for this.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04What adjective may describe a star with an unusually high velocity
0:26:04 > 0:26:09and an electron that acquires energy from an electric field at a greater rate...
0:26:09 > 0:26:15- Free.- No, you lose five points. ..at a greater rate than it loses through particle collision?
0:26:16 > 0:26:20I'll tell you. It's "runaway". Ten points for this.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24Subtitled "The London Charivari", which illustrated weekly...
0:26:24 > 0:26:27- Punch.- Punch is correct, yes.
0:26:28 > 0:26:33Bonuses this time on Man Booker Prize-winning novels by Indian authors.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37Which novel tells the story of the twins Rahel and Estha
0:26:37 > 0:26:42and their return to their family home after having been apart from one another for 25 years?
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Come on, let's have it, please.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- A Suitable Boy. - No, it's The God Of Small Things.
0:26:50 > 0:26:57The action of which novel takes place in the mid-1980s in a Himalayan town and New York?
0:26:57 > 0:27:00WHISPERING
0:27:01 > 0:27:04Have you read it? Let's have it, please.
0:27:04 > 0:27:10- We don't know.- The Inheritance Of Loss. Which novel is written in the form of a series of letters
0:27:10 > 0:27:15to the Chinese premier by the son of a rickshaw puller who becomes a businessman?
0:27:15 > 0:27:18- We don't know.- The White Tiger. Ten points for this.
0:27:18 > 0:27:24In mathematics, "vigesimal" means related to, based on or proceeding by intervals of what number?
0:27:26 > 0:27:28- 20.- Correct.
0:27:28 > 0:27:31Your bonuses now are on rivers and their fauna.
0:27:31 > 0:27:37Which major river gives its name to a species of antelope, crocodile, perch and monitor lizard?
0:27:37 > 0:27:42- Nile.- Which river in China gives its name to a species of dolphin known as baiji?
0:27:42 > 0:27:46- Yangtze. - GONG - Yangtze is correct, yes.
0:27:53 > 0:27:59King's College, I'm afraid it's goodbye, but considering you lost your first-round match,
0:27:59 > 0:28:05it's a terrific achievement to get as far as the quarter-finals. You go with your heads held high.
0:28:05 > 0:28:09Bangor, 195, terrific score. We shall see you in the semi-finals. Well done.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12Join us next time for the first semi-final,
0:28:12 > 0:28:16- but until then, it's goodbye from King's College.- Goodbye.
0:28:16 > 0:28:20- It's goodbye from Bangor.- Goodbye. - And goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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