0:00:19 > 0:00:24University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello. Around 120 teams applied to take part in this contest,
0:00:32 > 0:00:3528 qualified to appear on the series
0:00:35 > 0:00:39and now we're down to the last four as we begin the semi-finals.
0:00:39 > 0:00:44Next time, we'll see Manchester University take on the University of Bangor.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48Tonight's winning team will meet the winner of that match in the final.
0:00:48 > 0:00:52Both teams tonight have made it to this stage without losing a contest.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55The team from University College, London beat Exeter University
0:00:55 > 0:01:01and Jesus College, Oxford in the first two rounds, then made short work of it in the quarters
0:01:01 > 0:01:05by beating both teams playing next week, Bangor and Manchester.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Let's welcome them back for their fifth appearance.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Hello. I'm Adam Papaphilippopoulos.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13I'm from London and I'm reading for an MA in Philosophy.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Hello. I'm Tomasz Tyszczuk Smith from Cambridge, studying Medicine.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20- Their captain.- Hi, I'm Simon Dennis.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24I'm also from London, studying the History and Philosophy of Science.
0:01:24 > 0:01:29Hi, I'm Tom Parton from Staffordshire and I'm studying Natural Sciences.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31APPLAUSE
0:01:32 > 0:01:37The team from New College, Oxford have also been merciless in their game play.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41Their victims so far have been Homerton College, Cambridge,
0:01:41 > 0:01:46the University of York, King's College, Cambridge and St George's, London.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Let's meet them also for the fifth time.
0:01:49 > 0:01:53I'm Remi Beecroft from Hertfordshire, studying Psychology and Philosophy.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Hi, I'm India Lenon. I'm from London and I'm studying Classics.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59- Their captain. - I'm Andy Hood from Warwickshire
0:01:59 > 0:02:03and I'm studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Hi, I'm Tom Cappleman from Berkshire, studying Mathematics.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08APPLAUSE
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16What five letters begin the names of the following:
0:02:16 > 0:02:21the son of Theseus who was dragged to his death but restored by Aesculapius,
0:02:21 > 0:02:25the Queen of the Amazons in A Midsummer Night's Dream...
0:02:25 > 0:02:28- Hippo.- Hippo is correct, yes.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32The first set of bonuses are on trading blocs, New College.
0:02:32 > 0:02:37In December 2011, which South American trading bloc agreed to close its ports
0:02:37 > 0:02:41to ships flying the Falkland Islands flag?
0:02:41 > 0:02:44- ASEAN.- No, it's Mercosur.
0:02:44 > 0:02:49What name was given to the agreement reached by Canada, Mexico and the United States in 1993
0:02:49 > 0:02:52that made the three countries a free trade area?
0:02:52 > 0:02:55- NAFTA.- Correct. Established in 1834,
0:02:55 > 0:03:02the Zollverein Customs Union created a free trade area throughout much of which modern-day country?
0:03:02 > 0:03:05- Modern-day Germany.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:03:05 > 0:03:11James and George Loveless, Thomas and John Standfield, James Hammett and James Brine were arrested
0:03:11 > 0:03:17in March 1834 for "unlawful assembly" and charged with "administering unlawful oaths".
0:03:17 > 0:03:20By what collective name were they known?
0:03:21 > 0:03:24- The Chartists?- No.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28- The Tolpuddle Martyrs? - The Tolpuddle Martyrs is correct.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34Right, your first bonuses, UCL, are on place names in England.
0:03:34 > 0:03:39In each case, your answer will be two towns or cities whose names share a common suffix,
0:03:39 > 0:03:42for example, London and Swindon.
0:03:42 > 0:03:47Firstly, a town in North Derbyshire perhaps best known for the shape of its church's spire
0:03:47 > 0:03:51and a West Yorkshire town noted for its Victorian architecture
0:03:51 > 0:03:56and for having an unusually large number of listed buildings?
0:03:57 > 0:03:59Chesterfield and Huddersfield.
0:03:59 > 0:04:04Correct. Secondly, a port on the River Medway, site of a former Royal Navy Dockyard,
0:04:04 > 0:04:11and the metropolitan borough north-east of Manchester, birthplace of the composer William Walton?
0:04:13 > 0:04:14WHISPERING
0:04:27 > 0:04:30Altrincham. Chatham and Altrincham.
0:04:30 > 0:04:34- Chatham and Altrincham. - No, it's Chatham and Oldham.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37Finally, the cathedral city closest to Stonehenge
0:04:37 > 0:04:42and the county town on the River Severn, the birthplace of Charles Darwin?
0:04:42 > 0:04:44WHISPERING
0:04:45 > 0:04:48- Salisbury and Shrewsbury.- Correct.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51Ten points for this. Who is this?
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Born in Belfast in 1824 and raised in Glasgow,
0:04:53 > 0:04:58he worked as chief consultant on the laying of the first submarine Atlantic cable
0:04:58 > 0:05:02and patented a mirror galvanometer that improved telegraphic transmissions.
0:05:02 > 0:05:06He is chiefly remembered for the absolute temperature scale...
0:05:06 > 0:05:08- Lord Kelvin.- Correct.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13These bonuses, UCL, are on physics.
0:05:13 > 0:05:18The 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared between two men, each of whom gives his name
0:05:18 > 0:05:22to an equation formulated within the previous ten years.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Erwin Schrodinger was one. Who was the other?
0:05:30 > 0:05:32WHISPERING
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Dirac.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39- Dirac.- Correct. Dirac's Nobel Prize lecture concluded with the words:
0:05:39 > 0:05:45"The two kinds of stars would show the same spectra and there would be no way of distinguishing them
0:05:45 > 0:05:47"by present astronomical methods."
0:05:47 > 0:05:52What was the difference between the two kinds of star he was discussing?
0:05:52 > 0:05:58- One made of matter, one of anti-matter.- Yes. To what physical phenomenon was Schrodinger referring
0:05:58 > 0:06:02when he said, "We can easily hear a man calling from behind a high wall
0:06:02 > 0:06:05"or around the corner of a solid house"?
0:06:06 > 0:06:08WHISPERING
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Diffraction of particles?
0:06:13 > 0:06:17Diffraction is correct, yes. Ten points for this.
0:06:17 > 0:06:22What two initials link the contemporary philosopher who wrote An Essay On Kindness,
0:06:22 > 0:06:25the author of the lyrics of Land Of Hope And Glory,
0:06:25 > 0:06:29a US market analyst who gives his name to a system of TV ratings
0:06:29 > 0:06:32and the local rivals of Inter Milan?
0:06:34 > 0:06:36- AC.- AC is correct, yes.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42These bonuses, UCL, are on the historical provinces of Japan
0:06:42 > 0:06:47which were replaced by the current prefectures in the late 19th century.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51Comprising the modern Kochi prefecture on the island of Shikoku,
0:06:51 > 0:06:57which former province of Japan gives its name to a breed of mastiff originally bred for fighting?
0:07:01 > 0:07:02WHISPERING
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Come on.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11- No, sorry.- These dogs are tosas.
0:07:11 > 0:07:16Which province corresponds to the area of the former capital of Nara
0:07:16 > 0:07:19and gives its name to the dominant ethnic group of Japan,
0:07:19 > 0:07:24as well as to a traditional style of painting and a WW2 battleship?
0:07:26 > 0:07:29WHISPERING
0:07:35 > 0:07:37- No. Sorry.- It's Yamato.
0:07:37 > 0:07:42Finally, comprising the south-west peninsula of the island of Kyushu,
0:07:42 > 0:07:46which former province gives its name to a variety of citrus fruit?
0:07:46 > 0:07:49- Satsuma.- Correct. We'll take a picture round.
0:07:49 > 0:07:54For your starter, you'll see a map of Africa with some countries highlighted.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58The highlighted countries have a common official language.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Ten points if you can tell me what the language is.
0:08:03 > 0:08:09- Portuguese.- It is Portuguese, but next time you buzz, you must answer straight away.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11So you get the picture bonuses.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15Highlighted countries now are Portuguese-speaking countries.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19For your picture bonuses, I want you to identify three of them.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Firstly for five...?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25- Is that the Cape Verde Islands? - No.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28- Sao Tome and Principe? - Yeah, I think so.
0:08:28 > 0:08:32- Sao Tome and Principe?- Correct. Secondly...?
0:08:36 > 0:08:38WHISPERING
0:08:40 > 0:08:43- Guinea-Bissau?- Correct. And finally...?
0:08:43 > 0:08:45- Mozambique.- Correct.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Right, ten points for this.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52The VIX Index or the Chicago Board Options...
0:08:53 > 0:08:56- Volatility. - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:08:56 > 0:09:02..the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index is a widely used measure of risk
0:09:02 > 0:09:06and market volatility, sometimes known by what descriptive term,
0:09:06 > 0:09:11used by Robert Harris as the title of his 2011 novel about trading in the financial markets?
0:09:15 > 0:09:18It's The Fear Index. Ten points for this.
0:09:18 > 0:09:2320 miles from the royal residence of Balmoral, which Aberdeenshire hamlet has, since 2011,
0:09:23 > 0:09:26seen an unusual number of hits on its Wikipedia page?
0:09:26 > 0:09:31Somewhat unfortunately, its name is an acronym of that of an ITV2 reality show...
0:09:32 > 0:09:35The Only Way Is Essex?
0:09:35 > 0:09:40No. ..whose principal figures include Jessica Wright and Lauren Goodger?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Made In Chelsea.
0:09:45 > 0:09:50No, it's Towie. It was The Only Way Is Essex, but the hamlet is called Towie. Ten points for this.
0:09:50 > 0:09:56"The author of this sick little play has the traditional, irrational hatred of the police
0:09:56 > 0:09:59"common to all narrow-minded left-wingers and so..."
0:09:59 > 0:10:01- Dario Fo.- No, you lose five points.
0:10:01 > 0:10:07"..and so I shall, no doubt, be the unwilling butt of endless anti-authoritarian jibes."
0:10:07 > 0:10:13These words of Inspector Bertozzo appear at the beginning of which farce, first performed in 1970?
0:10:19 > 0:10:25Come on. It's the Accidental Death Of An Anarchist by, as you say, Dario Fo. Ten points for this.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29Listen carefully. Since the end of 1999, there have been four days
0:10:29 > 0:10:34whose dates, when expressed in the DD-MM-YYYY format,
0:10:34 > 0:10:39consist of eight digits which, when taken individually, add up to four.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Which was the last such date to occur?
0:10:49 > 0:10:511st of January, 2011.
0:10:51 > 0:10:52Nope.
0:10:57 > 0:10:591st of January, 2000.
0:10:59 > 0:11:04No, 10th of October, 2000. Ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:11:04 > 0:11:09If standard gravity is 10 metres per second squared and atmospheric pressure is 100,000 pascals,
0:11:09 > 0:11:13what depth of water corresponds to one atmosphere of pressure?
0:11:18 > 0:11:20- 10 metres.- Correct.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26New College, these bonuses are on cities.
0:11:26 > 0:11:31In each case, name the city from the description given in heraldic terminology
0:11:31 > 0:11:36of the shield at the centre of its coat of arms. Each answer is an English coastal city.
0:11:36 > 0:11:41Firstly, argent, two dolphins naiant, sable,
0:11:41 > 0:11:45a bordure azure charged with six martlets or?
0:11:45 > 0:11:50You get dolphins in Bournemouth, on the south coast.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Portsmouth, do you think?
0:11:54 > 0:11:57- Portsmouth. - No, it's Brighton and Hove.
0:11:57 > 0:12:03Secondly, argent, a cormorant in the beak, a branch of seaweed called laver, all proper?
0:12:04 > 0:12:07You get laver in Wales, but...
0:12:09 > 0:12:12- Somewhere on the Welsh coast? - It's English, though.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15- Bristol? - Yeah.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17- Bristol?- No, it's Liverpool.
0:12:17 > 0:12:22Finally, azure, a crescent ensigned by an estoile of eight points or?
0:12:23 > 0:12:28- Portsmouth.- Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32Which mirliton was patented in 1883 by Warren Herbert Frost?
0:12:32 > 0:12:36A basic type of musical instrument rarely heard in western classical music,
0:12:36 > 0:12:41it is today most frequently found in the familiar "submarine" shape.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47- A zither?- No. Anyone want to buzz from UCL?
0:12:49 > 0:12:54- A whirligig?- No, it's a kazoo. Ten points for this.
0:12:54 > 0:12:59Acer, HTC, Foxconn and Quanta Computer are among the major technology companies
0:12:59 > 0:13:02that have their headquarters on which...
0:13:02 > 0:13:06- Taiwan.- Taiwan is correct, yes.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09These bonuses are on insects in music.
0:13:09 > 0:13:15Set by both Beethoven and Mussorgsky, which song performed by Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust
0:13:15 > 0:13:19is named after the small wingless insect, Pulex irritans?
0:13:21 > 0:13:23WHISPERING
0:13:34 > 0:13:36- Woodlouse?- No, the Song of the Flea.
0:13:36 > 0:13:42The Flight Of The Bumblebee is an orchestral interlude in an opera of 1900 by Rimsky-Korsakov.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Who is the title character?
0:13:47 > 0:13:49- Peter?- No, it's Tsar Saltan.
0:13:49 > 0:13:55Finally, which English composer wrote the incidental music The Wasps in 1909
0:13:55 > 0:13:58for a production of Aristophanes' play of that title?
0:13:58 > 0:14:02- Ralph Vaughan Williams.- Correct. We'll take a music round now.
0:14:02 > 0:14:08For your starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music. For ten points, name the composer.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10SOMBRE MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:12 > 0:14:14- Handel.- Handel is correct, yes.
0:14:16 > 0:14:23Keyboard Suite in D Minor: Sarabande. He was organist and composer at the Chapel Royal,
0:14:23 > 0:14:29during the reign of George II. You'll hear more pieces by notable composers
0:14:29 > 0:14:35all born in Britain who wrote and played for the Chapel Royal in the 16th and 17th centuries.
0:14:35 > 0:14:41Five points for each composer. Firstly, this composer, appointed Gentleman of the Chapel Royal
0:14:41 > 0:14:43under the reign of Elizabeth I.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45CHORAL WORK PLAYS
0:14:56 > 0:15:00- Thomas Tallis?- No, William Byrd, Mass For Five Voices.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02Secondly, this composer, appointed 1682.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04MUSIC BEGINS
0:15:08 > 0:15:10- Er, Purcell.- It is Purcell, yes.
0:15:10 > 0:15:16And finally this composer, also appointed Gentleman of the Chapel Royal under Elizabeth I.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19CHORAL WORK BEGINS
0:15:22 > 0:15:26- Tallis?- That is Tallis. Right, 10 points for this.
0:15:26 > 0:15:30What is the common name of mammals of the order chiroptera?
0:15:30 > 0:15:36They have a high metabolic rate and their forelimbs are patagiated, forming a wing.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40- Bats?- Bats is correct, yes.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45These bonuses are on human anatomy.
0:15:45 > 0:15:51The plantar fascia is a fibrous band that helps maintain the structure and shape
0:15:51 > 0:15:54of which part of the human body?
0:15:57 > 0:16:02- The foot?- Correct. What collective name is given to the seven rounded bones in the foot,
0:16:02 > 0:16:05including the cuboid, talus and calcaneus?
0:16:08 > 0:16:12- Metatarsals?- No, tarsals. From a Greek term for close-order infantry,
0:16:12 > 0:16:18what name denotes the 14 bones found in the toes?
0:16:18 > 0:16:23- Phalanges.- Correct. The author of The Conscience of A Liberal,
0:16:23 > 0:16:26which columnist for the New York Times...
0:16:26 > 0:16:29- Paul Krugman.- Correct.
0:16:30 > 0:16:36Your bonuses are on terminology used in the shipping forecast according to the Met Office website.
0:16:36 > 0:16:42According to the glossary, "soon" means "expected within 6-12 hours of time of issue".
0:16:42 > 0:16:47What word means "expected within 6 hours of time of issue"?
0:16:48 > 0:16:54- Imminent?- Correct. What present participle is defined as "the changing of the wind
0:16:54 > 0:17:00"in the opposite direction to veering," for example, south-east to north-east?
0:17:08 > 0:17:14- Continuing?- Backing. What short word is used to describe visibility of more than five nautical miles?
0:17:17 > 0:17:21- Clear.- Good. 10 points for this. In party political terms,
0:17:21 > 0:17:26what links Reginald Prentice in 1977, Peter Thurnham in 1996,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Shaun Woodward in 1999 and...
0:17:29 > 0:17:36- They moved from the Conservative to the Labour Party.- No. ..and Quentin Davies in 2007?
0:17:39 > 0:17:45- They crossed the House? - They crossed the floor, right. They weren't all in the same direction.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49You get the bonuses, UCL. They're on Chinese literature.
0:17:49 > 0:17:55Si-Ma Chen is described as "the father of Chinese historiography" and wrote a history of China
0:17:55 > 0:18:00from the Yellow Emperor until his own time. During which dynasty did he live?
0:18:04 > 0:18:10- Han?- Correct. The poets Li Bo, Du Fu and Wang Wei all lived during which dynasty?
0:18:16 > 0:18:22- Tang.- Correct. Which dynasty saw the publication of the vernacular fiction works Journey To The West,
0:18:22 > 0:18:26also known as Monkey, and The Plum In The Golden Vase,
0:18:26 > 0:18:30described as the Fanny Hill of Chinese literature?
0:18:30 > 0:18:36- Song?- No, Ming. 10 points for this. Used poetically for a star, planet or moon or for the eye or eyeball,
0:18:36 > 0:18:39what three-letter word...
0:18:40 > 0:18:43- Orb.- Orb is correct, yes.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48These bonuses are on nuclear physics, UCL.
0:18:48 > 0:18:55Excluding the free neutron, what is the lightest radioactive nuclear isotope with a 12.3-year half-life?
0:19:06 > 0:19:11- Deuterium?- No, tritium. Tritium contains one proton and two neutrons
0:19:11 > 0:19:17each based around three quarks of up and down varieties. In total, how many up and down quarks
0:19:17 > 0:19:20form a tritium nucleus?
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Come on, let's have it, please.
0:19:39 > 0:19:44- Nine.- Specifically, up and down? - 6 up, 3 down?- Sorry?
0:19:44 > 0:19:46- 6 up, 3 down?- No, 4 up and 5 down.
0:19:46 > 0:19:51Tritium decays by emitting a beta particle, resulting in which isotope
0:19:51 > 0:19:58with 5 up and 4 down quarks? It is present in measurable quantities in lunar soil.
0:19:59 > 0:20:06- I think that would be Helium Three. - Helium Three?- Correct. We're going to take another picture round.
0:20:06 > 0:20:11You're going to see a painting. 10 points if you can give me the name of the artist.
0:20:12 > 0:20:16- Caravaggio.- Correct. The Adoration of the Shepherds.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20Your bonuses are three other depictions of that scene,
0:20:20 > 0:20:24all painted in the 17th century. Identify the artist in each case.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28Firstly, for five, this Flemish painter.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39- Van Eyck?- No, that's Rubens. Secondly, this Cretan-born painter.
0:20:42 > 0:20:48- Nominate Cappleman.- El Greco. - Correct. And, finally, this Dutch painter.
0:20:52 > 0:21:00- Rembrandt?- Correct. A Nylander solution, containing bismuth sub-nitrate and Rochelle salt,
0:21:00 > 0:21:04is used to detect the presence of what specific substance in urine?
0:21:04 > 0:21:08The solution turns black in a positive reaction.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12- Alcohol?- No.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17- Glucose?- Glucose is right, yes!
0:21:21 > 0:21:28These bonuses are on the odes of John Keats. Which ode ends with, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty -
0:21:28 > 0:21:33"that is all ye know on Earth and all ye need to know"?
0:21:35 > 0:21:43- Grecian Urn.- Correct. "O latest-born and loveliest vision far Of all Olympus' faded hierarchy."
0:21:43 > 0:21:47Which goddess does Keats address with those words?
0:21:54 > 0:21:58- Em, beauty... What...?- Aphrodite?
0:21:58 > 0:22:02- Yeah, I think.- Aphrodite. - No, it's Psyche.
0:22:02 > 0:22:06To what personification does Keats address the ode in which he asks,
0:22:06 > 0:22:12"Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music, too"?
0:22:19 > 0:22:25- Jack Frost or something. - Jack Frost. - No, it's the Ode to Autumn.
0:22:25 > 0:22:30Five minutes to go. For what real values of X and Y
0:22:30 > 0:22:35does the square of X plus Y equal X squared plus Y squared?
0:22:41 > 0:22:44Er, one and zero.
0:22:44 > 0:22:45Nope.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Is anyone going to buzz from UCL?
0:22:50 > 0:22:55- Two.- No, it's when X equals zero or Y equals zero. 10 points for this.
0:22:55 > 0:23:02If the sixteen states of Germany are arranged alphabetically by their English name, which comes second?
0:23:05 > 0:23:07- Bavaria.- Correct.
0:23:10 > 0:23:15Your bonuses are on world rulers. I'll read a list of rulers who were on the throne or in power
0:23:15 > 0:23:21during the first year of a century of the common era. In each case, I simply want the century.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Firstly, Chandragupta II of India,
0:23:24 > 0:23:29Yazdegerd I of Sassanid Persia and Alaric I of the Visigoths?
0:23:29 > 0:23:31The 400s.
0:23:31 > 0:23:37- Fifth century? Fifth.- Correct. Secondly, Magnus Barefoot of Norway,
0:23:37 > 0:23:42Baldwin II, Count of Edessa, and the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus?
0:23:45 > 0:23:47- 11th?- No, it's the 12th.
0:23:47 > 0:23:53And, finally, Emperor Kangxi of the Ch'ing Dynasty, the Mughal Emperor Aurang-Zeb
0:23:53 > 0:23:56and Charles XII of Sweden?
0:24:00 > 0:24:07- 18th.- Correct. 10 points for this. Gateshead Hall, Ferndean Manor, Moor House, Lowood School
0:24:07 > 0:24:10and Thornfield Hall are among...
0:24:10 > 0:24:12- Jane Eyre?- Correct.
0:24:12 > 0:24:17These bonuses are on people born in the city of Rouen.
0:24:17 > 0:24:22Le Cid, La Veuve and Cinna are among the tragedies of which dramatist,
0:24:22 > 0:24:26born in Rouen in 1606 and a rival of Racine?
0:24:27 > 0:24:32- Come on.- Sorry, we don't know. - Corneille. Born 1791,
0:24:32 > 0:24:35which influential painter's work includes The Charging Chasseur,
0:24:35 > 0:24:39Portrait of a Kleptomaniac and The Raft of The Medusa?
0:24:39 > 0:24:42- Nominate Beecroft.- Er...
0:24:42 > 0:24:47- I don't know, sorry.- It's Gericault. That was on the tip of your tongue.
0:24:47 > 0:24:53Born in Rouen in 1864, the author Maurice Leblanc created which "gentleman thief",
0:24:53 > 0:24:57sometimes seen as a counterpart to Sherlock Holmes?
0:24:58 > 0:25:05- No?- We don't know.- Arsene Lupin. 10 points for this. In which regular polygon is the internal angle
0:25:05 > 0:25:08at each vertex 135 degrees...
0:25:09 > 0:25:13- Octagon.- Octagon is correct. Your bonuses are on astronomy.
0:25:13 > 0:25:18Named after a German astronomer born in 1854, Kreutz Sungrazers are a related group
0:25:18 > 0:25:21of what astronomical objects?
0:25:21 > 0:25:25- Asteroids.- No, they're comets. The source of the Taurid meteor showers,
0:25:25 > 0:25:32and with an orbital period of only around three years, which comet was the second shown to be periodic?
0:25:32 > 0:25:37- We don't know.- Encke. In what year is Halley's Comet predicted to return to perihelion
0:25:37 > 0:25:42or its closest approach to the Sun? You can have five years either side.
0:25:42 > 0:25:48- 2056.- I'll accept that. 2061. 10 points for this.
0:25:48 > 0:25:54Port Natal is the former name of which Indian Ocean coastal city, the chief sea port of South Africa?
0:25:54 > 0:25:58- Durban.- Durban is right. Your bonuses are on the Silk Route.
0:25:58 > 0:26:05Formerly the eastern terminus of the Silk Route, the name of which Chinese city means "Western Peace"?
0:26:06 > 0:26:11- Quickly.- Beijing.- Xi'an. South-east of Urumqi in western China,
0:26:11 > 0:26:17which city on the Silk Route gives its name to a depression that is one of the lowest points on Earth?
0:26:17 > 0:26:23- Quickly.- No, sorry.- It's Turpan. Formerly a staging point on the northern Silk Route,
0:26:23 > 0:26:28Khujand, at the entrance to the Fergana Valley, is the second city of which republic?
0:26:28 > 0:26:30- Kyrgyzstan.- No, Tajikistan.
0:26:30 > 0:26:35The novel The Outcast and the play Six Characters In Search of An Author...
0:26:35 > 0:26:42- Camus. Not right.- Lose 5 points. ..are among the works of which Nobel Prize-winning Italian writer?
0:26:44 > 0:26:49- One of you buzz. - Primo Levi.- No, it's Pirandello. 10 points for this.
0:26:49 > 0:26:53Sus scrofa is the scientific name for which domesticated mammal,
0:26:53 > 0:26:58breeds of which include the Duroc, Landrace, Spotted and Large White?
0:26:58 > 0:27:02- Pig.- Pig is correct. Your bonuses are on fictional pigs.
0:27:02 > 0:27:08In a series of stories by PG Wodehouse, what is the prize-winning pig owned by Lord Emsworth?
0:27:08 > 0:27:13- The Duchess of Blandings. - Empress of Blandings. Described as "majestic-looking...
0:27:13 > 0:27:17"wise and benevolent..." which pig in Animal Farm dies
0:27:17 > 0:27:22three days after organising the first meeting of the animals?
0:27:22 > 0:27:27- Come on.- Old Major?- Correct. What is the name of the porcine title character
0:27:27 > 0:27:30in Dick King-Smith's 1983 book The Sheep-Pig?
0:27:30 > 0:27:33- Babe.- Correct. - GONG
0:27:43 > 0:27:49Well, New College, we have to say goodbye to you, but to go out in the semi-finals is pretty good.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53Congratulations. Thank you very much for joining us.
0:27:53 > 0:27:58UCL, you give your answers with a wonderful mixture of disdain and diffidence.
0:27:58 > 0:28:05I don't know what this signifies. You go through to the finals. We look forward to seeing you there.
0:28:05 > 0:28:06Well done.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10I hope you can join us next time for the last semi-final.
0:28:10 > 0:28:15Until then, it's goodbye from New College, goodbye from UCL
0:28:15 > 0:28:18and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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