0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. Tonight is the penultimate match in this competition.
0:00:30 > 0:00:37Last time we saw University College, London, beat New College, Oxford, to take their place in the final.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Tonight we'll discover who they'll be facing.
0:00:40 > 0:00:47Manchester University had victories against two Oxford colleges in rounds one and two
0:00:47 > 0:00:51and won their first quarter-final against Imperial College, London.
0:00:51 > 0:00:57They came a cropper in their second quarter-final, when they lost to University College, London,
0:00:57 > 0:01:03but redeemed themselves with a convincing win against St George's to earn their place here tonight.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Let's meet them for the sixth time.
0:01:05 > 0:01:10Hello. I'm David Brice and I study Economics.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14Hi, I'm Adam Barr from Muswell Hill, studying Physics with Astrophysics.
0:01:14 > 0:01:20- And their captain...- Hi, I'm Richard Gilbert from Warwickshire and I'm studying Linguistics.
0:01:20 > 0:01:27Hello. I'm Debbie Brown from Buxton and I'm studying for a PhD in Pain Epidemiology.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36The team from Bangor University have a rather similar history,
0:01:36 > 0:01:40beating St Andrews and Durham in the first two rounds
0:01:40 > 0:01:44and losing their first quarter-final to University College, London.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48They got back in with a win over Imperial College, London,
0:01:48 > 0:01:52and nailed the second quarter-final, beating King's College, Cambridge.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56Let's meet them as they also make their sixth appearance.
0:01:56 > 0:02:01Hi, I'm Adam Pearce, from Barry, studying for a Phd in Translation Studies.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Hi, I'm Mark Stevens from Cheshire, studying Environmental Science.
0:02:05 > 0:02:12- And their captain...- Hello. My name's Nina Grant, from Enfield, studying French and Linguistics.
0:02:12 > 0:02:19Hello. I'm Simon Tomlinson, from Manchester, studying for a PhD in Neuropsychology.
0:02:24 > 0:02:29Right, get those fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter.
0:02:29 > 0:02:35"The translators sought to find in our language words that would pass on the almost unbearable weight
0:02:35 > 0:02:40"of divine intelligence and love pressing down on those who first encountered it
0:02:40 > 0:02:42"and tried to embody it in writing."
0:02:42 > 0:02:46Those words of Dr Rowan Williams are from a sermon of 2011
0:02:46 > 0:02:49marking the 400th anniversary of...
0:02:49 > 0:02:52- The King James Bible.- Correct.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59The bonuses are on a 19th-century writer and diplomat.
0:02:59 > 0:03:06Sir John Bowring was the literary executor of which utilitarian philosopher
0:03:06 > 0:03:11whose radical journal, The Westminster Review, he edited from 1824?
0:03:15 > 0:03:18- John Stuart Mill?- Jeremy Bentham.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22In 1854, Bowring became the fourth governor of which British colony?
0:03:22 > 0:03:28His policies contributed to the outbreak of the conflict sometimes known as the Second Opium War.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31- China...- No, India.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33- India?- No, Hong Kong.
0:03:33 > 0:03:38He gives his name to a treaty of 1855 negotiated with King Rama IV,
0:03:38 > 0:03:54that opened which country to western influence and trade?
0:03:54 > 0:03:59- Thailand?- It is Thailand, yes. Whose grave is marked by a tombstone
0:03:59 > 0:04:03recently placed behind protective glass by the Irish Government
0:04:03 > 0:04:06to prevent it from "lipstick erosion"...
0:04:06 > 0:04:08- Oscar Wilde.- Correct.
0:04:11 > 0:04:18These bonuses are on a journalist and critic. Known as the Sage of Baltimore,
0:04:18 > 0:04:25who compiled examples of local usage and idioms in his 1919 work The American Language?
0:04:33 > 0:04:36- Merriam?- No, it's HL Mencken.
0:04:36 > 0:04:41Which two-word alliterative term did Mencken coin to describe those sections
0:04:41 > 0:04:45of the American south and midwest practising Protestant fundamentalism?
0:04:45 > 0:04:52- The Bible Belt.- Which form of government did he say was the theory that the people know what they want
0:04:52 > 0:04:54and deserve to get it good and hard?
0:04:56 > 0:05:00- Democracy?- Correct. Work this out before you buzz.
0:05:00 > 0:05:06If an ideal gas at zero degrees Celsius is heated steadily at constant pressure,
0:05:06 > 0:05:11at what temperature, to the nearest degree, will it occupy twice its original volume?
0:05:17 > 0:05:19- Ten degrees.- Nope.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- 273 degrees?- Correct!
0:05:28 > 0:05:31These bonuses are on thermometry.
0:05:31 > 0:05:36After a scientist born in 1564, what name is given to a thermometer that indicates the temperature
0:05:36 > 0:05:43based on the motion of a collection of weights of varying densities, suspended in a transparent liquid?
0:05:48 > 0:05:53- Nominate Barr.- Torricelli? - No, it's a Galilean thermometer.
0:05:53 > 0:06:00What is the name of the upward force exerted by a fluid opposing the weight of a body suspended in it?
0:06:00 > 0:06:03Buoyancy, isn't it? Buoyancy.
0:06:03 > 0:06:09- Buoyancy.- Yes. To what temperature on the Celsius scale does 50 degrees Fahrenheit correspond?
0:06:11 > 0:06:1416 Celsius is 61.
0:06:18 > 0:06:23- Maybe...10. - 12 and a half maybe.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26- 12 and a half.- No, it's 10 degrees.
0:06:26 > 0:06:32Quote: "Shadows, ghosts, ruins and doppelgangers. A madwoman emerging from a Hampstead fog.
0:06:32 > 0:06:37"The villain, Count Fosco, who keeps white mice in his pocket.
0:06:37 > 0:06:42"Marian Halcombe, an intrepid heroine with, of all things, a light moustache..."
0:06:42 > 0:06:46Those words of the author Nicci French describe which 1860 novel?
0:06:46 > 0:06:49- The Woman In White.- Yes!
0:06:52 > 0:06:56Your bonuses are on the essays of Henry James.
0:06:56 > 0:07:01First performed in 1777, of which play by Sheridan did James write,
0:07:01 > 0:07:08"The main idea is that gossips and backbiters are brought to confusion and that hypocrisy is a nasty vice"?
0:07:12 > 0:07:14School For Scoundrels?
0:07:14 > 0:07:18- School For Scoundrels? - No, it was School For Scandal.
0:07:18 > 0:07:25Which 19th-century poet did James describe as possessing, "an acute perception of everything in nature
0:07:25 > 0:07:30"that may contribute to his fund of exquisite imagery, his refinement, his literary tone,
0:07:30 > 0:07:34"his aroma of English lawns and English libraries"?
0:07:40 > 0:07:42- Browning?- No, it's Tennyson.
0:07:42 > 0:07:48"The study of an exasperated woman," was how James described which late-19th-century play
0:07:48 > 0:07:54whose heroine was, he said, "Various and sinuous and graceful, complicated and natural;
0:07:54 > 0:07:56"she suffers, she struggles, she is human"?
0:07:56 > 0:07:59- Hedda Gabler.- Correct.
0:07:59 > 0:08:06We'll take a picture round now. You're going to see a national flag. For 10 points, identify the country.
0:08:08 > 0:08:13- Is that Central African Republic? - It is indeed, yes.
0:08:14 > 0:08:20So that is one of only ten national flags that have five colours in their primary design.
0:08:20 > 0:08:26Your picture bonuses are three more five-colour flags. I simply want you to identify the country.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30All three are members of the African Union.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Firstly, for five...
0:08:34 > 0:08:37- Seychelles.- Correct. Secondly...
0:08:39 > 0:08:41- Comoros.- Correct. And finally...
0:08:41 > 0:08:44- Is that Ethiopia?- No...
0:08:44 > 0:08:47No, it's...not Uganda. It's...
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Oh, crikey.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Let's have it, please.
0:08:54 > 0:08:59- South Sudan.- No, Zimbabwe. Another starter question now.
0:08:59 > 0:09:04"For young people in our country, the internet is...more than a service -
0:09:04 > 0:09:10"it's a symbol of democracy and freedom." These words refer to which EU member state, noted for its...
0:09:10 > 0:09:17- Sweden?- No, lose 5 points. ..noted for its high rate of internet penetration and usage?
0:09:19 > 0:09:24- Spain?- No, it's Estonia. Meaning "in the chapel style",
0:09:24 > 0:09:26what term evolved...
0:09:26 > 0:09:31- A cappella. - A cappella is correct, yes.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35This set of bonuses are on album cover artists.
0:09:35 > 0:09:43Firstly, which pioneer of pop art, who died in 2011, created the cover for The Beatles' White Album?
0:09:47 > 0:09:50- Sorry, pass.- Richard Hamilton.
0:09:50 > 0:09:56Created by the German artist Gerhard Richter, a work called Kerze meaning Candle, formed the cover
0:09:56 > 0:10:01of which 1988 album by Sonic Youth, one of the few rock albums
0:10:01 > 0:10:06to be preserved by the Library of Congress in the National Recording Registry?
0:10:06 > 0:10:11- Sorry.- Daydream Nation. Finally, since the 1995 album The Bends,
0:10:11 > 0:10:17Stanley Donwood has produced all of the artwork for which British band?
0:10:17 > 0:10:20- Radiohead.- Correct. Which part of the peripheral nervous system
0:10:20 > 0:10:24is divided into sympathetic and para-sympathetic fibres...
0:10:24 > 0:10:28- Autonomic. - Autonomic is correct, or visceral.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34Manchester, these bonuses are on paradoxes.
0:10:34 > 0:10:39The paradox of self-reference, or the Liar Paradox, is expressed in what statement
0:10:39 > 0:10:44attributed to Epimenides the Cretan, usually expressed in four words?
0:10:44 > 0:10:47I always... I never tell the...
0:10:47 > 0:10:49This statement is false?
0:10:50 > 0:10:56- This statement is false. - All Cretans are liars. Named after a British logician,
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Jourdain's Paradox has a two-sided card. On one side are the words,
0:10:59 > 0:11:06"The statement on the other side of this card is false." What's written on the other side?
0:11:08 > 0:11:12- The statement on the other side is false.- No, it's true!
0:11:12 > 0:11:17Finally, what two-word term indicates a situation in which a statement is shown to entail
0:11:17 > 0:11:20its negation and vice versa?
0:11:20 > 0:11:26It's also used where an action and reaction intensify each other with unfavourable results.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Positive feedback?
0:11:30 > 0:11:33- Positive feedback?- Vicious circle.
0:11:33 > 0:11:41In the Oxford Dictionary of English, the words "duumvirate" and "duvet" come immediately before and after
0:11:41 > 0:11:45the surname of which two former Haitian dictators...
0:11:46 > 0:11:49- Duvalier.- Duvalier is right.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55These bonuses, Bangor, are on organic chemistry.
0:11:55 > 0:12:02What is the functional group consisting of an atom of carbon double-bonded to an atom of oxygen?
0:12:07 > 0:12:13- A ketone?- No, a carbonyl group. The presence of the carbonyl group is tested through the use
0:12:13 > 0:12:17of 2,4-di-nitro-phenyl-hydrazine or DNPH.
0:12:17 > 0:12:22How is this re-agent more commonly known?
0:12:26 > 0:12:32- Grignard?- Brady's. Which re-agent is used to distinguish between ketones and aldehydes
0:12:32 > 0:12:37through the precipitation of elemental silver?
0:12:40 > 0:12:43- Silver nitrate?- Tollens' re-agent.
0:12:43 > 0:12:48Give the name of the metal whose chemical symbol forms the first part of words meaning
0:12:48 > 0:12:52an official inspection of accounts...
0:12:52 > 0:12:55- Gold.- Gold is correct, Au.
0:12:56 > 0:13:04Your bonuses are on pre-Columbian Meso-America. In each case, name the civilisation from the description.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08From a Nahuatl word meaning "inhabitants of the rubber country",
0:13:08 > 0:13:14a civilisation that flourished on the Mexican Gulf coast around 1200 to 600 BC?
0:13:17 > 0:13:20- Nominate Tomlinson.- Olmec.- Correct.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24From a Nahuatl word meaning "people from a cloudy place",
0:13:24 > 0:13:29a people of Southern Mexico noted for their skill in metallurgy and ceramics?
0:13:36 > 0:13:40- Nominate Pearce.- Toltecs? - No, it's Mixtec.
0:13:40 > 0:13:47From a Nahuatl word meaning "person from Tula", the last dominant culture before the Aztecs?
0:13:47 > 0:13:50- Toltecs.- The Toltecs.- It was, yes.
0:13:50 > 0:13:56Time for a music round. You'll hear a piece of classical music. 10 points if you name the composer.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:01 > 0:14:06- Mozart?- It is. It's his Clarinet Concerto in A Major.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Your music bonuses are three more clarinet concertos.
0:14:10 > 0:14:15In each case, name the composer. Firstly for five, this Italian composer?
0:14:15 > 0:14:17GENTLE CLARINET MUSIC
0:14:24 > 0:14:26WHISPERING
0:14:35 > 0:14:39- Is it Clementi?- No, it's Donizetti.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Secondly, this Danish composer?
0:14:42 > 0:14:44CLARINET MUSIC
0:14:44 > 0:14:46- Nielsen.- It is Nielsen, yes.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50And finally, this American composer?
0:14:50 > 0:14:52DRAMATIC CLARINET MUSIC
0:14:57 > 0:14:59WHISPERING
0:14:59 > 0:15:01It sounds like Copland.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04- Copland?- It is Copland. That gives you the lead.
0:15:04 > 0:15:11"If we beat the King 99 times, yet he is King still, and so will his posterity be after him,
0:15:11 > 0:15:17"but if the King beat us once, we shall all be hanged and our posterity made slaves."
0:15:17 > 0:15:22To which British monarch do these words of Edward Montagu, Earl of Manchester, refer?
0:15:24 > 0:15:26- Charles I.- Correct.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32You re-take the lead and you get a set of bonuses on computer science.
0:15:32 > 0:15:38What low-level programming languages provide a symbolic representation of machine code,
0:15:38 > 0:15:42particular to a specific computer architecture?
0:15:44 > 0:15:46WHISPERING
0:15:49 > 0:15:52Assembly language maybe?
0:15:52 > 0:15:54- Assembly language.- Correct.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56Including Fortran, BASIC and C,
0:15:56 > 0:16:01what class of languages describe step-by-step the routines to be followed
0:16:01 > 0:16:04to achieve a desired program state?
0:16:04 > 0:16:08- Formula-based maybe? - Yeah, formula processes maybe.
0:16:08 > 0:16:13- Formula-based? - No, they're imperative languages or procedural languages.
0:16:13 > 0:16:19What kind of languages may include features such as polymorphism, inheritance and messaging?
0:16:19 > 0:16:22Examples include C++, Java and Python.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24I don't know.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28- Stackless maybe?- Stackless?- I've heard it connected with computing.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31- Stackless.- No, they're object-oriented languages.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35Ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:16:35 > 0:16:41In terms of pi, what is the angular frequency of an oscillating spring with period four seconds?
0:16:45 > 0:16:48- One over pi.- Nope.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Two over pi.
0:16:52 > 0:16:57No, it's pi over two. Ten points for this starter question.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01Adulterine or unauthorised private castles, built by barons,
0:17:01 > 0:17:06are particularly associated with the reign of which 12th century monarch? His...
0:17:06 > 0:17:08- King John.- No, you lose five points.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11His civil war with his cousin Matilda...
0:17:11 > 0:17:14- Stephen.- Stephen is correct, yes.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18Right, these bonuses are on French magazines.
0:17:18 > 0:17:24Founded in 1951, which film journal featured Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut and Claude Chabrol
0:17:24 > 0:17:28as writers before they began their careers as film directors?
0:17:28 > 0:17:32- I know the name of a few movements, but...- Just name one.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35- The Nouvelle Vague. - No, it's Cahiers Du Cinema.
0:17:35 > 0:17:41Modelled on Time magazine, which publication became France's first weekly news magazine
0:17:41 > 0:17:43on its creation in 1953?
0:17:45 > 0:17:48- Paris Match?- Paris Match? No?
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Paris Match?
0:17:50 > 0:17:53No, it's L'Express. And finally, in 2011,
0:17:53 > 0:18:00Emmanuelle Alt succeeded Carine Roitfeld as editor-in-chief of which magazine?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02- Is it a fashion magazine?- Might be.
0:18:02 > 0:18:09- Fashion magazine?- I don't know. - Can you think of a French fashion magazine? What's that one? Vogue?
0:18:09 > 0:18:11- Maybe.- Vogue?- It is Vogue, yes.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15Ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19What number results when you multiply the numbers in the titles
0:18:19 > 0:18:23of the first and second albums by Adele, released in 2008 and 2011?
0:18:27 > 0:18:29401.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34Manchester, one of you buzz? We can't hang around...
0:18:34 > 0:18:38- 380.- No, it's 399 - 19 by 21. Ten points for this.
0:18:38 > 0:18:44The victim of a 2010 hoax that saw an anonymous prankster set up a fake Twitter feed in his name...
0:18:44 > 0:18:48- Rick Santorum? - No, you lose five points.
0:18:48 > 0:18:54..which German philosopher is noted for the 1981 work The Theory Of Communicative Action?
0:18:57 > 0:19:00It's Jurgen Habermas. Ten points for this.
0:19:00 > 0:19:06The tusks of elephants are elongated teeth that grow continuously at about 20 centimetres a year.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09Which teeth are modified to form...
0:19:09 > 0:19:11- Canines.- No, you lose five points.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14..modified to form elephant tusks?
0:19:15 > 0:19:18- Incisors.- Incisors is correct, yes.
0:19:20 > 0:19:24Your bonuses this time are on the binomial theorem.
0:19:24 > 0:19:30In the polynomial expansion of the expression X plus 1 all raised to the power 5,
0:19:30 > 0:19:32what is the coefficient of X-cubed?
0:19:33 > 0:19:35WHISPERING
0:19:47 > 0:19:50It's giving me a headache just watching you!
0:19:50 > 0:19:52- We're going to go for 10.- Correct!
0:19:52 > 0:19:59What is the sum of the binomial coefficients "N choose K", as K ranges from zero up to N,
0:19:59 > 0:20:04a quantity equal to the total number of subsets of an N-element set?
0:20:04 > 0:20:07It's N factorial over N minus K.
0:20:07 > 0:20:12- N factorial... N minus K factorial. - Do I have to say that?
0:20:12 > 0:20:17- I'll say it.- Can I nominate Barr, please?- N factorial over N minus K factorial.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20No, it's 2 to the power N.
0:20:20 > 0:20:27Finally, from the numbers 1 to 1,000, how many sets consisting of 999 numbers can be formed?
0:20:27 > 0:20:291,000? Does zero count?
0:20:32 > 0:20:34- Two, surely?- Yeah, just two.
0:20:34 > 0:20:41- Two, surely?- Isn't it a thousand? It's 999 numbers by missing out any one of them.- Oh, yeah, maybe.
0:20:41 > 0:20:46- That would have to be continuous. How many? A thousand, you think? - Yes.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48- One thousand?- Correct.- Yes.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51We're going to take a picture round.
0:20:51 > 0:20:57For your starter, you'll see a painting. Ten points if you name the mythological figure on the right.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Is that Aeneas?
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Anyone like to buzz from Bangor?
0:21:08 > 0:21:11- Hephaestus.- No, it's Hercules.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14So, picture bonuses shortly. Ten points for this.
0:21:14 > 0:21:20Fingers on the buzzers. "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." These words form...
0:21:21 > 0:21:26- The Myth Of Sisyphus by Camus? - No, you lose five points.
0:21:26 > 0:21:31These words form one of the inscriptions on a memorial in Washington DC
0:21:31 > 0:21:34to which campaigner, assassinated in 1968?
0:21:34 > 0:21:36You may not confer! One of you may buzz.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40- Martin Luther King.- Correct.
0:21:43 > 0:21:48You'll recall that we had a painting of Hercules fighting Cerberus for our starter.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52You'll see three more paintings of the Labours of Hercules.
0:21:52 > 0:21:57In each case, give the two-word name of the creature Hercules is facing.
0:21:57 > 0:22:02Firstly for five, the name of the creature Hercules is grappling with here?
0:22:03 > 0:22:05WHISPERING
0:22:09 > 0:22:12- What's the significance of the leopard?- I don't know.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16- Pass, sorry.- You either know it or you don't. That's the Nemean lion.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19Secondly, the name of the creatures on the left?
0:22:22 > 0:22:24WHISPERING
0:22:24 > 0:22:26No, it's got to have two words.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29- They're from somewhere. - We don't know.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Sorry, we don't know that either.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34This is the Stymphalian birds.
0:22:34 > 0:22:38And finally, the two-word name of this creature?
0:22:40 > 0:22:44- Is that the Hydra? - Yes, but it's got two words.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Lydian Hydra?
0:22:49 > 0:22:53- The Lydian Hydra?- No, it's the Lernean Hydra. Ten points for this.
0:22:53 > 0:22:59A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the historic centre of which city may be viewed in its entirety
0:22:59 > 0:23:04from the surrounding hills, especially Piazzale Michelangelo or Fiesole?
0:23:05 > 0:23:08- Rome.- No.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10- Florence.- Florence is correct, yes.
0:23:13 > 0:23:19Right, your bonuses are on artists and ballet, Manchester. Which artist designed and wrote the libretto
0:23:19 > 0:23:25for the ballet Bacchanale, depicting the hallucinations of Ludwig II of Bavaria
0:23:25 > 0:23:30and featuring dancers with giant fish heads and a corps de ballet on crutches?
0:23:31 > 0:23:34WHISPERING
0:23:34 > 0:23:38That sounds like Dali, doesn't it? Someone like Dali.
0:23:38 > 0:23:44- Dali?- Correct. Which artist created designs for the 1945 version of the ballet The Firebird,
0:23:44 > 0:23:48including a frontispiece depicting the eponymous character?
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Kandinsky maybe.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57He was working in Paris. I'd imagine a French artist...
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Come on, let's have it, please.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04- Kandinsky.- No, that's Marc Chagall.
0:24:04 > 0:24:08Finally for the 1919 ballet Le Tricorne by Manuel de Falla,
0:24:08 > 0:24:15which artist designed a pale ochre backcloth to suggest the arid plains of the composer's native Andalucia?
0:24:16 > 0:24:18What year was it?
0:24:18 > 0:24:21- 1919.- Someone like Breton?
0:24:21 > 0:24:23- Come on!- Go for it.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26- Andre Breton.- No, Pablo Picasso.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:24:29 > 0:24:34What is the limit of the sequence N to the power 10 all divided by 10 to the power N,
0:24:34 > 0:24:36as N tends to infinity?
0:24:39 > 0:24:41- Zero.- Correct.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Your bonuses this time are on British monarchs.
0:24:45 > 0:24:52In each case, state the position in line to the throne that each of these monarchs held at their births.
0:24:52 > 0:24:56Edward VIII when he was born, firstly, in 1894?
0:24:57 > 0:25:00WHISPERING
0:25:08 > 0:25:10- Edward, George V...- Come on.
0:25:10 > 0:25:15- Third then.- Yes.- Third in line to the throne.- Third is correct.
0:25:15 > 0:25:19Queen Victoria when she was born in 1819?
0:25:20 > 0:25:22CONFERRING
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Come on, let's have it, please!
0:25:31 > 0:25:36- Second.- No, fifth, after her father, the Duke of Kent, and his three brothers.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Elizabeth II when she was born in 1926?
0:25:39 > 0:25:43George was still on the throne, so George, then Edward, then George.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45- Fourth?- Yes.- Fourth.
0:25:45 > 0:25:50No, she was third after Edward VIII and George VI. Right, ten points for this.
0:25:50 > 0:25:56Living in exile during the reign of Mary I, who became Elizabeth I's Secretary of State in 1573
0:25:56 > 0:25:58and was known as the Queen's...
0:25:58 > 0:26:02- Walsingham. - Walsingham is correct, yes.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Your bonuses now are on wit, Bangor.
0:26:06 > 0:26:12"True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed."
0:26:12 > 0:26:17Which poet wrote those words in the 1711 work Essay On Criticism?
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Come on.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21- Samuel Johnson.- No, it was Pope.
0:26:21 > 0:26:26"The man I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find he is only a wit among lords."
0:26:26 > 0:26:31Which literary figure said that of Lord Chesterfield in 1754?
0:26:32 > 0:26:34Come on.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38- Samuel Johnson. - That was Samuel Johnson.
0:26:38 > 0:26:43"Brevity is the soul of wit." In which play by Shakespeare do those words appear?
0:26:43 > 0:26:45King Lear?
0:26:45 > 0:26:48No. Is it Hamlet?
0:26:48 > 0:26:53- Hamlet.- Correct. Ten points for this starter. The English opera King Arthur was a collaboration
0:26:53 > 0:26:57between the poet John Dryden and which composer?
0:26:58 > 0:27:00- Purcell?- Correct.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Manchester, these bonuses are on Africa.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09Who was President of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo,
0:27:09 > 0:27:15for 32 years before being overthrown in 1997? He died in exile the same year.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18Do you know any Congolese dictator types?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Let's have a go, please.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23- I don't think we know that. - It's Mobutu.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26Who was the leader of the rebellion that overthrew Mobutu?
0:27:26 > 0:27:30He died in 2001 and was succeeded by his son Joseph.
0:27:30 > 0:27:34- GONG - And at the gong, Bangor University have 95,
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Manchester University have 160.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39APPLAUSE
0:27:40 > 0:27:46Bad luck, Bangor. I thought you'd have broken 100, but you were up against very strong opposition
0:27:46 > 0:27:51and this is the furthest, I think, Bangor has ever been in this contest. Congratulations.
0:27:51 > 0:27:56Manchester, many congratulations to you. We'll see you in the final.
0:27:56 > 0:28:02- I hope you can join us for the final next time, but until then, it's goodbye from Bangor.- Hwyl fawr.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05- Goodbye from Manchester.- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me.
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