0:00:16 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:25'Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman...'
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Welcome to the final of this year's University Challenge.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Around 120 teams applied to take part in this series.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38We've seen the 28 who qualified
0:00:38 > 0:00:40compete over 36 matches,
0:00:40 > 0:00:42attempting 3,080 questions,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45and now only the best two remain.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Within half an hour, we'll see one of them lift the trophy
0:00:48 > 0:00:51and earn the right to call themselves Series Champions.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Standing between both teams and the trophy
0:00:54 > 0:00:56are another hundred or so questions
0:00:56 > 0:00:59and, with this being the final, they aren't especially easy.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02In fact, some of them are quite difficult!
0:01:02 > 0:01:06University College London have arrived here after winning all their matches.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09The institutions who had the misfortune to come up against them were...
0:01:09 > 0:01:13..Exeter University, Jesus College, Oxford, New College, Oxford
0:01:13 > 0:01:15and the team they face now, Manchester University,
0:01:15 > 0:01:18whom they beat in their second quarterfinal.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21No doubt hoping to replicate that victory and take the trophy,
0:01:21 > 0:01:23let's meet them for the final time.
0:01:23 > 0:01:28Hello, I'm Adam Papaphilippopoulos, I'm from London and I'm reading for an MA in philosophy.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32I'm Tom Tyszczuk Smith, I'm from Cambridge and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36- This is their captain.- Hi, I'm Simon Dennis, also from London
0:01:36 > 0:01:39and I'm studying the history and philosophy of science.
0:01:39 > 0:01:43Hi, I'm Tom Parton, I'm from Penkridge in Staffordshire and I'm studying natural sciences.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46APPLAUSE
0:01:49 > 0:01:53And hoping a reversal of fortune puts the trophy in their hands,
0:01:53 > 0:01:56the team from Manchester University have had victories
0:01:56 > 0:02:00against Lincoln College, Oxford, Magdalen College, Oxford, Imperial College London
0:02:00 > 0:02:02and the University of Bangor.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Let's meet them for their final appearance.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09Hi, I'm David Brice, I'm from Kingston upon Thames in south-west London
0:02:09 > 0:02:11and I study economics.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14I'm Adam Barr, I'm from Muswell Hill in London
0:02:14 > 0:02:16and I'm studying physics with astrophysics.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18- And their captain... - Hi, I'm Richard Gilbert,
0:02:18 > 0:02:22I'm from Warwickshire and I'm studying linguistics.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Hello. I'm Debbie Brown, I'm from Buxton in Derbyshire
0:02:25 > 0:02:28and I'm studying for a PhD in pain epidemiology.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31APPLAUSE
0:02:35 > 0:02:39If you don't know the rules, you shouldn't be here so let's dispense with the recitation.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45Home to 54 cities, which island is described as being
0:02:45 > 0:02:48"In the middle just 200 miles broad"
0:02:48 > 0:02:50and having a figure "not unlike a crescent"
0:02:50 > 0:02:52in a work of...?
0:02:52 > 0:02:54- Hokkaido.- No. You lose five points.
0:02:54 > 0:03:00..a figure "not unlike a crescent" in a work of 1516 by Thomas More?
0:03:01 > 0:03:04- Britain.- No, it's Utopia.
0:03:04 > 0:03:0510 points for this starter.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09One - you cannot win, two - you cannot break even,
0:03:09 > 0:03:11three - you cannot...
0:03:11 > 0:03:13The laws of thermodynamics.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:03:17 > 0:03:22Your bonuses are on Charles Dickens's opinions of tourist attractions in Rome.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Name the attraction as described by Dickens.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28Firstly... "It had looked as yellow as it ought to look,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31"and hurrying on between its worn-away and miry banks,
0:03:31 > 0:03:35"had a promising aspect of desolation and ruin."
0:03:35 > 0:03:38That'll be the Tiber.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40The Tiber River because of the banks?
0:03:40 > 0:03:41- The River Tiber?- Correct.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45"Its solitude, its awful beauty and its utter desolation
0:03:45 > 0:03:49"strike upon the stranger the next moment, like a softened sorrow.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51"To see it crumbling there, an inch a year...
0:03:51 > 0:03:53"..to climb into its upper halls,
0:03:53 > 0:03:57"and look down on ruin, ruin, ruin".
0:03:57 > 0:03:59- The Coliseum, maybe? The Coliseum? - Yes.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01- The Coliseum?- Correct.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03"It's not religiously impressive or affecting.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05"It is an immense edifice,
0:04:05 > 0:04:09"with no one point for the mind to rest upon
0:04:09 > 0:04:12"and it tires itself with wandering round and round".
0:04:12 > 0:04:15The Pantheon?
0:04:15 > 0:04:17- The Pantheon? - No, St Peter's Basilica.
0:04:17 > 0:04:2010 points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Add together the number of letters in the surnames
0:04:23 > 0:04:28of the prime minister who came to office after the 1945 general election
0:04:28 > 0:04:30and his two successors.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33What prime number results?
0:04:36 > 0:04:3817?
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Anyone like to buzz from Manchester?
0:04:41 > 0:04:4219.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46- 19 is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Your bonuses are on cycling.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51Quote - "The man who's learning how to ride a bicycle
0:04:51 > 0:04:55"has no advantage over the non-cyclist in the struggle for existence."
0:04:55 > 0:05:00Which playwright made this assertion in "Back to Methuselah"?
0:05:00 > 0:05:02I don't know.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Erm... We don't know, sorry.
0:05:04 > 0:05:05It was George Bernard Shaw.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09In the 1927 work, "An Outline of Philosophy",
0:05:09 > 0:05:12which English philosopher compared the acquisition of speech
0:05:12 > 0:05:15to learning to ride a bicycle?
0:05:15 > 0:05:17- What year was it?- 1927.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20- Russell, maybe?- It could be.
0:05:20 > 0:05:21- Bertrand Russell?- Correct.
0:05:21 > 0:05:26Commenting on a bicycle crash, that happened when Shaw collided with Russell in 1895,
0:05:26 > 0:05:30the latter later suggested that he thought Shaw regarded the incident
0:05:30 > 0:05:35as proof of the virtues of which dietary practice?
0:05:35 > 0:05:36- Vegetarianism.- Yes.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39- Vegetarianism. - Correct. 10 points for this.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42One rises on Dartmoor, another in the Cairngorms,
0:05:42 > 0:05:45a third flows into the Firth of Forth at Grangemouth,
0:05:45 > 0:05:48while a fourth passes near Salisbury Cathedral.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Two more join the Severn near Bristol and the Tewkesbury.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54What name do they all share?
0:05:54 > 0:05:55Wye.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57No.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59One of you buzz from UCL.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04- Avon.- Avon is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:06:06 > 0:06:10Your first set of bonuses are on geology, UCL.
0:06:10 > 0:06:15What name is given to the assumption that natural processes and laws currently operating
0:06:15 > 0:06:19have always operated in the same way in the past and are valid everywhere?
0:06:19 > 0:06:21- Uniformitarianism.- Correct.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Born 1726, which Scottish geologist
0:06:24 > 0:06:29identified sites, such as Siccar Point in Berwickshire, as unconformities
0:06:29 > 0:06:32which provided proof of the uniformitarian theory of geological change?
0:06:32 > 0:06:36His work was later popularised by Charles Lyell.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41- (Hamilton?)- No.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46Something with an "H". I can't think of his name.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50- Come on.- Sorry, I can't think. - James Hutton.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54What term is used for the contrasting idea that geological change on earth
0:06:54 > 0:06:57has been driven by sudden, large-scale violent occurrences?
0:06:57 > 0:07:00- Catastrophism.- Correct.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Let's look at a picture starter. You're going to see a word cloud,
0:07:03 > 0:07:08showing some of the most frequently occurring words in the works of an English poet.
0:07:08 > 0:07:1110 points if you can identify the poet.
0:07:15 > 0:07:16Milton.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19- Milton is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Manchester, your picture bonuses are three more word clouds,
0:07:24 > 0:07:27showing frequently occurring words in the works of major poets.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Five points for each poet you can identify.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Firstly...
0:07:36 > 0:07:39- It's not Dylan Thomas?- Dylan Thomas?
0:07:39 > 0:07:42"Church, light..."
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Oh, Sweeney. Eliot, maybe.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49Sweeney, in the TS Eliot play?
0:07:49 > 0:07:51- TS Eliot?- Correct.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Secondly...
0:07:53 > 0:07:56THEY MUMBLE
0:07:58 > 0:08:02It's looks quite old. I'd say Donne or someone like that.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05- Shakespeare. - The spelling's too variable.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08- Let's have an answer.- John Donne.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11No, it's Alexander Pope. And finally...
0:08:11 > 0:08:14"Prison..." THEY MUMBLE
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- It could be Wordsworth. - I'm thinking of prison.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20SHE MUMBLES
0:08:20 > 0:08:23I was thinking maybe Wilde. What are you thinking?
0:08:23 > 0:08:26- Maybe Wordsworth.- Maybe Wordsworth. - OK.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30- Let's have it.- Wordsworth. - No, Oscar Wilde. 10 points for this.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Listen carefully. When read aloud,
0:08:32 > 0:08:35the three words meaning "island whose capital is Douglas"
0:08:35 > 0:08:37units of...
0:08:38 > 0:08:41- Er, man... - I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43..units of digital information
0:08:43 > 0:08:46and common name of Canis lupus familiaris
0:08:46 > 0:08:51form what improbable three-word headline, a well-known journalistic aphorism?
0:08:51 > 0:08:55- Man bit dog.- Or...- Bites dog. - Man bites dog, yes.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56APPLAUSE
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Your bonuses are on a spice, Manchester.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Associated with Northern and Eastern Europe,
0:09:03 > 0:09:06which biennial herb bears fragrant seeds,
0:09:06 > 0:09:09often added to sauerkraut and rye bread?
0:09:09 > 0:09:14They're used as the main flavouring in spirits such as aquavit and kummel.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Liquorice or fennel.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Capers?
0:09:21 > 0:09:25- It's a leaf he's after, isn't it? - Seeds. Rye breads.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28- Erm...- Aniseed!
0:09:28 > 0:09:30- Caraway?- Do you reckon aniseed?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32- Go ahead.- Aniseed.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33No, it's caraway.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Caraway belongs to the apiaceae family.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40This family is usually known by the name of which common herb,
0:09:40 > 0:09:44used in salads, stuffings and bouquet garni?
0:09:44 > 0:09:45- Sage?- Sage?
0:09:45 > 0:09:47- Sage.- No, it's parsley.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50Caraway is noted for its carminative properties,
0:09:50 > 0:09:53meaning that it may relieve or prevent what condition,
0:09:53 > 0:09:58often associated with the consumption of pulses or cruciferous vegetables?
0:09:58 > 0:10:01- Flatulence.- Do you reckon?- Yes.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05- Flatulence.- Correct! - LAUGHTER & APPLAUSE
0:10:05 > 0:10:0710 points for this. Listen carefully.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11Given a proposition P of N, concerning positive integers N,
0:10:11 > 0:10:13if P of 1 is true
0:10:13 > 0:10:18and whenever P of K is true, P of K plus 1 is also true...
0:10:19 > 0:10:20Proof by induction.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23- Indeed, it is induction, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Your bonuses, UCL, are on British prime ministers.
0:10:27 > 0:10:32Give the surname of the father and son, who served as prime minister from 1763 to '65
0:10:32 > 0:10:34and from 1806 to '07,
0:10:34 > 0:10:38the latter succeeding William Pitt the Younger?
0:10:40 > 0:10:43(I don't know.)
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- No.- It's Grenville.
0:10:49 > 0:10:54Secondly, which duke succeeded Lord William Grenville as prime minister in 1807?
0:10:54 > 0:10:59His name is linked to a fine example of Roman cameo glass, now in the British Museum.
0:11:01 > 0:11:06- It's not Wellington? - No, it's too early.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07Newcastle?
0:11:07 > 0:11:10Oh! Possibly, yes.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14- Newcastle.- No, it's Portland, the Duke of Portland.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17Who succeeded the Duke of Portland as prime minister in 1809?
0:11:17 > 0:11:22His surname is associated with a figure in Arthurian romance.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31No. No, sorry.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33That was Spencer Perceval. 10 points for this.
0:11:33 > 0:11:38Formally subject to the Qing Empire when its name was preceded by the word "outer",
0:11:38 > 0:11:41which modern Asian state...?
0:11:41 > 0:11:44- Mongolia.- Mongolia is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:11:45 > 0:11:48These bonuses are on literature and alcohol.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52"Alcohol is seldom far from the reach of his characters
0:11:52 > 0:11:55"and its influence was clearly some kind of daemon in his life".
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Proposing whiskey fictions as a subcategory of his work,
0:11:58 > 0:12:04these words of Christopher Hitchens refer to which British novelist, born in 1904?
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Is that going to be...?
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Orwell?
0:12:11 > 0:12:12No.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15- Come on!- Kingsley Amis.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18- Kingsley Amis? - No, it's Graham Greene.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20"Is this my milieu where I must
0:12:20 > 0:12:23"How grahamgreeneish! How infra dig!
0:12:23 > 0:12:27"Snatch from the bottle in my bag An analeptic swig?"
0:12:27 > 0:12:30These lines are from "On the Circuit",
0:12:30 > 0:12:33a 1963 work by which English poet?
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Larkin?
0:12:37 > 0:12:39- Larkin.- No, it was WH Auden.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41According to UrbanDictionary.com,
0:12:41 > 0:12:45the name of which US novelist and Nobel Laureate may be used verbally
0:12:45 > 0:12:49to mean "writing a paper under the influence of alcohol"?
0:12:49 > 0:12:52THEY WHISPER
0:12:54 > 0:12:56- Hemingway.- Correct, yes!
0:12:56 > 0:13:00"That's got to be done by tomorrow. I'm going to have to Hemingway it."
0:13:00 > 0:13:04We're going to take a Music Round. You're going to hear a piece of classical music.
0:13:04 > 0:13:0710 points if you can give me the name of the composer.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09SWEEPING MUSIC
0:13:11 > 0:13:13- Smetana.- It is Smetana!
0:13:13 > 0:13:16- It's from Ma vlast. - APPLAUSE
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Ma vlast was a set of symphonic poems,
0:13:18 > 0:13:22inspired by the landscapes and legends of his native Bohemia.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26Your music bonuses are three more examples of nationalism in classical music.
0:13:26 > 0:13:31This time, I want you to tell me the native country of each composer
0:13:31 > 0:13:33which inspired the piece.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36- Firstly for five... - DRAMATIC MUSIC
0:13:40 > 0:13:44- It's Grieg. Grieg is Norwegian. - Norway.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46- Norway.- Correct. Grieg.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Secondly...
0:13:48 > 0:13:50FOREBODING MUSIC
0:14:06 > 0:14:09MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Is this Holst?
0:14:14 > 0:14:18I thought it was Holst.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22- Let's have it, please. - Sweden, is he, originally?
0:14:22 > 0:14:25- Sweden?- No. That's from Sibelius's Finlandia.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28- And finally... - PLAYFUL MUSIC
0:14:28 > 0:14:30That's Chopin. Poland.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33- Poland.- Poland - Chopin, yes.
0:14:33 > 0:14:38Born 1905, which Dutch-American scientist gives his name to the region of the solar system
0:14:38 > 0:14:40that stretches from the...?
0:14:40 > 0:14:43- Kuiper.- Correct, yes.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46APPLAUSE
0:14:47 > 0:14:51Your bonuses, Manchester, are on two-word terms
0:14:51 > 0:14:54that sound like a combination of an educational institution and a common surname,
0:14:54 > 0:14:56so if they were starter questions,
0:14:56 > 0:15:01could just possibly be answered by Roger Tilling, our voiceover man, alone.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03For example, "Newcastle, Brown"
0:15:03 > 0:15:06- or "Lincoln, Green". Got the idea? - LAUGHTER
0:15:06 > 0:15:10Associated with jewellery, an alloy in which element number 47
0:15:10 > 0:15:15makes up at least 92.5 percent of the content?
0:15:15 > 0:15:19- Sterling silver.- Sterling silver?
0:15:19 > 0:15:21- Sterling silver.- Correct.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25Secondly, the European Cup-winners in 1979 and 1980.
0:15:25 > 0:15:31- '80, so Nottingham and... - Forest?- Nottingham Forest.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33- Nottingham Forest.- Correct.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35A manufacturer of luxury sports cars,
0:15:35 > 0:15:40especially associated with the 1964 film Goldfinger.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41Aston Martin!
0:15:41 > 0:15:44- Aston Martin.- Yes! - APPLAUSE
0:15:46 > 0:15:47Right, a starter question.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51What noun links the common name of the marine fish Naucrates ductor,
0:15:51 > 0:15:55the juveniles of which swim alongside boats or larger fish, such as sharks,
0:15:55 > 0:15:57and the common name of...?
0:15:58 > 0:16:01- Pilot.- Correct! - APPLAUSE
0:16:04 > 0:16:07These bonuses are on non-Euclidean geometry.
0:16:07 > 0:16:12Name the non-Euclidean geometry in which the parallel postulate is replaced by the axiom
0:16:12 > 0:16:16that any line has at least two parallels though a given point.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Spherical?
0:16:24 > 0:16:26- Spherical.- No, it's hyperbolic.
0:16:26 > 0:16:31Name the non-Euclidean geometry in which every line has no parallels through a given point
0:16:31 > 0:16:37and in which the sum of the internal angles of every triangle exceeds 180 degrees.
0:16:37 > 0:16:38That might be spherical!
0:16:38 > 0:16:41- OK. Spherical.- That is spherical, or elliptical, yes.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44And finally... "I have a Euclidean, earthly mind
0:16:44 > 0:16:47"and how could I solve problems that are not of this world?"
0:16:47 > 0:16:53These words appear in which work of 1880 by Dostoyevsky, his final novel?
0:16:53 > 0:16:56I think that's The Brothers Karamazov.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59- Yes?- OK.- The Brothers Karamazov?
0:16:59 > 0:17:02Correct. Another starter question.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05Consisting of a structure of fibroin,
0:17:05 > 0:17:07surrounded by a matrix of sericin,
0:17:07 > 0:17:11what protein fibre is produced by the larvae of the insect that...?
0:17:11 > 0:17:14- Silk.- Silk is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:17:16 > 0:17:20Your bonuses, Manchester, are on operas and their eponymous heroines.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24Name the opera from the description. First, an opera by Dvorak, whose heroine is a water nymph.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27She falls in love with a prince and wishes to become human,
0:17:27 > 0:17:33but, on doing so, loses the object of her affections to a foreign princess.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36We could say The Little Mermaid as a joke answer!
0:17:36 > 0:17:38The Little Mermaid?
0:17:38 > 0:17:40- Is it the heroine?- Yes.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Come on.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44- Ariel?- No, it's Rusalka.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48An opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage next, that premiered in 2011.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51It features sex, drug abuse and extreme language
0:17:51 > 0:17:54and is based on the doomed life of a Playboy model.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Sarah Jessica Parker.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59No, it's not. It's, erm, Anna Nicole Smith.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03- Anna Nicole Smith. - It's just called Anna Nicole. I needed the title of it.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Finally, based on a play by Oscar Wilde,
0:18:05 > 0:18:09- an opera by Richard Strauss that features violent deaths...- Salome.
0:18:09 > 0:18:14..an erotic Dance of the Seven Veils and a heroine with necrophiliac tendencies.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16- Salome.- Salome is correct.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Ten points for this starter. Born 1931,
0:18:18 > 0:18:22with which Soviet leader are the terms Glasnost, meaning open...?
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Erm... Oh, Gorbachev.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29Correct. Next time you buzz, please answer immediately.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Your bonuses are on US state capitals.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Portland is the largest city of which state
0:18:34 > 0:18:39and was its capital from 1820, the year of statehood, until 1832?
0:18:39 > 0:18:411820...
0:18:41 > 0:18:43So we're looking...
0:18:43 > 0:18:46- It's going to be...- Portland in...
0:18:46 > 0:18:49- I can only think of Oregon.- 1820...
0:18:49 > 0:18:52- Washington? - No, it's too early. I reckon...
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Let's have it, please!
0:18:54 > 0:18:55- Maine?- Try Maine.- Maine.
0:18:55 > 0:19:00Correct. Now reduced to a population of under 50, as a result of flooding of the Mississippi,
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Kaskaskia was the capital of which territory
0:19:03 > 0:19:07when it achieved statehood in 1818 and for a short time afterwards?
0:19:07 > 0:19:09Louisiana. The Louisiana Territory.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12- The Louisiana Territory? - No, it's Illinois.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15Savannah was the capital of which of the 13 colonies
0:19:15 > 0:19:18and was its state capital until 1786?
0:19:18 > 0:19:20- Carolina.- Georgia.- Georgia, yes.
0:19:20 > 0:19:21- Georgia.- Georgia is right.
0:19:21 > 0:19:2410 points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:19:24 > 0:19:29A lottery draws three numbered balls from a selection of five.
0:19:29 > 0:19:34What is the probability of guessing all three winning numbers?
0:19:34 > 0:19:36- One in ten.- Correct.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38APPLAUSE
0:19:40 > 0:19:43These bonuses are on chemistry. What name is given to the class of hydrocarbons
0:19:43 > 0:19:46containing ring-like structures of carbon molecules
0:19:46 > 0:19:49with alternating single and double bonds?
0:19:49 > 0:19:51- Aromatic carbons?- Yes.
0:19:51 > 0:19:52- Aromatic.- Correct.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56Which functional group consists of a cyclic ring of carbon atoms
0:19:56 > 0:19:59with the chemical formula C6H5?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01I don't know.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04- Benzyl, isn't it? - Benzyl?- Benzyl, yes.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07- Benzyl.- No, it's phenyl.
0:20:07 > 0:20:12And finally, what broad term is used to denote all non-aromatic hydrocarbons?
0:20:12 > 0:20:15- Aliphatic.- Aliphatic?- Definitely.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17- Aliphatic?- Aliphatic is correct, yes.
0:20:17 > 0:20:22We'll take a second picture round. You're going to see a photograph of a prominent writer.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24I want you to name him.
0:20:27 > 0:20:28Hermann Hesse.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31No. One of you may buzz from Manchester.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36- Is it Kipling?- It is Kipling, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:20:36 > 0:20:38For your picture bonuses,
0:20:38 > 0:20:41you're going to see three illustrations by Kipling himself,
0:20:41 > 0:20:46which he produced to accompany the first edition of his Just So Stories in 1902.
0:20:46 > 0:20:50I want you to give me the precise name of the story depicted.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Firstly...
0:20:52 > 0:20:55- ALL: How the Elephant Got Its Nose. - Yes.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58How the Elephant Got Its Nose.
0:20:58 > 0:21:03That's what it's customarily referred to, but the proper name was The Elephant's Child, so no points.
0:21:03 > 0:21:04Secondly...
0:21:06 > 0:21:09How the Whale Got His Throat is what it's called normally,
0:21:09 > 0:21:12but I'm not sure of the exact title.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15- The Whale's Throat maybe?- Yes.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17I don't know, either.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Erm, The Whale's Throat.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22- How the Whale Got His Throat. - THEY GROAN
0:21:22 > 0:21:24And finally...
0:21:25 > 0:21:28THEY CONFER
0:21:28 > 0:21:32- How the Leopard Got Its Spots maybe? - Oh, yes!
0:21:32 > 0:21:33How the Leopard Got Its Spots.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37No, The Cat that Walked by Itself, about the domestication of animals.
0:21:37 > 0:21:4110 points for this. Which month of the year does Shakespeare describe
0:21:41 > 0:21:43as "well-apparelled" in Romeo and Juliet
0:21:43 > 0:21:47and of "uncertain glory" in The Two Gentlemen of Verona?
0:21:47 > 0:21:49In As You Like It...
0:21:49 > 0:21:51- May?- No. You lose five points.
0:21:51 > 0:21:56In As You Like It, he compares it to "men when they woo".
0:22:00 > 0:22:03- March. - No, it's April. 10 points for this.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07A contender for the unhyphenated word with the most occurrences of the letter "B",
0:22:07 > 0:22:12what term indicates a frivolous, flighty or excessively talkative...?
0:22:12 > 0:22:14- Flibbertigibbet.- Yes.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16CHEERING
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Your bonuses are on classical terms and their anagrams.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24In each case, give both words from the explanation or definition.
0:22:24 > 0:22:29Relating to a Greek philosopher who died in 399 BC,
0:22:29 > 0:22:31and a composition in which, for example,
0:22:31 > 0:22:35the initial letters in each line together form a word.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Socratic and acrostic.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40OK, Socratic and acrostic. Socratic and acrostic.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44Correct. The intricate knot that Alexander the Great cut through with a sword,
0:22:44 > 0:22:48and loving and respecting to the point of worship.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50- Gordian and...- Adoring.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52- Gordian and adoring.- Correct.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55The cognomen of the Latin prose author Petronius,
0:22:55 > 0:22:58and a dish of toasted cheese, often associated with Wales.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01BOYS: Rarebit and...
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Rarebit and...?
0:23:06 > 0:23:11- Can you make an anagram? - Let's have it.- Rarebit and Tribare.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12No, it's Arbiter.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14About three-and-a-quarter minutes to go.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16The four-letter surname of which US novelist
0:23:16 > 0:23:21begins the name of a Latvian-born exponent of Colour Field Painting...?
0:23:21 > 0:23:23- Roth.- Roth is correct.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Your bonuses this time are on an author.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29Accompanied by the documentary series "The Secret Rulers of the World",
0:23:29 > 0:23:34"Them: Adventures with Extremists" is a 2001 book by which journalist?
0:23:34 > 0:23:36(Jon Ronson?)
0:23:36 > 0:23:37- Jon Ronson.- Correct.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41Adapted into a 2009 film starring George Clooney, which book by Ronson...?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43- The Men Who Stare at Goats.- Yes.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Which 2011 work examines the role of mental illness in our lives
0:23:46 > 0:23:49and recounts how Ronson masters...?
0:23:49 > 0:23:50- The Psychopath Test.- Correct.
0:23:50 > 0:23:5510 points for this starter question. In pharmacology, for what do the letters MLD stand
0:23:55 > 0:24:00when indicating that measure of toxicity defined as "the dose required to kill half..."?
0:24:00 > 0:24:01Mean lethal dose?
0:24:01 > 0:24:03No. You lose five points.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06.."the dose required to kill half the members
0:24:06 > 0:24:09"of a sample population in a given time?"
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Minimum lethal dose?
0:24:12 > 0:24:15It's median lethal dose. 10 points for this.
0:24:15 > 0:24:20Which cavities in the human head are blood-filled and called venous when found between...?
0:24:20 > 0:24:24- Sinuses.- Sinuses is correct. These are your bonuses. They're on the solar system.
0:24:24 > 0:24:30Which planet of the solar system has the shortest rotational period of 9 hours and 55 minutes?
0:24:30 > 0:24:32- Mercury.- Mercury.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35No, Jupiter. Which planet's orbital period
0:24:35 > 0:24:39is closest to the average human life expectancy in the developed world?
0:24:39 > 0:24:41- Uranus.- Uranus?
0:24:41 > 0:24:44Correct. Which planet orbits the sun roughly 1,000 times
0:24:44 > 0:24:47during one complete orbit of Pluto?
0:24:47 > 0:24:48Mercury?
0:24:48 > 0:24:51- Quickly!- Mercury?- Mercury is right. 10 points for this.
0:24:51 > 0:24:52To give an idea of relative land area,
0:24:52 > 0:24:57the CIA World Factbook points out that the United Kingdom is slightly smaller
0:24:57 > 0:25:01than which state of the Western United States?
0:25:01 > 0:25:02- Texas.- No.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Manchester, one of you buzz.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07- Oregon.- Oregon is correct. - LOUD APPLAUSE
0:25:09 > 0:25:12Your bonuses are on place names in Turkish, Manchester.
0:25:12 > 0:25:17In Turkish, Bulgaria is Bulgaristan and Armenia is Ermenistan.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21Which of Turkey's neighbours is known as Yunanistan?
0:25:21 > 0:25:24Yunnan Province... THEY CONFER
0:25:24 > 0:25:26- Come on! Let's have it, please! - Erm, Greece...
0:25:26 > 0:25:29- Iraq? I don't know. - We'll go for Iraq.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30- Iraq.- No, it's Greece.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Which European country is known in Turkish as Karadag,
0:25:33 > 0:25:35meaning "Black Mountain"?
0:25:35 > 0:25:38- Romania.- Montenegro?- Yes. - Oh, yes, Montenegro.
0:25:38 > 0:25:39- Montenegro.- Correct.
0:25:39 > 0:25:43Majarestan is the Turkish name of which EU member state?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45- Hungary.- Hungary is correct.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47In organic chemistry,
0:25:47 > 0:25:50how many carbon atoms are there in a benzene ring?
0:25:50 > 0:25:55- Six.- Six is right. Your bonuses are on sea areas in the shipping forecast.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58Name the area whose name corresponds to the following...
0:25:58 > 0:26:02Firstly, a creature that trapped and threatened Frodo and his companions
0:26:02 > 0:26:04on the Barrow-downs in the Fellowship of the Ring.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06- Wight.- Correct.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09The English photographer who observed, "Women love scallywags,
0:26:09 > 0:26:12"but some marry them and then try to make them wear a blazer".
0:26:12 > 0:26:14- Bailey.- Correct.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Two unmanned space probes sent to Mars by NASA...
0:26:16 > 0:26:18END-OF-QUIZ GONG
0:26:18 > 0:26:21CHEERING & APPLAUSE
0:26:29 > 0:26:34Well, at the gong, University College London have 140
0:26:34 > 0:26:38and Manchester University have 190.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42Well, bad luck, UCL. You at least have the consolation
0:26:42 > 0:26:45of having beaten them earlier in the series.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47It was a great performance from both of you. Thank you.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49To present the trophy to our winning team
0:26:49 > 0:26:52is one of our most distinguished scientists.
0:26:52 > 0:26:56An honorary professor at Imperial College London and Leicester University,
0:26:56 > 0:26:58he's also the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00As a cosmologist and astrophysicist,
0:27:00 > 0:27:05he holds a post formerly held by John Flamsteed and Edmond Halley.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Please welcome the Astronomer Royal, Professor Martin Rees.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17- Thank you for coming.- Thanks.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Well, now, what do you think we learn from a display like that?
0:27:20 > 0:27:24What's great, I think, is that even though all this stuff is on the internet,
0:27:24 > 0:27:27it's in people's heads still and they're able to retrieve it,
0:27:27 > 0:27:32because, of course, part of the game is being able to press the buzzer while you're still thinking,
0:27:32 > 0:27:35and I thought we saw great success in doing both those things.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39- Terrific match.- Absolutely great. The amazing range is tremendous.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Can I ask you please to present the trophy
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- to the winning team from Manchester University?- All right.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46APPLAUSE
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Congratulations.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52Congratulations.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54- Congratulations.- Thank you.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58- Congratulations.- Thanks. - Now, here...
0:27:58 > 0:28:00CHEERING
0:28:00 > 0:28:03CHEERING DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:28:03 > 0:28:07Thank you. CHEERING DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:28:08 > 0:28:12So it only remains for me to thank Professor Rees,
0:28:12 > 0:28:15our teams who've entertained us over the past several months
0:28:15 > 0:28:17and a big thank you to all of you for watching.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19- Good night. - APPLAUSE
0:28:38 > 0:28:41CHEERING
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