0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman!
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Hello.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Ahead of us, another 30 minutes of intellectual shove-ha'penny
0:00:32 > 0:00:35as two teams of students attempt to prove themselves worthy
0:00:35 > 0:00:37of a place in the second round.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39The losers could also qualify to play again
0:00:39 > 0:00:41if their score is good enough.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45Queen Mary became a part of the University of London in 1915
0:00:45 > 0:00:48but began life in 1887 as the People's Palace,
0:00:48 > 0:00:50a philanthropic centre for East Londoners
0:00:50 > 0:00:54which combined educational, cultural and leisure opportunities,
0:00:54 > 0:00:57until it was decided that leisure was getting in the way
0:00:57 > 0:00:59of everything else and had to be stopped.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01It's the result of mergers between four colleges,
0:01:01 > 0:01:03and now has three faculties,
0:01:03 > 0:01:05of which two are devoted to the sciences,
0:01:05 > 0:01:09including Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Alumni include the cricketer WG Grace
0:01:11 > 0:01:14and the authors Sarah Waters and JG Ballard,
0:01:14 > 0:01:18as well as Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame, and the rarely-seen
0:01:18 > 0:01:22man of mystery, the voice of University Challenge, Roger Tilling.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26Representing around 17,000 students and with an average age of 25,
0:01:26 > 0:01:28let's meet the Queen Mary team.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm Patrick Woodburn, I'm originally from Woldingham,
0:01:31 > 0:01:33in Surrey, and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Hello, I'm Alistair Haigh, from Harrogate in North Yorkshire,
0:01:35 > 0:01:38and I'm studying biology and psychology.
0:01:38 > 0:01:39Their captain.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Hello, I'm Luca Cavalli from South London,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43and I'm studying a Masters in physics.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45Hello, I'm Michael Hammond, I'm from North London,
0:01:45 > 0:01:47and I'm studying history.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51APPLAUSE
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Jesus College, Oxford was founded by Elizabeth I in 1571
0:01:55 > 0:01:59and is the only Oxford college to date from her reign.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01A driving force behind its establishment
0:02:01 > 0:02:03was a wealthy churchman, Hugh Price,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06and its original aim was the education of future clergyman.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08It's known as the Welsh college,
0:02:08 > 0:02:11and up until 1915 it had an almost unbroken succession of principals
0:02:11 > 0:02:15who either came from Wales or were of Welsh descent.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19One of the college's traditions is the Turl Street Dash,
0:02:19 > 0:02:23a fancy dress bike race which Jesus always wins by conveniently
0:02:23 > 0:02:26forgetting to invite any other colleges to take part.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Tonight's four represent around 470 fellow students,
0:02:29 > 0:02:33and as the oldest of them is only 21, they weren't even born
0:02:33 > 0:02:36when their college last won this series in 1986.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Let's meet them.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Hi, I'm Matt Hitchings, I'm from London,
0:02:40 > 0:02:42and I'm reading for a Masters in Mathematical Modelling.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Hi, I'm Frankie Goodway, I'm from North London,
0:02:45 > 0:02:47and I'm reading English.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48And their captain.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Hello, I'm Guy Brindley, I'm from Worcestershire,
0:02:50 > 0:02:52and I'm reading Classics.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Hi, I'm Johnny Woodward, I'm from Winchester,
0:02:54 > 0:02:56and I'm studying Engineering.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58APPLAUSE
0:03:00 > 0:03:04OK, the rules endure from generation to generation
0:03:04 > 0:03:06so I won't bother to remind you of them.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11"The House Of Silk", "A Scandal In Belgravia"
0:03:11 > 0:03:13and "A Game Of Shadows" are among...
0:03:15 > 0:03:16Sherlock?
0:03:16 > 0:03:18I can't accept that, I'm sorry,
0:03:18 > 0:03:21and I'll have to take five points off, too.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23..are among recent creative endeavours that feature
0:03:23 > 0:03:25which enduring fictional detective?
0:03:27 > 0:03:28Sherlock Holmes.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32Sherlock Holmes is correct, yes. Sherlock's the name of the television series.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36Right, the first set of bonuses, Queen Mary, are on place names.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40In each case, I want the male given name that links the following.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44What male given name is found in the name of a sound
0:03:44 > 0:03:47in the Gulf of Alaska, a historic town in Virginia,
0:03:47 > 0:03:50and a Highland town near Ben Nevis?
0:03:52 > 0:03:53William.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57Correct. A lake and waterfalls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
0:03:57 > 0:04:00a town in County Durham, and the main port of the Falkland Islands?
0:04:01 > 0:04:04- Stanley.- Correct.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07A new town in County Durham, a city in Cambridgeshire
0:04:07 > 0:04:11on the River Nene, and a Russian city at the mouth of the Neva?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Pass.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20It's Peter, as in Peterlee, St Petersburg, and so on.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Right, ten points for this. "The Lion of the North" is a soubriquet
0:04:23 > 0:04:27associated with which 17th-century Swedish monarch...
0:04:29 > 0:04:30Gustavus Adolphus.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32Correct, yes.
0:04:34 > 0:04:38Right, your bonuses, Jesus, are on flowers in Shakespeare.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Firstly, for five points.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42In Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Oberon's speech
0:04:42 > 0:04:47"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows" also refers to which flower,
0:04:47 > 0:04:51a member of the rose family sometimes known as sweet briar?
0:04:58 > 0:04:59Damask?
0:04:59 > 0:05:01No, it's eglantine.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04In the same speech, Shakespeare rhymes "eglantine"
0:05:04 > 0:05:05with the name of which flower,
0:05:05 > 0:05:08a species of honeysuckle which Oberon describes as luscious?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Columbine?
0:05:18 > 0:05:20No, it's woodbine.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23The same speech refers to which flower, noted for its colouring
0:05:23 > 0:05:28and sometimes known as heartsease, which Oberon describes as nodding?
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Primrose?
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Foxglove?
0:05:36 > 0:05:38No, it's Violet. Ten points for this starter question.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42Used of the state of a wire or string stretched between two points,
0:05:42 > 0:05:45or the force exerted by it on a support,
0:05:45 > 0:05:49what term can also be defined as a strained condition of feeling,
0:05:49 > 0:05:51or mutual relations...
0:05:51 > 0:05:52Tension.
0:05:52 > 0:05:53Tension is correct, yes.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01Right, these bonuses are on British islands and their wildlife, Jesus College.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05Which archipelago, 44 miles west of Benbecula, is a World Heritage site
0:06:05 > 0:06:08and has Britain's largest population of fulmars?
0:06:09 > 0:06:11- Saint Kilda?- Correct.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Which island off the south-west tip of Pembrokeshire
0:06:14 > 0:06:18is a site of special scientific interest and, with its sister island, Skomer,
0:06:18 > 0:06:21is noted for its colony of Manx Shearwater?
0:06:22 > 0:06:23Ramsay?
0:06:23 > 0:06:24No, it's Skokholm.
0:06:24 > 0:06:28The shore and waters around which island in the Bristol Channel
0:06:28 > 0:06:31are England's first statutory marine nature reserve?
0:06:31 > 0:06:32Lundy.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Lundy.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Born in 1906, which playwright said of his best known work that
0:06:39 > 0:06:42"Its early success was based on a fundamental misunderstanding."
0:06:42 > 0:06:45"Critics and public alike insisted on interpreting in allegorical
0:06:45 > 0:06:49"or symbolic terms a play which was striving all the time
0:06:49 > 0:06:50"to avoid definition"?
0:06:55 > 0:06:56Samuel Beckett?
0:06:56 > 0:06:59Samuel Beckett is correct. Talking about Waiting For Godot.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05Right, your bonuses, Jesus College, are on fluvial geography.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09What two-word term describes the lengthening of a river's course
0:07:09 > 0:07:10by erosion backwards from its source?
0:07:21 > 0:07:22Silting up.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26No, it's headward erosion. What term denotes a sudden change of stream direction
0:07:26 > 0:07:29at the point where the headwaters of a less vigorous river
0:07:29 > 0:07:32are diverted into a more rapidly eroding channel?
0:07:37 > 0:07:40- (Splitting.)- Splitting?
0:07:40 > 0:07:41No, that's the elbow of capture.
0:07:41 > 0:07:46And finally, name either of the rivers in mid-Wales that are involved in capture.
0:07:46 > 0:07:50The elbow of capture lies about 20 kilometres to the east of Aberystwyth.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55- (Where does The Severn start? - No, no.)
0:07:55 > 0:07:57(The Wye? I don't know what...)
0:07:59 > 0:08:01The Wye.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03No, it's the River Rheidol and the River Teifi.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Right, we're going to take a picture round, now.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07For your picture starter, you're going to see a map of Europe.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11For ten points, simply tell me what specific status
0:08:11 > 0:08:13links all the cities marked on it.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19Cities of culture?
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Indeed. They're the European Capital of Culture, yes.
0:08:24 > 0:08:28Those are all who have held the title since the year 2000.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30For picture bonuses, you will see maps showing pairs of cities
0:08:30 > 0:08:33that have held the title in particular years.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36In each case, simply give me the names of the two cities marked.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Firstly, for five.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Lille and Genoa.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Correct. Secondly...
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Amsterdam and Porto?
0:09:07 > 0:09:09No, it's Rotterdam and Porto. And finally...
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Bergen and Liverpool.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21No, it's Liverpool and Stavanger.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Ten points for this. In chemistry, what term describes
0:09:24 > 0:09:27the specific reaction in which the same compound or element
0:09:27 > 0:09:29is simultaneously oxidised and reduced...
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Redox.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37..For example, chlorine reacting with dilute sodium hydroxide
0:09:37 > 0:09:39to form sodium chloride and sodium chlorate?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Is any of you going to buzz?
0:09:45 > 0:09:46It's disproportionation.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49Bad luck, Jesus. I'd asked for the specific reaction.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Ten points for this.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54What name is shared by two plants?
0:09:54 > 0:09:57One is a form of thistle native to the Mediterranean, its edible parts
0:09:57 > 0:10:00being the bracts around the unopened flower.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02The other has edible tubers and a name deriving in part
0:10:02 > 0:10:05from a corruption of the Italian for sunflower.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Fennel?
0:10:09 > 0:10:11No. Jesus College, one of you buzz.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16I'll tell you, it's artichoke. Ten points for this.
0:10:16 > 0:10:20Which three-letter Latin word can be concatenated with the letters R K
0:10:20 > 0:10:23to give one of the smallest known physical objects,
0:10:23 > 0:10:24and with the letters...
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Qua?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Correct, yes. Q-U-A.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Right, these bonuses are on writers' block.
0:10:35 > 0:10:39Following six years of creative paralysis, Amy Rosenthal wrote the play On The Rocks,
0:10:39 > 0:10:43in which she alludes to the panic that writer's block induced
0:10:43 > 0:10:45in which New Zealand short story writer?
0:10:48 > 0:10:49Pass, sorry.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53It was Katherine Mansfield. Referring to the writer's block that plagued him,
0:10:53 > 0:10:56who wrote to his agent "I feel that this is almost too much for me",
0:10:56 > 0:11:0012 years after the publication of his first novel Almayer's Folly?
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Hemingway.
0:11:09 > 0:11:10No, it was Joseph Conrad.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14And finally, which poet's spell of writer's block appeared to have ended
0:11:14 > 0:11:17by 2009 with The Cinder Path,
0:11:17 > 0:11:19his first new collection for seven years?
0:11:24 > 0:11:25It won't be Ted Hughes!
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Just any current poet.
0:11:31 > 0:11:32Seamus Heaney.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34No, it was Andrew Motion.
0:11:34 > 0:11:35Ten points for this.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Master of the Jewels in 1532, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1533,
0:11:38 > 0:11:42Principal Secretary and Master of the Rolls in 1534
0:11:42 > 0:11:46and Lord Privy Seal in 1536 were all positions obtained
0:11:46 > 0:11:51by which of Henry VIII's ministers, who was executed on charges...
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Thomas More?
0:11:53 > 0:11:54No, you lose five points.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58..on charges of heresy and treason in 1540?
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Cardinal Wolsey?
0:12:00 > 0:12:02No, it was Thomas Cromwell. Ten points for this.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05In 2011, the former French Government Minister
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Christine Lagarde began a five-year term as managing
0:12:08 > 0:12:10director of which United...
0:12:10 > 0:12:12The International Monetary Fund.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Correct.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18These bonuses, Jesus College, are about British monarchs
0:12:18 > 0:12:20and their relations.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Firstly, what relation was William IV to Queen Victoria?
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Great-uncle.
0:12:28 > 0:12:29No, he was just an uncle.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31What relation was Edward I to Henry II?
0:12:41 > 0:12:42Grandson?
0:12:42 > 0:12:44No, he was great-grandson.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47And finally, what relation was Charles II to James II?
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Brother.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49Correct. Ten points for this.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53In the measurement of geological time, what is the first subdivision
0:12:53 > 0:12:56of an eon, consisting of periods of several hundred million years?
0:12:56 > 0:12:58An example would be the Cenozoic.
0:13:00 > 0:13:01Era.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Era is correct, yes.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Right, these bonuses are on mathematics.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10What is the dual of a regular dodecahedron - that is,
0:13:10 > 0:13:13the solid whose vertices occupy the same space
0:13:13 > 0:13:16as the midpoints of the faces of the dodecahedron?
0:13:20 > 0:13:21Icosahedron?
0:13:21 > 0:13:27Correct, a regular icosahedron, yes. If the side lengths of the aforementioned dodecahedron are 1,
0:13:27 > 0:13:30what is the side length of the dual icosahedron?
0:13:35 > 0:13:36Root two?
0:13:36 > 0:13:37No, it's the golden ratio,
0:13:37 > 0:13:41which is the square root of five plus one all divided by two.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44And finally, continuing in the same vein, homophonically speaking,
0:13:44 > 0:13:48which mathematician, considered the founder of group theory,
0:13:48 > 0:13:50was killed in a duel in May 1832?
0:13:52 > 0:13:53Galois?
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Correct. Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57For your music starter,
0:13:57 > 0:13:59you'll hear an excerpt from a piece of popular music.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03Ten points if you can give me the name of the artist.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06# The loveliness of Paris
0:14:07 > 0:14:10# Seems somehow sad... #
0:14:10 > 0:14:13Sammy Davis Jr?
0:14:13 > 0:14:14No. You can hear a little more, Jesus.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16# ..gay
0:14:17 > 0:14:20# The glory that was Rome... #
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Frank Sinatra?
0:14:22 > 0:14:25No, it's Tony Bennett. So, music bonuses shortly.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Another starter question,
0:14:27 > 0:14:30so fingers on the buzzers in the hope of getting those music bonuses.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Ten points for this. In terms of the spelling of their name,
0:14:33 > 0:14:35what links the capital of Uzbekistan,
0:14:35 > 0:14:37the alternative name of Ayers Rock,
0:14:37 > 0:14:40the southernmost continent and the hometown...
0:14:42 > 0:14:44They end in A? No, sorry.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46I'm sorry, and I didn't finish it.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49The hometown of the Beatles, so you lose five points.
0:14:49 > 0:14:50Queen Mary, one of you buzz.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54They start and end with the same letter.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Correct.
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Well, you failed to recognise
0:15:00 > 0:15:04I Left My Heart In San Francisco from Tony Bennett.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Your bonuses are three Tony Bennett duets,
0:15:07 > 0:15:11all recorded to coincide with the singer's 85th birthday.
0:15:11 > 0:15:12In each case,
0:15:12 > 0:15:16I simply want you to name the artist with whom Mr Bennett is singing.
0:15:16 > 0:15:17Firstly.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21# She doesn't like crap games with barons and earls
0:15:22 > 0:15:27# Won't go to Harlem in ermines and pearls
0:15:27 > 0:15:30# And I definitely won't dish our dirt
0:15:30 > 0:15:33# With the rest of those girls
0:15:33 > 0:15:35# That's why the lady is a tramp
0:15:37 > 0:15:42# I love the free, fresh wind in my hair. #
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Joss Stone?
0:15:45 > 0:15:47No, Lady Gaga. Secondly.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50# Stranger in paradise
0:15:52 > 0:15:57# Don't send me in dark despair
0:15:59 > 0:16:03# From all that I hunger for
0:16:05 > 0:16:10# But open your angel's arms. #
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Andrea Bocelli?
0:16:13 > 0:16:14Correct.
0:16:14 > 0:16:15And, finally.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19# My life a wreck, you're making
0:16:23 > 0:16:25# You know I'm yours... #
0:16:25 > 0:16:26- Amy Winehouse. - Yes.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Right, fingers on the buzzers. Another starter question.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Ordained as a priest in 1703,
0:16:32 > 0:16:35which Venetian composer was a major influence on the development of...
0:16:35 > 0:16:37Antonio Vivaldi.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40Correct.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44You can retake the lead with these bonuses.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47They're on the artist Maggi Hambling.
0:16:47 > 0:16:48Firstly, for five points.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51In 1980, Maggi Hambling became the first artist in residence
0:16:51 > 0:16:54at which London institution, during which time
0:16:54 > 0:16:58she produced a series of portraits of the actor and comedian Max Wall?
0:17:01 > 0:17:04- Royal Academy? - No, it was the National Gallery.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07Secondly, a granite and bronze work of 1998
0:17:07 > 0:17:09near London's Charing Cross station
0:17:09 > 0:17:12is designed as a seat and bears the title A Conversation With...
0:17:12 > 0:17:14which literary figure?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16- Oscar Wilde?- Correct.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19Hambling designed the two 12-foot high steel scallop shells
0:17:19 > 0:17:23installed on Aldeburgh beach in 2003 to celebrate the life
0:17:23 > 0:17:24and work of which composer?
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Benjamin Britten.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Correct. Right, level-pegging. ten points for this.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35On which island of the eastern Pacific
0:17:35 > 0:17:37is the volcanic cone of Rano Raraku,
0:17:37 > 0:17:41the place at which the rock for the giant statues known as...
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Easter Island.
0:17:43 > 0:17:44Correct, yes.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46You retake the lead.
0:17:46 > 0:17:47Your bonuses, this time,
0:17:47 > 0:17:50are on shorter words that can be made using any of the nine letters
0:17:50 > 0:17:54of the word "Epeolatry", meaning, of course, the worship of words.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01Firstly, the national gemstone of Australia, a form of hydrated
0:18:01 > 0:18:04silica, noted for rich iridescence and the play of changing colours?
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Opal.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Correct. Secondly, a game of Basque origin,
0:18:08 > 0:18:11in which players hurl a ball against a marked wall
0:18:11 > 0:18:15using a basket-like racket strapped to the wrist?
0:18:18 > 0:18:20I'm afraid we'll have to pass.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22That's pelota.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24And finally, mechanical or habitual repetition of something
0:18:24 > 0:18:28to be learnt, often without regard to meaning? For example, preparation for a quiz.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30- Rote.- Rote is correct.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Another starter question, now.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Give either of the similar sounding words
0:18:34 > 0:18:39that indicate the author of the 17th-century religious work Grace Abounding,
0:18:39 > 0:18:41and a painful swelling of the big toe?
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Bunion?
0:18:43 > 0:18:45Bunion is right, yes.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Your bonuses this time are on geology.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Igneous rocks are classified as acid or basic according to the level
0:18:53 > 0:18:56of what compound within them?
0:19:01 > 0:19:02Calcium carbonate?
0:19:02 > 0:19:04No, it's silica, or silicon dioxide.
0:19:04 > 0:19:08Secondly, igneous rocks formed at depth are called plutonic,
0:19:08 > 0:19:11while those formed at the surface are called volcanic.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13What term denotes those rocks formed in between?
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Hermetic?
0:19:26 > 0:19:28No, it's hypabyssal.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30And finally, which potassium-rich feldspar,
0:19:30 > 0:19:34found in igneous rocks, usually occurs as white or pink crystals,
0:19:34 > 0:19:37and has a name derived from the Greek for "straight" and "breaking"?
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Quartz.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45No, it's orthoclase. We're going to take our second picture round now.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48For your starter, you'll see an illustration of a scene in a novel.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50Ten points if you can identify the illustrator.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Lewis Carroll?
0:20:00 > 0:20:01No.
0:20:01 > 0:20:02Queen Mary, one of you buzz.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08No idea? It's John Tenniel. It was indeed for a book by Lewis Carroll.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Right, so, picture bonuses shortly.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Another starter question in the meantime.
0:20:12 > 0:20:13Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16What is the minimal number of positive cubes needed
0:20:16 > 0:20:18to add together to make 23?
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Four.
0:20:24 > 0:20:25Queen Mary?
0:20:27 > 0:20:29Three.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31No, it's nine. Ten points for this.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34Which savoury dish has a name derived from an old French word
0:20:34 > 0:20:38for the blade of a sword or knife, or for a thin plate,
0:20:38 > 0:20:39possibly referring to its shape?
0:20:42 > 0:20:44Crepe?
0:20:44 > 0:20:47No. Jesus, one of you want to buzz?
0:20:47 > 0:20:48Pizza?
0:20:50 > 0:20:53No, it's omelette!
0:20:53 > 0:20:54Ten points for this.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57In physics, what quantity is given by the double integral
0:20:57 > 0:20:59with respect to time of acceleration?
0:21:01 > 0:21:02Distance.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Distance travelled is correct, yes. Displacement.
0:21:08 > 0:21:13So we revert to the picture bonus questions, then, you lucky chaps.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16Having seen one of Tenniel's original illustrations
0:21:16 > 0:21:19for Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, your picture bonuses are
0:21:19 > 0:21:23three 20th-century works inspired by Carroll's stories of Alice.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27I simply want the name of the artist in each case. Firstly, for five.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Dali?
0:21:34 > 0:21:36No, that's by Magritte. Secondly.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Hockney?
0:21:45 > 0:21:48That's by Sir Peter Blake, But Isn't It Old. And, finally.
0:21:57 > 0:22:03Is that Dali, by any chance?
0:21:58 > 0:21:59Yes, it is!
0:21:59 > 0:22:03Right, ten points for this. In 2010,
0:22:03 > 0:22:05which tennis player became the seventh player
0:22:05 > 0:22:08to win all four grand slam tournaments...
0:22:08 > 0:22:09Rafael Nadal?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Correct.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Your bonuses are on alloys, Jesus.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Phosphor bronze, an alloy used when resistance to wear
0:22:19 > 0:22:21and corrosion is important, is made from copper, phosphorus
0:22:21 > 0:22:23and which other element?
0:22:28 > 0:22:29Tin?
0:22:29 > 0:22:32Correct. What is the principal metal in the alloy called gunmetal,
0:22:32 > 0:22:35which also contains zinc and tin?
0:22:39 > 0:22:42Chromium?
0:22:42 > 0:22:46No, it's copper. Muntz metal consists of 60% copper
0:22:46 > 0:22:49and 40% zinc in the form of what alloy?
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Brass?
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Correct. Four and a half minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00What part of the human body is incised to provide drainage
0:23:00 > 0:23:03for an infection in the procedure called myringotomy?
0:23:05 > 0:23:06The brain?
0:23:06 > 0:23:09Anyone want to buzz from Queen Mary?
0:23:12 > 0:23:13The skull.
0:23:13 > 0:23:19No, it's the eardrum. Ten points for this. The solar powered spacecraft launched in 2011 on a mission
0:23:19 > 0:23:22to Jupiter is named after which goddess?
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Juno.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Juno is correct, yes.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Jesus College, these bonuses are on authors.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33In each case, name the person who wrote the following.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35All three names begin with the same two letters.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Firstly, for five.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Born around 480 BC, the Athenian playwright whose works include
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Alcestis, Medea and The Bacchae?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- Euripides.- Correct. Second, a Bishop of Caesarea,
0:23:45 > 0:23:49author of the early fourth-century ecclesiastical history?
0:23:58 > 0:23:59Come on, let's have an answer, please.
0:23:59 > 0:24:00Eumenedes.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04No, it's Eusebius. And finally, a Swiss mathematician,
0:24:04 > 0:24:09author of the 1748 treatise Introduction To Analysis Of The Infinite?
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Euler.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14Correct. Ten points for this. One of the few English words
0:24:14 > 0:24:18to contain the letter U twice in succession, what term may be preceded by...
0:24:19 > 0:24:20Vacuum?
0:24:21 > 0:24:23No, you lose five points.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26..may be preceded by dialect, gas-liquid or space-time?
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Continuum.
0:24:31 > 0:24:32Correct.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Your bonuses now are on chemistry, Queen Mary.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40What inorganic substance is detected by Nessler's reagent?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Calcium.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55No, it's ammonia. In the Ostwald process,
0:24:55 > 0:24:58ammonia is oxidised with air in the presence of a platinum catalyst.
0:24:58 > 0:25:03What inorganic acid is the final product of this process?
0:25:07 > 0:25:08Sulphuric?
0:25:08 > 0:25:10No, it's nitric acid.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13What is the oxidation state of nitrogen in an atom of nitric acid?
0:25:18 > 0:25:19Plus two.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22No, it's plus five. Ten points for this.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26The name of which spirit links a collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath,
0:25:26 > 0:25:28a biography of Shelley, a satellite...
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Ariel?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Ariel is right, yes.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Queen Mary, your bonuses are on US presidents.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39In each case, name the president from the description.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Firstly, the governor of Virginia from 1779 to 1781.
0:25:44 > 0:25:45- Jefferson.- Correct.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49Secondly, the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54Wilson.
0:25:53 > 0:25:54Wilson is right.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57And finally, the governor of New York state from 1928 to '33.
0:26:02 > 0:26:03Truman?
0:26:03 > 0:26:05No, it was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
0:26:05 > 0:26:06Ten points for this.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08A river, Christmas, a moon and a pair of shoes
0:26:08 > 0:26:11all share what colour according to Elvis Presley?
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Blue.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Blue is right, yes.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21Your bonuses, Queen Mary, are on dressmaking terms.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23Also used in the roasting of meat, what term can denote large,
0:26:23 > 0:26:25temporary stitching used to join a seam?
0:26:29 > 0:26:30Spit?
0:26:30 > 0:26:33No, it's basting. What term for a wedge-shaped piece of cloth
0:26:33 > 0:26:35is also used for a similarly shaped piece of land
0:26:35 > 0:26:39and occurs occasionally in place names?
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Come on.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46- Pass.- It's gore.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49And finally, what time meaning a cut or line diagonal to
0:26:49 > 0:26:53the grain of a woven fabric also means a slant or prejudice?
0:26:53 > 0:26:54Gradient.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56No, it's bias. Ten points for this.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58The word "cataclysm" is derived from the Greek word
0:26:58 > 0:27:01for what type of natural disaster?
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Earthquake?
0:27:04 > 0:27:07Anyone want to buzz from Queen Mary? Quickly, come on..
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Tidal wave.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12No, it's a flood or a deluge. Ten points for this. What two-word term
0:27:12 > 0:27:17describes an economic system containing both private and state enterprises?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Mixed economy?
0:27:20 > 0:27:23Correct. Your bonuses, this time, are on place names.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25All three answers begin with the same two letters.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27GONG
0:27:27 > 0:27:31And, at the gong, Queen Mary, London have 120 points,
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Jesus College, Oxford have 150.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Well, I think we're going to be saying goodbye to you, Queen Mary.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44You established an early lead,
0:27:44 > 0:27:45and if we'd gone on another ten minutes,
0:27:45 > 0:27:47who knows what might have happened?
0:27:47 > 0:27:49But I think we're going to be saying goodbye to you on 120.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Jesus College, congratulations.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53We shall look forward to seeing you in round two.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match,
0:27:56 > 0:27:58but until then, it's goodbye from Queen Mary, London.
0:27:58 > 0:27:59Goodbye.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02- It's goodbye from Jesus College, Oxford.- Goodbye.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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