0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello. Oxford plays Cambridge tonight
0:00:30 > 0:00:33as two colleges who've earned themselves formidable reputations
0:00:33 > 0:00:36on this programme are playing each other for a place
0:00:36 > 0:00:38in the second round.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40The losers could also qualify to play again
0:00:40 > 0:00:43if they're among the four highest-scoring losing teams.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Magdalen College, Oxford, was founded in 1458
0:00:46 > 0:00:49by William Waynflete, the Bishop of Winchester.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Oscar Wilde and Alfred, Lord Douglas studied there
0:00:51 > 0:00:52as did the future Edward VIII,
0:00:52 > 0:00:55albeit briefly and without any distinction.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58In May 2010, it could boast of having provided the backbone,
0:00:58 > 0:01:02if that's quite the right word, of the coalition government,
0:01:02 > 0:01:04as William Hague, Dominic Grieve, Chris Huhne, Jeremy Hunt
0:01:04 > 0:01:08and George Osborne all passed through its doors.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09Far more significantly,
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Magdalen has won the University Challenge championship four times,
0:01:13 > 0:01:15more than any other institution.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Tonight's four represent around 600 fellow students.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21Their average age is 20. Let's meet them.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25Hi. My name is Will. I'm from Kew in London and I'm studying History.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Hi. I'm Rob Mangan. I'm from Nottingham and I study Chemistry.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30- And their captain. - Hello. I'm Henry Watson.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34I'm from London and I'm reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37Hi. I'm Richard Purkiss from Richmond in London
0:01:37 > 0:01:39and I'm reading for a Masters in Medieval History.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42APPLAUSE
0:01:44 > 0:01:48Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, was founded during the reign
0:01:48 > 0:01:50of Elizabeth I by Lady Frances Sidney,
0:01:50 > 0:01:55whose second husband became the Earl of Sussex, hence its name.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Oliver Cromwell was a student there
0:01:57 > 0:01:59and his severed head is said to be buried under the chapel.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01It too has done well in this contest,
0:02:01 > 0:02:04having taken the title twice in the 1970s.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07The second of those teams returned on our fortieth anniversary
0:02:07 > 0:02:13in 2002 to compete in our Champion of Champions series, which they won.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Playing on behalf of around 500 students
0:02:15 > 0:02:20and with an average age of 21, let's meet the Sidney Sussex team.
0:02:20 > 0:02:21Hi. I'm Lois Overvoorde.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24I'm from Cambridgeshire and I'm reading Chemistry.
0:02:24 > 0:02:25Hi. I'm Tom Seddon.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28I'm from Horwich, Lancashire and I'm reading Maths.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30- And their captain. - Hi. I'm Nye Redman-White.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33I'm from Hampshire and I'm reading Mechanical Engineering.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37Hi. I'm Callum Robertson. I'm from St Andrews and I'm reading Archaeology.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40APPLAUSE
0:02:41 > 0:02:43OK. You all know the rules, so let's get on with it.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Ten points at stake. Fingers on the buzzers. A starter question.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51What word of four letters begins the names of an influential woman
0:02:51 > 0:02:57at the court of Louis XV, an adversary of Julius Caesar, defeated at...?
0:02:57 > 0:02:58Pomp.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Pomp is correct, yes.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02APPLAUSE
0:03:02 > 0:03:07Right. The first set of bonuses are on censorship, Magdalen.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Quote: "Without incurring the danger of being hurt with any indelicacy
0:03:10 > 0:03:14"of expression, the reader may learn in the fate of Macbeth that even
0:03:14 > 0:03:18"a kingdom is dearly purchased if virtue be the price of acquisition."
0:03:18 > 0:03:21These are the words of which editor,
0:03:21 > 0:03:24referring to his 19th century editions of Shakespeare?
0:03:24 > 0:03:27THEY WHISPER
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Nominate Mangan.
0:03:36 > 0:03:37CP Snow?
0:03:37 > 0:03:40CP Snow?! No, he's much, much younger.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43No, it's Thomas Bowdler. Gave his name to Bowdlerisation.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47Bowdler's Family Shakespeare omits entirely the character of
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Doll Tearsheet, a prostitute, from which of Shakespeare's histories?
0:03:51 > 0:03:53THEY WHISPER
0:03:57 > 0:04:00- Henry V.- It's Henry IV, Part 2.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04And finally, published posthumously in 1826 under the supervision
0:04:04 > 0:04:08of his nephew, Bowdler's last work was an expurgated
0:04:08 > 0:04:12version of which six-volume history published from 1776?
0:04:12 > 0:04:15- Is that the History Of The Roman Empire?- Gibbon?
0:04:15 > 0:04:17- History of The Roman Empire?- Try that.
0:04:20 > 0:04:21Try it.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23The History Of The Roman Empire.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26No, it was Gibbon's History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29It's a very well-known title. I can't accept that.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Ten points for this. The Russian doctor Michael Ostrog,
0:04:31 > 0:04:34the schoolmaster and barrister Montague John Druitt,
0:04:34 > 0:04:38the artist Walter Sickett and Prince Albert Victor.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43People who've been accused as Jack the Ripper.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Correct.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47APPLAUSE
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Right, your first bonuses, Sidney Sussex, are on Biblical sacrifices.
0:04:50 > 0:04:55According to the Book of Genesis, who makes the first blood sacrifice
0:04:55 > 0:04:59acceptable to God, yielding up the first born of his flock
0:04:59 > 0:05:00and of their fat portions?
0:05:00 > 0:05:03THEY WHISPER
0:05:03 > 0:05:05- Abel.- Correct.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Also in Genesis, who built an altar to God on which he sacrificed
0:05:08 > 0:05:12burnt offerings taken from every clean animal and every clean bird?
0:05:12 > 0:05:15THEY WHISPER
0:05:15 > 0:05:16- Noah.- Correct.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20Again in Genesis, which animal was used to take the place of Isaac
0:05:20 > 0:05:23after an angel prevented Abraham from carrying out
0:05:23 > 0:05:25- the sacrifice of his own son? - A ram.- Correct.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Another starter question. Ten points for this.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30In bridge building, what term
0:05:30 > 0:05:33denotes a projecting support or arm of great length, two of which,
0:05:33 > 0:05:37stretching out from adjacent piers, are used to support a girder...?
0:05:39 > 0:05:40Cantilever.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43- Cantilever is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:05:43 > 0:05:47These bonuses are on physical research facilities.
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Firstly, for five points.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Which research facility at Batavia, Illinois, includes
0:05:51 > 0:05:53the MiniBooNE and MINERvA experiments
0:05:53 > 0:05:56as well as the Tevatron collider?
0:05:56 > 0:06:00THEY WHISPER
0:06:00 > 0:06:03That's the one that's supposed to be validating CERN's thing... Is it...?
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Goodness me.
0:06:05 > 0:06:06Just guess!
0:06:06 > 0:06:08- Nominate Overvoorde.- Atlas?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10No, it's the Fermilab.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14Located near Didcot, which complex is named after two physicists
0:06:14 > 0:06:18and includes the Diamond Light Source, the ISIS neutron source
0:06:18 > 0:06:20and the Central Laser Facility?
0:06:20 > 0:06:23THEY WHISPER
0:06:30 > 0:06:33- Pass. - The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37Finally, for five, what facility straddles the Franco-Swiss border
0:06:37 > 0:06:39and has previously hosted the SPS and LEP colliders
0:06:39 > 0:06:42and is now the home of the Large Hadron Collider?
0:06:42 > 0:06:44- CERN.- CERN is correct.
0:06:44 > 0:06:45Ten points for this.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Which Luxembourg-based internet communications company
0:06:48 > 0:06:52was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis
0:06:52 > 0:06:57and provides software that allows communication by voice...?
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Skype.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01- Skype is correct. Yes. - APPLAUSE
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Right, Magdalen, you're going to enjoy these.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06They're bonuses on Tom Morton's book,
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Dr Johnson's Dictionary Of Modern Life, which imagines how
0:07:09 > 0:07:13Johnson might have defined various examples of modern-day culture.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17In each case, give the name from the definition. Firstly, for five.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21Almanac, wherein people do catalogue their achievements for public
0:07:21 > 0:07:25consumption, thus a strutting compendium of peacockery.
0:07:25 > 0:07:26Try Facebook. Facebook.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28- Facebook?- Correct.
0:07:28 > 0:07:33Four quaterns of Vikings, most obvious in rhyming couplets,
0:07:33 > 0:07:35yet most mysterious as to who is the fit one.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Is it The Inbetweeners?
0:07:40 > 0:07:41I dunno, try it.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44- The Inbetweeners? - No, it's ABBA.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48And finally, remorseless inquisition of eight scholars,
0:07:48 > 0:07:50all mysteriously stacked atop each other
0:07:50 > 0:07:52- University Challenge.- Yeah.
0:07:52 > 0:07:53- University Challenge.- Yes.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58For your starter, you'll see a set of flags.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02Ten points if you can identify the sequence they represent.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Is it World Cup winners?
0:08:07 > 0:08:10- In which world? - Football World Cup winners?
0:08:10 > 0:08:13Yes, FIFA World Cup winners is correct.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15APPLAUSE
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Right, your picture bonuses are three more sets of flags,
0:08:17 > 0:08:20representing recent sporting sequences.
0:08:20 > 0:08:21In each case, five points
0:08:21 > 0:08:23if you can work out the sequence they represent.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Firstly, for five.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Canada, Malaysia...
0:08:28 > 0:08:31England, Australia.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34- Could it be cricket? - It's not cricket.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36- Is it F1?- Could be F1.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40- Could be where the F1 was. - Formula 1 locations?- Yeah.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41Um, Formula 1, um...
0:08:41 > 0:08:44No, they're hosts of the Commonwealth Games.
0:08:44 > 0:08:45Secondly.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50- Hosts of the Winter Olympics? - Winter Olympics?
0:08:50 > 0:08:52- Hosts of the Winter Olympics. - Correct. And finally.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57- Erm, Sri Lanka.- Cricket World Cup.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01- Is it going to be Twenty20 or one-day?- No, I think just cricket.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03- Winners of the Cricket World Cup.- Correct.
0:09:03 > 0:09:07Ten points for this starter. Between August 1945 and July 1946,
0:09:07 > 0:09:11which European country suffered a record period of hyperinflation,
0:09:11 > 0:09:14the general level of prices rising at nearly 20% per day
0:09:14 > 0:09:18and on some occasions more than tripling over night?
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Germany?
0:09:20 > 0:09:22No. Anyone like to buzz from Sidney?
0:09:22 > 0:09:23Italy?
0:09:23 > 0:09:25No, it was Hungary.
0:09:25 > 0:09:26Ten points for this.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29Also known as the locust tree or St John's Bread,
0:09:29 > 0:09:32which small Mediterranean tree of the legume family
0:09:32 > 0:09:35produces long pods which are used as an animal feed
0:09:35 > 0:09:38and also as the source of a chocolate substitute?
0:09:41 > 0:09:42Carob.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44- Carob is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Your bonuses now are on contemporary criticism of the pre-Raphaelites.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54Firstly, in 1850 the painting Christ In The House Of His Parents
0:09:54 > 0:09:58was denounced by Dickens and by art critics as "blasphemous and ugly".
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Which of the pre-Raphaelites painted it?
0:10:01 > 0:10:05THEY WHISPER
0:10:07 > 0:10:08Nominate Robertson.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12No, it was John Everett Millais.
0:10:12 > 0:10:17Described by one critic as depicting rustics of the coarsest breed,
0:10:17 > 0:10:21The Hireling Shepherd, in which the eponymous figure neglects his flock
0:10:21 > 0:10:23in favour of a rosy-cheeked young woman
0:10:23 > 0:10:25is a work by which of the pre-Raphaelites?
0:10:25 > 0:10:28THEY WHISPER
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Nominate Robertson.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34Pass, I dunno. LAUGHTER
0:10:34 > 0:10:38Pretty useless nomination, wasn't it? That's by Holman Hunt.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Finally, described by one contemporary critic as
0:10:40 > 0:10:42an insult to the public intelligence,
0:10:42 > 0:10:45the work entitled The Pretty Baa-Lambs
0:10:45 > 0:10:48is the work of which artist associated with the pre-Raphaelites?
0:10:48 > 0:10:51THEY WHISPER
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Say somebody famous. Say one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57HE LAUGHS
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Nominate Robertson.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04Err, I don't know. Ruskin?
0:11:04 > 0:11:06No, it's Ford Madox Brown.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07Ten points for this.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10The set of all sets which are not members of themselves
0:11:10 > 0:11:14is a paradoxical construct put forward by which British philosopher
0:11:14 > 0:11:17to demonstrate the logical inconsistency...?
0:11:17 > 0:11:19Russell.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Correct, yes.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24APPLAUSE
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Right, a set of bonuses on tea for you, Magdalen.
0:11:26 > 0:11:30Which large-leaf variety of China tea with a smoky flavour has
0:11:30 > 0:11:33a two-word English name composed of an invented word
0:11:33 > 0:11:35and the Chinese for "small sort".
0:11:35 > 0:11:37- Is it Lapsang Souchong? - Lapsang Souchong?
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Lapsang Souchong.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Correct. Often sold in compressed form known as bricks,
0:11:42 > 0:11:45puerh tea is particularly associated with which
0:11:45 > 0:11:47province of southwest China?
0:11:49 > 0:11:52- Tibet, maybe?- No!
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Do you know provinces of China?
0:11:57 > 0:11:58Tibet.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00No, it's Yunnan.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Meaning "place of the thunderbolt", which town in the mountains
0:12:03 > 0:12:06of West Bengal gives its name to a variety of high quality tea?
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Try Darjeeling.
0:12:08 > 0:12:09- Darjeeling.- Correct.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13Another starter question. Later identified with King Arthur,
0:12:13 > 0:12:15which battle of the early 6th century was described...?
0:12:16 > 0:12:17Baden Hill.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21- Good heavens! Yes, well done. - APPLAUSE
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Right, your bonuses this time are on the common names of diseases.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30Firstly, referring to the appearance of the eyes of affected animals,
0:12:30 > 0:12:34what name is commonly given to the disease of cattle
0:12:34 > 0:12:37also known as infection keratitis, or ophthalmia?
0:12:37 > 0:12:39THEY WHISPER
0:12:39 > 0:12:40- Pink eye.- Correct.
0:12:40 > 0:12:44Sometimes called the kissing disease, what is the more common
0:12:44 > 0:12:48name of infectious mononucleosis, which often affects adolescents?
0:12:48 > 0:12:51THEY WHISPER
0:12:51 > 0:12:52- Glandular fever.- Correct.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56Finally, infectious parotitis, a disease characterised by the
0:12:56 > 0:12:58swelling of the parotive gland, is better known by what short name?
0:12:58 > 0:13:01THEY WHISPER
0:13:07 > 0:13:09- Erm, elephantitis?- No, it's mumps.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Ten points for this starter question.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Which year saw the publication of Einstein's
0:13:13 > 0:13:17first paper on capillarity, the eleventh United Kingdom census,
0:13:17 > 0:13:20the births of Barbara Cartland and Louis Armstrong
0:13:20 > 0:13:24and the deaths of President William McKinley and Queen Victoria?
0:13:24 > 0:13:261901.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:13:30 > 0:13:33These set of bonuses are on bays.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35The Great Australian Bight, lying between
0:13:35 > 0:13:39Cape Pasley, Western Australia, and Cape Carnot, South Australia,
0:13:39 > 0:13:40is a bay of which ocean?
0:13:40 > 0:13:42- Indian?- Indian?
0:13:42 > 0:13:43Yeah.
0:13:45 > 0:13:46- The Indian.- Correct.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50The shipping area German Bight was formerly named after which
0:13:50 > 0:13:52bay at the mouth of the Elbe river,
0:13:52 > 0:13:55the site of naval battles in 1914 and 1917
0:13:55 > 0:13:57and an aerial battle in 1939?
0:13:57 > 0:14:00THEY WHISPER
0:14:03 > 0:14:06- Jutland? - No, it's Heligoland Bight.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08And finally, the Bight of Bonny was formerly named after
0:14:08 > 0:14:11which secessionist West African state
0:14:11 > 0:14:14that declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967?
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Oh, erm, the one...
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Biafria or something.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Biafra? The Bight of Biafra?
0:14:24 > 0:14:26- Nominate Purkiss. - The Bight of Biafra.
0:14:26 > 0:14:27Correct!
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Right, a music round.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of brass band music.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Ten points if you can name the piece.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37BRASS BAND MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:42 > 0:14:45Once In Royal David's City?
0:14:45 > 0:14:46- No. - LAUGHTER
0:14:46 > 0:14:49Magdalen, you can have a bit more if you want.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52BRASS BAND MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Is it Man Of Harlech?
0:15:09 > 0:15:11I can't accept it.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13It's Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer or Cwm Rhondda.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16So, after that conspicuous display of ignorance,
0:15:16 > 0:15:18we'll go on with another starter question.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22"I was just carrying out your orders. You told us
0:15:22 > 0:15:24"to connect with the electorate, so I did."
0:15:24 > 0:15:27This was supposedly the response of which politician...
0:15:27 > 0:15:29John Prescott?
0:15:29 > 0:15:32John Prescott, after he thumped the bloke with a mullet. That's right.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39Right, your bonuses, Magdalen, are going to be music bonuses.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41I'm not terribly optimistic about them.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44They're more pieces performed by the Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47In each case, I simply want the opening words of the hymn
0:15:47 > 0:15:50most frequently sung to these settings. Firstly...
0:15:50 > 0:15:55BRASS BAND MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:55 > 0:15:59THEY WHISPER INAUDIBLY
0:16:01 > 0:16:03- I have no idea.- I have no idea.
0:16:03 > 0:16:07- Abide With Me?- Yeah, yeah.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10You think so? Abide With Me?
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Abide With Me.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Yes, it is! Yes. Secondly...
0:16:14 > 0:16:18BRASS BAND MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:24 > 0:16:26O Lord and Father of Mankind?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28No, it's Dear Lord and Father of Mankind.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30It's a well-known hymn, that wasn't precise enough.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Finally...
0:16:32 > 0:16:36BRASS BAND MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:50 > 0:16:54It's not Jerusalem, is it? It would be a really easy one.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56- No, it's not Jerusalem. - OK, I have no idea, then.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Shall we go with Jerusalem?
0:17:00 > 0:17:02"And did those feet in ancient times."
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Jerusalem.
0:17:04 > 0:17:05LAUGHTER
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Are you serious? It's The Lord's My Shepherd.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11- I'm only following orders. - Are you tone deaf over there?
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Right, ten points for this.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Chain, double treble, reverse half double
0:17:15 > 0:17:19and slip stitch are all terms used in which handicraft?
0:17:20 > 0:17:24- Erm...- Sorry, if you buzz... - Sewing.- ..you must answer.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26And you're going to lose five points.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28In which handicraft whose name is a diminutive
0:17:28 > 0:17:30of the French word for "hook"?
0:17:32 > 0:17:33Is it crochet?
0:17:33 > 0:17:35It is crochet, yes.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38APPLAUSE
0:17:38 > 0:17:40So your bonuses, Magdalen, are on Physics.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42What general name is given to scattering processes,
0:17:42 > 0:17:46where both kinetic energy and momentum are conserved?
0:17:46 > 0:17:47- Elastic?- Elastic.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51Correct. Winner of the Nobel prize in 1904 for the discovery of argon,
0:17:51 > 0:17:54which physicist has his name associated
0:17:54 > 0:17:57with elastic scattering of photons?
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Erm.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04- Try Compton, maybe?- Compton.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06No, it's Rayleigh.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08And finally, the name of which Indian physicist is given to
0:18:08 > 0:18:12inelastic scattering of a photon off a charged particle?
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Bose is the only one I know. Try Bose.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Bose.
0:18:16 > 0:18:17No, it's Venkataraman.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Ten points for this starter question.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22What French term denotes a feature formed by the erosion of ice
0:18:22 > 0:18:26in glaciated regions, which takes the form of a bowl-shaped...
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Moraine?
0:18:28 > 0:18:31No, you lose five points. Of a bowl-shaped, steep-sided hollow
0:18:31 > 0:18:32at the head of a mountain valley?
0:18:32 > 0:18:35- Cirque. - Cirque is correct, yes.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37APPLAUSE
0:18:39 > 0:18:40Your bonuses this time are on
0:18:40 > 0:18:43the Mediterranean Theatre in World War Two.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47Operation Battleaxe, which began in June 1941, was the codename
0:18:47 > 0:18:51for an offensive that failed to recapture which North African port?
0:18:51 > 0:18:53- Tripoli?- That's a good guess.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Tripoli.
0:18:55 > 0:18:56No, it's Tobruk.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Bertram and Lightfoot were codenames for stages
0:18:58 > 0:19:03of which major battle in North Africa in late 1942?
0:19:03 > 0:19:05- El Alamein?- I think so.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Alamein?
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Correct. Operation Husky in July and August 1943 took which
0:19:10 > 0:19:13Mediterranean island from the Axis?
0:19:13 > 0:19:15- Crete.- Crete.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18No, it's Sicily, but you've nonetheless taken the lead again.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20Ten points for this starter question.
0:19:20 > 0:19:21Similar to Spanish paella, which
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Creole dish has a Louisiana French name...
0:19:24 > 0:19:25Gumbo.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28No, you lose five points.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32A Louisiana French name that's derived from the Provencal word
0:19:32 > 0:19:33for chicken and rice stew?
0:19:35 > 0:19:37One of you buzz, Magdalen.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Jambalaya?
0:19:39 > 0:19:40Correct.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45You've retaken the lead and your bonuses are on scientists and music.
0:19:45 > 0:19:49"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting
0:19:49 > 0:19:50without being aware that it's counting."
0:19:50 > 0:19:55This statement is attributed to which German philosopher
0:19:55 > 0:19:56and mathematician born 1646?
0:19:56 > 0:19:581646?
0:19:59 > 0:20:03- Leibniz?- Leibniz?- Go for it. - Leibniz.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06Correct. Which Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician gives
0:20:06 > 0:20:08his name to a description of the tuning for the diatonic scale?
0:20:08 > 0:20:13- Pythagoras?- There's more than one, you can try Pythagoras.
0:20:13 > 0:20:14Pythagoras?
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Correct, of Samos.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20And the operetta Galileo is among the musical works of which
0:20:20 > 0:20:22self-taught composer and amateur astronomer?
0:20:24 > 0:20:28- Composer, anyone?- Could be Tom Stoppard maybe, or something?
0:20:28 > 0:20:31- No idea.- Kepler?
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Kepler.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35No, it's Sir Patrick Moore.
0:20:35 > 0:20:36We have a second picture round.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38Your picture starter will be a photograph of a car.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41Ten points if you can tell me the make of the car.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Is that a Bugatti?
0:20:46 > 0:20:48No. Sidney Sussex? One of you buzz.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Lotus?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51No, it's a Jaguar.
0:20:51 > 0:20:52Picture bonuses in a moment or two,
0:20:52 > 0:20:55here's another starter question.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59Sharing its name with a major river, which Midwestern state of the USA
0:20:59 > 0:21:02gives its name to a compromise of 1820...
0:21:02 > 0:21:03Missouri.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Missouri is correct.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09So, you get the picture bonuses.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11The starter, you'll recall, was a Jaguar XKD.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14It was included in a collection of cars owned by the designer
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Ralph Lauren, exhibited in 2011
0:21:16 > 0:21:20at Les Arts Decoratifs Museum, which is part of the Louvre.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23For your bonuses, you'll see three more cars from the exhibition.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25I want you to identify the make in each case. Firstly...
0:21:32 > 0:21:35I don't know, I've got no idea.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38- Rover?- Austin?- Austin.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40No, that's a Bentley. Secondly...
0:21:44 > 0:21:46- Is it a Rolls Royce? - Shall we try Rolls-Royce?
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Rolls-Royce.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50No, that's a Bugatti. And finally...
0:21:53 > 0:21:57- Ferrari?- Try it. I've got no idea.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Ferrari.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01No, it's a McLaren. One of the rare occasions
0:22:01 > 0:22:03on which Jeremy Clarkson would have done well on this programme.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Ten points for this starter question.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Founded around 300 BC by Zeno of Citium,
0:22:08 > 0:22:10which school of philosophy is named after
0:22:10 > 0:22:14the colonnade in Athens in which its founder used to lecture?
0:22:14 > 0:22:15The Stoics?
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Stoics is correct, yes!
0:22:17 > 0:22:19APPLAUSE
0:22:19 > 0:22:23Right, your bonuses, Magdalen, are on words that end in the letter X.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:22:26 > 0:22:27The study of the rules for arranging words
0:22:27 > 0:22:30and phrases into grammatical sentences, firstly.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Syntax.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Correct. An arrangement of five objects,
0:22:34 > 0:22:35with four at the corners of a
0:22:35 > 0:22:37quadrilateral and a fifth in the centre.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40For example, the five on playing cards or dice.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44- Convex, maybe?- Convex.
0:22:44 > 0:22:45No, it's quincunx.
0:22:45 > 0:22:49And finally, the historical region of England whose symbol is a wyvern?
0:22:49 > 0:22:51- Wessex.- Wessex.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Wessex is right. Five minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Used in anatomy for a cavity serving as an entrance to another,
0:22:57 > 0:22:59especially that of the nose or inner ear,
0:22:59 > 0:23:04what word is used more generally to mean an entrance hall?
0:23:04 > 0:23:05A ventricle?
0:23:05 > 0:23:07No. Magdalen, one of you buzz.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Atrium.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11No, it's the vestibule. Ten points for this.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15The German "ritter", the Spanish "caballero" and the French...
0:23:15 > 0:23:16Knight.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Knight is correct, yes.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25Right, Magdalen, your bonuses this time are on mammalian physiology.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28Known chemically as N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine
0:23:28 > 0:23:29which hormone has a role
0:23:29 > 0:23:32in establishing circadian rhythms?
0:23:32 > 0:23:34- Is it melanin?- Go for it.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35- Melanin?- Try melanin.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Melanin?
0:23:37 > 0:23:39No, it's melatonin.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42Which endocrine gland secretes melatonin?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- Try pituitary?- Do you know any other glands?- I don't know.
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Pituitary?
0:23:46 > 0:23:48No, it's the pineal gland.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50And finally, in the diurnal cycle,
0:23:50 > 0:23:53when are blood concentrations of melatonin at their highest?
0:23:54 > 0:23:56- At night?- Nightime?
0:23:57 > 0:24:00I think it makes you sleepy, so at night, I guess.
0:24:00 > 0:24:01At night.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03At night is correct, yes.
0:24:05 > 0:24:06Right, ten points for this.
0:24:06 > 0:24:11Souletin, Low Navarrese and Biscayan are among dialects
0:24:11 > 0:24:13of which language, known to its speakers as Euskara...
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Basque.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Basque is correct, yes.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21Your bonuses, Sidney Sussex, are on women politicians.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the president of the Awami League,
0:24:25 > 0:24:28was first elected Prime Minister of which country in 1996?
0:24:28 > 0:24:29Bangladesh.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32Correct. Tarja Kaarina Halonen
0:24:32 > 0:24:35was elected President of which EU member state in 2000?
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Finland.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Correct. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was re-elected
0:24:40 > 0:24:42President of which South American country in 2011?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Argentina.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Correct. Another starter question. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49What is the lowest three figure prime number,
0:24:49 > 0:24:52whose three digits are all primes and also add up to a prime.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01223?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Correct!
0:25:03 > 0:25:05APPLAUSE
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Your bonuses, Magdalen, are on human skin.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11In a homograft, skin is grafted from one person to another, usually as
0:25:11 > 0:25:12a temporary healing measure.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16What is the name of the procedure in which skin for a graft is
0:25:16 > 0:25:19taken from another part of the body of the patient?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- Maybe a heterograft?- Heterograft? - Try it.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Heterograft.
0:25:23 > 0:25:24No, it's an autograft.
0:25:24 > 0:25:28Taken from that of a 17th century Italian physiologist,
0:25:28 > 0:25:32what name is given to the innermost layer of the skin's epidermis?
0:25:35 > 0:25:38You either know this or you don't. Come on.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40- Cuticle? - No, it's the malpighian layer.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43And finally, which glands in the skin open into hair follicles?
0:25:47 > 0:25:48Sweat glands?
0:25:48 > 0:25:51No, sebaceous glands. Ten points for this.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Which monastic order founded the abbeys of
0:25:53 > 0:25:57Strata Florida in Wales, Fountains in North Yorkshire and...
0:25:57 > 0:25:58Benedictine?
0:25:58 > 0:26:00No. And Clairvaux in France.
0:26:03 > 0:26:04Cistercians?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Cistercian is correct, yes.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Your bonuses now are on novels.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11In each case, give the full title of the novel from its author
0:26:11 > 0:26:13and year of publication.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17To make it a little easier, each title contains the word "History".
0:26:17 > 0:26:21Firstly, for five points. A novel of 1975 by Malcolm Bradbury.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27- No. No.- Pass.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29That's The History Man.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Secondly, a novel of 2000 by Peter Carey.
0:26:36 > 0:26:37Pass.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40That's The True History Of The Kelly Gang.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43And finally, a novel of 1992 by Donna Tartt.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46- The Secret History. - The Secret History?
0:26:46 > 0:26:47I think it's The Secret History.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49The Secret History.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52Correct. Ten points for the starter question.
0:26:52 > 0:26:56Which US manufacturer's aircraft include the P-38 Lightning, the C-130 Hercules...
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Lockheed Martin?
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Lockheed is correct, yes.
0:27:01 > 0:27:02Your bonuses are on East Africa.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Asmara is the capital of which country on the Red Sea,
0:27:05 > 0:27:08it became independent in 1993
0:27:08 > 0:27:10following a UN supervised referendum.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12- Eritrea.- Eritrea?- Yes.
0:27:12 > 0:27:13Eritrea.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Correct. Eritrea came under British military administration in 1941,
0:27:16 > 0:27:20having been a colony since 1890 of which other European country?
0:27:20 > 0:27:21Italy.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Italy.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Correct. Eritrea shares borders with
0:27:24 > 0:27:26the Republic of Djibouti and which two countries?
0:27:26 > 0:27:30- Ethiopia and Somalia, maybe? - Is it Ethiopia and Somalia?
0:27:30 > 0:27:32Ethiopia and Somalia.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35No, it's Ethiopia and Sudan. Ten points for this.
0:27:35 > 0:27:40In biochemistry, which aldopentose has three hydroxyl groups on the
0:27:40 > 0:27:42same side in the Fischer projection
0:27:42 > 0:27:45and is a subunit of ATP, NAD and RNA.
0:27:47 > 0:27:48Ribose.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51Ribose is correct, yes.
0:27:51 > 0:27:52And that's the gong.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, has 125,
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Magdelen College, Oxford, has 205.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04I think we're probably going to have to say goodbye to you,
0:28:04 > 0:28:05Sidney Sussex.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08I doubt you'll come back on 125. Who knows?
0:28:08 > 0:28:10But it was a great game and you were two very good teams.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13Magdalen, we shall look forward to seeing you in the next stage
0:28:13 > 0:28:15of the competition, for sure.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18I hope you can join us next time for another first round match.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21- Until then, it's goodbye from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. - ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23- Goodbye from Magdalen College, Oxford.- ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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