Episode 7

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0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.

0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. It's something of a David and Goliath fixture tonight

0:00:31 > 0:00:35as a university college takes on a redbrick university giant.

0:00:35 > 0:00:38At stake is a place in the second round.

0:00:38 > 0:00:43Lincoln College, Oxford was founded by Richard Fleming, the Bishop of Lincoln, in 1427,

0:00:43 > 0:00:46and it's said to be Oxford's best preserved college

0:00:46 > 0:00:50because its relative poverty over the centuries spared it

0:00:50 > 0:00:53from much rebuilding or, as the freshers' handbook puts it,

0:00:53 > 0:00:57"There are no grotty '60s annexes to spoil the pretty bits."

0:00:57 > 0:00:59One of its traditions takes place on Ascension Day

0:00:59 > 0:01:02when hot pennies are thrown off the tower to local schoolchildren,

0:01:02 > 0:01:05apparently in order to teach them about greed.

0:01:05 > 0:01:08What a pity those nice people at RBS didn't go to school there.

0:01:08 > 0:01:12Alumni include John Wesley, the children's writer Dr Seuss

0:01:12 > 0:01:16and the novelist John le Carre, who based the character of George Smiley

0:01:16 > 0:01:19on Lincoln's rector, the historian Vivian Greene.

0:01:19 > 0:01:20Representing around 600 students,

0:01:20 > 0:01:25and with an average age of 23, let's meet the Lincoln team.

0:01:25 > 0:01:27Hi, I'm Victor Jones.

0:01:27 > 0:01:31I'm from South Africa and I'm reading for a doctorate in plant sciences.

0:01:31 > 0:01:34Hi, I'm Michael Hopkins, originally from Haywards Heath in West Sussex

0:01:34 > 0:01:36and I'm reading biochemistry.

0:01:36 > 0:01:38- And their captain. - Hi, I'm Jacqui Thompson.

0:01:38 > 0:01:40I'm from Orange County, California

0:01:40 > 0:01:43and I'm reading for a doctorate in experimental psychology.

0:01:43 > 0:01:44Hi, I'm Hugh Reid.

0:01:44 > 0:01:48I'm from Winchester and I'm reading for a doctorate in history.

0:01:48 > 0:01:49APPLAUSE

0:01:52 > 0:01:55Manchester University traces its roots to the early 19th century

0:01:55 > 0:01:59and today claims to be the largest single-site university in the UK,

0:01:59 > 0:02:02with about 40,000 students.

0:02:02 > 0:02:04It has a distinguished record on this programme,

0:02:04 > 0:02:08having won the competition three times and it is, of course,

0:02:08 > 0:02:10the current holder of the trophy.

0:02:10 > 0:02:15Among its teaching staff have been the Nobel laureates Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr,

0:02:15 > 0:02:18and among its students have been the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein,

0:02:18 > 0:02:24the novelist Anthony Burgess and, more recently, the physicist Brian Cox, who's now a professor there.

0:02:24 > 0:02:29Representing a student body over 60 times the size of their opponents tonight

0:02:29 > 0:02:32and with an average age of 28, let's meet the Manchester team.

0:02:32 > 0:02:34Hi, I'm David Brice.

0:02:34 > 0:02:37I'm from Kingston upon Thames and I study economics.

0:02:37 > 0:02:40Hi, I'm Adam Barr. I'm from Muswell Hill in North London

0:02:40 > 0:02:42and I'm studying physics with astrophysics.

0:02:42 > 0:02:43And this is their captain.

0:02:43 > 0:02:45Hi, I'm Richard Gilbert.

0:02:45 > 0:02:48I'm from Warwickshire and I'm studying linguistics.

0:02:48 > 0:02:49Hi, I'm Debbie Brown.

0:02:49 > 0:02:51I'm from Buxton in Derbyshire

0:02:51 > 0:02:55and I'm studying for a PhD in pain epidemiology.

0:02:55 > 0:02:56APPLAUSE

0:02:59 > 0:03:02OK, the rules are the same as they always are -

0:03:02 > 0:03:0510 points for starters, 15 for bonuses,

0:03:05 > 0:03:09five-point penalties for incorrect interruptions to starter questions.

0:03:09 > 0:03:12Fingers on the buzzer, here's your first starter for 10.

0:03:12 > 0:03:14What was defined by Buckminster Fuller as a...

0:03:15 > 0:03:17Was it buckyball?

0:03:17 > 0:03:20I'm afraid you lose five points in very short order.

0:03:20 > 0:03:23Right, you get the rest of it, Lincoln College.

0:03:23 > 0:03:25Defined by Buckminster Fuller as a self-balancing,

0:03:25 > 0:03:2728-jointed adapter-based biped,

0:03:27 > 0:03:29an electrochemical reduction plant

0:03:29 > 0:03:32and a universally distributed telephone system

0:03:32 > 0:03:35needing no service for 70 years if well-managed.

0:03:41 > 0:03:44- Geodesic dome? - No, it's a human being.

0:03:44 > 0:03:4710 points for this. Listen carefully.

0:03:47 > 0:03:51Words meaning musical or expressive, not figurative or metaphorical,

0:03:51 > 0:03:54and firm in allegiance to a person or institution

0:03:54 > 0:03:57all begin and end with which letter...

0:03:57 > 0:04:01- L.- L is correct. Lyrical, literal and loyal.

0:04:04 > 0:04:08Right, the first bonuses are to you, then, Lincoln College.

0:04:08 > 0:04:10They're on former Soviet republics

0:04:10 > 0:04:14from the opening sentence of the country's introduction in the CIA World Factbook.

0:04:14 > 0:04:18In each case, identify the country from the description.

0:04:18 > 0:04:22Firstly, this country's lands were united under Mindaugus in 1236.

0:04:22 > 0:04:25Over the next century, through alliances and conquest,

0:04:25 > 0:04:30it extended its territory to include most of the present-day Belarus and Ukraine.

0:04:31 > 0:04:34Would that be, like, Moravia or...?

0:04:34 > 0:04:36INAUDIBLE

0:04:36 > 0:04:38- Silesia?- It's Moravia, I think.

0:04:38 > 0:04:39- Moravia.- No, Lithuania.

0:04:39 > 0:04:42For centuries, the eastern part of this country

0:04:42 > 0:04:45formed part of the Persian province of Khorasan.

0:04:45 > 0:04:49In medieval times, Merv was one of the great cities of the Islamic world.

0:04:52 > 0:04:55- Turkmenistan.- Yeah, Turkmenistan.

0:04:55 > 0:04:56- Turkmenistan.- Correct.

0:04:56 > 0:04:59Formerly part of Romania, this country was

0:04:59 > 0:05:03incorporated into the Soviet Union at the close of World War II.

0:05:03 > 0:05:04Moldova?

0:05:06 > 0:05:08- Moldova.- Moldova is correct, yes.

0:05:08 > 0:05:1010 points for this starter question.

0:05:10 > 0:05:14In biology, what term is used for the space enclosed by an organ,

0:05:14 > 0:05:18such as the bladder or a tubular structure such as the gastrointestinal tract?

0:05:18 > 0:05:22The same word is the SI unit for the measure...

0:05:22 > 0:05:24- Lumen.- Lumen is correct, yes.

0:05:27 > 0:05:30Right, your second set of bonuses are on mathematics.

0:05:30 > 0:05:34Introduced by the English mathematician John Wallis in 1655,

0:05:34 > 0:05:37what is denoted by the mathematical symbol

0:05:37 > 0:05:41sometimes called the lemniscate from the Latin for ribbon?

0:05:41 > 0:05:43- Infinity.- Infinity.- Correct.

0:05:43 > 0:05:47In the form of a letter of the Hebrew alphabet with a subscript,

0:05:47 > 0:05:53what symbol is used to represent the smallest infinite cardinal number in set theory?

0:05:53 > 0:05:56Is it chai, no?

0:05:56 > 0:05:58- It might be.- Chai.

0:05:58 > 0:06:00No, aleph-null, aleph-naught, or aleph-zero.

0:06:00 > 0:06:04What name is given to a line that acts as the limit of a curve,

0:06:04 > 0:06:06such that its distance from the curve

0:06:06 > 0:06:09approaches zero as the line tends to infinity?

0:06:09 > 0:06:11- Asymptote.- Yeah, asymptote.

0:06:11 > 0:06:15Correct. 10 points for this. The Pinch: How The Baby Boomers

0:06:15 > 0:06:19Took Their Children's Future And Why They Should Give it Back

0:06:19 > 0:06:23is a work by which politician who became the MP for Havant in 1992?

0:06:23 > 0:06:25After the 2010 general election,

0:06:25 > 0:06:28he was appointed minister of state for universities and science.

0:06:30 > 0:06:33- David Willetts.- Correct.

0:06:37 > 0:06:40Right, your bonuses this time are on stage works, Lincoln College.

0:06:40 > 0:06:43Which playwright's stage work Anne Boleyn

0:06:43 > 0:06:46premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in July 2010?

0:06:46 > 0:06:49His other plays include the Romans In Britain and Pravda.

0:06:56 > 0:07:00- Was it...Howard Brenton. - Howard Brenton?

0:07:00 > 0:07:02- Howard Brenton.- Correct.

0:07:02 > 0:07:07The Donmar Warehouse's production of which play by Friedrich Schiller

0:07:07 > 0:07:10transferred to Broadway in April 2009 with Janet McTeer in the title role?

0:07:12 > 0:07:14It's a female title role. Schiller...

0:07:18 > 0:07:20- Ophelia.- No, it was Mary Stuart. And finally,

0:07:20 > 0:07:25what is the three-word alternative title of Shakespeare's Henry VIII,

0:07:25 > 0:07:29an early performance of which caused the Globe Theatre to burn down in 1613?

0:07:33 > 0:07:37- Too Many Wives?- Too Many Wives? - No, it's All Is True.

0:07:37 > 0:07:40Right, we're going to take a picture round now.

0:07:40 > 0:07:43For your picture starter, you're going to see

0:07:43 > 0:07:46a logo of an international animal welfare organisation.

0:07:46 > 0:07:4910 points if you can identify the organisation from the logo.

0:07:53 > 0:07:55Born Free.

0:07:55 > 0:07:57It is the Born Free Foundation, yes.

0:08:00 > 0:08:04Following on from that, three more animal welfare organisation logos.

0:08:04 > 0:08:06Five points for each you can identify. Firstly...

0:08:10 > 0:08:12World Wildlife Fund?

0:08:17 > 0:08:20- We don't know.- I'll show you. It is the League Against Cruel Sports.

0:08:20 > 0:08:21Secondly...

0:08:25 > 0:08:29Farm animals or something? Some sort of welfare thing. I don't know.

0:08:30 > 0:08:34- Heifer International?- No, that is Compassion in World Farming.

0:08:34 > 0:08:35And finally...

0:08:39 > 0:08:44It's, like, the thing where they don't test on animals.

0:08:44 > 0:08:47It's the RSPCA, isn't it?

0:08:47 > 0:08:49RSPCA.

0:08:49 > 0:08:52No, that's the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

0:08:52 > 0:08:54All of them have to work on brand recognition, don't they?

0:08:54 > 0:08:56Right, 10 points for this.

0:08:56 > 0:08:59"It's no part of a prime minister's duty to take a country into a war

0:08:59 > 0:09:01"which he thinks you can't win."

0:09:01 > 0:09:04These words were attributed to which Prime Minister

0:09:04 > 0:09:08by Alec Douglas-Home, his parliamentary private secretary...

0:09:08 > 0:09:11- Eden?- No, his parliamentary private secretary at the time.

0:09:11 > 0:09:13You lose five points.

0:09:15 > 0:09:19- Churchill? - No, it was Neville Chamberlain.

0:09:19 > 0:09:2010 points for this.

0:09:20 > 0:09:24Deriving ultimately from the Greek meaning burn or sacrifice,

0:09:24 > 0:09:27what name is given to a herb with both medical and culinary uses,

0:09:27 > 0:09:33which often forms part of the Arabic condiment za'atar and the European bouquet garni?

0:09:36 > 0:09:38- Thyme?- Thyme is correct, yes.

0:09:42 > 0:09:45Your bonuses, Lincoln College, are on whales.

0:09:45 > 0:09:48From the structure through which they filter food from water,

0:09:48 > 0:09:51what term is used to describe whales such as

0:09:51 > 0:09:54the Rorqual, Blue, Fin and Humpback?

0:09:54 > 0:09:55Baleen.

0:09:55 > 0:09:57Correct. Dall's, True's, Spectacled and Harbour

0:09:57 > 0:10:02are species of which family of toothed whales,

0:10:02 > 0:10:04related to, but more compact than, dolphins?

0:10:04 > 0:10:07- Porpoise.- Porpoise.- Correct.

0:10:07 > 0:10:10Which toothed whales have only two teeth at the upper jaw tip,

0:10:10 > 0:10:14the left one of which in males is a straight protruding tusk?

0:10:14 > 0:10:17- Narwhal.- Narwhal.- Correct.

0:10:17 > 0:10:18Another starter question for 10 points,

0:10:18 > 0:10:21see if you can get going with it, Manchester.

0:10:21 > 0:10:24Bituminous, Barnett, Bearpaw, Wheeler and Burgess

0:10:24 > 0:10:28are among words that may describe formations or varieties...

0:10:29 > 0:10:31- Shale.- Shale is correct, yes.

0:10:35 > 0:10:37OK, you're off the mark.

0:10:37 > 0:10:39- Well, you're on the mark now. - LAUGHTER

0:10:39 > 0:10:43Here are your bonuses. They're on US comic book artists.

0:10:43 > 0:10:46Which prolific illustrator and writer was the creator of Fritz The Cat in 1959

0:10:46 > 0:10:51and, in 2009, produced an illustrated version of the book of Genesis.

0:10:51 > 0:10:54Do you know this? Do you know this?

0:10:57 > 0:11:00- I don't know.- Any ideas?- No.

0:11:00 > 0:11:02- I don't know.- We don't know.

0:11:02 > 0:11:04It's Robert Crumb.

0:11:04 > 0:11:10Secondly, Harvey Pekar, who died in 2010, created which comic book chronicle of the mundane?

0:11:10 > 0:11:12It formed the basis of film of 2003

0:11:12 > 0:11:16which starred Paul Giamatti as Pekar.

0:11:19 > 0:11:23It's one word and it's like unbelievable or...

0:11:27 > 0:11:32- Incredible, something like that. - No, it was American Splendor.

0:11:32 > 0:11:35And finally, Wilson is a 2010 work by which US graphic novelist

0:11:35 > 0:11:38who previously published the books David Boring and Ghost World?

0:11:40 > 0:11:43Erm, don't know. Erm...

0:11:44 > 0:11:47- Alan Moore.- No, it's Daniel Clowes. 10 points for this.

0:11:47 > 0:11:50Meaning passionate with emotion,

0:11:50 > 0:11:53what French word links the title of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 8...

0:11:53 > 0:11:57- Appassionato? - No, you lose five points.

0:11:57 > 0:12:01No 8 in C Minor and the subtitle of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6?

0:12:04 > 0:12:07I'll tell you. It's Pathetique. 10 points for this.

0:12:07 > 0:12:10Long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2010,

0:12:10 > 0:12:12which novel by the Australian Christos Tsiolkas

0:12:12 > 0:12:16tells of an altercation at a barbecue between a young boy and an adult...

0:12:16 > 0:12:20- The Slap.- The Slap is correct, yes.

0:12:22 > 0:12:25Right, your bonuses this time are on mathematics.

0:12:25 > 0:12:28The fundamental theorem of arithmetic states that every positive integer

0:12:28 > 0:12:32can be written uniquely as a product of one or more of which type of number?

0:12:32 > 0:12:33- ALL: Primes.- Primes.

0:12:33 > 0:12:39The statement that every polynomial equation having complex coefficients and positive degree

0:12:39 > 0:12:44has at least one complex route is known as the fundamental theorem of which branch of mathematics?

0:12:51 > 0:12:54- Number theory?- Number theory? - No, it's algebra.

0:12:54 > 0:12:57A part of the fundamental theorem of calculus

0:12:57 > 0:13:01states that one can retrieve a function up to addition of constants,

0:13:01 > 0:13:04by performing which operation to its integral?

0:13:05 > 0:13:07Differential.

0:13:07 > 0:13:09- Differential. - Differentiation is correct, yes.

0:13:09 > 0:13:1110 points for this starter question.

0:13:11 > 0:13:15Which body within the solar system has features which include

0:13:15 > 0:13:19the plateau Tellus Regio, the canyon system Hecate Chasma

0:13:19 > 0:13:20and the volcano Maat Mons?

0:13:20 > 0:13:23- Mars.- Anyone like to buzz from Lincoln?

0:13:25 > 0:13:26Take your time.

0:13:26 > 0:13:28- Venus.- Venus is correct, yes.

0:13:30 > 0:13:33Your bonuses this time, Lincoln, are on tennis.

0:13:33 > 0:13:37The first African-American to win the men's singles championships at Wimbledon,

0:13:37 > 0:13:42which sportsman gives his name to the main tennis stadium of the US Open?

0:13:42 > 0:13:44- Arthur Ashe.- Arthur Ashe is correct.

0:13:44 > 0:13:50Secondly, the second-largest court of the Roland Garros stadium in Paris is named after which player?

0:13:50 > 0:13:53Nicknamed La Divine, she dominated Wimbledon

0:13:53 > 0:13:56and the French championships in the early 1920s.

0:13:59 > 0:14:02- Pass.- That's Suzanne Lenglen.

0:14:02 > 0:14:06And finally, in 2000, the organisers of the Australian Open

0:14:06 > 0:14:10renamed Melbourne Park Centre Court in honour of which player

0:14:10 > 0:14:13who won over 180 titles in a 23-year career?

0:14:13 > 0:14:16- Rod Laver?- Sorry?- Rod Laver.

0:14:16 > 0:14:18Nominate Reid.

0:14:18 > 0:14:19Rod Laver.

0:14:19 > 0:14:21Rod Laver is correct, yes.

0:14:21 > 0:14:24A music round now. For your music starter, you'll hear

0:14:24 > 0:14:28a piece of dance music which samples a piece of classical music.

0:14:28 > 0:14:33For 10 points, I want you to give me the title of the original classical work and the composer.

0:14:33 > 0:14:34MUSIC STARTS

0:14:37 > 0:14:40- Samuel Barber, Adagio For Strings. - Correct.

0:14:40 > 0:14:47And you get, after that, three more tracks featuring pieces of popular music which sample classical works.

0:14:47 > 0:14:50In each case, I want the composer of the classical work.

0:14:50 > 0:14:53# But who's the dummy? Cos now you done lost your hustler

0:14:53 > 0:14:56# A down-ass brother got replaced by a buster... #

0:14:56 > 0:14:59- Pachelbel.- Pachelbel is correct. And, secondly...

0:15:00 > 0:15:04# Believe me when I say to you

0:15:04 > 0:15:10# I hope the Russians love their children, too... #

0:15:11 > 0:15:15- Prokofiev?- It was, yes! And, finally...

0:15:15 > 0:15:18# Who ever thought the sun would come crashing down?

0:15:18 > 0:15:21# My life in flames My tears concrete the pain

0:15:21 > 0:15:23# We fear the end The darkest, deepest riverbed

0:15:23 > 0:15:26# My book of life ain't complete without you here

0:15:26 > 0:15:28# Alone I sit and reminisce... #

0:15:28 > 0:15:30- Mozart?- No, that's Bach's Air On The G String.

0:15:30 > 0:15:3410 points for this. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809,

0:15:34 > 0:15:37which literary figure gives his name to the annual awards

0:15:37 > 0:15:40presented by the mystery writers of America to honour...

0:15:41 > 0:15:43- Edgar Allen Poe.- Correct.

0:15:45 > 0:15:49These bonuses, Manchester, are on a 19th-century Chancellor of the Exchequer.

0:15:49 > 0:15:53Quote - "Described as a natural second-in-command,

0:15:53 > 0:15:56"Sir Stafford Northcote served as chancellor to which

0:15:56 > 0:16:00Prime Minister from 1874 to 1880?

0:16:00 > 0:16:02THEY WHISPER INAUDIBLY

0:16:02 > 0:16:05- Gladstone?- No, it was Disraeli.

0:16:05 > 0:16:10In its coverage of the 1874 general election, The Times had predicted erroneously that,

0:16:10 > 0:16:14"Whoever is Chancellor when the budget is produced, it will be abolished."

0:16:14 > 0:16:19To what revenue-raising device, first introduced in 1799, was it referring?

0:16:19 > 0:16:21- BOTH: Income tax.- Income tax. - Correct.

0:16:21 > 0:16:25In 1878, Northcote raised income tax to five pence in the pound,

0:16:25 > 0:16:30following increased expenditure on military preparations against which country?

0:16:30 > 0:16:32- What year?- 1878.

0:16:34 > 0:16:36THEY WHISPER INAUDIBLY

0:16:39 > 0:16:42- Was it the Crimea?- Yeah, I think... - No, no, no.- Go for China.

0:16:43 > 0:16:46- China.- No, it was Russia. 10 points for this.

0:16:46 > 0:16:52In February 2012, which country beat Cote d'Ivoire in a penalty shoot-out...

0:16:52 > 0:16:54- Zambia.- Zambia is correct, yes.

0:16:56 > 0:16:58The African Cup of Nations.

0:16:58 > 0:17:02Right, your bonuses are on systems of propulsion this time, Manchester.

0:17:02 > 0:17:07What common name is given to a rotary engine that converts fluid flow into work?

0:17:07 > 0:17:10- Impeller.- Impeller?- Impeller.

0:17:10 > 0:17:13- Impeller.- No, it's a turbine.

0:17:13 > 0:17:17What kind of aircraft engine uses a gas turbine to drive a propeller?

0:17:17 > 0:17:19- BOTH: Turbo prop.- Turbo prop. - Correct.

0:17:19 > 0:17:23- What kind of engine uses an aircraft's forward motion as a compressor...- BOTH: Ramjet.

0:17:23 > 0:17:26..and thus operates most efficiently at supersonic speeds?

0:17:26 > 0:17:30- Ramjet.- Ramjet or scramjet or a stovepipe jet is correct.

0:17:30 > 0:17:3410 points for this. Which Dutch city gives its name to the treaties of 1713

0:17:34 > 0:17:36that concluded British involvement...

0:17:36 > 0:17:39- Utrecht.- Utrecht is correct, yes.

0:17:41 > 0:17:45Lincoln, your bonuses this time are on pairs of composers born in the same year.

0:17:45 > 0:17:49In each case, name both the composers from the works listed.

0:17:49 > 0:17:52Firstly, the composers of Polonaise In A Flat Major

0:17:52 > 0:17:57and Symphony No 3 In E Flat Major, The Rhenish, were both born in 1810.

0:17:59 > 0:18:01That's probably Chopin and...

0:18:03 > 0:18:06Was it Schumann, possibly?

0:18:06 > 0:18:08Schumann, Mahler maybe?

0:18:08 > 0:18:11- Chopin and Mahler. - No, it's Chopin and Schumann.

0:18:11 > 0:18:18Secondly, the composers of a German Requiem and the opera Prince Igor, both born 1833.

0:18:18 > 0:18:20- Was Prince Igor Stravinsky?- No.

0:18:20 > 0:18:22Sorry?

0:18:22 > 0:18:24THEY WHISPER INAUDIBLY

0:18:24 > 0:18:28- It's not Tchaikovsky. It's Stravinsky or...- Glinka?

0:18:28 > 0:18:30- Or who?- Glinka.

0:18:32 > 0:18:34What was the first one?

0:18:34 > 0:18:36Come on, let's have an answer.

0:18:36 > 0:18:38Brahms and Glinka.

0:18:38 > 0:18:40No, it's Brahms and Borodin.

0:18:40 > 0:18:43And finally, the composers of the opera Pagliacci

0:18:43 > 0:18:47and the choral work The Dream Of Gerontius, both born 1857?

0:18:50 > 0:18:52Leoncavallo and the other is...

0:18:53 > 0:18:56- Could be Mahler. - No, it's too late for Mahler.

0:18:59 > 0:19:01Leoncavallo and...

0:19:02 > 0:19:04Erm...

0:19:06 > 0:19:07Britten.

0:19:07 > 0:19:08Britten.

0:19:08 > 0:19:11No, it was Elgar. Bad luck. Leoncavallo and Elgar.

0:19:11 > 0:19:1210 points for this.

0:19:12 > 0:19:14Otherwise known as the auricle,

0:19:14 > 0:19:17what term from the Latin for feather or fin

0:19:17 > 0:19:21denotes the most visible part of the outer ear present...

0:19:21 > 0:19:23- Pinna.- Pinna is correct, yes.

0:19:25 > 0:19:28These bonuses, Manchester, are on place names.

0:19:28 > 0:19:33Kingston, Jamaica was named in honour of which British monarch

0:19:33 > 0:19:36who'd come to the throne three years before the city was founded in 1692?

0:19:36 > 0:19:39- William III?- William.

0:19:39 > 0:19:40- William III.- Correct.

0:19:40 > 0:19:44The 16th century Portuguese explorer Lourenco Marques gave his name

0:19:44 > 0:19:48to a southern African capital now known by what name?

0:19:48 > 0:19:51Portuguese - that either going to be...

0:19:51 > 0:19:54Angola or, it might be Mozambique.

0:19:54 > 0:19:56If it's Angola, it would be, erm...

0:19:58 > 0:20:03- Lesotho?- No, it's not going to be Lesotho.- I think Maputo.

0:20:03 > 0:20:04Go for it.

0:20:04 > 0:20:07- Maputo.- Correct.

0:20:07 > 0:20:11The market town in central France formally known as La Haye en Touraine

0:20:11 > 0:20:16was renamed in the early 19th century in honour of which philosopher born there in 1596?

0:20:17 > 0:20:191596? Descartes?

0:20:19 > 0:20:23- Descartes?- Yeah, go ahead. - Descartes.- Correct.

0:20:23 > 0:20:26Our second picture round now. For your picture starter,

0:20:26 > 0:20:28you're going to see a painting.

0:20:28 > 0:20:3010 points if you can name the artist.

0:20:34 > 0:20:38- Chagall?- Anyone like to buzz from Lincoln College?

0:20:41 > 0:20:44- Rubens?- No, it's Hieronymus Bosch.

0:20:44 > 0:20:46So, picture bonuses shortly.

0:20:46 > 0:20:4910 points if anyone can get this starter question.

0:20:49 > 0:20:54First published in 1957, Vance Packard's book The Hidden Persuaders

0:20:54 > 0:20:59explained the methods used by which industry in tailoring campaigns...

0:20:59 > 0:21:01- Advertising. - Advertising is correct, yes.

0:21:05 > 0:21:10Right, that painting by Hieronymus Bosch depicted the seven deadly sins.

0:21:10 > 0:21:15They were scenes from everyday life rather than allegorical representations thereof.

0:21:15 > 0:21:18For your bonuses, you will see three sections of the painting.

0:21:18 > 0:21:21In each case, I want the sin depicted. Firstly, for 5...

0:21:25 > 0:21:28- Sloth?- Yeah. Probably sloth, yeah.

0:21:28 > 0:21:30- Sloth. - That is sloth, yes. Secondly...

0:21:33 > 0:21:36- Vanity.- Vanity.

0:21:36 > 0:21:39Er, no. It's pride. Pride's the sin.

0:21:39 > 0:21:40And finally...

0:21:42 > 0:21:43Gluttony.

0:21:43 > 0:21:44Gluttony.

0:21:44 > 0:21:46Gluttony is correct, yes. Right, 10 points for this.

0:21:46 > 0:21:49A work of 1763 entitled The Sleeping Beauty

0:21:49 > 0:21:52modelled on Louis XV's mistress Madame du Barry

0:21:52 > 0:21:56is the oldest work on display at which London location?

0:22:02 > 0:22:07- Whitechapel.- No, anyone want to buzz from Manchester?

0:22:07 > 0:22:09National Portrait Gallery?

0:22:09 > 0:22:11No, it's Madame Tussauds. 10 points for this.

0:22:11 > 0:22:15Lenient ethics is an anagram of the single-word name

0:22:15 > 0:22:18of which landlocked state, noted for its...

0:22:18 > 0:22:20- Liechtenstein. - Liechtenstein is correct, yes.

0:22:24 > 0:22:27Your bonuses are on autonomous communities of Spain.

0:22:27 > 0:22:32Which autonomous community of Spain consists of the island group that includes Minorca and Ibiza?

0:22:32 > 0:22:35- Balearics?- Balearics, yeah.

0:22:35 > 0:22:37- The Balearics. - Balearic Islands is correct.

0:22:37 > 0:22:40The Picos De Europa National Park is in the western part

0:22:40 > 0:22:42of which autonomous community?

0:22:42 > 0:22:44Its capital is Santander.

0:22:44 > 0:22:48- Is that Galicia? - THEY WHISPER AUDIBLY

0:22:48 > 0:22:49Aragon.

0:22:49 > 0:22:53- It's north-west. - North-west of Galicia, then.- Yeah.

0:22:53 > 0:22:55- Galicia, north-west?- Yeah.

0:22:55 > 0:23:00- Galicia.- No, it's Cantabria. A World Heritage site and a place of pilgrimage,

0:23:00 > 0:23:04which city is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia?

0:23:04 > 0:23:06- Santiago de Compostela.- Correct.

0:23:06 > 0:23:11Five minutes to go, 10 points for this. Which element is next in this sequence given in reverse order?

0:23:11 > 0:23:14Vanadium, titanium, scandium, calcium and what?

0:23:16 > 0:23:18- Potassium. - Potassium is correct, yes.

0:23:22 > 0:23:26Your bonuses, Lincoln College, are on words that can be made

0:23:26 > 0:23:30using any of the eight letters in the word clueless. In each case, give the word from the definition.

0:23:30 > 0:23:34Firstly, a sediment that forms during the fermentation of wine or beer.

0:23:34 > 0:23:38- Lees.- Sorry?- Lees.- Nominate Jones.

0:23:38 > 0:23:40- Lees.- Lees is correct.

0:23:40 > 0:23:43Secondly, the basic monetary unit of Romania.

0:23:48 > 0:23:51- Skola or something? - Skola?- No, it's the leu.

0:23:51 > 0:23:54And finally, on a computer spreadsheet,

0:23:54 > 0:23:58the spaces formed by the intersections of rows and columns.

0:23:58 > 0:24:01- Cell.- Sorry?- Cell. - Oh, cell.- Cell is right, yes.

0:24:02 > 0:24:05Right, 10 points for this. Four minutes to go

0:24:05 > 0:24:06The founder of the Royal Ballet,

0:24:06 > 0:24:09born Edris Stannus in County Wicklow in 1898

0:24:09 > 0:24:11is more commonly known by what name?

0:24:13 > 0:24:16- Alicia Markova?- No. Lincoln College, one of you buzz?

0:24:18 > 0:24:19You don't know?

0:24:19 > 0:24:21It's Dame Ninette de Valois.

0:24:21 > 0:24:2210 points for this.

0:24:22 > 0:24:26The smallest possible social group defined in sociology,

0:24:26 > 0:24:29how many members does a dyad have?

0:24:29 > 0:24:32- Two.- Two is correct.

0:24:33 > 0:24:36Your bonuses are on Greek mythology this time, Manchester.

0:24:36 > 0:24:40Named after the son of the nymph Kleodora

0:24:40 > 0:24:42and the human Kleopompus, which Greek mountain

0:24:42 > 0:24:46is associated with the god Apollo and was said to be the home of the Muses?

0:24:48 > 0:24:50- Parnassus.- Yeah.

0:24:50 > 0:24:53- Parnassus.- Correct. Which mountain in Crete is sacred

0:24:53 > 0:24:59to the goddess Rhea and is said to be the site of the cave in which she gave birth to Zeus?

0:24:59 > 0:25:00Ida.

0:25:00 > 0:25:01- Ida.- Correct.

0:25:01 > 0:25:06Which densely wooded mountain was said to be the home of the centaurs

0:25:06 > 0:25:09and allegedly provided the timber from which the Argo was constructed?

0:25:10 > 0:25:14- Don't know. Mount Olympus? - No, it's Mount Pelion.

0:25:14 > 0:25:1510 points for this.

0:25:15 > 0:25:19What is the acceleration of a particle of mass three kilograms

0:25:19 > 0:25:22when subjected to a linear force of 51 Newtons?

0:25:25 > 0:25:2718?

0:25:27 > 0:25:29Manchester, one of you buzz?

0:25:29 > 0:25:33- 17.- Yes, 17 metres per second squared.

0:25:33 > 0:25:38Right, your bonuses this time, Manchester, are on Royal residences.

0:25:38 > 0:25:41The private home of four generations of British sovereigns,

0:25:41 > 0:25:46which royal residence was the scene of the first Christmas broadcast in 1932?

0:25:46 > 0:25:48- Sandringham.- Sandringham?- Yeah. - Sandringham.- Correct.

0:25:48 > 0:25:54Bagshot Park in Surrey is the residence of which member of the Royal Family who married in 1999?

0:25:54 > 0:25:57- Oh, was that Prince Andrew? - No, it's Edward.- OK.

0:25:57 > 0:25:58Prince Edward.

0:25:58 > 0:26:00Yes, the Earl of Wessex.

0:26:00 > 0:26:04Built by Henry VIII, which palace was the residence of English monarchs for 300 years

0:26:04 > 0:26:06and remains an official residence of the sovereign?

0:26:06 > 0:26:09- Er, Hampton Court? - No, it's St James's Palace.

0:26:09 > 0:26:1210 points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz.

0:26:12 > 0:26:14The names of two US states

0:26:14 > 0:26:17end in a letter S that is not pronounced as an S.

0:26:17 > 0:26:19For 10 points, name both.

0:26:19 > 0:26:21Arkansas and Missouri.

0:26:22 > 0:26:24No. Manchester, one of you buzz?

0:26:26 > 0:26:28- Arkansas and Illinois.- Correct.

0:26:31 > 0:26:34Your bonuses are on a shared name element.

0:26:34 > 0:26:39The official name of China can be abbreviated to PRC. For what do those initials stand?

0:26:39 > 0:26:42- People's Republic of China.- Correct.

0:26:42 > 0:26:47The People's Will revolutionary organisation assassinated which Russian Tsar in 1881?

0:26:47 > 0:26:49- Alexander II.- Alexander II.- Correct.

0:26:49 > 0:26:52Which country on the Red Sea gained independence in 1993

0:26:52 > 0:26:55after its Peoples Liberation Front

0:26:55 > 0:26:58- successfully fought for secession from Ethiopia?- Djibouti?- Eritrea.

0:26:58 > 0:27:00OK.

0:27:00 > 0:27:04- THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER - Come on!- Eritrea.

0:27:04 > 0:27:05Correct. 10 points for this.

0:27:05 > 0:27:09Born in 1777, which German mathematician gives his name

0:27:09 > 0:27:12both to a unit of magnetic induction and to...

0:27:12 > 0:27:14- Gauss.- Gauss is correct, yes.

0:27:16 > 0:27:18Level pegging. Your bonuses now are on place names.

0:27:18 > 0:27:20Around the size of the Isle of Mull,

0:27:20 > 0:27:23and at a latitude of 38 degrees north,

0:27:23 > 0:27:28Sado is the sixth largest island of which country?

0:27:28 > 0:27:30- Is that Japan?- Quickly.- I don't know.

0:27:30 > 0:27:33- China maybe?- Canada.- Come on.

0:27:33 > 0:27:35- Canada.- No, it's Japan.

0:27:35 > 0:27:38Reaching the Atlantic Ocean near the city of Setubal,

0:27:38 > 0:27:40the Sado is a major river of which country?

0:27:41 > 0:27:43Portugal.

0:27:43 > 0:27:45- Portugal.- Portugal is correct, and at the gong!

0:27:45 > 0:27:49At the gong, Lincoln College, Oxford have 175,

0:27:49 > 0:27:51Manchester University have 180.

0:27:56 > 0:27:58Well, bad luck, Lincoln.

0:27:58 > 0:27:59It was a great performance from you

0:27:59 > 0:28:02and it was snatched away from you right at the death there,

0:28:02 > 0:28:05but I would guess that 175 will certainly be enough for you

0:28:05 > 0:28:08to come back as one of the highest-scoring losing teams.

0:28:08 > 0:28:09So, thank you very much.

0:28:09 > 0:28:12It was a great game and, Manchester, I thought there was no possibility

0:28:12 > 0:28:14of you winning that for much of the contest.

0:28:14 > 0:28:17I bet you did, too, when you were minus 10!

0:28:17 > 0:28:20Anyway, it's a great performance. Congratulations.

0:28:20 > 0:28:22We shall look forward to seeing you in round two.

0:28:22 > 0:28:25I hope you can join us next time for another first round match.

0:28:25 > 0:28:27- It's goodbye from Lincoln College, Oxford...- Goodbye.

0:28:27 > 0:28:30- ..goodbye from Manchester University...- Goodbye.

0:28:30 > 0:28:32..and goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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