Episode 9

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0:00:15 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE

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

0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Scotland plays Wales tonight for a place in the second round.

0:00:32 > 0:00:35Winners go through automatically, but losers can earn themselves

0:00:35 > 0:00:38a stay of execution if their score is high enough.

0:00:38 > 0:00:41Founded in the early 15th century,

0:00:41 > 0:00:44St Andrews is Scotland's oldest university,

0:00:44 > 0:00:45and the third oldest in the UK.

0:00:45 > 0:00:48Tonight's team tell us the average student is a bit on the posh side,

0:00:48 > 0:00:51and its current student body has a higher proportion

0:00:51 > 0:00:56of English students than Scottish. Around 15% of them are from the US.

0:00:56 > 0:00:59It's a place where the wearing of the bright red undergraduate gown

0:00:59 > 0:01:02is embraced with unusual fervour,

0:01:02 > 0:01:07and the degree of carelessness with which it's worn is a coded message of one's seniority.

0:01:07 > 0:01:09Alumni include the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

0:01:09 > 0:01:13and Alex Salmond, and George Reid of the Scottish National Party.

0:01:13 > 0:01:16The poet Don Paterson teaches in its English department.

0:01:16 > 0:01:19Representing around 8,000 students and with an average age of 20,

0:01:19 > 0:01:23let's meet the St Andrews team.

0:01:23 > 0:01:26Hi, I'm Ben Adams, I'm from Banchory in Aberdeenshire,

0:01:26 > 0:01:28and I read English Literature.

0:01:28 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm Jim Parsons from Leicester, I'm in fourth year studying History.

0:01:31 > 0:01:32And their captain.

0:01:32 > 0:01:34My name's James Gray, from Edinburgh,

0:01:34 > 0:01:36and I'm studying Classics.

0:01:36 > 0:01:39Hi, I'm Andrew Newton, I'm from Inverness and I study Maths.

0:01:39 > 0:01:43APPLAUSE

0:01:43 > 0:01:47Now, the University of Bangor was founded as the direct result

0:01:47 > 0:01:50of a campaign in the late 19th century for the provision

0:01:50 > 0:01:52of Higher Education in Wales.

0:01:52 > 0:01:57It was originally located in an old coaching inn and it was

0:01:57 > 0:02:00supported by public subscription, including voluntary contributions

0:02:00 > 0:02:04from the wages of the local population of farmers and quarrymen.

0:02:04 > 0:02:07It was a member of the University of Wales for many years,

0:02:07 > 0:02:10but now has the power to award degrees itself and its alumni

0:02:10 > 0:02:14include the poet RS Thomas and the film director Danny Boyle.

0:02:14 > 0:02:18Tonight's four represent around 16,000 fellow students.

0:02:18 > 0:02:20Let's meet them.

0:02:20 > 0:02:22Hi, my name's Adam Pearce, I'm from Barry in South Wales

0:02:22 > 0:02:25and I'm studying a PhD in Translation Studies.

0:02:25 > 0:02:28Hi, I'm Mark Stevens from Widnes in Cheshire

0:02:28 > 0:02:29and I'm studying Environmental Science.

0:02:29 > 0:02:30And their captain.

0:02:30 > 0:02:35Hi, I'm Nina Grant, I'm from Enfield and I study French and Linguistics.

0:02:36 > 0:02:39Hi, I'm Simon Tomlinson, I'm originally from Manchester

0:02:39 > 0:02:42and I'm doing a PhD in Neuropsychology.

0:02:42 > 0:02:44APPLAUSE

0:02:48 > 0:02:51Usual rules which you will all know, so fingers on the buzzers,

0:02:51 > 0:02:53here's your first starter for 10.

0:02:53 > 0:02:57The islands of which present day country became a Spanish colony

0:02:57 > 0:03:02during the 16th century and were ceded to the USA in 1898?

0:03:02 > 0:03:04- The Philippines.- Correct.

0:03:04 > 0:03:06APPLAUSE

0:03:07 > 0:03:10Bonuses are on world history, Bangor.

0:03:10 > 0:03:11Which decade of the 20th century

0:03:11 > 0:03:14links the Long March of the Chinese Communists,

0:03:14 > 0:03:19the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay and the establishment of Saudi Arabia?

0:03:19 > 0:03:22THEY CONFER

0:03:22 > 0:03:24- The 1930s?- Correct.

0:03:24 > 0:03:29Which decade of the 19th century saw the end of convict transportation to Australia,

0:03:29 > 0:03:32the emancipation of the serfs in Russia and the unification of Italy?

0:03:32 > 0:03:35THEY CONFER

0:03:35 > 0:03:37- The 1870s?- The 1860s.

0:03:37 > 0:03:43Finally, which decade of the 18th century saw James Cook claim what is now New South Wales for Britain,

0:03:43 > 0:03:47and Bostonians threw tea into the harbour in a protest over tax?

0:03:47 > 0:03:51- The 1770s.- Correct. Another starter question. - APPLAUSE

0:03:51 > 0:03:55What was the surname of the two Chancellors of the Exchequer, father and son, who died

0:03:55 > 0:03:57on the same date exactly 70 years apart?

0:03:57 > 0:04:02The father died in 1895, while the son later became Prime Minister?

0:04:05 > 0:04:06Chamberlain.

0:04:06 > 0:04:08No, St Andrews, one of you buzz.

0:04:10 > 0:04:11Cripps?

0:04:13 > 0:04:17Good heavens, there was never a Cripps as Prime Minister. No, it's Churchill. 10 points for this.

0:04:17 > 0:04:19Sometimes called the pallium, the layer of epidermal tissue

0:04:19 > 0:04:23that encloses the body of a mollusc and secretes the shell

0:04:23 > 0:04:26is commonly known by what name, originally meaning a cloak?

0:04:26 > 0:04:31In geology, it denotes the Earth's interior between...

0:04:31 > 0:04:33- Mantle.- Correct.

0:04:33 > 0:04:36APPLAUSE

0:04:36 > 0:04:40Right, your second set of bonuses are on a playwright.

0:04:40 > 0:04:43The Burial Mound and the verse tragedy Brand

0:04:43 > 0:04:47were among the early plays of which Nordic dramatist, born 1828?

0:04:47 > 0:04:48THEY CONFER

0:04:48 > 0:04:51- Henrik Ibsen.- Correct.

0:04:51 > 0:04:54Of which of his plays first performed in 1879 did Ibsen write,

0:04:54 > 0:05:00"There are two kinds of spiritual laws and kinds of consciences, one for men and one for women?"

0:05:01 > 0:05:03- A Doll's House.- Correct.

0:05:03 > 0:05:08On its London premiere in 1891, the Daily Telegraph described

0:05:08 > 0:05:10which of Ibsen's plays as on open drain,

0:05:10 > 0:05:14a loathsome sore unbandaged, a dirty act done publicly?

0:05:16 > 0:05:18- Hedda Gabler?- No, it's Ghosts.

0:05:18 > 0:05:2010 points for this starter question.

0:05:20 > 0:05:23What term was introduced by the US sociologist Robert Merton

0:05:23 > 0:05:26in 1957 to describe the following concept,

0:05:26 > 0:05:29"In the beginning, a false definition of the situation evokes

0:05:29 > 0:05:33"a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come true?"

0:05:35 > 0:05:39- Oedipal prophecy.- No. St Andrews, one of you may buzz.

0:05:43 > 0:05:44No, no, it's wrong...

0:05:44 > 0:05:47- LAUGHTER - I assure you.

0:05:47 > 0:05:51I'll take your word for it. OK, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

0:05:51 > 0:05:5210 points for this.

0:05:52 > 0:05:54"If a man love the labour of any trade,

0:05:54 > 0:05:58"apart from any question of success or fame, the God's have called him."

0:05:58 > 0:06:01These words appear in Across The Plains,

0:06:01 > 0:06:04a travel memoir of 1892 by which literary figure?

0:06:04 > 0:06:08Best known for his adventure novels, he was born in Edinburgh,

0:06:08 > 0:06:09and died in Samoa.

0:06:09 > 0:06:12- Walter Scott?- No. St Andrews?

0:06:14 > 0:06:16Was it John Buchan?

0:06:16 > 0:06:20No, Robert Louis Stevenson. You lose 5 points, Bangor, for the incorrect interruption.

0:06:20 > 0:06:2210 points for this starter question.

0:06:22 > 0:06:262010 was the 75th anniversary of the invention of which device?

0:06:26 > 0:06:28It was patented by the US publisher Carlton C Magee

0:06:28 > 0:06:31after a contest attempting to solve problems

0:06:31 > 0:06:34caused by the number of cars in Oklahoma City. Magee...

0:06:36 > 0:06:39- The traffic light. - No, you lose 5 points.

0:06:39 > 0:06:41..Magee originally called it the Black Maria?

0:06:44 > 0:06:46Taxi.

0:06:46 > 0:06:49No, it's a parking meter. 10 points for this starter question.

0:06:49 > 0:06:52In quantum physics, which subatomic particle, a meson

0:06:52 > 0:06:56with a mass of about 9.4 giga-electron volts and a zero charge,

0:06:56 > 0:07:00is thought to consist of a B quark and its antiquark?

0:07:00 > 0:07:01It's named after the 20th letter...

0:07:03 > 0:07:04Erm, a mu...a muon?

0:07:04 > 0:07:07No, I'm afraid you're wrong and I'll have to fine you 5 points.

0:07:07 > 0:07:10It's named after the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet?

0:07:12 > 0:07:16- Neutrino?- No, it's a... What?! No, it's an upsilon.

0:07:16 > 0:07:2010 points for this. Which tennis venue is named after the pioneering airman who

0:07:20 > 0:07:23became the first man to fly non-stop across the Mediterranean?

0:07:23 > 0:07:25He was killed when his...

0:07:25 > 0:07:27- Roland Garros?- Correct.

0:07:27 > 0:07:30APPLAUSE

0:07:30 > 0:07:35OK, you're away now. Your bonuses are on zoology, St Andrews.

0:07:35 > 0:07:39In contrast to autotroph, what term describes an organism that is unable

0:07:39 > 0:07:41to assimilate inorganic materials and hence uses

0:07:41 > 0:07:45complex organic materials as a source of carbon and energy?

0:07:48 > 0:07:53THEY CONFER

0:07:55 > 0:07:57- Heliotrope.- No, it's a heterotroph.

0:07:57 > 0:08:02Secondly, what Greek-derived term indicates the type of heterotrophic nutrition

0:08:02 > 0:08:05when food is first ingested before being digested internally?

0:08:05 > 0:08:08It is characteristic of animals.

0:08:10 > 0:08:16THEY CONFER

0:08:16 > 0:08:22- Chemotrope?- No, it's holozoic. And finally, what's the principal food of frugivorous animals.

0:08:24 > 0:08:28THEY CONFER

0:08:30 > 0:08:31- Fruit.- Correct.

0:08:31 > 0:08:34We'll take a picture round.

0:08:34 > 0:08:37You'll see a diagram of a sports pitch. 10 points if you can give me

0:08:37 > 0:08:40the name of the sport that would normally be played on it.

0:08:44 > 0:08:48- Australian Rules Football?- Correct. - APPLAUSE

0:08:51 > 0:08:55So your picture bonuses are three more diagrams of sports pitches or courts.

0:08:55 > 0:08:59Again, for 5 points, I want the name of the sport that would normally be played on each of them.

0:08:59 > 0:09:03Firstly for 5, the specific sport that uses this pitch?

0:09:09 > 0:09:14- Lacrosse.- Specifically?- Men's lacrosse.- No, women's lacrosse. - AUDIENCE GROANS

0:09:14 > 0:09:19Secondly, I want you to name any one of the three sports normally played on a pitch like this.

0:09:24 > 0:09:29THEY CONFER

0:09:33 > 0:09:34Hurling?

0:09:34 > 0:09:38Yes, I'll accept that, or Gaelic Football or International Rules Football.

0:09:38 > 0:09:41And finally, this diagram shows the playing area of which indoor sport?

0:09:43 > 0:09:45THEY CONFER

0:09:56 > 0:09:59- Is it real tennis?- No, it's racquetball. 10 points for this.

0:09:59 > 0:10:03Quote, "Provided the opinions which were quacked out were orthodox,

0:10:03 > 0:10:05"it implied nothing but praise."

0:10:05 > 0:10:09These words from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four refer to which

0:10:09 > 0:10:13Newspeak word which, perhaps sadly, has yet to enter common usage?

0:10:13 > 0:10:17- Duckspeak.- Yes. - APPLAUSE

0:10:20 > 0:10:23Right, St Andrews, these bonuses are on names.

0:10:23 > 0:10:26What name, thought to denote a dog-like or churlish manner,

0:10:26 > 0:10:32was given to a member of the school of Greek philosophy which included Diogenes of Sinope?

0:10:32 > 0:10:34THEY CONFER

0:10:40 > 0:10:44- Cynic.- Cynic is correct.

0:10:44 > 0:10:47Said to contain the most unsociable and unclubable men in London,

0:10:47 > 0:10:51the Diogenes Club was co-founded by which fictional character?

0:10:54 > 0:10:57THEY WHISPER

0:10:57 > 0:11:01- Mycroft Holmes.- Correct. What is the common name for crustaceans to which the genus Diogenes belongs?

0:11:01 > 0:11:07Noted for their use of the shells of other animals to protect their soft abdomens.

0:11:07 > 0:11:09THEY CONFER

0:11:13 > 0:11:16- Hermit crab.- Correct. - APPLAUSE

0:11:16 > 0:11:21Another starter question. After an American scientist, born in 1914,

0:11:21 > 0:11:24what three-word term denotes the torus of plasma surrounding the Earth

0:11:24 > 0:11:26that is held in place by the Earth's...?

0:11:26 > 0:11:29- Van Allen belt.- Correct.

0:11:29 > 0:11:33APPLAUSE

0:11:33 > 0:11:36Get these bonuses and you'll re-take the lead, Bangor.

0:11:36 > 0:11:39They're on a language family. From the Latin for southern and Greek for island,

0:11:39 > 0:11:41what term denotes the language family

0:11:41 > 0:11:44that had the widest geographic span in pre-Columbian times?

0:11:44 > 0:11:49Sometimes known as Malayo-Polynesian, it currently has more than 300 million speakers.

0:11:50 > 0:11:52THEY WHISPER

0:11:56 > 0:11:58- Australasian?- No, it's Austronesian.

0:11:58 > 0:12:02Secondly, the national language of which large island

0:12:02 > 0:12:05is the westernmost outlier of the Austronesian family?

0:12:05 > 0:12:09It was probably settled by people from Borneo from around AD 300.

0:12:09 > 0:12:12THEY WHISPER

0:12:20 > 0:12:22- Sri Lanka.- No, it is Madagascar.

0:12:22 > 0:12:26Annexed by Chile in 1888, which isolated island

0:12:26 > 0:12:28is the easternmost outlier of Austronesian family?

0:12:28 > 0:12:32- Easter Island.- Correct. - APPLAUSE

0:12:32 > 0:12:33Another starter question.

0:12:33 > 0:12:36What given name links Valento in Raymond Chandler's novel

0:12:36 > 0:12:40Farewell My Lovely, Von Tussle in the film Hairspray,

0:12:40 > 0:12:46Kelly in the musical Chicago and Dinkley in the television series Scooby-Doo?

0:12:46 > 0:12:48- Velma.- Velma is right, yes.

0:12:48 > 0:12:51APPLAUSE

0:12:54 > 0:12:56Never thought that would be useful, did you?

0:12:56 > 0:12:59Your bonuses this time, and you've retaken the lead, are on the Roman Catholic church.

0:12:59 > 0:13:02With the beatification of St Maximilian Kolbe

0:13:02 > 0:13:05on October 17th, 1971, which Pope began the innovation

0:13:05 > 0:13:09of presiding personally at the right of beatification?

0:13:10 > 0:13:14THEY WHISPER

0:13:18 > 0:13:20- John Paul I?- No, it was Paul VI.

0:13:20 > 0:13:24Who was the last Emperor of Austria-Hungary whose beatification by John Paul II in 2004

0:13:24 > 0:13:31met with criticism owing to his authorisation of the use of poison gas by his army in World War I?

0:13:37 > 0:13:39- Pass.- It was the Emperor, Karl I.

0:13:39 > 0:13:42Finally, on the last day of his 2010 state visit to Britain,

0:13:42 > 0:13:49Pope Benedict beatified which 19th century English prelate noted for his poem The Dream Of Gerontius?

0:13:54 > 0:13:57- Henry Newman. - It was John Henry Newman, yes. - APPLAUSE

0:13:57 > 0:14:00Right, we're going to take a music round. For your starter

0:14:00 > 0:14:04you'll hear an excerpt from a piece of popular music. 10 points if you can give me

0:14:04 > 0:14:07the name of the band AND the title of the piece.

0:14:07 > 0:14:14# Tonight, maybe we're going to run...#

0:14:17 > 0:14:19Is it Coldplay, Life In Technicolor?

0:14:19 > 0:14:22St Andrews, you can hear a little bit more if you like.

0:14:22 > 0:14:25# Dreaming... #

0:14:25 > 0:14:27Coldplay, 42.

0:14:27 > 0:14:30No, it's Coldplay, Lovers In Japan or Reign Of Love,

0:14:30 > 0:14:34so we'll come to the music bonuses shortly. 10 points for this starter question.

0:14:34 > 0:14:39The films, Can't Stop The Music, Howard The Duck, The Last Airbender

0:14:39 > 0:14:41and Battlefield Earth...

0:14:41 > 0:14:44Is it George Lucas?

0:14:44 > 0:14:45No, you lose 5 points.

0:14:45 > 0:14:48Scientology.

0:14:48 > 0:14:51I'd have told you the rest of the question, you didn't have to buzz in, plenty of time,

0:14:51 > 0:14:57but that is also wrong, they were all recipients of the Golden Raspberry award for the worst film.

0:14:57 > 0:15:03Right, 10 points for this starter question. Written in 1819 whilst he was living in Italy, Shelley's poem

0:15:03 > 0:15:09The Mask Of Anarchy was his furious response to learning of which event in England?

0:15:10 > 0:15:13- The Peterloo Massacre.- Yes, it was.

0:15:13 > 0:15:15APPLAUSE

0:15:17 > 0:15:21Now that Coldplay track was as I mentioned Lovers In Japan.

0:15:21 > 0:15:24Your music bonuses are three more popular tracks that feature

0:15:24 > 0:15:26the name of a country in the title,

0:15:26 > 0:15:29in each case I want you to identify the band and the country. Firstly...

0:15:30 > 0:15:34# When I lie there wide awake

0:15:34 > 0:15:36# For my son I make

0:15:37 > 0:15:39# Tell my boy I love him so... #

0:15:39 > 0:15:41THEY WHISPER

0:15:44 > 0:15:47# Tell him so he know. #

0:15:51 > 0:15:56- Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Mexico. - No, it's the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Ethiopia. Secondly...

0:15:56 > 0:16:01# Yesterday I spent asleep

0:16:01 > 0:16:06# Woke up in my clothes in a dirty heap

0:16:06 > 0:16:11# Spent the night trying to make a deadline

0:16:11 > 0:16:17# Squeezing complicated lives into a simple headline

0:16:17 > 0:16:19# I have your face in an old Polaroid. #

0:16:19 > 0:16:21THEY WHISPER

0:16:21 > 0:16:23No, not even a wild swing I'm afraid.

0:16:23 > 0:16:27That's U2's Cedars of Lebanon. And finally...

0:16:27 > 0:16:31# Mes cousins jamais nes

0:16:31 > 0:16:36# Hantent les nuits de Duvalier

0:16:36 > 0:16:41# Rien n'arrete nos esprits

0:16:41 > 0:16:45# Guns can't kill what soldiers can't see. #

0:16:45 > 0:16:48THEY WHISPER

0:16:48 > 0:16:52- Arcade Fire and Canada?- No, it is Arcade Fire but it's Haiti.

0:16:52 > 0:16:5510 points for this. Listen carefully and answer

0:16:55 > 0:16:58as soon as you buzz. A car accelerates from rest at ten metres per second squared

0:16:58 > 0:17:01for a period of five seconds.

0:17:01 > 0:17:03How far has it travelled?

0:17:06 > 0:17:09- Two kilometres.- No. St Andrews?

0:17:12 > 0:17:15- 25 metres.- No, it's 125 metres.

0:17:15 > 0:17:2010 points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz. Which words would appear first and last

0:17:20 > 0:17:24if the colours of the rainbow were written in alphabetical order?

0:17:28 > 0:17:31- Blue and Violet?- No. Bangor?

0:17:31 > 0:17:33- Blue and Yellow.- Correct, yes.

0:17:33 > 0:17:36APPLAUSE

0:17:37 > 0:17:40Your bonuses, Bangor, are on volcanic rocks.

0:17:40 > 0:17:44From the Greek for fire and broken what specific term

0:17:44 > 0:17:49describes igneous rocks made solely or primarily of volcanic material?

0:17:49 > 0:17:50- Pyroclastic.- Correct.

0:17:50 > 0:17:54Ultimately from the Latin for smooth, what Italian word is

0:17:54 > 0:17:59used for rocks composed largely of pyroxene and plagioclase feldspar

0:17:59 > 0:18:02that are formed from molten magma cooled beneath the Earth's surface?

0:18:02 > 0:18:04THEY WHISPER

0:18:04 > 0:18:06Cabbro.

0:18:06 > 0:18:08No, I can't accept that, he obviously had the right answer

0:18:08 > 0:18:11but you misheard him, it's gabbro.

0:18:11 > 0:18:14And finally, volcanic tuff is a light porous rock chiefly

0:18:14 > 0:18:17consisting of the consolidation of what volcanic material?

0:18:19 > 0:18:20- Ash.- Ash is correct.

0:18:20 > 0:18:23Right, 10 points for this.

0:18:23 > 0:18:28Countess Olenska, Newland Archer and May Welland are characters in which novel by Edith Wharton?

0:18:28 > 0:18:31In 1993 it was adapted into a film starring...

0:18:31 > 0:18:38- The Age Of Innocence? - The Age Of Innocence is right. - APPLAUSE

0:18:38 > 0:18:40Your bonuses, St Andrews, are on long stage works.

0:18:40 > 0:18:44David Edgar's 8½ hour adaptation of which novel by Charles Dickens

0:18:44 > 0:18:47became the longest play ever produced

0:18:47 > 0:18:49when it appeared on the London stage in 1980?

0:18:49 > 0:18:52THEY WHISPER

0:18:59 > 0:19:02- David Copperfield? - No, it was Nicholas Nickleby.

0:19:02 > 0:19:06An epic about the Trojan War. Which cycle of ten plays by John Barton

0:19:06 > 0:19:10is named after the legendary King of Sipylus and father of Pelops and Niobe?

0:19:10 > 0:19:14THEY CONFER

0:19:23 > 0:19:25- Actis?- No, it's Tantalus.

0:19:25 > 0:19:30And finally, comprising the plays Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage,

0:19:30 > 0:19:33The Coast Of Utopia is a 2002 trilogy of around nine hours

0:19:33 > 0:19:35in total by which dramatist?

0:19:35 > 0:19:38THEY WHISPER

0:19:42 > 0:19:43- Tom Stoppard?- Correct.

0:19:43 > 0:19:4510 points for this starter question.

0:19:45 > 0:19:49The name of what animal denotes latitudes characterised by calms and light...

0:19:49 > 0:19:52- Horse latitudes. - Horse latitudes is correct.

0:19:52 > 0:19:56APPLAUSE

0:19:56 > 0:19:59Your bonuses, Bangor, are on science fiction.

0:19:59 > 0:20:02Which US author, who died in 2009, created the planet Riverworld,

0:20:02 > 0:20:05on which everyone who has ever lived comes back to life,

0:20:05 > 0:20:10leading to meetings such as the one between Mark Twain and Cyrano de Bergerac?

0:20:10 > 0:20:13THEY WHISPER

0:20:19 > 0:20:20- Pass.- It's Philip Jose Farmer.

0:20:20 > 0:20:21Secondly, for 5 points,

0:20:21 > 0:20:25the egalitarian world of Anarres is the setting of which novel

0:20:25 > 0:20:29by Ursula K Le Guin, subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia?

0:20:29 > 0:20:32- Earth Sea? - No, it's The Dispossessed.

0:20:32 > 0:20:35Purpose-built space habitats known as orbitals are the home of

0:20:35 > 0:20:40billions of inhabitants in The Culture novels of which Scottish author?

0:20:41 > 0:20:44THEY WHISPER

0:20:44 > 0:20:47- Iain M Banks.- Correct. - APPLAUSE

0:20:47 > 0:20:49Time for a second picture round.

0:20:49 > 0:20:52You'll see a painting. 10 points if you can identify the artist.

0:20:59 > 0:21:02- Is it Matisse?- No, one of you may buzz from Bangor.

0:21:05 > 0:21:09- Raphael?- No, it's by Picasso, it's called The Source.

0:21:09 > 0:21:13So, picture bonuses shortly. Another starter question in the meantime.

0:21:13 > 0:21:15Listen up, fingers on the buzzers.

0:21:15 > 0:21:17The G6 economic forum of six countries was joined

0:21:17 > 0:21:22by Canada in 1976, and then by which other country in 1998?

0:21:22 > 0:21:24- Russia.- Russia is correct, yes.

0:21:24 > 0:21:27APPLAUSE

0:21:28 > 0:21:31So you saw Picasso's The Source for the picture starter,

0:21:31 > 0:21:34it's been on display at Tate Britain in 2012, part of an exhibition

0:21:34 > 0:21:37illustrating the influence of Picasso on modern British art.

0:21:37 > 0:21:41For your picture bonuses you'll see three 20th-century paintings

0:21:41 > 0:21:44by British artists featured in that exhibition.

0:21:44 > 0:21:465 points for each you can identify. Firstly...

0:21:52 > 0:21:57THEY WHISPER

0:21:58 > 0:22:00Gormley.

0:22:00 > 0:22:03- Gormley?- What, Antony Gormley?

0:22:03 > 0:22:05LAUGHTER

0:22:05 > 0:22:09No, it's Wyndham Lewis' The Vortices. Secondly...

0:22:12 > 0:22:14THEY WHISPER

0:22:16 > 0:22:20- Nothing.- That's Duncan Grant's The Tub, and finally this artist...

0:22:20 > 0:22:24THEY CONFER

0:22:29 > 0:22:32It's the only one we know, so...

0:22:32 > 0:22:36- Francis Baker.- No, it's Francis Bacon, his Crucifixion.

0:22:36 > 0:22:40Another starter. Troilite, thought to be the probable mineral of the Earth's core

0:22:40 > 0:22:41is a variety of an iron sulphide mineral

0:22:41 > 0:22:44and is found in abundance in which objects?

0:22:47 > 0:22:50- Meteorites.- Correct.

0:22:50 > 0:22:52APPLAUSE

0:22:52 > 0:22:56You could retake the lead with these bonuses. They're on physics.

0:22:56 > 0:22:59What physical quantity is equivalent to momentum flux or stress

0:22:59 > 0:23:04expressed in SI base units as kilograms per metre per second squared?

0:23:06 > 0:23:09THEY CONFER

0:23:16 > 0:23:18- Thrust?- No, it's pressure.

0:23:18 > 0:23:22What manometric unit of pressure is equal to 1.33 millibars?

0:23:22 > 0:23:24THEY CONFER

0:23:27 > 0:23:31- Pascal?- No, it's torr or a millimetre of mercury.

0:23:31 > 0:23:34And finally, if the weather is such that standard atmospheric pressure

0:23:34 > 0:23:38obtains at sea level, at what integer number of kilometres altitude

0:23:38 > 0:23:41would you experience a pressure of about 600 torr?

0:23:41 > 0:23:43THEY CONFER

0:23:51 > 0:23:53Let's have it, please.

0:23:53 > 0:23:56- 60 kilometres. - No, it's two. 10 points for this.

0:23:56 > 0:24:00In holometabolous insects, what term denotes the resting stage

0:24:00 > 0:24:03during which larvae transform into adults?

0:24:07 > 0:24:10- Pupae.- Correct.

0:24:10 > 0:24:11APPLAUSE

0:24:11 > 0:24:16These bonuses are on classical music. In 1796, which Austrian composer wrote Mass In Time Of War

0:24:16 > 0:24:21as Napoleon was advancing on Vienna, where the Mass was to be performed?

0:24:21 > 0:24:22- Haydn.- Correct.

0:24:22 > 0:24:25The Battle Of Poltava features in Mazeppa,

0:24:25 > 0:24:28an opera first performed in 1884 by which Russian composer?

0:24:30 > 0:24:33THEY CONFER

0:24:39 > 0:24:42- Boradin?- No, it's Tchaikovsky.

0:24:42 > 0:24:47Wellington's Victory, or The Battle Of Vitoria is an orchestral work of 1813 by which composer?

0:24:49 > 0:24:51THEY CONFER

0:24:55 > 0:24:57- We don't know, sorry. - It's by Beethoven.

0:24:57 > 0:24:59There are less than three minutes.

0:24:59 > 0:25:03The Russian port of Rostov lies on the River Don near its point of entry into which inland sea...

0:25:03 > 0:25:07- Black Sea.- No, you lose 5 points.

0:25:07 > 0:25:11..separated from the Black Sea by the Crimea?

0:25:11 > 0:25:14- The Sea of Asov.- Correct.

0:25:14 > 0:25:16APPLAUSE

0:25:17 > 0:25:20These bonuses, Bangor, are on rings.

0:25:20 > 0:25:23Three rings discovered by the Voyager One spacecraft in 1979

0:25:23 > 0:25:25and initially distinguished as halo, main and gossamer

0:25:25 > 0:25:28are a feature of which planet of the solar system?

0:25:28 > 0:25:30THEY CONFER

0:25:33 > 0:25:35- Uranus.- No, it's Jupiter.

0:25:35 > 0:25:38Four rings of gold braid with a loop in the upper ring

0:25:38 > 0:25:41form part of the insignia of which senior rank in the Royal Navy?

0:25:43 > 0:25:47THEY CONFER

0:25:49 > 0:25:51- Nominate Stevens.- Admiral of the Fleet.- No, it's Captain.

0:25:51 > 0:25:56Five rings appear on the flag of the Olympic movement, each a different colour.

0:25:56 > 0:25:58Name all five colours.

0:25:58 > 0:26:00THEY CONFER

0:26:00 > 0:26:03- Black, red, yellow, green, blue. - Correct.

0:26:03 > 0:26:05APPLAUSE

0:26:05 > 0:26:10Another starter. In mathematics, for which positive integer N is the n-th root of N largest?

0:26:13 > 0:26:15One.

0:26:15 > 0:26:16Bangor?

0:26:16 > 0:26:18- Two.- No, it's three.

0:26:18 > 0:26:19LAUGHTER

0:26:19 > 0:26:2310 points for this. Name the US state that lies between two other states,

0:26:23 > 0:26:27all three of which have names beginning with the letter I.

0:26:28 > 0:26:30Idaho?

0:26:30 > 0:26:31Anyone want to buzz from Bangor?

0:26:31 > 0:26:35- Indiana?- No, it's Illinois. 10 points for this.

0:26:35 > 0:26:39Part of the Messner Mountain Museum project, the Museum In The Clouds

0:26:39 > 0:26:43is located at over 2,000 metres above sea level in which Italian mountain range?

0:26:45 > 0:26:47- The Dolomites?- Correct.

0:26:47 > 0:26:49APPLAUSE

0:26:49 > 0:26:52These bonuses are on an institution.

0:26:52 > 0:26:55Established through the Constitutional Reform Act of 2005,

0:26:55 > 0:26:59what body came into existence on October 1st, 2009

0:26:59 > 0:27:03to replace the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords?

0:27:04 > 0:27:06The High Court of the Judiciary?

0:27:06 > 0:27:08No, it's the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

0:27:08 > 0:27:11The Supreme Court is based in which early 20th-century, neo-Gothic

0:27:11 > 0:27:14building on Parliament Square, opposite the Palace of Westminster?

0:27:16 > 0:27:17- Pass.- It's Middlesex Guildhall.

0:27:17 > 0:27:21Of the first 12 Supreme Court Justices to be appointed,

0:27:21 > 0:27:23who was the only woman?

0:27:25 > 0:27:26Baroness Warsi?

0:27:26 > 0:27:29She's chairman of the Conservative Party, it's Baroness Hale.

0:27:29 > 0:27:3010 points for this,

0:27:30 > 0:27:33what is the common name of songbirds of the genus motacilla?

0:27:33 > 0:27:37British species include the yellow, grey and pied.

0:27:37 > 0:27:41- Jackhammer?- No, anyone want to buzz from Bangor?

0:27:41 > 0:27:45- Thrush?- No, they're wagtails. 10 points for this.

0:27:45 > 0:27:47What short word links a Central American republic,

0:27:47 > 0:27:49a city of West Texas on the Rio Grande

0:27:49 > 0:27:52and a fabled city of gold sought by the Spanish conqui...

0:27:52 > 0:27:53El.

0:27:53 > 0:27:55El is correct. Your bonuses this time.

0:27:55 > 0:27:56END OF ROUND GONG

0:27:56 > 0:27:59At the gong St Andrews have 105, Bangor have 125.

0:27:59 > 0:28:02CHEERING

0:28:08 > 0:28:10You left your comeback too late, St Andrews.

0:28:10 > 0:28:12We have to say goodbye to you but thank you for joining us.

0:28:12 > 0:28:15We look forward to seeing you in Round Two, Bangor.

0:28:15 > 0:28:17Join us next time for another first round match

0:28:17 > 0:28:19but until then it's goodbye from St Andrews University...

0:28:19 > 0:28:20Goodbye.

0:28:20 > 0:28:23..it's goodbye from Bangor University...

0:28:23 > 0:28:25- Bye.- ..and it's goodbye from me, goodbye.

0:28:25 > 0:28:28APPLAUSE

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