0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:33Hello. Welcome to the first match of the 2013 series of University Challenge,
0:00:33 > 0:00:38the show that offers an opportunity to marvel at the gorgeous minds of our young people
0:00:38 > 0:00:43and to ask ourselves, "How on Earth do they know that?" or, "What does that question mean?!"
0:00:43 > 0:00:47Over 130 student quiz teams applied to take part in the competition.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51We've invited 28 of them to delight us over the coming weeks.
0:00:51 > 0:00:57What's in it for them? Nothing at all. No money, not even a new toaster or a soft toy.
0:00:57 > 0:01:04Nothing beyond a plate of chips in the studio canteen and a bit of fun. Let's meet the first two teams.
0:01:04 > 0:01:10The University of Aberdeen was founded in 1495, the third oldest in Scotland
0:01:10 > 0:01:16and fifth oldest in the UK. Its location on the north east coast of Scotland means that wind, rain
0:01:16 > 0:01:21and marauding seagulls are defining characteristics of the student experience,
0:01:21 > 0:01:28along with its impressive architecture, including the Marischal College,
0:01:28 > 0:01:32regarded by many Aberdonians as the crowning glory of the Granite City.
0:01:32 > 0:01:37Alumni include Alistair Darling and Tessa Jowell, and James Naughtie,
0:01:37 > 0:01:40who apparently can be heard on the wireless.
0:01:40 > 0:01:47Tonight's team have an average age of 20 and 13,000 fellow students are cheering them on. Let's meet them.
0:01:47 > 0:01:52Hello. I'm Jonathan Bee. I'm from Aberdeen and studying Geography.
0:01:52 > 0:01:57Hello there. My name is Ananyo Bagchi, I'm from India and I'm a medical student.
0:01:57 > 0:02:02- And their captain... - I'm Ben Conway, from Oxfordshire, studying Philosophy.
0:02:02 > 0:02:07Hello. I'm Benedict Jones-Williams, from Peebles, reading English Literature.
0:02:09 > 0:02:16Queen's University, Belfast, began life in 1845 as a non-denominational college to act as an alternative
0:02:16 > 0:02:23to the Anglican Trinity College, Dublin, and received its Royal Charter under Edward VII in 1908.
0:02:23 > 0:02:30Its architecture is dominated by the work of Charles Lanyon, a leading figure in Northern Ireland,
0:02:30 > 0:02:35and his design for the main building includes a seated statue of Galileo.
0:02:35 > 0:02:40Legend has it that stroking the statue's outstretched foot brings a student luck,
0:02:40 > 0:02:46which is positively sophisticated by comparison with the belief in having a soft toy on your desk.
0:02:46 > 0:02:52Nonetheless, alumni include Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney and David Trimble
0:02:52 > 0:02:58and former President of Ireland Mary McAleese. Let's meet tonight's team with an average age of 26.
0:02:58 > 0:03:03Hi, my name's Suzanne Cobain, I'm from County Down, reading History.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07Hello. I'm Gareth Gamble, from County Armagh, studying Medicine.
0:03:07 > 0:03:13- And their captain...- I'm Joseph Greenwood, from Manchester, studying for a PhD in Irish Theatre.
0:03:13 > 0:03:19Hello, I'm Alexander Green, from Lytham, Lancashire, studying for a PhD in Plasma Physics.
0:03:24 > 0:03:30OK, the rules are the same as ever. 10 points for starter questions, which are solo efforts,
0:03:30 > 0:03:3615 points for bonus questions, which are team efforts, 5-point penalties for incorrect interruptions.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:03:39 > 0:03:45Together with his friend Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is credited
0:03:45 > 0:03:51with introducing to English the Petrarchan pattern of which 14-line...
0:03:51 > 0:03:54- Sonnet.- The sonnet is correct, yes.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00The first set of bonuses are on offices of state.
0:04:00 > 0:04:05Combined with that of Secretary of State for Justice in 2007, which office was held by Thomas Becket,
0:04:05 > 0:04:10Sir Thomas More, Francis Bacon and Judge Jeffreys?
0:04:10 > 0:04:15- Lord Chancellor.- Lord Chancellor. - Correct. Archbishop Warham, Thomas Cromwell and Lord Denning
0:04:15 > 0:04:22are among former holders of which office, originally responsible for the records of the Royal Chancery?
0:04:22 > 0:04:26- Lord Chamberlain? - Yeah, Lord Chamberlain.
0:04:26 > 0:04:31No, Master of the Rolls. From 1812 to the late 1830s, Castlereagh, Canning and Palmerston
0:04:31 > 0:04:36were among the holders of which office of state?
0:04:38 > 0:04:41- Lord Lieutenant?- Nominate Cobain.
0:04:41 > 0:04:47- Lord Lieutenant of Ireland? - No, Foreign Secretary. 10 points for this.
0:04:47 > 0:04:52"Forasmuch as there is great noise in the city...from which many evils may arise, which God forbid,
0:04:52 > 0:04:57"we command and forbid on behalf of the King, on pain of imprisonment,
0:04:57 > 0:05:03"such game to be used in the city in future." Which sport was the subject of that royal...
0:05:03 > 0:05:06- Football. - Football is right, yes.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12Aberdeen, your first bonuses are on motor manufacturers.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16Which company was founded in Milan in 1910 and taken over by Fiat in the 1980s?
0:05:16 > 0:05:22Giuseppe Farina won the first Formula 1 World Championship in 1951 driving for their team.
0:05:31 > 0:05:37- Ferrari.- No, it's Alfa. Which company was established in Tokyo in 1911
0:05:37 > 0:05:43- and took its present name in 1934? Its cars include the Bluebird, launched in 1959.- Honda?
0:05:46 > 0:05:51- Honda?- No, it's Nissan. Which company was formed in 1902 and later became part of General Motors?
0:05:51 > 0:05:59It introduced synchromesh gears in 1928 and in the late 1940s pioneered chrome and tailfins
0:05:59 > 0:06:04that became characteristic of American cars of the period.
0:06:04 > 0:06:09- Chrysler?- No, Cadillac. 10 points for this. What object is being described if an example
0:06:09 > 0:06:17with a mass of 6.7 times 10 to the power 20kgm would have a radius of 1/1,000th of a millimetre?
0:06:20 > 0:06:22An atom.
0:06:22 > 0:06:23No.
0:06:23 > 0:06:30- The Earth? - No, it's a black hole. Very odd idea of the shape of the Earth!
0:06:30 > 0:06:3510 points for this. The theatre critic Martin Esslin coined which four-word...
0:06:36 > 0:06:39- Theatre of the Absurd.- Correct.
0:06:42 > 0:06:46Your bonuses are on orders of insects.
0:06:46 > 0:06:54Sometimes referred to as beetles and with more than 100,000 species, what is the largest order of insects?
0:06:58 > 0:07:01- Colidaptera...?- No, coleoptera.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05What order of insects includes bees and wasps
0:07:05 > 0:07:10and has a name that comes from the Greek for "membrane" and "winged"?
0:07:15 > 0:07:18- Em...apeoptera? - No, they're hymenoptera.
0:07:18 > 0:07:24- And, finally, which order of insects includes butterflies and moths?- Lepidoptera.
0:07:25 > 0:07:32- Em, leptidoptera.- It's lepidoptera. You were thinking along the right lines, but it's not right.
0:07:32 > 0:07:39We'll take a picture round now. You'll see a diagram showing the ingredients of a popular cocktail.
0:07:39 > 0:07:4110 points if you can name it.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46- Martini?- It is a Martini, yes.
0:07:49 > 0:07:55It's often the choice of Roger Sterling, a character in the award-winning TV drama Mad Men.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Coming up, three more cocktails from Mad Men.
0:07:58 > 0:08:055 points for each you can identify as described by the International Bartenders Association.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Firstly, as ordered by Peggy Olson.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10THEY CONFER
0:08:20 > 0:08:26- Come on.- Nominate Jones-Williams. - Harvey Wallbanger. But it's not.
0:08:26 > 0:08:31Quite right - it's not. Brandy Alexander. Secondly, as enjoyed by Betty Draper.
0:08:46 > 0:08:52- Cosmopolitan? - No, that's a Tom Collins. And, finally, associated with Don Draper.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05- Whisky sour? - No, that's an Old-Fashioned.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09What sweet creatures you are. 10 points for this.
0:09:09 > 0:09:14Then in the Spanish Netherlands, which sea port came under English control in 1658
0:09:14 > 0:09:19after the Battle of the Dunes? In 1662, Charles II sold it to France
0:09:19 > 0:09:23and it's now a sub-prefecture of the Nord Department.
0:09:23 > 0:09:28- Calais?- No. Anyone want to buzz from Queen's?
0:09:32 > 0:09:35- Dunkirk?- Dunkirk is correct, yes!
0:09:36 > 0:09:40Your bonuses are on the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.
0:09:40 > 0:09:48The Peasants' Revolt was led by Wat Tyler and which itinerant preacher, who advocated a classless society?
0:09:48 > 0:09:53He was celebrated in a story by William Morris in the 1880s.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Jack Straw was one of them, wasn't he?
0:09:56 > 0:09:59- Jack Straw?- No, it was John Ball.
0:09:59 > 0:10:05John Ball's sermon at Blackheath in 1381 is noted for a rhetorical couplet beginning,
0:10:05 > 0:10:10"When Adam delved and Eve span..." What is the second line?
0:10:11 > 0:10:15- The world began?- No. "..who was then the gentleman?"
0:10:15 > 0:10:19Ball referred to which character, created by William Langland
0:10:19 > 0:10:26in an allegorical poem of the late 14th century, to attack political and ecclesiastical corruption?
0:10:29 > 0:10:33- No, no idea. - Piers Plowman. 10 points for this.
0:10:33 > 0:10:39"Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life." These words of Robert Southey appear in a letter
0:10:39 > 0:10:43of 1837 to which aspiring author, then aged 20...
0:10:43 > 0:10:46- Jane Austen?- No, lose 5 points.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50..then aged 20, who had sent him a selection of her poems?
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Come on, Aberdeen. One of you buzz.
0:10:56 > 0:11:01- Emily Barrett?- Emily Barrett? No, it was Charlotte Bronte. 10 points for this.
0:11:01 > 0:11:07In probability theory, what name is given to the theorem that the mean value of a sequence of trials
0:11:07 > 0:11:12approaches the expected value, as the number of trials increases?
0:11:12 > 0:11:14- Bayes' theorem?- Nope.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17Anyone like to buzz from Queen's?
0:11:18 > 0:11:26- Central theorem?- No, the Law of Large Numbers. The poet Tristan Tzara and the artist Jean Arp
0:11:26 > 0:11:31were two of the founders of which artistic movement, formed in Zurich in 1916,
0:11:31 > 0:11:36with a name thought to have been picked at random from a dictionary?
0:11:36 > 0:11:39- Dadaism?- Dadaism is correct, yes.
0:11:40 > 0:11:45Get these bonuses and take the lead. They're on Sussex towns.
0:11:45 > 0:11:51In an Oscar Wilde play, a character found at Victoria Station was named after which Sussex seaside resort
0:11:51 > 0:11:57by his adoptive father who had a ticket to that town in his pocket at the time?
0:11:57 > 0:11:59THEY CONFER
0:12:02 > 0:12:09- Brighton.- No, it's Jack Worthing. In different spellings, what name links the children
0:12:09 > 0:12:15in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe with the town where William the Conqueror landed in 1066?
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Pevensies.
0:12:17 > 0:12:22- Pevensies.- Pevensies?- Correct. A Medieval cinque port,
0:12:22 > 0:12:29which Sussex town shares its name with the narrator of many Hercule Poirot stories by Agatha Christie?
0:12:29 > 0:12:33- Hastings. - Correct. 10 points for this.
0:12:33 > 0:12:38The High Price of Bullion and Principles of Political Economy and Taxation are works
0:12:38 > 0:12:44by which stock trader, often called the second great classical economist after Adam Smith?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48John Maynard Keynes?
0:12:48 > 0:12:49Nope.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53- Ricardo?- Ricardo is correct, yes.
0:12:56 > 0:13:03Bonuses on British puddings. Which pudding was popularised by a public school tuck shop,
0:13:03 > 0:13:07when it may have contained bananas? Now it is made with strawberries
0:13:07 > 0:13:12and the Wholesome Cook website recommends adding pansies.
0:13:14 > 0:13:19- Eton Mess?- Correct. Described by Nigel Slater as our national tart,
0:13:19 > 0:13:26which pudding's filling has a name deriving from a Greek word meaning "antidote against a venomous bite"?
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Spotted Dick?
0:13:31 > 0:13:36- Panna cotta. - That's our national tart?!
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Panna cotta.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Panna cotta?!
0:13:45 > 0:13:52It's treacle tart. Finally, boiled condensed milk is a major ingredient of which English dessert pie?
0:13:52 > 0:13:58Given a portmanteau name, it first appeared in an East Sussex restaurant in 1972.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Bread and butter pudding.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11- Bread and butter pudding. - No, banoffee pie.
0:14:11 > 0:14:17Right, for your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music based on a classical work.
0:14:17 > 0:14:22For 10 points, I want the Italian composer of the original piece.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24HEAVY ROCK MUSIC
0:14:30 > 0:14:34- Vivaldi.- Nope. You can hear more, Aberdeen.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36MUSIC RESUMES
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Come on.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00The original is by... You don't know. Boccherini.
0:15:00 > 0:15:0510 points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:15:05 > 0:15:12Expressed in centimetres, what is the focal length of a lens with an optical power of five dioptres?
0:15:15 > 0:15:1750.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21Nope. Anyone like to buzz from Queen's?
0:15:21 > 0:15:25- 20 centimetres? - 20 is correct, yes.
0:15:30 > 0:15:36Right. So we go back to the music round. That was Spinal Tap's rendering of Boccherini's Minuet.
0:15:36 > 0:15:42Three other pieces of classical music given a 20th-century pop reimagining.
0:15:42 > 0:15:465 points for each original composer you can identify. Firstly...
0:15:46 > 0:15:48FRANTIC, UPTEMPO MUSIC
0:16:12 > 0:16:17- Er...the work's by Rimsky-Korsakov. - No, it's by Khachaturian.
0:16:17 > 0:16:23That was Love Sculpture's interpretation of Sabre Dance. Secondly...
0:16:23 > 0:16:25DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:41 > 0:16:45- Haydn.- No, the original was by Modest Mussorgsky.
0:16:45 > 0:16:49That was Night On Disco Mountain by David Shire. Finally...
0:16:49 > 0:16:51PIANO MUSIC
0:16:56 > 0:17:01- I think this is Rimsky-Korsakov. - No, it isn't! It's by Tchaikovsky!
0:17:01 > 0:17:07Surely it's unmistakeable! 10 points for this. After a European peninsula that underwent division
0:17:07 > 0:17:14in the late 19th and early 20th century, which term describes the fragmentation of a...
0:17:14 > 0:17:17- Balkanisation?- Correct.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21These bonuses are on ecology.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25What term describes the final stage of ecological succession,
0:17:25 > 0:17:32- when a community of species in an area reaches a stable equilibrium with the environment?- Climax.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36- Climax?- Correct. Give any term that describes an ecological community
0:17:36 > 0:17:44when it fails to develop to full climatic climax due to outside factors, such as human activity.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49It's gone, sorry.
0:17:54 > 0:17:58- Don't know.- Interrupted? - No, it's biotic climax.
0:17:58 > 0:18:05Finally, what term describes a biotic climax community, dominated by dwarf ericaceous shrubs,
0:18:05 > 0:18:11on acidic free-draining soils? An example of such a community is the Breckland in Norfolk.
0:18:11 > 0:18:12Marsh?
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Acerbic? Cos it's acidic.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Why don't you try acerbic?
0:18:19 > 0:18:22It's Latin for acidic. Acerbic.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Come on, let's have it, please.
0:18:27 > 0:18:32- Acerbic?- No, it's heathland. 10 points for this.
0:18:32 > 0:18:38Danica May Camacho, a girl born in Manila in October 2011,
0:18:38 > 0:18:42was chosen by the UN to mark which milestone in terms of...
0:18:42 > 0:18:48- Was it seven billion...?- It was. The Earth's population reaching seven billion people.
0:18:51 > 0:18:57Right, your bonuses are on novels whose titles contain a word from the NATO spelling alphabet.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01For example, A Passage To India. Give the titles.
0:19:01 > 0:19:07A book of short stories by Anais Nin described as "a glittering cascade of sexual encounters",
0:19:07 > 0:19:09published posthumously in 1978?
0:19:11 > 0:19:14Something with Romeo or Juliet...?
0:19:16 > 0:19:17Em...
0:19:17 > 0:19:21- We need the title. - Romeo Is Dying?- No, Delta of Venus.
0:19:21 > 0:19:28Secondly, a novel of 1988 by Peter Carey in which the title characters attempt to transport a glass church
0:19:28 > 0:19:31across New South Wales. It won the Booker Prize in 1988.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35- Oscar and Lucinda.- Correct. An 1889 novel by Mark Twain
0:19:35 > 0:19:42in which a New Englander is sent back in time to early Medieval Britain?
0:19:42 > 0:19:49- It's...A Connecticut Yankee In The Court of King Arthur. - In King Arthur's Court, yes.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52Right, another picture round now.
0:19:52 > 0:19:58For your starter, you'll see a painting of a well-known British bridge. 10 points if you name it.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04- Forth Rail Bridge. - Indeed it is.
0:20:06 > 0:20:12That was painted in 1914. Your bonuses are three more paintings of British bridges.
0:20:12 > 0:20:18In each case, I want the name of the bridge. Firstly, this bridge in a painting from 1831.
0:20:29 > 0:20:33- Nominate Bee. - Menai Suspension Bridge?
0:20:33 > 0:20:37No, the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Secondly...
0:20:46 > 0:20:50- Come on. - The Bridge Over The River Kwai? - LAUGHTER
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Very funny(!)
0:20:55 > 0:20:58That IS the Menai Bridge.
0:20:59 > 0:21:05And, finally, this bridge, depicted in 1928 in a state of construction.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08- It's in Newcastle.- What's it called?
0:21:09 > 0:21:13- The Newcastle Bridge? - Humber?- Tyne?
0:21:13 > 0:21:16Come on, chaps.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20- Tyne Bridge. - It IS the Tyne Bridge, yes!
0:21:20 > 0:21:2310 points for this starter question.
0:21:23 > 0:21:29Meaning "instrument of thought" in Sanskrit, what six-letter term is used in Hinduism and Buddhism
0:21:29 > 0:21:33to describe a word or sound repeated as an aid to concentration...
0:21:33 > 0:21:38- Mantra. - Mantra is right, yes.
0:21:38 > 0:21:43Bonuses are on thermodynamics. Which French engineer gives his name to the heat engine cycle
0:21:43 > 0:21:48that converts heat into work at the maximum efficiency possible?
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Hugoniot?
0:21:52 > 0:21:58- I'll nominate Green.- Hugoniot? - No, it's Carnot. For a closed system at constant pressure
0:21:58 > 0:22:04and temperature, which thermodynamic function of the system is a minimum at equilibrium?
0:22:08 > 0:22:13- Nominate Green.- Pressure?- No, it's Gibbs function, Gibbs energy.
0:22:13 > 0:22:19Indicated by the symbol S, what thermodynamic quantity increases for all spontaneous processes?
0:22:19 > 0:22:26- Entropy.- Entropy.- Correct. 10 points for this. The Spanish term El Clasico denotes...
0:22:27 > 0:22:30- Real Madrid and Barcelona. - Correct.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36These bonuses, if you get them, you'll take the lead.
0:22:36 > 0:22:42They're on literary trilogies. Who is the author of the New York Trilogy, written in the 1980s?
0:22:42 > 0:22:47It comprises the novels City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50Any idea?
0:22:50 > 0:22:53Um...Gore Vidal.
0:22:53 > 0:23:00No, it's Paul Auster. Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street make up the Cairo Trilogy
0:23:00 > 0:23:02by which Egyptian Nobel Laureate?
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Any idea? No.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10They're by Naguib Mahfouz. Which Irish novelist wrote
0:23:10 > 0:23:15The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van - the Barrytown Trilogy?
0:23:15 > 0:23:21- Roddy Doyle.- Correct. 10 points for this. The official residence of the holder of which political office
0:23:21 > 0:23:24is Bute House, located...
0:23:25 > 0:23:29- First Minister for Scotland. - Correct. You retake the lead.
0:23:29 > 0:23:34Your bonuses are on "false friends" in other languages,
0:23:34 > 0:23:38words that resemble English words, but have different meanings.
0:23:38 > 0:23:43What is the meaning of the Italian adjective "caldo"?
0:23:43 > 0:23:50- Yeah.- Hot?- Indeed. What is the meaning of the French noun "librairie"?
0:23:50 > 0:23:53L-I-B-R-A-I-R-I-E.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56- Bookshop? - It's a verb, right?
0:23:56 > 0:23:59No, it's a noun. What's the opposite of a library?
0:23:59 > 0:24:02- A bookshop?- Correct.
0:24:02 > 0:24:07Finally, what is the meaning of the German noun "Gift"? G-I-F-T.
0:24:07 > 0:24:08Fine?
0:24:08 > 0:24:13- Try that.- Fine? - No, it's poison. Five minutes to go.
0:24:13 > 0:24:21By weight, what is the third largest elemental constituent of seawater, after oxygen and hydrogen?
0:24:22 > 0:24:27- Sodium?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Queen's, Belfast?
0:24:28 > 0:24:32- Carbon?- No, it's chlorine. 10 points for this.
0:24:32 > 0:24:38The winner of the 1999 Turner Prize, which British artist made his debut as a film director with Hunger...
0:24:38 > 0:24:41- Steve McQueen.- Correct.
0:24:44 > 0:24:52Your bonuses are on US Presidents. "America is the only idealistic nation in the world."
0:24:52 > 0:24:56Which President said those words in 1919?
0:24:59 > 0:25:03- Woodrow Wilson?- Correct. "The chief business of the American people is business."
0:25:03 > 0:25:08The words of which US President in a speech of 1925?
0:25:09 > 0:25:11- Hoover?- Yeah.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Hoover? Shall we go for Hoover?
0:25:14 > 0:25:19- Hoover?- No, Calvin Coolidge. What did his successor, Herbert Hoover,
0:25:19 > 0:25:25describe as "a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose"?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28- Prohibition?- Correct.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32Gives you the lead. You all now get a starter question.
0:25:32 > 0:25:39Pontus Euxinus is a name given by the ancients to which inland body of water?
0:25:40 > 0:25:42- Black Sea?- The Black Sea is correct.
0:25:44 > 0:25:51Bonuses this time are on nicknames. What two-word nickname was given to the 1st American Volunteer Group,
0:25:51 > 0:25:55an air unit formed in 1941 to support China against Japan?
0:25:57 > 0:26:01- Come on. - Em, nominate Gamble.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04- Panda Brigade? - No, the Flying Tigers.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08The Tiger of Mysore was a byname of which ruler,
0:26:08 > 0:26:12who resisted British dominance of southern India in the 18th century?
0:26:12 > 0:26:16A mechanical tiger built for him is a popular attraction at the V&A.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18- Any idea?- No.
0:26:18 > 0:26:25- No, no idea.- That's Tippu Sultan. Finally, Tiger was a nickname of which French Prime Minister?
0:26:25 > 0:26:28He helped frame the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
0:26:28 > 0:26:35- Clemenceau.- Correct. 10 points for this. In January 2013, the world's highest rating in what activity
0:26:35 > 0:26:39was awarded to the 22-year-old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen?
0:26:40 > 0:26:43- Chess.- Chess is correct.
0:26:43 > 0:26:50Your bonuses are on carbon. How many carbon atoms are there in a molecule of Buckminster Fullerene?
0:26:50 > 0:26:53- 60.- Nominate Gamble.
0:26:53 > 0:26:59- 60.- Correct. What's the hybridisation of the valence orbitals of the carbon atom in methane?
0:27:02 > 0:27:05- Nominate Gamble.- Pi?- No, it's sp3.
0:27:05 > 0:27:11To within one degree, what is the hydrogen-carbon-hydrogen bond angle in methane?
0:27:14 > 0:27:19- Nominate.- 104.5?- No, 109.5. 10 points for this...
0:27:19 > 0:27:20GONG
0:27:29 > 0:27:36Well, it was very level-pegging in much of that contest and could have gone either way
0:27:36 > 0:27:40until the last two or three minutes. Aberdeen, thanks for coming.
0:27:40 > 0:27:47Queen's, Belfast, 140. You'll be back in the next round. We'll look forward to seeing you.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51I hope you can join us next time for another first round match.
0:27:51 > 0:27:58Until then, it's goodbye from Aberdeen University, it's goodbye from Queen's University, Belfast,
0:27:58 > 0:28:00and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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