Episode 10

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0:00:19 > 0:00:22University Challenge.

0:00:23 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:28 > 0:00:34Hello. Both teams playing tonight represent so-called "plate-glass" universities founded in the 1960s.

0:00:34 > 0:00:37There's a place in the second round for the winners.

0:00:37 > 0:00:42There may be a place in the play-offs for the losers too if their score is good enough.

0:00:42 > 0:00:46The idea for a university at York was first mooted in 1617

0:00:46 > 0:00:50and a mere 346 years later, the dream became a reality

0:00:50 > 0:00:55with the opening of buildings in the city centre and at Heslington Hall

0:00:55 > 0:00:57which developed into its main campus.

0:00:57 > 0:01:01It's noted for Europe's largest plastic-bottomed lake,

0:01:01 > 0:01:06a feature so attractive to wildfowl that we expect tonight's team to be well versed on the subject

0:01:06 > 0:01:10of coots, moorhens, mallards and ducks, both tufted and non-tufted.

0:01:10 > 0:01:15Alumni include Greg Dyke, Harriet Harman, Harry Enfield and Anthony Horowitz

0:01:15 > 0:01:18and tonight's four, with an average age of 22,

0:01:18 > 0:01:23are playing on behalf of around 15,000 fellow students. Let's meet them.

0:01:23 > 0:01:26Hi, I'm Greg Carrick from Hull and I'm reading Maths.

0:01:26 > 0:01:28I'm Brian Morley from Liverpool.

0:01:28 > 0:01:31I'm studying History and English Literature.

0:01:31 > 0:01:34- Their captain. - I'm Jeremy Harris from Hampshire

0:01:34 > 0:01:36and I'm studying an MA in Medical History.

0:01:36 > 0:01:40I'm Laura Kemp from Colchester in Essex and I'm studying Chemistry.

0:01:40 > 0:01:42APPLAUSE

0:01:45 > 0:01:49Like their opponents, the University of Bath also came into being

0:01:49 > 0:01:54in the wake of the Robbins Report recommending the expansion of higher education.

0:01:54 > 0:02:00It received its charter in 1966. Its origins lie in the 19th century Bristol Trade School

0:02:00 > 0:02:03which became the Merchant Venturers' Technical College,

0:02:03 > 0:02:07an institution whose alumni include Paul Dirac and Peter Higgs,

0:02:07 > 0:02:10the man who gave his name to the Higgs boson.

0:02:10 > 0:02:15It has its main campus not among the graceful Georgian terraces of the city centre,

0:02:15 > 0:02:20but at Claverton Down, described by tonight's team as "concrete abounding".

0:02:20 > 0:02:24Alumni of the university include the weatherman Bill Giles

0:02:24 > 0:02:30and Heather Stanning who, at the 2012 Olympics, won Britain's first ever gold medal in women's rowing.

0:02:30 > 0:02:34Tonight's team are playing on behalf of 14,000 students

0:02:34 > 0:02:37and have an average age of 19. Let's meet them.

0:02:37 > 0:02:40Hi, I'm Lily Morris from Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire

0:02:40 > 0:02:43and I'm studying Politics with Economics.

0:02:43 > 0:02:45Hi, I'm Callum Woof.

0:02:45 > 0:02:49I'm from Send in Surrey and I'm studying Chemistry.

0:02:49 > 0:02:52- Their captain.- Hi, I'm Simon Love from Blyth in Northumberland

0:02:52 > 0:02:56and I'm studying for a BSc in Mathematical Sciences.

0:02:56 > 0:03:00I'm Jack Davies from Buckinghamshire and I'm studying Maths.

0:03:00 > 0:03:03APPLAUSE

0:03:05 > 0:03:09Usual rules - ten points for starters, 15 for bonuses.

0:03:09 > 0:03:12Starters are solo efforts, bonuses are team efforts.

0:03:12 > 0:03:17There's a five-point penalty for incorrect interruptions to starters.

0:03:17 > 0:03:19Your first starter for ten.

0:03:19 > 0:03:24Adversely affecting fishing, agriculture and weather from Ecuador to Chile,

0:03:24 > 0:03:28what Spanish name denotes the anomalous appearance every few years...

0:03:28 > 0:03:31- El Nino.- El Nino is correct, yes.

0:03:33 > 0:03:37So, the first set of bonuses, York, are for you. They're on names.

0:03:37 > 0:03:44In each case, the surname of the first person described is the given name of the second.

0:03:44 > 0:03:47For example, CS Lewis and Lewis Carroll.

0:03:47 > 0:03:51I want the given name and surname of both the people described.

0:03:51 > 0:03:57Firstly, the author of Northanger Abbey and the Foreign Secretary from 1924 to 1929?

0:03:58 > 0:04:00WHISPERING

0:04:15 > 0:04:18- Jane Austen and Austen Chamberlain. - Correct.

0:04:18 > 0:04:21The third President of the United States

0:04:21 > 0:04:25and the President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to '65?

0:04:29 > 0:04:32- Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson Davis?- Correct.

0:04:32 > 0:04:39And lastly, the author of Daisy Miller and the star of Rear Window and Vertigo?

0:04:39 > 0:04:45- Henry James and James Stewart. - Correct. Well done. Ten points for this starter question.

0:04:45 > 0:04:50What links an ancient order of knighthood revived in 1687,

0:04:50 > 0:04:54the logo of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and, from 1968,

0:04:54 > 0:04:58Christopher Ironside's design for the reverse of the five pence piece?

0:05:01 > 0:05:03Is it a red cross?

0:05:03 > 0:05:05Nope.

0:05:06 > 0:05:09- A thistle.- A thistle is correct, yes.

0:05:11 > 0:05:17Right, York, these bonuses are on vegetables as described by the Italian chef Antonio Carluccio.

0:05:17 > 0:05:21Identify each vegetable from his description.

0:05:21 > 0:05:26Firstly, "originally from Asia, they were probably brought to Europe by the Moors,

0:05:26 > 0:05:31"but Italians worried that they could be toxic or even cause madness"?

0:05:35 > 0:05:38- Artichoke.- No, they're aubergines.

0:05:38 > 0:05:44"Like a delicate, little mini-turnip, purple or pale green in colour and smoother skinned,

0:05:44 > 0:05:48"but it's not a true root vegetable at all, it's actually a cabbage"?

0:05:50 > 0:05:53WHISPERING

0:06:02 > 0:06:04Beetroot?

0:06:04 > 0:06:08A cabbage? No, it's kohlrabi, apparently.

0:06:08 > 0:06:12"The British have eaten it, cooked to mush, in school dinners,

0:06:12 > 0:06:18"its unpleasant aroma filling the corridors, or baked, waterlogged, in a cheese sauce"?

0:06:18 > 0:06:20Cauliflower.

0:06:20 > 0:06:22Exactly. Ten points for this.

0:06:22 > 0:06:27Which ancient city links the first book printed in English by William Caxton,

0:06:27 > 0:06:30a city on the Hudson River just north of Albany

0:06:30 > 0:06:34and a caddish cavalryman in Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd?

0:06:36 > 0:06:39- Utica?- Nope.

0:06:39 > 0:06:42- Troy.- Troy is correct, yes.

0:06:45 > 0:06:49Your bonuses this time are on the physical chemistry of water.

0:06:49 > 0:06:54Firstly, what two-word term denotes the temperature and pressure

0:06:54 > 0:06:59at which vapour, liquid and solid phases of a substance exist in equilibrium?

0:06:59 > 0:07:03Its value for water defines the Kelvin temperature scale.

0:07:03 > 0:07:05- Triple point.- Correct.

0:07:05 > 0:07:09If ice is heated at a pressure below the triple point,

0:07:09 > 0:07:13it turns into water vapour without passing through a liquid phase.

0:07:13 > 0:07:16What is such a phase transition called?

0:07:16 > 0:07:19- Sublimation.- Sublimation?

0:07:19 > 0:07:21- Sublimation.- Correct.

0:07:21 > 0:07:27At what temperature on the centigrade scale does liquid water reach its maximum density?

0:07:28 > 0:07:30I think it's four.

0:07:30 > 0:07:33- Four?- Four is correct, yes. Well done.

0:07:34 > 0:07:37Time for our first picture round.

0:07:37 > 0:07:41For your starter, you will see a map showing an area registered

0:07:41 > 0:07:44under the EU's Protected Food Name Scheme.

0:07:44 > 0:07:48Ten points if you can name the food product manufactured there.

0:07:51 > 0:07:54- Pork pies. Melton Mowbray pork pies. - Correct, yes.

0:07:58 > 0:08:03For your bonuses, you'll see three more places registered under the Protected Food Name Scheme.

0:08:03 > 0:08:08For each, I want the name of the food registered to be produced in that area.

0:08:08 > 0:08:10Firstly, this cheese?

0:08:12 > 0:08:16- Stilton.- Correct. Secondly, the crop grown here?

0:08:17 > 0:08:22- Rhubarb.- It is. It's the Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle. Well done.

0:08:22 > 0:08:25Finally, this fish product?

0:08:30 > 0:08:33- Arbroath Smokies. - It is Arbroath Smokies, yes.

0:08:36 > 0:08:39Plenty of time yet, Bath. Ten points for this.

0:08:39 > 0:08:43In palaeontology, a taxon that, as the result of a mis-identification,

0:08:43 > 0:08:47appears to vanish from the fossil record and then re-appear

0:08:47 > 0:08:50is known informally by the name of which singer

0:08:50 > 0:08:54in reference to the number of impersonators he has spawned?

0:08:57 > 0:08:59- Elvis.- Yes!

0:09:03 > 0:09:06These bonuses are on the Star Trek Universe, York.

0:09:06 > 0:09:11Which invasion threat in Star Trek shares its name with that of a Swedish tennis player

0:09:11 > 0:09:17who won five consecutive Wimbledon singles championships from 1976?

0:09:17 > 0:09:20- Borg.- Borg.- Borg is right, yes.

0:09:20 > 0:09:25The name of which alien race in Star Trek closely resembles a word for "West European"

0:09:25 > 0:09:29in Arabic, Hindi and Thai, derived ultimately from the name

0:09:29 > 0:09:33of a Germanic people whose rulers included Charlemagne?

0:09:33 > 0:09:35WHISPERING

0:09:35 > 0:09:38- Ferengi.- Correct.

0:09:38 > 0:09:41- Are you a real Trekkie? - LAUGHTER

0:09:41 > 0:09:43You are!

0:09:43 > 0:09:50OK, finally, which green-skinned humanoids share their name with the prominent constellation

0:09:50 > 0:09:53whose stars include Rigel and Bellatrix?

0:09:56 > 0:09:59We don't know.

0:09:59 > 0:10:01Oh, astonishing!

0:10:01 > 0:10:04Orions. Right, ten points for this starter question.

0:10:04 > 0:10:10In chemistry, what is the smallest identifiable unit into which a pure substance may be divided

0:10:10 > 0:10:15while keeping the composition and chemical properties of that substance?

0:10:15 > 0:10:17- Molecule.- Correct.

0:10:18 > 0:10:21Right, your bonuses are linked by a name.

0:10:21 > 0:10:25What name links a Roman rhetorician born around 54 BC

0:10:25 > 0:10:31and his son, known as The Younger, a philosopher and tragedian who was a tutor of the Emperor Nero?

0:10:31 > 0:10:33- Pliny.- No, it's Seneca.

0:10:33 > 0:10:38Inhabiting what is now western New York State, the Seneca Indians were the largest

0:10:38 > 0:10:42of the original five nations of which Confederacy?

0:10:43 > 0:10:46- Nominate Davies.- Iroquois. - Correct, yes.

0:10:46 > 0:10:51Held in New York State in 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention launched

0:10:51 > 0:10:55which political movement in the United States?

0:10:56 > 0:10:58The NRA? The NRA?

0:11:00 > 0:11:01Maybe?

0:11:01 > 0:11:03- When was it?- 1848.

0:11:05 > 0:11:08- The NRA. - No, the Women's Suffrage Movement.

0:11:08 > 0:11:12Ten points for this. Which French artist retired at the age of 49

0:11:12 > 0:11:17from the occupation of "douanier" or customs officer to devote himself to painting?

0:11:17 > 0:11:23His works include vividly coloured, exotic scenes such as Tropical Storm With Tiger...

0:11:23 > 0:11:26- Gauguin.- No, you lose five points. ..and Sleeping...

0:11:27 > 0:11:30- Matisse.- No, it's Henri Rousseau. Ten points for this.

0:11:30 > 0:11:35The addition of what final letter transforms words meaning "not on time"

0:11:35 > 0:11:38into "source of natural rubber",

0:11:38 > 0:11:40"large, tail-less primate"...

0:11:40 > 0:11:42- X.- X is correct, yes.

0:11:46 > 0:11:49York, these bonuses are on a parliamentary procedure.

0:11:49 > 0:11:54Firstly, what three-word term denotes a notice of a motion given by a member

0:11:54 > 0:11:57for which no date has been fixed for debate?

0:11:57 > 0:12:01MPs register their support by signing individual motions.

0:12:01 > 0:12:04Day Motion?

0:12:04 > 0:12:09- Early Day Motion?- Correct. It's completely fatuous, but that's what it's called.

0:12:09 > 0:12:14In 2001, whose arrest prompted the MP Jeremy Corbyn to sponsor an EDM calling on the government

0:12:14 > 0:12:18to "waive the 30-year rule and release all the documents

0:12:18 > 0:12:22"on Britain's relations with Chile between 1973 and 1990"?

0:12:25 > 0:12:28- Pinochet?- Correct.

0:12:28 > 0:12:34In 2009, Mohammad Sarwar, the Labour MP for Glasgow Central, put forward an EDM

0:12:34 > 0:12:39for his city to be recognised as the birthplace of which popular dish?

0:12:42 > 0:12:46- Chicken tikka masala.- Indeed. They pay public money for this! Ten points for this.

0:12:46 > 0:12:51Taking Possession Of His Estate, At The Rose Tavern, Going To Court,

0:12:51 > 0:12:56Marrying An Old Woman, At The Gaming House, In Prison and...

0:12:56 > 0:12:58- A Rake's Progress.- Correct.

0:13:02 > 0:13:08These bonuses, York, are on astronomy. According to Kepler's First Law of Planetary Motion,

0:13:08 > 0:13:11the orbits of planets about the sun follow which conic sections?

0:13:15 > 0:13:17- Ellipse.- Correct.

0:13:17 > 0:13:22Kepler's Third Law states that the periods of planets are proportional

0:13:22 > 0:13:25to which power of the major axis of their orbits?

0:13:28 > 0:13:31Try "cubed".

0:13:31 > 0:13:33- Cubed.- No, it's three-over-two.

0:13:33 > 0:13:38Finally, given that the orbital radius of Mars is about four times that of Mercury,

0:13:38 > 0:13:43how much longer is the Martian year than the Mercurian one?

0:13:43 > 0:13:46- I think it's eight.- Eight?

0:13:46 > 0:13:49- Eight.- Eight.- Correct.

0:13:49 > 0:13:54We'll take a music round. For your starter, you'll hear an excerpt from the score of a film.

0:13:54 > 0:13:56You just have to name the composer.

0:13:56 > 0:13:58RHYTHMIC PERCUSSION BEAT

0:14:00 > 0:14:02HOWLING SOUND

0:14:02 > 0:14:07- Ennio Morricone.- Correct. It's from The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

0:14:09 > 0:14:13For your bonuses, you'll hear three more pieces by Ennio Morricone.

0:14:13 > 0:14:16In each case, name the film in which it appeared.

0:14:16 > 0:14:21Firstly for five points, this Academy Award-nominated film from the 1980s?

0:14:22 > 0:14:24DRAMATIC MUSIC

0:14:42 > 0:14:45- Panic?- No, it's The Untouchables.

0:14:45 > 0:14:51Secondly, this film which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, also in the 1980s?

0:14:52 > 0:14:54MELODIC MUSIC

0:14:58 > 0:15:00- Cinema Paradiso?- Yes.

0:15:00 > 0:15:03Finally, this film from the 1960s?

0:15:03 > 0:15:06HAUNTING WHISTLE MUSIC

0:15:09 > 0:15:11A Fistful Of Dollars?

0:15:13 > 0:15:17- A Fistful Of Dollars? - No, it's For A Few Dollars More.

0:15:17 > 0:15:21Bath, there's still plenty of time to get going. Ten points for this.

0:15:21 > 0:15:27Of which fictional character was it written that, "When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death

0:15:27 > 0:15:30"and when he shakes his mane..."

0:15:30 > 0:15:32- Aslan.- Aslan is right, yes.

0:15:34 > 0:15:38Three questions on ballet companies for you, Bath.

0:15:38 > 0:15:42Formerly known as The Imperial Russian Ballet, then as The Kirov,

0:15:42 > 0:15:48which ballet company takes its name from a theatre in Saint Petersburg, its home since the 19th century?

0:15:48 > 0:15:52- Bolshoi.- Bolshoi.- That's in Moscow. The Mariinsky.

0:15:52 > 0:15:58Dating to 1609, which German ballet company became internationally acclaimed under John Cranko,

0:15:58 > 0:16:01its director from 1961 to '73?

0:16:01 > 0:16:04It takes its name from a major city of south-west Germany.

0:16:05 > 0:16:07South-west Germany...

0:16:07 > 0:16:10Cologne?

0:16:10 > 0:16:12- Cologne?- No, the Stuttgart Ballet.

0:16:12 > 0:16:15Finally, which is Britain's oldest dance company,

0:16:15 > 0:16:19named after the Polish dancer who founded it in 1926?

0:16:21 > 0:16:25- I don't know. Rambert? - Sorry?- I don't know.

0:16:26 > 0:16:30- Pass.- It's the Rambert Dance Company. You were nearly there.

0:16:30 > 0:16:35Ten points for this. Listen carefully. Answer as soon as your name is called.

0:16:35 > 0:16:38If an object is held three centimetres

0:16:38 > 0:16:41in front of a concave mirror of focal length two centimetres,

0:16:41 > 0:16:45how far away from the mirror does the image appear to be?

0:16:48 > 0:16:511.5 centimetres?

0:16:51 > 0:16:53Nope. Anyone like to buzz from York?

0:16:55 > 0:16:574.5 centimetres?

0:16:57 > 0:17:01No, it's six centimetres. Right, ten points for this.

0:17:01 > 0:17:07In 1997, who became the world's first woman to be elected to succeed another woman as head of state?

0:17:07 > 0:17:10The female in question easily won a second term in 2004

0:17:10 > 0:17:14as she was the only validly nominated candidate.

0:17:17 > 0:17:21- Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner?- No.

0:17:23 > 0:17:25Yulia Tymoshenko?

0:17:25 > 0:17:28No, it was Mary McAleese. Ten points for this.

0:17:28 > 0:17:33In which country is the province of West Nusa Tenggara?

0:17:33 > 0:17:39It includes the islands of Lombok and Sumbawa and the active volcano Mount Tambora.

0:17:39 > 0:17:41- Indonesia.- Correct.

0:17:44 > 0:17:48Right, these bonuses are on exiled rulers, Bath.

0:17:48 > 0:17:52The ruler of a Middle Eastern country since 1941,

0:17:52 > 0:17:58which pro-western monarch was overthrown in 1979 and died in exile in Egypt the following year?

0:17:58 > 0:18:02It was the Iran Shah, but I can't remember his name.

0:18:06 > 0:18:09- No, pass.- It was the Shah of Iran.

0:18:09 > 0:18:14Overthrown in 1979 after a failed attack on a neighbouring country,

0:18:14 > 0:18:18which former African dictator died in Saudi Arabia in 2003?

0:18:20 > 0:18:23- Idi Amin.- Correct.

0:18:23 > 0:18:28Which former monarch died at Doorn in the Netherlands in 1941, having abdicated in 1918?

0:18:28 > 0:18:31Kaiser Wilhelm II.

0:18:31 > 0:18:34- Kaiser Wilhelm II.- Correct. Ten points for this.

0:18:34 > 0:18:40What precise class of animal may be described as an arthropod with an exoskeleton,

0:18:40 > 0:18:45breathing air through lung hooks and having four pairs of walking legs?

0:18:47 > 0:18:49- Arachnids.- Correct.

0:18:52 > 0:18:55Right, these bonuses, York, are on a scientist.

0:18:55 > 0:19:01Born in 1785, Adam Sedgwick is noted for his achievements in which field of science,

0:19:01 > 0:19:04often in collaboration with Roderick Murchison?

0:19:08 > 0:19:11WHISPERING

0:19:11 > 0:19:13- Physics?- No, it was geology.

0:19:13 > 0:19:18Sedgwick identified which geological period that follows the Silurian?

0:19:18 > 0:19:21It is often known as the Age of Fishes.

0:19:22 > 0:19:24WHISPERING

0:19:33 > 0:19:35- Cambrian?- No, it's the Devonian.

0:19:35 > 0:19:41After a Latin name for Wales, what name did Sedgwick give to the first period of the Palaeozoic Era?

0:19:41 > 0:19:44It began around 540 million years ago.

0:19:45 > 0:19:48- Cambrian. - That was the Cambrian, yes.

0:19:48 > 0:19:51We're going to take another picture round now.

0:19:51 > 0:19:57For your starter, you will see a photograph of a figure who achieved fame in the 1920s.

0:19:57 > 0:20:00For ten points, please give me his name.

0:20:01 > 0:20:05- Charles Lindbergh. - It is Charles Lindbergh, yes.

0:20:06 > 0:20:13So, your picture bonuses are three more aviation pioneers for you to identify.

0:20:13 > 0:20:15Firstly, for five?

0:20:16 > 0:20:18WHISPERING

0:20:22 > 0:20:24We don't know, sorry.

0:20:24 > 0:20:26That's Howard Hughes.

0:20:26 > 0:20:28Secondly, who's this?

0:20:39 > 0:20:42- We don't know. - That's Igor Sikorsky.

0:20:42 > 0:20:45And finally, the family name of these brothers?

0:20:46 > 0:20:48- Montgolfier.- Correct.

0:20:48 > 0:20:51Ten points for this. In Jewish history,

0:20:51 > 0:20:57what name from the Hebrew for "ram's horn" was ascribed to every 50th...

0:20:57 > 0:21:00- Scapegoats. - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:21:00 > 0:21:05..every 50th year, held sacred in commemoration of the deliverance from Egypt?

0:21:09 > 0:21:11No idea? I'll tell you. It's Jubilee.

0:21:11 > 0:21:16Ten points for this. Named after a fictional family in the works of William Faulkner,

0:21:16 > 0:21:20which website was founded by Barbara and David Mikkelson in 1995

0:21:20 > 0:21:25and is devoted to researching and debunking urban legends, rumours and myths?

0:21:25 > 0:21:29- Snopes.- Snopes.com is correct, yes.

0:21:31 > 0:21:35Right, Bath, your bonuses are on Shakespeare's Henry VIII.

0:21:35 > 0:21:39In each case, identify the speaker of the following lines, please.

0:21:39 > 0:21:43Firstly, "Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King,

0:21:43 > 0:21:47"He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies."

0:21:48 > 0:21:51WHISPERING

0:21:51 > 0:21:55- Catherine of Aragon? - No, it's Cardinal Wolsey.

0:21:55 > 0:22:01Who speaks these lines? "Be advised, heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

0:22:01 > 0:22:08"We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at and lose by over-running."

0:22:11 > 0:22:13- Pass.- That's the Duke of Norfolk.

0:22:13 > 0:22:17And finally, "I would not be a Queen for all the world."

0:22:24 > 0:22:28- We'll try Catherine of Aragon again. - Anne Boleyn. Ten points for this.

0:22:28 > 0:22:31Which planet of the solar system has the most rarefied atmosphere

0:22:31 > 0:22:34with a surface pressure equal to 10 to 15 times...

0:22:34 > 0:22:38- Venus? - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:22:38 > 0:22:40..10 to 15 times that of Earth?

0:22:42 > 0:22:44- Mercury.- Mercury is correct.

0:22:45 > 0:22:49You get bonuses, York, on figs this time.

0:22:49 > 0:22:53Ahead of Egypt and Algeria, which Eastern Mediterranean country

0:22:53 > 0:22:56is the world's largest producer of figs?

0:22:59 > 0:23:01WHISPERING

0:23:02 > 0:23:07- Turkey?- Correct. Which word for a "toady" or "flatterer" comes from a Greek word,

0:23:07 > 0:23:12meaning "one who shows the fig"? It originally meant an informer or tale-bearer.

0:23:13 > 0:23:15Sycophant?

0:23:16 > 0:23:23- Sycophant.- Correct. A fig tree near Gaya in northern India is associated with the origins of which religion?

0:23:23 > 0:23:27- Buddhism.- Correct. Four and a half minutes to go. Ten points for this.

0:23:27 > 0:23:32A former East India Company clerk elected to the House of Commons in 1865,

0:23:32 > 0:23:38which philosopher and economist's works include A System Of Logic and The Subjection Of Women...

0:23:38 > 0:23:40- John Stuart Mill.- Correct.

0:23:43 > 0:23:46These bonuses are on mathematics.

0:23:46 > 0:23:51In linear algebra, what is the name of the dimension of the image space of a linear map

0:23:51 > 0:23:56or equivalently, the largest number of linearly independent rows of a matrix?

0:23:58 > 0:24:01I think it's rank maybe.

0:24:01 > 0:24:03Rank.

0:24:03 > 0:24:05- Rank.- The rank is correct.

0:24:05 > 0:24:11What is the rank of the n-by-n matrix, all of whose entries are equal to seven?

0:24:17 > 0:24:20- N.- N?- N.

0:24:20 > 0:24:26- N?- No, it's one. What is the rank of any n-by-n non-singular matrix?

0:24:28 > 0:24:30- Don't know.- We don't know, sorry.

0:24:30 > 0:24:33- That was N. - LAUGHTER

0:24:33 > 0:24:39Ten points for this. Bizkaia, Zuberoa and Lapurdi are among the traditional regions

0:24:39 > 0:24:43that comprise the homeland of which people of Western Europe?

0:24:47 > 0:24:49- Basque?- Correct, yes.

0:24:53 > 0:24:56These bonuses are on statues in Yorkshire, York.

0:24:56 > 0:25:00A statue of which Prime Minister stands outside the railway station

0:25:00 > 0:25:03in Huddersfield, his birthplace in 1916?

0:25:03 > 0:25:06- Harold Wilson.- Correct.

0:25:06 > 0:25:11A statue of which Yorkshire cricketer stands beside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Skipton?

0:25:11 > 0:25:14He was the first bowler to take 300 Test wickets.

0:25:15 > 0:25:18WHISPERING

0:25:18 > 0:25:20- Trueman?- Trueman?

0:25:20 > 0:25:23Come on, let's have it, please.

0:25:23 > 0:25:27- Nominate Morley.- Fred Trueman? - Fred Trueman is correct, yes.

0:25:27 > 0:25:34Killed in the Hawaiian Islands in 1779, the statue of which explorer overlooks the harbour at Whitby?

0:25:34 > 0:25:36- Cook.- Correct. Ten points for this.

0:25:36 > 0:25:41Which two five-letter anagrams mean a tooth used for crushing and grinding

0:25:41 > 0:25:45and a lesson to be learned from a story or experience?

0:25:45 > 0:25:47- Molar.- And?

0:25:47 > 0:25:49- Moral.- Correct.

0:25:51 > 0:25:54Your bonuses are on railways in the 19th century.

0:25:54 > 0:25:58I want the decade in which the following took place.

0:25:58 > 0:26:05Richard Trevithick's steam-hauled locomotive began working at the Penydarren Ironworks in South Wales?

0:26:06 > 0:26:09'40s? 1840s?

0:26:09 > 0:26:15- 1840s?- No, the 1800s. The opening of the Stockton to Darlington railway and the Rainhill Trials

0:26:15 > 0:26:18at which Stephenson's Rocket won first prize?

0:26:19 > 0:26:22- 1830s?- No, it's the 1820s.

0:26:22 > 0:26:28Finally, the opening of the Settle to Carlisle line and the Tay Bridge disaster?

0:26:28 > 0:26:31- '70s.- 1870s.- Correct.

0:26:31 > 0:26:36Ten points for this. Home to its country's oldest institution of higher education,

0:26:36 > 0:26:41which city lies on the Neckar River about 90 kilometres south of Frankfurt?

0:26:41 > 0:26:43- Heidelberg.- Correct.

0:26:45 > 0:26:49Your bonuses are on novels first published in 1913.

0:26:49 > 0:26:55In each case, I want the title and the author of the work in which the following characters appear.

0:26:55 > 0:26:58Firstly, Francois Seurel and Augustin Meaulnes?

0:26:59 > 0:27:02- Pass.- That's Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier.

0:27:02 > 0:27:05Secondly, Paul Morel and Clara Dawes?

0:27:05 > 0:27:09- Pass.- That's Sons And Lovers by DH Lawrence.

0:27:09 > 0:27:13Finally, Aunt Leonie, Uncle Adolphe and Odette De Crecy?

0:27:14 > 0:27:19- Pass.- That's Proust's Swann's Way. Ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.

0:27:19 > 0:27:24In binary, a one followed by five ones represents what number in decimal?

0:27:30 > 0:27:32- 63.- Correct.

0:27:32 > 0:27:38- GONG - And at the gong, Bath University have 70, York University have 270.

0:27:38 > 0:27:43We never got a chance to see what you were made of, Bath.

0:27:43 > 0:27:47Or perhaps we did, I don't know! I hope we didn't.

0:27:47 > 0:27:51York, many congratulations. We look forward to seeing you in round two.

0:27:51 > 0:27:57- Join us next time for another first round match, but until then, it's goodbye from Bath.- Goodbye.

0:27:57 > 0:28:00- It's goodbye from York. - Goodbye.- Goodbye.

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