0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. For the next half-hour, we'll be giving the student mind
0:00:31 > 0:00:36a thorough kneading to prove the taxpayer's money's well spent on higher education.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Tonight's teams are playing for a place in the second round
0:00:39 > 0:00:42or at least a place in the losers' play-offs.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45Pembroke College is the third oldest in Cambridge,
0:00:45 > 0:00:49founded in 1347 by Marie de St Pol, the Countess of Pembroke.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Its original statutes gave preference
0:00:51 > 0:00:55to those born in France who had already studied elsewhere in England,
0:00:55 > 0:00:57and they also required that students
0:00:57 > 0:01:00should keep a close eye on each other's morals and rat on them
0:01:00 > 0:01:03if they visited houses of ill repute or drank to excess.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06No call for anything like that nowadays.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Its current Master is Sir Richard Dearlove,
0:01:09 > 0:01:11the former head of MI6.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Alumni include William Pitt the Younger,
0:01:13 > 0:01:17the poet Ted Hughes, the comedians Peter Cook, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor
0:01:17 > 0:01:20and Joe Thomas of The Inbetweeners fame.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Playing on behalf of around 700 fellow students
0:01:23 > 0:01:26and with an average age of 20, let's meet the Pembroke team.
0:01:26 > 0:01:31Hi. I'm Mark Nelson from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, America.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34I am a graduate student in nuclear engineering.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38Hi. I'm Lizzie Colwill from Woking in Surrey
0:01:38 > 0:01:40and I'm studying Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42And their captain.
0:01:42 > 0:01:43Hi. I'm Harry McNeill-Adams from London.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45I'm reading history.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48Hi. I'm Matthew Anketell from Sevenoaks in Kent.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50I'm reading natural sciences.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52APPLAUSE
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Somerville College, Oxford, was founded in 1879
0:01:59 > 0:02:01by the mathematician Mary Somerville,
0:02:01 > 0:02:03a staunch advocate of women's education and suffrage.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06And for the first 115 years of its existence,
0:02:06 > 0:02:08it was a women-only college,
0:02:08 > 0:02:12during which time it educated the Nobel Prize-winner Dorothy Hodgkin,
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher
0:02:15 > 0:02:17and the novelist AS Byatt.
0:02:17 > 0:02:18It was built in North Oxford,
0:02:18 > 0:02:21safely away from the predatory males in the centre of town.
0:02:21 > 0:02:26And then in 1994, the rot set in with the admission of male students.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Give them an inch, they'll take a mile - just look.
0:02:29 > 0:02:30LAUGHTER
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Hi. I'm Hasneen Karbalai from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36I'm studying medicine.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39Hi. I'm Zach Vermeer from Sydney, Australia,
0:02:39 > 0:02:40and I study law.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41And their captain.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Hi. I'm Michael Davies. I'm from Blackburn in Lancashire.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47I'm studying politics, philosophy and economics.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Hi. I'm Chris Beer. I'm from Blyborough in Lincolnshire
0:02:50 > 0:02:52and I'm studying English literature.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54APPLAUSE
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Let's not waste time reciting the rules.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07"There is nothing wrong with America that can't be cured by what is right with America."
0:03:07 > 0:03:10These are the words of which President
0:03:10 > 0:03:14in his first inaugural address in January 1993?
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Pembroke, McNeill-Adams.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18Bill Clinton. Correct.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Your first bonuses are on Hans Holbein the Younger.
0:03:25 > 0:03:29A portrait by Holbein includes a book bearing a Latin couplet
0:03:29 > 0:03:31that translates as "I am Johannes Holbein,
0:03:31 > 0:03:35"who it is easier to denigrate than to emulate."
0:03:35 > 0:03:39Which humanist scholar is the subject of the portrait?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44THEY CONFER
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Thomas Harkins? Thomas Harkness.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51No, it's Erasmus.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55Secondly, Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve
0:03:55 > 0:03:58were the subjects of which painting of 1533 by Holbein,
0:03:58 > 0:04:02which features still-life objects including a sundial and two globes?
0:04:04 > 0:04:05The Ambassadors. Correct.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08In 1538, Holbein visited Brussels
0:04:08 > 0:04:10and painted the portrait of Christina of Denmark,
0:04:10 > 0:04:14for which monarch who was considering marrying her?
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Henry VIII.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Henry VIII. Correct. 10 points for this.
0:04:19 > 0:04:203, 4 ,5,
0:04:20 > 0:04:225, 12, 13
0:04:22 > 0:04:24and 8, 15, 17 are...
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Pembroke, Anketell.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Pythagorean triples.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Correct.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37Right, Pembroke College, these bonuses are on the poetry of Byron.
0:04:37 > 0:04:44Dedicated to Ianthe, which narrative poem by Byron describes the journeys of a world-weary young man
0:04:44 > 0:04:47"in scorching climes beyond the sea"?
0:04:47 > 0:04:49THEY CONFER
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Don Juan. No, it's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01Secondly, set in the Alps, which dramatic poem by Byron
0:05:01 > 0:05:03features a Faust-like figure,
0:05:03 > 0:05:06who is described as being "half dust, half deity"?
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Um...oh, it could be, actually.
0:05:12 > 0:05:13Prometheus.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15No, it's Manfred.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Published between 1819 and 1824,
0:05:17 > 0:05:19which epic satire in ottava rima
0:05:19 > 0:05:24tells the story of a young man of Seville sent abroad in disgrace after an intrigue?
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Don Juan. It is Don Juan, yes.
0:05:27 > 0:05:2910 points for this. Which two initial letters
0:05:29 > 0:05:33link the constellation between Leo and Libra,
0:05:33 > 0:05:35a hue on the shortwave end of the visible...?
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Somerville, Karbalai.
0:05:37 > 0:05:38VI. Correct.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Your first bonuses, Somerville, are on biochemistry.
0:05:45 > 0:05:52Firstly for 5, what two-word common name is given to organic long-chain aliphatic carboxylic acids?
0:05:52 > 0:05:58They condense with glycerol, forming mono-, di- and tri-acylglycerides.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01Fatty acids? Nominate Karbalai. Fatty acids.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Correct.
0:06:03 > 0:06:09What term describes fatty acids whose hydrocarbon chain contains at least one double or triple bond?
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Unsaturated. Correct.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Found in fish oils, what term denotes polyunsaturated fatty acids
0:06:16 > 0:06:19in which the first double bond is between the third and fourth carbon atom
0:06:19 > 0:06:22from the methyl end of the chain?
0:06:22 > 0:06:23Omega-3. Correct.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25APPLAUSE
0:06:28 > 0:06:3010 points for this starter question.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33Listen carefully. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Add the number of EU member states to the number of EU official languages.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Divide the total by the number of US states.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41What number results?
0:06:41 > 0:06:42Somerville, Davies. One.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Correct.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51These bonuses could give you the lead. They're on an English abbey.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55Which abbey close to the River Severn is described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
0:06:55 > 0:06:59as having "probably the largest and finest Romanesque tower in England"?
0:07:02 > 0:07:03THEY CONFER
0:07:10 > 0:07:13Shrewsbury. No, it's Tewkesbury.
0:07:13 > 0:07:18Tewkesbury Abbey houses a memorial to Victoria Woodhull, who died nearby in 1927.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21An advocate of free love, in 1872,
0:07:21 > 0:07:25she became the first woman to seek election to which high office?
0:07:25 > 0:07:27US President, I think.
0:07:27 > 0:07:28US President. Correct.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Tewkesbury Abbey contains an organ named after which poet?
0:07:31 > 0:07:35He's reputed to have played it at Hampton Court in 1654,
0:07:35 > 0:07:38when Latin Secretary to the Council of State.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40John Milton. Correct.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42We'll take a picture round now.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43For your starter,
0:07:43 > 0:07:46you'll see the crest of a rugby union team
0:07:46 > 0:07:48who play in the Pro12 championship,
0:07:48 > 0:07:50a competition for Celtic and Italian clubs.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52For 10 points, simply name the club.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Any helpful wording has of course been removed.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Pembroke, McNeill-Adams.
0:08:00 > 0:08:01Leinster.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04No. Anyone like to buzz from Somerville?
0:08:08 > 0:08:10No idea? Take a punt.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Somerville, Davies. Edinburgh.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15No, it's Munster.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19So we'll take the picture bonuses shortly. 10 points for this starter question in the meantime.
0:08:19 > 0:08:24"Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgment,
0:08:24 > 0:08:28"and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
0:08:28 > 0:08:31These are the words of which political...?
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Somerville, Vermeer. Edmund Burke.
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Yes.
0:08:38 > 0:08:43So we follow on from the very unrecognisable logo for Munster rugby club
0:08:43 > 0:08:46with three more Pro12 team crests.
0:08:46 > 0:08:485 points for each team you can identify.
0:08:48 > 0:08:53Again, any helpful wording has been removed. Firstly, this one, please.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58It's going to be Welsh if it's a dragon, isn't it?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Cardiff?
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Cardiff Dragons?
0:09:02 > 0:09:06Cardiff Dragons. No, they're the Llanelli Scarlets.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Secondly...
0:09:15 > 0:09:17THEY WHISPER
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Leinster.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25No, they're the Glasgow Warriors. And finally...
0:09:27 > 0:09:28Ulster.
0:09:28 > 0:09:29But what?
0:09:34 > 0:09:38Ulster. Ulster is right. The red hand was a giveaway.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Another starter. Listen carefully. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45A star and crescent symbol appears on the flag of four Mediterranean countries. One is Turkey.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Name two of the others.
0:09:48 > 0:09:49Pembroke, Nelson.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53Algeria and Tunisia. Correct. The other one's Libya.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Your bonuses are on place names.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58An urban centre of prehistoric North America,
0:09:58 > 0:10:03the archaeological site of Cahokia Mounds in Southern Illinois
0:10:03 > 0:10:06is the largest settlement of a culture named after which major river?
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Mississippi.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10Mississippi. Correct.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13Around 100km north of Toulouse,
0:10:13 > 0:10:18Cahors is the capital of a department named after which river, a major tributary of the Garonne?
0:10:22 > 0:10:23Just name a French river!
0:10:23 > 0:10:25The Dordogne. No, it's the Lot.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28The Cahora Bassa Dam in Mozambique
0:10:28 > 0:10:32is, along with the Kariba, a major dam on which river system?
0:10:38 > 0:10:39Zambezi?
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Zambezi. Correct.
0:10:41 > 0:10:4210 points for this.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44From words meaning "do everything",
0:10:44 > 0:10:47what Latin-derived term denotes a person with many...?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Somerville, Vermeer. Factotum.
0:10:49 > 0:10:50Very good.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Somerville College, these bonuses are on mathematics.
0:10:56 > 0:11:01In factorial notation, what integer is represented by 3 followed by an exclamation mark?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Six.
0:11:03 > 0:11:09Correct. What is the largest prime factor of 12 factorial, the product of all positive integers up to 12
0:11:09 > 0:11:12or 479,001,600?
0:11:12 > 0:11:1411?
0:11:14 > 0:11:1511. Correct.
0:11:15 > 0:11:21The Nth primorial number is calculated by multiplying the first N prime numbers together.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23What's the 3rd primorial?
0:11:29 > 0:11:3012. 12.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33No, it's 30. 10 points for this.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35"We hear from America and the Continent
0:11:35 > 0:11:38"all sorts of disagreeable things about England.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41"The unmusical, anti-artistic, unphilosophic country.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43"We quite agree."
0:11:43 > 0:11:45These words appeared in 1914
0:11:45 > 0:11:48in the manifesto issued by which group of artists and writers?
0:11:52 > 0:11:53Pembroke, McNeill-Adams.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55The Modernists.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57No. Somerville, one of you buzz.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59Somerville, Vermeer.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00The Bloomsbury Group.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03No, it was the Vorticists in The Blast, their manifesto.
0:12:03 > 0:12:0410 points for this.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08Which literary figure enlisted in the Light Dragoons in 1793?
0:12:08 > 0:12:10Rescued from this, he planned the formation of...?
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Pembroke, Colwill.
0:12:12 > 0:12:13Sharpe.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19No. You lose 5 points. He planned the formation of a Utopian community in North America,
0:12:19 > 0:12:22together with Robert Southey, and in 1789,
0:12:22 > 0:12:26he and Wordsworth published the Lyrical Ballads.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Somerville, Beer. Coleridge.
0:12:28 > 0:12:29Correct.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34These bonuses, Somerville, are on social sciences.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Regarded as one of the founders of modern social science,
0:12:37 > 0:12:42which French academic was the author in 1895 of Rules Of The Sociological Method?
0:12:42 > 0:12:43Levi-Strauss?
0:12:43 > 0:12:45It could be.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48It could be Durkheim.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50You go with it.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Levi-Strauss. No, it was Emile Durkheim.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56Developed by the Italian sociologists Gaetano Mosca and Vilfredo Pareto,
0:12:56 > 0:12:59which theory holds that the domination
0:12:59 > 0:13:03of social and political systems by powerful minorities is inevitable?
0:13:03 > 0:13:06The Iron Law Of Oligarchy.
0:13:06 > 0:13:07No, it's the Elite Theory.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Sorry! LAUGHTER
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Very nicely confident, though!
0:13:11 > 0:13:17And finally, what term denotes the iron law formulated by the German political scientist
0:13:17 > 0:13:20Robert Michels, by which control of any political organisation
0:13:20 > 0:13:25unavoidably devolves to a small group, due to such factors as the leaders' love of power?
0:13:25 > 0:13:28That's the Iron Law Of Oligarchy. Oligarchy.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Yes, the Iron Law Of Oligarchy is correct!
0:13:30 > 0:13:3310 points for this. In biology, which Greek word
0:13:33 > 0:13:36meaning "virgin birth" is used when an egg grows and develops
0:13:36 > 0:13:40without being fertilised by sperm, a phenomenon which allows...?
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Somerville, Vermeer. Parthenogenic.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Yes, parthenogenesis.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52These bonuses are on the diplomat and politician Harold Nicolson.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56Firstly, for 5 points. "Like a village fiddler after Paganini."
0:13:56 > 0:13:59These words from Nicolson's diary in 1947
0:13:59 > 0:14:03refer to the public speaking abilities of a Prime Minister and his predecessor.
0:14:03 > 0:14:04For 5 points, name both.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07Churchill and Attlee.
0:14:07 > 0:14:12Correct. "For 17 years, he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps."
0:14:12 > 0:14:16These words of Harold Nicolson refer to which figure who died in 1936?
0:14:16 > 0:14:18George V. George V.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22Correct. What event in 1956 did Nicolson describe as
0:14:22 > 0:14:25"a smash and grab raid that was all smash and no grab"?
0:14:25 > 0:14:27The Suez Crisis.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Suez Crisis. Correct.
0:14:29 > 0:14:35Music round. For your music starter, you'll hear the opening bars from the soundtrack of a popular film.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37For 10 points, name the film.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39QUIVERING ELECTRONIC NOTES
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Somerville, Beer. Chariots Of Fire.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Correct.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Chariots Of Fire was included on a list of 45 films
0:14:48 > 0:14:53described by the Vatican's Pontifical Council For Social Communications
0:14:53 > 0:14:56as "important" in 1995,
0:14:56 > 0:14:58to mark the occasion of 100 years of cinema.
0:14:58 > 0:15:03Your bonuses are excerpts from the soundtracks of three more Academy Award-winning films on that list.
0:15:03 > 0:15:055 points for each you can name.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Firstly, this film, released 1993.
0:15:07 > 0:15:11PLAINTIVE STRINGS
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Oh, actually, is it Philadelphia?
0:15:28 > 0:15:31Philadelphia. No, that's Schindler's List.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34Secondly, this film, released in 1959.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37EPIC ORCHESTRAL SWEEP
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Ben-Hur. Ben-Hur.
0:15:42 > 0:15:43Correct.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45And finally, this film, released in 1968.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48DRAMATIC INTRO
0:15:48 > 0:15:522001: A Space Odyssey.
0:15:52 > 0:15:53Correct.
0:15:53 > 0:15:5810 points for this. "Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage."
0:15:58 > 0:16:01Which French thinker made this statement in the 1942 work
0:16:01 > 0:16:03The Myth of Sisyphus?
0:16:03 > 0:16:05Somerville, Vermeer. Camus.
0:16:05 > 0:16:06Albert Camus is correct.
0:16:08 > 0:16:13These bonuses, Somerville College, are on scientists born in 1913.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16In each case, name the person from the description.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Firstly, a British paleoanthropologist
0:16:18 > 0:16:22whose fossil discoveries in East Africa revolutionised views of human evolution.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Her works include Olduvai Gorge: My Search For Early Man.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Mary Leakey. Mary Leakey.
0:16:29 > 0:16:30Correct.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Secondly, a prolific Hungarian mathematician,
0:16:33 > 0:16:36the subject of the 1998 biography The Man Who Loved Only Numbers.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45I think Von Neumann. Could be. Von Neumann.
0:16:45 > 0:16:46No, it's Paul Erdos.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48And finally, a British radio astronomer,
0:16:48 > 0:16:52the first director of the Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire.
0:16:54 > 0:16:55Hubble?
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Hubble. No, that's Sir Bernard Lovell.
0:16:59 > 0:17:0010 points for this.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03The national flag of which Central American country is unusual,
0:17:03 > 0:17:07in that it depicts human beings, in this case, two woodcutters?
0:17:07 > 0:17:10It gained independence from the UK in 1981.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Pembroke, McNeill-Adams. Belize.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Belize is right, yes.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21Your bonuses, Pembroke College, this time are on eye rhymes -
0:17:21 > 0:17:25that is, pairs of words that end in the same letters, but don't rhyme, for example,
0:17:25 > 0:17:27lasagne and champagne.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30In each case, give both words from the definitions.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Firstly, device used by musicians to mark time
0:17:33 > 0:17:37and perfect example of a specific quality or type.
0:17:37 > 0:17:38THEY CONFER
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Epitome and metronome. Correct.
0:17:42 > 0:17:47Secondly, aircraft such as a Tiger Moth or Sopwith Camel
0:17:47 > 0:17:53and infusion of leaves or flowers of plants other than Camellia sinensis.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57Biplane and tisane.
0:17:57 > 0:17:58Yes, correct.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01Moisture exuded through the skin
0:18:01 > 0:18:03and cereal grass of the genus Triticum.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06Sweat and wheat.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Correct. 10 points for this.
0:18:08 > 0:18:09What letter and number
0:18:09 > 0:18:13denote the vitamin which is also the designated food colour E101?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15It imparts a yellow-orange colour...
0:18:15 > 0:18:18Pembroke, Anketell. B12.
0:18:18 > 0:18:23No. You lose 5 points. ..to commercial vitamin supplements.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30BUZZ Too late. It's B2.
0:18:30 > 0:18:3110 points for this.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35Developed in the 1950s and generally indicated by a single six-letter word,
0:18:35 > 0:18:39which is the principal worldwide system of transcribing Chinese characters...?
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Somerville, Davies. Pinyin.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Pinyin is right.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49These bonuses are on industrial chemical processes, Somerville.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52Which process for making sulphuric acid
0:18:52 > 0:18:54involves the oxidation of sulphur dioxide
0:18:54 > 0:18:58to sulphur trioxide over a vanadium pentoxide catalyst?
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Boyle Process. No, it's the Contact Process.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09Born 1838, which Belgian chemist gives his name to a process
0:19:09 > 0:19:14for making sodium carbonate from sodium chloride, calcium carbonate and ammonia?
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Hayburn. No, it's Ernest Solvay.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24What is the name of the process
0:19:24 > 0:19:29used to make ammonia by combining hydrogen and nitrogen over iron catalysts?
0:19:29 > 0:19:32It's Haber-Bosch, isn't it? Yes. Haber-Bosch process. Correct.
0:19:32 > 0:19:3410 points for this.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38Concatenating the first and second person singular forms of the English verb "to be"
0:19:38 > 0:19:42give the infinitive of what Latin verb?
0:19:42 > 0:19:43Pembroke, McNeill-Adams.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Ere.
0:19:45 > 0:19:46No. You lose 5 points.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48Often used as a paradigm.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50Somerville, Karbalai.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Love - amare.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55Amare or amo is correct, yes.
0:19:55 > 0:20:01Your bonuses this time are on published works whose titles begin with the words "The Man Who".
0:20:01 > 0:20:03Which 1888 novella by Rudyard Kipling
0:20:03 > 0:20:07tells of a pair of adventurers who become rulers of a remote part of Afghanistan?
0:20:07 > 0:20:10The Man Who Would Be King.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13Correct. Concerning an anarchist group operating in London,
0:20:13 > 0:20:16the name of which day of the week completes the title
0:20:16 > 0:20:18of GK Chesterton's novel of 1908, The Man Who Was...?
0:20:18 > 0:20:20The Man Who Was Thursday. Correct.
0:20:20 > 0:20:26First published in 1985, which compendium of neurological case studies by Oliver Sacks
0:20:26 > 0:20:28is subtitled "And Other Clinical Tales"?
0:20:28 > 0:20:32The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.
0:20:32 > 0:20:33Correct.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38For your starter, you'll see a painting.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40All you have to do to get 10 points
0:20:40 > 0:20:41is to give me the name of the artist.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Pembroke, Anketell. Constable.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50It is Constable, yes.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55Constable lived from 1776 to 1837.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58For your bonuses, you'll see paintings by three more artists
0:20:58 > 0:21:01who were born in one century and died in another.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03In each case, I want the name of the artist
0:21:03 > 0:21:05and the centuries of their birth and death.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Firstly for 5...
0:21:09 > 0:21:10Gauguin, isn't it?
0:21:10 > 0:21:1219th and 20th?
0:21:12 > 0:21:14Paul Gauguin, 19th and 20th.
0:21:14 > 0:21:15Correct. Secondly...
0:21:18 > 0:21:22That looks like... What's his name? It'll be 15th and 16th.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29The young guy who got kicked out of his town.
0:21:29 > 0:21:30I can't remember his name.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Botticelli, 15th and 16th.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39No. It's Caravaggio, the 16th and 17th centuries.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41And finally...
0:21:44 > 0:21:47OK, that's Hans Holbein, I believe.
0:21:50 > 0:21:5116th and 17th.
0:21:54 > 0:21:55No...
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Van Eyck, 16th and 17th?
0:21:58 > 0:22:00Van Eyck, 16th and 17th.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03No. It is Van Eyck, but it's 14th and 15th. Bad luck.
0:22:03 > 0:22:0510 points for this. Frequently used by researchers
0:22:05 > 0:22:09and known by the abbreviation TNA, which Government department
0:22:09 > 0:22:12has its headquarters at Kew in southwest London?
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Pembroke, Colwill. National Archives.
0:22:16 > 0:22:17Correct.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24Pembroke College, your bonuses are on railway lines in England.
0:22:24 > 0:22:30A line from Exeter to Barnstaple is known by what name, after a novel of 1927 by Henry Williamson?
0:22:34 > 0:22:35Um...
0:22:37 > 0:22:38Devon.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42No! The Tarka Line, after Tarka The Otter.
0:22:42 > 0:22:48The line from Norwich to Sheringham has what designation, after a wading bird found in the nearby wetlands?
0:22:48 > 0:22:50THEY CONFER
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Storks and cranes wade...
0:22:57 > 0:22:58Curlew.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00No, it's the Bittern Line.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03And finally, the line from Grantham to Skegness
0:23:03 > 0:23:06via Boston is known by what name,
0:23:06 > 0:23:07after a traditional song?
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Greensleeves. No, it's the Poacher Line, after the Lincolnshire Poacher.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Five minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:23:18 > 0:23:24In probability theory, what is the covariance between two independent real-valued random variables?
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Somerville, Karbalai. 0.5.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31Anyone like to buzz from Pembroke? Pembroke, Nelson.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Zero. Zero is correct, yes.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Pembroke College, your bonuses are on ores.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41What is the principal metal extracted from the ore galena?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Lead. Lead. Correct.
0:23:43 > 0:23:48Mined since antiquity, which metal is extracted from cassiterite?
0:23:50 > 0:23:51Copper? Could be copper.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54THEY CONFER
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Calcium. No, it's tin.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59What metal is extracted from bauxite?
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Aluminium. Aluminium. Correct.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Four minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:24:03 > 0:24:08Derived from Russian, "gulliver", meaning head and "khorosho", meaning good, are slang words...
0:24:08 > 0:24:11Pembroke, McNeill-Adams. A Clockwork Orange.
0:24:11 > 0:24:12Correct.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Your bonuses are on South America.
0:24:16 > 0:24:21In each case, name the country in which the following major geographical features are located.
0:24:21 > 0:24:22All three countries are larger than the UK.
0:24:22 > 0:24:27First, for 5 points, the Sao Francisco River and the Mato Grosso Plateau.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32THEY CONFER
0:24:32 > 0:24:33Argentina.
0:24:33 > 0:24:34No, it's Brazil.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37The volcanoes Cotopaxi and Chimborazo.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Ecuador. Correct.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41And finally, the Angel Falls and Lake Maracaibo.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Venezuela. Correct.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:24:45 > 0:24:50Which comedy by Shakespeare is the source of the opera by Berlioz, entitled Beatrice And Benedict?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Somerville, Vermeer. Much Ado About Nothing.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55Correct. Your bonuses are on fiction.
0:24:55 > 0:25:01Name the 19th-century novel which inspired each of these later works or sequels by other authors.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03First, Adele by Emma Tennant.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Jane Eyre?
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Is it? She's the ward, is she? I don't know.
0:25:10 > 0:25:11Let's have it, please.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Jane Eyre. Correct.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17Rebecca And Rowena by William Makepeace Thackeray.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Ivanhoe, I suppose.
0:25:20 > 0:25:21Ivanhoe.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Correct. And finally,
0:25:23 > 0:25:26The Independence Of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCullough.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29Pride And Prejudice. Pride And Prejudice. Yes.
0:25:29 > 0:25:3110 points for this. The Visconti and Sforza families
0:25:31 > 0:25:35are primarily associated with which major Italian city?
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Somerville, Beer. Venice.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39No. Pembroke?
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Pembroke, McNeill-Adams.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Milan. Milan is correct.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48Pembroke College, your bonuses are on anagrams in French.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51For example, aimer - A-I-M-E-R -
0:25:51 > 0:25:54and maire - M-A-I-R-E.
0:25:54 > 0:25:58In each case, give both the French words from the English definitions.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Firstly, handsome, fine or beautiful
0:26:00 > 0:26:02and dawn or daybreak.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Beau and ebau.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11No, it's beau and aube.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15Secondly, tapestry and shop specialising in cakes and pastries.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21Tapestry and patisserie.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23Patisserie and tapisserie.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27Finally, dog and populous country in East Asia.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Chien and Chine. Correct.
0:26:30 > 0:26:3210 points for this.
0:26:32 > 0:26:33In astrophysics,
0:26:33 > 0:26:36the abbreviation AGN stands for...?
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Somerville, Beer. Active galactic nucleus. Correct.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42Here's your bonuses on former capital cities, Somerville.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45Which city was the capital of British India
0:26:45 > 0:26:49from 1772 until the establishment of New Delhi in 1911?
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Calcutta. Correct.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53The city of Vlore on the Adriatic
0:26:53 > 0:26:57was briefly the capital of which country when it became independent in 1912?
0:26:57 > 0:26:591912, I don't know. Albania?
0:26:59 > 0:27:01What do you think?
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Albania. Correct.
0:27:03 > 0:27:08Which city was the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 until the early '90s?
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Bonn. Bonn is correct.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Another starter. Deriving its name
0:27:13 > 0:27:14from the Greek word for "being",
0:27:14 > 0:27:16which branch of metaphysics...?
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Somerville, Davies. Ontology.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Correct.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23These bonuses are on broken engagements in the works of Charles Dickens.
0:27:23 > 0:27:28In each case, name the character to whom the following were at one time or another engaged to be married.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30First, for 5 points, Belle.
0:27:34 > 0:27:35Let's have it, please.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39David Copperfield. Ebenezer Scrooge.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Secondly, Rosa Bud.
0:27:45 > 0:27:46Come on!
0:27:46 > 0:27:47GONG
0:27:47 > 0:27:49That's the gong.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Pembroke College, Cambridge, have 145.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Somerville College, Oxford, have 255.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55APPLAUSE
0:27:56 > 0:27:57You were good, Pembroke,
0:27:57 > 0:28:01but not good enough to beat these guys, who seemed to be on fire at various points.
0:28:01 > 0:28:06Somerville College, Oxford, 255. Terrific score. We shall look forward to seeing you in round two.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09I hope you can join us next time for another first round match,
0:28:09 > 0:28:13but until then, it's goodbye from Pembroke College, Cambridge. ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16And it's goodbye from Somerville College, Oxford. ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:16 > 0:28:17And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye!
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