0:00:17 > 0:00:19University Challenge.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:25 > 0:00:31Hello. Wales plays England tonight for a place in the second round. Winners go through automatically.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34The losers may get the chance to play again
0:00:34 > 0:00:39if their score is among the four highest losing scores from these first-round matches.
0:00:39 > 0:00:45Cardiff University traces its origins to the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire
0:00:45 > 0:00:48which opened its doors in 1883.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51It later became part of the federal University of Wales,
0:00:51 > 0:00:55but gained independence in 2005 and now awards degrees in its own right.
0:00:55 > 0:01:00The architect William Douglas Caroe designed many of its impressive buildings,
0:01:00 > 0:01:03modelled on the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Alumni include the actors Sian Phillips and Philip Madoc
0:01:06 > 0:01:10and the power and the glory of the 1980s Labour Party, Neil and Glenys Kinnock.
0:01:10 > 0:01:16With an average age of 29, representing around 31,000 students, let's meet the Cardiff team.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20Hi, my name is Eleri Evans. I'm in my final year studying Maths.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25Hi, I'm Sara Caputo, I'm from Torino, Italy,
0:01:25 > 0:01:27and I'm studying History.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Their captain. I'm Roderick Lawford, originally from Barking in Essex,
0:01:31 > 0:01:35and I'm studying for a Masters in Music, Culture and Politics.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39Noswaith dda. I'm Tom Parry-Jones from St Asaph in North Wales
0:01:39 > 0:01:42and I'm reading Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44APPLAUSE
0:01:47 > 0:01:50The University of Exeter received its royal charter in 1955,
0:01:50 > 0:01:54although its origins lie in 19th century institutions founded
0:01:54 > 0:01:57by educational reformers and philanthropists.
0:01:57 > 0:02:02It is situated in grounds featuring sculptures by Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore
0:02:02 > 0:02:08and the team claim the university has the highest ratio of trees to students of any UK university.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10What wild times they must have(!)
0:02:10 > 0:02:14Alumni include the singer Will Young and the writer JK Rowling.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Its current Chancellor is Floella Benjamin
0:02:17 > 0:02:21after whom the team's specially knitted mascot has been named.
0:02:21 > 0:02:26The team say she offers each graduating student not just a handshake but a hug as well,
0:02:26 > 0:02:29so heaven knows what she'll do to them if they win.
0:02:29 > 0:02:35With an average age of 32 and representing around 18,000 students, let's meet the Exeter team.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Good evening. My name is Tom Nelson, I'm from London
0:02:38 > 0:02:41and I'm studying French, Spanish and Portuguese.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45Hi, I'm Finn Sharpe, I'm also from London and I'm reading English.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Their captain. Hello, I'm John Earle, I'm from Exeter
0:02:48 > 0:02:50and I'm doing a PhD in History.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54Hello, my name is Martin Gentile, originally from Taunton
0:02:54 > 0:02:57and I'm studying for a PhD in Physics.
0:02:57 > 0:02:58APPLAUSE
0:03:01 > 0:03:05The rules are the same as ever - ten points for starters, 15 for bonuses,
0:03:05 > 0:03:10five-point penalties for incorrect interruptions to starter questions.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:12 > 0:03:17"Power expands through the distribution of secrecy" are the words of which author
0:03:17 > 0:03:22whose works include The Constant Gardener and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold?
0:03:22 > 0:03:25John Le Carre. Correct.
0:03:25 > 0:03:30You get the first set of bonuses, Exeter. They're on wedding music.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Popularly known in English as Here Comes The Bride,
0:03:33 > 0:03:38Treulich Gefuhrt is the bridal chorus from which opera by Wagner?
0:03:38 > 0:03:40CONFERRING
0:03:42 > 0:03:45Tristan And Isolde. No, it's Lohengrin.
0:03:45 > 0:03:51Jeremiah Clarke's Trumpet Voluntary is more properly known by what title after the husband of Queen Anne?
0:03:53 > 0:03:55WHISPERING
0:03:58 > 0:04:01King James' March. The Prince Of Denmark's March.
0:04:01 > 0:04:07Mendelssohn's Wedding March In C Major was originally composed as part of the incidental music
0:04:07 > 0:04:10to accompany a performance in 1843 of which play by Shakespeare?
0:04:12 > 0:04:16- A Midsummer Night's Dream? - Yeah.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19A Midsummer Night's Dream. Correct. Ten points for this.
0:04:19 > 0:04:25555 in Thai, ASG in Swedish and MDR in French are equivalents of which...
0:04:26 > 0:04:29LOL. Yes, "laugh out loud".
0:04:29 > 0:04:34Apparently, "five" in Thai is "ha", hence 555. Well done.
0:04:34 > 0:04:39Here are your bonuses. They're on 20th century Prime Ministers.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43Which future Prime Minister entered Parliament in 1890,
0:04:43 > 0:04:46winning a by-election at Caernarvon Boroughs?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Was that Winston Churchill? 1890?
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Asquith? It might be a bit early.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Asquith?
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Asquith? OK, go for it.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01Asquith. No, David Lloyd George.
0:05:01 > 0:05:08In an unopposed by-election in 1908, which future Prime Minister became MP for Bewdley in Worcestershire
0:05:08 > 0:05:12after the sudden death of his father, the previous member?
0:05:12 > 0:05:141908? 1908...
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Pitt the Younger?
0:05:17 > 0:05:19No, 1908.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25We don't know. That was Stanley Baldwin.
0:05:25 > 0:05:31Finally, which future Prime Minister entered Parliament in 1945 as the MP for Ormskirk in Lancashire?
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Which Prime Minister...
0:05:33 > 0:05:37Ted Heath? Or is it too early? No, it's too early.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Let's think. '45...
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Harold Macmillan?
0:05:44 > 0:05:47No, it wasn't Macmillan. Any ideas?
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home...
0:05:53 > 0:05:58Alec Douglas-Home. I don't think he ever darkened the door of Ormskirk. No, it's Harold Wilson.
0:05:58 > 0:06:04Another starter question. "A hideous, wry-necked, blubbering, red-haired boy in a nightgown."
0:06:04 > 0:06:09These words of Charles Dickens refer to the portrayal of Jesus in Christ In The House Of His Parents,
0:06:09 > 0:06:13a work by which founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Hunt. No.
0:06:18 > 0:06:25Dante Gabriel Rossetti. No, it was John Everett Millais. Ten points for this.
0:06:25 > 0:06:30The name of which Greek letter appears at the beginning of words meaning "millenarian",
0:06:30 > 0:06:34"order of mammals that comprises bats", "capital of Moldova"...
0:06:34 > 0:06:36Chiro. "Hand."
0:06:38 > 0:06:40No. I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43..and "pulse from which hummus is made".
0:06:45 > 0:06:50Mu. No, it's chi. Ten points for this.
0:06:50 > 0:06:55"15 orang-utans that look like London Mayor Boris Johnson" is one of the viral features
0:06:55 > 0:06:58of which self-styled "social news organisation",
0:06:58 > 0:07:02created in 2006 by the MIT graduate Jonah Peretti?
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Flickr. No. Anyone want to buzz from Cardiff?
0:07:09 > 0:07:13The Huffington Post? No, it's BuzzFeed. Ten points for this.
0:07:13 > 0:07:18Which sea of the south-eastern Pacific lies between Australia and New Caledonia?
0:07:18 > 0:07:21It was the site of a major air and sea battle in 1942
0:07:21 > 0:07:26and its name reflects the presence of marine animals of the class Anthozoa.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33The Great Coral Sea. The Coral Sea is correct, yes.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37Right, you get a set of bonuses this time, Cardiff,
0:07:37 > 0:07:42on words that have recently been deemed obsolete by the Collins Dictionary
0:07:42 > 0:07:47and are therefore omitted from smaller editions. In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51Firstly, a location from which flight operations take place.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54Familiar to readers of the Biggles books,
0:07:54 > 0:07:58it has been largely superseded by "airfield" or "airport".
0:07:58 > 0:07:59Airstrip?
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Aerodrome?
0:08:01 > 0:08:05- Could be "aerodrome". - Is a velodrome...? No.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07That's cycling.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Aerodrome? Aerodrome. Correct.
0:08:10 > 0:08:14Secondly, a verb meaning "to do or perform more than is required".
0:08:14 > 0:08:18In Roman Catholic doctrine, it means to do more than God commands,
0:08:18 > 0:08:21thereby earning merit for others.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27- "Sur" something? - Yeah, or something "super"...
0:08:31 > 0:08:34We don't know. It's "supererogate".
0:08:34 > 0:08:39Finally, from the French for "carriage with seats", an early form of bus,
0:08:39 > 0:08:42often used for pleasure trips.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Seat is "chaise".
0:08:50 > 0:08:53Sorry, no. That's a charabanc.
0:08:53 > 0:09:00Right, time for a picture round. For your starter, you'll see the flag of an autonomous community of Spain.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Ten points if you can name the region.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08The Basque region?
0:09:08 > 0:09:11No. Anyone like to buzz from Cardiff?
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Galicia?
0:09:15 > 0:09:21No, the Canary Islands. Picture bonuses in a moment or two. Another starter question in the meantime.
0:09:21 > 0:09:25Listen carefully. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:09:25 > 0:09:30In joules, what is the energy stored in an inductor with self-inductance of half a henry
0:09:30 > 0:09:33through which a one amp current is flowing?
0:09:35 > 0:09:37Two.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39No. Anyone want to buzz from Exeter?
0:09:42 > 0:09:45Half? No, it's a quarter.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47Right, another starter question.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50What did the German sociologist Max Weber define in 1919
0:09:50 > 0:09:56as "that entity which upholds the claim of the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force
0:09:56 > 0:09:59"in the enforcement of its order"?
0:09:59 > 0:10:01The state. Correct.
0:10:05 > 0:10:11You get the picture bonuses then, Cardiff. There were dogs on the flag of the Canary Islands that you saw.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15They are, of course, a reference to the islands' Latin name.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19Your bonuses are three more flags featuring animals.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22In each case, simply name the nation or polity to which it belongs
0:10:22 > 0:10:25and the animal that features on the flag.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Firstly, for five, this country and bird?
0:10:31 > 0:10:34Is that Ecuador and a condor?
0:10:34 > 0:10:37And a condor? I think it's a condor.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Ecuador and a condor? Correct, yes.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Secondly, this US state and mammal?
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Alabama? No, sorry, Montana possibly?
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Could be. Montana, Nebraska, somewhere in the north?
0:10:54 > 0:10:58Nebraska and a bison. It is a bison. It's Wyoming though.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Finally, this country and bird?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03That's Papua New Guinea.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05WHISPERING
0:11:08 > 0:11:12Papua New Guinea and... Bird of paradise? Come on, let's have it.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Papua New Guinea and a bird of paradise. Correct.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Right, another starter question.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22The name of which planet of the solar system shares its spelling
0:11:22 > 0:11:27with the third person, present tense singular of an English verb meaning "to spoil"?
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Mars. Mars is correct, yes.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38These bonuses are on solar eclipses in fiction.
0:11:38 > 0:11:44"When I was 15 years old, I spent every penny I then had in the bank to fly across the continent,
0:11:44 > 0:11:48"to Brandon, Manitoba, to witness a total eclipse of the sun."
0:11:48 > 0:11:55These words appear at the start of which novel of 1991, subtitled Tales For An Accelerated Culture?
0:11:55 > 0:11:58It's by, um...
0:11:58 > 0:12:02It's Douglas Coupland, I think. Is it Generation X?
0:12:02 > 0:12:06Generation X. Correct, by Douglas Coupland, yes.
0:12:06 > 0:12:12A solar eclipse is a recurrent image in Eclipse and Shroud, works by which Irish novelist?
0:12:12 > 0:12:15In 2005, he won the Booker Prize for The Sea.
0:12:19 > 0:12:23- Roddy Doyle? - I don't know.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Roddy Doyle. No, John Banville.
0:12:25 > 0:12:31Foreknowledge of a solar eclipse helps Allan Quatermain and his companions in which adventure story
0:12:31 > 0:12:34of 1885 by Henry Rider Haggard?
0:12:34 > 0:12:36King Solomon... King Solomon's Mines.
0:12:36 > 0:12:41King Solomon's Mines. Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:12:41 > 0:12:46Which decade saw the introduction of the Bessemer process of steel production,
0:12:46 > 0:12:49the start of the Taiping Rebellion in China...
0:12:49 > 0:12:551840s. No. You lose five points as well because I hadn't finished reading the question.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57You can get the whole thing, Exeter.
0:12:57 > 0:13:03..the Presidency of Franklin Pierce and the publication of Dickens' A Tale Of Two Cities?
0:13:05 > 0:13:081830s. No, it was the 1850s.
0:13:08 > 0:13:13Ten points for this. What is the name of the mineral form of aluminium oxide...
0:13:14 > 0:13:18Bauxite. No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:13:18 > 0:13:23..It's naturally clear, but with the presence of impurities may be called a ruby or sapphire
0:13:23 > 0:13:26and has a hardness of nine on the Mohs scale.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31Emerald? No, it's corundum. Ten points for this.
0:13:31 > 0:13:38What general category of foodstuffs links the author of Queen Of The Dormitory and Jill's Jolliest Term,
0:13:38 > 0:13:41the synth-pop duo Soft Cell
0:13:41 > 0:13:44and the rabbit leader in Watership Down?
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Cereals?
0:13:49 > 0:13:51No. Anyone like to buzz from Cardiff?
0:13:52 > 0:13:58Fibre? No, it's nuts - Angela Brazil, Marc Almond and Hazel, the rabbit. Ten points for this.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02The isoperimetric problem of determining the greatest area
0:14:02 > 0:14:06enclosed by a closed plane curve of fixed perimeter
0:14:06 > 0:14:09is often named after which legendary figure,
0:14:09 > 0:14:12the first Queen of Carthage?
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Dido. Dido is right, yes.
0:14:17 > 0:14:22That's her problem. These bonuses could put you on level pegging.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25They're on religion and its parodies.
0:14:25 > 0:14:30Firstly for five, Pastafarians are followers of which church?
0:14:30 > 0:14:36The only dogma allowed in this US-based faith is the rejection of dogma.
0:14:36 > 0:14:41Nominate Sharpe. The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
0:14:41 > 0:14:47Known by the initials IPU, the logo of which parody religion fuses the mathematical void symbol
0:14:47 > 0:14:51with the stylised representation of a mythical animal?
0:14:51 > 0:14:54What's the void symbol? Don't know.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59I don't know.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03No? Unicorn.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06No, it's the Invisible Pink Unicorn.
0:15:06 > 0:15:11The Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Invisible Pink Unicorn are regarded
0:15:11 > 0:15:15as descendants of the analogy attributed to which British philosopher
0:15:15 > 0:15:21in which a china teapot is claimed to be orbiting the Sun between Mars and Earth? Russell.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Yes? Bertrand Russell. Correct.
0:15:23 > 0:15:30We're now going to take a music round. For your starter, you will hear a song from a musical.
0:15:30 > 0:15:3410 points if you name the musical, its composer and its librettist.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37# Oh, what a beautiful morn... #
0:15:37 > 0:15:41Er, it's Oklahoma! by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44Correct, yes.
0:15:46 > 0:15:52For your bonuses, three more well-known songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals.
0:15:52 > 0:15:57In each case, I want the location in which the musical is set.
0:15:57 > 0:16:02# Shall we dance
0:16:03 > 0:16:07# On a bright cloud of music shall we fly
0:16:08 > 0:16:10# Shall we dance
0:16:11 > 0:16:15# Shall we then say goodnight and mean goodbye... #
0:16:16 > 0:16:22Siam. Siam, as in The King And I. Or Thailand. Secondly, this US state.
0:16:23 > 0:16:27# Walk on, walk on
0:16:27 > 0:16:32# With hope in your heart
0:16:32 > 0:16:37# And you'll never walk
0:16:37 > 0:16:41# Alone
0:16:44 > 0:16:50# You'll never
0:16:50 > 0:16:53# Walk... #
0:16:55 > 0:17:00Sorry, no. It's in Maine. It's You'll Never Walk Alone from Carousel.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04Finally, this eponymous general location.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06# There is nothing like a dame
0:17:06 > 0:17:10# Nothing in the world
0:17:10 > 0:17:13# There is nothing you can name
0:17:13 > 0:17:16# That is anything like a dame... #
0:17:19 > 0:17:22Over there? No, it's from South Pacific.
0:17:22 > 0:17:29More than 2,000km long, which river rises in the Lesotho Highlands and flows through...
0:17:29 > 0:17:31The Nile?
0:17:31 > 0:17:36No, I'm afraid you lose five points. ..flows through the southern Kalahari region
0:17:36 > 0:17:40before joining the Atlantic at Alexander Bay?
0:17:43 > 0:17:45The Congo?
0:17:45 > 0:17:48No, it's the Orange River.
0:17:48 > 0:17:54Ahead of Ontario and Vermont, which Canadian province is the world's largest producer of maple syrup,
0:17:54 > 0:17:58with around 70% of the world's total?
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Quebec? Correct.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08Right, these bonuses are on botany, Exeter.
0:18:08 > 0:18:16What's the name for the structure that develops from the pericarp after fertilisation of the ovary?
0:18:16 > 0:18:17Fruit?
0:18:20 > 0:18:25Fruit. What term denotes an indehiscent fruit with a fleshy pericarp
0:18:25 > 0:18:32and numerous seeds which are not surrounded by a stony layer? Tomatoes and grapes are examples.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37That's like a berry, isn't it?
0:18:39 > 0:18:46A berry. Correct. What term denotes dry indehiscent fruits usually shed as a one-seeded unit?
0:18:46 > 0:18:50The pericarp is typically hard and lignified.
0:18:50 > 0:18:57A nut. Correct. 10 points for this. What shape are the faces of a regular dodecahedron?
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Er, 12-sided?
0:19:01 > 0:19:04Anyone like to buzz from Cardiff?
0:19:04 > 0:19:08Triangle? No, they're pentagonal. 10 points for this.
0:19:08 > 0:19:14At Eden Gardens in Kolkata in December, 2012, who became the youngest man in cricket history
0:19:14 > 0:19:16to reach 7,000 Test...
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Alastair Cook. Correct.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22These bonuses are on irrigation projects.
0:19:22 > 0:19:28Begun in 1949, an irrigation project near Canberra in New South Wales
0:19:28 > 0:19:33diverts water through which mountain range into the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers?
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Blue Mountains? The Snowy Mountains.
0:19:39 > 0:19:44Designed to pump water from the Nubian sandstone aquifer system to cities on the northern coast,
0:19:44 > 0:19:51the Great Man-Made River Project started in 1984 in which African country?
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Sudan?
0:19:56 > 0:19:59What river is there?
0:20:01 > 0:20:08Sudan? Sudan. No, it's Libya. Formerly the world's fourth-largest body of inland water,
0:20:08 > 0:20:15which saltwater lake has shrunk drastically since the 1960s due to Soviet irrigation projects?
0:20:15 > 0:20:19The Aral Sea. Correct. We'll take a second picture round now.
0:20:19 > 0:20:25You'll see a photograph of a politician. For 10 points, you just have to give me her name.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32Indira Gandhi. It is Indira Gandhi, yes.
0:20:34 > 0:20:40She was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize from 1983 to '84.
0:20:40 > 0:20:46For your bonuses, three more people given Soviet Union awards for "strengthening peace among peoples".
0:20:46 > 0:20:51Five points for each you can name. Firstly, this singer.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Harry Belafonte?
0:20:53 > 0:20:59- It's not Nat King Cole... - Harry Belafonte?
0:20:59 > 0:21:03Harry Belafonte. No, Paul Robeson. Secondly, this scientist.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18No, we don't know. That's Dorothy Hodgkin. And, finally, this artist.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Picasso?
0:21:24 > 0:21:28Pablo Picasso. It is Picasso. 10 points for this.
0:21:28 > 0:21:33Completed in 1910, Treemonisha is an opera by which African-American composer,
0:21:33 > 0:21:39better known for piano compositions such as Pineapple Rag and The Maple Leaf Rag?
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Scott Joplin. Correct.
0:21:44 > 0:21:50Your bonuses are on words that appear in the short English names of EU member states,
0:21:50 > 0:21:54for example, "spa" and "pain" in Spain. In each case,
0:21:54 > 0:22:00listen to the definitions and give the country in whose name the defined words appear.
0:22:00 > 0:22:08A quality that, according to Shakespeare, is not time's fool, and small kiln or furnace.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Small kiln or furnace...
0:22:18 > 0:22:23Sorry, we don't know. It's Slovenia. Love and oven.
0:22:23 > 0:22:29Secondly, hot displeasure or rage and large African antelope of the genus Taurotragus.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Ire and something.
0:22:31 > 0:22:36- Is there...Reland? - Ireland?
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Ireland?
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Yeah. Ireland and ire?
0:22:41 > 0:22:46All I need is the country - Ireland. And your reasoning was correct, too.
0:22:46 > 0:22:52Island in the Irish Sea and sultanate bordering Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the UAE.
0:22:52 > 0:22:57- Oman? - That's not in Europe.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59No, it's the sultanate.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07What island in the Irish Sea?
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Let's have it, please.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Germany.
0:23:15 > 0:23:21No, it's Romania with Man and Oman. 10 points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:23:21 > 0:23:27Ahead of Italy, which eastern Mediterranean country is the world's largest grower of hazelnuts,
0:23:27 > 0:23:29with more than 70% of production?
0:23:29 > 0:23:32Croatia. No.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34One of you buzz from Cardiff.
0:23:36 > 0:23:42Cyprus? No, it's Turkey. 10 points for this. The basilar membrane, tectorial membrane
0:23:42 > 0:23:48and Reissner's membrane are all found in which vertebrate sensory organ?
0:23:50 > 0:23:54The brain? Anyone like to buzz from Cardiff?
0:23:54 > 0:23:59The ear? The ear is correct, yes!
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Bonuses this time on mathematics.
0:24:04 > 0:24:08Defined as the ratio between the length of an arc and its radius,
0:24:08 > 0:24:13what is the standard unit of angular measurement?
0:24:13 > 0:24:17Radian. Correct. How many radians are there in a right angle?
0:24:19 > 0:24:25Pi over two. Correct. Which unit of angular measurement is thought to derive from the total number of days
0:24:25 > 0:24:32in a Babylonian year, one unit corresponding to approximately 0.017 radians?
0:24:32 > 0:24:35- Degree? - I don't know.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39A degree. Correct. 10 points for this. Born in Geneva
0:24:39 > 0:24:45in 1857, Ferdinand de Saussure is often described as the modern founder of which...
0:24:45 > 0:24:47Semiotics?
0:24:47 > 0:24:51No, you lose five points. ..of which field of study?
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Linguistics? Correct.
0:24:54 > 0:25:01These bonuses, Exeter, are on English towns whose names contain only four letters.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Name the town from the description.
0:25:03 > 0:25:09A fishing port in south-east Cornwall, divided by a river of the same name.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13Until 1832, these two rotten boroughs returned four members to Parliament.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Looe. Correct.
0:25:15 > 0:25:22A town near Hertford that gives its name to a great bed now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26Ware. Correct. A large town on the River Irwell, eight miles north of Manchester,
0:25:26 > 0:25:31it was birthplace of Sir Robert Peel in 1788.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41We don't know. It's Bury. 10 points for this.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45In mathematics, what four-letter word denotes the hyperbolic function
0:25:45 > 0:25:49given by the formula E to the Z plus E to the minus Z...
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Cosh. Correct.
0:25:53 > 0:25:58Your bonuses this time are on a novel by Virginia Woolf.
0:25:58 > 0:26:04Before its publication, which of her novels was provisionally entitled The Hours?
0:26:04 > 0:26:09- I don't know. - I think it's Mrs Dalloway.
0:26:09 > 0:26:15Mrs Dalloway. "He looked so ordinary, you might have stood him behind a counter
0:26:15 > 0:26:21"and bought biscuits." These words describe which of Mrs Dalloway's dinner guests, known by his office?
0:26:21 > 0:26:26- I can't remember his name. - Known by his office.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29He was...
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Come on, let's have it, please.
0:26:31 > 0:26:38Solicitor? The Prime Minister. What is the given name of the novel's eponymous heroine?
0:26:38 > 0:26:39Em...
0:26:41 > 0:26:45Laura...possibly. Let's have it, please.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47Laura. Clarissa. 10 points for this.
0:26:47 > 0:26:52What common four-letter word appears at the end of the names of rivers
0:26:52 > 0:26:56that flow through Banbury, Ipswich and Manchester?
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Ouse. No. Anyone want to buzz from Cardiff?
0:26:59 > 0:27:05Well? Correct. Cherwell, Orwell and Irwell.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09These bonuses are on the 15th century.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13In 1412, which Tuscan family became the official bankers to the Papacy?
0:27:13 > 0:27:16- Oh, the Medicis...? - Medici.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20Medicis. Correct. In March, 1413, the King of England died
0:27:20 > 0:27:26and his son succeeded him. For five points, name both monarchs.
0:27:26 > 0:27:281413...
0:27:28 > 0:27:33- He was later... - Was it Richard?
0:27:33 > 0:27:37Edward the Third and Richard the Second.
0:27:37 > 0:27:42No! Sorry. Henry the Fourth and Fifth. Henry the Fourth and Fifth. Correct!
0:27:42 > 0:27:45In 1414, a council was called... GONG
0:27:55 > 0:28:00You never really hit your stride. Bad luck. We have to say goodbye.
0:28:00 > 0:28:05Cardiff, 145. It's not a very high score, but it's good enough.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08We'll see you in Round Two. Congratulations.
0:28:08 > 0:28:16I hope you can join us next time. Until then, goodbye from Exeter University, goodbye from Cardiff,
0:28:16 > 0:28:19and goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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