0:00:15 > 0:00:17APPLAUSE
0:00:18 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. Tonight sees the last of the first-round matches.
0:00:30 > 0:00:3413 teams are already guaranteed a place in Round Two,
0:00:34 > 0:00:36and whichever team wins tonight will join them.
0:00:36 > 0:00:41The four losers from this round with the highest scores will come back in play-offs,
0:00:41 > 0:00:46and so both teams will want to know that in order to do that the score to beat is 150.
0:00:46 > 0:00:51Tonight's fixture is between two institutions who already regard each other as fierce rivals,
0:00:51 > 0:00:53so there's plenty at stake over the next half-hour.
0:00:53 > 0:00:58The University of Aberystwyth was founded thanks to the energies of Sir Hugh Owen,
0:00:58 > 0:01:01a non-conformist pioneer of education in Wales,
0:01:01 > 0:01:05who raised sufficient money for a college for 26 students and 3 teachers
0:01:05 > 0:01:08to open in a hotel on the seafront in 1872.
0:01:08 > 0:01:13In the 1960s the university relocated to its new Penglais campus
0:01:13 > 0:01:16overlooking both the town and the sea,
0:01:16 > 0:01:20and in 2007 it achieved independence from the Federal University of Wales,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22and began awarding degrees in its own right.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Tonight's team, with an average age of 30,
0:01:26 > 0:01:29are playing on behalf of around 15,000 students.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Let's meet them.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33I'm Simon Thomas from Warminster in Wiltshire.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36I'm working towards a Masters in Strategic Studies.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Hi. I'm Matthew Campbell. I'm from Inverary in Aberdeenshire,
0:01:39 > 0:01:41and I'm also studying Strategy.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43And their Captain.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45I'm Ned Bishop-Harper. I'm from Canterbury,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and I'm studying for a Masters in Managing the Environment.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Hi. I'm Daniel Guy from Epping in Essex,
0:01:50 > 0:01:53and I'm studying for a PhD in Biology.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55APPLAUSE
0:01:58 > 0:02:03The University of Bangor has a location and history not dissimilar to Aberystwyth's.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Located between the Menai Straits and Snowdonia,
0:02:06 > 0:02:10it began life in 1884, again funded by public subscription
0:02:10 > 0:02:14in order to provide higher education for the population of North Wales,
0:02:14 > 0:02:19the local quarrymen being amongst its most loyal and generous supporters.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22Its first teaching took place in an old coaching inn.
0:02:22 > 0:02:27Since then, student numbers have swollen to around 16,500
0:02:27 > 0:02:34who in the past have included the presiding genius of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony Danny Boyle,
0:02:34 > 0:02:37the poet RS Thomas and the fictional Bridget Jones.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40Tonight's team have an average age of 23.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Let's meet them.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Hi. I'm Owain Jones from Abertawe, Swansea,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48and I'm studying for a PhD in History.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Hello. I'm Daisy Le Helloco. I'm from Dorchester in Dorset,
0:02:51 > 0:02:53and I'm studying for a PhD in English literature.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56And their Captain. Hi. I'm Catriona Coutts.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59I'm from Anglesey, and I'm reading English Literature with Creative Writing.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Hello. I'm Anna Johnson from Chippenham in Wiltshire,
0:03:02 > 0:03:06and I'm currently studying towards an M degree in Marine Biology.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08APPLAUSE
0:03:12 > 0:03:15OK, the rules are the same as ever. 10 points for Starters,
0:03:15 > 0:03:1915 for bonuses, 5-point fines for incorrect interruptions to Starter questions.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21So here's your first Starter for Ten.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24William Dargie in 1954,
0:03:24 > 0:03:28Bernard Safran in 1959 for the cover of Time magazine,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Lucian Freud during 2000 and 2001 -
0:03:32 > 0:03:33Bangor, Le Helloco.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Portraits of the Queen.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Correct.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43So, the first set of bonuses are on the United Nations.
0:03:43 > 0:03:49Which country became the 193rd member of the UN in July 2011
0:03:49 > 0:03:54after seceding from an existing member state following a referendum in January of that year?
0:03:54 > 0:03:56THEY CONFER
0:03:56 > 0:03:58South Sudan?
0:03:58 > 0:04:00South Sudan. Correct.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Secondly, apart from the states in the former Yugoslavia,
0:04:02 > 0:04:07what's the only European country to have joined the UN since the year 2000?
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Any ideas?
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Belarus.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Yeah, because that's not Yugoslav, is it?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18OK.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Belarus.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22No, it's Switzerland.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Which former Portuguese colony joined the UN in the same year as Switzerland,
0:04:25 > 0:04:29having won independence from another member state after decades of occupation?
0:04:33 > 0:04:35THEY CONFER
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Angola? It's a former Portuguese colony? Yeah.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41Then it's got to have been under occupation by someone.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Unless it's Mozambique.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49I'd go Angola. Angola, you think?
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Angola. No, it's East Timor.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Ten points at stake for this. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:04:54 > 0:04:59Coined in 1949 by the US anthropologist George P Murdock,
0:04:59 > 0:05:04what two-word term refers to a social unit often contrasted with an extended family -
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Bangor, Le Helloco. Nuclear family.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Correct.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10APPLAUSE
0:05:11 > 0:05:15Right, Bangor, these questions are on a playwright.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17The son of a Canterbury shoemaker,
0:05:17 > 0:05:20which playwright was born in the same year as William Shakespeare?
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Marlowe? Yeah.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Marlowe. Correct.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27Shakespeare's Richard III alludes to which play by Marlowe?
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Richard states that he could set the murderous Machiavel to school,
0:05:31 > 0:05:36and thus places himself in line with Barabas, the play's main character?
0:05:36 > 0:05:39The Jew of Malta, isn't it? Yes.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41The Jew of Malta. Correct.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Which of Marlowe's plays is based on the life of Timur,
0:05:44 > 0:05:47the 14th Century conqueror of central Asia and India?
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Tamburlaine. Tamburlaine the Great is correct.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Ten points for this.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Which organ burns a quarter of the glucose of the human body,
0:05:56 > 0:05:58and uses a fifth of all -
0:05:58 > 0:06:01Bangor, Johnson. The brain.
0:06:01 > 0:06:02Well done.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04APPLAUSE
0:06:05 > 0:06:08These bonuses are on chemical bonds, Bangor.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12What type of chemical bond is produced when two atoms share a pair of electrons?
0:06:12 > 0:06:16It's represented by a single line drawn between the two atoms.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Covalent. It's covalent.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Covalent. Correct.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22What type of bond is produced when atoms of one element
0:06:22 > 0:06:25donate electrons to atoms of another,
0:06:25 > 0:06:27forming positively and negatively charged ions?
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Ionic? Ionic, yeah.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Ionic. Correct.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36In a metallic bond, positive ions are surrounded by valance electrons
0:06:36 > 0:06:38which can move freely within the crystal.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40What name is given to these electrons?
0:06:41 > 0:06:44They're just free. Free electrons I believe, yes.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48Free electrons. No, they're delocalised electrons.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Ten points for this. Quote -
0:06:50 > 0:06:54"We had a bad banking situation. Some of our bankers have shown themselves
0:06:54 > 0:06:58either incompetent or dishonest in their handling of the people's funds.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02They've used the money entrusted to them in speculation and unwise loans."
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Which US President addressed the -
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Aberystwyth, Campbell.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Herbie Hoover.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11No. You lose five points. Addressed the nation with those words.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16You may not confer.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18Bangor, Coutts. Calvin Coolidge.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20No, it was Franklin D Roosevelt. Ten points for this.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24Often described as the first British feminist theorist,
0:07:24 > 0:07:26who examined women's subordination in society
0:07:26 > 0:07:30in her 1792 work A Vindication of the Rights of -
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Aberystwyth, Bishop-Harper.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Mary Wollstonecraft. Correct.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36APPLAUSE
0:07:37 > 0:07:41Right, Aberystwyth, your first set of bonuses are on a tree.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44Known binomially as Fraxinus excelsior,
0:07:44 > 0:07:48which common British tree is threatened by a disease called Dieback,
0:07:48 > 0:07:50caused by the chalara fungus?
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Ash? Ash. Ash.
0:07:54 > 0:07:59Ash is correct. Ash trees are reckoned to account for around 30 per cent of Britain's wooded landscape
0:07:59 > 0:08:03with an estimated number of trees most closely approximating
0:08:03 > 0:08:07the human population of which major EU Member State?
0:08:09 > 0:08:11France.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15France? No, it's Germany. It's about 80 million.
0:08:15 > 0:08:21From the 1970s, stocks of which common tree were devastated by a fungus spread by beetles?
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Elm. Correct.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26A picture round. For your picture starter,
0:08:26 > 0:08:29you will see a jersey worn by a leading cyclist on the Tour de France.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33Ten points if you can name the classification it represents.
0:08:36 > 0:08:37Aberystwyth, Campbell.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Leader of Sprints?
0:08:39 > 0:08:41No. Anyone like to buzz from Bangor?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Bangor, Coutts.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45King of the Mountain. It is King of the Mountains, yes.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47APPLAUSE
0:08:49 > 0:08:52So, your bonuses are three more Tour de France jerseys,
0:08:52 > 0:08:55each worn by the leader of a classification in the race.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58For each jersey, name the classification it represents.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Firstly...
0:09:00 > 0:09:02I think it might be the person who comes last.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05Last or second.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10I think it's to do with like the last...
0:09:11 > 0:09:15Just say last, or...? Just say it.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18The last placed rider. No, it's points.
0:09:18 > 0:09:23I would have accepted sprinter, but points are given for high finishes at this stage.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24Secondly...
0:09:24 > 0:09:27It's not sprint.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30That's the King of the Mountain.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36THEY CONTINUE TO CONFER
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Let's have it, please.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42Try time trial. Time trial. No, it's young rider.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Someone under 26. And finally...
0:09:45 > 0:09:47That's just the leader.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50The leader of the race. Yeah, general classification.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Ten points for this.
0:09:52 > 0:09:57The steeple of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Suurhusen,
0:09:57 > 0:10:00and the spire of the Oberkirche in Bad Frankenhausen
0:10:00 > 0:10:06both in Germany, share what form of aberration with the campanile of Santa Maria Assunta in Pisa?
0:10:07 > 0:10:08Bangor, Jones.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10They lean. They lean is correct, yes.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Bangor, these bonuses are on names.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19In each case, the surname of the first person described is the given name of the second,
0:10:19 > 0:10:22for example, Terry Christian, and Christian Bale.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26I want the given name and the surname of both the people described.
0:10:26 > 0:10:30Firstly, for five. The author of Heart of Darkness
0:10:30 > 0:10:34and the former owner of the Daily Telegraph, jailed for fraud in 2007.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Joseph Conrad, Conrad Black.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Joseph Conrad, and Conrad Black.
0:10:38 > 0:10:39Correct.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43The jazz pianist and singer, whose hits include the Christmas Song, and Unforgettable,
0:10:43 > 0:10:47and the composer of the musicals Anything Goes and Kiss Me Kate.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Nat King Cole and Cole Porter.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Nat King Cole and Cole Porter. Correct.
0:10:51 > 0:10:56And finally, the author of Marriage and Morals, and Why I Am Not A Christian,
0:10:56 > 0:11:00and the star of Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Russell Crowe...
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Bertrand Russell, isn't it?
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Bertrand Russell and Russell Crowe. Correct.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Ten points for this. Plenty of time to get going, Aberystwyth.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17Arguing for the superiority of the philosophical life over the political life,
0:11:17 > 0:11:22which ancient treatise on moral philosophy discusses the close relationship
0:11:22 > 0:11:24between ethical enquiry into politics,
0:11:24 > 0:11:27and derives the first part of its two-word title
0:11:27 > 0:11:30from the son of its author Aristotle?
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Aberystwyth, Guy. Nicomachean ethics.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38That's correct, yes.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Your bonuses are on words of Indian origin, Aberystwyth.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47What word for cotton cloth, often plain white or unbleached,
0:11:47 > 0:11:50is taken from the name of the port in southern India
0:11:50 > 0:11:53where Vasco da Gama landed in 1498?
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Calico?
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Calico. Calico is correct.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02What word for a large silk or cotton handkerchief with white spots
0:12:02 > 0:12:07derives probably via Portuguese from a Hindi term for a mode of tying and dyeing?
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Nominate Thomas.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Polka dot. No, it's bandanna.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20What word for strong, coarse cotton or overalls
0:12:20 > 0:12:22derives from a Hindi word said by some
0:12:22 > 0:12:25to the be the name of a village near Mumbai where it originated?
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Dungarees. Dungarees is correct.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Ten points for this. Born in 1561,
0:12:32 > 0:12:35the Italian physician Santorio Santorio
0:12:35 > 0:12:39pioneered the study of what chemical process in living organisms?
0:12:39 > 0:12:43It involves alternately building up complex molecules, and breaking them down.
0:12:44 > 0:12:45Aberystwyth, Guy.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Catabolism and metabolism. Yes. Metabolism. I'll accept it.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49APPLAUSE
0:12:49 > 0:12:53A set of bonuses now on the planet Saturn.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57Larger than the planet Mercury, what is the name of Saturn's largest moon?
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Titan.
0:12:59 > 0:13:00Titan. Correct.
0:13:00 > 0:13:05The Earth takes one year to orbit the Sun. How many years does Saturn take?
0:13:05 > 0:13:07You can have two years either way.
0:13:07 > 0:13:0927?
0:13:10 > 0:13:1227.
0:13:12 > 0:13:17Uh, no. It's 29.5, so you're just outside the two-year leeway.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21And finally, for five points, name the three planets that, along with Saturn,
0:13:21 > 0:13:24comprise the Gas Giants, or Jovian planets?
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. Correct.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32We're going to take a music round now.
0:13:32 > 0:13:36For your music Starter, you'll hear a piece of music from a genre that shares its name
0:13:36 > 0:13:38with a type of dance.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Ten points if you can name the type of dance.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43MUSIC PLAYS
0:13:43 > 0:13:45Aberystwyth, Campbell.
0:13:45 > 0:13:46Polka.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48No. You can hear some more, Bangor.
0:13:49 > 0:13:50MUSIC PLAYS
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Bangor, Coutts. Tango.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Tango is correct. That was the Libertango.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58APPLAUSE
0:14:00 > 0:14:05OK, you're going to hear three other pieces whose title includes the name of a dance.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08Five points for each dance you can identify.
0:14:08 > 0:14:09Firstly...
0:14:09 > 0:14:11# There's so many people who can talk, and talk and talk
0:14:11 > 0:14:14# And just say nothing or nearly nothing
0:14:14 > 0:14:16# I have used up all the scale I know and at the end
0:14:16 > 0:14:18# I've come to nothing, I mean nothing
0:14:18 > 0:14:21# So I come back to my first note
0:14:21 > 0:14:23# As I must come back to you
0:14:23 > 0:14:28# I will pour into that one note all the love I feel for you
0:14:28 > 0:14:33# Any one who wants the whole show do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ci-do
0:14:33 > 0:14:37# He will find himself with no show, better play the note you know #
0:14:38 > 0:14:40That's quite quick. Come on.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43What do you think it is? Bossa Nova.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Nominate Jones. Bossa Nova.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48No, that's the samba. That piece of music was One Note Samba.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Mambo. Mambo No. 5, that was.
0:15:00 > 0:15:01And finally...
0:15:01 > 0:15:03MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:15 > 0:15:19# A woman is a woman and a man ain't nothin' but a man
0:15:21 > 0:15:23# A woman is a woman and a man ain't nothin' but a man... #
0:15:24 > 0:15:26So what do we think? Swing or jazz? Swing.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Or jazz? Come on.
0:15:29 > 0:15:30Swing. Swing.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33No, it's jive. That was Jump Jive and Wail.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Right, ten points for this.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39Which English county links John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman -
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Bangor, Le Helloco. Dorset.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Dorset is correct.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45APPLAUSE
0:15:45 > 0:15:48These bonuses are on works of art, Bangor.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51What word links the English titles of a work by Renoir
0:15:51 > 0:15:53painted shortly before his death,
0:15:53 > 0:15:55a series of works by Cezanne,
0:15:55 > 0:15:58the largest of which was exhibited in 1906,
0:15:58 > 0:16:01and a painting by Seurat, now in London's National Gallery?
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Bathers?
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Yeah.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06I think Bathers or Water Lilies.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08Bathers? Yeah.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Yeah.
0:16:10 > 0:16:11Bathers. Correct.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15What drink connects Edouard Manet's first Salon entry,
0:16:15 > 0:16:18a free-standing painted bronze by Picasso
0:16:18 > 0:16:20featuring a real spoon,
0:16:20 > 0:16:22and a work of the 1870s by Degas
0:16:22 > 0:16:24now in the Musee d'Orsay?
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Is it a drink? A drink. Yeah.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33Wine? Is wine too simple?
0:16:33 > 0:16:36Absinthe, that's the sort of thing.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42Shall I try wine? Give it a shot. It seems the most likely.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Wine?
0:16:44 > 0:16:46No, it's absinthe. And finally,
0:16:46 > 0:16:49which two nouns connect several sculptures by Henry Moore,
0:16:49 > 0:16:52numerous works by Mary Cassatt,
0:16:52 > 0:16:58and a work of 1993 by Damien Hurst in which the title subjects are displayed in tanks of formaldehyde?
0:17:01 > 0:17:02That's the cow.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Mother and Baby.
0:17:04 > 0:17:05Yeah.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Madonna and Child, I think.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Madonna and Child. I think it's Madonna and Child.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11OK.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13That's great, then.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Madonna and Child. No, it's Mother and Child.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17Ten points for this.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20Prince Henry of Battenberg, John Campbell the Marquis of Lorne,
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
0:17:23 > 0:17:24and Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
0:17:24 > 0:17:28all stood in what relation to Queen Victoria?
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Aberystwyth, Bishop-Harper.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32Cousin.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Anyone like to buzz from Bangor?
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Bangor, Coutts. Child. No, they were sons-in-law.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41Ten points for this. Writing in defence of the glorious revolution,
0:17:41 > 0:17:43which English philosopher outlined his political theory
0:17:43 > 0:17:46by attacking the notion of the Divine Right of Kings -
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Bangor, Jones. Hobbes. No, you lose five points.
0:17:49 > 0:17:54..the Divine Right of Kings in the 1690 work Two Treatises on Government?
0:17:54 > 0:17:55Aberystwyth, Thomas. John Locke.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58John Locke is correct, yes.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00APPLAUSE
0:18:00 > 0:18:04Aberystwyth, your bonuses this time are on shorter words
0:18:04 > 0:18:08that can be made using any of the eight letters of the word marzipan.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15Firstly, a mood disorder characterised by marked excitement,
0:18:15 > 0:18:18euphoria, grandiose thought, and over-activity.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25Mania. Correct.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30Secondly, a file format created by Phillip Katz, and used for data compression and archiving.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Zip.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Zip. Correct. And finally...
0:18:34 > 0:18:38A three-letter shortform of the SI base unit of electric current.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Amp. Amp.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Amp is correct. Ten points for this Starter question.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47Phytophthora Infestans causes a disease of -
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Aberystwyth, Guy.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Potatoes. Potatoes is correct. Potato blight.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53APPLAUSE
0:18:54 > 0:18:57These bonuses are on Old World monkeys.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01Comprising 22 species including the so-called Barbary Ape,
0:19:01 > 0:19:07which genus of Old World monkeys represents the most widespread primates after humans?
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Macaques.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14THEY CONFER
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Chimpanzee.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19No, they're macaques.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22Sometimes known as the snow monkey, macaca fuscata
0:19:22 > 0:19:24is the northernmost non-human primate.
0:19:24 > 0:19:29Often photographed bathing in hot springs, it's native to which Asian country?
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Japan. Correct.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35Native to South Asia, which species of macaque gives its name
0:19:35 > 0:19:38to an antigen that occurs on the red blood cells of humans
0:19:38 > 0:19:41and affects compatibility in transfusions?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43The Rhesus monkey. Correct.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45We'll take a second picture round now.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47You'll see a portrait of a well-known writer.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Ten points if you can give me her name.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Bangor, Le Helloco. Virginia Woolf.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55It is Virginia Woolf, yes.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59As painted by Roger Fry.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03You're going to see three more portraits of noted women writers.
0:20:03 > 0:20:04In each case, I just need their name, please.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Firstly, for five, this portrait of
0:20:07 > 0:20:09By George Richmond.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17Elizabeth Barrett Browning. No, it's Elizabeth Gaskell. Mrs Gaskell.
0:20:17 > 0:20:21Secondly, this 17th Century painting by Mary Beale.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26THEY CONFER
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Could it be Aphra Behn?
0:20:28 > 0:20:30It could be. 1600s?
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Yeah, it would.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Aphra Behn. It is Aphra Behn, yes.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38And finally, this 19th Century portrait by JH Thompson.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Is it one of the Brontes? It's not Emily Dickinson?
0:20:40 > 0:20:44It could be a Bronte. Emily Dickinson didn't go out of the house.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Emily Bronte?
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Would she have had a portrait?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Yeah, probably. They were quite well-known, weren't they?
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Let's have it, please. Emily Bronte?
0:20:53 > 0:20:55No, that's Charlotte Bronte, her sister.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59Ten points for this. Who became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1533?
0:20:59 > 0:21:02An instigator of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, he was executed -
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Bangor, Coutts. Wolseley.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07I'm afraid you lose five points. He was executed in 1540.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09One of you buzz.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Aberystwyth, Bishop-Harper. Thomas More.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15No, it was Thomas Cromwell. Ten points for this.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19Night, Death and the Devil, and Saint Jerome in his Study
0:21:19 > 0:21:22are among the works of which painter and printmaker
0:21:22 > 0:21:24born in Nuremburg in 1471?
0:21:25 > 0:21:27Bangor, Jones. Albrecht Durer.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Albrecht Durer is correct, yes.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31APPLAUSE
0:21:32 > 0:21:36These bonuses are on English placenames.
0:21:36 > 0:21:41In each case, give the town from the description. All three share the same four-letter suffix.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45Firstly, a town close to Derwentwater in the Lake District
0:21:45 > 0:21:48where Coleridge wrote Dejection and Ode.
0:21:51 > 0:21:52Any ideas?
0:21:52 > 0:21:55Something -mere, is it?
0:21:55 > 0:21:57Windermere?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Is there actually a town Windermere?
0:21:59 > 0:22:01There might be. Shall I try Windermere?
0:22:01 > 0:22:03Worth a try. Windermere?
0:22:03 > 0:22:05No, it's Keswick.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Secondly, a market town whose castle is the seat of the Dukes of Northumberland,
0:22:08 > 0:22:13and whose former station houses one of Britain's largest bookshops.
0:22:13 > 0:22:14Alnwick. Alnwick.
0:22:14 > 0:22:15Correct.
0:22:15 > 0:22:20A town in the West Midlands whose castle includes Guy's Tower and Caesar's Tower.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Warwick. Correct.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Ten points for this. Formerly used to produce acetylene in lamps,
0:22:25 > 0:22:27which solid grey compound -
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Aberystwyth, Thomas. Calcium carbide.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Correct.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33APPLAUSE
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Right, Aberystwyth, these bonuses are on King Henry VIII.
0:22:36 > 0:22:40Which ruler met Henry at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520?
0:22:40 > 0:22:42THEY CONFER
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Charles IV. No, it's Francis I of France.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50Which Stuart monarch married Henry's sister Margaret in 1502?
0:22:52 > 0:22:54James I or VI?
0:22:57 > 0:22:58No.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00James V of Scotland.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02James V of Scotland. No, it was James IV.
0:23:02 > 0:23:07And finally, which Holy Roman Emperor was Henry's nephew by marriage?
0:23:07 > 0:23:09THEY CONFER
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Charles II. Charles II.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15No, it's Charles V. About four and a quarter minutes to go.
0:23:15 > 0:23:20Ten points for this. After Quebec, what is the second-largest province of Canada
0:23:20 > 0:23:22with shorelines on four of the five Great Lakes?
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Bangor, Jones.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Ontario. Correct.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28APPLAUSE
0:23:28 > 0:23:31These bonuses, Bangor, are on regular polyhedra.
0:23:31 > 0:23:36If the sides of a die are numbered from one upwards,
0:23:36 > 0:23:41what is the highest score achievable on rolling a dodecahedral die?
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Dodecahedral would be a 12-sided die.
0:23:45 > 0:23:4712. Correct.
0:23:47 > 0:23:54If a tetrahedral die is rolled, what is the probability of obtaining a score strictly greater than three?
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Tetrahedral, that's four faces. Yes.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00A quarter, then? A quarter.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Shall I just say a quarter? Go on.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06A quarter. Exactly. One in four.
0:24:06 > 0:24:10And finally, a third die takes the form of a regular polyhedron with eight sides.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13What shape do those sides take?
0:24:17 > 0:24:18Are they triangles, or...?
0:24:19 > 0:24:21No. I think they would be...
0:24:23 > 0:24:25Pentagons? Come on. Pentagon.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28No, they're equilateral triangles. Ten points for this.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31A former professor of journalism at Northwestern University,
0:24:31 > 0:24:35who founded the American Institute of Public Opinion in 1935?
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Aberystwyth, Campbell. Eddie Bernays.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40No.
0:24:40 > 0:24:41Bangor?
0:24:41 > 0:24:44One of you want to buzz? I'll tell you - it's George Horace Gallup.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Ten points for this. Sharing its name with a desert landform,
0:24:47 > 0:24:52what unit of energy has a value of 100 nanojoules?
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Bangor, Coutts. Savannah.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Anyone like to buzz from Aberystwyth?
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Dune.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04No, it's erg. Ten points for this.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07The poem The Deserted Village, the novel The Vicar of Wakefield -
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Bangor, Coutts. Oliver Goldsmith.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Correct.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13APPLAUSE
0:25:13 > 0:25:17Bangor, your bonuses are on cities. In each case, give the name that links the following.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21Firstly, a city in southern Spain noted for its great mosque
0:25:21 > 0:25:24and a major city of central Argentina on the edge of the Pampa.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Is it Cordoba Mosque?
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Cordoba. Correct.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33A Spanish sea port known as Carthago Nova in ancient times,
0:25:33 > 0:25:36and a major city of Colombia on the Caribbean sea.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Cartagena. Correct.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42A large city 300km southwest of Barcelona
0:25:42 > 0:25:44and a major city of Venezuela, west of Caracas.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Could be Valencia? That's right, yeah.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Valencia. Correct.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Ten points for this.
0:25:54 > 0:26:00An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German possessed of the mania of grandeur.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04These words of Leo Tolstoy refer to which philosopher born 1844?
0:26:05 > 0:26:07Bangor, Coutts. Nietzsche. Nietzsche is right.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Here's a set of bonuses for you...
0:26:10 > 0:26:12..on members of the Westminster Parliament.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15In each case I want the ceremonial county,
0:26:15 > 0:26:17for example Merseyside or East Sussex,
0:26:17 > 0:26:19in which the following MPs were elected in 2010.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24First for five points. Fiona Bruce, Derek Twigg, and George Osborne.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Any ideas?
0:26:27 > 0:26:29THEY CONFER
0:26:30 > 0:26:33What was the question? Which county were they elected...
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Come on.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Let's have it, please.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Um, Kingston-on-Thames.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40No, it's Cheshire.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Secondly, Ed Miliband, Caroline Flint and Nick Clegg.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44That's Sussex, isn't it? No...
0:26:46 > 0:26:48It's the Doncaster area, isn't it?
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Is it?
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Sheffield is Nick Clegg, isn't it?
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Come on. Say South Yorkshire. South Yorkshire.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56South Yorkshire's right. Finally, Ed Vaizey,
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Andrew Smith and David Cameron.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire. Correct.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Ten points for this. Slightly larger than England and Wales,
0:27:05 > 0:27:08what is the smallest independent country in South America?
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Bangor, Coutts. Guyana.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14No. Anyone like to buzz from Aberystwyth?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16Aberystwyth, Guy. Belize?
0:27:16 > 0:27:18No, it's Suriname.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Ten points for this.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Who was the last British monarch to be the ruler of Hanover?
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Bangor, Coutts.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26William IV. William IV is correct.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28APPLAUSE
0:27:29 > 0:27:32These bonuses are on oxides. What is the chemical formula
0:27:32 > 0:27:35of a nitrogen oxide whose common name is laughing gas,
0:27:35 > 0:27:37and which acts as an anaesthetic?
0:27:37 > 0:27:38NO2?
0:27:38 > 0:27:40I'm going to let you say this.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42Nominate Johnson.
0:27:42 > 0:27:43NO2.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45No, it's N2O.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48And secondly, what is the chemical formula of the mineral -
0:27:48 > 0:27:50GONG
0:27:50 > 0:27:51APPLAUSE
0:27:51 > 0:27:53At the gong, Aberystwyth have 110.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Bangor have 230.
0:27:55 > 0:27:59Bad luck, Aberystwyth. We're going to have to say goodbye to you.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01We shall look forward, Bangor, to seeing you in Round Two.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Many congratulations. 230 is a very good score.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06Nicely democratically arrived at, too.
0:28:07 > 0:28:14So, we now know the four highest-scoring losing teams are the Universities of Durham,
0:28:14 > 0:28:18Southampton and Loughborough, and Christ Church, Oxford.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21I hope you can join me next time for the first of those playoffs, but until then
0:28:21 > 0:28:24it's goodbye from Aberystwyth University...
0:28:24 > 0:28:25Goodbye.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27It's goodbye from Bangor University. ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31APPLAUSE
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