Episode 15

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0:00:18 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE

0:00:20 > 0:00:22University Challenge.

0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:29 > 0:00:33Hello. The first round matches are over,

0:00:33 > 0:00:36and 14 victorious teams are through to the next stage of the competition.

0:00:36 > 0:00:40Four teams of walking wounded remain on the battlefield, however,

0:00:40 > 0:00:44because their losing scores were higher than some winning scores in other fixtures,

0:00:44 > 0:00:48so they get to play for the last two places in the second round.

0:00:48 > 0:00:50As we never tire of pointing out,

0:00:50 > 0:00:52teams that have survived by this rule in the past

0:00:52 > 0:00:54have gone on to be series champions,

0:00:54 > 0:00:58to the two playing tonight and next time are still very much in contention.

0:00:58 > 0:01:00The team from Durham University

0:01:00 > 0:01:04were ahead for much of the first half of their match against Queen's College Cambridge,

0:01:04 > 0:01:09proving themselves knowledgeable on American Treasury Secretaries, regions of Italy

0:01:09 > 0:01:12and the vegetarian diet of Frankenstein's monster.

0:01:12 > 0:01:17But Queen's dominated the second half and snatched victory from them in the last few minutes.

0:01:17 > 0:01:21Still, their score of 170 is the highest of the four teams in these playoffs.

0:01:21 > 0:01:23With an average age of 21,

0:01:23 > 0:01:25let's meet the Durham team again.

0:01:27 > 0:01:28Hello, I'm Alex Richards.

0:01:28 > 0:01:32I'm from Breaston in Derbyshire and I'm studying Chemistry.

0:01:33 > 0:01:35Hi. I'm Daniel Hulme from Staffordshire

0:01:35 > 0:01:37and I'm studying Theoretical Physics.

0:01:37 > 0:01:40And their captain. Hi, I'm Matt Mackenzie.

0:01:40 > 0:01:42I'm from Gloucestershire and I do History.

0:01:42 > 0:01:44Hi. I'm Arthur Burnham.

0:01:44 > 0:01:48I'm originally from Hampshire and I'm working towards a PhD in Chemistry.

0:01:48 > 0:01:50APPLAUSE

0:01:53 > 0:01:58Now, the team from Christ Church, Oxford came away from their first round match with 150 points,

0:01:58 > 0:02:01exactly half that of their opponents Trinity College Cambridge

0:02:01 > 0:02:04but they can console themselves with the fact

0:02:04 > 0:02:07that they were up against the highest-scoring team of all in the first round.

0:02:07 > 0:02:11Their strengths included cell biology, musical terminology

0:02:11 > 0:02:14and peculiarities of the international date line.

0:02:14 > 0:02:16Also with an average age of 21,

0:02:16 > 0:02:18let's meet the Christ Church team again.

0:02:19 > 0:02:21Hi. My name's George Greenwood.

0:02:21 > 0:02:24I'm studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics and I'm from Exeter.

0:02:24 > 0:02:29Hi. I'm Andreas Capstack, I'm from Norway and I'm also studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

0:02:29 > 0:02:33And their captain. Hi. I'm Euan Macaulay, from Hong Kong, and I'm reading Chemistry.

0:02:33 > 0:02:36Hi. I'm Phil Ostrowski.

0:02:36 > 0:02:38I'm from Poland and I'm studying Cardiology.

0:02:38 > 0:02:41APPLAUSE

0:02:43 > 0:02:45The rules are the same as ever.

0:02:45 > 0:02:49Remember there's a five-point penalty if you interrupt a starter question incorrectly.

0:02:49 > 0:02:51Ten points for this. Fingers on buzzers.

0:02:51 > 0:02:55Early in 2013, Michael Ibsen, a cabinet maker in north London,

0:02:55 > 0:02:58showed by a DNA match that skeletal remains...

0:03:00 > 0:03:01King Richard III. Correct.

0:03:04 > 0:03:07Your bonuses are on Pi.

0:03:07 > 0:03:11"I'm ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations,

0:03:11 > 0:03:13"having no other business at the time."

0:03:13 > 0:03:17Which scientist wrote those words in a letter of 1666

0:03:17 > 0:03:20having computed Pi to 15 digits?

0:03:22 > 0:03:24Is it Isaac Newton? It is.

0:03:24 > 0:03:28What are the first five digits of the binary expansion of Pi?

0:03:33 > 0:03:36Do any of you know this? What's binary expansion?

0:03:36 > 0:03:39Expressed in binary.

0:03:40 > 0:03:41QUIET CONFERRING

0:03:42 > 0:03:44So, one zero one?

0:03:44 > 0:03:46We need five.

0:03:47 > 0:03:51Zero one... No, I can't do it. I can't work it out.

0:03:51 > 0:03:53I obviously don't know. Pass.

0:03:53 > 0:03:56Pass. Very entertaining conferring, at least!

0:03:56 > 0:03:58It's one one zero zero one.

0:03:58 > 0:04:01And finally, whose treatise of the third century BC

0:04:01 > 0:04:03was entitled The Measurement of the Circle

0:04:03 > 0:04:07and includes the first rigorous calculation of Pi?

0:04:07 > 0:04:09Archimedes. Archimedes. Is it Archimedes? Yes, it is.

0:04:09 > 0:04:14Ten points for this. Having the potential to cause fires and contaminate land and water,

0:04:14 > 0:04:17what controversial process involves drilling into shale...

0:04:18 > 0:04:19Fracking. Fracking is correct.

0:04:19 > 0:04:24So you get a first set of bonuses, Christ Church. They're on a play by Shakespeare.

0:04:24 > 0:04:27Milton's Comus and Auden's collection, The Sea and the Mirror,

0:04:27 > 0:04:32are among the works inspired by which of Shakespeare's later plays?

0:04:33 > 0:04:38The Tempest. Correct. Its characters including Robby the Robot and Dr Edward Morbius,

0:04:38 > 0:04:43which 1956 science fiction film is noted for its many similarities to The Tempest?

0:04:44 > 0:04:46Science fiction.

0:04:46 > 0:04:48It's not Dune, or something?

0:04:52 > 0:04:54Your call.

0:04:54 > 0:04:55Pass.

0:04:55 > 0:05:00It's Forbidden Planet. Finally, described as "A Fantasia after Shakespeare's Drama",

0:05:00 > 0:05:04The Tempest is an 1873 work by which Russian composer?

0:05:07 > 0:05:11Well, I've got no idea. Let's go for someone like... Tchaikovsky?

0:05:11 > 0:05:13No, it's not Tchaikovsky. Rimsky-Korsakov.

0:05:13 > 0:05:14No, it was Tchaikovsky!

0:05:14 > 0:05:18Ten points for this. "For 20 years, I've stared my level best

0:05:18 > 0:05:23"to see if evening, any evening, would suggest a patient etherised upon a table.

0:05:23 > 0:05:26"In vain. I simply wasn't able."

0:05:26 > 0:05:28Born in Belfast in 1898,

0:05:28 > 0:05:30which novelist, academic and Christian apologist

0:05:30 > 0:05:33made this comment on Eliot's Prufrock?

0:05:34 > 0:05:36Is it C.S.Lewis? Yes, it is.

0:05:39 > 0:05:42Bonuses, this time, Durham, on hypotheses.

0:05:42 > 0:05:44After a character in Through the Looking Glass,

0:05:44 > 0:05:46what name is given to the hypothesis

0:05:46 > 0:05:48that evolution will always continue in a given species

0:05:48 > 0:05:54in order to catch up with the evolutionary advances made by competing species?

0:05:54 > 0:05:55Red Queen hypothesis. Correct.

0:05:55 > 0:05:58In economics, what two-word term denotes the hypothesis

0:05:58 > 0:06:01that an individual cannot make an abnormally high profit

0:06:01 > 0:06:06by trading on a financial market using widely available and generally understood information,

0:06:06 > 0:06:10as the market price will itself be influenced by the same information?

0:06:17 > 0:06:19Nominate Richards. No.

0:06:19 > 0:06:22We don't... Just go. Broken Window?

0:06:22 > 0:06:26No, that's an entirely... That's a sociological theory.

0:06:26 > 0:06:28No, it's the Efficient Markets hypothesis.

0:06:28 > 0:06:30Finally, named after a Greek goddess,

0:06:30 > 0:06:33which hypothesis was propounded by James Lovelock

0:06:33 > 0:06:36and views the Earth as a self-sustaining living organism?

0:06:36 > 0:06:39Gaia. Gaia is right. Ten points for this.

0:06:39 > 0:06:42Formed around 15 million years ago, and with a diameter of around 25 kilometres,

0:06:42 > 0:06:44the Nordlinger Ries in Germany

0:06:44 > 0:06:49is an example of what extra-terrestrially-generated land form?

0:06:50 > 0:06:52A crater.

0:06:52 > 0:06:54Specifically?

0:06:55 > 0:07:00Asteroid crater. Yes, it is an asteroid crater. An impact crater is what it's properly called.

0:07:00 > 0:07:02At least you didn't say "hole in the ground"!

0:07:02 > 0:07:06Your bonuses are on cell biology. What name is given to undifferentiated animal cells

0:07:06 > 0:07:08that are able to proliferate for long periods

0:07:08 > 0:07:12and have the potential under certain conditions to differentiate into specialised cells?

0:07:12 > 0:07:13Stem cells. Correct.

0:07:13 > 0:07:17The potency of stem cells is their ability to differentiate into other types of cell.

0:07:17 > 0:07:23What specific term describes those stem cells able to differentiate into all possible cell types?

0:07:27 > 0:07:30Totipotent. Totipotent is correct. Finally,

0:07:30 > 0:07:34what totipotent cell is formed after fertilisation of an egg?

0:07:34 > 0:07:37Zygote. Correct.

0:07:37 > 0:07:38We'll take a picture round now.

0:07:38 > 0:07:42For your picture starter, you will see the logo of an international organisation

0:07:42 > 0:07:44with any helpful wording removed.

0:07:44 > 0:07:47For ten points, give me the acronym by which it is known.

0:07:51 > 0:07:53It's UNESCO. It is, yes!

0:07:53 > 0:07:55Here's the whole thing.

0:07:57 > 0:07:59You were astonished it was so easy. See how you go with these.

0:07:59 > 0:08:04Bonuses are logos of three more specialised agencies of the United Nations,

0:08:04 > 0:08:07with helpful wording removed. I want the full name of the agency.

0:08:07 > 0:08:08Firstly for five.

0:08:11 > 0:08:13QUIET CONFERRING

0:08:21 > 0:08:25United Nations Council for Human Rights?

0:08:25 > 0:08:27Nominate Richards. United Nations Council for Human Rights?

0:08:27 > 0:08:31No, amazingly, apparently it's the International Monetary Fund.

0:08:31 > 0:08:33Let's see the whole thing.

0:08:33 > 0:08:35Secondly...

0:08:38 > 0:08:41It's the Atomic Energy Agency, isn't it?

0:08:41 > 0:08:45Atomic Energy Agency. I'll give you that. It's the International Atomic Energy Agency.

0:08:45 > 0:08:50I'll accept that on the basis that we were kind to Christ Church a moment ago.

0:08:50 > 0:08:52Let's see the whole thing.

0:08:52 > 0:08:53And finally, what's this?

0:08:56 > 0:08:58World Health Organization. It is.

0:08:58 > 0:09:00There it is. Another starter question.

0:09:00 > 0:09:03Fingers on buzzers. The first six books of the Old Testament

0:09:03 > 0:09:05are collectively known as the Hexateuch,

0:09:05 > 0:09:09comprising the Pentateuch and which other, the sixth book of the Old Testament,

0:09:09 > 0:09:12named after Moses' designated successor?

0:09:14 > 0:09:16Joshua. Yes.

0:09:19 > 0:09:23This set of bonuses, Christ Church, is on weather extremes.

0:09:23 > 0:09:26Iquique, where there was no rainfall for 14 years,

0:09:26 > 0:09:31and Bahia Felix, which has an average of 325 rainy days a year,

0:09:31 > 0:09:34are both settlements in which country?

0:09:34 > 0:09:35Are they South American?

0:09:36 > 0:09:40Try Chile? Chile, or... I think so.

0:09:40 > 0:09:41Chile.

0:09:41 > 0:09:46Correct. In which country is Cherrapunji, often described as the wettest place on Earth?

0:09:46 > 0:09:49It averages more than 450 inches of rain per year.

0:09:49 > 0:09:52The comparable figure for Manchester is only 32 inches.

0:09:52 > 0:09:53I think that's India. Yes, try that.

0:09:53 > 0:09:57India. Correct. And finally, in which country is Dallol,

0:09:57 > 0:10:01where a mean annual temperature of over 34 degrees Celsius has been recorded?

0:10:01 > 0:10:02That sounds horrible!

0:10:04 > 0:10:07Something that's far from the sea.

0:10:10 > 0:10:13Something internal.

0:10:13 > 0:10:15Like central... Chad?

0:10:15 > 0:10:17OK. Chad. No, it's Ethiopia.

0:10:17 > 0:10:20Ten points for this. Standing up to three metres tall,

0:10:20 > 0:10:24the flightless elephant bird became extinct around 1,000 years ago

0:10:24 > 0:10:26and was native to which large island?

0:10:28 > 0:10:30Madagascar. Correct.

0:10:32 > 0:10:35That gives you the lead. Your bonuses now are on classical music.

0:10:35 > 0:10:40The Canadian pianist Glenn Gould's 1955 recording of which of Bach's works for harpsichord

0:10:40 > 0:10:42enjoyed an unusual level of popular success?

0:10:42 > 0:10:46The work is named after the virtuoso who's thought first to have performed it?

0:10:53 > 0:10:55Somebody's concerto?

0:10:55 > 0:10:59Palestrina. Palestrina? No, it's the Goldberg Variations.

0:10:59 > 0:11:02Oh, yeah. Premiered in 1899, which orchestral variations

0:11:02 > 0:11:04are based on the counter-melody to an unheard theme

0:11:04 > 0:11:09which its composer said was a well-known tune he wouldn't identify, hence their title.

0:11:09 > 0:11:10Enigma?

0:11:11 > 0:11:14Enigma. The Enigma Variations is right.

0:11:14 > 0:11:18And finally, the Austrian composer and publisher Anton Diabelli

0:11:18 > 0:11:22is best known for a waltz that inspired which German composer to write 33 Variations for Piano

0:11:22 > 0:11:24in 1823?

0:11:24 > 0:11:26That sounds like Schumann, doesn't it?

0:11:26 > 0:11:28Yeah. Guess that.

0:11:28 > 0:11:32Schumann. No, it's Beethoven. Oh. Ten points for this starter question.

0:11:32 > 0:11:34Haversian canals are found in which tissue of the body?

0:11:34 > 0:11:38They contain small vessels responsible for the blood supply to osteocytes.

0:11:40 > 0:11:42Bone. Correct.

0:11:42 > 0:11:44This set of bonuses on being.

0:11:44 > 0:11:49Usually translated in existentialist writings as "being in the world",

0:11:49 > 0:11:54which six-letter German word means "to be there", or "being there",

0:11:54 > 0:11:56and in the philosophy of Hegel denotes existence.

0:12:02 > 0:12:04I don't know.

0:12:07 > 0:12:09I'm going to pass. Pass.

0:12:09 > 0:12:11It's "Dasein".

0:12:11 > 0:12:15Secondly, "The Question Concerning Technology" is a 1954 work

0:12:15 > 0:12:17by which German philosopher?

0:12:17 > 0:12:20He believed that human beings should be conceived as "Dasein"

0:12:20 > 0:12:23using the concept as a replacement for "mind" and "consciousness".

0:12:23 > 0:12:26Do you know any philosophers of the 1950s?

0:12:27 > 0:12:28Guess Heidegger.

0:12:28 > 0:12:31Heidegger. Correct. Which work of 1927

0:12:31 > 0:12:34is generally considered to be the most important of Heidegger's writings?

0:12:34 > 0:12:38It begins by posing the "Seinsfrage" question, what is the meaning of being?

0:12:40 > 0:12:43Being and Time. Nominate Greenwood.

0:12:43 > 0:12:46Being and Time. Correct. Being and Time is right. Ten points for this.

0:12:46 > 0:12:48Published in 1954,

0:12:48 > 0:12:50Confessions of the Confidence Trickster Felix Krull

0:12:50 > 0:12:53was the final full-length novel by which Nobel Laureate

0:12:53 > 0:12:57who fled Nazi Germany and became a US citizen in 1944?

0:13:02 > 0:13:05Grass. Nope.

0:13:05 > 0:13:07One of you may buzz from Durham.

0:13:07 > 0:13:09Take a punt. Come on.

0:13:11 > 0:13:14Kissinger. Kissinger?!

0:13:14 > 0:13:16That really wasn't worth saying!

0:13:16 > 0:13:19Thomas Mann. Ten points for this.

0:13:19 > 0:13:24What five-letter word links the composer of the 1967 minimalist work Piano Phase,

0:13:24 > 0:13:26the armed forces of the Weimar Republic

0:13:26 > 0:13:30and the waterfall at which Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty fought...

0:13:30 > 0:13:33Reich. Reich is correct, yes.

0:13:35 > 0:13:38These bonuses, Christ Church, are on a political theorist.

0:13:38 > 0:13:40Born in Normandy in 1805,

0:13:40 > 0:13:45which political theorist is especially noted for the 1835 work Democracy in America?

0:13:45 > 0:13:47QUIET CONFERRING

0:13:56 > 0:13:59De Tocqueville. Nominate Capstack.

0:13:59 > 0:14:00De Tocqueville. Yes, of course.

0:14:00 > 0:14:05"It is from this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up

0:14:05 > 0:14:07"and carries fertility to the whole world."

0:14:07 > 0:14:12Of which English city did de Tocqueville say those words in 1835?

0:14:16 > 0:14:18Birmingham. Birmingham.

0:14:18 > 0:14:19No, it's Manchester.

0:14:19 > 0:14:23According to de Tocqueville, what academic field is "a gallery of pictures

0:14:23 > 0:14:26"in which there are few originals and many copies"?

0:14:35 > 0:14:38Philosophy. No, it's history.

0:14:38 > 0:14:40We're going to take a music round now.

0:14:40 > 0:14:42For your starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.

0:14:42 > 0:14:44Ten points if you can name the artist, please.

0:14:44 > 0:14:48# J'irai chercher ton coeur... #

0:14:50 > 0:14:53I'm embarrassed to know this, but Celine Dion.

0:14:53 > 0:14:56Yes, well, never mind, it's useful, I suppose!

0:14:56 > 0:14:58It gets you ten points even if it is embarrassing!

0:14:58 > 0:15:03Now, with 66 nominations, Celine Dion is, somewhat inexplicably,

0:15:03 > 0:15:07the most nominated artist in the history of the Canadian Music Juno Awards.

0:15:07 > 0:15:11For your bonuses, you'll hear three more female Canadian artists,

0:15:11 > 0:15:13regularly nominated for Juno awards.

0:15:13 > 0:15:15Five points for each artist you can identify.

0:15:15 > 0:15:18First, with 30 nominations.

0:15:18 > 0:15:22# You'll still the one I run to

0:15:22 > 0:15:26# The one that I belong to

0:15:26 > 0:15:30# Still the one I want for life #

0:15:30 > 0:15:33Shania Twain. It is. You have no shame at all, have you?

0:15:33 > 0:15:35Secondly, with 15 nominations...

0:15:35 > 0:15:39# My moon, my man, so changeable...#

0:15:39 > 0:15:41Leslie Feist. Feist.

0:15:41 > 0:15:44Yep. And finally, with 23 nominations...

0:15:44 > 0:15:47# You've already won me over

0:15:47 > 0:15:50# In spite of me

0:15:50 > 0:15:54# And don't be alarmed if I fall... #

0:15:54 > 0:15:56Alanis Morissette.

0:15:56 > 0:15:59Oh, my godfathers, yes! Ten points for this.

0:15:59 > 0:16:01APPLAUSE

0:16:02 > 0:16:05Now, from an Old English word for raid or plunder

0:16:05 > 0:16:09what six-letter word denotes the lawless bands who operated on the Scottish borders...

0:16:11 > 0:16:13Reivers. Reiver is correct, yes.

0:16:17 > 0:16:19Is there no limit to your knowledge? We'll find out.

0:16:19 > 0:16:22Three bonuses on 17th-century history.

0:16:22 > 0:16:26After the Restoration, Sir James Scott, the oldest illegitimate son of Charles II

0:16:26 > 0:16:29was created the Duke of Buccleuch and which other dukedom?

0:16:29 > 0:16:32It sounds like Monmouth. I like Monmouth. OK.

0:16:32 > 0:16:33Monmouth. It was Monmouth, yes.

0:16:33 > 0:16:36Monmouth led a rebellion against James II

0:16:36 > 0:16:39that was defeated at which engagement of 1685,

0:16:39 > 0:16:41the last pitched battle to be fought on English soil?

0:16:41 > 0:16:44Oh, golly. That wasn't Culloden, was it? Culloden is in Scotland.

0:16:51 > 0:16:52Something hill? Bosworth? No.

0:16:54 > 0:16:58No. What do you reckon? Somewhere northern.

0:16:58 > 0:17:03Yorkshire. Um. I'm going to say, uh, Northumberland.

0:17:03 > 0:17:05No, it's Sedgemoor.

0:17:05 > 0:17:09Finally, "The depravity of this man has passed into a proverb."

0:17:09 > 0:17:12These words of the historian T.B. Macaulay

0:17:12 > 0:17:16refer to which judicial figure involved in the brutal aftermath of the Monmouth rebellion?

0:17:21 > 0:17:23Judge...

0:17:24 > 0:17:27Who's the butcher guy from Culloden?

0:17:27 > 0:17:29I don't know. Judge Jeffries?

0:17:29 > 0:17:32If it's not Judge Dredd! General Wade.

0:17:32 > 0:17:37You're in the wrong century altogether! No, it's Judge Jeffries. Ten points for this.

0:17:37 > 0:17:39And the wrong country!

0:17:39 > 0:17:41In physics, according to the Dulong-Petit law,

0:17:41 > 0:17:44the molar heat capacity of most solids

0:17:44 > 0:17:47is what number multiplied by the universal...

0:17:47 > 0:17:48Three divided by two.

0:17:50 > 0:17:52No, I'm afraid I can't accept that.

0:17:52 > 0:17:55..what number multiplied by the universal gas constant R?

0:17:59 > 0:18:01Three. Three is correct, yes.

0:18:03 > 0:18:08These bonuses are on pairs of words which are pronounced the same but have different spellings.

0:18:08 > 0:18:11In each case, listen to the definitions and give both words and their spellings.

0:18:11 > 0:18:14Firstly, "sudden slip into unconsciousness"

0:18:14 > 0:18:17and "deceptive movement or action".

0:18:17 > 0:18:19That's faint and feint. Yeah.

0:18:19 > 0:18:22That's "faint". F-A-I-N-T and F-E-I-N-T.

0:18:22 > 0:18:27Correct. Secondly, "lustful rustic deity, part man, part goat",

0:18:27 > 0:18:30and "young deer", for example, Bambi.

0:18:30 > 0:18:32That's faun and fawn.

0:18:32 > 0:18:35That's "faun". F-A-U-N and F-A-W-N. Correct.

0:18:35 > 0:18:37Finally, "unusual talent, style or panache"

0:18:37 > 0:18:40and "sudden brief burst of flame or light".

0:18:41 > 0:18:44Flare? Oh, yeah, that's good.

0:18:44 > 0:18:46Flair and flare.

0:18:46 > 0:18:48F-L-A-I-R and F-L-A-R-E.

0:18:48 > 0:18:50Correct. Another starter question.

0:18:53 > 0:18:57Blanc de Bouscat, Argente de Champagne and Fauve de Borgogne

0:18:57 > 0:19:00are French varieties of which animal

0:19:00 > 0:19:04whose showing organisation in Britain is known as the B.R.C?

0:19:06 > 0:19:07Cow.

0:19:07 > 0:19:09No. Anyone like to buzz from Durham?

0:19:11 > 0:19:15Is it badgers? No, it's rabbits. Ten points for this.

0:19:15 > 0:19:19The common name of which insect begins the names of a resort on the Cotes d'Azur,

0:19:19 > 0:19:23a major Belgian seaport and the world's fifth largest continent?

0:19:25 > 0:19:28Ant... I was going to say Antwerp, but that's wrong, isn't it?

0:19:28 > 0:19:30You're right, it is.

0:19:34 > 0:19:35Ant.

0:19:35 > 0:19:40A-N-T is correct. Antibes, Antwerp and Antarctica. You were half-way there. Bad luck.

0:19:40 > 0:19:4315 points for these bonuses, then.

0:19:43 > 0:19:49On atomic structure. In atoms, electron shells are sub-divided into sub-shells.

0:19:49 > 0:19:53The lowest energy sub-shell is given the symbol lower case "s".

0:19:53 > 0:19:56What lower case symbol denotes next lowest?

0:19:57 > 0:19:59"p". "p" is correct.

0:19:59 > 0:20:03How many unpaired electrons are there in the ground state of an atom of oxygen,

0:20:03 > 0:20:06given that the atomic number of oxygen is eight?

0:20:06 > 0:20:08Did he say how many unpaired electrons? Unpaired.

0:20:08 > 0:20:10Did he say atom or molecule of oxygen?

0:20:10 > 0:20:12Atom.

0:20:12 > 0:20:14Oh. Well.

0:20:14 > 0:20:16Either way, it's two, isn't it?

0:20:16 > 0:20:18It's two. Two.

0:20:18 > 0:20:21Of course. Chlorine has an atomic number of 17.

0:20:21 > 0:20:24How many 3p electrons are there in a chlorine atom?

0:20:29 > 0:20:31Five. It's five. Yeah, it's definitely five.

0:20:31 > 0:20:34Five. Five. It is definitely five, yes.

0:20:34 > 0:20:36And another starter question.

0:20:36 > 0:20:38The Battle of Dorylaeum

0:20:38 > 0:20:40and the sieges of Tarsus and Jerusalem

0:20:40 > 0:20:42were among military actions in which conflict

0:20:42 > 0:20:45launched by Pope Urban II in 1095?

0:20:45 > 0:20:49First Crusade. Correct. A set of bonuses now on Transport.

0:20:50 > 0:20:53In which island group are Westray and Papa Westray

0:20:53 > 0:20:57which is connected by what is claimed to be the world's shortest scheduled flight,

0:20:57 > 0:20:59lasting around two minutes?

0:21:00 > 0:21:02Outer Hebrides. No, it's the Orkneys.

0:21:02 > 0:21:05Is it? Oh. Secondly, which... It is!

0:21:05 > 0:21:08Secondly which Kentish port is the most easterly town in Britain

0:21:08 > 0:21:10that is directly connected to the motorway system?

0:21:13 > 0:21:14Deal. I was going to say Harwich.

0:21:14 > 0:21:17What did you say? Deal.

0:21:17 > 0:21:19Is it Deal? No, it's Folkestone.

0:21:19 > 0:21:24What is the most northerly town in Britain to be directly connected to the national rail network?

0:21:24 > 0:21:27Berwick? Is it Berwick-on-Tweed?

0:21:27 > 0:21:29Did you say Britain or England?

0:21:29 > 0:21:32Britain. I said Britain, but I'm not repeating the question. OK.

0:21:32 > 0:21:35I think it's Wick. Yeah, Wick. No, it's Thurso.

0:21:35 > 0:21:37Right. A picture round, now.

0:21:37 > 0:21:40For your picture starter you'll see a photograph of a public figure with a family dog.

0:21:40 > 0:21:43For ten points, I want the breed of the dog, please.

0:21:46 > 0:21:48Portuguese Water Terrier.

0:21:48 > 0:21:50Uh... No.

0:21:51 > 0:21:53One of you buzz, Durham?

0:21:56 > 0:21:57Portuguese Water Dog.

0:21:57 > 0:21:59Correct.

0:22:03 > 0:22:05Following on from Barack Obama with Bo,

0:22:05 > 0:22:09you'll see three more US presidents accompanied by their respective presidential "first dogs"!

0:22:09 > 0:22:13In each case I want the name of the president and the pedigree breed of the dog.

0:22:13 > 0:22:17Firstly, this president and the two-word name of the breed.

0:22:19 > 0:22:21QUIET CONFERRING

0:22:26 > 0:22:29Scots Terrier. And the... What?

0:22:29 > 0:22:32And FDR. Oh, and the president, as well.

0:22:32 > 0:22:33Franklin D. Roosevelt.

0:22:33 > 0:22:35And a Scottish Terrier. Correct.

0:22:35 > 0:22:38Secondly, this president and the name of the breed.

0:22:38 > 0:22:39Is that a Labrador?

0:22:39 > 0:22:41No, it's not.

0:22:41 > 0:22:43Staffordshire Bull Terrier?

0:22:43 > 0:22:44No, it's not.

0:22:44 > 0:22:46I know nothing about dogs!

0:22:48 > 0:22:50Come on, let's have it, please.

0:22:52 > 0:22:54It is Bill Clinton and a boar hound, apparently.

0:22:54 > 0:22:57A boar hound?! I know. I've never heard of it.

0:22:57 > 0:23:00Neither have I! It's Bill Clinton and a Labrador Retriever.

0:23:00 > 0:23:02A chocolate Labrador Retriever, to be specific.

0:23:02 > 0:23:06And finally, this president and another two-word name of the breed.

0:23:10 > 0:23:13Harry Truman. I haven't a clue. Is it Truman?

0:23:13 > 0:23:15I think so. Harry Truman and a German Shepherd.

0:23:15 > 0:23:18No, it's Herbert Hoover and a German Shepherd. Right.

0:23:18 > 0:23:21Ten points for this. The bearded profile of Charles Dickens

0:23:21 > 0:23:25appears on a two pound coin issued by the Royal Mint in 2012.

0:23:25 > 0:23:29Alluding to money, which four words of Mr Micawber

0:23:29 > 0:23:31are inscribed on the edge?

0:23:34 > 0:23:36"Waste not, want not." Nope.

0:23:40 > 0:23:42"Something will turn up." Yes!

0:23:45 > 0:23:48Your bonuses are on the Order of Merit.

0:23:48 > 0:23:52Which Yorkshire-born artist was appointed to the Order of Merit in January 2012?

0:23:52 > 0:23:53David Hockney. Correct.

0:23:53 > 0:23:56To date, four architects have been appointed to the Order of Merit.

0:23:56 > 0:24:00Edwin Lutyens, Charles Gilbert Scott and Basil Spence are three. Who's the fourth?

0:24:02 > 0:24:03Any ideas?

0:24:03 > 0:24:07QUIET CONFERRING

0:24:07 > 0:24:09Don't know. I've forgotten.

0:24:11 > 0:24:14Aston Webb. No, it's Norman Foster.

0:24:14 > 0:24:16Finally, who in 1991

0:24:16 > 0:24:19became the only opera singer to date to have been appointed to the Order of Merit?

0:24:20 > 0:24:22Any ideas? No.

0:24:22 > 0:24:24Dame Joan... Is she an opera singer?

0:24:24 > 0:24:27Dame Joan Sutherland? Could be. Dame Joan Sutherland.

0:24:27 > 0:24:32Sutherland. Dame Joan Sutherland. Correct. Three minutes to go. Ten points for this.

0:24:32 > 0:24:36What part of the human body is the location of the adductor longus and sartorius muscles?

0:24:38 > 0:24:41The leg. The leg is correct. The upper leg.

0:24:43 > 0:24:46These bonuses, Christ Church, are on chemicals named after places.

0:24:46 > 0:24:49In each case, give the common name of the following.

0:24:49 > 0:24:54Firstly magnesium sulphate hepta-hydrate, named after a town in Surrey.

0:24:54 > 0:24:56Does he want Epsom salts, or just Epsom?

0:24:56 > 0:24:59Epsom...salts. Epsom salt is correct.

0:24:59 > 0:25:04Potassium sodium tartrate tetrahydrate, named after a French sea port on the Bay of Biscay.

0:25:10 > 0:25:12No, that's the wrong side of France, isn't it?

0:25:15 > 0:25:16Let's crack on with it. Come on.

0:25:16 > 0:25:18Pass. It's Rochelle salt.

0:25:18 > 0:25:21Finally, calcium sulphate di-hydrate,

0:25:21 > 0:25:23named after a European capital.

0:25:23 > 0:25:25Plaster of paris. Correct. Ten points for this.

0:25:25 > 0:25:30Which two words precede "in white", "in black", and "who went to bed for a year"...

0:25:30 > 0:25:33"The woman". Correct.

0:25:35 > 0:25:37These bonuses, Durham, are on Africa.

0:25:37 > 0:25:40Extending into Niger and southern Libya,

0:25:40 > 0:25:43the Tibesti Mountains lie largely within which country?

0:25:43 > 0:25:46Algeria. Algeria. Algeria.

0:25:46 > 0:25:50Algeria. No, it's Chad. Which capital city lies at the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile?

0:25:50 > 0:25:54Khartoum. Correct. What five-letter word denotes the semi-arid transition zone

0:25:54 > 0:25:58south of the Sahara Desert, extending from Senegal to Sudan?

0:25:58 > 0:26:00The Sahel. Correct. Ten points for this.

0:26:00 > 0:26:02Slightly larger than Northern Ireland,

0:26:02 > 0:26:07Lake Balkhash forms part of a closed drainage basin in which Asian country?

0:26:07 > 0:26:09Kazakhstan.

0:26:09 > 0:26:13Kazakhstan is right. Your bonuses are on George Orwell's 1984.

0:26:13 > 0:26:16Described as "A man of about 60, frail and bowed",

0:26:16 > 0:26:20who's the owner of the junk shop where Winston and Julia conduct their assignations?

0:26:20 > 0:26:21Mr Charrington. Correct.

0:26:21 > 0:26:25What's the name of the youth organisation of the party to which Julia belongs?

0:26:25 > 0:26:27Its members wear a scarlet sash.

0:26:27 > 0:26:31The Sex League. The Sex League - the Junior Sex League.

0:26:31 > 0:26:33No, it's the Junior Anti-Sex League!

0:26:33 > 0:26:36And finally, in which ministry does Winston Smith work?

0:26:36 > 0:26:40Ministry of Truth. Truth, yeah.

0:26:40 > 0:26:42Ministry of Truth. Correct. Ten points for this.

0:26:42 > 0:26:46Born 1970, which US writer's works include "You Shall Know Our Velocity",

0:26:46 > 0:26:47"What is the What" and...

0:26:47 > 0:26:50Dave Eggers. Dave Eggers is correct.

0:26:50 > 0:26:53Your bonuses this time are on European Cities of Culture, Christ Church.

0:26:53 > 0:26:59In 1990, which city became the first in the UK to be chosen as a European City of Culture?

0:26:59 > 0:27:01Is that Liverpool? When was Liverpool?

0:27:01 > 0:27:03I think it might be Glasgow. Glasgow's more recent.

0:27:04 > 0:27:06Come on!

0:27:06 > 0:27:07Edinburgh.

0:27:07 > 0:27:10No, it's Glasgow. The original site of the Bauhaus,

0:27:10 > 0:27:13which city was a European City of Culture in 1999?

0:27:13 > 0:27:16It gives its name to a constitution drawn up there in 1919.

0:27:16 > 0:27:18Weimar. Weimar.

0:27:18 > 0:27:21Weimar. Correct. A centre of the oil industry, which Norwegian city

0:27:21 > 0:27:24was, along with Liverpool, a European Capital of Culture in 2008?

0:27:26 > 0:27:28Bergen. Bergen.

0:27:28 > 0:27:31No, it's Stavanger. Ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.

0:27:31 > 0:27:35What is 20 cubed minus 20 squared?

0:27:37 > 0:27:387,600. Correct.

0:27:38 > 0:27:43These bonuses are on world leaders, Christ Church. GONG

0:27:43 > 0:27:45And at the gong, Durham have 140,

0:27:45 > 0:27:47Christ Church, Oxford have 245.

0:27:50 > 0:27:52Well, you were very entertaining, Durham!

0:27:52 > 0:27:54140 is a perfectly reasonable score to go out with.

0:27:54 > 0:27:56They were on pretty good form tonight, I thought.

0:27:56 > 0:27:58Thank you for joining us.

0:27:58 > 0:28:02Christ Church, congratulations. 245 is a magnificent score.

0:28:02 > 0:28:05We look forward to seeing you in the next stage of the competition.

0:28:05 > 0:28:07I hope you can join us next time.

0:28:07 > 0:28:10Until then, it's goodbye from Durham University. Bye!

0:28:10 > 0:28:12It's goodbye from Christ Church, Oxford. Bye!

0:28:12 > 0:28:14And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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0:28:44 > 0:28:45This is Malcolm. He owns Iceland.

0:28:45 > 0:28:49He's the one that's going to present us with the ten grand WHEN we win it.

0:28:49 > 0:28:51You've just got to make it as bearable