0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Only one place remains in the second round
0:00:32 > 0:00:34and it goes to whichever team wins this match.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38Both tonight's teams lost their first-round ties
0:00:38 > 0:00:42but did so with scores that were higher than the winning totals in other fixtures
0:00:42 > 0:00:45so they fully deserve this second and final chance to qualify.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48The team from Southampton University started well in their match
0:00:48 > 0:00:51against the London School of Oriental and African Studies
0:00:51 > 0:00:55but then wilted somewhat and left themselves too much to do to secure a victory
0:00:55 > 0:00:58despite a brave rally in the final minutes.
0:00:58 > 0:01:03At the gong, they had 155 points to their opponents' 230,
0:01:03 > 0:01:07but they still impressed us with their knowledge of cricket scores, the novels of Hilary Mantel
0:01:07 > 0:01:09and the Nottingham Goose Fair.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12With an average age of 25, let's meet the Southampton team again.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18Hello. I'm David Bishop. I'm from Reading and I'm studying Physics.
0:01:18 > 0:01:23Hello. I'm Richard Evans. I'm from Frimley in Surrey and I'm reading Chemistry.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25Their captain. Hi, I'm Bob De Caux.
0:01:25 > 0:01:30I'm originally from West Sussex and I'm studying for a PhD in Complex Systems Simulation.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Hi. I'm Matt Loxham. I'm from Preston in Lancashire
0:01:33 > 0:01:36and I'm studying for a PhD in Respiratory Toxicology.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39APPLAUSE
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Their opponents, Loughborough University,
0:01:42 > 0:01:46also came away with a score of 155 from their first round match
0:01:46 > 0:01:49after a slow start against Clare College, Cambridge,
0:01:49 > 0:01:50who were 40 points ahead of them at the gong.
0:01:50 > 0:01:55Even so, they found time to impress us with their knowledge of monkeys of the New World,
0:01:55 > 0:01:57influential women in men's clothing
0:01:57 > 0:01:59and the memoirs of Jack Straw.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03With an average age of 23, let's meet the Loughborough team again.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Hi. I'm Ali Thornton. I'm from Pennycuick in Scotland
0:02:06 > 0:02:08and I'm studying Banking Finance and Management.
0:02:08 > 0:02:13Hi. I'm Kathy Morten. I'm from Southampton and I'm studying Aeronautical Engineering.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Their captain. Hi. My name's Grant Craig.
0:02:16 > 0:02:17I'm from Bonnybridge near Falkirk
0:02:17 > 0:02:19and I'm studying for a PhD in Chemistry.
0:02:19 > 0:02:24Hi. I'm Katie Spalding from Ipswich and I'm studying Maths.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26APPLAUSE
0:02:28 > 0:02:31The rules are the same as ever they've been.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Ten points for starters, 15 for bonuses,
0:02:33 > 0:02:36five-point penalties for interruptions to starter questions.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Fingers on buzzers. Your first starter for ten.
0:02:38 > 0:02:44What given name links the Frankish ruler who defeated the Moors at the Battle of Tours in 732...
0:02:46 > 0:02:48Charles. Correct.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Your bonuses, Southampton, are on Parliament.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57In each case, given the decade during which the following legislation was passed.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01The Septennial Act, which increased the maximum length of a parliament
0:03:01 > 0:03:03from three years to seven.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05It was passed after a Jacobite uprising.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08It probably means the 1740s.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11So that, or a little bit after that.
0:03:11 > 0:03:131740s? 1750s?
0:03:16 > 0:03:201750s. No, it was the 1710s. It was 1715.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24The Parliament Act, which reduced the maximum length of a parliament to five years.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28It also removed the power of the House of Lords to veto legislation.
0:03:28 > 0:03:33That was Herbert Asquith, so it was 1908.
0:03:33 > 0:03:341900s? 1900s.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36No, it was the 1910s. It was 1911. Bad luck.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40The Fixed Term Parliaments Acts which introduced fixed-term elections
0:03:40 > 0:03:43for the first time to the Westminster Parliament.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45The 2010s?
0:03:45 > 0:03:482010? Yeah.
0:03:48 > 0:03:49It was 2011. Well done.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Ten points for this.
0:03:51 > 0:03:56What three-letter prefix links words meaning "having an external cause or origin",
0:03:56 > 0:03:58"the custom of marrying outside a community..."
0:04:00 > 0:04:01Exo. Correct.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Your bonuses are on songbirds in poetry.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11Known binomially as Turdos Philomelos,
0:04:11 > 0:04:16which songbird is described as singing "a full-hearted evensong of joy illimited"
0:04:16 > 0:04:19in a poem by Thomas Hardy?
0:04:19 > 0:04:22QUIET CONFERRING
0:04:30 > 0:04:33Try nightingale. No, it's a thrush.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36Mentioned in Edward Thomas's poem, Adlestrop,
0:04:36 > 0:04:38what is the common name of Turdus Merula?
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Maybe a blackbird? I'm not sure of that. Is that a songbird?
0:04:45 > 0:04:48QUIET CONFERRING
0:04:49 > 0:04:50Starling?
0:04:50 > 0:04:52No, it is a blackbird.
0:04:52 > 0:04:58Finally, which member of the thrush family does Keats describe as "light-winged dryad of the trees"?
0:05:03 > 0:05:07Nightingale. Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:05:07 > 0:05:12What country of birth links the recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000 and 2012?
0:05:12 > 0:05:15The winner on the former occasion being known for the novel Soul Mountain
0:05:15 > 0:05:20and on the latter for The Garlic Ballads and Red Sorghum Clan.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26India. No. Anyone like to buzz from Southampton?
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Sweden. No, it's China. Ten points for this starter question.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Catherine of Braganza, consort of Charles II,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, consort of William IV,
0:05:37 > 0:05:41were both accorded what two-word title after the deaths of their husbands?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43It's specifically used to designate...
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Queen Mother. No, you lose five points.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50It's specifically used to designate the status of a widow of a male sovereign
0:05:50 > 0:05:53who is not the mother of his successor.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Dowager Queen. No, I can't accept that. It's Queen Dowager.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Ten points for this starter question.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05The discovery of the Earth's first co-orbital asteroid
0:06:05 > 0:06:06was announced in 2011.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Jupiter, by comparison, has several thousand such objects,
0:06:09 > 0:06:13also known by what name, that of the people of an ancient city?
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Spartans. No. Anyone buzz from Southampton?
0:06:20 > 0:06:23Trojans. Trojans is correct, yes.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30Southampton, these bonuses are on diseases transmitted by insects.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32West Nile fever and Ross River virus
0:06:32 > 0:06:37are primarily transmitted to humans by a various species of which insects,
0:06:37 > 0:06:39of the family Culicidae?
0:06:48 > 0:06:50The tsetse fly. No, they're mosquitoes.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53The primary means of transmission of malaria to humans
0:06:53 > 0:06:57is a bite from an infected female of which genus of mosquito?
0:06:59 > 0:07:03Anopheles. Correct. Endemic in much of Africa and South America,
0:07:03 > 0:07:07which disease is transmitted by aedes aegypti mosquitoes?
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Jaundice is a major symptom.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Yellow fever. Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18The two-word title of a 1994 work
0:07:18 > 0:07:20by the US academic Joseph Napp,
0:07:20 > 0:07:23subtitled The Means to Success in World Politics,
0:07:23 > 0:07:30what phrase describes the ability to gain support for attraction and persuasion rather than force?
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Subliminal advertising.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37No. Loughborough?
0:07:38 > 0:07:40It's soft power. Ten points for this.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43What two terms, both denoting colour, are popularly used
0:07:43 > 0:07:49to refer to two British mammals with the specific descriptors Cariolensis and Vulgaris?
0:07:49 > 0:07:51The former is an introduced species, widely...
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Red and grey.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57It's the other way round. Grey and red squirrels, yes.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01Ten points there. Your bonuses now, Loughborough, are on websites.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05Founded by the former Facebook employees Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo,
0:08:05 > 0:08:10which question and answer site provides content from experts including Steve Case and Jimmy Wales
0:08:10 > 0:08:13the co-founders of AOL and Wikipedia, respectively?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Is it eHow?
0:08:19 > 0:08:20No, it's Quora. Secondly,
0:08:20 > 0:08:24Ben Silbermann was a co-founder in 2010 of which virtual pinboard
0:08:24 > 0:08:28which allows users to organise and share images and events
0:08:28 > 0:08:29and interests?
0:08:29 > 0:08:32Nominate Thornton. Pinterest.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Correct. Using the slogan "Follow the world's creators",
0:08:35 > 0:08:40which blog-hosting platform was founded in 2007 by David Karp
0:08:40 > 0:08:45to post and customise text, images, links and content from a desktop or phone?
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Tumblr? Yeah. Tumblr.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57It is Tumblr, yes. We're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59For your starter, you'll see a map of the United States
0:08:59 > 0:09:02with four states highlighted in two colours.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05For ten points, I want the political significance
0:09:05 > 0:09:08of those highlighted states in November 2012.
0:09:13 > 0:09:18They're Bellwether states and the colours are the parties they voted for in the 2012 presidential... No.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Widest margins of victory in each state?
0:09:24 > 0:09:27No. They're the home states of the Republican and Democratic party tickets
0:09:27 > 0:09:30in the presidential election in 2012.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33So picture bonuses shortly. Ten points at stake for this.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Signs and Wonders is a 425-piece installation
0:09:37 > 0:09:40in the uppermost cupola of the V
0:09:40 > 0:09:42by which British ceramic artist
0:09:42 > 0:09:46who wrote the best-selling 2010 family biography The Hare With Amber Eyes?
0:09:48 > 0:09:52Grayson Perry. No. Anyone to buzz...
0:09:52 > 0:09:55De Waal. It is Edmund de Waal, yes.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01The map that no-one identified showing the respective home states
0:10:01 > 0:10:06of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates in the 2012 election
0:10:06 > 0:10:08was the starter we're now following up with bonuses.
0:10:08 > 0:10:13Three more maps of the home states of the Democratic ticket in blue, Republican ticket in red.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16In each case I want the year those candidates ran for election.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18Firstly, for five.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20QUIET CONFERRING
0:10:35 > 0:10:391964. No, it's 2000. It's Gore/Lieberman and Bush/Cheney.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41And secondly.
0:10:52 > 0:10:561984. No, it's 1980. Carter/Mondale and Reagan/Bush.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58And finally.
0:11:13 > 0:11:171996. No, it's 1992. You got the right candidates, most of them.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19Another starter question.
0:11:19 > 0:11:26The Riigi-Kogu is the unicameral parliament of which EU member state?
0:11:26 > 0:11:29It meets at Toompea Castle in the centre of its capital...
0:11:30 > 0:11:34Finland. No, you lose five points. ..in the centre of its capital city
0:11:34 > 0:11:36close to an arm of the Baltic Sea.
0:11:39 > 0:11:40Estonia. Correct.
0:11:44 > 0:11:48These bonuses are on rugby players, Loughborough.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Having played for his national rugby team at under-21 level,
0:11:50 > 0:11:53who earned the first best actor nomination
0:11:53 > 0:11:56for a Spanish National with his role in Before Night Falls?
0:11:56 > 0:12:01He won an Academy Award in 2008 for his role in No Country for Old Men.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07Nominate Thornton. Javier Bardem. Correct.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Having founded the rugby magazine Tackle in 1951,
0:12:10 > 0:12:14which future revolutionary played for various Argentinean rugby clubs
0:12:14 > 0:12:16whilst studying to be a doctor?
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Che Guevara. Correct.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28And finally, a former international rugby player for Belgium, Jacques Rogge
0:12:28 > 0:12:30joined which organisation in 1991
0:12:30 > 0:12:32and became its president in 2001?
0:12:32 > 0:12:34The International Olympic Committee. Correct.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38Right. Another starter question now.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41Alexander the Great's was called Bucephalus, Napoleon's was...
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Their horse. Horses is correct, yes.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50These bonuses, Southampton, are on early film-makers.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53Born in Bristol in 1855, which film-maker developed an early film camera
0:12:53 > 0:12:55said to be capable of taking ten pictures per second?
0:12:55 > 0:12:59He's the subject of the 1951 biographical drama The Magic Box.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07We don't know. It's William Friese-Greene.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Described as the film equivalent of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb,
0:13:10 > 0:13:15around 800 reels of negatives rediscovered in Blackburn in 1994
0:13:15 > 0:13:17were produced by which pair of film-makers?
0:13:22 > 0:13:25Nominate Bishop. Powell and Pressburger?
0:13:25 > 0:13:27No, it was Mitchell and Kenyon.
0:13:27 > 0:13:32And which French brothers created the cinematograph moving picture system in the late 19th century?
0:13:32 > 0:13:36The Lumiere Brothers. Correct. Another starter question. Believed to date from the early 5th century,
0:13:36 > 0:13:40a wooden panel on the door of the church of Santa Sabina in Rome
0:13:40 > 0:13:42is one of the earliest surviving depictions of which event?
0:13:45 > 0:13:47The Crucifixion. Correct.
0:13:49 > 0:13:54These bonuses are on inorganic chemistry, Loughborough.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57What an-ion is indicated if a thick, white precipitate
0:13:57 > 0:14:00is formed when the test solution is mixed with barium chloride solution
0:14:00 > 0:14:03acidified with dilute hydrochloric acid?
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Chloride ion. No, it's sulphate.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15What cat-ion is indicated if a curd-like true white precipitate
0:14:15 > 0:14:18is formed when the test solution is mixed with silver nitrate solution
0:14:18 > 0:14:20acidified with nitric acid?
0:14:20 > 0:14:24The precipitate darkens in light and is soluble in ammonia.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Silver nitrate. No, chloride.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32What cat-ion is indicated if an intense blood-red colouration is formed
0:14:32 > 0:14:37when the test solution is mixed with potassium thio-cyanate in acid conditions?
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Phosphate. No, it's iron 3 or ferric iron.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50We'll take a music round now.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53For your music starter, you'll hear a song from a popular musical.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57Ten points if you can give me the name of the character and the musical in which he appears.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00# Why should we break our backs
0:15:00 > 0:15:02# Stupidly paying tax... #
0:15:04 > 0:15:08It's Fagin in Oliver! It is, yes.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15That was Jonathan Pryce as Fagin singing You've Got To Pick a Pocket or Two
0:15:15 > 0:15:18from a 1994 revival of the musical.
0:15:18 > 0:15:22Your bonuses, you're going to hear the song performed by three more British actors
0:15:22 > 0:15:24who played Fagin in the West End.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26In each case, name the actor, please.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Firstly, this actor, who also played the role in the film musical.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32# Why should we break our backs
0:15:32 > 0:15:34# Stupidly paying tax
0:15:34 > 0:15:37# When to get some untaxed income
0:15:37 > 0:15:40# We have to pick a pocket or two, you
0:15:40 > 0:15:43# Got to pick a pocket or two
0:15:44 > 0:15:47# You've got to pick a pocket or two. #
0:15:51 > 0:15:53Laurence Olivier. Really?!
0:15:53 > 0:15:56No, that's Ron Moody.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58Secondly, this comedian who played Fagin in 2009.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01# Why should we break our backs
0:16:01 > 0:16:03# Stupidly paying tax
0:16:03 > 0:16:06# Better get some untaxed income
0:16:06 > 0:16:08# Better pick a pocket or two
0:16:08 > 0:16:11# You've got to pick a pocket or two
0:16:14 > 0:16:17# You've got to pick a pocket or two. #
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Nominate Spalding. Is it Omid Djalili?
0:16:23 > 0:16:26It would be an interesting piece of casting. No, it's not,
0:16:26 > 0:16:30it's Russ Abbot. Finally, this comedy actor, again from 2009.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32# Why should we break our backs
0:16:32 > 0:16:35# Stupidly paying tax
0:16:35 > 0:16:38# Better get some untaxed income
0:16:38 > 0:16:41# Better pick a pocket or two
0:16:41 > 0:16:44# You've got to pick a pocket or two... #
0:16:44 > 0:16:49I'm informed it's Rowan Atkinson. It is Rowan Atkinson, yes.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51Ten points for this.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55Inserting the word "ones" - that's O-N-E-S
0:16:55 > 0:17:00after the third letter, transform the English name of which Asian country
0:17:00 > 0:17:02into that of another.
0:17:02 > 0:17:03For ten points name both.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11India and Indonesia. Correct.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17These bonuses, Southampton, are on the Caribbean.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20Now known as the Virgin Islands of the United States,
0:17:20 > 0:17:23the Caribbean islands of St Thomas, St John and St Croix
0:17:23 > 0:17:27were purchased by the US from which country in 1917?
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Spain. No, it's Denmark.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39300 kilometres east of Puerto Rico,
0:17:39 > 0:17:44the island of St Martin is one of the smallest sea islands to be divided between two countries.
0:17:44 > 0:17:45Which two countries are they?
0:17:46 > 0:17:48France and the Netherlands. Correct.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52Which Caribbean country was claimed by Christopher Columbus in 1492
0:17:52 > 0:17:55and remained under Spanish control for more than 400 years?
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Dominican Republic. No, that is part of Hispaniola. It's Cuba.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Ten points for this. What number comes next in this sequence,
0:18:10 > 0:18:12given in descending order?
0:18:12 > 0:18:158128, 496,
0:18:15 > 0:18:1728, and which...
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Six. Six.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20Perfect numbers, yes.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26These bonuses, now, Southampton, are on bread.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29A major part of the diet of northern California during the Gold Rush,
0:18:29 > 0:18:32what type of bread is made using the yeast starter technique
0:18:32 > 0:18:35which imparts a characteristic tangy flavour?
0:18:37 > 0:18:41Sourdough. Correct. What short word denotes an unleavened bread of Asian origin
0:18:41 > 0:18:45and in the Caribbean, a flatbread using as the wrapping for a savoury filling?
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Naan. No, naan is leavened. It's roti.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Usually served warm, which bread-based dish
0:19:00 > 0:19:04takes its name from the Italian meaning "to roast over coals"?
0:19:20 > 0:19:22OK. Ciabatta.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25No. That's a type of bread. It's bruschetta. Ten points for this.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28Listen carefully. Words meaning Russian emperor, Buddhist scripture
0:19:28 > 0:19:30and smallest of the litter
0:19:30 > 0:19:34may all be made using letters of the name of which planet of the solar system?
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Saturn. Saturn is correct, yes.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Southampton, these bonuses are on people born on the same day.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46In each case, identify both people from their works.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Firstly, born on November 30, 1874,
0:19:49 > 0:19:52the authors of A History of the English-speaking Peoples
0:19:52 > 0:19:54and Anne of Green Gables.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02Churchill was definitely born that year.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Is it one name we need, or two? Both.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08Winston Churchill and L.M. Montgomery. Correct.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Born on May 6, 1856,
0:20:10 > 0:20:13the authors of The Interpretation of Dreams
0:20:13 > 0:20:16and The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18Sigmund Freud and...
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Amundsen? Could be Amundsen.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24QUIET CONFERRING
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Shackleton?
0:20:30 > 0:20:33Sigmund Freud and Ernest Shackleton.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35No, Sigmund Freud and Robert Peary.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39Finally, both born on February 12 1809,
0:20:39 > 0:20:41the authors of The Descent of Man
0:20:41 > 0:20:43and the short speech known as The Gettysburg Address.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln. Correct.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54We're going to take another picture round now.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58You will see something taken from the Bedford Hours,
0:20:58 > 0:21:00an early 15th-century manuscript
0:21:00 > 0:21:03whose owners included Henry II of France and Henry VI of England,
0:21:03 > 0:21:05and which is now in the British Library.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08These images both depict one month of the year.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10For ten points, simply tell me which month.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18October.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21No. One of you may buzz, Southampton.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24August.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28No, it's September. It's Libra and the treading of the grapes.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32So picture bonuses shortly. Another starter question in the meantime. Fingers on buzzers.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Shrewsbury Town, Millwall, Sunderland and Aston Villa
0:21:35 > 0:21:38are among football clubs whose badges bear images of...
0:21:39 > 0:21:41A lion. Correct.
0:21:45 > 0:21:50So we're going to see for your picture bonuses three more pages from the Bedford Hours.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52All from the section depicting the months of the year.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54In each case, I want the month depicted.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Firstly for five.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58QUIET CONFERRING
0:22:10 > 0:22:15February. No, it's January. Janus and Aquarius, the water carrier.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Secondly, this month.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Pisces is immediately after Aquarius.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25So February, March.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27February is... No.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32January? We've had January.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Shall we say March, then?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38March. Correct. Finally...
0:22:38 > 0:22:39That's Leo.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41It's harvest time.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Leo comes after Gemini.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47In which case it would be July.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50Have we had July? No. Go with July.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53July. July is correct, yes.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57It was Leo and the cutting of the corn. Ten points for this.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00The Drunkard's Holiday, Dr Diver's Holiday and Richard Diver
0:23:00 > 0:23:06were all working titles for which novel of 1934 by F.Scott Fitzgerald?
0:23:07 > 0:23:10The Great Gatsby. Nope.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Loughborough, one of you buzz.
0:23:14 > 0:23:15The Lost Girl.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18No, it's Tender Is The Night. Ten points for this.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21Referring to a precise number of legs,
0:23:21 > 0:23:25which order of crustacea includes shrimps, prawns, crabs and lobster?
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Decapods. Decapoda is correct, yes.
0:23:31 > 0:23:36These bonuses, Southampton, are on military actions of the 1520s.
0:23:36 > 0:23:41Firstly, a decisive victory for the army of Babur over Sultan Ibrahim Lodi,
0:23:41 > 0:23:46the Battle of Panipat in 1526 led to the founding of which empire?
0:23:51 > 0:23:53The Mughal Empire. Correct.
0:23:53 > 0:23:58Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent's victory at the Battle of Mohacs in 1526
0:23:58 > 0:24:02marked the effective destruction of the monarchy of which country?
0:24:02 > 0:24:03Hungary.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06Hungary. Correct. After a naval battle and a 75-day siege,
0:24:06 > 0:24:12which major city was captured by Spanish Conquistadors under Cortez in 1521?
0:24:18 > 0:24:19Tenochtitlan.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23Yes, I would have said "Tenochtitlan", but I don't know. You got it right!
0:24:23 > 0:24:25Ten points for this. About three minutes to go.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:24:27 > 0:24:32Add the number of the current French Republic to the number of permanent members of UN Security Council.
0:24:32 > 0:24:33What number results?
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Ten. Ten is correct, yes.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Southampton, these bonuses are on an acid.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Which acid, a nitrogen compound,
0:24:43 > 0:24:46forms the principal end product of amino acid catabolism
0:24:46 > 0:24:48in birds and reptiles?
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Ornithic acid. No, it's uric acid.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01Tiny quantities of a sodium salt of uric acid
0:25:01 > 0:25:03precipitated in cartilage and bone
0:25:03 > 0:25:06are the cause of which medical condition in humans?
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Gout. Gout is correct.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14And finally, uric acid belongs to which group of organic compounds
0:25:14 > 0:25:17that also includes caffeine, xanthine and guanine?
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Nominate Loxham. Methylxanthines.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32No, they're purines. Ten points for this.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35Traditionally made by using a shuttle to loop and knot a single thread,
0:25:35 > 0:25:40tatting is a delicate hand-made form of which fabric?
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Linen. No. Loughborough?
0:25:47 > 0:25:50Silk. No, it's lace.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Ten points for this. Which highly toxic crystalline compound
0:25:53 > 0:25:56has the chemical formula KCN?
0:25:58 > 0:25:59Potassium cyanide. Correct.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Here are your bonuses.
0:26:01 > 0:26:06They're on individual gold medal winners at the 2012 London Olympics.
0:26:06 > 0:26:11In each case, I want the given name and surname of the medallist whose surname corresponds
0:26:11 > 0:26:14to the following. Firstly, the county town of Clare in Ireland.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Is it Kerry?
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Kerry?
0:26:25 > 0:26:28Sorry. No idea. That's Jessica Ennis.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Secondly, the largest island of Orkney.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Orkney islands. Come on.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40Come on.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43Chris Hoy. Chris Hoy is correct.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45And finally, the principal river of Australia.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58Bradley Wiggins. No, it's Andy Murray!
0:26:58 > 0:27:03Ten points for this. Olibanum is an alternative name for what substance
0:27:03 > 0:27:05obtained from African and Asian trees of the genus Boswellia
0:27:05 > 0:27:08and taking the form of an aromatic gum...
0:27:08 > 0:27:12Rubber. No. Anyone like to buzz from Southampton?
0:27:15 > 0:27:20Acacia gum? No, it's frankincense. I had to penalise you five points, Loughborough.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Another starter question. Ten points for this.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Which statesman said...
0:27:27 > 0:27:33Bismarck. Bismarck is correct. Bonuses now on novels whose title is a short name.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36In each case, give the title and author from the description.
0:27:36 > 0:27:41A novel of 1901 in which the title character accompanies a Tibetan lama as he wanders around India.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47GONG Kim.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49You're right but you're out of time.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52At the gong, Loughborough University have 80.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Southampton University have 185.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Well, you've just... They were pretty quick on the buzzer at various occasions.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00And you started well but faded a bit.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04Southampton, we look forward to seeing you in the next stage of the competition.
0:28:04 > 0:28:09I hope you can join us next time. Until then, it's goodbye from Loughborough University. Bye.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12It's goodbye from Southampton University. Bye.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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