0:00:14 > 0:00:16University Challenge.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:23 > 0:00:28Hello. Of the 28 teams that qualified to take part in this contest,
0:00:28 > 0:00:30only 16 now remain.
0:00:30 > 0:00:3314 of them made it straight through to this second round.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35Another two arrived here by the longer route
0:00:35 > 0:00:55having survived the play-offs for the highest-scoring losers.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57the team from the University of Bath,
0:00:57 > 0:01:00who left the competition with prudent haste!
0:01:00 > 0:01:02York were strong on food,
0:01:02 > 0:01:07answering impressively on pork pies, figs, forced rhubarb and chicken tikka masala,
0:01:07 > 0:01:11which suggests they enjoy a cutting edge cuisine in their halls of residence!
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Let's meet the York team again.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Hi, I'm Greg Carrick, I'm from Hull and I'm reading Maths.
0:01:16 > 0:01:21Hi. I'm Brian Morley, I'm from Liverpool and I'm studying History and English Literature.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24And their captain. Hi, I'm Jeremy Harris. I'm from Droxford in Hampshire.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26I'm studying an MA in Medieval History.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30Hi. I'm Laura Kemp. I'm from Colchester in Essex and I'm studying Chemistry.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33APPLAUSE
0:01:34 > 0:01:37Now, the team from Somerville College Oxford
0:01:37 > 0:01:42also had a comfortable win over Pembroke College Cambridge in their first round match.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46Their score of 255 was only 15 behind their opponents tonight.
0:01:46 > 0:02:05So on paper at least, we could be in for a close match.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Hi, I'm Zac Vermeer from Sydney Australia, and I study Law.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12And their captain. Hi. I'm Michael Davies. I'm from Blackburn in Lancashire
0:02:12 > 0:02:15and I'm studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Hi. I'm Chris Beer. I'm from Blyborough in Lincolnshire
0:02:18 > 0:02:20and I'm studying English Literature.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23APPLAUSE
0:02:25 > 0:02:28We're too far in to need recitation of the rules.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31So fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34Meanings of what five-letter palindrome include
0:02:34 > 0:02:36a small, silver Roman coin,
0:02:36 > 0:02:39one-sixtieth of a fluid drachm,
0:02:39 > 0:02:41a short, vertical stroke in calligraphy
0:02:41 > 0:02:45and a musical note represented by a ring with a stem...
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Minim. Minim is correct, yes.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53The first set of bonuses are to you, Somerville.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57They're on polemics. 15 points at stake. Five points for this first.
0:02:57 > 0:03:15Subtitled Six Polemics on Religion and An Essay on Kindness,
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Nominate Vermeer.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Enfrais? No, it's A.C.Grayling. Oh, sorry.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Which English poet was noted for his polemical writings,
0:03:27 > 0:03:32particularly his Areopagitica of 1644 in which he attacks censorship?
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Milton. Milton. Correct.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Best known for an 1854 work on self-sufficiency,
0:03:38 > 0:03:44which US writer wrote Slavery in Massachusetts, a polemic against the Fugitive Slave law?
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Thoreau. Thoreau is correct, yes.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56A starter question. What is the common two-word name of the fish Rhincodon typus?
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Unlike many of its related species,
0:03:58 > 0:04:01it's not aggressive, feeds solely on plankton
0:04:01 > 0:04:03and can reach lengths of more than 15 metres...
0:04:03 > 0:04:25Basking shark. No. Somerville, you get the rest of it.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Jack Dorsey sent an automated message
0:04:27 > 0:04:30followed by the two words, "inviting co-workers",
0:04:30 > 0:04:34thereby inaugurating which social network site?
0:04:34 > 0:04:37QUIET CONFERRING
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Facebook. No, it's Twitter.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45The message Merry Christmas, sent by the engineer Neil Papworth
0:04:45 > 0:04:47to a colleague in the UK in December 1992
0:04:47 > 0:04:49was the first sent in what form?
0:04:51 > 0:04:54SMS. Text message is correct, yes.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57The phrase "What hath God wrought",
0:04:57 > 0:05:00transmitted from Baltimore to Washington DC in 1844
0:05:00 > 0:05:04constituted an early message sent by what technology?
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Telegraph. Electrical Morse telegraph is correct.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11Ten points for this. Listen carefully. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:05:11 > 0:05:17Take the word "machine", discount those letters that are not Roman numerals,
0:05:17 > 0:05:37and tell me what four-digit decimal number is represented by the remainder.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43Right. These bonuses are on eponymous shapes, Somerville.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46A figure of eight shaped curve
0:05:46 > 0:05:50with the polar equation R squared equals A squared cos two theta
0:05:50 > 0:05:54is called the Lemniscate of which Swiss mathematician?
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Euler. No, it's Bernoulli.
0:06:03 > 0:06:08Curves defined by the bipolar equation R-R-Dash equals K squared
0:06:08 > 0:06:11consisting of either two ovals or a single oval
0:06:11 > 0:06:15are known as the Ovals of which Italian-born astronomer?
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Galileo. No, it's Cassini.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23A spiral with polar equation R equals A theta
0:06:23 > 0:06:25is named after which Greek mathematician
0:06:25 > 0:06:47who described it in his treatise on spirals in 225 BC?
0:06:47 > 0:06:53"What it is to hold a leg at shoulder height or twist until your muscles nearly snap,
0:06:53 > 0:06:55"this is what his images express."
0:06:55 > 0:06:59These words from the Observer refer to an exhibition at the Royal Academy
0:06:59 > 0:07:02of the works of which artist born in Paris in 1834?
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Degas. Degas is correct, yes.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Your bonuses are on a shared nickname.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Which US state was nicknamed The Baby State
0:07:18 > 0:07:21because until the entry of Alaska and Hawaii in 1959,
0:07:21 > 0:07:24it had been the last state to join the Union,
0:07:24 > 0:07:26having done so in 1912?
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Arizona. Correct.
0:07:37 > 0:07:58Which US comic actor was often credited with the first name Babe,
0:08:00 > 0:08:03Happy with that? Nominate Karbalai.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Fatty Arbuckle. No, it wasn't. It was Oliver Hardy.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10And finally, the flowering plant popularly known as Baby's Breath
0:08:10 > 0:08:14is also known by what name from the Greek for "chalk-loving"?
0:08:24 > 0:08:29Gypsophile. No, it's not quite close enough, but you worked it out well. It's Gypsophila.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32So we're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35For your picture starter you'll see a map of Northern Ireland
0:08:35 > 0:08:36with a county highlighted.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39For ten points, simply name the county.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44County Fermanagh. Fermanagh is correct, yes.
0:08:45 > 0:09:06So, following on from Fermanagh, you get for your picture bonuses
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Secondly, B.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Armagh. Armagh is correct. And finally C.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Antrim. Antrim is right.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Another starter question now.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24Fingers on buzzers. Give a complete answer when your name is called.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28The largest land-locked countries in the world are Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31The next four largest are all in Africa.
0:09:31 > 0:09:32Name two of them.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Somali. Two of them!
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Sorry. I can't accept it, I'm afraid.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43One of you buzz from Somerville.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Sudan and Chad.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48No. Sudan is not one of them.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50So, ten points for this one.
0:09:50 > 0:09:55In a 1755 dictionary what four-letter word did Dr Johnson define as
0:09:55 > 0:10:18"one who adheres to the ancient constitution of the state and..."
0:10:21 > 0:10:26Arden. Correct. Who's the author of the 1997 novel Human Croquet
0:10:26 > 0:10:29in which the narrator lives in a house called Arden
0:10:29 > 0:10:31on the site of what was once a great forest?
0:10:31 > 0:10:36Her other works include Emotionally Weird and Behind the Scenes at the Museum.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Margaret Drabble. No, it's Kate Atkinson.
0:10:49 > 0:10:54Finally, which town in Kent appears in the title of the play sometimes attributed in part to Shakespeare
0:10:54 > 0:10:58based on a real-life murder of the Tudor businessman Thomas Arden?
0:11:30 > 0:11:33Hans Fallada. Correct, yes.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41Right. These bonuses, Somerville, are on parasites.
0:11:41 > 0:11:47Cestodiasis is a name given to an infestation of which parasitic flatworms,
0:11:47 > 0:11:51often as a result of eating undercooked meat?
0:12:03 > 0:12:05(Tapeworms?) Tapeworms. Correct.
0:12:05 > 0:12:10Roundworms and threadworms belong to which phylum of parasitic worms
0:12:10 > 0:12:11with tapering unsegmented bodies?
0:12:16 > 0:12:39Nominate Karbalai. Nematodes. Nematodes is right.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45Plaice. No, it's fluke! Ten points for this.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47To the nearest billion years,
0:12:47 > 0:12:51according to analysis of data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy probe satellite,
0:12:51 > 0:12:54and also the formula known as Hubble Time,
0:12:54 > 0:12:57what is the best current estimate...
0:12:58 > 0:13:0013 billion.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03No. And you lose five points.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05..current estimate of the age of the universe?
0:13:07 > 0:13:0914 billion.
0:13:09 > 0:13:1014 billion is correct, yes.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16It's 13.7 or 13.84.
0:13:16 > 0:13:21You get a set of bonuses, now, York, on a European playwright.
0:13:21 > 0:13:26Pelleas et Melisande is a work by which Belgian symbolist playwright
0:13:26 > 0:13:48who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911?
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Alban Berg? No, it's Schoenberg.
0:13:53 > 0:13:58Finally, which French poet, artist and film-maker provided set designs and costumes
0:13:58 > 0:14:03for a production of Pelleas et Melisande in 1963, the year of his death?
0:14:16 > 0:14:20Pass. Jean Cocteau. A music round now.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24For your music starter you'll hear an aria from a 19th-century opera.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27Ten points if you can name the opera.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32La Traviata. Yes.
0:14:37 > 0:14:56We follow The Drinking Song from La Traviata with bonuses.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58# Drink, drink, drink, drink
0:14:58 > 0:15:02# Your lips they are red and sweet as the bloom on the tree
0:15:02 > 0:15:06# Here's a hope that those bright eyes will shine
0:15:06 > 0:15:10# Lovingly, longingly... #
0:15:10 > 0:15:12The Student Prince?
0:15:14 > 0:15:20The Student Prince. It is The Student Prince. Secondly, this 19th-century opera.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23MAN SINGS IN GERMAN
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Die Fledermaus. Die Fledermaus.
0:15:29 > 0:15:30Indeed it is, "the champagne song".
0:15:30 > 0:15:33And finally, this 18th-century opera.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36MAN SINGS IN ITALIAN
0:16:06 > 0:16:11what number is obtained by adding the number of vertices to the number of faces
0:16:11 > 0:16:13and then subtracting the number of edges?
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Two. Correct.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Your bonuses, York, are on a Scottish noble family.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28James Hamilton, the first Duke of Hamilton
0:16:28 > 0:16:32was defeated by Oliver Cromwell at which battle of August 1648?
0:16:32 > 0:16:35He was executed for treason some weeks after King Charles I.
0:16:53 > 0:16:54Dunbar?
0:16:54 > 0:16:57No, it's Preston. James Hamilton's brother, the second duke,
0:16:57 > 0:17:16died soon after the Scots' defeat by Cromwell at which battle of 1651
0:17:16 > 0:17:21Which novelist used this event in his 1852 work, The History of Henry Esmond?
0:17:34 > 0:17:37Thackeray? It was Thackeray. Ten points for this.
0:17:37 > 0:17:42Introduced in 1966 by the African American activist Maulana Karenga,
0:17:42 > 0:17:46which secular festival celebrates seven principles, including...
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is correct, yes.
0:17:52 > 0:17:58Somerville, these bonuses are on physicists born on 5 December.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Firstly, noted on his work on grand unified theories,
0:18:00 > 0:18:04which US physicist won the Nobel Prize in 1979
0:18:04 > 0:18:28for his contributions to the unification of electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force?
0:18:31 > 0:18:34Do we have any physicists that would fit?
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Think of British physicists.
0:18:36 > 0:18:41Rutherford. No. It's Cecil Powell.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45Finally, which German physicist won the Nobel Prize in 1932
0:18:45 > 0:18:48and is associated with uncertainty principles?
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Heisenberg. Heisenberg is correct, yes.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57Ten points for this. Introduced by the US cardiologist Meyer Friedman
0:18:57 > 0:19:00and Ray H.Rosenman in 1959,
0:19:00 > 0:19:02what term describes a personality type
0:19:02 > 0:19:06characterised by hurried activity, impatience, ambition and competitiveness?
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Type A. Type A is right.
0:19:16 > 0:19:36Your bonuses, this time, you Type A's over in Somerville,
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Taft. Correct.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42Taft was forced to run against which former Republican president
0:19:42 > 0:19:45who formed the short-lived Bull Moose Party
0:19:45 > 0:19:48as an alternative to Taff's perceived anti-progressive policies?
0:19:48 > 0:19:51Theodore Roosevelt. Correct. Ten points for this.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55What name connects an English organist and composer born 1583,
0:19:55 > 0:19:57the brother of Oliver in Shakespeare's As You Like It
0:19:57 > 0:20:00and a novel by Virginia Woolf about a poet whose life spans...
0:20:01 > 0:20:06Orlando. Orlando is correct. These bonuses are on island nations.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09The last four letters of which island nation
0:20:09 > 0:20:12spell the word for Earth, the planet, that is,
0:20:12 > 0:20:14in German.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Cape Verde. Cape Verde is correct.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26The last four letters of the name of which Indian island nation
0:20:26 > 0:20:47mean "mountain" in Greek.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Grenada. Grenada is correct, yes.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55A picture round now. For your picture starter,
0:20:55 > 0:20:57you'll see a painting of a political figure and author.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59For ten points, I simply want his name.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Machiavelli. It is Machiavelli, yes.
0:21:07 > 0:21:122013 marks the 500th anniversary of Machiavelli's The Prince.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16For your bonuses, you'll see other powerful figures of the Italian Renaissance.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20Five points for each you can identify. Who's this, born 1480?
0:21:28 > 0:21:32Lucrezia Borgia. Correct. Secondly, both the given name and the family name
0:21:32 > 0:21:35of the kneeling adult in blue, born 1452.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37QUIET CONFERRING
0:21:59 > 0:22:01Lorenzo Medici. Correct.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05Ten points for this. In which US city is The Gateway Arch, a monument of the westward expansion...
0:22:06 > 0:22:09St Louis. St Louis is correct.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15These bonuses are on post-war British politics, York.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18Later elevated to the peerage as Baroness Falkender,
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Marcia Williams was the personal political secretary and close advisor
0:22:21 > 0:22:24to which British prime minister?
0:22:35 > 0:22:36I think we'd better have it, please.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Brown. No, it wasn't. It was Harold Wilson.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Who became a junior minister under Harold Wilson in 1966
0:22:46 > 0:22:49and Shadow Home Secretary in 1971?
0:22:49 > 0:23:08She was later one of the founder members of the Social Democratic Party.
0:23:08 > 0:23:14Which two geological periods lie on either side of the event known as the K-T extinction,
0:23:14 > 0:23:16at which non-avian dinosaurs disappeared?
0:23:16 > 0:23:19It occurred around 65 million years ago.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Jurassic and Cenozoic.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28No. Anyone want to buzz from Somerville?
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Jurassic and Triassic?
0:23:31 > 0:23:34No, it's cretaceous and tertiary. Ten points for this.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38Which metallic element derives its name from an asteroid discovered in 1803
0:23:38 > 0:23:41which in turn derives its name from an epithet of the goddess Athena?
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Natorium?
0:23:46 > 0:23:48No. Anyone want to buzz from York?
0:23:49 > 0:23:51It's Palladium. Ten points for this.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Originally a Tamil word for drummer,
0:23:54 > 0:23:57what term came to be applied to any castless Hindu,
0:23:57 > 0:24:19hence its current usage in denoting a social outcast?
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Henry V. No. Anyone buzz from Somerville?
0:24:24 > 0:24:27King Lear. King Lear is correct.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31These bonuses, Somerville, are on physics.
0:24:31 > 0:24:36What isotope is used as the standard for the relative measurement of molecular masses?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Carbon 12. Correct. What name is given to the amount of a substance
0:24:43 > 0:24:47which contains as many molecules as 12 grams of Carbon 12?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50A mole. Correct.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54To one significant figure, how many molecules are there in one mole of a substance?
0:24:58 > 0:25:01Six times ten to the power of 23. Correct!
0:25:01 > 0:25:02Ten points for this.
0:25:02 > 0:25:09Introduced in 2011, the upper case PP logo shown at the start and end of relevant TV programmes
0:25:09 > 0:25:29is a symbol denoting what?
0:25:29 > 0:25:31and in each case name the organisation.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Firstly, Doha, Damascus, Riyadh and Khartoum.
0:25:39 > 0:25:44The Arab League. Correct. Secondly, Perth, Port of Spain, Kampala, Valetta and Abuja.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53We don't know. Commonwealth Heads of Government meetings.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56And finally, Cannes, Seoul, Toronto, Pittsburgh and London.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01G20. Correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:26:03 > 0:26:08If you add together the number of books in Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia series,
0:26:08 > 0:26:10what number results?
0:26:10 > 0:26:1714. Correct. You get a set of bonuses, Somerville, on fictitious US States.
0:26:17 > 0:26:37The home town of which fictional family is sometimes claimed to be in the state of North Tacoma?
0:26:37 > 0:26:42San Andreas and Alderney are fictitious states in which series of video games?
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Grand Theft Auto. Correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:44 > 0:26:50In 2012, Lord Dyson succeeded Lord Neuberger as the holder of what senior judicial office?
0:26:52 > 0:26:54President of the Supreme Court.
0:26:54 > 0:26:55No. Anyone to buzz from York?
0:26:58 > 0:27:02Lord Chancellor. No, it's Master of the Rolls. Ten points for this.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04After Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian,
0:27:04 > 0:27:06which romance language has the most speakers?
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Romanian. Romanian is correct.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12These bonuses are on medical terminology.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15In each case, I want to know what is signified by the following suffixes.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Asthenia.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24It's a paralysis. Paralysis.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26No, it's weakness, loss of strength.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Secondly dynia, or algia.
0:27:29 > 0:27:48Pain. Pain.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50In each case, name the director of the following.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53GONG And at the gong, York University have 135,
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Somerville College Oxford have 240.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06We have to say goodbye to you, York.
0:28:06 > 0:28:11You were on great form in the last match. You were on less good form tonight,
0:28:11 > 0:28:13and you were beaten by a very, very good team.
0:28:13 > 0:28:17Congratulations, Somerville. We look forward to seeing you in the next stage of the competition.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21I hope you can join us next time. Until then, it's goodbye from York University.
0:28:21 > 0:28:25Goodbye! It's goodbye from Somerville College, Oxford. Bye!
0:28:25 > 0:28:27And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.