0:00:31 > 0:00:33win the first place in the quarter-finals.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36Whichever team wins tonight will join them.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39The team from Downing College, Cambridge,
0:00:39 > 0:00:43scored 260 points in their first round match against St John's College, Oxford.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47They answered impressively on Newtonian mechanics, quadratic equations
0:00:47 > 0:00:49and rivers in Nottinghamshire,
0:00:49 > 0:00:54although at one point we did catch them all counting up to seven on their fingers!
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Let's meet the Downing College team again.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59Hello. I'm Tom Claxton, from Grantham in Lincolnshire
0:00:59 > 0:01:01and I'm reading Natural Sciences.
0:01:01 > 0:01:06Hi. I'm Georgina Phillips from Shoreham-by-Sea in Sussex and I'm studying Geography.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09And their captain. Hello, I'm John Morgan from Abingdon in Oxfordshire
0:01:09 > 0:01:13and I'm studying for a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Hi. I'm Tom Rees from Guildford, and I do Maths.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19APPLAUSE
0:01:21 > 0:01:23The team from Queen's University Belfast
0:01:23 > 0:01:42were neck and neck for much of their first-round match against Aberdeen University,
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Hi. My name is Suzanne Cobain.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46I'm from County Down and I'm reading History.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Hello. I'm Gareth Gamble from Lurgan in County Armagh
0:01:49 > 0:01:51and I'm studying medicine. And their captain.
0:01:51 > 0:01:57Hello. I'm Joseph Greenwood from Manchester and I'm studying for a PhD in Irish Theatre.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Hello. I'm Alexander Green from Lytham in Lancashire
0:02:00 > 0:02:03and I'm studying for a PhD in Plasma Physics.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05APPLAUSE
0:02:07 > 0:02:12OK. Let's just get on with it, then. Fingers on buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Highlighting the number of stabbings in Shakespeare,
0:02:15 > 0:02:20"Mrs Schofield's GCSE" is a response by which poet
0:02:20 > 0:02:24to the removal of another of her works from a GCSE syllabus...
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Carol Ann Duffy. Correct.
0:02:30 > 0:02:51Queen's, your first set of bonuses are on a zoological term.
0:02:51 > 0:02:56Native to south and south-east Asia, it's generally recognised as being the world's largest venomous snake.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01King Cobra? Black Mamba? Largest.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Black Mamba.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06No, it's the King Cobra. An eagle devouring a serpent
0:03:06 > 0:03:09appears on the flag of which Latin American country?
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Mexico. Correct. Another starter question.
0:03:12 > 0:03:18"The American continents are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonisation
0:03:18 > 0:03:20"by any European powers."
0:03:20 > 0:03:23These are the words of which US president in a speech...
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Monroe. The origin of the Monroe Doctrine is correct.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32These bonuses, Queen's, are on a word.
0:03:32 > 0:03:37Give either of the two Greek-derived words defined by John Stuart Mill in 1868
0:03:37 > 0:03:41as something that is "too bad to be practicable", in contrast to its opposite,
0:03:41 > 0:04:02"a proposal that is impracticably ideal".
0:04:04 > 0:04:07P.D. James. Correct. Noted for his dystopian works,
0:04:07 > 0:04:10which author's first novel, The Drowned World,
0:04:10 > 0:04:12was published in 1962?
0:04:18 > 0:04:21John Wyndham. No, it was J.G. Ballard.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23Ten points for this. In topology,
0:04:23 > 0:04:26what term describes a function between topological spaces
0:04:26 > 0:04:30for which the inverse image of any open set is open,
0:04:30 > 0:04:32a definition that captures the informal notion
0:04:32 > 0:04:36that the function changes gradually, as the variable changes?
0:04:39 > 0:04:40Convex.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42No. Anyone like to buzz from Queen's?
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Concave. No, it's continuous. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51John Donne's Meditation number 17
0:04:51 > 0:05:14includes a sentence that begins, "No man is an island."
0:05:16 > 0:05:17Isotopes. Correct.
0:05:17 > 0:05:23What is the name of the equilibrium between the keto- and enol- forms of a compound?
0:05:28 > 0:05:29Pass.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Tautomeric or tortomerism.
0:05:31 > 0:05:36Two different physical forms of the same element within the same phase are called what?
0:05:37 > 0:05:41Allotrope. Allotrope is correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45What term was coined by the Irish-born painter Robert Barker
0:05:45 > 0:05:48to denote his works from the 1780s onwards
0:05:48 > 0:05:50consisting of large-scale single canvasses
0:05:50 > 0:05:54intended to be displayed on the interior walls of a cylindrical structure
0:05:54 > 0:05:56and viewed from the inside?
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Panorama.
0:05:59 > 0:06:00Correct.
0:06:02 > 0:06:21These bonuses are on the works of Karl Marx.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Hunter/gatherers. No, it's Communist.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34The subject of an 1845 work by Marx,
0:06:34 > 0:06:39which German philosopher established himself as the mentor of the Young Hegelian or Left Hegelian movement
0:06:39 > 0:06:42with such works as "The Essence of Christianity"?
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Kant. No, it was Ludwig Feuerbach.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55Finally, Marx's pamphlet "The Civil War in France"
0:06:55 > 0:07:00was concerned with which insurrection of 1871 against the French government?
0:07:07 > 0:07:10The Franco Prussian War? No, it's the Paris Commune.
0:07:10 > 0:07:31We're going to take a picture round.
0:07:35 > 0:07:36Basic sponge, yes.
0:07:36 > 0:07:41Delia Smith's works have accompanied many a student leaving home for the first time.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45For your bonuses, you'll see a list of ingredients for three more of her recipes.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47For each one, I want the name of the finished product.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Caramel. It is caramel, yes.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Secondly, the specific name of this sauce.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15Parsley sauce. No, that's Bechamel sauce.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Finally, the two-word term for what's being made here.
0:08:40 > 0:08:45by the French philosopher Destutt de Tracy to denote a science of ideas,
0:08:45 > 0:08:48what term has come to mean a total system of thought and emotion
0:08:48 > 0:08:51by which a social or political group makes sense of the world?
0:08:53 > 0:08:54Discourse.
0:08:54 > 0:08:55Nope.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02Hegemony. No, it's ideology. Ten points for this.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Which of Shakespeare's characters has been described thus:
0:09:05 > 0:09:08"Mostly, he likes to watch. He's melancholy, brooding and sentimental
0:09:08 > 0:09:11"and some have seen in him a rough sketch for Hamlet.
0:09:11 > 0:09:16"Others find him little more than a self-deluding, jaundiced, one-time libertine."
0:09:16 > 0:09:19The character in question appears in As You Like It
0:09:19 > 0:09:23and delivers the speech "All the world's a stage."
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Benedict.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29No. Downing, one of you buzz.
0:09:32 > 0:09:53Falstaff. No, it's Melancholy Jaques. Ten points for this.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Three questions on royal spouses for you, Queen's.
0:09:56 > 0:10:02Described by Churchill as "disposed by remarkable appetite and thirst for all the pleasures of the table",
0:10:02 > 0:10:06George of Denmark was the husband of which British monarch?
0:10:11 > 0:10:13Queen Anne. Correct.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15After his marriage to a British monarch,
0:10:15 > 0:10:19who was married successively to Elizabeth of Valoire and to Anna of Austria?
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Pass.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Phillip II of Spain.
0:10:28 > 0:10:32Finally, which future monarch married Lord Guildford Dudley
0:10:32 > 0:10:34the year before they were both executed at the Tower of London?
0:10:36 > 0:10:40Mary, Queen of Scots. No, it was Lady Jane Grey. Ten points for this.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42In his office at Princeton University,
0:10:42 > 0:11:01Albert Einstein displayed portraits of Faraday, Newton and which Scottish scientist
0:11:01 > 0:11:04Which German scientist gives his name to the principle
0:11:04 > 0:11:08that one cannot simultaneously know the exact momentum and position of a particle?
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Heisenberg. Correct.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Which Austrian scientist gives his name to the principle
0:11:12 > 0:11:17whose consequence is that no two electrons in a molecule can be in the same quantum state?
0:11:17 > 0:11:21Pauli. Correct. Which Austrian scientist conjected the possibility
0:11:21 > 0:11:24of a cat that was simultaneously dead and alive?
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Schrodinger. Correct. Ten points for this.
0:11:26 > 0:11:30In compound nouns, which seven-letter gerund
0:11:30 > 0:11:36may follow words including frequency, bed, channel, bar and island?
0:11:36 > 0:11:41Alone, the same word may refer to the use of a traditional flavouring agent in beer.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Hopping. Hopping is correct, yes.
0:11:48 > 0:12:10Right, Queen's. These bonuses are on West Africa.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Nominate Green. Senegal.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14No, the Republic of Guinea.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18Secondly, which two major rivers flow north-west from the Fouta Djallon
0:12:18 > 0:12:22and give their names to neighbouring countries on the West African coast?
0:12:27 > 0:12:30No, we don't know. Senegal and Gambia is the answer.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Which river rises in the Guinea Highlands
0:12:32 > 0:12:36and flows north-east through Mali before entering the country to which it gives its name?
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Nominate Green. Niger.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47Niger is correct, yes. Ten points for this.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51A decision by the International Hydrographic Organisation in 2000
0:12:51 > 0:12:57delimited a fifth world ocean with the unique distinction of being a large circum-polar body of water...
0:12:58 > 0:13:23South Sea. South... No. You lose five points.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25What is the fourth and last?
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Gotterdammerung. Correct.
0:13:28 > 0:13:33Secondly, published from 1957, Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea
0:13:33 > 0:13:38form a tetralogy by Lawrence Durrell named after which Mediterranean city?
0:13:45 > 0:13:48Naples. No, it's Alexandria. The Alexandria Quartet.
0:13:48 > 0:13:53And finally, the four Shakespeare plays sometimes known as the major tetralogy
0:13:53 > 0:13:57begin with the tragedy of which king who ruled from 1377?
0:14:11 > 0:14:28Come along, then, please.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Puccini, Turandot. Correct.
0:14:34 > 0:14:39Nessun Dorma is almost synonymous with the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42For your bonuses, you'll hear three other pieces of classical music
0:14:42 > 0:14:44used for TV coverage of football tournaments.
0:14:44 > 0:14:49In each case, I want the tournament and the year in which the music was used.
0:14:49 > 0:14:50Firstly for five.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54MUSIC: Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Euro 2012.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13Spot on. Well done. It was from Peter and the Wolf, of course.
0:15:13 > 0:15:14Secondly.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17MUSIC: Pavane by Gabriel Faure
0:15:18 > 0:15:211998 World Cup.
0:15:21 > 0:15:43Yes, it was Faure's Pavane. And finally...
0:15:54 > 0:15:562004, Holland and Belgium.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00No. Bad luck. It was Euro 2008. But well done otherwise.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Queen of the Night Aria from The Magic Flute.
0:16:02 > 0:16:07Ten points for this. The name of which composite nuclear particle containing six quarks
0:16:07 > 0:16:11forms the first eight letters of a book of the Old Testament?
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Deuteronomy. No. Anyone want to buzz from Downing?
0:16:18 > 0:16:21Deuteron. Deuteron is correct, yes.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26Deuteronomy was the book in the Old Testament.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Your bonuses, Downing College, are on mathematics.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Given the mathematical function F,
0:16:30 > 0:16:49what name is given to the function whose composition with F equals the identity function?
0:16:53 > 0:16:55X to the third, minus one.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58No, it's the cube root of Y minus one.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Finally, written as a function of Y,
0:17:00 > 0:17:05what is the inverse of the function Y equals E to the power X?
0:17:05 > 0:17:07LN of Y.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09That's correct. The natural logarithm of Y.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Ten points for this. On 25 December 1991
0:17:12 > 0:17:15who resigned as president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
0:17:15 > 0:17:18at the same time that this polity was dissolved?
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Gorbachev. Mikhail Gorbachev is right.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28Queen's, these bonuses are on pairs of proper names
0:17:28 > 0:17:33that differ only by the addition of the letter B as the initial letter.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36For example, Radley and Bradley.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38In each case, give both words from the explanations.
0:17:38 > 0:17:58Firstly, female character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
0:18:00 > 0:18:05Nominate. Oise and Boise. Oise and Boise, yes.
0:18:05 > 0:18:11And finally, eponymous land in a novel by L.Frank Baum
0:18:11 > 0:18:13and early pen-name of Charles Dickens.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16Oz and Boz. Oz and Boz is right. Ten points for this.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21Formed at Netscape in 1998 as an open source project,
0:18:21 > 0:18:23which global non-profit organisation
0:18:23 > 0:18:25created the Firefox web browser?
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Mozilla. Mozilla is right.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33A set of bonuses on battles for you now, Queen's University.
0:18:33 > 0:18:39Now in the German state of Saxony, which city gives its name to the Battle of the Nations of 1813?
0:18:39 > 0:18:44One of the largest battles before the First World War, it ended in defeat for Napoleon.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09The war in Indo-China was decided by which battle
0:19:09 > 0:19:13when the Vietminh under General Giap used bicycles to carry supplies
0:19:13 > 0:19:17and surround the French positions which were overrun in May 1954?
0:19:30 > 0:19:34Hanoi. No, it was Dien Bien Phu. Ten points for this.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36Give the name of the chemical element
0:19:36 > 0:19:41that has the same symbol as that of the SI base unit of thermodynamic temperature.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Oh, no, it's not.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48Sorry, if you buzz, you must answer. Queen's?
0:19:48 > 0:19:51Potassium. Potassium is correct.
0:19:51 > 0:19:52K for Kelvin.
0:19:55 > 0:19:59These bonuses are on the Orwell prize for political writing.
0:19:59 > 0:20:15Which Scottish author won the first Orwell prize for journalism in 1994?
0:20:15 > 0:20:17No, it's Neal Ascherson. Bad luck.
0:20:17 > 0:20:23Which former Lord Chief Justice won the 2011 Book Prize for The Rule of Law,
0:20:23 > 0:20:25the award being made posthumously?
0:20:29 > 0:20:31We don't know. That was Tom, Lord Bingham of Cornhill.
0:20:31 > 0:20:36Writing anonymously, Richard Horton won the first Orwell Prize for Blogging in 2009
0:20:36 > 0:20:39with Night Jack, dealing with which profession?
0:20:41 > 0:20:44The police service. Correct, he was a policeman.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47For your picture starter in this second picture round,
0:20:47 > 0:20:50you're going to see a sculpture in an outdoor setting.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52For ten points, simply name the sculptor.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59Gormley. Anthony Gormley is correct. One Other.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04That can be seen at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08For your picture bonus questions, here are three more artworks
0:21:08 > 0:21:28that have been on display at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Nominate Phillips. Brancusi.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38No, that's Anthony Caro's Promenade.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40And finally.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50LeWitt. No, that's Barbara Hepworth's Family of Man.
0:21:50 > 0:21:55Ten points for this. Coach, biro and goulash are among English words
0:21:55 > 0:21:56that derive ultimately from...
0:21:56 > 0:22:00Hungarian. Hungarian is correct, yes.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Three questions for your bonuses on optics.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09In optics, what two-word term is used to denote the failure of rays
0:22:09 > 0:22:12from a point object on the optic axis of a lens
0:22:12 > 0:22:14to converge to a point image?
0:22:36 > 0:22:40Or chromatic aberration. Chromatic aberration I'll accept.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Finally, which colour of the visible spectrum of light
0:22:43 > 0:22:47has the largest refracted indexing glass?
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Violet. Violet is right, yes.
0:22:56 > 0:22:57Ten points for this.
0:22:57 > 0:23:03Riefler, Von Sterneck, Compensated, Torsion and Foucault are varieties...
0:23:04 > 0:23:05Pendulum. Correct.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12These bonuses are on physical geography, Downing College.
0:23:12 > 0:23:17On a weather map, an isohel connects points having equal levels of what?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Sunlight. Yes, solar radiation.
0:23:25 > 0:23:47On the same class of map, what points are connected by an isohyet?
0:23:50 > 0:23:51Come on. Snow.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55It's equal wind speed. About three minutes 45 to go. Ten points for this.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Of which operatic title character did Maria Callas say,
0:23:58 > 0:24:03"She is more like a man than a woman. The role doesn't interest me. It's against my principles."
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Carmen. Carmen is correct, yes.
0:24:09 > 0:24:16These bonuses are on palindromic years. For example, 1991 or 2002.
0:24:16 > 0:24:22In which palindromic year BC did the surrender of Athens bring the Peloponnesian War to an end?
0:24:30 > 0:24:32404. Correct.
0:24:32 > 0:24:36In which year did King Alfred the Great defeat the Danes at the Battle of Edington?
0:24:56 > 0:24:58the wife of King Charles II?
0:25:04 > 0:25:07Nominate Cobain. 1661. Correct.
0:25:08 > 0:25:14Ten points for this. Which two-digit number follows GB, IQ and 19
0:25:14 > 0:25:18to give the titles of novels by David Peace, Haruki Murakami...
0:25:18 > 0:25:2084. 84 is correct.
0:25:25 > 0:25:29Your bonuses, Downing College, are on pharmacology.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33Many drugs are purified or modified versions of chemicals originally extracted from plants.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35In each case, give the plant source of the following drugs.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39Firstly, the anticholinergic drug Atropine.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Pass. It's from deadly nightshade or Belladonna.
0:25:45 > 0:26:06The anti-inflammatory drug Colchicine.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Ace. Ace is correct, yes.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15Your bonuses, Downing College, are on novels first published in 1928.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17Name the author of each of the following.
0:26:17 > 0:26:18First, for five points, Last Post,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21the final novel of the Parade's End sequence?
0:26:26 > 0:26:29Virginia Woolf. No, that's Ford Madox Ford.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Second, The Well of Loneliness.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Virginia Woolf. No, that was Radclyffe Hall.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37And finally, Decline and Fall.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Virginia Woolf. No, that was Evelyn Waugh.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Ten points for this. Identify the poet who wrote these lines.
0:26:49 > 0:26:54"The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
0:26:55 > 0:26:57John Milton. Correct.
0:26:57 > 0:27:17These bonuses, Downing College, are on European capitals.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19which city is on the river Dnieper?
0:27:28 > 0:27:29Riga. No, it's Kiev.
0:27:29 > 0:27:33Finally, which city became the capital of a newly-independent country in 1918
0:27:33 > 0:27:37and lies on both sides of the River Vltava?
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Warsaw. No, it's Prague. Ten points for this.
0:27:45 > 0:27:50Which ancient Greek philosopher's doctrine that "All animate beings are of the same family"
0:27:50 > 0:27:53led to his becoming associated with vegetarianism?
0:27:56 > 0:27:58Empedocles. GONG
0:27:58 > 0:27:59No, it was Pythagoras.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02At the gong, Downing College have 135.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Queen's University Belfast have 210.
0:28:26 > 0:28:30But until then, it's goodbye from Downing College Cambridge. Bye.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33It's goodbye from Queen's University Belfast. Bye!
0:28:33 > 0:28:35And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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