0:00:12 > 0:00:14'University Challenge.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18'Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.'
0:00:18 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Hello. 30 minutes of intellectual hurly-burly lie ahead
0:00:24 > 0:00:27in a battle to win a place in the quarterfinals.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Somerville College, Oxford and Queen's University of Belfast are through.
0:00:31 > 0:00:33Whoever wins tonight will join them.
0:00:33 > 0:00:38The team from Clare College, Cambridge, had a close match against Loughborough in round one,
0:00:38 > 0:00:41winning with 195 points and a 40-point margin,
0:00:41 > 0:00:46aided by the knowledge of Oliver Cromwell, the Greek alphabet and Kepler's third law.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Although they might want to brush up on the angora goat.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52With an average age of 20, let's meet the Clare team again.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56I'm Tom Watson from Lincolnshire and I'm reading Chinese studies.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01I'm Carys Redman-White from Hampshire and I read veterinary medicine.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04And their captain. My name's Tom Wright.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06I'm from Sevenoaks, Kent, and I'm reading theology.
0:01:06 > 0:01:11My name is Mark Chonofsky. I'm from Boston, Massachusetts, and I study physics.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13APPLAUSE
0:01:15 > 0:01:21Their opponents, Christ Church, Oxford, had a hard time of it against Trinity College, Cambridge,
0:01:21 > 0:01:24losing by 300 points to 150.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27They returned as one of the highest scoring losing teams
0:01:27 > 0:01:31and won their play-off against Durham by 245 to 140.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33That match gave them the opportunity
0:01:33 > 0:01:40to show off such a close familiarity with Canadian pop music that clearly Christ Church students
0:01:40 > 0:01:47spend their evenings around the dance set listening to Shania Twain, Alanis Morissette and Celine Dion.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49Let's meet these hipsters again.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51My name's George Greenwood.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55I'm studying philosophy, politics and economics and I'm from Exeter.
0:01:55 > 0:02:00I'm Andreas Capstack. I'm from Norway and I also study philosophy, politics and economics.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02And their captain. I'm Ewan MacAulay.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05I'm from Hong Kong and I'm reading chemistry.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09I'm Phil Ostrowski. I'm from Poland and I'm studying cardiology.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11APPLAUSE
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Let's not waste any time. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21An influential supporter of liberal social causes,
0:02:21 > 0:02:24which Hungarian-born US financier...?
0:02:24 > 0:02:27'Christ Church, Ostrowski.'
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Soros. George Soros is correct.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32APPLAUSE
0:02:32 > 0:02:36So you get at the first set of bonuses, on the United Nations.
0:02:36 > 0:02:41Which of the principal organs of the United Nations is described in its charter
0:02:41 > 0:02:46as having the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace?
0:02:46 > 0:02:48Security Council?
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Security Council. Correct.
0:02:50 > 0:02:56The ten non-permanent members of the Security Council are elected for a term of what length?
0:02:56 > 0:03:00Ten years? Five years? Five years.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Five years. No, it's two years.
0:03:02 > 0:03:07The UK and the USA are two permanent members of the Security Council. Name the other three.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11France, Russia, China. Correct. Another starter question.
0:03:11 > 0:03:17"I completely wreck and sack Woking then proceed via Kingston and Richmond to London,
0:03:17 > 0:03:21"selecting South Kensington for feats of peculiar atrocity."
0:03:21 > 0:03:27These are the words of which author in the plan for his novel published in book form in 1898?
0:03:27 > 0:03:29'Christ Church, MacAulay.' HG Wells?
0:03:29 > 0:03:33Correct. The War Of The Worlds. Yes. APPLAUSE
0:03:33 > 0:03:37These bonuses, Christ Church, are on Oscar Wilde.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40In which work of 1898 did Oscar Wilde write,
0:03:40 > 0:03:44"Yet each man kills the thing he loves"?
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Anyone know Wilde? Other than Dorian Gray.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Could that be it? It could be.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53The Picture Of Dorian Gray? No, it's The Ballad Of Reading Gaol.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57What four words complete this sentence from A Woman Of No Importance?
0:03:57 > 0:04:01"Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton."
0:04:01 > 0:04:05Too much of it can... Oh, God! That's too many words! Hang on.
0:04:05 > 0:04:09Too much can kill? Yeah, go for it.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12Too much can kill? No. It's "nothing succeeds like excess".
0:04:12 > 0:04:15Oh. And finally, in The Importance Of Being Earnest,
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Gwendolen Fairfax never travels without what object because
0:04:19 > 0:04:22"one should always have something sensational to read on the train"?
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Her diary. Correct.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28Ten points for this. Meanings of which six-letter word
0:04:28 > 0:04:33include "a point at which the hessian determinant of a function of two variables is negative",
0:04:33 > 0:04:37"a point on a surface that's a maximum in one plane..."?
0:04:37 > 0:04:39'Clare, Chonofsky.'
0:04:39 > 0:04:42Saddle. Correct. APPLAUSE
0:04:43 > 0:04:47Your first bonuses are on place names and their anagrams.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Give both words from the explanation or definition.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54Firstly, a large north African country and the insignia of royalty,
0:04:54 > 0:04:58for example, the crown, sceptre and orb.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02Um... A large north African country?
0:05:02 > 0:05:05Any idea anyone? I don't know.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07We have no idea.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09It's Algeria and regalia.
0:05:09 > 0:05:14Secondly, a town in Massachusetts that gives its name to a prominent liberal arts college
0:05:14 > 0:05:18and a burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Hamster or gerbil?
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Hamster, gerbil. What's the town in Massachusetts?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27WHISPERING
0:05:32 > 0:05:36We don't know. You were halfway there. It's Amherst and hamster.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40Lastly, a state of north-east India noted for the production of tea,
0:05:40 > 0:05:44and to gather together or accumulate, for example a fortune or library.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48North-east state is going to be Kashmir or...
0:05:50 > 0:05:54North-east. Actually, north-east. Assam or Sikkim...
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Amass and Assam. Correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01Given a logical proposition, what term describes the equivalent statement
0:06:01 > 0:06:04derived by interchanging and negating both the subject...?
0:06:04 > 0:06:06'Clare, Chonofsky.' Contrapositive.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Correct. Well done. APPLAUSE
0:06:10 > 0:06:14These bonuses, Clare College, are on complex function theory.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17What term describes a complex function of a complex variable
0:06:17 > 0:06:20having a complex derivative at every point of its domain
0:06:20 > 0:06:23and, in consequence, having derivatives of all orders?
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Analytic? Correct.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29The surnames of which two mathematicians are associated with a pair of equations
0:06:29 > 0:06:34linking the partial derivatives of the real and imaginary parts of a complex analytic function?
0:06:34 > 0:06:36WHISPERS
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Er...
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Nominate Chonofsky.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Sturm and Liouville? No, it's Cauchy and Riemann.
0:06:44 > 0:06:49Which famous complex analytic function has Taylor series expansion equal to the sum
0:06:49 > 0:06:55of a non-negative n of z to the power n divided by n factorial?
0:06:55 > 0:06:57Er... WHISPERS
0:06:57 > 0:07:01The exponential function. Correct. Ten points for this.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Meaning "forethought", the name of which mythical figure...?
0:07:04 > 0:07:08'Clare, Wright.' Prometheus. Correct. Well done.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10APPLAUSE
0:07:10 > 0:07:13Gives you the lead. Your bonuses are on New York, Clare.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Associated with amusement parks and the birth of the hotdog,
0:07:16 > 0:07:20which peninsula lies in the southern-most part of the borough of Brooklyn?
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Coney Island. Correct.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26In 1609, which British explorer commanding the Half Moon
0:07:26 > 0:07:29put in at Coney Island before continuing to what is now New York harbour?
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Hudson. Correct.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34Which film by Woody Allen includes a sequence
0:07:34 > 0:07:41in which his character's childhood home is revealed to be at the foot of a Coney Island roller coaster?
0:07:41 > 0:07:44Anyone? Don't know it.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47Annie Hall? Correct. APPLAUSE
0:07:47 > 0:07:50Time for a bit of picture fun.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52A fictional family tree.
0:07:52 > 0:07:58Ten points if you can give me the missing name.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01'Clare, Chonofsky.' Eliza Bennet.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03N-nope.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06'Christ Church, MacAulay.' Elizabeth Bennet?
0:08:06 > 0:08:10Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. That's correct.
0:08:10 > 0:08:16You get a set of bonuses on other characters in Jane Austen's novels.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Three more family trees.
0:08:18 > 0:08:22Name both the missing character and the title of the novel.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Firstly, for five.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29I think this is Sense and Sensibility.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Guess. I've got no idea. Anyone read that?
0:08:31 > 0:08:35LAUGHTER Between us, no-one? Nope.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Let's go for Mary Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility.
0:08:38 > 0:08:43No, it's Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility. Nearly there!
0:08:43 > 0:08:45But not good enough.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Secondly...
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Ah! That could be the Eliza one.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52What do you reckon? Mansfield Park? Northanger Abbey?
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Has anyone read Austen? No! OK. LAUGHTER
0:08:58 > 0:09:02Eliza Bertram, Northanger Abbey. No. It's Edmund Bertram, Mansfield Park.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06Finally, this section of a family tree.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Oh, come on! This is...
0:09:08 > 0:09:12Let's go for TS Eliot! LAUGHTER
0:09:13 > 0:09:16And...I reckon Emma. Go for it. OK.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20Emma? Is that Jane Austen? I think it is.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23Then make it Emma. Oh, yeah. Emma Elliot, Emma?
0:09:23 > 0:09:25No, it's Anne Elliot in Persuasion.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29Serves you right! You should read more! Ten points for this.
0:09:29 > 0:09:34Meaning "self-sufficiency" what Greek-derived word is used for a country or state which aims...?
0:09:34 > 0:09:36'Christ Church, Capstack.' Autonomous.
0:09:36 > 0:09:42I'm afraid you lose five points. ..aims for economic independence by cutting off trade with the world?
0:09:42 > 0:09:44'Clare, Watson.' Autarchy. Correct.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46APPLAUSE
0:09:48 > 0:09:52This set of bonuses, Clare, are on optical illusions.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55What type of building gives its name to an optical illusion
0:09:55 > 0:09:58in which a rotating object appears to spin in the opposite direction
0:09:58 > 0:10:01when viewed at an angle in silhouette from long distance?
0:10:01 > 0:10:03WHISPERING
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Carousel? No. It's a windmill.
0:10:07 > 0:10:12What surname of an English father and son, the latter a noted mathematician,
0:10:12 > 0:10:17is given to diagrams in which a triangle and a staircase represent physically impossible objects?
0:10:17 > 0:10:19WHISPERING
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Asher?
0:10:27 > 0:10:29Asher. No. It's Penrose.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33An optical phenomenon in which a photograph is viewed upside down
0:10:33 > 0:10:36but with the eyes and the mouth in the original orientation
0:10:36 > 0:10:39takes its name from which Prime Minister?
0:10:42 > 0:10:45WHISPERS Tony Badger?
0:10:45 > 0:10:48LAUGHING: It's Margaret Thatcher!
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Ten points for this. Electron, muon and tao are the three types of...?
0:10:52 > 0:10:54'Christ Church, MacAulay.'
0:10:54 > 0:10:57Neutrino. Correct. APPLAUSE
0:10:57 > 0:11:00These bonuses, Christ Church, are on cell biology.
0:11:00 > 0:11:05Named after a shared structural feature of the four-membered cyclic amide ring,
0:11:05 > 0:11:10which class of antibiotics includes penicillins and cephalosporins?
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Beta-lactams. Beta-lactams.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16Correct. Beta-lactams disrupt the synthesis of a key biomolecule
0:11:16 > 0:11:19required for the structural integrity of many bacteria.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23What's the name of this biomolecule? Penicillin binding protein.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26Murein or peptid. This is the compound....
0:11:26 > 0:11:28UNCLEAR
0:11:28 > 0:11:31OK. Nomenate Ostrowski. Penicillin binding protein.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34No, it's murein or peptidoglycan. Never mind.
0:11:34 > 0:11:39Peptidoglycan contains the monosaccharide abbreviated to NAG.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42What's the full name of NAG?
0:11:43 > 0:11:46N-acetylglycosamine? Do you think?
0:11:46 > 0:11:49N-acetylglycosamine. No. It's N-acetylglucosamine.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53What name was given to the 31 radio addresses...?
0:11:53 > 0:11:56'Clare, Chonofsky.' Fireside chats. Correct.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59A set of bonus questions to Clare College.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02They're on an English parish church.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Noted for its fine four-decker perpendicular tower,
0:12:05 > 0:12:10the parish church of Mells lies five miles southeast of Midsomer Norton and Radstock,
0:12:10 > 0:12:14former centres of coal mining in which English county?
0:12:14 > 0:12:17WHISPERING
0:12:17 > 0:12:20North Yorkshire. No, it's Somerset.
0:12:20 > 0:12:26The three-volume memoirs of George Sherston and the First World War poems Everyone Sang and The General
0:12:26 > 0:12:30are works by which literary figure who is buried in Mells churchyard?
0:12:31 > 0:12:35Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon in World War I.
0:12:35 > 0:12:41Um, The General! We did that in, like, year nine. I can't remember.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44It's one of the two!
0:12:44 > 0:12:48Wilfred Owen? No, it's the other one, Siegfried Sassoon.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51The south wall of Mells church bears a memorial to Raymond,
0:12:51 > 0:12:56the son of which Prime Minister killed during the Battle of the Somme?
0:12:56 > 0:13:00He'd be the son of... David Lloyd George?
0:13:00 > 0:13:02Sounds possible.
0:13:02 > 0:13:08David Lloyd George? No, it was Asquith, his predecessor.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12Which US film director and actor is regarded as the driving force
0:13:12 > 0:13:14behind the construction of Shakespeare's Globe...?
0:13:14 > 0:13:17'Clare, Wright.' Sam Wanamaker.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21Correct. APPLAUSE
0:13:21 > 0:13:24This set of bonuses are on the Orwell Prize for political writing.
0:13:24 > 0:13:29The winner of the Orwell Prize in 2007, Having It So Good by Peter Hennessy,
0:13:29 > 0:13:32is an account of Britain during which decade?
0:13:32 > 0:13:34WHISPERING
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Was it '50s? Yeah. 1950s.
0:13:38 > 0:13:45Correct. The 2010 winner, Keeper, "a book about memory, identity, isolation, Wordsworth and cake",
0:13:45 > 0:13:50is Andrea Gillies' journal of caring for a relative suffering from what disease?
0:13:50 > 0:13:52I'd try Alzheimer's?
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Alzheimer's. Correct.
0:13:54 > 0:13:58Toby Harnden's 2012 Orwell Prize winning work Dead Men Risen
0:13:58 > 0:14:04is subtitled "The Welsh Guards and the defining story of Britain's war in..." which country?
0:14:04 > 0:14:07It would be Afghanistan or Iraq.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09Afghanistan or Iraq?
0:14:09 > 0:14:13Iraq? No. It's Afghanistan. Ten points for this.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Bruno Rossi, Enrico Fermi, Lyman Spitzer,
0:14:16 > 0:14:21William Herschel and Max Planck have given their name to examples of what specific...?
0:14:21 > 0:14:24'Christ Church, Greenwood.' Telescopes. Space telescopes.
0:14:24 > 0:14:29Space telescopes is correct. You get this set of bonuses on ions.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33Which element has the largest first ionisation energy?
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Helium. Correct. Born in Prague in 1850,
0:14:36 > 0:14:40which scientist gives his name to the series in which ions are ranked
0:14:40 > 0:14:45according to their ability to stabilise the structures of proteins?
0:14:48 > 0:14:50No?
0:14:51 > 0:14:55Nothing. Um... Pass. It's Franz Hofmeister.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58Finally, the charge of a sodium ion is plus one.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01What is the charge of a dichromate ion?
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Dichromate? That's Cr2...
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Two minus. Correct.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Time for a music round.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11You'll hear a well-known piece of classical music.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15Ten points if you can give me the name of the Italian composer.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:18 > 0:15:20'Clare, Watson.' Verdi.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24Yep. Do you know what it was? The Dies irae? Correct. Well done.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26APPLAUSE
0:15:27 > 0:15:32Following on from Verdi's requiem, for your bonuses, three more requiems.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36I want the name of the composer. Firstly, this British composer.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38REQUIEM PLAYS
0:15:38 > 0:15:40WHISPERING
0:15:46 > 0:15:49John Rutter? No. It's Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Secondly, this Czech composer.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53REQUIEM PLAYS
0:16:01 > 0:16:03WHISPERING
0:16:09 > 0:16:13Smetana? No. It's Dvorak's Requiem in B-flat minor.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15And finally, this Russian composer.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17REQUIEM PLAYS
0:16:21 > 0:16:23WHISPERING
0:16:23 > 0:16:26Stravinsky. It is, from his Requiem Canticles.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Ten points for this.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31For which positive integers n
0:16:31 > 0:16:36does a real polonomial of degree n necessarily have a real root?
0:16:36 > 0:16:38'Christ Church, MacAulay.' Even numbers?
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Anyone like to buzz from Clare?
0:16:43 > 0:16:45'Clare, Wright.' Three?
0:16:45 > 0:16:48No. It's odd integers. Ten points for this.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Between 1950 and 2010, four men served as Chancellor before becoming Prime Minister.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55One was Harold Macmillan. Name two of the others.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59'Christ Church, Greenwood.' Gordon Brown and John Major.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02Correct. The other one was Jim Callaghan.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04APPLAUSE
0:17:04 > 0:17:07This set of bonuses are on the art critic Robert Hughes.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Robert Hughes's 1987 work The Fatal Shore
0:17:10 > 0:17:16is a history of the settlement of which country, the place of his birth?
0:17:17 > 0:17:22Fatal Shore? He was from, I don't know, Canada? America?
0:17:22 > 0:17:26WHISPERS South Africa, maybe? Oh, yeah.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28South Africa. No. It was Australia.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32What was the title of Hughes's account of modern art which appeared
0:17:32 > 0:17:35both in print and as a television series in 1980?
0:17:35 > 0:17:39Anyone got ANY clue? No. Pass. The Shock Of The New.
0:17:39 > 0:17:46Born 1746, which Spanish artist is the subject of a 2003 biography by Robert Hughes?
0:17:46 > 0:17:50GREENWOOD: Goya. Goya? Are you sure?
0:17:50 > 0:17:52It's Goya. Might be Velasquez.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Velasquez. No. It was Goya. CAPSTACK: Sorry.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Ten points for this. Give three rhyming words that mean
0:17:58 > 0:18:00vegetable emblem of Wales,
0:18:00 > 0:18:05inheritor of the Earth according to the Beatitudes, and Hellenic language.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08'Christ Church, Ostrowski.' Leek, meek and Greek.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Correct. APPLAUSE
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Your bonuses are on European capitals.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17In each case, identify the city from its metro stations.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21Firstly, for five points - Cavour, Lepanto and Barberini.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25That sounds like Istanbul, doesn't it? Is that European?
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Rome? Where was the Battle of Lepanto?
0:18:27 > 0:18:32That was somewhere in the Mediterranean. I think probably...
0:18:32 > 0:18:35- Milan's metro? - I think Rome.
0:18:35 > 0:18:39Give me an answer. Does Rome have a metro system? Yes, definitely.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41OK. Rome. Rome is correct.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45Second - Alvik, Gamla stan and Hallonburgen.
0:18:45 > 0:18:50That sounds somewhere in Germany. No, it's Scandinavian. OK.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54Stockholm? Yeah, Stockholm does have a... Stockholm.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58Correct. Finally, Erasmus, Jacques Brel and Eddy Merckx.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02Eddy Merckx, that sounds like Brussels or Antwerp.
0:19:02 > 0:19:06Brussels definitely does, or it could be Amsterdam.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10Erasmus is Brussels. Yeah, Brussels.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13Brussels. Brussels is correct.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16As depicted in a series of paintings by Edouard Manet,
0:19:16 > 0:19:20which Austrian Archduke and Emperor of Mexico was executed...?
0:19:20 > 0:19:23'Clare, Chonofsky.' Maximilian.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Maximilian I is right. APPLAUSE
0:19:27 > 0:19:29These bonuses are on the Venerable Bede.
0:19:29 > 0:19:36As exemplars for the clerics of the day, Bede cites St Aidan and which saint born around 634?
0:19:36 > 0:19:40His tomb is at Durham Cathedral, which is dedicated to him.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42St Cuthbert? Yeah, St Cuthbert. St Cuthbert.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45Correct. In addition to their other merits,
0:19:45 > 0:19:49Bede's historical works are notable for popularising which dating system
0:19:49 > 0:19:54devised by the Greek monk Dionysius the Short in the 6th century?
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Might be the Georgian calendar.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Or Gregorian? Gregorian.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03Gregorian calendar. It's AD and BC.
0:20:03 > 0:20:10In the late 9th century, which King produced the first English version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History?
0:20:10 > 0:20:13WHISPERING
0:20:13 > 0:20:15It's not Edward the Confessor.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Alfred? No, no. Alfred's too early.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Athelstan? Athelstan.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22No. It's Alfred the Great.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26Another picture round. You'll see a work by a French artist.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30For ten points, name the artist.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Is anyone going to buzz?
0:20:34 > 0:20:38Doesn't look like it. That's by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42Picture bonuses shortly. Ten points at stake for this.
0:20:42 > 0:20:47In thermodynamics, what name is given to a process in which no heat flows in or out...?
0:20:47 > 0:20:50'Clare, Chonofsky.' Adiabatic.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Correct. APPLAUSE
0:20:54 > 0:20:58We follow on from the unidentified Toulouse Lautrec
0:20:58 > 0:21:02with bonuses of three more depictions of horse racing by French artists.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Name the artist. Firstly, for five...
0:21:07 > 0:21:09WHISPERING
0:21:12 > 0:21:17REDMAN-WHITE: I thought it was Degas but I could be wrong. I don't know.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19CHONOFSKY: I think Degas is right.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23Degas. No. It's Edouard Manet, The Races At Longchamp.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Secondly...
0:21:26 > 0:21:28WHISPERING
0:21:34 > 0:21:37Any ideas? No. Anything?
0:21:38 > 0:21:41Renoir? No. That's Gericault's The Horse Race.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43And finally...
0:21:47 > 0:21:49WHISPERING
0:21:49 > 0:21:54Anything from this end? REDMAN-WHITE: No. Just guess Degas.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Nominate Chonofsky. Pissarro?
0:21:56 > 0:21:59No. That's Degas, The Parade.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01Singapore and which other Asian country
0:22:01 > 0:22:06are connected to neighbouring countries solely by man-made bridges and causeways?
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Bahrain. Bahrain is correct.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10APPLAUSE
0:22:11 > 0:22:16These bonuses are on characters in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
0:22:16 > 0:22:20Identify the character from the description given at the beginning of the play.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24"Son to the King of Naples". Was that Sebastian or Ferdinand?
0:22:27 > 0:22:30Sebastian. No, it's Ferdinand.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Secondly, "a drunken butler".
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Nicholas. No, that's Stephano.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40Finally, "a savage and deformed slave".
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Caliban. Yes. Ten points for this.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45The name of which type of medical specialist
0:22:45 > 0:22:48appears in the subtitles of Complications and Better,
0:22:48 > 0:22:52works by the US professor Atul Gawande?
0:22:52 > 0:22:55'Clare Chonofsky.' Cardiologist.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58No. Anyone like to buzz from Christ Church?
0:22:58 > 0:23:00'Christ Church, MacAulay.' Dentist.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02It's surgeon. Ten points for this.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05"I have no bright or clever friends"
0:23:05 > 0:23:10is a mnemonic for the seven chemical elements that tend to occur in what molecular form?
0:23:10 > 0:23:12'Clare, Chonofsky.' Diatomic.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Correct. APPLAUSE
0:23:15 > 0:23:19This set of bonuses, Clare College, are on geography.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23Astrakhan in Russia and Bandar-e Anzali in Iran
0:23:23 > 0:23:27are among major ports on which body of water?
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Black Sea. No. It's the Caspian Sea.
0:23:30 > 0:23:35Which national capital is situated on the western shore of the Caspian sea?
0:23:38 > 0:23:40WHISPERING
0:23:40 > 0:23:43Tashkent, maybe? Let's have it, please. Tashkent.
0:23:43 > 0:23:49No. It's Baku in Azerbaijan. Which river provides 80% of the freshwater inflow to the Caspian Sea?
0:23:49 > 0:23:53The Ural. No. It's the Volga. Three minutes to go.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Which of Shakespeare's title characters speaks the lines,
0:23:56 > 0:24:01"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child"?
0:24:01 > 0:24:04'Christ Church, Ostrowski.' King Lear.
0:24:04 > 0:24:09King Lear is right. These bonuses are on science.
0:24:09 > 0:24:14What's the medical term for a condition of blueness, particularly in the face and lips..
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Cyanosis. Cyanosis is right.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20What two elements joined by a triple bond comprise the cyano functional group?
0:24:20 > 0:24:23Carbon and oxygen. No. It's carbon and nitrogen.
0:24:23 > 0:24:27What is the complementary colour of cyan in the RGB colour model?
0:24:27 > 0:24:32Green and blue, so red. Orange. Red?
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Sure? Quite. Red. It is red. Yes.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Ten points for this starter question.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40In 1913, four years before its last ruler abdicated,
0:24:40 > 0:24:43which dynasty celebrated 300 years as rulers of Russia?
0:24:43 > 0:24:46'Christ Church, Greenwood.' The Romanovs. Correct.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48These bonuses... APPLAUSE
0:24:48 > 0:24:51You get the lead. ..are on July 1960.
0:24:51 > 0:24:56In which country was Mrs Bandaranaike elected the world's first female Prime Minister?
0:24:56 > 0:24:59Bandaranaike? Bandaranaike?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Greek? Let's have it, please.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05No? Philippines? Philippines?
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11Also July 1960, shortly after the Belgian Congo declared independence,
0:25:11 > 0:25:15which mineral-rich province attempted to secede from the new republic?
0:25:15 > 0:25:19Provinces? WHISPERING
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Well, did it attempt to or succeed? Come on. Let's have it.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25Republic of Congo. No. It's Katanga.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28Its characters including Bob Ewell and Boo Radley,
0:25:28 > 0:25:33which novel was first published in the United States in July 1960?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Um, um, um...
0:25:35 > 0:25:39One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41No. It's To Kill A Mockingird.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Expressed in metres, how long is a mile...?
0:25:44 > 0:25:47'Clare, Chonofsky.' 1,609.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Correct. Yes. APPLAUSE
0:25:51 > 0:25:55You retake the lead, Clare. These bonuses are on composers born in the 1860s.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Name the composer from their listed works.
0:25:57 > 0:26:03The Karelia Suite, the Swan of Tuonela and the tone poem, Tapiola.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Stravinsky. Stravinsky.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09No, Sibelius. The French composer whose austere piano pieces
0:26:09 > 0:26:12include the Gymnopedies and the Gnossiennes.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Satie.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17Satie. It is Satie. Finally, the German composer of operas
0:26:17 > 0:26:21including Ariadne auf Naxos and Der Rosenkavalier.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23Wagner. Wagner.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25No. It's Richard Strauss.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31Meaning "an exact copy" give the dictionary spelling of "facsimile".
0:26:31 > 0:26:36'Christ Church, MacAulay.' F-A-C-S-I-M-I-L-E.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Correct! APPLAUSE
0:26:41 > 0:26:44A set of bonuses for you on biochemistry.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48From the German for "hybrid", what term denotes molecules such as amino acids
0:26:48 > 0:26:51which have both positively and negatively charged regions?
0:26:51 > 0:26:53UNCLEAR
0:26:53 > 0:26:55GONG
0:26:55 > 0:27:00It's an absolute dead heat. Now, I will ask a starter question.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04If you answer it correctly, you get ten points, you win.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08If you interrupt it incorrectly, you lose five points
0:27:08 > 0:27:12and the other other team doesn't even have to give an answer.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16Everybody clear? So, the next one off the pile.
0:27:16 > 0:27:17Fingers on the buzzers.
0:27:17 > 0:27:22Elevators and ailerons are parts that affect the movement of...?
0:27:22 > 0:27:24'Clare, Wright.' Aeroplanes.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Correct! APPLAUSE
0:27:27 > 0:27:29That was amazing!
0:27:31 > 0:27:34You couldn't have a closer finish.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38Christ Church, bad luck to lose it on such an easy question, really!
0:27:38 > 0:27:42They were very fast on the buzzer and they did lead much of the way.
0:27:42 > 0:27:47We've enjoyed having you with us. You're very entertaining when you're conferring.
0:27:47 > 0:27:52Congratulations, Clare, you were also entertaining, although you like living dangerously.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54We look forward to seeing you in the next stage.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57I hope you join us next time but until then,
0:27:57 > 0:27:59it's goodbye from Christ Church, Oxford. Goodbye.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03Goodbye from Clare College, Cambridge. Goodbye. And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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