0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:33Hello. For the next half hour, we'll follow the lead of Wackford Squeers,
0:00:33 > 0:00:39that much-misunderstood hero of English fiction, and testing two teams on languages living and dead,
0:00:39 > 0:00:44mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry and the use of the globes.
0:00:44 > 0:00:49Whichever team survives comes back for more categising in Round Two.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53St John's College, Cambridge, was founded in the early 16th century
0:00:53 > 0:01:00thanks to Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, and the energies of her executor,
0:01:00 > 0:01:04which together turned the ancient hospital of St John the Evangelist
0:01:04 > 0:01:08into a college for students of theology and the liberal arts.
0:01:08 > 0:01:15Its buildings include a chapel by George Gilbert Scott and the "Bridge of Sighs" over the Cam.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20Alumni include John Dee, alchemist and astronomer to Elizabeth I,
0:01:20 > 0:01:24William Wordsworth, William Wilberforce and Lord Palmerston.
0:01:24 > 0:01:30Paul Dirac was a student there, as were the actor Derek Jacobi and comedian Hugh Dennis.
0:01:30 > 0:01:37Tonight's team have an average age of 19 and play on behalf of 900 fellow students. Let's meet them.
0:01:37 > 0:01:42Hi, my name's Jarret, I'm from Singapore. I'm a first year, reading Law.
0:01:42 > 0:01:47Hi, I'm Casey, from London, a second year, reading Neuroscience and Philosophy.
0:01:47 > 0:01:52- And their captain... - Hi, I'm Anna, from Buckinghamshire, and I read Economics.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Hi, I'm Robin, from Hitchin, reading Classics.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57APPLAUSE
0:02:00 > 0:02:06Their opponents from the University of Reading are playing on behalf of nearly 23,000 students.
0:02:06 > 0:02:13It began life with the establishment of Schools of Art and Science in the late-19th century
0:02:13 > 0:02:18and became an extension college of Christ Church, Oxford. Wilfred Owen studied there.
0:02:18 > 0:02:24It gained its charter in 1926, having received a donation of land from the local Palmer family,
0:02:24 > 0:02:30who made their money as half of the Huntley and Palmer biscuit magnates. They wear the mantle of Garibaldi.
0:02:30 > 0:02:36Alumni include the former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen, musician Jamie Cullum
0:02:36 > 0:02:42and Julian Barrett of The Mighty Boosh fame. With an average age of 26, let's meet the Reading team.
0:02:42 > 0:02:48Hi, I'm Michael Dunleavy, from Wakefield, reading Biomedical Sciences.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52Hi, I'm Christopher White, from Watford, studying History.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56- And their captain...- Hi, I'm Peter Burgess, from West Yorkshire,
0:02:56 > 0:03:00working on an Engineering doctorate in solar power monitoring.
0:03:00 > 0:03:04Hi, I'm Luke Tudge, also from West Yorkshire, studying Psychology.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06APPLAUSE
0:03:09 > 0:03:15OK, the rules are the same as always. Ten points for starters, which must be answered individually,
0:03:15 > 0:03:22on the buzzer, and bonuses are worth fifteen points. They're team efforts and you can confer for those.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26Interrupt a starter incorrectly, you get fined five points.
0:03:26 > 0:03:32Fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter. "Workers of all lands, unite!"
0:03:32 > 0:03:37These words appear on the tombstone of which revolutionary in London's Highgate cemetery?
0:03:39 > 0:03:41- Karl Marx?- Correct.
0:03:44 > 0:03:50The first bonuses are on politicians born in 1913. In each case, name the person from the description.
0:03:50 > 0:03:58The Prime Minister of Israel from 1977-1983, co-recipient with Anwar Sadat of the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.
0:04:02 > 0:04:07Was Yitzhak Rabin the President? He got a Nobel Peace Prize?
0:04:10 > 0:04:14- I don't think it's Peres. Yitzhak Rabin?- No.
0:04:14 > 0:04:20It's Menachem Begin. A biographer of Aneurin Bevan and Jonathan Swift,
0:04:20 > 0:04:23he was Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to '83.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26- Michael Foot?- Yes...
0:04:26 > 0:04:29- Michael Foot?- Correct.
0:04:29 > 0:04:35The German Chancellor from 1969 to '74. In 1971, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Willy Brandt?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Yes, yes, I think it is.
0:04:41 > 0:04:47- Willy Brandt?- It was, yes. Ten points for this. In his year-end press conference of December 2004,
0:04:47 > 0:04:52the then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan used what two-word phrase
0:04:52 > 0:04:59to describe that particularly difficult year? It is more commonly associated with the Queen...
0:04:59 > 0:05:02- Annus horribilis?- Correct.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09These bonuses, Reading, are on medical terms.
0:05:09 > 0:05:1419th-century physicians John Cheyne and William Stokes give their names
0:05:14 > 0:05:17to an abnormality in which bodily process?
0:05:19 > 0:05:22If you don't know, I don't know.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Something to do with the lungs.
0:05:25 > 0:05:31- Lungs?- Bodily process I want. It's breathing. You were in the right area, but that's not the answer.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Which medical term refers to a temporary suspension of breathing
0:05:34 > 0:05:39when there's no apparent movement of the muscles of respiration
0:05:39 > 0:05:43and the volume of the lungs remains initially unchanged?
0:05:44 > 0:05:52- Apnoea?- Correct. Which common respiratory disease occurs with the swelling of the bronchial tubes,
0:05:52 > 0:05:57sometimes inducing a state of spasm with airways narrowed and breathing impeded?
0:05:57 > 0:06:00- Asthma?- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:06:00 > 0:06:06Spell both answers. What short words denote both the major river that flows into the North Sea
0:06:06 > 0:06:12at Cuxhaven near Hamburg and the island to which Napoleon was exiled in...
0:06:13 > 0:06:17- Elbe. E-L-B-E and E-L-B-A. - Correct.
0:06:20 > 0:06:26These bonuses are on clerics in literature. Ambrosio, the religious figure whose career progresses
0:06:26 > 0:06:33from innocence to evil, is the title character of which Gothic novel first published in 1796?
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Any thoughts?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37No. Don't know.
0:06:40 > 0:06:46- Don't know.- The Monk by MG Lewis. The hypocritical Salem clergyman Arthur Dimmesdale
0:06:46 > 0:06:50denies fathering the illegitimate child of Hester Prynne
0:06:50 > 0:06:54in which novel of 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
0:06:54 > 0:06:59- The Scarlet Letter. - The Scarlet Letter.- Correct. In Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris,
0:06:59 > 0:07:06Archdeacon Claude Frollo's lust for which character drives him to murder Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers?
0:07:08 > 0:07:12- Esmeralda?- Yeah. Esmeralda?- Correct.
0:07:12 > 0:07:17We'll take a picture round now. You will see a map of Northern California.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21Ten points if you can name the city marked.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30- Sacramento?- No. One of you buzz from Reading.
0:07:31 > 0:07:38- San Mateo?- No, it's San Jose. Picture bonuses shortly. Ten points for this starter question.
0:07:38 > 0:07:43What four initial letters link words meaning: a tuba-like valved instrument,
0:07:43 > 0:07:48a mild word or expression substituted for something more harsh...
0:07:48 > 0:07:52- E-U-P-H?- Correct, yes. Euph.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55As in euphonium and euphemism and so on.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59Right, so we go back now to the picture bonuses.
0:07:59 > 0:08:05You'll remember the starter asked you to identify a town in California. That was San Jose.
0:08:05 > 0:08:11It's one of the most common place names in the world. We have three other San Joses
0:08:11 > 0:08:16in South and Central America. Five points for each country you name.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Firstly, A.
0:08:20 > 0:08:25- Is that Nicaragua? - No, Nicaragua is near San Salvador.
0:08:25 > 0:08:30- OK. It's the one next to Panama. - Costa Rica, maybe?
0:08:31 > 0:08:33I think Costa Rica.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37Anyone else? OK, shall we go with that?
0:08:37 > 0:08:42- Costa Rica.- It is Costa Rica. It's the capital. Secondly, B, please.
0:08:42 > 0:08:48- Belize?- Yeah. Belize.- It is Belize. And, finally, the country at C.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51- Colombia.- Correct. Well done.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57Ten points for this. What letter and number designated the model
0:08:57 > 0:09:04of Lockheed high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, one of which was piloted by Gary Powers...
0:09:04 > 0:09:06- U2?- U2 is correct, yes.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13Reading, these bonuses are on Italian cinema.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17Vincere is a film of 2009 directed by Marco Bellocchio
0:09:17 > 0:09:23based on the life of Ida Dalser, the first wife of which political figure?
0:09:26 > 0:09:28Possibly Garibaldi?
0:09:28 > 0:09:31- Garibaldi? - No, it's Mussolini.
0:09:33 > 0:09:38Secondly, released in 1999, the semi-autobiographical film Tea With Mussolini
0:09:38 > 0:09:42draws on incidents in the early life of which Italian director?
0:09:42 > 0:09:46His other works include adaptations of Hamlet and Jane Eyre.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48No?
0:09:49 > 0:09:53I've seen the film, but I can't remember the guy's name.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57- I don't know. We don't know. - Zeffirelli. And, finally,
0:09:57 > 0:10:02set shortly after the fall of Mussolini, Salo or The 120 Days of Sodom,
0:10:02 > 0:10:07is a controversial film of 1975 by which director?
0:10:09 > 0:10:10Antonioni?
0:10:12 > 0:10:16- Try that.- Antonioni? - No, it's Pasolini. Another starter.
0:10:16 > 0:10:22Meaning a row or cluster of lights, what name is given to the five-day festival
0:10:22 > 0:10:24celebrated in October or November...
0:10:24 > 0:10:27- Diwali?- Diwali is correct, yes.
0:10:29 > 0:10:34Right, these bonuses are on a group of philosophers.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38Which city gives its name to a circle who sought to reconceptualise empiricism?
0:10:38 > 0:10:43Formed in the 1920s, its members included Rudolf Carnap.
0:10:44 > 0:10:49- Vienna.- Correct. Co-founder of the circle with the mathematician Hans Hahn,
0:10:49 > 0:10:55which German philosopher was shot dead by a disturbed student at the University of Vienna in 1936?
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Wittgenstein?
0:10:59 > 0:11:03- Wittgenstein?- No... - I don't know, then.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07- Give me another one.- Don't know. - A guess. Anyone.
0:11:09 > 0:11:111920s, Austrians...
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Let's have it, please.
0:11:16 > 0:11:24- Don't know.- It's Moritz Schlick. Finally, what two-word name is given to the philosophy associated
0:11:24 > 0:11:28with the circle, its central tenet being the verification principle?
0:11:28 > 0:11:33- Positivism.- Er...- Oh, two words. Logical positivism.- That's correct.
0:11:33 > 0:11:38Ten points for this. Which two words are anagrams of each other
0:11:38 > 0:11:41and mean the plural of the SI unit of electrical resistance
0:11:41 > 0:11:46and the scale of mineral hardness named after a German geologist?
0:11:46 > 0:11:52- Ohms and Mohs?- Correct. You get a set of bonuses this time on Spanish conquistadors.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55The leader of the first Europeans to sight the Pacific Ocean,
0:11:55 > 0:12:02which conquistador was summarily beheaded in 1519, found guilty of high treason and rebellion?
0:12:02 > 0:12:06- Might be... - No, Cortes?
0:12:06 > 0:12:10Which one? Any thoughts?
0:12:10 > 0:12:16- I'd go with Cortes. - Pizarro?- No, it's Balboa. Vasco Nunez de Balboa.
0:12:16 > 0:12:21Who died in Cuba in 1521 from a wound inflicted by a poisoned arrow?
0:12:21 > 0:12:26He'd claimed Florida for Spain while searching for the fountain of youth.
0:12:26 > 0:12:33- Cortes.- Cortes.- No, Ponce de Leon. Finally, the founder of the city of Lima, who was murdered in 1541
0:12:33 > 0:12:39by the followers of Diego de Almagro, a man his brother Hernando had executed?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41I'm going with Cortes.
0:12:41 > 0:12:47- Cortes.- No, that was Pizarro. Ten points for this. It's a music round we're going to hear.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51For your music starter, you'll hear an excerpt from an oratorio.
0:12:51 > 0:12:58Ten points for the name of the composer and the title usually given to this piece, from Act Three.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00MUSIC PLAYS
0:13:05 > 0:13:10- Handel and the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba?- Correct, yes!
0:13:12 > 0:13:17That was used in Danny Boyle's 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony
0:13:17 > 0:13:21when James Bond arrived at Buckingham Palace.
0:13:21 > 0:13:27For your bonuses, three other pieces of music used in the Opening Ceremony.
0:13:27 > 0:13:31Firstly, I want the composer and the name of this specific piece
0:13:31 > 0:13:36used during the celebration of Britain's maritime tradition.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38MUSIC PLAYS
0:13:50 > 0:13:52- Elgar, Nimrod?- Correct.
0:13:52 > 0:13:58Secondly, the composer and the name of this song, which was used at the end of the pastoral scene.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02# And did those feet
0:14:02 > 0:14:06# In ancient time
0:14:06 > 0:14:12# Walk upon England's mountains green
0:14:12 > 0:14:19# And was the holy Lamb of God
0:14:19 > 0:14:22# On England's pleasant... #
0:14:22 > 0:14:26- William Blake, Jerusalem? - No, Hubert Parry produced the music.
0:14:26 > 0:14:34It's Jerusalem, as you say. Finally, the name of this film theme used during James Bond's helicopter ride.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:38 > 0:14:41It's The Dam Busters March.
0:14:51 > 0:14:58- The Dam Busters March, but we don't know who by.- That's fine. By Eric Coates. Ten points for this.
0:14:58 > 0:15:04Which mythical creature links the titles of the following: an Old English poem of 677 lines,
0:15:04 > 0:15:09an allegorical elegy by William Shakespeare and a children's novel by E Nesbit?
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Fairy?
0:15:11 > 0:15:13No. Reading, one of you buzz.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23It's the phoenix. The Phoenix, ..and The Turtle, ..and The Carpet.
0:15:23 > 0:15:28Ten points for this. Which two prime numbers, when multiplied together,
0:15:28 > 0:15:35give the total number of kilometres in the two events in which Mo Farah won gold in the 2012 Olympics?
0:15:40 > 0:15:45- Five and two?- No. Anyone want to buzz from St John's?
0:15:46 > 0:15:49- Five and three?- Correct, yes.
0:15:51 > 0:15:55Right, these bonuses are on astronomical errors.
0:15:55 > 0:16:01Proposing its existence as an explanation of the anomalies in the orbit of Mercury,
0:16:01 > 0:16:05which French mathematician in 1860 announced the discovery of Vulcan,
0:16:05 > 0:16:10a body he believed to be the Solar System's innermost planet?
0:16:10 > 0:16:15- Pascal is French.- Shall we do that? - I don't know anyone else.
0:16:15 > 0:16:21- Pascal.- No, Le Verrier. Interpreted by some scientists as an irrigation system built by intelligent beings,
0:16:21 > 0:16:29the "Canal Lines" on Mars were first observed in 1877 by which Italian astronomer?
0:16:31 > 0:16:35- Don't know. - No.
0:16:35 > 0:16:42- Don't know.- Schiaparelli. Now believed to be a misidentified star or an optical effect,
0:16:42 > 0:16:49the celestial object first recorded by Cassini in 1686 was identified by him as a natural satellite
0:16:49 > 0:16:53of which planet, now known to have no moon?
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Is it Mercury?
0:16:57 > 0:17:00Mercury has no moon. Or Venus.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07- I don't know which.- I'd guess. - Mercury or Venus?
0:17:07 > 0:17:13- Mercury sounds good.- Mercury. - No, Venus. Ten points for this. What six-letter word denotes
0:17:13 > 0:17:17both the open-roofed entrance hall of an Ancient Roman house
0:17:17 > 0:17:21and either of the two upper cavities of the heart...
0:17:21 > 0:17:25- Atrium. - Atrium is correct, yes.
0:17:26 > 0:17:31These bonuses are on calendar dates in which the day of the month is the same number
0:17:31 > 0:17:36as the month's position in the year, such as January 1st, February 2nd.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40In each case, give the date, month and year
0:17:40 > 0:17:44of the following. For example, November 11th, 1918.
0:17:44 > 0:17:50Firstly, the Battle of Puebla, at which Mexican forces defeated a French army,
0:17:50 > 0:17:54denying Napoleon III the means to intervene in the American Civil War?
0:17:54 > 0:17:58It's celebrated in both Mexico and the USA.
0:18:05 > 0:18:071860s...
0:18:07 > 0:18:12- 1862, maybe? - It's thereabouts.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16But we don't have the month or the day.
0:18:16 > 0:18:187/7/62?
0:18:18 > 0:18:23- 7th of July, 1862? - No, 5th of May, 1862. The Cinco de Mayo.
0:18:23 > 0:18:27Secondly, the start of the Normandy landings during World War Two?
0:18:27 > 0:18:32- 6th of June, '44.- 6th of June, 1944? - Correct. And, finally,
0:18:32 > 0:18:36in George Orwell's novel, the first entry in Winston Smith's diary?
0:18:38 > 0:18:42Is it 1st of January? Or is it too obvious?
0:18:42 > 0:18:47- Shall we go with that? 1st of January, 1984?- No, 4th of April.
0:18:47 > 0:18:54Ten points for this starter. Gibreel Farishta is the main character of which controversial novel,
0:18:54 > 0:18:57first published in 1988?
0:18:58 > 0:19:00- The Satanic Verses?- Correct.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07This set of bonuses is on zoology.
0:19:07 > 0:19:13An absence of nuclei in red blood cells, a middle ear formed by three ossicles and a lower jaw
0:19:13 > 0:19:20hinged directly to the skull are distinguishing characteristics of which class of vertebrate animals?
0:19:20 > 0:19:24- Go with mammals. - Yeah, I think it is.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27- Mammals?- Mammals is correct.
0:19:27 > 0:19:35The term eutheria refers to which broad group of mammals, distinct from monotremes and marsupials?
0:19:35 > 0:19:39- Everything else(!)- Warm-blooded ones?- They're all warm-blooded.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43I've no idea what the name is.
0:19:43 > 0:19:50- No.- They're placental mammals or placentalia. One of the few venomous mammals,
0:19:50 > 0:19:54which monotreme is the animal emblem of the state of New South Wales?
0:19:54 > 0:19:57- Platypus?- Might be good.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01Is it venomous?
0:20:04 > 0:20:07- Platypus, duckbilled?- Correct, yes.
0:20:07 > 0:20:11Well done. We're going to take a second picture round.
0:20:11 > 0:20:17You'll see a photograph of a European politician who assumed office in November, 2004.
0:20:17 > 0:20:22Ten points if you can give me the name of the person and the office.
0:20:22 > 0:20:28It's Juan Manuel Barroso and he's the President of the European Commission.
0:20:28 > 0:20:33I'll accept that. It's actually Jose Manuel Barroso.
0:20:33 > 0:20:38That's close enough. Right, so we're going to follow on from that
0:20:38 > 0:20:44with three more EU politicians. In each case, give me their name and their office. Firstly,
0:20:44 > 0:20:48who's this? He took office on the 1st of December, 2009.
0:20:48 > 0:20:55That is Herman Van Rompuy who is the President of the... European Union, I think.
0:20:55 > 0:21:01Yeah. It's Herman Van Rompuy. We think he's President of the European...
0:21:01 > 0:21:05- Union.- No, he's President of the European Council.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09Secondly, who's this? He took office on 17th January, 2012.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18No idea. I don't even know who he might be.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21No one? No.
0:21:21 > 0:21:25It's Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament.
0:21:25 > 0:21:30Name this person and the portfolio she holds in the EU Commission.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34She also took office on 1st December, 2009.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38Not the fish lady. Not the climate lady...
0:21:38 > 0:21:44- No, it's not Beckett. It's the foreign lady. Baroness something. - Not Baroness Warsi?
0:21:44 > 0:21:48- No, not Warsi. Baroness something.- Ashton.
0:21:48 > 0:21:55- Baroness Ashton, the EU's Foreign Minister.- I'll accept that. High Representative for Foreign Affairs.
0:21:55 > 0:22:02Right, ten points for this. Spoon, direct-pull, roller lever and coaster are among types...
0:22:02 > 0:22:05- Brakes? Bicycle brakes? - Correct, yes.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13Your bonuses are on cities of the Indian subcontinent.
0:22:13 > 0:22:18Name the city from the description. All three end with the same three letters.
0:22:18 > 0:22:22A city in Uttar Pradesh at the confluence of the Ganges and Jumna.
0:22:22 > 0:22:29Originally known as Prayag, its name, given by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, means City of God.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Do you know a city in India...? Anything?
0:22:38 > 0:22:43- Uttar Pradesh is...- Bangalore's a bit far south. Any thoughts?
0:22:43 > 0:22:48- You know cricket. Name a place where they play Test matches.- Come on.
0:22:48 > 0:22:53- Bangalore?- No, it's Allahabad. Secondly, the largest city in the state of Gujarat?
0:22:53 > 0:22:58Around 450km north of Mumbai, it is often said to be one of the world's fastest-growing cities.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14- What? - Why don't we go with that?
0:23:14 > 0:23:20- Hyderabad.- No, it's Ahmedabad. Finally, a major city of south-west India on the Deccan Plateau,
0:23:20 > 0:23:22it is the capital of Andhra Pradesh?
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Is that one Hyderabad?
0:23:25 > 0:23:28It might be. Don't know.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Where do the Deccan Chargers play?
0:23:30 > 0:23:34- Em, we'll try Hyderabad again. - You'd be correct.
0:23:34 > 0:23:41Four and a quarter minutes to go. Behemoth, cherub, jubilee and leviathan are among English words
0:23:41 > 0:23:45that derive ultimately from which language of West Asia?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50- Hebrew?- Correct.
0:23:52 > 0:23:58These bonuses are on novels whose titles contain a word from the NATO spelling alphabet,
0:23:58 > 0:24:03for example, A Passage To India. Give the title from the description.
0:24:03 > 0:24:08A novel by Anita Brookner set on the shores of Lake Geneva. It won the Booker Prize in 1984.
0:24:08 > 0:24:14- Hotel du Lac.- Correct. A novel of 2009 by Nick Hornby in which an obsessive music fan receives
0:24:14 > 0:24:20an advanced copy of the eponymous album by his favourite artist, Tucker Crowe.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28- High Fidelity?- No, it's Juliet, Naked. And a children's book of 1964
0:24:28 > 0:24:33whose characters include Mike Teavee and Veruca Salt.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Charlie and The Chocolate Factory?
0:24:35 > 0:24:41Correct. Ten points for this. Presenting 19 series of talks himself, which scientist inaugurated
0:24:41 > 0:24:46the Royal Institution of Great Britain's annual Christmas lectures in 1825?
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- Was it Faraday?- It is Faraday, yes.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54These bonuses are on Members of the Westminster Parliament.
0:24:54 > 0:25:00In each case, I want the Scottish council area in which the following MPs were elected in 2010.
0:25:00 > 0:25:05First, Michael Crockart, Sheila Gilmore and Alistair Darling?
0:25:05 > 0:25:10Darling's Edinburgh, isn't it? City of Edinburgh? Edinburgh?
0:25:10 > 0:25:14Correct. Sir Ming Campbell, Thomas Docherty and Gordon Brown?
0:25:14 > 0:25:18- Fife.- Correct. Finally, John Thurso, Danny Alexander and Charles Kennedy?
0:25:18 > 0:25:23It's way up in the north. Highlands and Islands? Is that a council area?
0:25:23 > 0:25:28- Is it not West Lothian? - It's way up north.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30It might be Highlands and Islands.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32- Highlands and Islands?- No, Highland.
0:25:32 > 0:25:36About 2½ minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:25:36 > 0:25:42In mathematics, what is the lowest common multiple of all the prime numbers between one and six?
0:25:45 > 0:25:48- Thirty.- Thirty is correct, yes.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54These bonuses are on chemistry. The carbonate of which metal is used
0:25:54 > 0:25:58to treat manic and depressive mood swings?
0:25:58 > 0:26:04- Lithium.- Lithium.- Correct. Mixed with a smaller amount of ferric oxide, the oxide of which metal
0:26:04 > 0:26:08is the major ingredient of the pink astringent calamine?
0:26:08 > 0:26:12- Guess.- Quickly.- Copper.- No, zinc.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16The green mineral malachite is a basic carbonate of which element?
0:26:17 > 0:26:23- Guess.- Magnesium.- Magnesium?- Copper. The single-word English name of which European country begins
0:26:23 > 0:26:28with four letters meaning "symbol of authority of the House of Commons"?
0:26:29 > 0:26:33- Macedonia.- Correct. The mace. These bonuses are on Henry Ford.
0:26:33 > 0:26:39In which state was Henry Ford born in 1867? He based his automobile business there
0:26:39 > 0:26:43and ran unsuccessfully for a US Senate seat in that state in 1918.
0:26:43 > 0:26:51- Michigan.- In which decade did he establish the Ford Motor Company and pioneer mass production?
0:26:51 > 0:26:56- 1910s.- 1900s. For what reason did he charter the ship Oskar Two,
0:26:56 > 0:27:01setting sail for Stockholm with like-minded supporters in 1915?
0:27:01 > 0:27:05- Supporting Nazism. - No, it was to end World War One.
0:27:05 > 0:27:11Ten points for this. Published in 1952, which novel by John Steinbeck features brothers Caleb and...
0:27:12 > 0:27:17- East of Eden.- Correct. These bonuses now are on a god.
0:27:17 > 0:27:24The lyre, the tortoise and the staff known as the caduceus are among symbols associated with which god?
0:27:24 > 0:27:30The son of Zeus and Maia, he is the second youngest of the Olympian gods. Quickly.
0:27:30 > 0:27:35- Asclepius?- No, Hermes, Mercury. The maternal grandfather of Odysseus,
0:27:35 > 0:27:41which son of Hermes shares his name with a rogue in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale?
0:27:43 > 0:27:47- Come on, let's have it, please. - No.- It's Autolycus.
0:27:47 > 0:27:53Hermes Carrying The Infant Dionysus is a work by which Attic sculptor of the 4th century BC?
0:27:56 > 0:27:58GONG
0:27:58 > 0:28:01I'll tell you. It's Praxiteles.
0:28:08 > 0:28:14We will have to say goodbye to you, I guess. I'd be surprised if it's one of the highest losing scores,
0:28:14 > 0:28:18so I think we'll be saying goodbye. Thank you for playing, St John's.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21Reading, we'll see you in Round Two. Congratulations.
0:28:21 > 0:28:28I hope you can join us next time. Until then, though, it's goodbye from St John's College, Cambridge,
0:28:28 > 0:28:33goodbye from the University of Reading and goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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