0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. Tonight two more teams are competing
0:00:31 > 0:00:35to take a step closer to being named series champions,
0:00:35 > 0:00:39an accolade that's yet to be superseded in any single field of human endeavour.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Three places in the quarterfinals have already been taken.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Tonight's winners will take the fourth.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48The team from Bangor University had a convincing win in their first-round match,
0:00:48 > 0:00:52with 230 points to Aberystwyth's 110.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55They knew a lot about what goes on in the human brain, appropriately,
0:00:55 > 0:00:58and they were strong on Christopher Marlowe,
0:00:58 > 0:01:00Spanish cities and nature.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02They're playing on behalf of an institution
0:01:02 > 0:01:05that had reached the semifinals of this competition last year.
0:01:05 > 0:01:10So let's find out if tonight's four have it in them to go even further. Here they are.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Hello. I'm Owain Wyn Jones from Abertawe - Swansea -
0:01:12 > 0:01:15and I'm doing a PhD in medieval Welsh history.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20Hello. I'm Daisy le Helloco from Dorchester in Dorset and I'm doing a PhD in English literature.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Let's meet their captain.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Hi. I'm Catriona Coutts. I'm from Anglesey
0:01:24 > 0:01:27and I'm reading English literature with creative writing.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Hello. I'm Anna Johnson.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32I'm from Chippenham and I'm doing an M degree in marine biology,
0:01:32 > 0:01:34studying imposex in the common dog whelk.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36APPLAUSE
0:01:42 > 0:01:43Well, it takes all sorts.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46Now, their opponents, Southampton University,
0:01:46 > 0:01:49lost to the London School of Oriental and African Studies
0:01:49 > 0:01:51in their first-round match by 155 points to 230.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53They made the most of their second chance
0:01:53 > 0:01:56as one of the highest scoring losing teams
0:01:56 > 0:01:57by beating Loughborough University
0:01:57 > 0:02:00by 105-point margin,
0:02:00 > 0:02:02aided by their knowledge of football badges, famous horses
0:02:02 > 0:02:05and nasty things you can catch from insects.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Let's meet the Southampton team again.
0:02:07 > 0:02:12Hello. I'm David Bishop. I'm from Reading. I'm studying physics.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Hello. I'm Richard Evans. I'm from Frimley in Surrey
0:02:15 > 0:02:17and I'm reading chemistry.
0:02:17 > 0:02:18And their captain.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Hi. I'm Bob de Caux. I'm originally from West Sussex
0:02:20 > 0:02:24and I'm studying for a PhD in complex system simulation.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27Hi. I'm Matt Loxham. I'm from Preston in Lancashire
0:02:27 > 0:02:30and I'm studying for a PhD in respiratory toxicology.
0:02:30 > 0:02:31APPLAUSE
0:02:36 > 0:02:37Shall we just get on with it?
0:02:37 > 0:02:40Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42"Why should it be thought irreligious
0:02:42 > 0:02:45"to believe the maker of all things in his first designs
0:02:45 > 0:02:48"should have foreseen the necessity of future modifications
0:02:48 > 0:02:50"to future altered conditions?"
0:02:50 > 0:02:53From an 1861 edition of The Geologist,
0:02:53 > 0:02:57these words form part of a review of which ground-breaking work?
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Bangor, Johnson.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Origin Of The Species.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03That's correct. The Origin Of Species.
0:03:03 > 0:03:04APPLAUSE
0:03:06 > 0:03:11So you get a set of bonuses, Bangor, on statues of fictional characters.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Firstly, for 5 points, statues of which literary character
0:03:14 > 0:03:17were unveiled at Meiringen in Switzerland
0:03:17 > 0:03:22and the mountain resort of Karuizawa in Japan in 1988,
0:03:22 > 0:03:25some years before the unveiling of a statue near his fictional London home?
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Sherlock Holmes?
0:03:27 > 0:03:30Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32- Sherlock Holmes.- Correct.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Funded by the author who created him,
0:03:34 > 0:03:38a statue of which fictional character appeared in Kensington Gardens in 1912?
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Peter Pan.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42- Peter Pan.- Correct.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Which character, created by Michael Bond,
0:03:44 > 0:03:49is commemorated by a statue unveiled at a major London railway station in 2000?
0:03:49 > 0:03:51- Paddington.- Correct.
0:03:51 > 0:03:5210 points for this.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54APPLAUSE
0:03:54 > 0:03:59Devised in about 1700 to skim floating tea leaves,
0:03:59 > 0:04:01what type of spoon takes its name from a word for...?
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Southampton, De Caux.
0:04:03 > 0:04:04- Runcible.- No.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07You lose five points.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09..for a tiny piece of a substance, for example,
0:04:09 > 0:04:10dust?
0:04:13 > 0:04:16- Bangor, Le Helloco.- Spatula?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18No, it's a mote spoon.
0:04:18 > 0:04:1910 points for this.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Discovered in 1994, which protein was originally identified
0:04:22 > 0:04:25as the product of the Ob gene in mice
0:04:25 > 0:04:28and was later found in humans and other species?
0:04:28 > 0:04:30It's expressed almost exclusively in adipose tissue
0:04:30 > 0:04:34and is involved in the regulation of appetite and fat storage.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37- Southampton, Loxham.- Leptin. - Leptin is correct, yes.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39APPLAUSE
0:04:41 > 0:04:44You get three bonuses on EH Gombrich's The Story Of Art.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48I want you to identify each of the following artists of the Italian Renaissance
0:04:48 > 0:04:50from Gombrich's description.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53Firstly, "His greatest paintings seemed so effortless
0:04:53 > 0:04:57"that one does not usually connect them with the idea of hard and relentless work.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00"To many, he's simply the painter of sweet Madonnas,
0:05:00 > 0:05:04"which have become so well known as hardly to be appreciated as paintings any more."
0:05:06 > 0:05:08THEY CONFER
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Michelangelo.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14- Try Michelangelo.- No, it's Raphael.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16"He was of a wild and irascible temper,
0:05:16 > 0:05:19"quick to take offence and even to run a dagger through a man.
0:05:19 > 0:05:23"He had no liking for classical models, nor any respect for ideal beauty."
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Maybe Caravaggio?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27- Caravaggio.- Correct.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31"In The Dying Slave, he chose the moment when life was just fading
0:05:31 > 0:05:34"and the body was giving way to the laws of dead matter.
0:05:34 > 0:05:39"There is unspeakable beauty in this moment of final relaxation and release."
0:05:39 > 0:05:41Could that be Michelangelo?
0:05:41 > 0:05:42- Michelangelo.- Correct.
0:05:42 > 0:05:4410 points for this.
0:05:44 > 0:05:45What short word is spelt
0:05:45 > 0:05:49using the middle initials of the civil rights activist Susan Anthony,
0:05:49 > 0:05:52the Confederate general Robert Lee
0:05:52 > 0:05:54and John Rockefeller...?
0:05:54 > 0:05:56- Southampton, De Caux.- Bed.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Bed is correct, yes.
0:05:58 > 0:05:59APPLAUSE
0:06:01 > 0:06:04These bonuses could give you the lead. They're on radio-astronomy.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Which US engineer in 1931,
0:06:06 > 0:06:09while investigating interference to telephone communications,
0:06:09 > 0:06:12discovered unidentifiable radio signals from outer space?
0:06:12 > 0:06:15He gives his name to a unit measuring radio emission strength.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23- It's not Hubble, is it? - It's not Hubble.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26I've got Tombaugh in my head, but...
0:06:26 > 0:06:28Nominate Evans.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30- Tombaugh.- No, it's Karl Jansky.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Secondly, which British radio-astronomer
0:06:32 > 0:06:34pioneered the subject at Cambridge University?
0:06:34 > 0:06:37His work included the cataloguing of radio sources,
0:06:37 > 0:06:39which contributed to the discovery of quasars.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42THEY CONFER
0:06:43 > 0:06:45That's the Manchester guy.
0:06:47 > 0:06:48- Anyone?- No.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50No, we don't know.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52It's Sir Martin Ryle.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56Finally, what name has been given to the upgrade to a network of seven radio-astronomy stations
0:06:56 > 0:07:00from Jodrell Bank in Cheshire to Lord's Bridge near Cambridge
0:07:00 > 0:07:03that links the stations together using optical fibres?
0:07:06 > 0:07:07SkyNet?
0:07:07 > 0:07:09SkyNet sounds good!
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Shall we say it?
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Well, we'll say SkyNet!
0:07:17 > 0:07:19No, it's e-Merlin. 10 points for this.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21JRR Tolkien claimed he created
0:07:21 > 0:07:27which race of characters, partly in disappointment "at the shabby use made in Shakespeare's Macbeth..."?
0:07:27 > 0:07:30- Bangor, Coutts.- Orcs.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31No. You lose 5 points.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35"..at the coming of great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill"?
0:07:35 > 0:07:37In his own works, they appear as guardians
0:07:37 > 0:07:39or shepherds of the tress.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45- Southampton, Bishop.- Ents.- Correct.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48APPLAUSE
0:07:48 > 0:07:52Right, Southampton, these bonuses are on the Color Of The Year
0:07:52 > 0:07:56in the supreme wisdom of the US design corporation, Pantone.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Pantone's 2011 Color Of The Year
0:07:59 > 0:08:03shared its name with which climbing garden plant
0:08:03 > 0:08:07of the genus Lonicera, noted for its intense fragrance?
0:08:07 > 0:08:08Lavender?
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Could be.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13- Climbing?- It's not climbing.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15I don't know.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20- Lavender.- No, it's Honeysuckle.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23What was Pantone's 2012 Color Of The Year?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Its two-word alliterative name
0:08:25 > 0:08:30comprises those of a citrus fruit named after a North African port
0:08:30 > 0:08:33and a ballroom dance that originated in Argentina.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35It's alliterative, so...
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Tangerine Tango?
0:08:37 > 0:08:38Yeah.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Tangerine is the fruit, so...
0:08:40 > 0:08:42- Tangerine Tango.- Correct.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Well worked out.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46What is Pantone's 2013 Color Of The Year?
0:08:46 > 0:08:50It shares its name with a variety of the mineral beryl,
0:08:50 > 0:08:52that's valued as a gemstone.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Is that emerald?
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Could be.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58That's definitely beryl, but...
0:08:58 > 0:09:00- Emerald.- Correct.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Right, we'll take a picture round.
0:09:02 > 0:09:03For your picture starter,
0:09:03 > 0:09:05you'll see a notable New York street. For 10 points,
0:09:05 > 0:09:08I want you to name the street, please.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12- Southampton, Loxham.- 5th Avenue.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14It is 5th Avenue, yes.
0:09:14 > 0:09:15APPLAUSE
0:09:17 > 0:09:20Your bonuses are three more New York thoroughfares.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24In each case, I simply want the name of the road. Firstly...
0:09:26 > 0:09:28Is that Broadway?
0:09:28 > 0:09:30It's the only one that...
0:09:30 > 0:09:32- Broadway.- Correct.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35Secondly, the four-word name of this street.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Avenue of the Americas?
0:09:39 > 0:09:41- Avenue of the Americas.- Correct.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43And finally, this intersection.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48- Times Square?- Times Square.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Well done. 10 points for this.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55What comes next in this sequence,
0:09:55 > 0:09:59being the countries that border Sudan, in clockwise order?
0:09:59 > 0:10:02Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and...?
0:10:02 > 0:10:04- Southampton, Evans.- South Sudan.
0:10:04 > 0:10:05No.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08- Bangor, Coutts.- Djibouti.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10No, it's Kenya.
0:10:10 > 0:10:1210 points at stake for this.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Formerly used in televisions, what device requires a magnetic field
0:10:16 > 0:10:18to deflect a beam of electrons...?
0:10:18 > 0:10:21- Southampton, Loxham. - Cathode ray tube.
0:10:21 > 0:10:22Correct.
0:10:22 > 0:10:23APPLAUSE
0:10:26 > 0:10:28This set of bonuses, Southampton,
0:10:28 > 0:10:30are on 20th-century history.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34Which former Prime Minister gave his name to a declaration of 1926
0:10:34 > 0:10:38that acknowledged the growing diplomatic independence of Britain's dominions?
0:10:38 > 0:10:40That's probably Balfour.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43- Balfour.- Correct.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46Adopted by the United Kingdom in 1931,
0:10:46 > 0:10:50which statute confirmed the legislative autonomy of the dominions
0:10:50 > 0:10:53that had been suggested by the Balfour Report?
0:10:56 > 0:10:58THEY CONFER
0:11:00 > 0:11:03- We don't know.- It's the Statute of Westminster. And finally,
0:11:03 > 0:11:06a dominion when the Statute of Westminster was adopted,
0:11:06 > 0:11:10which island became a province of Canada in 1949?
0:11:10 > 0:11:11Newfoundland.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14- Yeah, that's right. Newfoundland. - Correct.
0:11:14 > 0:11:1610 points for this.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17Resembling a stylised trident,
0:11:17 > 0:11:21the columns of Gediminas
0:11:21 > 0:11:24are a symbol of which EU member state?
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Its coat of arms features an armoured knight on a white horse...
0:11:27 > 0:11:29- Southampton, Bishop.- Lithuania. - Correct.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31APPLAUSE
0:11:33 > 0:11:36These bonuses, Southampton, are on graphic novels.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39"It feels like a character I created 30 years ago
0:11:39 > 0:11:41"has escaped the realm of fiction."
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Which writer said that, referring to the sight of global protestors
0:11:44 > 0:11:49adopting the Guy Fawkes masks worn by the protagonist of his V For Vendetta?
0:11:49 > 0:11:51- Alan Moore.- Alan Moore.
0:11:51 > 0:11:52Correct.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55Although the illustrator Eddie Campbell believes otherwise,
0:11:55 > 0:11:59in the comic series From Hell, Alan Moore identifies
0:11:59 > 0:12:03the Royal Physician Sir William Withey Gull as which notorious figure?
0:12:03 > 0:12:05- Jack the Ripper.- Correct.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09First published in 1999, which comic book series by Alan Moore
0:12:09 > 0:12:11features an eponymous team of secret agents
0:12:11 > 0:12:15that includes Edward Hyde, Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man and Alan Quartermain?
0:12:15 > 0:12:19- Watchmen.- No, it's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
0:12:19 > 0:12:2010 points for this.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Alluding to the raised platform used to attract an audience,
0:12:23 > 0:12:26what word denotes a charlatan seller of quack remedies
0:12:26 > 0:12:31or a person who deceives others, especially in order to separate them from their money?
0:12:31 > 0:12:34- Southampton, De Caux.- Huckster.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Anyone like to buzz from Bangor?
0:12:40 > 0:12:42It's a mountebank. 10 points for this.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Which interpretation of quantum mechanics is named after the European city...?
0:12:45 > 0:12:49- Southampton, Loxham.- The Copenhagen Interpretation.- Correct.
0:12:49 > 0:12:50APPLAUSE
0:12:52 > 0:12:56These bonuses are on the Orange Prize for Fiction.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Principally associated with historical novels,
0:12:58 > 0:13:02which author was shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize for The Colour
0:13:02 > 0:13:05and went on to win in 2008 with The Road Home?
0:13:10 > 0:13:13THEY CONFER
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Pat Barker.
0:13:17 > 0:13:18No, it's Rose Tremain.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22Which US author won the 2010 Orange Prize for The Lacuna,
0:13:22 > 0:13:26having been shortlisted over ten years earlier for The Poisonwood Bible?
0:13:32 > 0:13:34We'd just be making names up, so pass.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37Served you fine so far!
0:13:37 > 0:13:38No, it's Barbara Kingsolver.
0:13:38 > 0:13:43And finally, Unless, nominated for the Orange Prize in 2003
0:13:43 > 0:13:46and Larry's Party, the winner in 1998,
0:13:46 > 0:13:50are works by which Canadian writer who died in 2003?
0:13:53 > 0:13:56- Margaret Atwood, but I don't think she died, did she?- Try it.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58I think she's still alive!
0:13:58 > 0:14:00I'll say Margaret Atwood.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02No, it's Carol Shields.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04There really is a divide in reading, isn't there?
0:14:04 > 0:14:08Right, we're going to take a music round, Bangor, and there's plenty of time to come back.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15For 10 points, I simply want you to tell me the name of the group performing.
0:14:15 > 0:14:16# I'm a fi... #
0:14:16 > 0:14:18- Southampton, Loxham.- The Prodigy.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20It is The Prodigy, Firestarter.
0:14:20 > 0:14:21APPLAUSE
0:14:23 > 0:14:25That was banned by the BBC
0:14:25 > 0:14:29for arson fixation and scaring small children.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33For your bonuses, three more songs that were at one time banned by the BBC for various reasons.
0:14:33 > 0:14:365 points for each artist or band you can identify.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38Firstly, the name of the group performing this song,
0:14:38 > 0:14:44banned because its lyrics were seen to be an implicit endorsement of early '90s drug culture.
0:14:44 > 0:14:45# 'Ezer Goode, 'Ezer Goode
0:14:47 > 0:14:48# He's Ebenezer Goode
0:14:48 > 0:14:50# 'Ezer Goode, 'Ezer Goode... #
0:14:50 > 0:14:52- That's the Shamen. - It is the Shamen, yes.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Secondly, the band performing this song,
0:14:54 > 0:14:59which made the BBC's list of songs to be avoided during the Gulf War for its Middle Eastern references.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02# Foreign types with their hookah pipes say... #
0:15:02 > 0:15:04That's the Bangles, isn't it?
0:15:04 > 0:15:06The Bangles.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Yes, Walk Like An Egyptian. And finally,
0:15:08 > 0:15:11who's performing this song, of which BBC managers stated,
0:15:11 > 0:15:17"Certain lines in the lyric must not be broadcast due to their suggestive nature?"
0:15:17 > 0:15:19# In my blazer and a pair of shorts
0:15:19 > 0:15:23# With me little stick of Blackpool rock... #
0:15:23 > 0:15:25THEY CONFER
0:15:25 > 0:15:27# Along the promenade I stroll
0:15:27 > 0:15:31# It may be sticky but I never complain
0:15:31 > 0:15:35# It's nice to have a nibble at it now and again... #
0:15:35 > 0:15:36- George Formby.- It is George Formby, yes!
0:15:36 > 0:15:38APPLAUSE
0:15:42 > 0:15:4510 points at stake for this. First used in an essay of 1849
0:15:45 > 0:15:47by Henry David Thoreau,
0:15:47 > 0:15:52which two-word term describes the intentional, non-violent defiance of Government authority
0:15:52 > 0:15:56on the grounds of moral objection, with the aim of promoting a just society?
0:15:58 > 0:16:02- Bangor, Johnson. - Um...conscious objectation.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05No. Anyone like to buzz from Southampton?
0:16:05 > 0:16:07You may not confer. One of you may buzz.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10- Southampton, De Caux. - Conscientious objector?- No.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13It's civil disobedience. 10 points for this.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15Which play by Shakespeare includes the lines,
0:16:15 > 0:16:18"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind,
0:16:18 > 0:16:21"and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind?"
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- Southampton, Loxham. - Romeo And Juliet.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26No. Anyone from Bangor?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28- Bangor, Le Helloco.- Twelfth Night.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31No. It's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It's Helena. 10 points for this.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34In terms of Boltzmann's constant, k,
0:16:34 > 0:16:36and the temperature, T,
0:16:36 > 0:16:38what is the average kinetic energy per molecule of a...?
0:16:38 > 0:16:42- Southampton, Evans. - Three times half kT.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Correct, yes - 3/2 kT.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Right, a set of bonuses now, Southampton.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48They're on crystal structures in chemistry.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Which element was discovered by the Curies in 1898,
0:16:51 > 0:16:53some months before their discovery of radium?
0:16:53 > 0:16:58It has two metallic allotropes - the alpha form is an example of a simple cubic structure
0:16:58 > 0:17:00and the beta form is rhombohedral.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02Is it polonium?
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Polonium.
0:17:04 > 0:17:09Correct. There are two crystal lattices in which hard spheres can be packed
0:17:09 > 0:17:11to fill spaces as efficiently as possible.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15One lattice is the hexagon close packed or HCP.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17What's the other?
0:17:17 > 0:17:19- Cubic close packed.- Close packed?
0:17:19 > 0:17:21- Cubic close packed.- Correct.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23In a sodium chloride crystal, how many sodium ions
0:17:23 > 0:17:27surround a chloride ion as nearest neighbour?
0:17:27 > 0:17:29- Six.- Correct.
0:17:29 > 0:17:3010 points for this.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32After the then reigning monarch,
0:17:32 > 0:17:34what three-word name was given to a fund
0:17:34 > 0:17:38aimed at supplementing the income of less wealthy Anglican clergy?
0:17:38 > 0:17:40It was established in 1704.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43- Bangor, Coutts.- Queen Anne Fund.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46No. Anyone like to buzz from Southampton?
0:17:48 > 0:17:51- Southampton, De Caux. - King George Fund.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53No, it's Queen Anne's Bounty.
0:17:53 > 0:17:5410 points for this.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Born in Danzig in 1788
0:17:56 > 0:17:59and often called the "philosopher of pessimism",
0:17:59 > 0:18:01which opponent of Hegel is best known...?
0:18:01 > 0:18:03- Southampton, Loxham.- Schopenhauer.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Schopenhauer is correct.
0:18:05 > 0:18:06APPLAUSE
0:18:08 > 0:18:11These bonuses are on African capitals.
0:18:11 > 0:18:17Cotonou is the seat of government and Porto-Novo the official capital of which West African country?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19It gained independence from France in 1960.
0:18:19 > 0:18:20- Benin.- Correct.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23Pretoria is the executive capital of South Africa
0:18:23 > 0:18:24and Cape Town, the legislative.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27Which inland city is the judicial capital?
0:18:27 > 0:18:28- Bloemfontein.- Right.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Dodoma has been designated capital of Tanzania
0:18:31 > 0:18:32since the 1970s,
0:18:32 > 0:18:37although the seat of much government administration has remained in which sea port?
0:18:37 > 0:18:38- Dar es Salaam.- Correct.
0:18:38 > 0:18:4010 points for this.
0:18:40 > 0:18:41How many full decades
0:18:41 > 0:18:43separate Yuri Gagarin's first space flight
0:18:43 > 0:18:46and the last flight of the space shuttle?
0:18:46 > 0:18:49- Southampton, Evans.- Five. - Five is correct.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51APPLAUSE
0:18:51 > 0:18:521961 to 2011.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55These bonuses are on artists.
0:18:55 > 0:18:56A founder of the Vienna Secession,
0:18:56 > 0:19:00which artist's works include Judith And The Head Of Holofernes
0:19:00 > 0:19:02and Three Ages Of Woman?
0:19:05 > 0:19:07THEY CONFER
0:19:07 > 0:19:09- We'll try Klimt.- Klimt is correct.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12At the Vienna Secession exhibition in 1902, a frieze by Klimt
0:19:12 > 0:19:16accompanied Max Klinger's sculpture of which German composer?
0:19:16 > 0:19:19THEY CONFER
0:19:23 > 0:19:24I would go Beethoven.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26- Beethoven.- Well done.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30Perhaps the most familiar image of Beethoven is Joseph Stieler's 1820 portrait
0:19:30 > 0:19:34of him working on his Missa Solemnis, on display in the Beethoven House,
0:19:34 > 0:19:38in which city, the composer's birthplace in 1770?
0:19:38 > 0:19:39- Bonn?- I think it was Bonn, yeah.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41- Bonn.- Correct.
0:19:41 > 0:19:4410 points for this. Which English city shares its name
0:19:44 > 0:19:46with a comma that precedes...?
0:19:46 > 0:19:49- Southampton, Loxham.- Oxford. - Oxford is right, yes.
0:19:49 > 0:19:50APPLAUSE
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Southampton, these bonuses are on historic routes.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59Firstly, described as Britain's oldest road,
0:19:59 > 0:20:02which national trail runs from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire
0:20:02 > 0:20:04to Overton Hill in Wiltshire?
0:20:04 > 0:20:06Ridgeway.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08- The Ridgeway.- Correct.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11Thought by some to have been a branch of the Icknield Way,
0:20:11 > 0:20:14the Peddars Way follows the route of a Roman road
0:20:14 > 0:20:17for 46 miles to the north coast of which county?
0:20:17 > 0:20:20THEY CONFER
0:20:20 > 0:20:23Which Roman way's going to...?
0:20:23 > 0:20:25No, actually, it could be...
0:20:25 > 0:20:27- Devon.- No, it's Norfolk.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29The Pilgrims' Way is a historic route
0:20:29 > 0:20:34that runs from Winchester to the shrine of St Thomas a Becket in which city?
0:20:34 > 0:20:35- Canterbury.- Correct.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37We'll take a picture round now.
0:20:37 > 0:20:38For your picture starter,
0:20:38 > 0:20:41you'll see a portrait of an historical figure.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42For 10 points, give me his name.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47- Bangor, Jones.- Simon de Bolivar.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Simon Bolivar is correct, yes.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51APPLAUSE
0:20:53 > 0:20:56You've got a bit of ground to catch up. You may have time.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58Following on from Simon Bolivar, your bonuses -
0:20:58 > 0:21:00three more figures who notably combined
0:21:00 > 0:21:03military and political service in the mid- to late-19th century.
0:21:03 > 0:21:065 points for each you can identify. Firstly...
0:21:07 > 0:21:09That was Ulysses S Grant.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11- Who?- Ulysses S Grant.- OK.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13- Ulysses S Grant.- Correct.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Secondly...
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Any idea?
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Metternich? Give it a shot.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27- Come on.- Metternich?- No. That's Paul Kruger,
0:21:27 > 0:21:29the South African Boer leader. And finally...
0:21:38 > 0:21:41- Bismarck.- No. The shirt's the giveaway - it's Garibaldi.
0:21:41 > 0:21:4310 points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46In mathematics, what are the four roots of unity?
0:21:48 > 0:21:49Southampton, De Caux.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Plus one, minus one, i and minus i?
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Correct, yes.
0:21:53 > 0:21:54APPLAUSE
0:21:56 > 0:21:59These bonuses are on cell biology.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03What term denotes the large family of calcium-dependent cell adhesion molecules
0:22:03 > 0:22:05found in junctions between cells?
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Oh, dear! Um...
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Well, they're...
0:22:11 > 0:22:15- Junctions between cells are synapses, aren't they? Cadherins. - Nominate Loxham.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17- Cadherins.- Correct.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Containing cadherins and also known as macula adherens,
0:22:20 > 0:22:23what term denotes the strong junctions between cells
0:22:23 > 0:22:26that occur as discrete points on the lateral cell membrane?
0:22:27 > 0:22:29That's hemi-desmosomes.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32Hemi-desmosomes.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35No, they're desmosomes. They're different.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39Pemphigus vulgaris is an auto-immune disease
0:22:39 > 0:22:41in which auto-antibodies target desmosomes.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44What are the characteristic lesions of this disease?
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Epithelial sloughing, maybe?
0:22:53 > 0:22:54Nominate Loxham.
0:22:54 > 0:22:58- Epithelial sloughing. - No, they're blisters. Another starter question.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Gloucester, Monmouth, Camden,
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Guilford, Courthouse and Brandywine
0:23:02 > 0:23:06are among military actions in which 18th-century conflict?
0:23:06 > 0:23:09- Southampton, Bishop.- The American War of Independence.
0:23:09 > 0:23:10Correct.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12APPLAUSE
0:23:14 > 0:23:18These bonuses are on proper names in which no letter is repeated,
0:23:18 > 0:23:22sometimes called isograms. In each case, give the name from the description.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Firstly, a town in North Lincolnshire,
0:23:25 > 0:23:26noted for steel production.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29- Scunthorpe. Is that an isogram? - Yeah, it is.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31- Scunthorpe.- Correct.
0:23:31 > 0:23:36An automotive company founded by the German government in 1937.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Volkswagen?
0:23:38 > 0:23:39- Volkswagen.- Correct.
0:23:39 > 0:23:44And finally, the 11-letter English name of a landlocked European country.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46- Liechtenstein.- Oh, no!
0:23:46 > 0:23:48No, it's Switzerland.
0:23:48 > 0:23:5010 points for this.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52In addition to the Pre-Cambrian and the Cambrian,
0:23:52 > 0:23:56two geological periods have names associated with Wales...
0:23:56 > 0:23:59- Bangor, Jones. - Ordovician and Silurian.- Correct.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01APPLAUSE
0:24:05 > 0:24:06Nice to have you with us!
0:24:06 > 0:24:08These bonuses are on the United Nations.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12In each case, give the decade in which the following joined the UN.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Jamaica, Malta, Kuwait and Zambia.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18I think it might be '60s.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19A lot of the Africans were '60s.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21- 1960s.- Correct.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Thailand, Ukraine, Uruguay and Venezuela.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28- I think that might have been from the start.- OK.
0:24:28 > 0:24:301940s.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Correct.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35And finally, Moldova, Palau and Latvia.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38- 1990s, I think.- Yeah.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40- 1990s.- Correct.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43About three minutes to go and 10 points for this.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45You must answer as soon as your name is called.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Give the dictionary spelling of the word "excerpt".
0:24:48 > 0:24:53- Southampton, De Caux.- E-X-C-E-R-P-T. - Correct.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54APPLAUSE
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Your bonuses are on diseases of the vascular system.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00In each case, give the term from the description.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03Firstly, a localised swelling or widening of an artery,
0:25:03 > 0:25:04often due to the weakening of its wall.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Quickly!
0:25:08 > 0:25:09Oedema. Go for oedema.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11- Oedema.- No, it's aneurysm.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Secondly, a spasm of pain in the chest,
0:25:13 > 0:25:18often caused by the inability of the coronary arteries to bring enough oxygen-laden blood to the heart.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21- Angina.- Angina.
0:25:21 > 0:25:22Angina pectoris is correct.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25A Greek-derived term meaning the formation of blood clot
0:25:25 > 0:25:28within the blood vessels or heart.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Myocardial infarction is a heart attack.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32No, it's...
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Come on!
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Haemostasis.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- Haemostasis.- No, it's thrombosis.
0:25:38 > 0:25:3910 points for this.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Pilsner, Semtex and dollar
0:25:41 > 0:25:44are English words that derive ultimately from the names of locations...?
0:25:44 > 0:25:47- Southampton, Bishop. - The Czech Republic.- Correct.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49APPLAUSE
0:25:52 > 0:25:54Southampton, your bonuses are on a month.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Which month is a wicked month,
0:25:56 > 0:26:00according to the title of a novel of 1965 by the Irish writer Edna O'Brien?
0:26:00 > 0:26:03THEY CONFER
0:26:05 > 0:26:07- January.- No, it's August.
0:26:07 > 0:26:13August 1914 is the first in a series of novels collectively known as the Red Wheel by which Russian writer?
0:26:13 > 0:26:16THEY CONFER
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Come on!
0:26:24 > 0:26:25- Solzhenitsyn.- Correct.
0:26:25 > 0:26:30Which poet wrote that the English winter "ended in July, to recommence in August"?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32That sounds like Auden.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34Yeah. Auden.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36No, it was Byron. 10 points for this.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38In chemistry, what is the oxidation state
0:26:38 > 0:26:40of oxygen in hydrogen peroxide...?
0:26:40 > 0:26:42- Southampton, Evans.- Minus 1. - Correct.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46These bonuses are on religious texts.
0:26:46 > 0:26:51The Rig Veda, a large collection of hymns composed during the second millennium BCE
0:26:51 > 0:26:54is the oldest known text in which language?
0:26:56 > 0:26:59- Sanskrit, maybe?- Sanskrit.- Correct.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03Related to Sanskrit, in what language are the earliest texts of southern Buddhism?
0:27:03 > 0:27:06It developed in northern India from the fifth century BCE.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10THEY CONFER
0:27:10 > 0:27:11- Nominate Bishop.- Hindi.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13No, it's Pali.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Ardha Magadhi, or Half Magadhi,
0:27:15 > 0:27:19is a principal language of the texts of which Indian religion?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21Is that Jainism?
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Try Jainism.
0:27:22 > 0:27:23Come on!
0:27:23 > 0:27:25- Jainism.- Correct.
0:27:25 > 0:27:2810 points for this. Cape Fear, The Age Of Innocence
0:27:28 > 0:27:30and The Last Temptation Of Christ...?
0:27:30 > 0:27:32- Southampton, Evans.- Martin Scorsese.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36Correct. These bonuses now are on the British actor Charles Laughton.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38Which Roman emperor did Charles Laughton play
0:27:38 > 0:27:41in Cecil B DeMille's 1932 film The Sign Of The Cross?
0:27:41 > 0:27:44If it's The Sign Of The Cross, it must be Constantine.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46- Constantine.- No. Nero.
0:27:46 > 0:27:50What role did Laughton play in the 1953 film Salome?
0:27:50 > 0:27:53He memorably views Rita Hayworth in the title role
0:27:53 > 0:27:54performing the dance of...
0:27:54 > 0:27:57- GONG - That's the gong.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Bangor University have 60. Southampton University have 335.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02APPLAUSE
0:28:06 > 0:28:07Well, Bangor,
0:28:07 > 0:28:10you were so much stronger last time you were here!
0:28:10 > 0:28:12I don't know what happened - you were rather tongue-tied.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15Thank you for joining us. We have to say goodbye to you.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17You guys are on fire, Southampton!
0:28:17 > 0:28:22Some very, very inspired guesses, if indeed they were guesses. Or maybe you were trying to...
0:28:22 > 0:28:23I won't do...
0:28:23 > 0:28:25You never know.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28Anyway, congratulations to you. We shall look forward to seeing you
0:28:28 > 0:28:30in the quarterfinals. I hope you can join us next time.
0:28:30 > 0:28:34- But until then, it's goodbye from Bangor University... - ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37- It's goodbye from Southampton University...- ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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