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APPLAUSE

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University Challenge.

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Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.

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Hello. Tonight two more teams are competing

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to take a step closer to being named series champions,

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an accolade that's yet to be superseded in any single field of human endeavour.

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Three places in the quarterfinals have already been taken.

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Tonight's winners will take the fourth.

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The team from Bangor University had a convincing win in their first-round match,

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with 230 points to Aberystwyth's 110.

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They knew a lot about what goes on in the human brain, appropriately,

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and they were strong on Christopher Marlowe,

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Spanish cities and nature.

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They're playing on behalf of an institution

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that had reached the semifinals of this competition last year.

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So let's find out if tonight's four have it in them to go even further. Here they are.

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Hello. I'm Owain Wyn Jones from Abertawe - Swansea -

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and I'm doing a PhD in medieval Welsh history.

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Hello. I'm Daisy le Helloco from Dorchester in Dorset and I'm doing a PhD in English literature.

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Let's meet their captain.

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Hi. I'm Catriona Coutts. I'm from Anglesey

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and I'm reading English literature with creative writing.

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Hello. I'm Anna Johnson.

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I'm from Chippenham and I'm doing an M degree in marine biology,

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studying imposex in the common dog whelk.

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APPLAUSE

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Well, it takes all sorts.

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Now, their opponents, Southampton University,

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lost to the London School of Oriental and African Studies

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in their first-round match by 155 points to 230.

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They made the most of their second chance

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as one of the highest scoring losing teams

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by beating Loughborough University

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by 105-point margin,

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aided by their knowledge of football badges, famous horses

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and nasty things you can catch from insects.

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Let's meet the Southampton team again.

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Hello. I'm David Bishop. I'm from Reading. I'm studying physics.

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Hello. I'm Richard Evans. I'm from Frimley in Surrey

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and I'm reading chemistry.

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And their captain.

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Hi. I'm Bob de Caux. I'm originally from West Sussex

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and I'm studying for a PhD in complex system simulation.

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Hi. I'm Matt Loxham. I'm from Preston in Lancashire

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and I'm studying for a PhD in respiratory toxicology.

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APPLAUSE

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Shall we just get on with it?

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Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for 10.

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"Why should it be thought irreligious

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"to believe the maker of all things in his first designs

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"should have foreseen the necessity of future modifications

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"to future altered conditions?"

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From an 1861 edition of The Geologist,

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these words form part of a review of which ground-breaking work?

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Bangor, Johnson.

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Origin Of The Species.

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That's correct. The Origin Of Species.

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APPLAUSE

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So you get a set of bonuses, Bangor, on statues of fictional characters.

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Firstly, for 5 points, statues of which literary character

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were unveiled at Meiringen in Switzerland

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and the mountain resort of Karuizawa in Japan in 1988,

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some years before the unveiling of a statue near his fictional London home?

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Sherlock Holmes?

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Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah.

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-Sherlock Holmes.

-Correct.

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Funded by the author who created him,

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a statue of which fictional character appeared in Kensington Gardens in 1912?

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Peter Pan.

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-Peter Pan.

-Correct.

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Which character, created by Michael Bond,

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is commemorated by a statue unveiled at a major London railway station in 2000?

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-Paddington.

-Correct.

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10 points for this.

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APPLAUSE

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Devised in about 1700 to skim floating tea leaves,

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what type of spoon takes its name from a word for...?

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Southampton, De Caux.

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-Runcible.

-No.

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You lose five points.

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..for a tiny piece of a substance, for example,

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dust?

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-Bangor, Le Helloco.

-Spatula?

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No, it's a mote spoon.

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10 points for this.

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Discovered in 1994, which protein was originally identified

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as the product of the Ob gene in mice

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and was later found in humans and other species?

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It's expressed almost exclusively in adipose tissue

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and is involved in the regulation of appetite and fat storage.

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-Southampton, Loxham.

-Leptin.

-Leptin is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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You get three bonuses on EH Gombrich's The Story Of Art.

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I want you to identify each of the following artists of the Italian Renaissance

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from Gombrich's description.

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Firstly, "His greatest paintings seemed so effortless

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"that one does not usually connect them with the idea of hard and relentless work.

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"To many, he's simply the painter of sweet Madonnas,

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"which have become so well known as hardly to be appreciated as paintings any more."

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THEY CONFER

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Michelangelo.

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-Try Michelangelo.

-No, it's Raphael.

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"He was of a wild and irascible temper,

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"quick to take offence and even to run a dagger through a man.

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"He had no liking for classical models, nor any respect for ideal beauty."

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Maybe Caravaggio?

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-Caravaggio.

-Correct.

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"In The Dying Slave, he chose the moment when life was just fading

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"and the body was giving way to the laws of dead matter.

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"There is unspeakable beauty in this moment of final relaxation and release."

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Could that be Michelangelo?

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-Michelangelo.

-Correct.

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10 points for this.

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What short word is spelt

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using the middle initials of the civil rights activist Susan Anthony,

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the Confederate general Robert Lee

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and John Rockefeller...?

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-Southampton, De Caux.

-Bed.

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Bed is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses could give you the lead. They're on radio-astronomy.

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Which US engineer in 1931,

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while investigating interference to telephone communications,

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discovered unidentifiable radio signals from outer space?

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He gives his name to a unit measuring radio emission strength.

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-It's not Hubble, is it?

-It's not Hubble.

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I've got Tombaugh in my head, but...

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Nominate Evans.

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-Tombaugh.

-No, it's Karl Jansky.

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Secondly, which British radio-astronomer

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pioneered the subject at Cambridge University?

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His work included the cataloguing of radio sources,

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which contributed to the discovery of quasars.

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THEY CONFER

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That's the Manchester guy.

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-Anyone?

-No.

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No, we don't know.

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It's Sir Martin Ryle.

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Finally, what name has been given to the upgrade to a network of seven radio-astronomy stations

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from Jodrell Bank in Cheshire to Lord's Bridge near Cambridge

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that links the stations together using optical fibres?

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SkyNet?

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SkyNet sounds good!

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Shall we say it?

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Well, we'll say SkyNet!

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No, it's e-Merlin. 10 points for this.

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JRR Tolkien claimed he created

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which race of characters, partly in disappointment "at the shabby use made in Shakespeare's Macbeth..."?

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-Bangor, Coutts.

-Orcs.

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No. You lose 5 points.

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"..at the coming of great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill"?

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In his own works, they appear as guardians

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or shepherds of the tress.

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-Southampton, Bishop.

-Ents.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, Southampton, these bonuses are on the Color Of The Year

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in the supreme wisdom of the US design corporation, Pantone.

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Pantone's 2011 Color Of The Year

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shared its name with which climbing garden plant

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of the genus Lonicera, noted for its intense fragrance?

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Lavender?

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Could be.

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-Climbing?

-It's not climbing.

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I don't know.

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-Lavender.

-No, it's Honeysuckle.

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What was Pantone's 2012 Color Of The Year?

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Its two-word alliterative name

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comprises those of a citrus fruit named after a North African port

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and a ballroom dance that originated in Argentina.

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It's alliterative, so...

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Tangerine Tango?

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Yeah.

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Tangerine is the fruit, so...

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-Tangerine Tango.

-Correct.

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Well worked out.

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What is Pantone's 2013 Color Of The Year?

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It shares its name with a variety of the mineral beryl,

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that's valued as a gemstone.

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Is that emerald?

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Could be.

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That's definitely beryl, but...

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-Emerald.

-Correct.

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Right, we'll take a picture round.

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For your picture starter,

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you'll see a notable New York street. For 10 points,

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I want you to name the street, please.

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-Southampton, Loxham.

-5th Avenue.

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It is 5th Avenue, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are three more New York thoroughfares.

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In each case, I simply want the name of the road. Firstly...

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Is that Broadway?

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It's the only one that...

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-Broadway.

-Correct.

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Secondly, the four-word name of this street.

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Avenue of the Americas?

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-Avenue of the Americas.

-Correct.

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And finally, this intersection.

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-Times Square?

-Times Square.

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Well done. 10 points for this.

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Answer as soon as your name is called.

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What comes next in this sequence,

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being the countries that border Sudan, in clockwise order?

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Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and...?

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-Southampton, Evans.

-South Sudan.

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No.

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-Bangor, Coutts.

-Djibouti.

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No, it's Kenya.

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10 points at stake for this.

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Formerly used in televisions, what device requires a magnetic field

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to deflect a beam of electrons...?

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-Southampton, Loxham.

-Cathode ray tube.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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This set of bonuses, Southampton,

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are on 20th-century history.

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Which former Prime Minister gave his name to a declaration of 1926

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that acknowledged the growing diplomatic independence of Britain's dominions?

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That's probably Balfour.

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-Balfour.

-Correct.

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Adopted by the United Kingdom in 1931,

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which statute confirmed the legislative autonomy of the dominions

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that had been suggested by the Balfour Report?

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THEY CONFER

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-We don't know.

-It's the Statute of Westminster. And finally,

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a dominion when the Statute of Westminster was adopted,

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which island became a province of Canada in 1949?

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Newfoundland.

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-Yeah, that's right. Newfoundland.

-Correct.

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10 points for this.

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Resembling a stylised trident,

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the columns of Gediminas

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are a symbol of which EU member state?

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Its coat of arms features an armoured knight on a white horse...

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-Southampton, Bishop.

-Lithuania.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses, Southampton, are on graphic novels.

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"It feels like a character I created 30 years ago

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"has escaped the realm of fiction."

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Which writer said that, referring to the sight of global protestors

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adopting the Guy Fawkes masks worn by the protagonist of his V For Vendetta?

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-Alan Moore.

-Alan Moore.

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Correct.

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Although the illustrator Eddie Campbell believes otherwise,

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in the comic series From Hell, Alan Moore identifies

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the Royal Physician Sir William Withey Gull as which notorious figure?

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-Jack the Ripper.

-Correct.

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First published in 1999, which comic book series by Alan Moore

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features an eponymous team of secret agents

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that includes Edward Hyde, Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man and Alan Quartermain?

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-Watchmen.

-No, it's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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10 points for this.

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Alluding to the raised platform used to attract an audience,

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what word denotes a charlatan seller of quack remedies

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or a person who deceives others, especially in order to separate them from their money?

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-Southampton, De Caux.

-Huckster.

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Anyone like to buzz from Bangor?

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It's a mountebank. 10 points for this.

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Which interpretation of quantum mechanics is named after the European city...?

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-Southampton, Loxham.

-The Copenhagen Interpretation.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on the Orange Prize for Fiction.

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Principally associated with historical novels,

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which author was shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize for The Colour

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and went on to win in 2008 with The Road Home?

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THEY CONFER

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Pat Barker.

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No, it's Rose Tremain.

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Which US author won the 2010 Orange Prize for The Lacuna,

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having been shortlisted over ten years earlier for The Poisonwood Bible?

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We'd just be making names up, so pass.

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Served you fine so far!

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No, it's Barbara Kingsolver.

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And finally, Unless, nominated for the Orange Prize in 2003

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and Larry's Party, the winner in 1998,

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are works by which Canadian writer who died in 2003?

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-Margaret Atwood, but I don't think she died, did she?

-Try it.

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I think she's still alive!

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I'll say Margaret Atwood.

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No, it's Carol Shields.

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There really is a divide in reading, isn't there?

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Right, we're going to take a music round, Bangor, and there's plenty of time to come back.

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For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.

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For 10 points, I simply want you to tell me the name of the group performing.

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# I'm a fi... #

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-Southampton, Loxham.

-The Prodigy.

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It is The Prodigy, Firestarter.

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APPLAUSE

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That was banned by the BBC

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for arson fixation and scaring small children.

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For your bonuses, three more songs that were at one time banned by the BBC for various reasons.

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5 points for each artist or band you can identify.

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Firstly, the name of the group performing this song,

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banned because its lyrics were seen to be an implicit endorsement of early '90s drug culture.

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# 'Ezer Goode, 'Ezer Goode

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# He's Ebenezer Goode

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# 'Ezer Goode, 'Ezer Goode... #

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-That's the Shamen.

-It is the Shamen, yes.

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Secondly, the band performing this song,

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which made the BBC's list of songs to be avoided during the Gulf War for its Middle Eastern references.

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# Foreign types with their hookah pipes say... #

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That's the Bangles, isn't it?

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The Bangles.

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Yes, Walk Like An Egyptian. And finally,

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who's performing this song, of which BBC managers stated,

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"Certain lines in the lyric must not be broadcast due to their suggestive nature?"

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# In my blazer and a pair of shorts

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# With me little stick of Blackpool rock... #

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THEY CONFER

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# Along the promenade I stroll

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# It may be sticky but I never complain

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# It's nice to have a nibble at it now and again... #

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-George Formby.

-It is George Formby, yes!

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APPLAUSE

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10 points at stake for this. First used in an essay of 1849

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by Henry David Thoreau,

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which two-word term describes the intentional, non-violent defiance of Government authority

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on the grounds of moral objection, with the aim of promoting a just society?

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-Bangor, Johnson.

-Um...conscious objectation.

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No. Anyone like to buzz from Southampton?

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You may not confer. One of you may buzz.

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-Southampton, De Caux.

-Conscientious objector?

-No.

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It's civil disobedience. 10 points for this.

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Which play by Shakespeare includes the lines,

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"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind,

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"and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind?"

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-Southampton, Loxham.

-Romeo And Juliet.

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No. Anyone from Bangor?

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-Bangor, Le Helloco.

-Twelfth Night.

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No. It's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It's Helena. 10 points for this.

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In terms of Boltzmann's constant, k,

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and the temperature, T,

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what is the average kinetic energy per molecule of a...?

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-Southampton, Evans.

-Three times half kT.

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Correct, yes - 3/2 kT.

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Right, a set of bonuses now, Southampton.

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They're on crystal structures in chemistry.

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Which element was discovered by the Curies in 1898,

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some months before their discovery of radium?

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It has two metallic allotropes - the alpha form is an example of a simple cubic structure

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and the beta form is rhombohedral.

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Is it polonium?

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Polonium.

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Correct. There are two crystal lattices in which hard spheres can be packed

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to fill spaces as efficiently as possible.

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One lattice is the hexagon close packed or HCP.

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What's the other?

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-Cubic close packed.

-Close packed?

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-Cubic close packed.

-Correct.

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In a sodium chloride crystal, how many sodium ions

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surround a chloride ion as nearest neighbour?

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-Six.

-Correct.

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10 points for this.

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After the then reigning monarch,

0:17:300:17:32

what three-word name was given to a fund

0:17:320:17:34

aimed at supplementing the income of less wealthy Anglican clergy?

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It was established in 1704.

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-Bangor, Coutts.

-Queen Anne Fund.

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No. Anyone like to buzz from Southampton?

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-Southampton, De Caux.

-King George Fund.

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No, it's Queen Anne's Bounty.

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10 points for this.

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Born in Danzig in 1788

0:17:540:17:56

and often called the "philosopher of pessimism",

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which opponent of Hegel is best known...?

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-Southampton, Loxham.

-Schopenhauer.

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Schopenhauer is correct.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on African capitals.

0:18:080:18:11

Cotonou is the seat of government and Porto-Novo the official capital of which West African country?

0:18:110:18:17

It gained independence from France in 1960.

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-Benin.

-Correct.

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Pretoria is the executive capital of South Africa

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and Cape Town, the legislative.

0:18:230:18:24

Which inland city is the judicial capital?

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-Bloemfontein.

-Right.

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Dodoma has been designated capital of Tanzania

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since the 1970s,

0:18:310:18:32

although the seat of much government administration has remained in which sea port?

0:18:320:18:37

-Dar es Salaam.

-Correct.

0:18:370:18:38

10 points for this.

0:18:380:18:40

How many full decades

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separate Yuri Gagarin's first space flight

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and the last flight of the space shuttle?

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-Southampton, Evans.

-Five.

-Five is correct.

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APPLAUSE

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1961 to 2011.

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These bonuses are on artists.

0:18:520:18:55

A founder of the Vienna Secession,

0:18:550:18:56

which artist's works include Judith And The Head Of Holofernes

0:18:560:19:00

and Three Ages Of Woman?

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THEY CONFER

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-We'll try Klimt.

-Klimt is correct.

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At the Vienna Secession exhibition in 1902, a frieze by Klimt

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accompanied Max Klinger's sculpture of which German composer?

0:19:120:19:16

THEY CONFER

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I would go Beethoven.

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-Beethoven.

-Well done.

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Perhaps the most familiar image of Beethoven is Joseph Stieler's 1820 portrait

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of him working on his Missa Solemnis, on display in the Beethoven House,

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in which city, the composer's birthplace in 1770?

0:19:340:19:38

-Bonn?

-I think it was Bonn, yeah.

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-Bonn.

-Correct.

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10 points for this. Which English city shares its name

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with a comma that precedes...?

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-Southampton, Loxham.

-Oxford.

-Oxford is right, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Southampton, these bonuses are on historic routes.

0:19:530:19:56

Firstly, described as Britain's oldest road,

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which national trail runs from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire

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to Overton Hill in Wiltshire?

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Ridgeway.

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-The Ridgeway.

-Correct.

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Thought by some to have been a branch of the Icknield Way,

0:20:080:20:11

the Peddars Way follows the route of a Roman road

0:20:110:20:14

for 46 miles to the north coast of which county?

0:20:140:20:17

THEY CONFER

0:20:170:20:20

Which Roman way's going to...?

0:20:200:20:23

No, actually, it could be...

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-Devon.

-No, it's Norfolk.

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The Pilgrims' Way is a historic route

0:20:270:20:29

that runs from Winchester to the shrine of St Thomas a Becket in which city?

0:20:290:20:34

-Canterbury.

-Correct.

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We'll take a picture round now.

0:20:350:20:37

For your picture starter,

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you'll see a portrait of an historical figure.

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For 10 points, give me his name.

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-Bangor, Jones.

-Simon de Bolivar.

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Simon Bolivar is correct, yes.

0:20:470:20:49

APPLAUSE

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You've got a bit of ground to catch up. You may have time.

0:20:530:20:56

Following on from Simon Bolivar, your bonuses -

0:20:560:20:58

three more figures who notably combined

0:20:580:21:00

military and political service in the mid- to late-19th century.

0:21:000:21:03

5 points for each you can identify. Firstly...

0:21:030:21:06

That was Ulysses S Grant.

0:21:070:21:09

-Who?

-Ulysses S Grant.

-OK.

0:21:090:21:11

-Ulysses S Grant.

-Correct.

0:21:110:21:13

Secondly...

0:21:130:21:15

Any idea?

0:21:170:21:19

Metternich? Give it a shot.

0:21:220:21:23

-Come on.

-Metternich?

-No. That's Paul Kruger,

0:21:230:21:27

the South African Boer leader. And finally...

0:21:270:21:29

-Bismarck.

-No. The shirt's the giveaway - it's Garibaldi.

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10 points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.

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In mathematics, what are the four roots of unity?

0:21:430:21:46

Southampton, De Caux.

0:21:480:21:49

Plus one, minus one, i and minus i?

0:21:490:21:51

Correct, yes.

0:21:510:21:53

APPLAUSE

0:21:530:21:54

These bonuses are on cell biology.

0:21:560:21:59

What term denotes the large family of calcium-dependent cell adhesion molecules

0:21:590:22:03

found in junctions between cells?

0:22:030:22:05

Oh, dear! Um...

0:22:070:22:09

Well, they're...

0:22:090:22:11

-Junctions between cells are synapses, aren't they? Cadherins.

-Nominate Loxham.

0:22:110:22:15

-Cadherins.

-Correct.

0:22:150:22:17

Containing cadherins and also known as macula adherens,

0:22:170:22:20

what term denotes the strong junctions between cells

0:22:200:22:23

that occur as discrete points on the lateral cell membrane?

0:22:230:22:26

That's hemi-desmosomes.

0:22:270:22:29

Hemi-desmosomes.

0:22:290:22:32

No, they're desmosomes. They're different.

0:22:320:22:35

Pemphigus vulgaris is an auto-immune disease

0:22:350:22:39

in which auto-antibodies target desmosomes.

0:22:390:22:41

What are the characteristic lesions of this disease?

0:22:410:22:44

Epithelial sloughing, maybe?

0:22:490:22:51

Nominate Loxham.

0:22:530:22:54

-Epithelial sloughing.

-No, they're blisters. Another starter question.

0:22:540:22:58

Gloucester, Monmouth, Camden,

0:22:580:23:00

Guilford, Courthouse and Brandywine

0:23:000:23:02

are among military actions in which 18th-century conflict?

0:23:020:23:06

-Southampton, Bishop.

-The American War of Independence.

0:23:060:23:09

Correct.

0:23:090:23:10

APPLAUSE

0:23:100:23:12

These bonuses are on proper names in which no letter is repeated,

0:23:140:23:18

sometimes called isograms. In each case, give the name from the description.

0:23:180:23:22

Firstly, a town in North Lincolnshire,

0:23:220:23:25

noted for steel production.

0:23:250:23:26

-Scunthorpe. Is that an isogram?

-Yeah, it is.

0:23:260:23:29

-Scunthorpe.

-Correct.

0:23:290:23:31

An automotive company founded by the German government in 1937.

0:23:310:23:36

Volkswagen?

0:23:360:23:38

-Volkswagen.

-Correct.

0:23:380:23:39

And finally, the 11-letter English name of a landlocked European country.

0:23:390:23:44

-Liechtenstein.

-Oh, no!

0:23:440:23:46

No, it's Switzerland.

0:23:460:23:48

10 points for this.

0:23:480:23:50

In addition to the Pre-Cambrian and the Cambrian,

0:23:500:23:52

two geological periods have names associated with Wales...

0:23:520:23:56

-Bangor, Jones.

-Ordovician and Silurian.

-Correct.

0:23:560:23:59

APPLAUSE

0:23:590:24:01

Nice to have you with us!

0:24:050:24:06

These bonuses are on the United Nations.

0:24:060:24:08

In each case, give the decade in which the following joined the UN.

0:24:080:24:12

Jamaica, Malta, Kuwait and Zambia.

0:24:120:24:15

I think it might be '60s.

0:24:150:24:18

A lot of the Africans were '60s.

0:24:180:24:19

-1960s.

-Correct.

0:24:190:24:21

Thailand, Ukraine, Uruguay and Venezuela.

0:24:210:24:24

-I think that might have been from the start.

-OK.

0:24:240:24:28

1940s.

0:24:280:24:30

Correct.

0:24:300:24:32

And finally, Moldova, Palau and Latvia.

0:24:320:24:35

-1990s, I think.

-Yeah.

0:24:350:24:38

-1990s.

-Correct.

0:24:380:24:40

About three minutes to go and 10 points for this.

0:24:400:24:43

You must answer as soon as your name is called.

0:24:430:24:45

Give the dictionary spelling of the word "excerpt".

0:24:450:24:48

-Southampton, De Caux.

-E-X-C-E-R-P-T.

-Correct.

0:24:480:24:53

APPLAUSE

0:24:530:24:54

Your bonuses are on diseases of the vascular system.

0:24:540:24:57

In each case, give the term from the description.

0:24:570:25:00

Firstly, a localised swelling or widening of an artery,

0:25:000:25:03

often due to the weakening of its wall.

0:25:030:25:04

Quickly!

0:25:040:25:06

Oedema. Go for oedema.

0:25:080:25:09

-Oedema.

-No, it's aneurysm.

0:25:090:25:11

Secondly, a spasm of pain in the chest,

0:25:110:25:13

often caused by the inability of the coronary arteries to bring enough oxygen-laden blood to the heart.

0:25:130:25:18

-Angina.

-Angina.

0:25:180:25:21

Angina pectoris is correct.

0:25:210:25:22

A Greek-derived term meaning the formation of blood clot

0:25:220:25:25

within the blood vessels or heart.

0:25:250:25:28

Myocardial infarction is a heart attack.

0:25:280:25:30

No, it's...

0:25:300:25:32

Come on!

0:25:320:25:34

Haemostasis.

0:25:340:25:36

-Haemostasis.

-No, it's thrombosis.

0:25:360:25:38

10 points for this.

0:25:380:25:39

Pilsner, Semtex and dollar

0:25:390:25:41

are English words that derive ultimately from the names of locations...?

0:25:410:25:44

-Southampton, Bishop.

-The Czech Republic.

-Correct.

0:25:440:25:47

APPLAUSE

0:25:470:25:49

Southampton, your bonuses are on a month.

0:25:520:25:54

Which month is a wicked month,

0:25:540:25:56

according to the title of a novel of 1965 by the Irish writer Edna O'Brien?

0:25:560:26:00

THEY CONFER

0:26:000:26:03

-January.

-No, it's August.

0:26:050:26:07

August 1914 is the first in a series of novels collectively known as the Red Wheel by which Russian writer?

0:26:070:26:13

THEY CONFER

0:26:130:26:16

Come on!

0:26:220:26:24

-Solzhenitsyn.

-Correct.

0:26:240:26:25

Which poet wrote that the English winter "ended in July, to recommence in August"?

0:26:250:26:30

That sounds like Auden.

0:26:300:26:32

Yeah. Auden.

0:26:320:26:34

No, it was Byron. 10 points for this.

0:26:340:26:36

In chemistry, what is the oxidation state

0:26:360:26:38

of oxygen in hydrogen peroxide...?

0:26:380:26:40

-Southampton, Evans.

-Minus 1.

-Correct.

0:26:400:26:42

These bonuses are on religious texts.

0:26:420:26:46

The Rig Veda, a large collection of hymns composed during the second millennium BCE

0:26:460:26:51

is the oldest known text in which language?

0:26:510:26:54

-Sanskrit, maybe?

-Sanskrit.

-Correct.

0:26:560:26:59

Related to Sanskrit, in what language are the earliest texts of southern Buddhism?

0:26:590:27:03

It developed in northern India from the fifth century BCE.

0:27:030:27:06

THEY CONFER

0:27:060:27:10

-Nominate Bishop.

-Hindi.

0:27:100:27:11

No, it's Pali.

0:27:110:27:13

Ardha Magadhi, or Half Magadhi,

0:27:130:27:15

is a principal language of the texts of which Indian religion?

0:27:150:27:19

Is that Jainism?

0:27:190:27:21

Try Jainism.

0:27:210:27:22

Come on!

0:27:220:27:23

-Jainism.

-Correct.

0:27:230:27:25

10 points for this. Cape Fear, The Age Of Innocence

0:27:250:27:28

and The Last Temptation Of Christ...?

0:27:280:27:30

-Southampton, Evans.

-Martin Scorsese.

0:27:300:27:32

Correct. These bonuses now are on the British actor Charles Laughton.

0:27:320:27:36

Which Roman emperor did Charles Laughton play

0:27:360:27:38

in Cecil B DeMille's 1932 film The Sign Of The Cross?

0:27:380:27:41

If it's The Sign Of The Cross, it must be Constantine.

0:27:410:27:44

-Constantine.

-No. Nero.

0:27:440:27:46

What role did Laughton play in the 1953 film Salome?

0:27:460:27:50

He memorably views Rita Hayworth in the title role

0:27:500:27:53

performing the dance of...

0:27:530:27:54

-GONG

-That's the gong.

0:27:540:27:57

Bangor University have 60. Southampton University have 335.

0:27:570:28:00

APPLAUSE

0:28:000:28:02

Well, Bangor,

0:28:060:28:07

you were so much stronger last time you were here!

0:28:070:28:10

I don't know what happened - you were rather tongue-tied.

0:28:100:28:12

Thank you for joining us. We have to say goodbye to you.

0:28:120:28:15

You guys are on fire, Southampton!

0:28:150:28:17

Some very, very inspired guesses, if indeed they were guesses. Or maybe you were trying to...

0:28:170:28:22

I won't do...

0:28:220:28:23

You never know.

0:28:230:28:25

Anyway, congratulations to you. We shall look forward to seeing you

0:28:250:28:28

in the quarterfinals. I hope you can join us next time.

0:28:280:28:30

-But until then, it's goodbye from Bangor University...

-ALL: Goodbye.

0:28:300:28:34

-It's goodbye from Southampton University...

-ALL: Goodbye.

0:28:340:28:37

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

0:28:370:28:39

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