0:00:19 > 0:00:21APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:26University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:35Hello. Seven teams have already earned themselves places in the next stage of this contest.
0:00:35 > 0:00:41They will be joined by whichever team wins tonight, playing for the last place in the quarterfinals.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43The team from Reading University made a strong start
0:00:43 > 0:00:46in their first-round match against St John's College, Cambridge
0:00:46 > 0:00:50and managed to maintain their lead until the gong, when they were ahead by 180 points to 120.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53They knew about Karl Marx, the duck billed platypus
0:00:53 > 0:00:56and the opening ceremony of the Olympics,
0:00:56 > 0:01:00but they were a little shakier on Italian cinema and Spanish conquistadores.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04With an average age of 26, let's meet the Reading team again.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Hi, I'm Michael Dunleavy, I'm originally from Wakefield
0:01:07 > 0:01:09in Yorkshire and I'm reading Biomedical Sciences.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Hi, I'm Christopher White, I'm originally from Watford
0:01:12 > 0:01:14in Hertfordshire and I'm studying History.
0:01:14 > 0:01:15And their captain.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Hi, I'm Peter Burgess, I'm originally from Halifax
0:01:18 > 0:01:20and I'm and I'm doing an EngD in Solar Power.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21Hi, I'm Luke Tudge,
0:01:21 > 0:01:24I'm from West Yorkshire, and I'm studying Psychology.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27APPLAUSE
0:01:28 > 0:01:33The team from the University Of London's School Of Oriental And African Studies
0:01:33 > 0:01:38also had a strong first-round match against their opponents, the University Of Southampton.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42And once they had taken the lead by the halfway mark, they were able to
0:01:42 > 0:01:45hang on to it and end it ahead by 230 to 155.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49They were strong on Russian artists, wine festivals and kisses in art,
0:01:49 > 0:01:51although atomic theory
0:01:51 > 0:01:54and logic were not quite as much to their taste.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58With an average age of 34, let's meet the SOAS team again.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Hello, my name's Maeve Weber, I'm from Knebworth in Hertfordshire
0:02:02 > 0:02:04and I'm reading for a BA in Ancient Near East studies.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Hello, I'm Luke Vivian-Neal from Lusaka in Zambia,
0:02:07 > 0:02:10and I'm in my first year of a BA in Chinese.
0:02:10 > 0:02:11And here's their captain.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Hi, I'm Peter McKean, I'm from Wallington in South London
0:02:14 > 0:02:16and I'm reading for an MA in African History.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Hi, I'm James Figueroa from Surrey
0:02:18 > 0:02:21and I'm reading African Studies and Development Studies.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23APPLAUSE
0:02:26 > 0:02:31Let's not waste time on the rules, fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35Created by an act signed into law by Woodrow Wilson in 1913,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38which body is the central banking authority
0:02:38 > 0:02:40of the United States, acting as...?
0:02:42 > 0:02:43The Federal Reserve.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46The Federal Reserve system is correct, yes.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Right, the first bonuses, SOAS, are on explorers. For five points,
0:02:50 > 0:02:54which polar explorer gave his name to a passport
0:02:54 > 0:02:58issued after the First World War to refugees and stateless persons?
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Nansen. Correct.
0:03:04 > 0:03:05Which explorer gave his name
0:03:05 > 0:03:07to the pair of galaxies he observed in 1519?
0:03:07 > 0:03:10They are visible with the naked eye in the Southern Hemisphere.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Marco Polo?
0:03:12 > 0:03:15THEY CONFER
0:03:21 > 0:03:23Magellan? Correct.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26And which explorer gave his name to the capital of the state of Ohio?
0:03:28 > 0:03:29Columbus. Correct.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Ten points for this.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35The 43 metre tall structure Sails Of The South
0:03:35 > 0:03:38in the central reservation of the M275
0:03:38 > 0:03:41marks the gateway to which English city?
0:03:41 > 0:03:44It is also home to the 170 metre tall Spinnaker Tower...
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Portsmouth. Portsmouth is right, yes.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Your set of bonuses are on fictional students.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57In which novel by George Elliot does Fred Vincy's father pay for him
0:03:57 > 0:04:00to get his Bachelors degree at Omnibus College, Oxford
0:04:00 > 0:04:03in the hope of him becoming a clergyman?
0:04:03 > 0:04:04I think it's Middlemarch.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06Middlemarch. Correct.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Which of Tom Wolfe's title characters is a naive freshman
0:04:09 > 0:04:14at DuPont University who acts as a catalyst in the lives of her student peers?
0:04:15 > 0:04:18THEY CONFER
0:04:24 > 0:04:26We'll pass on that.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Charlotte Simmons.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30The university student Prentice McHoan and his complex family
0:04:30 > 0:04:33are the subject of which novel by Iain Banks?
0:04:39 > 0:04:42The Crow Road? Correct. Ten points for this.
0:04:42 > 0:04:47Barbershop, drinker, lottery, raven, exception, liar and Socratic
0:04:47 > 0:04:50may all precede which word?
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Method? I am afraid you lose five points. Used in logic,
0:04:55 > 0:04:57decision theory and several branches of mathematics,
0:04:57 > 0:05:01it denotes an argument that produces an inconsistency.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Paradox? Paradox is correct.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10These bonuses are on mathematics, SOAS.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14Which self-taught mathematician discovered by GH Hardy
0:05:14 > 0:05:17became the second Indian to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society,
0:05:17 > 0:05:22cited for his contributions to the theory of elliptic functions and the theory of numbers?
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Pass. It's Ramanujan Srinivasa.
0:05:34 > 0:05:40The Hardy-Ramanujan, 1,729, which on a particular occasion was Hardy's taxicab number,
0:05:40 > 0:05:46became famous because Ramanujan realised it was the smallest number having what property?
0:05:46 > 0:05:49It's uninteresting, it's got no quality at all.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Nominate Figueroa. It has no particular interest?
0:05:54 > 0:05:56It may not to you, matey!
0:05:56 > 0:06:01But to him it had a lot of interest because it can be represented in two ways
0:06:01 > 0:06:02as the sum of two cubes.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Finally, this property of the number 1,729
0:06:05 > 0:06:08was discussed by Anthony Hopkins' character
0:06:08 > 0:06:12in the 2005 film adaptation of which Pulitzer Prize winning play?
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Oh, um, I think it's Proof.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35Proof? Yes, well done! It is the one about numbers.
0:06:35 > 0:06:39In 1813, which Scottish writer declined the position of Poet Laureate,
0:06:39 > 0:06:42having embarked on a career as a novelist?
0:06:42 > 0:06:46The following year saw the anonymous publication of his first novel, Waverley.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Scott. Sir Walter Scott is right, yes.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54Your bonuses now are on clouds, SOAS.
0:06:54 > 0:07:00The British chemist Luke Howard, born 1772, created an early system of cloud classification based
0:07:00 > 0:07:02on four fundamental cloud types.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06Identify the cloud type in each case, please.
0:07:06 > 0:07:07Firstly, for five points,
0:07:07 > 0:07:10the fundamental cloud type that forms at low altitudes
0:07:10 > 0:07:14by the lifting of ground-level fog during daytime heating.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Cumulus? No, it's stratus.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26Secondly, the fundamental cloud type often subclassified into forms
0:07:26 > 0:07:29known as fractus, humilis, mediocris and congestus.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Cirrus. No, it's cumulus.
0:07:40 > 0:07:46And finally, the fundamental cloud type that forms the characteristic pattern known as mares' tails.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48That's cirrus.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Cirrus. It is cirrus, yes.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Right, we're going to take a picture round now. For your picture starter
0:07:53 > 0:07:57you will see two lists of players involved in a sporting fixture.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59For ten points, I want the event,
0:07:59 > 0:08:00the teams involved
0:08:00 > 0:08:02and the year in which it took place.
0:08:05 > 0:08:13Uh, it's the...Manchester United vs Bayern Munich
0:08:13 > 0:08:17in the Champions League final.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20Do you need the year as well? Yes.
0:08:22 > 0:08:29Um... Come on, let's have it. 19...96. Uh, no.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32If you buzz you must answer straightaway, please, next time.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36Reading, one of you like to buzz, you can have a pop at it.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38It's Manchester United and Bayern Munich
0:08:38 > 0:08:41in the Champions League final in 1999. Correct.
0:08:45 > 0:08:50So, Reading, you get, following on from the starting line-up of the '99
0:08:50 > 0:08:54Champions League final, three more starting teams from
0:08:54 > 0:08:56major sporting fixtures. In each case I want the event,
0:08:56 > 0:08:59the year it took place and the teams listed.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00Firstly for five.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07(WHISPERED) Rugby World Cup Final in 2011? Yeah. Yes.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12I think that's correct.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16It's France and New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup Final in 2011.
0:09:16 > 0:09:17It is!
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Secondly, from the 2012 Olympics,
0:09:19 > 0:09:22I want the name of the event and the three medal-winning teams.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26THEY CONFER
0:09:29 > 0:09:33Men's 4x100 meters, and it's Jamaica, USA and...
0:09:33 > 0:09:38Thompson's Trinidad, I think. Trinidad and Tobago?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Correct. And finally...
0:09:47 > 0:09:502012 Euros, which is Spain and...
0:09:50 > 0:09:53Yeah, it's the Euro...quarterfinal, is it?
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Quarterfinal? Semifinal?
0:09:57 > 0:10:00I thought it was the final. Go with that then. What do you think?
0:10:00 > 0:10:02I can't remember.
0:10:02 > 0:10:07It's Spain and Italy in Euro 2012 and we think it's the final. It is!
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Well done.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12Ten points for this.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15Enforced in England in the 14th century to late Tudor times,
0:10:15 > 0:10:20what general form of legislation intended to reinforce social hierarchies
0:10:20 > 0:10:22by regulating expenditures?
0:10:24 > 0:10:25Sumptuary laws. Correct.
0:10:29 > 0:10:35Your bonuses, this time, SOAS, are on buzzwords of 2012, according to the Macmillan Online Dictionary.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Firstly, what term describes the activity
0:10:37 > 0:10:41of getting a large group of people to finance a particular project,
0:10:41 > 0:10:44especially by using a website where they can make contributions?
0:10:44 > 0:10:48Crowdsourcing. Yes, crowdsourcing or crowdfunding is correct.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Secondly, for five points, usually taking place at an organised event,
0:10:52 > 0:10:54"swishing" is the activity of swapping
0:10:54 > 0:10:56what general type of item with other people?
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Isn't it personal contact information or something like that?
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Some form of networking? Yeah.
0:11:08 > 0:11:12Personal contact information? No, it is personal, it is clothes,
0:11:12 > 0:11:15shoes and other fashion items, I'm afraid, so you're wrong there.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Finally, what two-word term denotes a proposal where Scotland
0:11:18 > 0:11:21would have economic independence from the rest of the UK
0:11:21 > 0:11:25but would still remain a part of it? Devo-max. Devo-max.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29Well done. Ten points for this, what word links a hardwood tree grown
0:11:29 > 0:11:33in central America, a garnish or sauce including spring vegetables,
0:11:33 > 0:11:37a painting by Botticelli and the word for springtime
0:11:37 > 0:11:40in Catalan Spanish and Italian.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Primavera? Correct.
0:11:46 > 0:11:50These bonuses, SOAS, are on marriage in England.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Hardwick's Marriage Act of 1753 stated that valid marriages
0:11:53 > 0:11:57be conducted in the Church Of England by banns or by licence.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01Two religious groups were exempted from its provisions. Name either one.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18Jews? Yes. That's right. The other ones were Quakers.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Secondly, a marriage act in which decade
0:12:20 > 0:12:22allowed non-conformists and Catholics
0:12:22 > 0:12:25to marry in their own places of worship? It also set up
0:12:25 > 0:12:28registry offices for non-religious ceremonies.
0:12:42 > 0:12:431830s?
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Correct, it was 1836.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Legislation in which decade extended the range of places
0:12:48 > 0:12:51that could be licensed for the solemnisation of marriage
0:12:51 > 0:12:54to any venue that was "seemly and dignified"?
0:12:58 > 0:13:01'90s, 1990s? Correct. Ten points for this.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Listen carefully, answer as soon as your name is called.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06A segment of wire has resistance R.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09If its cross-sectional area is doubled
0:13:09 > 0:13:12what is the new value of the wire's resistance?
0:13:16 > 0:13:19Is it R by 4? R divided by 4?
0:13:19 > 0:13:20Nope.
0:13:20 > 0:13:21One of you buzz, SOAS.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24R square?
0:13:24 > 0:13:29No, it's a half R. R over 2. So, another starter question now.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33In 1785, the writer Rudolph Erich Raspe published an account of
0:13:33 > 0:13:38which German nobleman, noted for lengthily and exaggerated tales...?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Baron Munchausen. Correct.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47These bonuses are on Geography. What three-word term denotes
0:13:47 > 0:13:52the large expanse of sea that lies immediately south of the Nullarbor Plain?
0:13:52 > 0:13:57It is sometimes defined as extending from Cape Pastly to Cape Carnot,
0:13:57 > 0:13:59a distance of more than 1,000 kilometres.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Hudson Bay? No, other end of the world,
0:14:13 > 0:14:15it's the Great Australian Bight.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Sharing its name with a country, which bight occupies part
0:14:18 > 0:14:21of the gulf of Guinea, formerly known as the slave coast?
0:14:21 > 0:14:23THEY CONFER
0:14:23 > 0:14:25The Bight of Biafra?
0:14:28 > 0:14:32There's another one. The Bight of Benin?
0:14:38 > 0:14:41Bight of Biafra. No, it's the Bight of Benin, it was the other one!
0:14:41 > 0:14:47Which bight is the modern name of the shipping forecast area formerly known as Heligoland?
0:14:48 > 0:14:50German Bight. Correct.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52We're going to take a music round.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54You will hear a piece of popular music,
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Ten points if you can name the performer, please.
0:14:56 > 0:15:01# Hold me closer, Tiny Dancer. #
0:15:01 > 0:15:04That's Elton John, isn't it?
0:15:04 > 0:15:05You can hear a little more, SOAS.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12# Count the headlights on the highway
0:15:15 > 0:15:20# Lay me down in sheets of linen
0:15:20 > 0:15:29# You had a busy day today. #
0:15:29 > 0:15:32No idea?
0:15:32 > 0:15:35I'll tell you, it's Jamie Cullum. So, music bonus in a moment or two,
0:15:35 > 0:15:37fingers on the buzzers, here's another starter question.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40"The people who weep before my pictures are having
0:15:40 > 0:15:43"the same religious experience I had when I painted them
0:15:43 > 0:15:47"and if you, as you say, are moved only by their colour relationships,
0:15:47 > 0:15:50"then you miss the point." Which Latvian born...?
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Is it Mark Rothko? It is indeed, yes.
0:15:58 > 0:16:03OK, you will recall a moment ago we heard Jamie Cullum sing Elton John's song Tiny Dancer,
0:16:03 > 0:16:06he chose it as one of his Desert Island Discs.
0:16:06 > 0:16:11You are going to hear a chain of choices from three musicians who were also desert island castaways.
0:16:11 > 0:16:16Firstly, Elton John chose this song. Five points if you can name the band performing.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19# Wake me up, before you go-go
0:16:19 > 0:16:23# Don't leave me hangin' on like a yo-yo...# Wham! It is Wham! yes.
0:16:23 > 0:16:29Secondly, Wham!'s George Michael chose as one of his Desert Island Discs this song.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Again, give me the name of the band performing.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35# Cos we were never being boring
0:16:35 > 0:16:37# We had too much time...# Pet Shop Boys.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Correct.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42And, finally, as one of his castaway selections, the Pet Shop Boys'
0:16:42 > 0:16:45Neil Tennant chose this song, from which artist performing here?
0:16:45 > 0:16:50# He don't really love her
0:16:52 > 0:16:55# That's what I've heard him say
0:16:58 > 0:17:01# He sure wasn't thinking of her
0:17:03 > 0:17:04# Today...#
0:17:04 > 0:17:07Dusty Springfield? It is Dusty Springfield.
0:17:07 > 0:17:08I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore.
0:17:10 > 0:17:11Ten points for this.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15In Trigonometry, what term describes the ratio of the length of
0:17:15 > 0:17:18the hypotenuse to the length of the side adjacent to an acute...?
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Cosine. No, you lose five points.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25..An acute angle in a right-angled triangle?
0:17:30 > 0:17:32Come on.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36Cosine? No, it's the... She just said that! Sorry.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38It's wrong, it's the secant, ten points for this.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42According to tradition, Richeldis de Faverches had a vision in 1061
0:17:42 > 0:17:46in which the Virgin Mary showed her the house of the Holy Family
0:17:46 > 0:17:51and asked her to build a replica in which Norfolk village, now a major pilgrimage site?
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Walsingham. Walsingham is correct, yes.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00These bonuses are on Justice, SOAS.
0:18:00 > 0:18:05Arguing for a principled reconciliation of liberty and equality,
0:18:05 > 0:18:08A Theory Of Justice is a 1971 work by which US philosopher?
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Pass. John Rawls. Secondly, which
0:18:24 > 0:18:29US philosopher gave a libertarian view of justice in the 1974 work
0:18:29 > 0:18:33Anarchy, State And Utopia, arguing for a minimal state
0:18:33 > 0:18:37and rejecting Rawls' idea of redistributive taxation?
0:18:40 > 0:18:43That sounds more Chomsky-esque.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47But he's a linguist. Ron Paul?
0:18:47 > 0:18:50Ron Paul? Oh, God, no.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52Chomsky?
0:18:52 > 0:18:55Chomsky?! No, it's Robert Nozick.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59And finally, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
0:18:59 > 0:19:04These are the words of which US political activist in a letter of 1963?
0:19:07 > 0:19:08Martin Luther King?
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Martin Luther King. Correct. Ten points for this.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Verdant Works in Dundee
0:19:14 > 0:19:19is a museum devoted to which natural fibre, formerly a mainstay of the city's economy?
0:19:19 > 0:19:22It is used to make upholstery, sacking and twine.
0:19:24 > 0:19:25Hemp?
0:19:25 > 0:19:27No, anyone like to buzz from Reading?
0:19:29 > 0:19:33Flax? No, it's jute.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37Ten points for this. Which novel comes next in this sequence, given in reverse chronological order?
0:19:37 > 0:19:41The Three Hostages, Mr Standfast, Greenmantle and...
0:19:41 > 0:19:4439 Steps. Indeed, John Buchan.
0:19:46 > 0:19:50Right, these bonuses, SOAS, are on shorter words that can be made
0:19:50 > 0:19:53using any of the seven letters of the word RAGTIME.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:19:56 > 0:20:00Firstly, the second word of a Latin term applied by alumni
0:20:00 > 0:20:03to the school or university from which they graduated.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07Mater. Correct, Alma mater.
0:20:07 > 0:20:14A large quantity of paper, or by a different etymology, to widen a hole with a special tool.
0:20:14 > 0:20:15Ream. Correct.
0:20:15 > 0:20:20Finally, the US spelling of a unit of mass in the metric system.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Gram. Gram is correct, yes.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36OK, we're going to take a second picture round now. For your picture starter
0:20:36 > 0:20:39you will see a sculpture. Ten points if you can name the mythological figure
0:20:39 > 0:20:42whose name appears in the traditional title of the piece.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Venus? Venus is right, it's the Venus of Willendorf.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53That's prehistoric.
0:20:53 > 0:20:57Your bonuses are three more artistic interpretations,
0:20:57 > 0:21:02usually named after that deity. In each case I want the name of the artwork.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Firstly, this sculpture.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09Venus de Milo. Correct.
0:21:09 > 0:21:10Secondly, this painting.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14Any suggestions?
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Venus and the Cherub?
0:21:19 > 0:21:22No, that's the Rokeby Venus, the Toilet of Venus.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24And finally, this painting.
0:21:24 > 0:21:25THEY CONFER
0:21:33 > 0:21:34Nominate White. The Birth Of Venus.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37It is, by Botticelli, yes. Ten points for this.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40What is the perhaps misleading French name of the oldest
0:21:40 > 0:21:44of the surviving bridges that span the river Seine...?
0:21:44 > 0:21:47The Pont Neuf. The Pont Neuf is correct, yes.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54These bonuses, SOAS, are linked by a name. What is the surname
0:21:54 > 0:21:57of the Irish poet who chose the title of his 1930 autobiography
0:21:57 > 0:22:03"To Return To All That" in response to a book written by his son the previous year?
0:22:10 > 0:22:12Graves wrote Goodbye To All That.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Come on.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23Yeats? No, it was Graves, you were right first time.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Richard Graves' 1779 novel, Colin Mellor,
0:22:26 > 0:22:29was inspired by the life of which contemporary writer?
0:22:29 > 0:22:34His works include The School Mistress and Essays On Men And Manners.
0:22:34 > 0:22:38THEY CONFER
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Come on, let's have it, please. Sheridan?
0:22:48 > 0:22:50No, it was inspired by William Shenstone.
0:22:50 > 0:22:54Finally, named after an Irish physician, Graves Disease
0:22:54 > 0:22:57causes an enlargement of which gland in the human body?
0:22:57 > 0:22:58THEY CONFER
0:23:09 > 0:23:10Thyroid?
0:23:10 > 0:23:11Thyroid is correct, yes.
0:23:11 > 0:23:16Ten points for this. 355 over 113, 223 over 71
0:23:16 > 0:23:21and 22 over 7 are all rational numerical approximations...
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Pi? Of Pi, yes.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Right, Reading, your bonuses this time are on Biochemistry.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34What is the generic term for the typically yellow, orange or red tetraterpinoids
0:23:34 > 0:23:37that act as accessory pigments in photosynthesis?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Nominate Dunleavy?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Is it keratin? No, it is carotenoids.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47There are two classes of carotenoids - carotenes and xanthophylls.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51What atom is present in xanthophylls but absent in carotenes?
0:23:57 > 0:24:00I haven't a clue.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03It's going to be...
0:24:06 > 0:24:09I can't... I'll take a punt on magnesium, because, why not?
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Magnesium? No, it's oxygen.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Which human vitamin is derived from carotenoids?
0:24:14 > 0:24:17A. A is correct.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Ten points for this, listen carefully. Between 1910 and 1999,
0:24:20 > 0:24:25only one decade saw a single UK general election. Which decade was it?
0:24:28 > 0:24:301940s? Correct, because of the war.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37Your bonuses now are on cricket, SOAS.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Geoff Hobbs in 1923, Len Hutton in 1951, Viv Richards in 1988
0:24:40 > 0:24:45are among the small number of batsmen who have achieved what cricketing milestone?
0:24:45 > 0:24:46100 centuries.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48100 centuries.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52Correct. Which batsman was the first to make his hundredth hundred
0:24:52 > 0:24:55in the 21st century for Surrey against Yorkshire in 2008?
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Mark Ramprakash. Correct.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Which Yorkshire batsman was the first to make his hundredth
0:25:00 > 0:25:03hundred in a test match for England against Australia at Headingley in 1977?
0:25:03 > 0:25:05That's Geoff Boycott. It is.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08Ten points for this, answer as soon as your name is called.
0:25:08 > 0:25:12Give the dictionary spelling of the geometrical term "isosceles".
0:25:14 > 0:25:19I-S-O-S-E-S-C... No.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25I-S-O-C...
0:25:25 > 0:25:26No, sorry.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30Sorry, it's I-S-O-S-C-E-L-E-S.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31Right, another started question.
0:25:31 > 0:25:35What collective name is given to Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry...
0:25:36 > 0:25:38The Four Quartets.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Right, your bonuses are on Asia, SOAS.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49In each case, name the country in which the following major geographical features are located,
0:25:49 > 0:25:53all three countries are larger than the UK.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Firstly, for five points, Lake Biwa and the Kanto Plain.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Japan.
0:25:58 > 0:26:05Correct. The Zagros Mountains and the Dasht-e Kavir Salt Desert.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Iran. Correct. Finally, the Chao Phraya
0:26:08 > 0:26:12and the Tanon Tong Chai mountains.
0:26:21 > 0:26:22Let's have it, please, chaps.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25North Korea?
0:26:25 > 0:26:30No, it's Thailand. I'm using the term "chaps" in a non gender-specific way, don't worry.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Right, ten points for this.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36In Zoology, what two-word term denotes the air-filled sack
0:26:36 > 0:26:39that maintains buoyancy in bony fishes?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Swim bladder? Correct!
0:26:44 > 0:26:47Your bonuses, Reading, are on invasions of Britain.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51Who was the Roman emperor at the time of the invasion of Britain in AD43?
0:26:55 > 0:26:56Caesar Augustus?
0:26:56 > 0:26:58No, it was Claudius.
0:26:58 > 0:27:02Commemorated in an Anglo-Saxon poem, which down in Essex
0:27:02 > 0:27:05was the sight of an invasion by Danish forces in the year 991?
0:27:09 > 0:27:11What's on the coast?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Southend? Southend is a bit ridiculous.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Come on, let's have it, please.
0:27:17 > 0:27:18Colchester?
0:27:18 > 0:27:21No, it's Malden. And, finally, which port in West Wales
0:27:21 > 0:27:24was the sight of an aborted French invasion in 1797?
0:27:29 > 0:27:30Any ideas?
0:27:30 > 0:27:33Haverford West? No, it's Fishguard.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Ten points for this starter question.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39The English name of which Swiss city is an anagram of a word meaning
0:27:39 > 0:27:42"inflict harm in return for a wrong done."
0:27:44 > 0:27:47Geneva and vengeance? Geneva is correct, you didn't need to give me...
0:27:47 > 0:27:50Of course, vengeance is not an anagram of it. Sorry.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Avenge is but you didn't need to give me that, I only wanted the name
0:27:53 > 0:27:56of the city so you get a set of bonuses on unfinished operas, SOAS.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00Which Austrian composer left the orchestration of the third act
0:28:00 > 0:28:04of his twelve-tone opera Lulu incomplete when he died in 1935?
0:28:04 > 0:28:06GONG
0:28:06 > 0:28:09And at the gong, Reading have 90, SOAS have 240.
0:28:12 > 0:28:18Well, Reading, thank you for joining us but I'm afraid it's the bus home for you.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21SOAS, many congratulations, 240 is a terrific score, we shall look
0:28:21 > 0:28:24forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals, congratulations.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26I hope you can join us next time for the first of the quarterfinals,
0:28:26 > 0:28:29but until then it is goodbye from Reading University.
0:28:29 > 0:28:30ALL: Bye
0:28:30 > 0:28:34It's goodbye from The School Of Oriental And African Studies. ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38APPLAUSE