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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

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Hello. Tonight's match sees the beginning

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of the quarterfinal stage of this contest,

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compared to which the winter term at Dotheboys Hall

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is like a fortnight in Magaluf.

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The eight teams still in contention

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are Somerville College, Oxford, Queen's University, Belfast,

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Clare College, Cambridge, Southampton University,

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Cardiff University, the School of Oriental and African Studies,

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and tonight's teams, Trinity College, Cambridge

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and Manchester University.

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From now on, we're making the questions harder

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and the rules more brutal.

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To get to the semifinals, a team must win two matches.

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A team that loses two matches goes home.

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A team that loses one match and wins another must play again and win

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to stay in the contest.

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Now, in their first-round match,

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Trinity College, Cambridge won by 300 points

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to Christ Church, Oxford's 150, and in the second round,

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they beat Peterhouse, Cambridge with 240 points to 110.

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This was despite taking a while to wake up.

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But when they did, they impressed us with their knowledge of presidents

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of the Royal Society, national anthems and Ivy League universities.

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With an accumulated score of 540 points so far,

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let's meet the Trinity College, Cambridge team for the third time.

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Hi, I'm Matthew Ridley, I'm from Northumberland

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and I'm studying Economics.

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Hi, I'm Filip Drnovsek Zorko, from Slovenia, studying Natural Sciences.

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And their captain.

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Hello, I'm Ralph Morley, I'm from Ashford in Kent

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and I'm studying Classics.

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Hello, I'm Richard Freeland, from Glamorgan,

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and I'm studying Mathematics.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, their opponents tonight, Manchester University,

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have had victories in round one against Brasenose College, Oxford,

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with 215 points to 105, and in round two,

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when they beat Queens' College, Cambridge by 325 points to 110.

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On that occasion, they excelled on Neo-Palladian architecture,

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the Palme d'Or and Chancellors of the Exchequer.

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Pleasingly, their accumulated score of 540 points is

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the same as their opponents tonight,

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so this might be a pretty even match.

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Let's meet the Manchester team again.

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Hi, I'm Edward Woudhuysen, I'm from London and I'm studying History.

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Hi, I'm Joe Day, I'm from Bideford in Devon

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and I'm studying Physics and Astrophysics.

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Let's meet their captain.

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Hi, I'm Elizabeth Mitchell, I'm from Birmingham

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and I'm studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

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Hi, I'm Jonathan Collings, I'm from Manchester

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and I'm studying Geography.

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APPLAUSE

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I'm sure you know - I'm supposed to recite the rules,

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but let's not bother, and just get on with it.

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Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.

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"She came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem,

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"with camels that bear spices and gold..."

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-The Queen of Sheba?

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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You get the first set of bonuses,

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on individuals named Person or Man of the Year by Time magazine.

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Firstly, in 1927, which aviator became the first person to

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receive the award, following a solo flight across the Atlantic?

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-Charles Lindbergh.

-Charles Lindbergh?

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-Charles Lindbergh.

-Correct.

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Secondly, which French political figure was named

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Man of the Year for 1931?

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He was executed for treason in 1945

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for his role in the Vichy government.

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Do you think it would be Petain? It could be Petain or Laval.

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No, it was Laval. Try Laval.

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-Pierre Laval?

-Correct.

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Apart from the present Queen,

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who's the only Briton to have received the title?

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That happened on two occasions.

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Churchill, maybe?

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-Thatcher?

-Could be Thatcher.

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-I'd say...

-Churchill?

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- I think Churchill. - Yeah, Churchill.

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-Winston Churchill?

-It was, yes.

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Ten points for this.

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APPLAUSE

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Which 19th-century English mathematician gives his name

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to an algebra used in logic in information theory...

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-Boole?

-Boole is right, yes.

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Boolean algebra.

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APPLAUSE

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So, Manchester, you get the second set of bonuses.

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They're on decision making.

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The Upside Of Irrationality is the 2010 follow-up to

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Predictably Irrational,

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a book that examines biases that can lead to making unwise decisions.

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Both are the works of which

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Israeli-American behavioural economist?

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I'd only understand the economics! I don't know.

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I don't know any Israeli-American economists.

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Well, I know a couple, but they're all dead.

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-We don't know, sorry.

-It's Dan Ariely.

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And secondly, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002,

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which Israeli-American psychologist was

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the author of the bestselling Thinking, Fast And Slow?

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Was it Richard Friedman?

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- Are you thinking Milton Friedman? - No, Richard Friedman.

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I'm not confident.

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-Try it?

-OK, try it.

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-Richard Friedman?

-No, it's Daniel Kahneman.

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And finally, Kahneman's work with the psychologist Amos Tversky is

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associated with trial-and-error thinking aids known by what name,

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derived from the Greek for "to find"?

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Mnemonic?

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-Mnemonic?

-No, it's heuristics.

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Ten points for this.

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Born 1903, the US psychologist

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Karl Zener gives his name to

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a set of symbol-bearing cards used in tests of what supposed human...

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-ESP.

-Correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Trinity, these bonuses, your first set, are on opera.

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Meaning "realism", the Italian opera style known as verismo

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is often said to have originated with the first performance

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in 1892 of which opera by Pietro Mascagni?

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Cavalleria Rusticana.

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-Cavalleria Rusticana.

-Correct.

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Also in the verismo style, which opera by Leoncavallo is often

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performed as a double bill with that opera?

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Is it the one about Sicily?

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Do you know of any?

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Sorry, we don't know.

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It's Pagliacci. And finally,

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which opera by Puccini is often cited as an example of verismo?

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Set in Rome, its title character is a singer,

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heartlessly tricked by the chief of police.

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-Tosca?

-Tosca is correct.

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Ten points for this.

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Bill Clinton, Bob Hope, Mae West,

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Whoopi Goldberg and Barry Manilow are among those

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who've been awarded what honorary title,

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created in the aftermath of the War of 1812 by a particular US state?

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Kentucky colonel?

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They are all Kentucky colonels.

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APPLAUSE

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Makes them sound like joints of chicken, doesn't it?

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Your bonuses now are on astrophysics.

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40 Eridani B was among the first characterised examples of what type

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of dense star, which is

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supported against gravity by electron degeneracy pressure?

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Sirius B is another example.

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- Is it a neutron star? - Neutron star?

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-Neutron star?

-No, it's a white dwarf.

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If a white dwarf gathers enough matter to exceed

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the Chandrasekhar limit,

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a mass of about 1.4 times that of the sun, it may undergo runaway

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thermonuclear fusion, resulting in what type of stellar explosion?

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Is it supernova?

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Are they going to want which type of supernova?

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-Shall we try supernova anyway?

-OK.

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-Supernova?

-It's a Type Ia supernova, yes.

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White dwarves have a density of approximately a billion

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kilograms per cubic metre.

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This is far surpassed by what stellar objects,

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the remnants of other types of supernova?

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-Black hole, right?

-Black hole?

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No, they're neutron stars.

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Right, we're going to take a picture round. For your picture starter,

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I want you to tell me the collaborative significance

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of the group of states highlighted in this map of Europe in 1957.

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Founder members of the European Community?

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That's correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, you're going to see for your picture bonuses three more maps

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of Europe with accession states highlighted in yellow.

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In each case, I want the precise year in which the highlighted

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states acceded to the EEC or EU. Firstly...

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-1973?

-I think it was.

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-I think it was '73, yeah.

-1973.

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That was the year that Britain, Ireland and Denmark joined,

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yes, well done.

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Secondly...

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I think that was 1980-something.

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'81?

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-Yeah, I think.

-1981?

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No, it was 1986 when Spain and Portugal joined. And finally...

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-2005, I think.

-Yeah.

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2005?

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No, that's 2004. Ten points for this.

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What name is commonly given to

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the event of 1618 at the start of the Thirty Years' War in which...

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-The Second Defenestration of Prague.

-Correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, your bonuses are on Popes, Trinity College.

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All three have same regnal name.

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Firstly, Pope from 590 to 604,

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who was described by John Calvin as the last good Pope?

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Other designations include the apostle of England

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and founder of the medieval papacy?

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It's Gregory the Great, because of "non Angli, sed Angeli"

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and all that stuff with Augustine.

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-Gregory The Great.

-Correct, Gregory I.

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Also known as Hildebrand, which Pope deposed and excommunicated

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the Emperor Henry IV, forcing him to submission at Canossa in 1077?

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-That's Gregory VII.

-OK.

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-Gregory VII.

-Correct.

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Which 16th-century Pope gives his name to the calendar that was

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finally adopted in Britain in 1752?

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-Gregory XIII.

-Correct.

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-APPLAUSE

-Right, that gives you the lead.

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Ten points for this.

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The London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics,

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the MAXXI museum in Rome and the award-winning Z-shaped

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Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton are all projects

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of which Baghdad-born architect?

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-Zaha Hadid.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses would give you the lead again, Manchester.

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They're on mining in the UK.

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Firstly for five, what mineral is extracted

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at Winsford Mine in Cheshire?

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The mine's consistent humidity levels make worked-out tunnels

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ideal for document storage

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and it houses part of the National Archives.

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-Salt.

-Correct.

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East of Middlesbrough, Boulby Mine produces rock salt

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and which mineral?

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A generic name for alkaline potassium compounds,

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it's used as an agricultural fertiliser.

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Nitrate?

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Potassium or manganates or something, but I don't know.

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-We could try potassium maybe?

-Come on.

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-Potassium?

-No, it's potash.

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Because of its depth,

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Boulby Mine houses a detector

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that searches for what component of the universe,

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discerned from its gravitational effects rather than its luminosity?

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Gravitational... What did he say, features or effects?

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-Gravitational waves?

-Yeah.

-Gravitational waves?

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No, it's dark matter. Ten points for this.

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What word is both an alternative name for

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a refractory metallic element

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and the surname of the British scientist who designed

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the technical software suite...

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-Wolfram?

-Wolfram is correct.

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-APPLAUSE

-You retake the lead,

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and your bonuses are on the verse form known as the clerihew.

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In each case, give the full name of the personage who

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appears in the opening line of the verse quoted.

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Firstly, born in 1778, which scientist,

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according to Edmund Clerihew Bentley,

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"Abominated gravy

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"He lived in the odium

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"Of having discovered sodium"?

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-Sir Humphry Davy.

-Correct.

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Who, according to Bentley,

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"By a mighty effort of will

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"Overcame his natural bonhomie

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"And wrote Principles Of Political Economy"?

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-John Stuart Mill.

-Yes.

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-John Stuart Mill.

-Yes! Finally, who said,

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"'I'm going to dine with some men

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"'If anyone calls

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"'Say I'm designing St Paul's'"?

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-Sir Christopher Wren.

-Indeed.

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-Ten points for this.

-APPLAUSE

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Referring to the office holder's substantial

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lack of policymaking authority,

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what two-word term is used in US politics of a person in the final...

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-Lame duck.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on an English king, Trinity College.

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William Marshal and Hubert de Burgh were major figures

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in the Government of England during the minority of which king?

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He came to the throne at the age of nine and reigned for 56 years.

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It's Henry III, I think, Hubert.

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-Henry III.

-Correct.

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Which year during Henry's reign saw the meeting of

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de Montfort's Parliament at Westminster

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and de Montfort's death at the Battle of Evesham?

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That's 1264, cos Lewisham was 12... Lewes was 12.

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-1264.

-No, it's 1265.

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Which son of Henry III commanded the royal forces at Evesham?

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He succeeded to the throne on Henry's death in 1272.

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Edward I.

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-Edward, later Edward I.

-Correct.

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Ten points for this.

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Listen carefully, and answer as soon as your name is called.

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In any of the words "audacious", "audiobook" and "beauteous",

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what is the precise ratio of consonants to vowels?

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-1:1?

-Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?

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-1:2.

-1:2 is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, these bonuses, Trinity College, are on art.

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"With our James, vulgarity begins at home

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"and should be allowed to stay there."

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These words of Oscar Wilde refer to which US artist, born 1834?

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-Whistler?

-Whistler was British.

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-Erm...

-Cos he was...

-Whistler was definitely British.

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I recently discovered this, it was shocking.

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-But he was naturalised, wasn't he?

-I don't know. You can guess Whistler.

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-Whistler.

-Whistler is correct, yes.

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Whistler was influenced by which genre of Japanese block prints,

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whose name translates as "pictures of the floating world"?

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-I don't know what they're called!

-It's Japan!

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I know it's Japan!

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-My Japanese isn't good enough, sorry.

-Lithograph.

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No! You know that's wrong, too!

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It's ukiyo-e.

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Born in 1760, which artist of the ukiyo-e school is particularly

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famous for his Hundred Views Of Mount Fuji?

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I only know Hokusai. Hokusai, with an H.

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-Hokusai.

-Hokusai is correct, yes.

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We're going to take a music round now.

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

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a pretty popular piece.

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Ten points if you can name it.

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MUSIC PLAYS

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-Zadok The Priest.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, following on from Handel's Zadok The Priest, your bonuses,

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three more pieces that take their title from well-known

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names from ancient history, myth or legend.

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Five points for each you can identify.

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First, this suite, named after a figure in Middle Eastern legend.

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MUSIC PLAYS

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THEY CONFER

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-Scheherazade.

-By Rimsky-Korsakov, yes.

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Secondly, this opera, named after a biblical couple.

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MUSIC PLAYS

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Biblical couple. Think biblical couples.

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-Samson and Delilah?

-That's a...

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I think it was an opera, maybe.

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Shall we try that? Samson And Delilah?

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Indeed, by Saint-Saens.

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And finally, this ballet, named after a historical figure.

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MUSIC PLAYS

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This is from Spartacus by Khachaturian,

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cos it's The Onedin Line, it's the theme tune.

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-Spartacus.

-Indeed! Correct.

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-Ten points for this.

-APPLAUSE

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According to Genesis, the place of Cain's exile following his

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murder of his brother Abel, which land did Jonathan Swift...

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-The Land of Nod?

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, Trinity, these bonuses are on biology.

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What name is given to the ribonucleoprotein on which

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protein synthesis takes place in living cells?

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On which protein synthesis takes place - what do they mean by that?

0:16:000:16:03

Biology, presumably!

0:16:050:16:07

Hang on, erm, ribozyme.

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-Ribozyme?

-It's ribosome.

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-Sorry.

-That was a really bad definition of ribosome.

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Right, listen to this, five points for this.

0:16:140:16:17

What term denotes the process by which an RNA polymerase enzyme

0:16:170:16:20

creates a new RNA molecule using an existing DNA strand as a template?

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Transcription.

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-Transcription.

-Correct.

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Which pyrimidine base of an RNA strand is paired with

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the adenine base of a DNA strand when RNA and DNA strands are aligned

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during transcription?

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-Uracil.

-Uracil?

-Uracil.

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-Uracil.

-Uracil is correct, yes.

0:16:390:16:40

Ten points for this. Launched in 1975 and named after

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a group of seafarers,

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which NASA project was the first planetary exploration mission...

0:16:440:16:48

-Viking?

-Viking 1 and 2 is correct, yes.

0:16:490:16:51

APPLAUSE

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Manchester, these bonuses are on a footballer.

0:16:540:16:56

Consisting of three statues depicting him

0:16:560:16:58

at various stages of his career, a memorial to which footballer

0:16:580:17:02

stands outside the Britannia Stadium in Stoke-on-Trent?

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Known as the Wizard of Dribble, he died in 2000.

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-Stanley Matthews.

-Correct.

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At what age did Matthews play his last professional match,

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for Stoke City against Fulham in the First Division in 1965?

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You can have a year either way.

0:17:150:17:17

- Quite old. - 50.

0:17:170:17:18

Yeah, quite old, so 50.

0:17:180:17:20

-50?

-50 is correct. It's not very old, though!

0:17:200:17:23

LAUGHTER

0:17:230:17:25

With which club, for five points, did Matthews win the FA Cup in 1953,

0:17:250:17:30

a match often known at the Matthews Final?

0:17:300:17:32

-Blackpool.

-Blackpool is correct.

0:17:320:17:34

APPLAUSE

0:17:340:17:36

Ten points for this.

0:17:360:17:38

Which island country in Asia is named after the king of Spain who

0:17:380:17:41

married Mary I...

0:17:410:17:42

-Philippines.

-Philippines is right, yes.

0:17:420:17:44

APPLAUSE

0:17:440:17:45

These bonuses are on the verb "to be" in Romance languages.

0:17:470:17:51

The third-person singular imperfect of the verb "to be" in both Catalan

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and Italian spells the name of which

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subdivision of geological time in English?

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-Anyone speak Italian?

-Era. I bet it's era.

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-Era.

-Era is correct.

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Secondly, the third-person plural present tense of the verb "ser",

0:18:060:18:10

S-E-R, in Spanish spells what common English word?

0:18:100:18:12

-Third-person...

-Third-person plural.

-Third-person plural is, erm...

0:18:140:18:19

I think it's "son", S-O-N.

0:18:200:18:24

-Son.

-S-O-N.

-S-O-N.

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S-O-N is correct, yes.

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The third-person singular present of the verb "to be" in French

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spells which compass direction in the same language?

0:18:320:18:34

-Est.

-East.

-East.

0:18:340:18:36

Yes. Ten points for this.

0:18:360:18:38

APPLAUSE

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On what 11th-century artefact does the Latin inscription

0:18:400:18:44

"isti mirant..."

0:18:440:18:45

-Bayeux Tapestry?

-Correct.

0:18:460:18:48

APPLAUSE

0:18:480:18:50

These bonuses, Manchester, are on poisons.

0:18:520:18:54

Potassium cyanide contains what two elements in addition to potassium?

0:18:540:18:59

Cyanide is carbon and nitrogen.

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Cyanide, I think, is carbon and nitrogen.

0:19:010:19:05

-Carbon and nitrogen?

-Correct.

0:19:050:19:07

A molecule of the poisonous gas phosgene contains

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atoms of carbon, oxygen and what other element?

0:19:090:19:12

Phosphorous.

0:19:120:19:13

-Phosphorous?

-No, it's chlorine.

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And finally, what poisonous Group 5 element is a silvery-white

0:19:150:19:18

metalloid and has been known by the Latin name stibium?

0:19:180:19:22

It's antimony.

0:19:220:19:23

-Antimony.

-Correct. Ten points for this.

0:19:230:19:24

During the 20th century, who held the position

0:19:240:19:27

of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the...

0:19:270:19:30

Margaret Thatcher.

0:19:300:19:32

How did you know I was going to ask for the longest period of time?

0:19:320:19:35

What else is it going to be?!

0:19:350:19:36

LAUGHTER

0:19:360:19:38

OK, let's see if you get these bonuses right!

0:19:380:19:41

They're on French land borders, you smartarses!

0:19:420:19:45

LAUGHTER

0:19:450:19:47

French land borders. Three French departements border Germany.

0:19:480:19:52

Two are named after the river Rhine.

0:19:520:19:54

After which river is the third named?

0:19:540:19:56

Hang on, erm...

0:19:560:19:58

- So what have we got? - Alsace and Lorraine.

0:19:590:20:02

-Is the Alsace a river? Alsace, Lorraine...

-Moselle?

0:20:020:20:06

-Guess.

-Moselle?

-Moselle is correct.

0:20:060:20:09

France shares a land border with three Italian regions. Name any two.

0:20:090:20:13

Valle d'Aosta is one of them.

0:20:130:20:15

-Is Piedmont up there?

-It might... Yes.

0:20:150:20:17

-Valle d'Aosta and Piedmont.

-Correct.

0:20:170:20:19

The other one's Liguria. Lying along the Belgian border

0:20:190:20:22

and including the historical Dutch-speaking region

0:20:220:20:25

of French Flanders, what is the most populous French departement?

0:20:250:20:28

Could it be Lille?

0:20:300:20:32

-I don't know.

-Lille?

0:20:320:20:35

No, it's Nord. Not all so easy, are they?

0:20:350:20:38

LAUGHTER

0:20:380:20:39

Not all of them.

0:20:390:20:40

OK, another picture round now.

0:20:400:20:42

For your picture starter, you'll see a portrait of a prominent novelist.

0:20:420:20:45

For ten points, simply name the figure.

0:20:450:20:47

-Evelyn Waugh.

-Yes.

0:20:500:20:52

APPLAUSE

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Right, Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies was a satire

0:20:560:20:59

of his contemporaries, the Bright Young People of the '20s and '30s.

0:20:590:21:04

For your bonuses, you're going to see portraits

0:21:040:21:06

of three Bright Young Things.

0:21:060:21:07

In each case, simply name the person depicted.

0:21:070:21:10

Firstly, painted here by Roger Fry in 1915.

0:21:100:21:13

- Is that Edith Sitwell? - I've got no idea.

0:21:140:21:16

I think it's Edith Sitwell.

0:21:160:21:18

-Edith Sitwell? Edith Sitwell?

-Correct, yes.

0:21:180:21:20

That hooter's the giveaway, isn't it? Yes. Secondly, who's this?

0:21:200:21:23

-Who is it?

-Do we get a year on them?

0:21:250:21:28

- Is it Tom Driberg? - Absolutely no idea.

0:21:280:21:30

-It could be.

-Tom Driber?

0:21:320:21:33

No. Tom Driberg, I think he said,

0:21:330:21:35

and it's not right - it's Stephen Tennant.

0:21:350:21:37

Finally, who took that photograph of Stephen Tennant

0:21:370:21:40

and produced this self-portrait?

0:21:400:21:42

- Cecil Beaton? - Yeah, I would say so.

0:21:420:21:44

-Cecil Beaton?

-It is Cecil Beaton, yes.

0:21:440:21:46

Ten points for this.

0:21:460:21:47

Which book of the Bible comes next in this list,

0:21:470:21:49

given in reverse order -

0:21:490:21:51

Deuteronomy, Numbers, Leviticus and...?

0:21:510:21:53

-Exodus.

-Exodus is right, yes.

0:21:540:21:56

APPLAUSE

0:21:560:21:58

Bonuses are on probability theory this time, Trinity College.

0:22:000:22:03

Given two independent events in a probability space, each with

0:22:030:22:06

probability one half, what is the probability of both events occurring?

0:22:060:22:10

-A quarter.

-One quarter.

-Correct.

0:22:100:22:12

Given two mutually-exclusive events in a probability space,

0:22:120:22:15

each with probability one half,

0:22:150:22:17

what is the probability of at least one event occurring?

0:22:170:22:19

-I think it's one.

-Shall we go...?

0:22:220:22:24

-One?

-Correct. Given two mutually-exclusive events

0:22:240:22:27

in a probability space, each with

0:22:270:22:28

probability one half, what is the probability of both events occurring?

0:22:280:22:32

-Zero.

-Zero.

-Correct.

0:22:320:22:34

Five minutes to go, ten points for this.

0:22:340:22:36

Born in 1837, which Dutch physicist

0:22:360:22:38

gives his name to the bond or forces caused by the interaction...

0:22:380:22:41

-Van der Waals?

-Correct.

-APPLAUSE

0:22:430:22:45

You get a set of bonuses, Manchester, on the Commonwealth.

0:22:460:22:49

The Maya Mountains and Ambergris Caye are

0:22:490:22:52

in which Commonwealth country, formerly known as British Honduras?

0:22:520:22:56

- Is that Belize? - Yeah, Belize.

0:22:560:22:58

-Belize.

-Correct.

0:22:580:22:59

Straddling the Equator with a land area

0:22:590:23:01

of around 300 square kilometres,

0:23:010:23:03

which country joined the Commonwealth in 1982?

0:23:030:23:05

-Any ideas?

-Straddling the Equator?

0:23:060:23:09

- Somewhere like... - British Guyana?

0:23:090:23:12

British Guyana?

0:23:120:23:13

No, it's Maldives.

0:23:130:23:14

Roseau is the capital of which Caribbean nation?

0:23:140:23:17

Situated between Guadeloupe and Martinique,

0:23:170:23:19

it joined the Commonwealth...

0:23:190:23:20

-Dominica.

-Dominica is correct, yes.

0:23:200:23:22

Ten points for this. Which of Shakespeare's title characters is

0:23:220:23:25

described with the words, "Age cannot wither her, nor custom..."

0:23:250:23:29

King Lear?! Sorry!

0:23:310:23:33

Have you gone mad?! No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:23:350:23:37

"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."

0:23:370:23:41

-Cleopatra?

-Of course, yes.

0:23:450:23:47

APPLAUSE

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Enobarbus.

0:23:480:23:50

Right, these bonuses, Trinity College, are on world leaders.

0:23:500:23:53

Who was the French President

0:23:530:23:54

when Edward Heath was the British Prime Minister?

0:23:540:23:56

-Is that Pompidou?

-Pompidou.

0:23:560:23:59

-Pompidou.

-Correct.

0:23:590:24:01

Who was the West German Chancellor for most of the period that

0:24:010:24:04

Pompidou was President?

0:24:040:24:05

-Is that Willy Brandt?

-Willy Brandt?

0:24:070:24:09

Willy Brandt is correct. Who was the President of the United States

0:24:090:24:12

while Willy Brandt was German Chancellor?

0:24:120:24:14

-Nixon, must have been Nixon.

-OK.

0:24:140:24:16

-Richard Nixon.

-Correct.

0:24:160:24:18

Ten points for this starter question.

0:24:180:24:19

When listed alphabetically, for the starter question,

0:24:190:24:22

by their English names,

0:24:220:24:23

which of the six official languages of the United Nations comes first?

0:24:230:24:28

-Arabic.

-Arabic is correct, yes.

0:24:280:24:30

APPLAUSE

0:24:300:24:31

Your bonuses are on word definitions.

0:24:330:24:36

Firstly, what word is a slang term for an aeroplane

0:24:360:24:38

and can mean a quadrilateral, a mark of quality or a bird of prey?

0:24:380:24:42

-Kite.

-Kite.

-Correct.

0:24:420:24:44

What word can mean the flat metal surface of a machine tool or

0:24:440:24:48

the playing area in various games?

0:24:480:24:49

As a verb, it means "to present something formally for discussion".

0:24:490:24:52

- Table. - Pitch.

0:24:550:24:56

-Pitch.

-No, it's table.

0:24:560:24:57

What word can refer informally to a mild infection or can mean a defect

0:24:570:25:01

or fault in a machine, an obsession or craze, or a concealed microphone?

0:25:010:25:05

-Bug.

-Correct.

0:25:050:25:08

Right, another starter question now.

0:25:080:25:10

What general property characterises

0:25:100:25:12

Mira stars, T Tauri stars, ZZ Ceti...

0:25:120:25:15

They're like the sun?

0:25:170:25:18

No, I'm afraid you lose five points. ..and Cepheids?

0:25:190:25:22

They're variable.

0:25:230:25:25

Variability is correct, yes.

0:25:250:25:26

APPLAUSE

0:25:260:25:29

These bonuses, Trinity College, are on coniferous trees.

0:25:290:25:31

What is the common name of Pinus sylvestris,

0:25:310:25:34

the only native conifer to be grown commercially for timber in the UK?

0:25:340:25:38

-Scots pine.

-Scots pine.

-Correct.

0:25:380:25:40

Named after the old Russian capital of Alaska and introduced to

0:25:400:25:43

Britain in 1831, what is the world's tallest-growing spruce?

0:25:430:25:46

- Sitka? - Yeah, Sitka.

0:25:470:25:50

-Sitka spruce.

-Correct.

0:25:500:25:52

Fraser, Noble, Grand, Balsam

0:25:520:25:53

and Douglas are all types of which conifer?

0:25:530:25:56

-Fir.

-Fir.

-Correct.

0:25:560:25:57

Ten points for this. Christina Rossetti's poem

0:25:570:26:00

In the Bleak Midwinter is set to the tune Cranham, by which...

0:26:000:26:03

-Gustav Holst.

-Correct.

0:26:040:26:06

APPLAUSE

0:26:060:26:08

These bonuses for you, Trinity, are on a stock exchange.

0:26:080:26:11

NASDAQ became the world's first electronic stock exchange

0:26:110:26:15

when it began trading in 1971.

0:26:150:26:17

In which city is it located?

0:26:170:26:18

-It's in America.

-Yeah.

0:26:180:26:21

-California, maybe?

-I thought it was east coast.

0:26:210:26:24

-Is it in...

-Come on, let's have it, please.

0:26:240:26:26

-Philadelphia?

-No, it's New York.

0:26:260:26:28

The first four letters of the acronym NASDAQ represent

0:26:280:26:31

the National Association of Securities Dealers.

0:26:310:26:33

For what do the last two letters stand?

0:26:330:26:37

A and Q.

0:26:370:26:38

- And... - And!

0:26:400:26:41

-And Quotient?

-I don't know.

-Come on.

0:26:410:26:44

-Allied Quotients.

-No, it's Automated Quotations.

0:26:440:26:47

And finally, in November 2007, NASDAQ bought which stock exchange,

0:26:470:26:51

the oldest in America, having been in operation since 1790?

0:26:510:26:54

That's got to be the New York Stock Exchange, hasn't it?

0:26:540:26:56

The New York Stock Exchange.

0:26:560:26:58

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange.

0:26:580:26:59

Ten points for this. Granted an area of land between the Strand

0:26:590:27:02

and the Thames in London,

0:27:020:27:03

which 13th-century European court is commemorated in the names

0:27:030:27:07

of a theatre and hotel built on the site of its palace

0:27:070:27:09

by Richard D'Oyly Carte in the 1880s?

0:27:090:27:11

-Savoy.

-Savoy is correct.

0:27:130:27:15

You get a set of bonuses now on prisons.

0:27:150:27:17

Dartmoor Prison was originally built

0:27:170:27:19

to house what general category of prisoner?

0:27:190:27:21

-Women?

-Yeah.

-Women?

0:27:210:27:23

No, they're prisoners of war. Used to house paramilitary prisoners,

0:27:230:27:27

which prison in County Antrim was also known as Long Kesh?

0:27:270:27:30

It closed in 2000.

0:27:300:27:31

-The Maze.

-Correct. Situated on the outskirts of Glasgow,

0:27:310:27:33

which is Scotland's largest and most complex...

0:27:330:27:35

-Barlinnie.

-Barlinnie is correct.

0:27:350:27:37

Ten points for this. The words "montis insignia calpe" appear

0:27:370:27:40

on the coat of arms...

0:27:400:27:41

-Gibraltar.

-..of Gibraltar, that's correct.

0:27:410:27:44

APPLAUSE

0:27:440:27:45

You get a set of bonuses now, Trinity College,

0:27:450:27:48

on herbs and spices.

0:27:480:27:49

GONG CHIMES

0:27:490:27:50

And at the gong, Manchester University have 205,

0:27:500:27:53

Trinity College, Cambridge have 285.

0:27:530:27:55

APPLAUSE

0:27:550:27:56

Well, I just about ran out of questions there,

0:28:040:28:06

so it was a great game, thank you very much indeed.

0:28:060:28:08

Manchester... We'll see both of you again, actually. We'll see you...

0:28:080:28:11

Certainly, you're going to have to win two more games

0:28:110:28:14

to stay in the contest, Manchester.

0:28:140:28:15

Trinity, they all WERE easy, those questions, weren't they!

0:28:150:28:19

-Not all of them!

-Congratulations.

0:28:190:28:20

You have to win one more time to go through to the semifinals,

0:28:200:28:23

and we shall look forward to seeing you again then.

0:28:230:28:25

I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.

0:28:250:28:28

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

-ALL: Goodbye.

0:28:280:28:31

-It's goodbye from Trinity College, Cambridge.

-ALL: Goodbye.

0:28:310:28:34

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

0:28:340:28:36

APPLAUSE

0:28:360:28:38

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