0:00:20 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Hello.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32By the end of tonight's match we'll know the first of the four teams
0:00:32 > 0:00:35who'll be competing in the semifinals.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Both teams playing for that place
0:00:37 > 0:00:39already have one quarterfinal victory behind,
0:00:39 > 0:00:42so whoever wins tonight will qualify automatically while
0:00:42 > 0:00:46the losers will get one final chance to do so.
0:00:46 > 0:00:48The team from Trinity College, Cambridge
0:00:48 > 0:00:49have had an impressive run so far,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52dispatching Christ Church, Oxford in Round 1,
0:00:52 > 0:00:56and earning themselves the highest score in the round at the same time.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00Peterhouse, Cambridge fell next followed by the reigning champions
0:01:00 > 0:01:03Manchester University whom they beat by 285 points
0:01:03 > 0:01:06to 205 in their first quarterfinal.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10Let's see if they can match that tonight, and meet them again.
0:01:10 > 0:01:11Hi, I'm Matthew Ridley.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14I'm from Northumberland and I'm studying economics.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Hi, I'm Philip Drnovsek Zorko from Slovenia
0:01:17 > 0:01:18and I'm studying natural sciences.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21- And their captain. - Hello, I'm Ralph Morley.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23I'm from Ashford in Kent and I'm studying classics.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Hello. I'm Richard Freeland.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30I'm from Cowbridge in Glamorgan and I'm studying mathematics.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32APPLAUSE
0:01:34 > 0:01:37The team from the London School of Oriental and African Studies
0:01:37 > 0:01:40have also three victories behind them,
0:01:40 > 0:01:43having toppled the University of Southampton in Round 1,
0:01:43 > 0:01:45Reading University in Round 2,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and Cardiff in their first quarterfinal match,
0:01:48 > 0:01:52whom they beat by 200 points to 90.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Let's meet the SOAS team again.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59Hello, my name's Maeve Weber. I'm from Knebworth in Hertfordshire
0:01:59 > 0:02:02and I'm reading for a BA in ancient near Eastern studies.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Hello, my name is Luke Vivian-Neal,
0:02:04 > 0:02:07I'm from Lusaka in Zambia and I study Chinese.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09And the SOAS captain.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Hi, I'm Peter McKean, I'm from Wallington in South London
0:02:11 > 0:02:14and I'm studying for an MA in African history.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18I'm James Figueroa from Surrey and I'm reading African studies
0:02:18 > 0:02:19and development studies.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22APPLAUSE
0:02:24 > 0:02:27You all know the rules. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:29 > 0:02:34Solidarity and Progress, Workers' Struggle and Europe Ecology
0:02:34 > 0:02:38are among the English names of parties that fielded candidates...?
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Poland.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41No, you lose five points.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44In which country's 2012 presidential election
0:02:44 > 0:02:47all failed to reach the second round, which was won by the...?
0:02:48 > 0:02:50France.
0:02:50 > 0:02:51Correct.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Trinity, you get the first set of bonuses.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59They're on Russian visitors to London.
0:02:59 > 0:03:00For five points.
0:03:00 > 0:03:04Which Tsar stayed in London for three months in 1698 at
0:03:04 > 0:03:08the age of 26 in a house lent to him by John Evelyn
0:03:08 > 0:03:11during which time he was tutored by Edmond Halley?
0:03:14 > 0:03:15Peter The Great.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Correct. Designed by Berthold Lubetkin,
0:03:18 > 0:03:21the housing project Bevin Court on Cruikshank Street in London
0:03:21 > 0:03:25was intended at one time to be named after which Soviet leader
0:03:25 > 0:03:28who'd briefly occupied a house on the site?
0:03:36 > 0:03:37Trotsky.
0:03:37 > 0:03:38No, it was Lenin.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42Finally, 2001 saw the unveiling of a statue of which former
0:03:42 > 0:03:45foundry worker outside the British Council's London headquarters
0:03:45 > 0:03:49where crowds had cheered him exactly 50 years earlier?
0:03:53 > 0:03:55Khrushchev.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58No, Yuri Gagarin, the astronaut. Ten points for this.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01The idiosyncratic metre known as Sprung rhythm
0:04:01 > 0:04:03is especially associated with which poet?
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Received into the Roman Catholic church in 1886,
0:04:06 > 0:04:11his works include the Wreck Of The Deutschland and Pied Beauty.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Gerard Manley Hopkins.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Correct.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22You bonuses are on writers, SOAS,
0:04:22 > 0:04:25who completed only one novel during their lifetime.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28In each case name both the novel and its author.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32First for five. Written under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas,
0:04:32 > 0:04:35which novel describes the breakdown of Esther Greenwood?
0:04:35 > 0:04:37It was first published in 1963,
0:04:37 > 0:04:40a month before the suicide of its author.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Correct.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51Described as a Sicilian Gone With The Wind, which novel concerns
0:04:51 > 0:04:54an aristocratic family during the unification of Italy?
0:04:54 > 0:04:58It was published in 1958, a year after the death of its author.
0:05:08 > 0:05:09Nominate Vivian-Neal.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Is it The Leopard by Lampedusa?
0:05:12 > 0:05:13It is indeed.
0:05:13 > 0:05:17Finally, the events of which novel span the ends of Tsarist Russia
0:05:17 > 0:05:19and the early years of the Soviet Union?
0:05:19 > 0:05:21First published in Italy in 1957,
0:05:21 > 0:05:23its author was acclaimed in Russia as a poet.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Doctor Zhivago and Boris Pasternak.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37Listen carefully to the quotation and the question that follows.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40"Our character lies for hundreds of millions of years
0:05:40 > 0:05:44"bound to three atoms of oxygen and one of calcium."
0:05:44 > 0:05:47These words of Primo Levi begin a prose poem
0:05:47 > 0:05:49dedicated to which chemical element?
0:05:53 > 0:05:54Calcium.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Anyone like to buzz from SOAS?
0:05:59 > 0:06:02It's carbon. Too late. Ten points for this.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Developed by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger,
0:06:05 > 0:06:09which app allows users of mobile phones to take pictures
0:06:09 > 0:06:11that can then be shared on social network sites?
0:06:11 > 0:06:13It became a one billion...?
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Instagram.
0:06:16 > 0:06:17Correct.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22Your bonuses are on the US space shuttle programme. For five points.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25Each space shuttle mission was officially designated
0:06:25 > 0:06:29with the prefix STS. For what do those letters stand?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Space transport system.
0:06:39 > 0:06:40Space transportation system,
0:06:40 > 0:06:43so technically I'm afraid I can't give it to you.
0:06:43 > 0:06:48STS 30 launched in May 1989 carried the Magellan probe that between 1990
0:06:48 > 0:06:54and '94 conducted the radar mapping of which planet of the solar system?
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Venus.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01Correct. STS 135, the final flight of the programme,
0:07:01 > 0:07:05was launched in July 2011 when which shuttle undertook a mission to
0:07:05 > 0:07:07the International Space Station?
0:07:16 > 0:07:17Discovery.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20No, that had just finished operating. It was Atlantis.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22We're going to take another starter question now.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Taken from Book I entitled
0:07:24 > 0:07:27Admonitions Profitable For The Spiritual Life,
0:07:27 > 0:07:31the declaration that man proposes but God disposes
0:07:31 > 0:07:35comes from which 15th century devotional work by Thomas a Kempis?
0:07:37 > 0:07:38The Imitation Of Christ.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Correct.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43You get a set of bonuses this time, SOAS, on a London building.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46The building and surrounding park at which Middlesex house were
0:07:46 > 0:07:51described by Sir John Betjeman as the Grand Architectural Walk?
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Standing on the site of the medieval abbey,
0:07:53 > 0:07:55the house is named after a peak in Jerusalem.
0:08:04 > 0:08:05Syon House.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Correct. Following the Abbey's dissolution,
0:08:08 > 0:08:11the estate passed to which duke? The Lord Protector of Edward the XI,
0:08:11 > 0:08:15he built Syon House in the Italian renaissance style.
0:08:21 > 0:08:22Somerset.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23Correct. The Duke of Somerset.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27Syon House has been described as the finest surviving evidence of
0:08:27 > 0:08:30the innovative use of colour by which 18th century
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Scottish architect who remodelled the interior?
0:08:41 > 0:08:42Nash.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45No, it's Robert Adam. We're going to take a picture round.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47For your picture starter you'll see a map marking
0:08:47 > 0:08:51the sites of major battles that took place in a series of wars.
0:08:51 > 0:08:55For ten points. Give the name by which the wars are generally known.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00The Napoleonic Wars.
0:09:00 > 0:09:01Correct.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Your bonuses are three more maps.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Marking land and sea battles that took place during a war
0:09:09 > 0:09:11in which France was crucially involved.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14In each case I want the name of the war
0:09:14 > 0:09:16and the French ruler at that time.
0:09:16 > 0:09:17Firstly for five.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33The Nine Years' War and Louis XIV.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36No, it's Louis XIV, the war of the Spanish Succession.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Secondly, this ruler and war.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51The Crimean War and Napoleon III.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52Correct. Finally.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Louis XVI and the American War Of Independence.
0:10:10 > 0:10:11Correct. Well done.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Ten points for this starter question.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17After a type of shell,
0:10:17 > 0:10:20what eight letter noun denotes a plain curve
0:10:20 > 0:10:23consisting of two branches...?
0:10:23 > 0:10:24A conchoid.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Correct.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Trinity, your bonuses this time are on photography.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36What two-word French term denotes a photograph taken with
0:10:36 > 0:10:38the sun taken directly behind the subject making it a silhouette
0:10:38 > 0:10:40against the light source?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51..soleil.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53No, it's contre-jour.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Using a shallow depth of field gives a blurred image
0:10:56 > 0:10:59that has come to be described with what five-letter word
0:10:59 > 0:11:01originating from Japanese?
0:11:09 > 0:11:10Hayge.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Bokeh.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Which technique involves slowing the shutter speed
0:11:15 > 0:11:18and following a moving subject as it passes in front of the camera
0:11:18 > 0:11:20giving it more focus than the background?
0:11:26 > 0:11:27Pass.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29It's panning or pan. Ten points for this.
0:11:29 > 0:11:35What two word term gave the Russian sociologist Pitirim Sorokin
0:11:35 > 0:11:39the title of his 1927 study of the dynamics of inequality and refers to
0:11:39 > 0:11:42the extent to which in an individual status can change over
0:11:42 > 0:11:44a lifetime or between generations?
0:11:46 > 0:11:47Social Mobility.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Correct.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Trinity, your bonuses are on song birds.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55In the words of the RSPB website,
0:11:55 > 0:11:58in each case give the common name from the description.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01Erithacus rubecula sing nearly all year round
0:12:01 > 0:12:03and despite their cute appearance,
0:12:03 > 0:12:07they're aggressively territorial and are quick to drive away intruders.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10They'll sing at night next to street lights.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Robin.
0:12:16 > 0:12:17Correct.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Phoenicurus phoenicurus. Identifiable by
0:12:19 > 0:12:22their bright orange-red tails, which they often quiver,
0:12:22 > 0:12:24they bob in a robin-like manner
0:12:24 > 0:12:26but spend little time at ground level.
0:12:34 > 0:12:35Chaffinch.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37No, it's the red start.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40Luscinia megarhynchos, slightly larger than robins
0:12:40 > 0:12:42with a plain brown appearance,
0:12:42 > 0:12:45the famous song is indeed of high quality with a fast succession of
0:12:45 > 0:12:49high, low and rich notes that few other species can match.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Nightingale.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Yes. Ten points for this.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56What duration in hours links the Swiss-American artist
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Christian Marclay 2010's installation The Clock
0:12:59 > 0:13:03and 1993 work by the Scottish artist Douglas Gordon
0:13:03 > 0:13:05based on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
0:13:05 > 0:13:09and a 2002 film about the music community in Manchester?
0:13:11 > 0:13:1324 Hours.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14Correct, yes.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22These bonuses are on modern feminist works.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26The New Feminism in 1998 and Living Dolls: The Return Of Sexism
0:13:26 > 0:13:29in 2009 are among the works of which English author?
0:13:45 > 0:13:46Pass.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48They are by Natasha Walter.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52In her 2005 work Female Chauvinist Pigs,
0:13:52 > 0:13:56which US author argues that a so-called "raunch culture"
0:13:56 > 0:13:59cannot be viewed as a form of women's liberation.
0:14:04 > 0:14:05No, sorry.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Ariel Levy.
0:14:07 > 0:14:08Claiming that modern feminism has become
0:14:08 > 0:14:12the victim of an unenlightened complacency, which Australian writer
0:14:12 > 0:14:16and academic published The Whole Woman in 1999,
0:14:16 > 0:14:19her sequel to a seminal text in 1970?
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Germaine Greer.
0:14:21 > 0:14:22It is, yes.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25Seems to be the only feminist you've heard of over there.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27We're going to take a music round now.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29You're going to go hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31For your starter and ten points.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33All you have to do is name the Russian composer.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39Shostakovich.
0:14:39 > 0:14:40Yes, it is. Well done.
0:14:43 > 0:14:44That was his Waltz Number 2.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48Your bonuses are three pieces of classical music from composers
0:14:48 > 0:14:50not often associated with waltzes.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53Five points for each composer you can name.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55First this Nordic composer.
0:15:02 > 0:15:03Grieg.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06No, it was Sibelius, his Valse Triste.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Secondly this American composer.
0:15:17 > 0:15:18George Gershwin.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20It was. Two Waltzes in C.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Finally this French composer.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Saint-Saens.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39No, it's Ravel. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41In radians per second,
0:15:41 > 0:15:45what is the angular frequency of a simple pendulum of length 10cm
0:15:45 > 0:15:48oscillating under the influence of gravity if
0:15:48 > 0:15:52the acceleration due to gravity is 10m per second squared?
0:15:57 > 0:15:58One tenth.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Anyone like to buzz from SOAS?
0:16:04 > 0:16:05A half.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08No, it's ten. Ten points for this.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Some of the tallest sand dunes in the world
0:16:10 > 0:16:13are found in which coastal desert lined between the...?
0:16:14 > 0:16:15Namib.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Correct.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23Your bonuses this time are on pairs of words in which the first
0:16:23 > 0:16:25and second vowels are transposed.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28In each case listen to the definition and spell both words.
0:16:29 > 0:16:34The seed of the leguminous plant Lens culinaris cultivated for food.
0:16:34 > 0:16:39And horizontal piece of timber or stone over a door or window.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48Lentil. L-E-N-T-I-L.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50And lintel. L-I-N-T-E-L.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Correct.
0:16:52 > 0:16:57Particles of pigment used to produce the image in a photocopy.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59And adult male voice above the baritone.
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Tenor. T-E-N-O-R.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05And toner. T-O-N-E-R.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Correct.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Finally, hard calcareous substance made up of
0:17:10 > 0:17:13the continuous skeleton secreted by marine coloenteric polyps.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16And hymn or song of joy.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Coral and carol.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22C-O-R-A-L. C-A-R-O-L.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25Well done. Ten points for this.
0:17:26 > 0:17:31The Sad Fortunes Of The Reverend Amos Barton, Mr Gilfil's Love Story
0:17:31 > 0:17:35and Janet's Repentance are three stories by George Eliot
0:17:35 > 0:17:39that first appeared serially in Blackwood's Magazine.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41What was the name of the volume that...?
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Middlemarch.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49What was the name of the volume that comprised all three tales?
0:17:52 > 0:17:54I'll tell you, Scenes of Clerical Life.
0:17:54 > 0:17:55Ten points for this.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59In meteorology and oceanography, what action gives rise to
0:17:59 > 0:18:02the Coriolis Force which contributes...?
0:18:02 > 0:18:03The rotation of the earth.
0:18:03 > 0:18:04Yes.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09These bonuses, Trinity, are on glands.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12What collective name is given to those glands in the human body
0:18:12 > 0:18:16that secret hormones directly into the blood stream?
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Endocrine.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25Correct. Located below the larynx, which endocrine gland
0:18:25 > 0:18:28secretes hormones vital to metabolism and growth?
0:18:29 > 0:18:31Thyroid.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34Correct. The adrenal glands are small endocrine glands
0:18:34 > 0:18:36located immediately above which organs of the body?
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Kidney.
0:18:38 > 0:18:39Correct. Ten points for this.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44Examples including New Zealand, Tuvalu and Barbados,
0:18:44 > 0:18:47what precise two word term...?
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Commonwealth Realm.
0:18:49 > 0:18:50Well done.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56These bonuses are on ancient empires.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00The Achaemenid Empire, founded in the early 6th century BC,
0:19:00 > 0:19:04had its palaces at Pasargadae, Susa
0:19:04 > 0:19:08and Persepolis, sites in which present day Middle Eastern country?
0:19:08 > 0:19:09Iran.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Correct. Extending from Asia minor to India,
0:19:11 > 0:19:14which empire was named after one of Alexander the Great's generals
0:19:14 > 0:19:17who created it from the remains of the Macedonian Empire?
0:19:19 > 0:19:20Seleucid.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Correct. Also known as the Arsacid Empire,
0:19:22 > 0:19:26which empire ruled Persia from the 3rd century BC?
0:19:31 > 0:19:32Parthian.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Correct. Ten points for this.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37A commercially prosperous state during the 17th century,
0:19:37 > 0:19:41the historical region of Courland is today part of
0:19:41 > 0:19:42which EU member state?
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Poland.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?
0:19:47 > 0:19:48Lithuania.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50No, Latvia. Ten points for this.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Which artist painted Woman With a Hat,
0:19:52 > 0:19:56displayed at the Salon d'Automne in 1905 in the exhibition that launched
0:19:56 > 0:19:59the artistic movement that has come to be known as Fauvism?
0:20:01 > 0:20:02Matisse.
0:20:02 > 0:20:03Correct.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08Bonuses this time on indigenous peoples.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11Associated with regions such as Araucania,
0:20:11 > 0:20:14the Mapuche are an indigenous people principally concentrated
0:20:14 > 0:20:17in which South American country?
0:20:22 > 0:20:23Paraguay.
0:20:23 > 0:20:24No, Chile.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27Meaning of earliest times and inhabitant,
0:20:27 > 0:20:31Adivasi is an umbrella term for the indigenous peoples
0:20:31 > 0:20:33of which large Asian country?
0:20:37 > 0:20:38India.
0:20:38 > 0:20:39Correct.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41Orang Asli is a collective term for
0:20:41 > 0:20:44the indigenous peoples of which country?
0:20:47 > 0:20:48Indonesia.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49No, it's Malaysia.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54For your picture starter you'll see a painting.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56All you have to do to get ten points is to give me
0:20:56 > 0:20:58the name of the artist.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Van Eyck.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05The Arnolfini Marriage, yes.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11Picture bonuses. Three more notable paintings of couples.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13In each case I want you to name the artist. Firstly.
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Gainsborough.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25It is. Mr and Mrs Andrews by him. Secondly.
0:21:29 > 0:21:30Grant Wood.
0:21:30 > 0:21:31American Gothic, yes. And finally.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Ford Madox Brown.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39The Last of England, indeed. Ten points for this.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44Awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for drama, which play by Doug Wright
0:21:44 > 0:21:48follows the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf,
0:21:48 > 0:21:51an East Berlin transvestite, curator and antiquarian?
0:21:55 > 0:21:57Hedwig And The Angry Inch.
0:21:57 > 0:21:58No.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Any idea, Trinity College?
0:22:02 > 0:22:05I Am My Own Wife. Ten points for this.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09Which country has a population of only 400,000,
0:22:09 > 0:22:13but has the highest population density of any EU member state?
0:22:13 > 0:22:14Malta.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Correct.
0:22:19 > 0:22:24These bonuses are on misleading culinary names.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27Which Scottish dish consists of buttered toast,
0:22:27 > 0:22:30spread with anchovy paste and scrambled egg
0:22:30 > 0:22:33but does not contain the game bird that appears in its name?
0:22:40 > 0:22:41Pass.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43It's Scotch woodcock.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46A translation of the German Kaltes Ende,
0:22:46 > 0:22:48which two word named denotes a fizzy concoction of
0:22:48 > 0:22:50burgundy and champagne?
0:22:59 > 0:23:00Cold sweat.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02No, it's Cold Duck.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06A traditional dish in New Zealand, colonial goose is a boned shoulder
0:23:06 > 0:23:10or leg of which meat stuffed with herbs?
0:23:16 > 0:23:17Lamb.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19There's no other meat in New Zealand, is there?
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Ten points for this.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Give the chemical symbol that comes next in this sequence.
0:23:23 > 0:23:27N, O, F, Ne and...?
0:23:27 > 0:23:28Na.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Correct.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Four minutes to go and there are 50 points at stake for these bonuses.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38They're on scales.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Which Scottish university give its name to a scale
0:23:40 > 0:23:44published in 1974 designed to assess the depth and duration of coma
0:23:44 > 0:23:45and impaired consciousness?
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Glasgow.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Correct. The Torino Scale runs from nought to ten and indicates
0:23:49 > 0:23:52the degree of potential threat from what form of hazard?
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Meteorite.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Meteorite or asteroid or similar impact.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Although for all normal purposes it runs from nought to 12,
0:23:59 > 0:24:02which scale was extended to 17 in 1944
0:24:02 > 0:24:05to deal with conditions such as tropical cyclones?
0:24:13 > 0:24:14Baring scale.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16No, it's the Beaufort scale. Ten points for this.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22The English name of which east Mediterranean capital is an anagram
0:24:22 > 0:24:26of a common one-word translation of the Latin imperative festina?
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Athens.
0:24:36 > 0:24:37Correct.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43These bonuses are on a medieval chronicler.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46History Of The Kings Of Britain is a pseudohistorical work by which
0:24:46 > 0:24:50British chronicler appointed Bishop of Saint Asaph in 1152?
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Geoffrey of Monmouth.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56Correct. Geoffrey of Monmouth described the settlement of Britain
0:24:56 > 0:24:59by Brutus, the great grandson of which Trojan hero?
0:24:59 > 0:25:00Aeneas.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03Correct. Who's described in a later work by Geoffrey of Monmouth
0:25:03 > 0:25:04as "a king and prophet,
0:25:04 > 0:25:07"to the proud people of the South Welsh, he gave laws,
0:25:07 > 0:25:10"and to the chieftains, he prophesied the future"?
0:25:15 > 0:25:16King Arthur.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19No, it's Merlin. Two and a half minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:25:19 > 0:25:20Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24Name two of the three largest moons in the solar system?
0:25:25 > 0:25:26Ganymede and Titan.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Yeah, the other one's Callisto.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Another set of bonuses for you, Trinity College.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32They are on a chemical process.
0:25:32 > 0:25:36The chemist Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in 1918 for his method
0:25:36 > 0:25:40of synthesising which compound gas from hydrogen and nitrogen?
0:25:40 > 0:25:41Ammonia.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Correct. Haber's method is often named after him
0:25:44 > 0:25:47and which industrial chemist, who translated this into a
0:25:47 > 0:25:49large-scale high-pressure process?
0:25:49 > 0:25:50Bosch.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54Correct. The Haber Process initially used, as a catalyst, either uranium
0:25:54 > 0:25:56or which rare dense platinum metal?
0:26:01 > 0:26:02Titanium.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04No, it's osmium. Ten points for this.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07What three-letter word did Ambrose Bierce define as
0:26:07 > 0:26:11"affected with a high degree of intellectual independence"?
0:26:11 > 0:26:12But.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14No.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17Cat.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19No, it's mad. Ten points for this.
0:26:19 > 0:26:23"Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well."
0:26:24 > 0:26:25Othello.
0:26:25 > 0:26:26Correct.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33Your bonuses this time are on poetry in the 1850s.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Sonnets From The Portuguese in 1850
0:26:35 > 0:26:39and Aurora Leigh in 1856 are works by which British poet?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
0:26:41 > 0:26:45Correct. The 1855 Song of Hiawatha is a work by which New England poet?
0:26:45 > 0:26:46Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Correct. First published in 1857,
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Les Fleurs du mal is a collection by which French poet?
0:26:51 > 0:26:52Baudelaire.
0:26:52 > 0:26:53Correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56What is northernmost of the sea areas used
0:26:56 > 0:26:58in the UK and the Met Office...?
0:26:58 > 0:26:59Southeast Iceland.
0:26:59 > 0:27:00Correct.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Bonuses this time, SOAS, are linked by a name.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08King Harold II, killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066,
0:27:08 > 0:27:11was also known by what patronymic?
0:27:11 > 0:27:12Godwinson.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15Correct. The social reformer William Godwin was married in 1797
0:27:15 > 0:27:17to which feminist author?
0:27:22 > 0:27:23Come on.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29- Pass.- Mary Wollstonecraft.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Godwin-Austen, the second highest mountain in the world,
0:27:32 > 0:27:35is also known by what alphanumeric designation?
0:27:35 > 0:27:37K2.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Correct. Another starter question.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41The adjective phrenic refers to what part of the human body
0:27:41 > 0:27:43that takes...?
0:27:43 > 0:27:45The skull.
0:27:45 > 0:27:46No, you lose five points.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49That takes the form of a thin membranous dome-shaped muscle?
0:27:51 > 0:27:52Come on, one of you buzz.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Diaphragm.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56Correct.
0:27:56 > 0:27:57GONG SOUNDS
0:27:57 > 0:28:00And at the gong, SOAS, you have 105.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05And Trinity College, Cambridge have 280.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09Well, SOAS, you're going to have to come back and play again
0:28:09 > 0:28:12if you want to get through to the semifinals.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Many congratulations to you, Trinity,
0:28:14 > 0:28:15you go through to the semis.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17You're the first team to qualify so far.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20280, another very impressive score from you.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25But until then, it's goodbye from
0:28:25 > 0:28:28the School Of Oriental and African Studies.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32Maintaining the niceties, you know.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34And it's goodbye from Trinity College, Cambridge.
0:28:34 > 0:28:38- ALL:- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.