0:00:18 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions... Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:29 > 0:00:34Hello. Residents of two of the most beautiful sets of buildings in England face each other tonight.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Both tonight's colleges were founded during the reign of Henry VIII.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41Trinity College, Cambridge, was established in 1546
0:00:41 > 0:00:43and is one of the university's largest colleges,
0:00:43 > 0:00:45with well over 1,000 students.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Its list of alumni includes some particularly fine minds -
0:00:48 > 0:00:53among them, Francis Bacon, Andrew Marvell, John Dryden and Isaac Newton.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56The poet Byron, who reputedly kept a tame bear in his room
0:00:56 > 0:01:00during his time as a student, claimed the life at the college was one of eternal parties,
0:01:00 > 0:01:04his companions being jockeys, gamblers, boxers, authors, parsons
0:01:04 > 0:01:06and poets.
0:01:06 > 0:01:12Despite such giddiness, the college has been series champion twice in the past, in 1974 and 1995.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15On the latter occasion, the team included Kwasi Kwarteng,
0:01:15 > 0:01:18now the MP for Spelthorne in Surrey.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Aiming to take the title for the third time,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22and with an average age of 20,
0:01:22 > 0:01:24let's meet the Trinity team.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Hi. I'm Matthew Ridley.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28I'm from Northumberland and I'm studying economics.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Hi. I'm Filip Drnovsek Zorko.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34I'm from Slovenia and I'm studying natural sciences.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36- Their captain.- Hello. I'm Ralph Morley. I'm from Ashford in Kent
0:01:36 > 0:01:39and I'm studying for a degree in classics.
0:01:39 > 0:01:40Hello. I'm Richard Freeland.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43I'm from Glamorgan and I'm reading mathematics.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45APPLAUSE
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Christ Church, Oxford, last won the trophy in 2008.
0:01:51 > 0:01:56It was founded by Cardinal Wolsey in 1524, when it was known as Cardinal's College.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00And when he fell from power five years later, it became the property of Henry VIII.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04Christopher Wren was a student there and later had a hand in its architecture,
0:02:04 > 0:02:06designing the famous Tom Tower,
0:02:06 > 0:02:09which overlooks the largest quadrangle in Oxford.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Lewis Carroll was a student and teacher there
0:02:11 > 0:02:14and it's where he first encountered Alice Liddell.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17More recently, it's provided locations for the Harry Potter films
0:02:17 > 0:02:21and its Great Hall was the model for the hall at Hogwarts.
0:02:21 > 0:02:26So let's meet the four selected by the sorting hat to play on behalf of nearly 700 students.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29I'm George Greenwood. I'm studying politics, philosophy and economics
0:02:29 > 0:02:31and I'm from Exeter.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34Hi. I'm Andreas Capstack. I'm originally from Belgium
0:02:34 > 0:02:36and I'm also studying philosophy, politics and economics.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39- And their captain.- Hi. I'm Ewan Macaulay. I'm from Hong Kong
0:02:39 > 0:02:41and I'm reading chemistry.
0:02:41 > 0:02:42Hi. I'm Phil Ostrowski.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45I'm from Poland and I'm studying cardiovascular medicine.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47APPLAUSE
0:02:50 > 0:02:52You all know the rules, so let's crack on with it.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:55 > 0:03:00What given name links the third son of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark,
0:03:00 > 0:03:02the fifth son of George V and Queen Mary
0:03:02 > 0:03:06and the fifth son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine?
0:03:06 > 0:03:08- Trinity, Morley.- John.- Correct.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10APPLAUSE
0:03:12 > 0:03:15The first set of bonuses, Trinity College, are on a Greek philosopher.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19Epictetus, born in Phrygia around AD55
0:03:19 > 0:03:23is a philosopher associated with which broad school of philosophy?
0:03:23 > 0:03:26- Stoicism, I think.- Stoicism.- Correct.
0:03:26 > 0:03:31The discourses of Epictetus were compiled in writing by his pupil, Arrian,
0:03:31 > 0:03:35a historian best known for his biography of which ancient ruler?
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Alexander the Great, I think.
0:03:37 > 0:03:38- Alexander the Great.- Correct.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42Epictetus was an influence on the philosophy of which Roman emperor,
0:03:42 > 0:03:44who quotes him repeatedly in his meditations?
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Marcus Aurelius.
0:03:46 > 0:03:47- Marcus Aurelius.- Correct.
0:03:47 > 0:03:48Ten points for this.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50What five-letter term
0:03:50 > 0:03:52denotes both a colourless, volatile liquid
0:03:52 > 0:03:55and a substance that was once thought to fill the universe...?
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Trinity, Drnovsek Zorko.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59- Ether.- Correct, yes.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01APPLAUSE
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Second set of bonuses for you, Trinity.
0:04:05 > 0:04:10Shared surnames. In each case, I want the surname shared by the following pairs of people.
0:04:10 > 0:04:16Firstly, a religious reformer, born 1624, the founder of the Society Of Friends, or Quakers
0:04:16 > 0:04:22and the winner of the gold medal in the men's 100-metre backstroke at the London 2012 Paralympics.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24THEY CONFER
0:04:26 > 0:04:27- Fox.- Correct.
0:04:27 > 0:04:31Secondly, the Welsh poet, born 1871, who wrote The Autobiography Of A Super-Tramp
0:04:31 > 0:04:34and the winner of the gold medal in the men's discus
0:04:34 > 0:04:36at the 2012 Paralympics.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38THEY CONFER
0:04:40 > 0:04:41Might be Davies.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43- Davies.- Correct.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46WH and Aled. Finally, the director of Picnic At Hanging Rock and Gallipoli,
0:04:46 > 0:04:50and the winner of the men's 800, 1,500 and 5,000 metres
0:04:50 > 0:04:54as well as the marathon at the 2012 Paralympics.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56- Weir, wasn't it? Peter Weir.- Yes.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Peter Weir.
0:04:58 > 0:04:59Weir is all I wanted.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Peter and David.
0:05:01 > 0:05:02Ten points for this.
0:05:02 > 0:05:07Introduced by the US sociologists George Kelling and James Wilson in 1982,
0:05:07 > 0:05:11which sociological theory holds that the vandalism of a few...?
0:05:11 > 0:05:14- Trinity, Ridley. - Broken windows theory?- Correct.
0:05:14 > 0:05:15APPLAUSE
0:05:18 > 0:05:21First set of bonuses for you. They're on diagrams in physics.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24Originally believing it to represent possible evolutionary paths,
0:05:24 > 0:05:26the astronomer Edwin Hubble
0:05:26 > 0:05:30developed his tuning fork diagram in 1926
0:05:30 > 0:05:33to plot the morphological varieties of what objects?
0:05:33 > 0:05:35THEY CONFER
0:05:38 > 0:05:39Stars?
0:05:40 > 0:05:42- Stars?- No, it's galaxies.
0:05:42 > 0:05:43Born 1864,
0:05:43 > 0:05:48which German mathematician gives his name to a diagram that plots space along one axis
0:05:48 > 0:05:50and time along the other?
0:05:50 > 0:05:52THEY CONFER
0:05:54 > 0:05:57- Lorenz?- No, it's Minkowski.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00And along with Henry Norris Russell, which Danish scientist
0:06:00 > 0:06:06gives his name to a diagram that plots stellar type by luminosity and temperature?
0:06:07 > 0:06:10- Hertzsprung.- Hertzsprung is correct. Ten points for this.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12"He lived a brief, passionate, unhappy life,
0:06:12 > 0:06:14"he wrote magnificent poetry
0:06:14 > 0:06:19"and he introduced a new word for kiss into the European languages."
0:06:19 > 0:06:23These words of the classicist Gilbert Highet refer to which Roman poet?
0:06:23 > 0:06:25- Trinity, Morley.- Catullus.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Catullus is correct.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28APPLAUSE
0:06:31 > 0:06:34These bonuses are on film directors and opera.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38Noted for his 1975 film of The Magic Flute,
0:06:38 > 0:06:43which Swedish director staged The Threepenny Opera and The Merry Widow early in his theatrical career?
0:06:43 > 0:06:46Can we name a Swedish director who ISN'T Bergman?
0:06:46 > 0:06:47- Bergman?- Correct.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51His films including The English Patient and Cold Mountain,
0:06:51 > 0:06:56which director produced Madam Butterfly for the English National Opera in 2005?
0:06:56 > 0:06:57I went to see it as well!
0:06:57 > 0:06:59I should know this.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01English Patient...um...
0:07:01 > 0:07:03- Is it Minghella?- It might be.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05- Anthony Minghella.- Correct.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Noted for his MTV-style treatment of Romeo And Juliet,
0:07:08 > 0:07:13which Australian film-maker produced a version of La Boheme on Broadway in 2002?
0:07:13 > 0:07:15- Baz Luhrmann, I think that is.- OK.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17- Baz Luhrmann.- Correct.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Picture round now.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22For your picture starter, you'll see a map showing four places
0:07:22 > 0:07:24whose names share a common suffix.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27For ten points, I simply want the two-syllable suffix.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Christ Church, Macaulay.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34- Hampton.- Hampton is correct.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Southampton, Northampton, Littlehampton, Wolverhampton.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40Your picture bonus is three more maps showing places in the UK
0:07:40 > 0:07:41with a suffix in common.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44Five points for each suffix you can name. Firstly...
0:07:52 > 0:07:53That's Hampshire...
0:07:53 > 0:07:55No, that's Hampshire.
0:07:57 > 0:07:58Chester, no?
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Do you want to try chester?
0:08:05 > 0:08:06- Chester?- No, it's bury.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Banbury, Salisbury, Newbury, Shrewsbury.
0:08:09 > 0:08:10Secondly...
0:08:18 > 0:08:19Staple?
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Barnstaple...
0:08:21 > 0:08:22OK, staple?
0:08:22 > 0:08:26No, it's ford. Guildford, Hereford, Romford and Bideford.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28And finally...
0:08:40 > 0:08:41Is that wich?
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Yeah, wich...Greenwich...
0:08:45 > 0:08:46Wich.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48No, it's ness.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Sheerness, Skegness and Inverness.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51Ten points for this starter.
0:08:51 > 0:08:56In 2012, which newly published novel was described as "relentless socialist manifesto
0:08:56 > 0:08:59"masquerading as literature and perhaps more accurately likened
0:08:59 > 0:09:03"to an episode of Postman Pat written by the makers of The League Of Gentlemen?"
0:09:03 > 0:09:07Set in the fictional village of Pagford...
0:09:07 > 0:09:08Trinity, Ridley.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11- The Casual Vacancy.- Correct. JK Rowling.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12APPLAUSE
0:09:15 > 0:09:19Your bonuses are on world languages this time, Trinity College.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22According to data from the linguistic service Ethnologue,
0:09:22 > 0:09:28ahead of Indonesia, which country has the largest number of indigenous languages of any in the world,
0:09:28 > 0:09:29with more than 800?
0:09:29 > 0:09:31- Papua New Guinea.- Correct.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35With around 100 indigenous languages in a population of little more than 200,000,
0:09:35 > 0:09:40which Pacific Island state is one of the most linguistically diverse in the world?
0:09:40 > 0:09:44It was formerly the British-French condominium of the New Hebrides.
0:09:45 > 0:09:46- Vanuatu.- Correct.
0:09:46 > 0:09:50Which populous country has the largest number of indigenous languages of any in Africa,
0:09:50 > 0:09:52with more than 500?
0:09:52 > 0:09:54THEY CONFER
0:09:54 > 0:09:55Nigeria?
0:09:55 > 0:09:57- Nigeria.- Correct.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Ten points for this. Lac d'Annecy by Cezanne,
0:10:00 > 0:10:02La Loge by Renoir
0:10:02 > 0:10:04and Self-Portrait With A Bandaged Ear by Van Gogh
0:10:04 > 0:10:07are paintings in the collection of which gallery,
0:10:07 > 0:10:10named after its co-founder, the chairman of a textiles firm?
0:10:10 > 0:10:12It's located in Somerset House in London...
0:10:12 > 0:10:15- Trinity, Morley. - The Courtauld Institute.- Correct.
0:10:15 > 0:10:16APPLAUSE
0:10:16 > 0:10:20Your bonuses, Trinity College, are on an English painter.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22A favourite painter of Queen Victoria,
0:10:22 > 0:10:25which artist is noted for sentimental representations of animals,
0:10:25 > 0:10:28including The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner
0:10:28 > 0:10:30and Dignity And Impudence?
0:10:32 > 0:10:36I feel like I've heard of him before, but something like Burrows, possibly?
0:10:36 > 0:10:39He's too early.
0:10:39 > 0:10:40Burrows?
0:10:40 > 0:10:42No, it's Landseer.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45Secondly, depicting polar bears amid an Arctic shipwreck,
0:10:45 > 0:10:50Landseer's painting entitled Man Proposes, God Disposes
0:10:50 > 0:10:53is thought to have been inspired by a lost expedition of 1845
0:10:53 > 0:10:55to discover the Northwest Passage.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Who was its commander?
0:10:57 > 0:10:58Sir John Franklin, I think.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00- Sir John Franklin.- Correct.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03Satirising the legal profession, Landseer's 1840 work,
0:11:03 > 0:11:07Trial By Jury or Laying Down The Law,
0:11:07 > 0:11:09depicts what animals in the roles of members of the court?
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Rabbits is my first guess. I don't know why!
0:11:14 > 0:11:17- Rabbits or pigs?- Pigs.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20- Pigs.- No, it's various types of dogs. Ten points for this.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913,
0:11:22 > 0:11:26the Dutch physicist, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes,
0:11:26 > 0:11:31discovered which phenomenon related to the loss of electrical resistance at extremely low temperatures?
0:11:31 > 0:11:34- Christ Church, Macaulay. - Superconductivity.- Correct.
0:11:34 > 0:11:35APPLAUSE
0:11:38 > 0:11:40These bonuses are on geometry, Christ Church.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43What term describes a topological space,
0:11:43 > 0:11:46each point of which has a neighbourhood homeomorphic
0:11:46 > 0:11:50to the interior of a sphere in a Euclidean space of fixed dimension?
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Do you know?
0:11:56 > 0:11:58- Torus.- No, it's manifold.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02Named after its discoverer, which closed two-dimensional smooth manifold
0:12:02 > 0:12:07can be realised in four dimensions as a bottle whose inside and outside coincide?
0:12:07 > 0:12:09That's Klein.
0:12:09 > 0:12:10- Klein.- Correct.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12If the Klein bottle is cut in half down its length,
0:12:12 > 0:12:16two copies of which one-sided surface result,
0:12:16 > 0:12:20formed by half-twisting a rectangular length of material and joining the ends?
0:12:20 > 0:12:22- A Mobius strip.- Correct.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Ten points for this.
0:12:24 > 0:12:25The Trolley Song
0:12:25 > 0:12:29and The Boy Next Door are among songs performed by Judy Garland
0:12:29 > 0:12:34in which film of 1944, centred on the impending move by the Smith family
0:12:34 > 0:12:38to New York City in the days leading up to the 1904 World's Fair?
0:12:42 > 0:12:45I'll tell you. It's Meet Me In St Louis.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47At last we've found a chink in your armour. Ten points for this.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50The first five Roman emperors were respectively
0:12:50 > 0:12:53the great-uncle, uncle and stepfather, son, brother and grandson
0:12:53 > 0:12:58of which Roman consul and general who died, possibly of poisoning,
0:12:58 > 0:13:00in Syria in AD19?
0:13:00 > 0:13:03- Christ Church, Greenwood.- Crassus.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07- One of you buzz from Trinity? - Trinity, Morley.- Germanicus.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Germanicus is correct, yes.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11APPLAUSE
0:13:11 > 0:13:15These bonuses are on pairs of words that are often confused.
0:13:15 > 0:13:19Listen to the definitions and give both words, ensuring that the order of your answers
0:13:19 > 0:13:22corresponds to that of the definitions.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25All six answers begin with the same letter.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Firstly for five.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Two five-letter words meaning deduce or conclude from evidence
0:13:30 > 0:13:34and indicate by hints or suggestion rather than overt reference.
0:13:34 > 0:13:35Infer, imply.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37- Infer and imply.- Correct.
0:13:37 > 0:13:42Secondly...gradually, subtly or imperceptibly harmful
0:13:42 > 0:13:44and likely to rouse resentment.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59- Any suggestions? - No, I don't think so.- Pass.
0:13:59 > 0:14:00It's insidious and invidious.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02And finally,
0:14:02 > 0:14:04two similar words meaning confined or imprisoned,
0:14:04 > 0:14:07usually for preventive or political reasons
0:14:07 > 0:14:09and buried in a grave or tomb.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Interned and interred.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16- Interned and interred.- Correct.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18We'll do the music round now.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Your music starter - you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23Ten points if you can give me the name of the group performing.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25PSYCHEDELIC ROCK INTRO
0:14:25 > 0:14:30- Trinity, Drnovsek Zorko.- Pink Floyd. - It is Pink Floyd.
0:14:30 > 0:14:31APPLAUSE
0:14:33 > 0:14:37Unusually for rock music, Pink Floyd's Post War Dream
0:14:37 > 0:14:42features a harmonium - a keyboard instrument that produces sound by blowing air through reeds.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46Four your bonuses, you'll hear three more artists performing songs featuring a harmonium.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50For five points each, I simply want the name of the artist or the band.
0:14:50 > 0:14:51Firstly, this singer.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54HUSKY MALE VOCAL
0:14:54 > 0:14:55Tom Waits.
0:14:55 > 0:14:56- Tom Waits?- Waits.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58Tom Waits.
0:14:58 > 0:14:59Correct.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Secondly, this band.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03ETHEREAL MELODY
0:15:06 > 0:15:08THEY CONFER
0:15:13 > 0:15:16Lyrics! There need to be lyrics, otherwise...
0:15:16 > 0:15:19# You sigh low... #
0:15:19 > 0:15:20Oh!
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Is this Radiohead?
0:15:22 > 0:15:23Shall we try that?
0:15:23 > 0:15:24Radiohead.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26No, that's Sigur Ros.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28And finally, this band.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32# Cheap sex
0:15:32 > 0:15:35# And sad films... #
0:15:35 > 0:15:36Hang on...
0:15:36 > 0:15:39# Help me get... #
0:15:39 > 0:15:43- That could be Radiohead. - Shall we try that again? Any advance on Radiohead?
0:15:43 > 0:15:46- Radiohead, again.- That's correct.
0:15:46 > 0:15:47APPLAUSE
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54How many possible four-member University Challenge teams
0:15:54 > 0:15:56can be formed from a group of seven students?
0:15:59 > 0:16:02- Trinity, Freeland.- 210.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04No. Christ Church?
0:16:09 > 0:16:12- Christ Church, Macaulay.- 35. - Correct.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14APPLAUSE
0:16:16 > 0:16:20Bonuses are on deviations in the International Date Line.
0:16:20 > 0:16:24The International Date Line bends to the west in the Northern Hemisphere
0:16:24 > 0:16:28to ensure that which chain of over 300 volcanic islands
0:16:28 > 0:16:30shares a calendar day with Alaska?
0:16:30 > 0:16:32- Um...Aleutians.- Correct.
0:16:32 > 0:16:38Hawaii is GMT minus 10 and the Line Islands, 1,000 miles to the south,
0:16:38 > 0:16:40are at GMT plus 14.
0:16:40 > 0:16:45This is due to the redrawing of the Date Line to circumscribe which island state?
0:16:47 > 0:16:48Island state...
0:16:48 > 0:16:49What's the furthest west?
0:16:49 > 0:16:51It'll be like Panau or something.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55- Vanuatu?- They've already had Vanuatu as an answer.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Um, yeah...Panau...
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Oh, it'll be Marshall Islands.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05- Marshall Islands.- No, Kiribati.
0:17:05 > 0:17:09And finally, the International Date Line deviates to the east through which strait
0:17:09 > 0:17:14in order to avoid dividing Siberia into time zones of different calendar days?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16That'll be the Bering Strait.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18- Bering Strait.- Correct.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21Ten points for this. What part of speech or lexical category
0:17:21 > 0:17:25links a horror novel of 1986 by Stephen King,
0:17:25 > 0:17:28a dystopian novel of 1921 by Yevgeny Zamyatin...?
0:17:28 > 0:17:31- Trinity, Drnovsek Zorko.- Pronoun.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Personal pronoun is correct - We, It and She.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37So you get a set of bonuses, Trinity College, on optical devices.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41Firstly, for five points, in an astronomical refracting telescope,
0:17:41 > 0:17:43where's the final image formed?
0:17:46 > 0:17:47No idea!
0:17:47 > 0:17:50The something plane...the...
0:17:50 > 0:17:51The image plane.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53- The image plane. - No, it's at infinity.
0:17:53 > 0:17:57In an astronomical telescope with an objective focal length of 90 centimetres
0:17:57 > 0:18:00and an eyepiece focal length of ten centimetres,
0:18:00 > 0:18:01what's the magnification?
0:18:04 > 0:18:06THEY CONFER
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Either times nine or times one.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11I think probably times nine.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13- Times nine.- Nine is correct.
0:18:13 > 0:18:18In optical devices, what name, taken from a 19th century Italian inventor
0:18:18 > 0:18:21is given to a set of totally internally reflecting prisms,
0:18:21 > 0:18:25used to change the orientation of an image, but not its magnification?
0:18:28 > 0:18:31The tactic here is, 19th century Italian inventors.
0:18:34 > 0:18:35Volta?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Volta.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42No, it's Porro. Porro prisms.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Ten points for this.
0:18:44 > 0:18:45Leoneg, Tregerieg and Gwenedeg
0:18:45 > 0:18:49are among varieties of which Western European language?
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Lacking official or regional status, it's closely related to Cornish.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55- Trinity, Morley.- Breton.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Breton is correct, yes.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59APPLAUSE
0:18:59 > 0:19:04Your bonuses are on films whose titles contain a word from the NATO spelling alphabet.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07For example, The Delta Force or Golf Punks.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09In each case, name the film from the description.
0:19:09 > 0:19:13A 1972 drama, starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider,
0:19:13 > 0:19:15set in a major European capital.
0:19:18 > 0:19:19THEY CONFER
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Oh, Last Tango In Paris?
0:19:23 > 0:19:25- Last Tango In Paris?- Correct.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27A 1965 science fiction film,
0:19:27 > 0:19:33directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36OK, this is French science fiction, which I can't do!
0:19:39 > 0:19:40Um...um...
0:19:40 > 0:19:43Films by Godard that aren't Breathless...?
0:19:45 > 0:19:47Make up a name!
0:19:47 > 0:19:48- Let's have it, please.- Zulu.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50LAUGHTER
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Interesting answer. No, it's Alphaville.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54And finally, a 1949 Ealing comedy
0:19:54 > 0:19:58about the aftermath of a shipwreck in the Hebrides.
0:19:58 > 0:19:59Whisky Galore, isn't it?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01- Whisky Galore.- Correct.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03Ten points for this. In chemistry,
0:20:03 > 0:20:07what would be the colour of a phenolphthalein solution
0:20:07 > 0:20:10at a pH of above 9.6?
0:20:10 > 0:20:13- Christ Church, Macaulay.- Pink.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Pink is correct, yes.
0:20:15 > 0:20:16APPLAUSE
0:20:16 > 0:20:19These bonuses, Christ Church, are on physics.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22What precise term is used to describe a wave
0:20:22 > 0:20:25where the particles of the medium oscillate at right angles
0:20:25 > 0:20:27to the direction of propagation of the wave?
0:20:27 > 0:20:28That's transverse.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30- Transverse.- Correct.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33What term is used when the oscillation is in the same direction
0:20:33 > 0:20:36as the propagation of the wave, such as happens in a gas?
0:20:36 > 0:20:37- Longitudinal.- Correct.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41And finally, the average power transmitted by a sinusoidal wave
0:20:41 > 0:20:45is proportional to both the amplitude and frequency, raised to which exponent?
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Let's go for the second exponent.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Yeah.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Two.
0:20:51 > 0:20:52Yes. The second power.
0:20:52 > 0:20:56We'll take a second picture round now. Your picture starter.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00You'll see a couple from European legend. For ten points, simply name the couple.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05- Christ Church, Macaulay. - Abelard and Heloise?
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?
0:21:07 > 0:21:10Trinity, Drnovsek Zorko.
0:21:10 > 0:21:11- Tristan and Isolde?- Correct.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13APPLAUSE
0:21:13 > 0:21:19Your bonuses are other representations of historical or legendary lovers.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Five points for each couple you identify.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23This couple from Greek and Roman mythology.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30THEY CONFER
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Meleager and Atalanta, because it's a hunt.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Um, yeah.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39- Meleager and Atalanta. - No, it's Dido and Aeneas.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Secondly, this historical couple.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Could that be Heloise and Abelard?
0:21:48 > 0:21:49Maybe it is. It's historical, so...
0:21:49 > 0:21:52- Heloise and Abelard.- Correct.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55And finally, this couple of British legend.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01THEY CONFER
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Arthur and Guinevere.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09No, it's Guinevere and Lancelot.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Ten points for this.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Which fictional character
0:22:13 > 0:22:16had among his campaign medals the Egypt Medal, the Queen's Sudan Medal
0:22:16 > 0:22:18and the 1914 Star?
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- The actor playing him... - Trinity, Morley.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23- Lance-Corporal Jones.- Correct.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24APPLAUSE
0:22:26 > 0:22:31Your bonuses, Trinity, are on Scottish towns whose names contain only four letters.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Name the town in each case.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Firstly, a town in Clackmannanshire, at the foot of Ochil Hills.
0:22:36 > 0:22:40It's probably unconnected with the given name of the inventor of the phonograph.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Phonograph is Edison, isn't it?
0:22:43 > 0:22:44Thomas...
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Alva.
0:22:46 > 0:22:47- Alva.- Possibly, yeah.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49- Alva.- Correct.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51A town in Berwickshire close to the English border,
0:22:51 > 0:22:55probably the birthplace of the scholastic author John the Scot.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59- Duns, because he's...- Go for it.
0:22:59 > 0:23:00- Duns.- Correct.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03A sea port in Argyllshire,
0:23:03 > 0:23:05the terminus of a railway from Glasgow
0:23:05 > 0:23:08and of ferries to Mull, Colonsay and the Western Isles.
0:23:08 > 0:23:09Oban, I think.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12- Oban.- Oban is correct.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Four and a half minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16Used in bronzing
0:23:16 > 0:23:18and in preparing imitation gold leaf,
0:23:18 > 0:23:21Dutch metal is an alloy consisting largely of copper
0:23:21 > 0:23:23with which other metal?
0:23:26 > 0:23:29- Trinity, Drnovsek Zorko.- Zinc.
0:23:29 > 0:23:30Zinc is correct.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32APPLAUSE
0:23:33 > 0:23:36These bonuses are on science and the arts in the 18th century.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38In each case, give the decade that links the following.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42First, the publication of both Swift's Tale Of A Tub
0:23:42 > 0:23:44and Newton's Opticks.
0:23:44 > 0:23:4517...
0:23:45 > 0:23:47He died in '27, so...
0:23:47 > 0:23:4910.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52- 1710s.- No, it's the 1700s.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Anders Celsius's invention of the Centigrade scale,
0:23:55 > 0:23:57the publication of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
0:23:57 > 0:24:00and the first performance of Handel's Messiah.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03THEY CONFER
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Tom Jones was either 1741 or '51, so...
0:24:05 > 0:24:07'40s?
0:24:07 > 0:24:09I think '40s as well. I don't know why.
0:24:09 > 0:24:10- 1740s.- Correct.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14Finally, Lavoisier identified silicon, Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus
0:24:14 > 0:24:18and Mozart's Marriage Of Figaro premiered in which decade?
0:24:18 > 0:24:19- '80s, yeah.- 1780s.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Correct. Ten points for this.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25What two colours link the flags of Shetland, Somalia, Martinique...?
0:24:25 > 0:24:27- Christ Church, Macaulay. - Blue and white.
0:24:27 > 0:24:28Correct.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30APPLAUSE
0:24:30 > 0:24:34These bonuses are on words that end with the letter X.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40For the Greek for coal, an infectious bacterial disease
0:24:40 > 0:24:44that afflicts grazing animals and can be transmitted to humans.
0:24:44 > 0:24:45- Anthrax.- Correct.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48In geometry, each angular point of a polygon or polyhedron.
0:24:48 > 0:24:49- Vertex.- Correct.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52The brightest star of the constellation Gemini.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56- Pollux.- Pollux.- Correct.
0:24:56 > 0:24:57Ten points for this.
0:24:57 > 0:25:02By 2015, which two large asteroids will have been studied by Dawn,
0:25:02 > 0:25:05a robotic NASA spacecraft launched in 2007?
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Trinity, Freeland.
0:25:07 > 0:25:08Ceres and Pallas.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11No. Anyone want to buzz from Christ Church?
0:25:11 > 0:25:12Christ Church, Macaulay.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- Ceres and Vesta.- Correct.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18You get a set of bonuses this time on cell biology.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21What mononuclear cells are responsible for bone formation?
0:25:23 > 0:25:25THEY CONFER
0:25:27 > 0:25:29- Nominate Ostrowski.- Osteoblasts. - Correct.
0:25:29 > 0:25:34What term denotes the large multi-nuclear cells responsible for bone resorption?
0:25:34 > 0:25:37Nominate Ostrowski.
0:25:37 > 0:25:38- Osteoclasts.- Correct.
0:25:38 > 0:25:43Finally, what term denotes amoeboid cells with histamine, serotonin and heparin granules
0:25:43 > 0:25:47that have an important role in allergy and anaphylaxis?
0:25:47 > 0:25:48Nominate Ostrowski.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50- Mast cells.- Correct.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Ten points for this. Two minutes to go.
0:25:52 > 0:25:53What's the fourth largest island
0:25:53 > 0:25:57of the Greater Antilles, after Cuba, Hispaniola and Jamaica?
0:25:57 > 0:26:00- Christ Church, Greenwood. - Would that be Grenada?
0:26:00 > 0:26:03No, Trinity College, one of you buzz?
0:26:03 > 0:26:04Quickly.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06- Trinity, Morley.- St Lucia.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08No, it's Puerto Rico.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12Ten points for this. What name is given to the large square cushion covered in red cloth
0:26:12 > 0:26:15that acts as the seat of the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords?
0:26:15 > 0:26:18- Christ Church,, Macaulay.- Woolsack? - Correct.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19These bonuses are on music.
0:26:19 > 0:26:24What precise term describes musical notes that are identical in pitch,
0:26:24 > 0:26:27but written differently depending on the key in which they occur,
0:26:27 > 0:26:28such as F sharp and G flat?
0:26:28 > 0:26:30- Enharmonic.- Correct.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Known as the Devil in music, and regarded as difficult to sing,
0:26:33 > 0:26:36what musical interval was avoided in medieval times
0:26:36 > 0:26:40and has frequently been used in compositions to suggest evil?
0:26:40 > 0:26:41- Tritone.- Correct.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44The interval corresponding to a frequency ratio
0:26:44 > 0:26:47between two tones of three to two is also known as what?
0:26:49 > 0:26:51THEY CONFER
0:26:51 > 0:26:52Quickly.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54- A fifth?- Correct.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Ten points for this. Meditation On The Nature Of Love -
0:26:56 > 0:26:59which of the Romantic poets was the author in 1821
0:26:59 > 0:27:01of the poem Epipsychidion?
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Trinity, Drnovsek Zorko.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06- Shelley.- Shelley is correct.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10These bonuses are on surnames, all of which begin with the same three letters.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12In each case, name the person from the description.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16A French mathematician, born 1588, who gives his name to prime numbers
0:27:16 > 0:27:18that have the form two to the power n-1.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21For example, 31, where n is 5.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23- Nominate Freeland.- Mersenne. - Correct.
0:27:23 > 0:27:28An Indian film producer, noted for The Remains Of The Day, Howard's End and The Bostonians.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29Merchant, isn't it?
0:27:29 > 0:27:31- Could be.- Merchant.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35Correct. A Flemish cartographer, born 1512, who introduced the term "atlas"
0:27:35 > 0:27:37and the map projection that bears his name.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40- Mercator.- Correct.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42Ten points for this. In internet usage,
0:27:42 > 0:27:44for what do the letters FTP stand?
0:27:45 > 0:27:48- Trinity, Drnovsek Zorko. - File transfer protocol.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50- GONG - Correct.
0:27:50 > 0:27:51And at the gong,
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Christ Church, Oxford, have 150.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Trinity College, Cambridge, have 300.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57APPLAUSE
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Well, although they had twice your score, you were a very strong team.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06They were just very, very quick on the buzzer.
0:28:06 > 0:28:11But I think you might well come back as one of the highest-scoring losing teams with 150.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14We just have to wait and see. But thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18Trinity, that was a fantastic performance. We look forward to seeing you in round two,
0:28:18 > 0:28:21and who knows what after that. Thank you for joining us.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27- Until then, it's goodbye from Christ Church, Oxford...- Bye.
0:28:27 > 0:28:31- ..it's goodbye from Trinity College, Cambridge...- Bye!- ..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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