Episode 30

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0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE

0:00:19 > 0:00:25University Challenge. Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Last time, we saw Trinity College, Cambridge,

0:00:32 > 0:00:35become the first team to take a place in the semifinals

0:00:35 > 0:00:40of this contest, having won the necessary two quarterfinal matches.

0:00:40 > 0:00:43Tonight's teams both lost their first quarterfinals,

0:00:43 > 0:00:45so whichever team loses tonight

0:00:45 > 0:00:48will also make an exit from the competition, while the winners

0:00:48 > 0:00:51will have earned themselves one final chance to qualify.

0:00:51 > 0:00:55Manchester University had victories against Brasenose College, Oxford

0:00:55 > 0:00:58and Queens' College, Cambridge in the first two rounds,

0:00:58 > 0:01:00and then, despite a strong start,

0:01:00 > 0:01:03lost to Trinity College, Cambridge in their first quarterfinal.

0:01:03 > 0:01:06So they must win tonight to stay in the competition.

0:01:06 > 0:01:08Let's meet the Manchester team again.

0:01:08 > 0:01:12Hi, my name's Edward Woudhuysen. I'm from London and I'm studying history.

0:01:12 > 0:01:15Hi, I'm Joe Day. I'm from Bideford in Devon

0:01:15 > 0:01:17and I'm studying physics with astrophysics.

0:01:17 > 0:01:19- And this is their captain. - Hi, I'm Elizabeth Mitchell.

0:01:19 > 0:01:23I'm from Birmingham and I'm studying politics, philosophy and economics.

0:01:23 > 0:01:24Hello, I'm Jonathan Collings.

0:01:24 > 0:01:27I'm from Manchester and I'm studying geography.

0:01:27 > 0:01:30APPLAUSE

0:01:32 > 0:01:36Now, Cardiff University breezed through their matches

0:01:36 > 0:01:39against Exeter in round one and then Liverpool in the second round.

0:01:39 > 0:01:43However, they came a cropper in their first quarterfinal against

0:01:43 > 0:01:47the School of Oriental and African Studies, losing by 200 points to 90.

0:01:47 > 0:01:51So they also need a win tonight to stay in contention.

0:01:51 > 0:01:53Let's meet them again.

0:01:53 > 0:01:55Hi, I'm Leri Evans, originally from Pembrokeshire,

0:01:55 > 0:01:57and I'm studying mathematics.

0:01:57 > 0:02:01Hi, I'm Sara Caputo from Torino in Italy, and I'm studying history.

0:02:01 > 0:02:03Let's hear their captain introduce himself.

0:02:03 > 0:02:06Hello, I'm Roderick Lawford, originally from Barking in Essex,

0:02:06 > 0:02:10and I'm studying for a Masters in music, culture and politics.

0:02:10 > 0:02:12Noswaith dda. I'm Tom Parry-Jones

0:02:12 > 0:02:14from St Asaph in Denbighshire, North Wales,

0:02:14 > 0:02:17and I'm reading journalism, media and cultural studies.

0:02:17 > 0:02:21APPLAUSE

0:02:23 > 0:02:26Let's waste no time reciting the rules. Let's just get on with it.

0:02:26 > 0:02:30Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.

0:02:30 > 0:02:36The fibre of the Gomuti Palm, what bargain hunters enjoy,

0:02:36 > 0:02:38a fist, to govern, and what this puzzle is,

0:02:38 > 0:02:43were among the clues given in the 21st of December 1913 issue of

0:02:43 > 0:02:48the New York World, in the world's first known published example...

0:02:48 > 0:02:51- The crossword. - Of crossword puzzles, yes.

0:02:51 > 0:02:54APPLAUSE

0:02:54 > 0:02:58First set of bonuses to you, then, Manchester. These are on history.

0:02:58 > 0:03:00Five points apiece.

0:03:00 > 0:03:05Writing in the New Science in 1725, which Italian political philosopher

0:03:05 > 0:03:10and historian claimed that all civilisations pass through three stages,

0:03:10 > 0:03:13the ages of the gods, heroes and, finally, men?

0:03:14 > 0:03:18- (Spinoza?- I was thinking Spinoza, but is he a bit late for that?)

0:03:18 > 0:03:20Spinoza?

0:03:20 > 0:03:21No, it's Vico.

0:03:21 > 0:03:24Secondly, in The Life Of Reason in 1905,

0:03:24 > 0:03:26the philosopher George Santayana

0:03:26 > 0:03:30wrote that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to..." do what?

0:03:30 > 0:03:31- (Repeat it.- Repeat it.) - Repeat it.

0:03:31 > 0:03:36Correct. "History gets thicker as it approaches recent times."

0:03:36 > 0:03:40These are the words of which historian in the 1965 work,

0:03:40 > 0:03:42English History, 1914-45?

0:03:42 > 0:03:46- (AJP Taylor?- Trevelyan, maybe? - Who?- GM Trevelyan.

0:03:46 > 0:03:51(Could be Trevelyan. Try Trevelyan.)

0:03:51 > 0:03:52Trevelyan?

0:03:52 > 0:03:55No, it's AJP Taylor. Ten points for this.

0:03:55 > 0:03:57Which year saw the birth of Marilyn Monroe,

0:03:57 > 0:03:59the death of Rudolph Valentino,

0:03:59 > 0:04:03the publication of Fowler's Modern English Usage

0:04:03 > 0:04:07and from May the 4th to the 13th, the United Kingdom general strike?

0:04:09 > 0:04:101926.

0:04:10 > 0:04:12Correct.

0:04:12 > 0:04:16APPLAUSE

0:04:16 > 0:04:19Your bonuses are on the year 1599.

0:04:19 > 0:04:23Firstly, which poet died in London in 1599?

0:04:23 > 0:04:25His best-known work is an allegorical romance intended

0:04:25 > 0:04:27to glorify Queen Elizabeth the first.

0:04:27 > 0:04:29- (Spenser.)- Spenser.

0:04:29 > 0:04:33Correct. Who was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1599?

0:04:33 > 0:04:35He concluded a truce with the Earl of Tyrone,

0:04:35 > 0:04:38and, defying the Queen's orders, returned to England later that year.

0:04:39 > 0:04:43(Essex, maybe? Or Leicester, maybe?)

0:04:43 > 0:04:45INAUDIBLE

0:04:45 > 0:04:47(Leicester?

0:04:47 > 0:04:51- (Maybe Essex or Leicester, I'm not sure.- Earl of Leicester?)

0:04:51 > 0:04:53Earl of Leicester?

0:04:53 > 0:04:54No, it was the Earl of Essex, bad luck.

0:04:54 > 0:04:58Born in Huntingdon in 1599, which political figure did

0:04:58 > 0:05:00John Milton describe as "our chief of men"?

0:05:00 > 0:05:02Oliver Cromwell.

0:05:02 > 0:05:04Correct. Ten points for this.

0:05:04 > 0:05:08Meanings of what five-letter word include a sphere of activity or influence,

0:05:08 > 0:05:13the bony cavity of the skull containing the eye...?

0:05:13 > 0:05:14Orbit.

0:05:14 > 0:05:16Correct.

0:05:16 > 0:05:18APPLAUSE

0:05:18 > 0:05:21These bonuses, Manchester, are on particle physics.

0:05:21 > 0:05:26In the standard model of particle physics, nuclear and electromagnetic forces

0:05:26 > 0:05:28are carried by particles called gauge bosons.

0:05:28 > 0:05:31The only gauge bosons to have electric charge

0:05:31 > 0:05:33are designated by what letter?

0:05:33 > 0:05:35- (W.)- W.

0:05:35 > 0:05:37Correct. The remaining particles are fermions,

0:05:37 > 0:05:40ranked in three generations. The second generation of fermions

0:05:40 > 0:05:46comprises the muon muon neutrino and which two types of quark?

0:05:46 > 0:05:49(It's the...strange and charm.)

0:05:49 > 0:05:52Strange and charm.

0:05:52 > 0:05:56Correct. What general name is given to fermions that are not quarks?

0:05:56 > 0:05:59(Erm... Leptons.)

0:05:59 > 0:06:01Leptons.

0:06:01 > 0:06:03Correct. 10 points for this.

0:06:05 > 0:06:07The projects of which architect include

0:06:07 > 0:06:11Kansai International Airport Terminal in Osaka,

0:06:11 > 0:06:14the redevelopment of areas of the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin,

0:06:14 > 0:06:16the Pompidou Centre, jointly with Richard Rogers,

0:06:16 > 0:06:18and The Shard in London?

0:06:22 > 0:06:23Is it Renzo Piano?

0:06:23 > 0:06:25It is indeed.

0:06:25 > 0:06:27APPLAUSE

0:06:27 > 0:06:29Manchester, these bonuses are on contemporary ballet.

0:06:29 > 0:06:32First produced in 2002, Matthew Bourne's ballet,

0:06:32 > 0:06:36Play Without Words, made its Sadler's Wells debut in 2012

0:06:36 > 0:06:40and was inspired by which film directed in 1963

0:06:40 > 0:06:42by Joseph Losey and starring Dirk Bogarde?

0:06:46 > 0:06:50(Oh... Is it Victim? The one about homosexual blackmail?)

0:06:50 > 0:06:52Victim.

0:06:52 > 0:06:53No, it's The Servant.

0:06:53 > 0:06:56In 2012, the Royal Opera House staged which ballet

0:06:56 > 0:07:00originally choreographed in 1957 with a score by Benjamin Britten?

0:07:00 > 0:07:05It tells of Princess Epine, who turns her sister's suitor into a salamander.

0:07:07 > 0:07:09- (No idea.- Sorry, don't know.)

0:07:09 > 0:07:12- We don't know, sorry. - It's the Prince Of The Pagodas.

0:07:12 > 0:07:16And finally, for five points, revived at Sadler's Wells in 2012

0:07:16 > 0:07:18after its debut there the previous year, the ballet

0:07:18 > 0:07:21The Most Incredible Thing, a modern fairy tale

0:07:21 > 0:07:25based on a Hans Christian Andersen story, was written by which duo?

0:07:32 > 0:07:35- (Brothers Grimm? - Absolutely no idea.- Any idea?)

0:07:35 > 0:07:37We don't know, sorry.

0:07:37 > 0:07:40It was written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the Pet Shop Boys.

0:07:40 > 0:07:42Right, we'll take a picture round now.

0:07:42 > 0:07:45You'll see a flag of an African country.

0:07:45 > 0:07:47To get ten points, you just have to name the country.

0:07:49 > 0:07:51- Ethiopia.- Correct.

0:07:51 > 0:07:55APPLAUSE

0:07:55 > 0:07:58It's often cited as the inspiration for the colours

0:07:58 > 0:08:01of the Pan-African Movement, that is, green, yellow and red.

0:08:01 > 0:08:04For your bonuses, three flags of West African countries

0:08:04 > 0:08:06that contain those colours.

0:08:06 > 0:08:08Five points for each you can name.

0:08:08 > 0:08:09Firstly:

0:08:10 > 0:08:14(That is... Is that Burkina Faso?

0:08:14 > 0:08:18- (Don't know.- Cape Verde?- It's not Cape Verde.- I'll go with yours.

0:08:18 > 0:08:24(It's either Burkina Faso or Benin. Go for Burkina Faso.)

0:08:24 > 0:08:25Burkina Faso?

0:08:25 > 0:08:27It is Burkina Faso, yes.

0:08:27 > 0:08:29Secondly:

0:08:29 > 0:08:31- (That is...- Togo?

0:08:31 > 0:08:35(No, I think... Is that Chad?

0:08:35 > 0:08:39- (I think it might be Togo. - I don't know. No.

0:08:39 > 0:08:42(That might be Benin.

0:08:42 > 0:08:44- (Benin, maybe?- Benin?- Benin?)

0:08:45 > 0:08:47Benin.

0:08:47 > 0:08:49Correct. And finally:

0:08:49 > 0:08:53- (That's Ghana. Yeah.- Ghana?)

0:08:53 > 0:08:55- Ghana.- Correct.

0:08:55 > 0:08:58APPLAUSE

0:08:58 > 0:09:00Ten points for this.

0:09:00 > 0:09:02Which two letters begin words meaning

0:09:02 > 0:09:06order of reptiles that comprises snakes and lizards...

0:09:06 > 0:09:08H.E.?

0:09:08 > 0:09:10No, you lose five points.

0:09:10 > 0:09:14..Edible gourd, ten-limbed fast-swimming cephalopod,

0:09:14 > 0:09:17and agile rodent whose name derives ultimately

0:09:17 > 0:09:20from the Greek for "shade tail"?

0:09:20 > 0:09:21O.P.?

0:09:21 > 0:09:25No, it's SQ, as in Squamata, squash, squid and squirrel.

0:09:25 > 0:09:27Ten points for this. Listen carefully.

0:09:27 > 0:09:29Give both answers promptly when your name is called.

0:09:29 > 0:09:33In which two non-adjacent English counties are

0:09:33 > 0:09:39the local government districts of Broadland, Breckland, Copeland and South Lakeland?

0:09:40 > 0:09:42Norfolk and Cumbria.

0:09:42 > 0:09:44Correct.

0:09:44 > 0:09:47APPLAUSE

0:09:47 > 0:09:50Manchester, these bonuses are on French sporting terms.

0:09:50 > 0:09:54In fencing, what French word meaning "arrow" denotes

0:09:54 > 0:09:57a leaping attack designed to catch an opponent off guard?

0:09:57 > 0:10:01- (Fleche?- The word for arrow in French is fleche.)

0:10:01 > 0:10:02Fleche.

0:10:02 > 0:10:05- "Fleche", is that what you were saying?- Yes.- Yes, I think so.

0:10:05 > 0:10:07OK, that's correct.

0:10:07 > 0:10:08In Formula One,

0:10:08 > 0:10:11what two-word French term describes the conditions cars are deemed

0:10:11 > 0:10:15to be under while in an enclosed and secure area of the paddock

0:10:15 > 0:10:17where race officials can make necessary checks?

0:10:20 > 0:10:26- (I don't know the French term. - Solitaire or something? Cordon sanitaire?)

0:10:26 > 0:10:27Cordon sanitaire?

0:10:27 > 0:10:29No, it's a parc ferme.

0:10:29 > 0:10:33And finally, the rider who finishes last in the Tour de France

0:10:33 > 0:10:35is accorded what two-word French title referring to

0:10:35 > 0:10:38an object at the back of the guard's van of a train?

0:10:41 > 0:10:43- (On a train?- It's going to be, like, the rear lamp,

0:10:43 > 0:10:46(but I don't know what that is in French.

0:10:46 > 0:10:48- (Dernier something. - We don't know, do we?)

0:10:48 > 0:10:50- We don't know, sorry. - It's the lanterne rouge.

0:10:50 > 0:10:52Ten points for this.

0:10:52 > 0:10:55Used to prevent a horse from raising its head too high,

0:10:55 > 0:10:58what strap connects the nose band or reins to the girth?

0:10:58 > 0:11:02The same word also denotes a gambling system in which

0:11:02 > 0:11:06losing stakes are continually doubled in the hope of...

0:11:06 > 0:11:07Rollover?

0:11:07 > 0:11:09No. You lose five points.

0:11:09 > 0:11:11..doubled in the hope of an eventual win?

0:11:16 > 0:11:18It's the martingale. Ten points for this.

0:11:18 > 0:11:20Who's the author of a work of 1989

0:11:20 > 0:11:23which includes an alternative telling of the story of Noah's Ark

0:11:23 > 0:11:27and analysis of Gericault's painting The Raft Of The Medusa?

0:11:27 > 0:11:29Julian Barnes.

0:11:29 > 0:11:32Julian Barnes - History Of The World In 10 And A Half Chapters.

0:11:33 > 0:11:37These bonuses, Manchester, are on equestrian monuments.

0:11:37 > 0:11:38For five points.

0:11:38 > 0:11:41Regarded as the first equestrian statue of the Renaissance,

0:11:41 > 0:11:46Gattamelata in Padua is a bronze work by which Florentine sculptor,

0:11:46 > 0:11:48born around 1386?

0:12:08 > 0:12:10- Come on.- Michelangelo.

0:12:10 > 0:12:13No, he was much later. It was Donatello.

0:12:13 > 0:12:15A teacher of Leonardo da Vinci,

0:12:15 > 0:12:18which Florentine artist created Venice's equestrian monument

0:12:18 > 0:12:21of the mercenary Bartolomeo Colleoni?

0:12:31 > 0:12:32Scotto.

0:12:32 > 0:12:33No, it's Verrocchio.

0:12:33 > 0:12:36Although the statue itself was never completed,

0:12:36 > 0:12:40Leonardo created a full-scale clay model of an equestrian monument

0:12:40 > 0:12:43of Francesco Sforza, the duke of which city?

0:12:51 > 0:12:52Milan.

0:12:52 > 0:12:53Indeed it was.

0:12:53 > 0:12:55Ten points for this starter question.

0:12:55 > 0:12:57Expressed in kiloelectron volts,

0:12:57 > 0:13:00electromagnetic radiation at what energy is an indicator of

0:13:00 > 0:13:04annihilating electrons and positrons, as seen for example...?

0:13:04 > 0:13:05Gamma rays.

0:13:05 > 0:13:07No, you lose five points there.

0:13:07 > 0:13:10Seen for example in the region near our galactic centre?

0:13:16 > 0:13:18Thousand.

0:13:18 > 0:13:19No, it's 511keV.

0:13:19 > 0:13:21Ten points for this.

0:13:21 > 0:13:25A theatre production in Malmo in 1955 of Ingmar Bergman's play

0:13:25 > 0:13:29Wood Painting served as the basis for which of his later films

0:13:29 > 0:13:32in which a recurring image is a game of chess...?

0:13:32 > 0:13:34The Seventh Seal.

0:13:34 > 0:13:35Correct.

0:13:38 > 0:13:42Your bonuses are on the classification of galaxies, Cardiff.

0:13:42 > 0:13:43For five points.

0:13:43 > 0:13:47Most large galaxies fall into two broad morphological classes

0:13:47 > 0:13:50known by the abbreviations S and E.

0:13:50 > 0:13:52For which two terms do these letters stand?

0:13:56 > 0:13:57Spiral and elliptical.

0:13:57 > 0:14:00Correct. A satellite of the Andromeda spiral galaxy called

0:14:00 > 0:14:04Andromeda V is an example of what small dim class of galaxy

0:14:04 > 0:14:08abbreviated lowercase d, uppercase S, lowercase ph?

0:14:20 > 0:14:22A demispiral.

0:14:22 > 0:14:23No, they're Dwarf spheroidal.

0:14:23 > 0:14:25Galaxies are often classified by

0:14:25 > 0:14:28characteristics other than morphology.

0:14:28 > 0:14:33Those denoted by the acronym ULIRG, such as ARP220,

0:14:33 > 0:14:39are characterised by luminosity. For what do the letters ULIRG stand?

0:14:48 > 0:14:50- Nominate Parry-Jones. - Oh, no, don't nominate me!

0:14:50 > 0:14:52LAUGHTER

0:14:52 > 0:14:56I don't know. Universal, Luminosity, something...

0:14:56 > 0:15:00No, it's Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy.

0:15:00 > 0:15:02Worth it just to see you try, though.

0:15:02 > 0:15:04We're going to take our music round now.

0:15:04 > 0:15:07For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.

0:15:07 > 0:15:09Ten points if you can name the singer or the group.

0:15:09 > 0:15:13WOMAN SINGS IN FRENCH

0:15:14 > 0:15:16Blondie.

0:15:16 > 0:15:18It is. It was Debbie Harry.

0:15:21 > 0:15:25That was her francophone version of Sunday Girl.

0:15:25 > 0:15:29For your bonuses, three more singers performing songs in French.

0:15:29 > 0:15:32In each case I want the name of the singer, please.

0:15:32 > 0:15:36Firstly for five the name of this British singer.

0:15:36 > 0:15:41WOMAN SINGS IN FRENCH

0:16:03 > 0:16:05I think we need an answer, please.

0:16:06 > 0:16:07We don't know.

0:16:07 > 0:16:09That was Annie Lennox.

0:16:09 > 0:16:11Secondly this Senegalese performer.

0:16:11 > 0:16:15MAN SINGS IN FRENCH

0:16:27 > 0:16:29Nominate Collings.

0:16:29 > 0:16:30Yousef N'Dour.

0:16:30 > 0:16:32Yes, Youssou N'Dour. You're right.

0:16:32 > 0:16:35And finally this Italian-born singer.

0:16:35 > 0:16:39WOMAN SINGS IN FRENCH

0:16:56 > 0:16:57Carla Bruni.

0:16:57 > 0:16:59It is, and actually quite a good album.

0:16:59 > 0:17:01Ten points for this.

0:17:01 > 0:17:03Who was the target of an assassination attempt

0:17:03 > 0:17:08known as the Infernal Machine or the Plot on the rue Saint-Nicaise

0:17:08 > 0:17:10in which a bomb was planted by Bourbon royalists

0:17:10 > 0:17:12on Christmas Eve 1800?

0:17:14 > 0:17:15Napoleon.

0:17:15 > 0:17:17Which one?

0:17:17 > 0:17:18The first.

0:17:18 > 0:17:19Correct. Bonaparte, yes.

0:17:23 > 0:17:27These bonuses, Cardiff, are on interpretation.

0:17:27 > 0:17:30Which term for the study of the principles of text interpretation

0:17:30 > 0:17:33is believed to derive from the name of the messenger of the Greek gods?

0:17:36 > 0:17:37Hermeneutic.

0:17:37 > 0:17:39Hermeneutics is right.

0:17:39 > 0:17:42In the 1808 work, Elements Of Grammar,

0:17:42 > 0:17:45Hermeneutics and Criticism, which German theologian developed

0:17:45 > 0:17:47a science of interpretation

0:17:47 > 0:17:50that can be applied to any linguistic utterance?

0:17:58 > 0:18:00Schelling.

0:18:00 > 0:18:01No, it was Friedrich Schleiermacher.

0:18:01 > 0:18:06"It is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations."

0:18:06 > 0:18:09This statement appears in the notebooks

0:18:09 > 0:18:11of which German philosopher, born 1844?

0:18:15 > 0:18:16Friedrich Nietzsche.

0:18:16 > 0:18:18Correct. Ten points for this.

0:18:18 > 0:18:21What surname links an 18th-century German literary figure,

0:18:21 > 0:18:23the author of Minna von Barnhelm,

0:18:23 > 0:18:26with the British Nobel laureate whose works include

0:18:26 > 0:18:30The Grass Is Singing and The Golden Notebook?

0:18:30 > 0:18:31Lessing.

0:18:31 > 0:18:33Correct.

0:18:36 > 0:18:40Bonuses this time, Manchester, on the bishopric of Durham.

0:18:40 > 0:18:42For five points.

0:18:42 > 0:18:45In the late 11th century, Bishop Carileph and his successors

0:18:45 > 0:18:48were elevated to what rank, giving them

0:18:48 > 0:18:50vice-regal power over the palatinate of Durham?

0:18:56 > 0:18:57Prince Bishops.

0:18:57 > 0:19:00Correct. Instrumental in the founding of

0:19:00 > 0:19:01Durham University in 1832,

0:19:01 > 0:19:03who was the last of the Prince Bishops?

0:19:03 > 0:19:05A college of the university is named after him.

0:19:18 > 0:19:19Van Mildert.

0:19:19 > 0:19:21Correct. After Van Mildert's death,

0:19:21 > 0:19:23Durham Castle was given over to the university

0:19:23 > 0:19:27and the bishop's official residence was moved to a palace

0:19:27 > 0:19:29in which market town, southwest of Durham?

0:19:34 > 0:19:35Bishop Auckland.

0:19:35 > 0:19:38Correct. Ten points for this.

0:19:38 > 0:19:41In biochemistry, which essential amino acid contains an indole ring?

0:19:41 > 0:19:43It's a precursor of the vitamin niacin

0:19:43 > 0:19:45and the neurotransmitter serotonin.

0:19:47 > 0:19:48Proline.

0:19:48 > 0:19:50No, anyone like to buzz from Cardiff?

0:19:52 > 0:19:53Lysine.

0:19:53 > 0:19:55No, it's tryptophan. Ten points for this.

0:19:55 > 0:19:58Give both answers as soon as your name is called.

0:19:58 > 0:20:02What are the two short names of the G20 member states

0:20:02 > 0:20:07often known by the abbreviations KSA and RSA?

0:20:07 > 0:20:09Saudi Arabia and South Africa.

0:20:09 > 0:20:10Correct.

0:20:15 > 0:20:17Cardiff, these bonuses are on Swedish scientists.

0:20:17 > 0:20:20Which Swedish scientist gives his name to the unit of length

0:20:20 > 0:20:23that is one times ten to the minus ten metres?

0:20:27 > 0:20:28Angstrom.

0:20:28 > 0:20:29Correct.

0:20:29 > 0:20:33Born 1859, which Swedish scientist gives his name to a an equation

0:20:33 > 0:20:35linking the rate constant of a chemical reaction

0:20:35 > 0:20:37to its activation energy?

0:20:40 > 0:20:41Boltzmann.

0:20:41 > 0:20:43No, it's Arrhenius.

0:20:43 > 0:20:47Born 1707, which Swedish scientist brought into general use

0:20:47 > 0:20:49the binomial system of classifying plants and animals?

0:20:55 > 0:20:57Linnaeus.

0:20:57 > 0:20:58Correct.

0:20:58 > 0:21:00We're going to take our second picture round.

0:21:00 > 0:21:02For your picture starter you'll see a well-known painting.

0:21:02 > 0:21:04Ten points if you can give me the name of the flower

0:21:04 > 0:21:07included in the title of the painting and the name of the artist.

0:21:10 > 0:21:12Irises and Van Gogh.

0:21:12 > 0:21:13Correct.

0:21:18 > 0:21:21So your picture bonuses are three more works depicting flowers.

0:21:21 > 0:21:23For five points,

0:21:23 > 0:21:24in each case tell me

0:21:24 > 0:21:28the name of the flower which appears in the title and the artist.

0:21:39 > 0:21:41Rose and Picasso.

0:21:41 > 0:21:43No, it's roses and Paul Klee.

0:21:43 > 0:21:44Secondly.

0:22:03 > 0:22:05Lilies and Beardsley.

0:22:05 > 0:22:08No, it is a lily, but it was by Alphonse Mucha.

0:22:08 > 0:22:09And finally.

0:22:24 > 0:22:26Tulips and Manet.

0:22:26 > 0:22:28Bad luck, it was tulips and Renoir.

0:22:29 > 0:22:31And ten points for this.

0:22:31 > 0:22:38La Mitrailleuse by CRW Nevinson, The Menin Road by Paul Nash and Gas

0:22:38 > 0:22:42by John Singer Sargent are paintings that depict which conflict?

0:22:43 > 0:22:46- World War I.- Correct.

0:22:48 > 0:22:51These bonuses, Manchester, are on the ancient world.

0:22:51 > 0:22:52From the Greek for amber,

0:22:52 > 0:22:55what name is given to the natural or artificial alloy of gold

0:22:55 > 0:23:00and silver used to make the first known coins in the western world?

0:23:05 > 0:23:06Electrum.

0:23:06 > 0:23:07Correct.

0:23:07 > 0:23:11It's capital Sardis, which kingdom on the Aegean Sea is associated

0:23:11 > 0:23:13with the early development of gold and silver coins?

0:23:13 > 0:23:17Its later rulers include Croesus, fable for his great wealth.

0:23:29 > 0:23:31Delphi.

0:23:31 > 0:23:32No, it's Lydia.

0:23:32 > 0:23:36According to Herodotus, which Athenian lawgiver lectured Croesus

0:23:36 > 0:23:40on how good fortune rather than wealth was the basis of happiness?

0:23:44 > 0:23:45Solon.

0:23:45 > 0:23:48Correct. Four and half minutes to go. Ten points for this.

0:23:48 > 0:23:51Which US Nobel laureate argues that the exercise of political power

0:23:51 > 0:23:55by moneyed interest has created a two-tier society

0:23:55 > 0:23:58in his 2012 work The Price Of Inequality?

0:23:59 > 0:24:01Krugman.

0:24:01 > 0:24:05No. Like to buzz, anyone from Cardiff?

0:24:07 > 0:24:10It's Joseph Stiglitz. Ten points for this.

0:24:10 > 0:24:13The poet Dante and the theologian Thomas Aquinas were both born

0:24:13 > 0:24:16during the reign of which English monarch?

0:24:20 > 0:24:21Edward II.

0:24:21 > 0:24:22No, Manchester?

0:24:22 > 0:24:24John.

0:24:24 > 0:24:26No, it's Henry III. Ten points for this.

0:24:26 > 0:24:30Stalybridge, Gravesend, Dewsbury and Darlington were among towns

0:24:30 > 0:24:34given what right or status by an act of 1867?

0:24:39 > 0:24:41Market towns.

0:24:41 > 0:24:43No. Cardiff, one of you buzz.

0:24:44 > 0:24:46Metropolitan Boroughs.

0:24:46 > 0:24:47No, they were parliamentary boroughs.

0:24:47 > 0:24:49Ten points for this.

0:24:49 > 0:24:51Meaning "separate and distinct",

0:24:51 > 0:24:54give the dictionary spelling of the word discrete.

0:24:56 > 0:24:59D-I-S-C-R-E-T-E.

0:24:59 > 0:25:00Correct.

0:25:03 > 0:25:06These bonuses are on pairs of words formed by the addition of

0:25:06 > 0:25:10an additional letter S, for example hut and shut.

0:25:10 > 0:25:13In each case give both words from the definitions provided.

0:25:13 > 0:25:17Firstly for five, hypocritical and sanctimonious talk.

0:25:17 > 0:25:20And barely sufficient or adequate.

0:25:23 > 0:25:24Cant and scant.

0:25:24 > 0:25:25Correct.

0:25:25 > 0:25:29Solid figure whose sections include the ellipse and the parabola.

0:25:29 > 0:25:33And small lightly sweetened cake typically served with butter.

0:25:33 > 0:25:35Cone and scone.

0:25:35 > 0:25:38Yep. Finally, the end part of a sleeve.

0:25:38 > 0:25:42And mark made by scraping, gazing or rubbing.

0:25:42 > 0:25:43Cuff and scuff.

0:25:43 > 0:25:45Correct. Ten points for this.

0:25:45 > 0:25:48First serialised in 1890, in which novel

0:25:48 > 0:25:53does the title character murder the painter Basil Hallward?

0:25:53 > 0:25:54Picture Of Dorian Grey.

0:25:54 > 0:25:55Correct.

0:25:55 > 0:25:59Your bonuses now are on antibacterial agents, Manchester.

0:25:59 > 0:26:01The bacterial synthesis of which vitamin

0:26:01 > 0:26:03is inhibited by sulphonamides?

0:26:05 > 0:26:06Quickly.

0:26:06 > 0:26:08Vitamin A.

0:26:08 > 0:26:10No, it's vitamin B9, folic acid.

0:26:10 > 0:26:15What bacterial process is blocked by aminoglycoside antibiotic

0:26:15 > 0:26:16such as streptomycin?

0:26:20 > 0:26:22Come on.

0:26:22 > 0:26:23Reproduction.

0:26:23 > 0:26:25No, it's protein synthesis.

0:26:25 > 0:26:28Finally, what structural component of gram positive bacterial cells

0:26:28 > 0:26:32is targeted by penicillins and cephalosporins?

0:26:40 > 0:26:41Let's have it, please.

0:26:41 > 0:26:42Streptococcus.

0:26:42 > 0:26:44No, it's cell walls. Ten points for this.

0:26:44 > 0:26:48In chemistry, what is the PH of one millimolar hydrochloric acid?

0:26:52 > 0:26:54Four.

0:26:54 > 0:26:56No. Cardiff, one of you buzz.

0:26:57 > 0:26:58Three.

0:26:58 > 0:27:00Correct.

0:27:00 > 0:27:02Your bonuses, Cardiff, are on language families.

0:27:02 > 0:27:04From the Greek for southern islands,

0:27:04 > 0:27:07what is the name of the family whose languages include

0:27:07 > 0:27:10Malagasy, Filipino, Maori and Hawaiian?

0:27:10 > 0:27:11Quickly.

0:27:14 > 0:27:15Australasian.

0:27:15 > 0:27:17No, it's Austronesian.

0:27:17 > 0:27:20To which language family did the South Indian languages of

0:27:20 > 0:27:22Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam belong?

0:27:27 > 0:27:28Come on.

0:27:28 > 0:27:29It's Dravidian.

0:27:29 > 0:27:32Finally, Welsh, Bengali, English

0:27:32 > 0:27:35and Albanian are among members of which large language family?

0:27:35 > 0:27:36Indo-European.

0:27:36 > 0:27:37Correct. Ten points for this.

0:27:37 > 0:27:40What animal links the crest of football clubs from Dumbarton

0:27:40 > 0:27:43and Coventry with the United States Republican...?

0:27:43 > 0:27:44Elephant.

0:27:44 > 0:27:47Correct. Here are your bonuses on physics.

0:27:47 > 0:27:49In atomic physics, what word specifies...

0:27:49 > 0:27:50GONG SOUNDS

0:27:50 > 0:27:53And at the gong, Cardiff University have 105,

0:27:53 > 0:27:55Manchester University have 195.

0:27:58 > 0:28:01Well, I'm afraid we're saying goodbye to you, Cardiff,

0:28:01 > 0:28:03but you broke 100, it's fine

0:28:03 > 0:28:06and going out in the quarterfinals, there's no shame in that.

0:28:06 > 0:28:08So thank you very much for playing with us.

0:28:08 > 0:28:10Congratulations to you, Manchester. You must play

0:28:10 > 0:28:14and win one more match to go through to the semifinals.

0:28:14 > 0:28:17I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.

0:28:17 > 0:28:20- But until then it's goodbye from Cardiff University.- ALL:- Goodbye.

0:28:20 > 0:28:23- It's goodbye from Manchester University.- ALL:- Bye.

0:28:23 > 0:28:25And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.