0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21- ANNOUNCER:- University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:28Hello.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31We've seen the team from Trinity College Cambridge
0:00:31 > 0:00:34become the first to qualify for the semifinals
0:00:34 > 0:00:37by winning the two quarterfinal matches required
0:00:37 > 0:00:40by our stringent, many would say over-stringent, rules.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43They'll be joined by whichever team wins tonight,
0:00:43 > 0:00:47because both of them have already one quarterfinal win behind them.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49The losers will play again
0:00:49 > 0:00:52and get one final chance to go through.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54Now, the team representing Somerville College, Oxford,
0:00:54 > 0:00:57had comfortable wins over Pembroke College, Cambridge,
0:00:57 > 0:00:59and the University of York in Rounds 1 and 2,
0:00:59 > 0:01:01and then a tougher time of it
0:01:01 > 0:01:04in their first quarterfinal against Clare College, Cambridge
0:01:04 > 0:01:09but they still managed to win that by 195 points to Clare's 160.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Let's meet them again.
0:01:11 > 0:01:16Hello, I'm Sam Walker from Stafford and I'm studying physics.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Hello, my name's Zach Vermeer.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20I'm from Sydney, Australia, and I study law.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23- And their captain. - Hi, I'm Michael Davies.
0:01:23 > 0:01:24I'm from Blackburn in Lancashire
0:01:24 > 0:01:27and I'm studying politics, philosophy and economics.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Hi, I'm Chris Beer.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32I'm from Blyborough in Lincolnshire and I'm studying English literature.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36APPLAUSE
0:01:36 > 0:01:38The team from Southampton University
0:01:38 > 0:01:42lost to the London School of Oriental and African Studies
0:01:42 > 0:01:43in their first-round match
0:01:43 > 0:01:46but, as one of the highest-scoring losing teams,
0:01:46 > 0:01:47they met Loughborough in the playoffs,
0:01:47 > 0:01:50and that victory put them through to the second round,
0:01:50 > 0:01:52in which they beat Bangor University.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56Their first quarterfinal was against Queens University, Belfast,
0:01:56 > 0:01:58which they won by 290 points to 90.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Let's meet the Southampton team again.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Hello, I'm David Bishop. I'm from Reading and I'm studying physics.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Hello, I'm Richard Evans.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10I'm from Frimley in Surrey and I'm reading chemistry.
0:02:10 > 0:02:11And here's their captain.
0:02:11 > 0:02:12Hi, I'm Bob De Caux.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14I'm originally from West Sussex
0:02:14 > 0:02:17and I'm studying for a PhD in complex systems simulation.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Hi, I'm Matt Loxham.
0:02:19 > 0:02:20I'm from Preston in Lancashire
0:02:20 > 0:02:23and I'm studying for a PhD in respiratory toxicology.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25APPLAUSE
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Right, let's just cut to the chase. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35Having played in goal, which Frenchman claimed that,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38"All I know most surely about..."
0:02:38 > 0:02:40- Albert Camus.- Indeed.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41It could only be.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43APPLAUSE
0:02:43 > 0:02:45Right the first set of bonuses, Somerville,
0:02:45 > 0:02:47are on novels set in London.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48Firstly, for five points,
0:02:48 > 0:02:50named after the postcode of its setting,
0:02:50 > 0:02:52which novel by Zadie Smith
0:02:52 > 0:02:56details the lives of Leah, Natalie, Nathan and Felix,
0:02:56 > 0:02:59who grew up together on a Willesden council estate?
0:03:00 > 0:03:04- I think this is NW.- NW?- Yes.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06- NW.- Correct.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08The residents of Pepys Road
0:03:08 > 0:03:12populate the 2012 novel Capital by which author?
0:03:12 > 0:03:15His other works include The Debt To Pleasure,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18and Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone And No One Can Pay.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23- This is another fiction one. Do you have any idea?- I'm sorry, I don't.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26- No idea?- Do you have any guesses you could go for?
0:03:26 > 0:03:30- I think it's up to you.- Oh, God.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Any ideas? Vickers.
0:03:33 > 0:03:34No, it's John Lanchester.
0:03:34 > 0:03:35And finally,
0:03:35 > 0:03:39the occupants of Thomas Cromwell's London house in Broad Street
0:03:39 > 0:03:40called Austin Friars
0:03:40 > 0:03:43appear in both Wolf Hall in 2009
0:03:43 > 0:03:47and which novel, its sequel, published in 2012?
0:03:47 > 0:03:51- Is this Bring Up The Bodies? Is that what it's called?- Happy?- Yeah.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53- Try it.- Bring Up The Bodies.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Correct. Ten points for this.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00Bought by Lord Hertford in 1865 as Portrait Of A Man,
0:04:00 > 0:04:02which popular title was later given
0:04:02 > 0:04:04to the portrait in the Wallace Collection
0:04:04 > 0:04:06of a smiling enigmatic sitter?
0:04:06 > 0:04:09- The Laughing Cavalier?- Correct.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12APPLAUSE
0:04:12 > 0:04:16These bonuses, Somerville, are on early computer networking.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19For five points, the main precursor of the internet,
0:04:19 > 0:04:21which network of time-sharing computers
0:04:21 > 0:04:24was developed by the US Department Of Defence
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Advanced Research Projects Agency?
0:04:26 > 0:04:29It became operational in 1969.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Nominate Walker.
0:04:31 > 0:04:32- ARPANET.- Correct.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Which internet pioneer
0:04:34 > 0:04:38co-wrote the communication protocol for ARPANET with Robert Kahn
0:04:38 > 0:04:41and co-founded the Internet Society with him in 1992?
0:04:41 > 0:04:45He joined Google in 2005
0:04:45 > 0:04:47as Chief Internet Evangelist.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52It's not Berners-Lee.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Seems unlikely. Do you know anyone?
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Not really.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00THEY CONFER
0:05:06 > 0:05:10- Berners-Lee.- No, it's Vinton Gray Cerf. Vint Cerf.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Five points for this.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15Which networking technology was created in 1973
0:05:15 > 0:05:19by a Xerox PARC research team led by the US engineer Bob Metcalfe?
0:05:19 > 0:05:22It developed into the most popular standard for local networks.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27- Is that the intranet?- Sorry?
0:05:27 > 0:05:29- Ethernet?- Ethernet?
0:05:29 > 0:05:31- Sounds more likely.- OK, maybe.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34- Ethernet.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37Described as the hero among those third-rate men,
0:05:37 > 0:05:40which character in Thackeray's Vanity Fair
0:05:40 > 0:05:42dies at the Battle Of Waterloo...?
0:05:42 > 0:05:44George Osborne.
0:05:44 > 0:05:45Yes, it is.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48APPLAUSE
0:05:48 > 0:05:52Somerville, these bonuses are on ancient bronze artworks.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Dating to the 4th century BC,
0:05:55 > 0:05:56the bronze sculpture
0:05:56 > 0:05:59of the head of the thickly-bearded Thracian King Seuthes III
0:05:59 > 0:06:03was discovered in 2004 in which country?
0:06:07 > 0:06:10THEY CONFER
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Thracian, did he say? Macedonian? I don't know.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16It sounds like a reasonable guess, doesn't it?
0:06:16 > 0:06:17- Macedonia.- No, it's Bulgaria.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Thought to date from the 3rd or 2nd centuries BC
0:06:20 > 0:06:23and recovered from the sea floor in 1998,
0:06:23 > 0:06:26the Dancing Satyr is usually displayed
0:06:26 > 0:06:30in a church in the port of Mazara del Vallo
0:06:30 > 0:06:32in which Mediterranean island?
0:06:32 > 0:06:36THEY CONFER
0:06:37 > 0:06:40- Sicily.- Correct.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44Found in 1553 and thought to date from the 4th century BC,
0:06:44 > 0:06:46the bronze Chimera Of Arezzo
0:06:46 > 0:06:50is a prominent example of the art of which ancient people?
0:06:52 > 0:06:54THEY CONFER
0:06:56 > 0:06:59The Minoans, or the Mycenaeans?
0:07:02 > 0:07:04I think it is going to be one of those, but I don't know.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08So the Minoans were on Crete and the Mycenaeans were on the mainland,
0:07:08 > 0:07:11but I don't really know, it...
0:07:11 > 0:07:12Mycenaeans, say Mycenaeans.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14- Mycenaeans.- No, it's the Etruscans.
0:07:14 > 0:07:15Ten points for this.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18In 1828, the German chemist Friedrich Wohler
0:07:18 > 0:07:22achieved the first synthesis of an organic compound
0:07:22 > 0:07:24from an inorganic substance
0:07:24 > 0:07:27when he converted ammonium cyanate into which substance,
0:07:27 > 0:07:30also known as carbamide?
0:07:34 > 0:07:37None of you know? It's urea. Ten points for this. Which city is this?
0:07:37 > 0:07:39The capital of the Serbian states
0:07:39 > 0:07:42before the Ottomans defeated the Balkan Christian armies
0:07:42 > 0:07:44at a battle of 1389,
0:07:44 > 0:07:47it's regarded as a cultural centre by ethnic Albanians
0:07:47 > 0:07:50and is the capital of Kosovo.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52Pristina.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Pristina is correct, yes.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57APPLAUSE
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Right, your first set of bonuses, Southampton,
0:07:59 > 0:08:02are on films based on works of journalism.
0:08:02 > 0:08:03Firstly, for five points -
0:08:03 > 0:08:06later revealed to be largely the invention of its author,
0:08:06 > 0:08:08the British journalist Nik Cohn
0:08:08 > 0:08:12was the author of a 1976 New York magazine piece
0:08:12 > 0:08:14which forms the basis for which film?
0:08:14 > 0:08:18THEY CONFER
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Is it the Truman Show? I don't know why I am...
0:08:21 > 0:08:24- The Truman Show. - No, it's Saturday Night Fever.
0:08:24 > 0:08:28Secondly, which 1984 film about Cambodia's Khmer Rouge
0:08:28 > 0:08:31came out of the article The Death And Life Of Dith Pran
0:08:31 > 0:08:34by Sydney Schanberg of the New York Times?
0:08:34 > 0:08:35- The Killing Fields.- Correct.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38The screenwriter Charlie Kaufman used The Orchid Thief
0:08:38 > 0:08:41by the New Yorker writer Susan Orlean
0:08:41 > 0:08:43as the basis for which film
0:08:43 > 0:08:46starring Nicolas Cage as identical twins?
0:08:46 > 0:08:49THEY CONFER Yes.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51- Adaptation.- Correct.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53We're going to take a picture round now. For your picture starter,
0:08:53 > 0:08:56you will see the logo of an international organisation
0:08:56 > 0:08:58with any helpful wording removed.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Ten points if you can name the organisation.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08- UNICEF.- No. Somerville?
0:09:08 > 0:09:09One of you may buzz.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Doesn't look as if you're going to...
0:09:15 > 0:09:17- Association Of Southeast Asian Nations.- No.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19No, we'll see the whole thing now.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23So, picture bonuses shortly. Ten points for this starter question.
0:09:23 > 0:09:28"Why is geometry often described as cold and dry?
0:09:28 > 0:09:31"One reason lies in its inability to describe
0:09:31 > 0:09:33"the shape of a cloud, a mountain, or a tree."
0:09:33 > 0:09:35These are the words of which mathematician
0:09:35 > 0:09:38in his pioneering work of 1975...
0:09:39 > 0:09:41- Mandelbrot.- Correct.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:09:46 > 0:09:48So we go back to the picture bonuses.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Medecins Sans Frontieres won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53For your bonuses, you will see the logos
0:09:53 > 0:09:55of three more international organisations
0:09:55 > 0:09:57that have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Five points for each you can name. Firstly...
0:09:59 > 0:10:02I think they gave it to the World Health Organisation...
0:10:02 > 0:10:05- But it doesn't look like...- It isn't.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08THEY CONFER
0:10:12 > 0:10:16- UNESCO? I don't know. - Could be a UN...
0:10:16 > 0:10:19- UNESCO.- No, it's the International Labour organisation.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22We'll see the whole thing, there it is. Secondly...
0:10:24 > 0:10:26THEY CONFER
0:10:26 > 0:10:29A refugee organisation?
0:10:29 > 0:10:30Could be.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Anyone know any UN bodies related to refugees?
0:10:33 > 0:10:35UN High Commission For Refugees?
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Try it.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39The UN High Commission For...
0:10:39 > 0:10:41No, it's not. It's the Grameen Bank.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45There we are. It's a Bangladeshi micro-finance community bank.
0:10:45 > 0:10:46And finally...
0:10:46 > 0:10:49THEY MURMUR
0:10:50 > 0:10:52UN Peacekeeping...?
0:10:55 > 0:10:59- Yeah, because they're deployed by the Security Council.- Come on!
0:10:59 > 0:11:02UN Peacekeepers?
0:11:02 > 0:11:03UN Peacekeepers.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces. There we are.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08- APPLAUSE - Right. Well done. Ten points for this.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Identified to its audiences
0:11:10 > 0:11:12by the English pronunciations of its initials,
0:11:12 > 0:11:16although its full name is not written in an alphabetic script,
0:11:16 > 0:11:20NHK is the national public broadcasting organisation
0:11:20 > 0:11:22of which country?
0:11:25 > 0:11:27- North Korea.- No.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Southampton?
0:11:30 > 0:11:32- South Korea?- No, it's Japan.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Ten points for this.
0:11:34 > 0:11:35In atmospheric physics,
0:11:35 > 0:11:38what term denotes the optical phenomenon
0:11:38 > 0:11:42of a yellowish-white halo around the Sun, caused by...
0:11:42 > 0:11:43- Corona.- Correct.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45APPLAUSE
0:11:46 > 0:11:50Right, you get a set of bonuses on disorders of the eye, Southampton.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52From the Greek, meaning "without a mark",
0:11:52 > 0:11:54what term denotes the condition
0:11:54 > 0:11:57in which the image of a viewed object appears to be distorted?
0:11:57 > 0:12:01It's usually caused by an irregular curvature of the cornea or lens,
0:12:01 > 0:12:05resulting in the incorrect focusing of light rays onto the retina.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09THEY CONFER
0:12:12 > 0:12:15I can't think what it would be.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19- No, pass.- It's astigmatism.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22Secondly, for five points, from the Greek, meaning "darkness",
0:12:22 > 0:12:25what term denotes a temporary or permanent blind spot
0:12:25 > 0:12:27in the field of vision
0:12:27 > 0:12:30such as might be caused by looking directly at the Sun?
0:12:33 > 0:12:35THEY CONFER
0:12:35 > 0:12:37- Any ideas?- No.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51- Morphea.- No, it's scotoma.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54And, finally, from the Greek word for "squint",
0:12:54 > 0:12:56what medical term denotes a condition
0:12:56 > 0:12:58in which the eyes aren't properly aligned?
0:13:09 > 0:13:11THEY CONFER
0:13:12 > 0:13:16- Pass.- It's strabismus. Ten points for this.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Which monarch occupies the northeast
0:13:18 > 0:13:22if the southwest is occupied by General Sir Charles James Napier
0:13:22 > 0:13:26and the southeast by Major General Sir Henry Havelock?
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- Charles I.- No.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35One of you buzz, Somerville.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37- James I?- No, it's George IV.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41They are the plinths in Trafalgar Square. Ten points for this.
0:13:41 > 0:13:46Listen carefully. Which five-letter word means a mouldy smell or taste
0:13:46 > 0:13:48or something that is old-fashioned?
0:13:48 > 0:13:52If the initial letter M is changed to an F
0:13:52 > 0:13:56both meanings remain valid. If, instead, the letter T...
0:13:56 > 0:13:58- Musty.- Correct. Yes.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02APPLAUSE
0:14:03 > 0:14:07Right, Somerville. These bonuses are on economics.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10In 1933, which British economist wrote an open letter
0:14:10 > 0:14:12to President Roosevelt in the New York Times,
0:14:12 > 0:14:15recommending government spending to reinvigorate the economy?
0:14:15 > 0:14:16- Keynes.- Correct.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19From 1933, Roosevelt implemented a package
0:14:19 > 0:14:23of state intervention and stimulus policies known by what popular name?
0:14:23 > 0:14:25The New Deal?
0:14:25 > 0:14:29- The New Deal.- Some people find these questions quite difficult.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31- Oh, sorry!- There's no need to dismiss them with such contempt!
0:14:31 > 0:14:33- I'm sorry.- You're quite right.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35Perhaps you will get the third one, too.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37The Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch
0:14:37 > 0:14:39made the distinction
0:14:39 > 0:14:42between the study of the behaviour of individuals and firms
0:14:42 > 0:14:45and the study of the economy as a whole system.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48What term, also associated with Keynes,
0:14:48 > 0:14:50describes the latter approach?
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Macroeconomics. I assume so... Ma...
0:14:52 > 0:14:56- Macroeconomics.- Yeah. Macroeconomics.- It is indeed.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59Contemptibly easy. Right. We're going to take a music round now.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02For your music starter, you will hear a piece of instrumental music.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06For ten points, all you have to do is name the lead performer.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09MUSIC: "Spanish Flea"
0:15:09 > 0:15:13- Herb Alpert.- I can't believe you confessed to that!
0:15:13 > 0:15:16Yes, it is. And his Tijuana Brass.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18APPLAUSE
0:15:19 > 0:15:23So we follow on from Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass
0:15:23 > 0:15:27with bonuses by three more instrumentals from the 1960s.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29In each case, I want the name of the composer
0:15:29 > 0:15:32who, in each case, also performed on the track.
0:15:32 > 0:15:33Firstly, for five...
0:15:33 > 0:15:36JAZZ MUSIC
0:15:48 > 0:15:51What's the instrument? Is it Miles Davis?
0:15:51 > 0:15:53- Miles Davis? - THEY MURMUR
0:15:53 > 0:15:55- Miles Davis? - No, that Herbie Hancock.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57Secondly, who's this?
0:15:57 > 0:15:59JAZZ MUSIC
0:16:04 > 0:16:06THEY CONFER
0:16:06 > 0:16:08- This is Miles Davis?- Yeah.
0:16:08 > 0:16:09Miles Davis.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11No, that isn't Miles Davis, that's John Coltrane.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13And finally...
0:16:13 > 0:16:16MUSIC: "Soul Bossa Nova"
0:16:16 > 0:16:17I've played this.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27The only one I can think of is Mancini,
0:16:27 > 0:16:29and it's not Mancini, is it?
0:16:30 > 0:16:34- He did The Pink Panther. Do you have any ideas?- No, sorry.- Mancini?
0:16:34 > 0:16:36- No, it's Quincy Jones.- Yeah.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Ten points for this starter question. Listen carefully.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41If a single self-replicating robot
0:16:41 > 0:16:44takes one year to produce ten copies of itself,
0:16:44 > 0:16:47all of which are activated on the same day,
0:16:47 > 0:16:52after how many years will the number of robots exceed one million?
0:16:54 > 0:16:57- Six.- Correct.
0:16:57 > 0:16:58APPLAUSE
0:17:00 > 0:17:04These bonuses, Somerville College, are on artists' biographies.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07Noted for his frescoes in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio,
0:17:07 > 0:17:09which painter and architect
0:17:09 > 0:17:12is best known for his 1550 work
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Lives Of The Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects?
0:17:16 > 0:17:18This is Vasari, is it? I think so. Vasari.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20I bow to your knowledge. Vasari.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Correct. Absolved by Pope Paul III
0:17:23 > 0:17:26after being found guilty of killing a rival goldsmith,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29which artist's frank and boastful autobiography
0:17:29 > 0:17:32was first printed in Italy in 1728,
0:17:32 > 0:17:35over 150 years after his death?
0:17:35 > 0:17:37I think this is Cellini.
0:17:37 > 0:17:38- Cellini?- Yeah.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40- Cellini.- Correct.
0:17:40 > 0:17:44Hilary Spurling won the 2005 Whitbread Book of the Year award
0:17:44 > 0:17:46for the second volume of her biography
0:17:46 > 0:17:49of which French artist who died in Nice in 1954?
0:17:49 > 0:17:52THEY CONFER
0:17:54 > 0:17:57Matisse or Cezanne...?
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Matisse?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Could be Matisse.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05I think, yeah, Matisse.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07- Matisse is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Ten points for this. I Am The Wife Of Mao Tse-tung
0:18:10 > 0:18:12is an aria from which opera
0:18:12 > 0:18:15with a libretto by Alice Goodman and music by John Adams...?
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Nixon In China.
0:18:18 > 0:18:22- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:18:22 > 0:18:25Somerville, these bonuses are on US states,
0:18:25 > 0:18:30specifically those that may autocomplete into an historical term
0:18:30 > 0:18:32when typed into Google.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34For example, Missouri Compromise.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38In each case, give the historical term from the definition.
0:18:38 > 0:18:39Firstly, a deal of 1803
0:18:39 > 0:18:43by which the United States acquired New Orleans
0:18:43 > 0:18:46and all French territory on the west bank of the Mississippi.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48Louisiana.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51- The Louisiana Purchase.- It is.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Secondly, what three-word term denotes the English settlement
0:18:53 > 0:18:56around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston,
0:18:56 > 0:19:01established by John Winthrop and others from 1628?
0:19:03 > 0:19:06THEY CONFER
0:19:06 > 0:19:08Salem witch trials.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10It's not a settlement.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12It's not just New England, is that?
0:19:12 > 0:19:14It was three words.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17THEY CONFER
0:19:19 > 0:19:22- No.- Let's have it, please.
0:19:22 > 0:19:23Um...
0:19:23 > 0:19:26New England...Cambridge.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30No, it's the Massachusetts Bay Colony, is what it autocompletes as.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32A 2,000-mile overland wagon route,
0:19:32 > 0:19:35the principal means of emigration to the Pacific Northwest
0:19:35 > 0:19:37from the 1840s, finally.
0:19:37 > 0:19:38- The Oregon Trail.- Yeah.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40- The Oregon Trail.- Correct.
0:19:40 > 0:19:41Ten points for this.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45Because of its low neutron-capture cross section,
0:19:45 > 0:19:47which alloy of magnesium and aluminium
0:19:47 > 0:19:51has been used for cladding uranium fuel elements in nuclear reactors?
0:19:56 > 0:19:58- Magnox.- Correct.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01APPLAUSE
0:20:01 > 0:20:03Right, these are your bonuses, Southampton,
0:20:03 > 0:20:06on the US architect Daniel H Burnham.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09Firstly, completed by Burnham in 1902,
0:20:09 > 0:20:11which office building filled the triangular plot
0:20:11 > 0:20:14at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway?
0:20:14 > 0:20:17It's been called New York's oldest skyscraper.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19- The Flatiron.- Correct.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23For which US city did Burnham design the Reliance Building in 1895
0:20:23 > 0:20:26and produce a master plan in 1909,
0:20:26 > 0:20:29now considered a landmark in the history of urban planning?
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Chicago.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32Correct.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35Burham co-designed which London department store
0:20:35 > 0:20:37which opened on Oxford Street in 1909?
0:20:37 > 0:20:40- Selfridges.- Correct.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43We're going to take a second picture round now. For your picture starter,
0:20:43 > 0:20:45you'll see a portrait of a political philosopher.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Ten points if you can give me his name.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Jeremy Bentham.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53No.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58- John Locke.- It is John Locke, yes.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00APPLAUSE
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Somerville, for your bonuses,
0:21:02 > 0:21:06three more thinkers who influenced the American and French Revolutions.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Five points for each you can identify.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11Firstly, for five, this Irish philosopher and politician.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Burke?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16It that Burke?
0:21:16 > 0:21:18He was a politician, I guess.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21- But he was a philosopher.- He was.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23- Burke.- Yes, I was quite surprised too.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27- I thought he was fatter than that, but you're right.- Well done.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Secondly, this French political philosopher.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34- Montesquieu.- Yeah.
0:21:34 > 0:21:35- Montesquieu.- Correct.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39And finally, this English-born philosopher and polemicist.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43- Thomas Paine.- Thomas Paine.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46It is, of course. Ten points for this.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Andrew Osmond and Peter Usborne co-founded which magazine
0:21:49 > 0:21:52that first appeared in October 1961?
0:21:52 > 0:21:53The following year,
0:21:53 > 0:21:56the magazine was sold to the comedian Peter Cook
0:21:56 > 0:21:58and received its first...
0:21:58 > 0:22:00Private Eye.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03- Private Eye is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:22:04 > 0:22:08These bonuses are on a planet of the solar system, Somerville.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Which planet has two large highland regions
0:22:10 > 0:22:14named after the goddesses Ishtar and Aphrodite,
0:22:14 > 0:22:16along with other surface features
0:22:16 > 0:22:18named Helen, Guinevere and Lavinia?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23- Venus?- Venus. - They're all named after women.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25- Yeah, Venus.- Correct.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29A many-ringed impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Venus
0:22:29 > 0:22:32is named after which Austrian physicist?
0:22:32 > 0:22:36She was involved in the discovery and explanation of nuclear fission
0:22:36 > 0:22:39and gives her name to the element with the atomic number 109.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44THEY CONFER
0:22:46 > 0:22:50Do you know any female Austrian scientists...?
0:22:50 > 0:22:53Do you have any names?
0:22:55 > 0:22:59- Come on, let's have it, please. - Um... We don't know.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01It's Meitner, Lise Meitner.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04A lowland area in the northern hemisphere
0:23:04 > 0:23:06is named after which Inuit goddess?
0:23:06 > 0:23:08She also gives her name to one of the most distant bodies
0:23:08 > 0:23:11known in the solar system, discovered in 2003.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13THEY CONFER
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Sedna? Sedna.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19Sedna is right. Four and a half minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:23:19 > 0:23:20Denoting a thick soup or stew,
0:23:20 > 0:23:23which archaic word is especially associated
0:23:23 > 0:23:25with a passage in the Book Of Genesis
0:23:25 > 0:23:29in which Esau exchanges his birthright for a single meal?
0:23:30 > 0:23:32Pottage.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36- Pottage is correct. - APPLAUSE
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Right, your bonuses are on the 1920s, Somerville.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41In each case, I want you to identify the precise year
0:23:41 > 0:23:43in which the following took place.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Firstly, for five points, Mussolini's March On Rome,
0:23:46 > 0:23:48the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb,
0:23:48 > 0:23:51and the first complete publication of James Joyce's Ulysses.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53- 1922.- 1922.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57Correct. Secondly, the Scopes Monkey Trial,
0:23:57 > 0:24:01the publication of The Great Gatsby, and the signing of the Locarno Pact.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05'26?
0:24:05 > 0:24:08You say '26? '26.
0:24:08 > 0:24:09No, it's 1925.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13And finally, the enfranchisement of women aged 21 to 30 in Britain,
0:24:13 > 0:24:15the premiere of Ravel's Bolero,
0:24:15 > 0:24:20and the publication in ten volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary.
0:24:20 > 0:24:221924?
0:24:22 > 0:24:25It was later, I think, for women.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28'28 or '29. What do you think?
0:24:28 > 0:24:30- I thought '28. - All right, go with it.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33- '28.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35When appearing, for example, before the words
0:24:35 > 0:24:37memory, emotion, language or theory,
0:24:37 > 0:24:42which Greek prefix means something of a second or higher order?
0:24:42 > 0:24:45- Meta.- Meta is right.
0:24:45 > 0:24:49These bonuses, Southampton, are on an African country.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Which West African country takes its name from the river that,
0:24:52 > 0:24:56for more than 800km, forms its border with Mauritania?
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Niger?
0:24:58 > 0:25:00- Niger River, Niger.- Niger.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03No, it's Senegal. Senegal almost completely surrounds which country
0:25:03 > 0:25:05that has a short Atlantic coastline
0:25:05 > 0:25:07and is the smallest country of mainland Africa?
0:25:07 > 0:25:09- The Gambia.- Correct.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Located in Senegal, the westernmost cape of Africa
0:25:11 > 0:25:14gives its name to which island country?
0:25:14 > 0:25:18Cape Verde is right near Senegal.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21- Cape Verde.- Cape Verde is correct. Ten points for this.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27If log (base 9) of x plus log (base 3) of x equals 6, what is x?
0:25:32 > 0:25:332.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36No, Southampton, one of you buzz.
0:25:36 > 0:25:373.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39No, it's 81. Ten points for this.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41In summer of the year 306,
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Constantine was proclaimed Emperor of Rome
0:25:44 > 0:25:47by troops stationed in what...?
0:25:47 > 0:25:48Britannia.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54..in what location, now an English cathedral city?
0:25:59 > 0:26:03- St Albans.- No, it's York, or Eboracum. Ten points for this.
0:26:03 > 0:26:04Listen carefully.
0:26:04 > 0:26:09Since 1918, three decades have seen four UK general elections.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13One was the 1970s, can you name one of the other two, please?
0:26:14 > 0:26:161950s.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Yes, that's correct. The other one was the 1920s.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20So you get a set of bonuses now, Southampton, on microscopy.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24Firstly for five points, what can be deduced if a cell appears blue
0:26:24 > 0:26:28when stained with the azo dye trypan blue?
0:26:28 > 0:26:31- Dead...- Dead?- Yes.
0:26:31 > 0:26:32- It's dead.- Correct.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35- LAUGHTER - It is, indeed.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38The Ziehl-Neelsen technique is used in bacteriology
0:26:38 > 0:26:42to stain an important group of which human pathogens?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46THEY CONFER
0:26:46 > 0:26:47Gram-positive bacteria.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- Gram-positive bacteria. - No, it's mycobacteria.
0:26:50 > 0:26:55Which biomolecules are stained by the fluorescent dye acridine orange?
0:26:58 > 0:27:02- I'd go for, perhaps... - Nominate Loxham.- Lipids.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05No, it's nucleic acids. Ten points for this.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Which human intestinal parasite
0:27:08 > 0:27:11attaches itself to the wall of the digestive tract
0:27:11 > 0:27:13by means of...?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Tapeworm.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:27:18 > 0:27:20These bonuses are on a French composer, Southampton.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23Which Frenchman became the first high-profile composer
0:27:23 > 0:27:24to write music for the cinema
0:27:24 > 0:27:27when he produced the score for the 1908 short film
0:27:27 > 0:27:30The Assassination Of The Duke Of Guise?
0:27:30 > 0:27:31- Debussy.- Debussy.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33No, it was Saint-Saens.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Featuring in the 1995 film Babe, the song...
0:27:36 > 0:27:38GONG
0:27:38 > 0:27:41At the gong, Southampton have 95. Somerville have 215.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44APPLAUSE
0:27:45 > 0:27:48- Well, Southampton, you weren't on very good form today.- No.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50You're much less lively than you usually are,
0:27:50 > 0:27:52but you'll be coming back to have another go.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54You must when that time, of course,
0:27:54 > 0:27:56in order to stand a chance of going through.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00Somerville, congratulations. You go through to the semifinals. Another great performance from you.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02We shall look forward to seeing you in that contest.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08But until then, it's goodbye from Southampton University.
0:28:08 > 0:28:09- ALL:- Bye-bye.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11- It's goodbye from Somerville College, Oxford. - ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16APPLAUSE