0:00:02 > 0:00:04THEME TUNE
0:00:17 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:25University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29APPLAUSE
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Hello. Complicated though we try to make things,
0:00:32 > 0:00:35there are but four places in the semifinals of this contest.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38Two of them have already gone to Trinity College, Cambridge
0:00:38 > 0:00:40and Somerville College, Oxford.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Whichever team wins tonight will join them,
0:00:43 > 0:00:45and we'll be saying goodbye to the losers.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49The team from Manchester University beat Brasenose College, Oxford,
0:00:49 > 0:00:51in Round One, then Queens College, Cambridge, in Round Two.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55Their dalliance in the devil's playground of the quarterfinals
0:00:55 > 0:00:58saw them lose to Trinity College, Cambridge.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01But they then beat Cardiff University by a margin
0:01:01 > 0:01:05of 90 points to arrive here to play for a semifinal place.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07Let's meet them again.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11Hi, my name's Edward Woudhuysen. I'm from London and I'm studying history.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Hi, I'm Joe Day.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16I'm from Bideford in Devon and I'm studying physics and astrophysics.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18- This is their captain. - Hi, I'm Elizabeth Mitchell.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21I'm from Birmingham and I'm studying politics, philosophy and economics.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Hello. I'm Jonathan Collings.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26I'm from Manchester and I'm studying geography.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27APPLAUSE
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Now, the long and winding road taken by the University of Southampton
0:01:33 > 0:01:35team to tonight's match has seen them
0:01:35 > 0:01:39lose to SOAS in their first round, return as one of the four
0:01:39 > 0:01:43highest-scoring losing teams to beat Loughborough.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46In the second round, they humbled Bangor University and in their
0:01:46 > 0:01:49first quarterfinal, they beat Queen's University, Belfast.
0:01:49 > 0:01:53But the last time we saw them, they lost to Somerville College, Oxford.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57So it's all or nothing for them tonight. Let's meet them again.
0:01:57 > 0:02:02Hello. I'm David Bishop. I'm from Reading and I'm studying physics.
0:02:02 > 0:02:03Hello. I'm Richard Evans.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06I'm from Frimley in Surrey and I'm reading chemistry.
0:02:06 > 0:02:07And here's their captain.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10Hi, I'm Bob De Caux, I'm originally from West Sussex
0:02:10 > 0:02:14and I'm studying for a PhD in complex system simulation.
0:02:14 > 0:02:15Hello. I'm Matt Loxham.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17I'm from Preston in Lancashire
0:02:17 > 0:02:19and I'm studying for a PhD in respiratory toxicology.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21APPLAUSE
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Right, straight down to business. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Here's your first starter for ten. What is this?
0:02:29 > 0:02:33Dating to 1930, it was expanded during the Second World War
0:02:33 > 0:02:36and turned over to civilian use by the RAF in 1946.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39It was connected to the London Underground network...
0:02:40 > 0:02:42- Heathrow Airport.- Correct.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44APPLAUSE
0:02:45 > 0:02:49Your bonuses, Manchester, are on the collection of the British Library.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Firstly for five points.
0:02:51 > 0:02:56Made in 868 and described by the British Library as the earliest
0:02:56 > 0:02:59complete survival of a dated, printed book,
0:02:59 > 0:03:04the Diamond Sutra was discovered in a sealed cave in which country?
0:03:04 > 0:03:08- Any ideas?- Sutra, you'd think India. - I was thinking India. India?
0:03:08 > 0:03:12No, it's China. Secondly, for five points.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Surviving in a single Medieval manuscript in the collection
0:03:14 > 0:03:19of the British Library, what is the oldest epic poem in Old English?
0:03:19 > 0:03:20- Beowulf.- Beowulf.- Correct.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23And finally, produced in the middle of the fourth century,
0:03:23 > 0:03:27the Codex Sinaiticus is one of the two earliest Christian Bibles
0:03:27 > 0:03:30and is handwritten in which language?
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Do you think Greek or Aramaic?
0:03:32 > 0:03:33Or is it going to be...
0:03:33 > 0:03:37Are we going to be looking at Hebrew instead, maybe?
0:03:37 > 0:03:39THEY CONFER
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Greek.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43- Ancient Greek? - Greek is correct, yes.
0:03:43 > 0:03:44APPLAUSE
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Right, another starter question now.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49Equal to one on the real line, two on the plane,
0:03:49 > 0:03:52and three in classical physical space,
0:03:52 > 0:03:56which invariant describes the minimal number of linearly
0:03:56 > 0:03:59independent vectors that generate a vector space?
0:04:01 > 0:04:05- Four?- Anyone like to buzz from Southampton?
0:04:07 > 0:04:11- Is it an orthogonal set?- No, it's dimension. Ten points for this.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14What structure appears in the names of the birthplace of the sculptor
0:04:14 > 0:04:18Henry Moore in Yorkshire, the country town of Mayo in Ireland,
0:04:18 > 0:04:22the Foreign Secretary from 1812 to 1822...
0:04:23 > 0:04:25- Castle.- Correct.
0:04:25 > 0:04:26APPLAUSE
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Right, your bonuses this time are on philosophy,
0:04:31 > 0:04:34science and religion, Southampton. Firstly for five.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37Which US philosopher examined religion from the perspective
0:04:37 > 0:04:41of biology in the 2006 work, Breaking The Spell?
0:04:41 > 0:04:44His other works include Consciousness Explained.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48THEY CONFER
0:04:51 > 0:04:53- Gould?- No, it's Daniel Dennett.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56What is the four-word title of the 2007 work
0:04:56 > 0:05:01by Christopher Hitchins that puts forward the case against religion?
0:05:01 > 0:05:04THEY CONFER
0:05:04 > 0:05:06- God Is Not Great.- Correct.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10Who has described himself as a "tooth fairy agnostic",
0:05:10 > 0:05:13meaning that he thinks the existence of God is about as likely
0:05:13 > 0:05:14as that of the tooth fairy?
0:05:14 > 0:05:18His recent works include The Magic Of Reality.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20THEY CONFER
0:05:21 > 0:05:25- Dawkins.- Richard Dawkins is right. Ten points for this.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28"There is in our hands as citizens as instrument to mould
0:05:28 > 0:05:31"the minds of the young, to create good and great
0:05:31 > 0:05:34"and noble citizens for the future."
0:05:34 > 0:05:36These were the words of Edward Short, who served as president
0:05:36 > 0:05:41of what regulatory organisation from 1929 to 1935?
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Recent presidents include Andreas Whittam Smith...
0:05:46 > 0:05:50- The British Film Council. - No. You lose five points.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Andreas Whittam Smith, Quentin Thomas and Patrick Swaffer.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01- The BBFC.- Yes, the British Board of Film Censors, yes.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Right, so you get a set of bonuses, then,
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Manchester, on the city of Dundee.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09Captained by Robert Falcon Scott on his Antarctic expedition
0:06:09 > 0:06:13of 1901-1904, which ship was built in Dundee
0:06:13 > 0:06:17and returned there in 1926 to become a tourist attraction?
0:06:17 > 0:06:19THEY WHISPER
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Endeavour?
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Sorry, what was...? Whose was Discover...?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26- Yeah, go.- Endeavour.
0:06:26 > 0:06:27No, it's the Discovery.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Secondly, for five points, economically speaking,
0:06:30 > 0:06:34Dundee is traditionally known as the city of the three Js.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38One of these was the jute industry, what are the other two Js,
0:06:38 > 0:06:41primarily associated with James Keiller and DC Thompson?
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Well, they're comics, aren't they?
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Joviality?
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Don't know. We don't know, sorry.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56It's jam and journalism.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59Caird Hall on Dundee City Square is named after the jute manufacturer
0:06:59 > 0:07:03who financed which Irish-born explorer's
0:07:03 > 0:07:06ill-fated British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition?
0:07:08 > 0:07:09- Is that Shackleton?- Yeah.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11- Shackleton.- Correct.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14We're going to take a picture round. You'll see the location
0:07:14 > 0:07:16of a 20th-century diplomatic agreement
0:07:16 > 0:07:17marked on a map of that era.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20For ten points, give me the name of the city that
0:07:20 > 0:07:24gives its name to the agreement and the decade in which it took place.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31Munich and the 1930s?
0:07:31 > 0:07:32Correct.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34APPLAUSE
0:07:36 > 0:07:38For your bonuses, you'll see, on a modern map,
0:07:38 > 0:07:41three more locations that give their names
0:07:41 > 0:07:43to 20th-century international agreements or treaties.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Again, in each case, I want the location
0:07:46 > 0:07:48and the decade in which the agreement was signed.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52Firstly, for five, the treaty signed here and the decade.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Is that Geneva?
0:07:57 > 0:08:00I think Geneva's nearer to France.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03CERN, maybe? I don't know.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05League of Nations, when was that?
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Locarno, and that was 1920s.
0:08:08 > 0:08:09Locarno, 1920s.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13Indeed it is, the post-World War One treaty normalising European borders.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Secondly, this treaty and decade.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- Oh, what was the...? - Kiev?- No, it's not Kiev.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20No, where was the Nazi-Soviet pact signed?
0:08:20 > 0:08:23I don't know what that would be.
0:08:26 > 0:08:27I think it's...
0:08:27 > 0:08:29- Minsk.- Minsk, 19...?
0:08:29 > 0:08:34- Oh, no!- Just go for Minks and '40s.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Minks, 1940s?
0:08:37 > 0:08:38Minks?
0:08:38 > 0:08:39LAUGHTER
0:08:39 > 0:08:43No, it's Brest-Litovsk in the 1910s, the treaty by which Germany
0:08:43 > 0:08:46and Russia agreed not to fight any more in World War I.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48And finally, the location of a conference
0:08:48 > 0:08:51and the decade in which the subsequent agreement was signed.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55- Is that Potsdam? 1940s?- Yeah.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Potsdam, 1940s.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Indeed, the post-World War Two deal.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Right, let's have another starter question.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05The common or trivial names of the anthracyclene antibiotic agents
0:09:05 > 0:09:11Alcindoromycin, Rudolphomycin and Mimimycin are all
0:09:11 > 0:09:15derived from characters in which late 19th-century opera?
0:09:18 > 0:09:19La Boheme?
0:09:19 > 0:09:20Correct.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22APPLAUSE
0:09:24 > 0:09:27These bonuses, Manchester, are on the sciences.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Given the symbol CZ,
0:09:29 > 0:09:32what two-word term denotes an artificial diamond simulant
0:09:32 > 0:09:35ultimately derived from a Group Four element
0:09:35 > 0:09:38used as a structural material in nuclear reactors?
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Cubic...?
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Cubic zirconia, cubic zirconia.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Cubic...
0:09:45 > 0:09:47- Nominate Day.- Cubic zir...?
0:09:47 > 0:09:49Cubic zirconia?
0:09:49 > 0:09:50Correct.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54Secondly, the SI unit of volume, the cubic metre, is equivalent
0:09:54 > 0:09:55to how many litres?
0:09:55 > 0:09:58- (1,000.)- 1,000.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02Correct. In crystallography, cubic is an alternative name
0:10:02 > 0:10:05for what system, in which the three axis are equal
0:10:05 > 0:10:07and mutually at right angles?
0:10:07 > 0:10:10THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:10:10 > 0:10:12- Orthogonal?- No, it's isometric.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Ten points for this.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Which stock figure is the title character
0:10:16 > 0:10:18of a novella by John Polidori
0:10:18 > 0:10:22first published in 1819 and attributed falsely to Lord Byron?
0:10:22 > 0:10:25The work is often said to be the progenitor of a sub-genre
0:10:25 > 0:10:26of Gothic...
0:10:27 > 0:10:29The Vampyre.
0:10:29 > 0:10:30Correct.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32APPLAUSE
0:10:32 > 0:10:35These bonuses, Manchester, are on opera.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Best known for its lively overture,
0:10:37 > 0:10:41which opera by Glinka is based on a poem of 1820 by Pushkin?
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Its title characters are a knight
0:10:43 > 0:10:46and the daughter of the Great Prince of Kiev.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51Is that Eugene Onegin? But I don't know if it is, actually.
0:10:51 > 0:10:52Eugene Onegin?
0:10:52 > 0:10:54No, it's Ruslan And Lyudmila.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57Secondly, a landmark in opera history for its dramatic unity
0:10:57 > 0:11:01and increased emphasis on dance, which couple from Greek mythology
0:11:01 > 0:11:05are the title characters of a work of 1762 by Gluck?
0:11:06 > 0:11:08I was going to say, erm,
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Dido and Aeneas, but it's not, is it?
0:11:10 > 0:11:12- That's Purcell, I think.- Yeah.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16- Any ideas?- I don't know. Yeah, go.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17Dido and Aeneas?
0:11:17 > 0:11:19No, it's Orpheus and Eurydice.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22And finally, based on the poem by Chaucer
0:11:22 > 0:11:24rather than the play by Shakespeare,
0:11:24 > 0:11:27which opera by William Walton on the theme of the Trojan War
0:11:27 > 0:11:30- premiered at Covent Garden in 1954? - It's Troilus And Cressida.
0:11:30 > 0:11:31Troilus And Cressida.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Correct.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Ten points for this, listen carefully. In the 2011 Census,
0:11:36 > 0:11:427.7% reported a main language that was not English or Welsh.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45Which language was the most common other main...?
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Urdu.
0:11:47 > 0:11:48No, you lose five points...
0:11:48 > 0:11:53..other main language with 546,000 respondents?
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Polish.
0:11:55 > 0:11:56Polish is correct, yes.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58APPLAUSE
0:12:00 > 0:12:04These bonuses, Southampton, are on 19th-century American presidents.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07The first president to have been born in the 19th century,
0:12:07 > 0:12:12who was the victor in the 1852 presidential election,
0:12:12 > 0:12:13a heavy drinker,
0:12:13 > 0:12:17described by some opponents as "a hero of many a well-fought bottle"?
0:12:19 > 0:12:23That's about the time of James K Polk. Who came after him, possibly?
0:12:23 > 0:12:26- Was it Millard Fillmore?- I'll try it.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27Er, Fillmore.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29No, it's Pierce.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Secondly, who was the first president from New York
0:12:32 > 0:12:35and the first of non-English descent, his family being Dutch?
0:12:35 > 0:12:38He was successively both the eighth vice president
0:12:38 > 0:12:40- and the eighth president. - Martin Van Buren.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Correct. Often ranked by historians
0:12:42 > 0:12:45as one of the weakest and most ineffectual presidents
0:12:45 > 0:12:48for his role in the events immediately before the Civil War,
0:12:48 > 0:12:52who to date is the only president never to have married?
0:12:53 > 0:12:57Just before the Civil War, who's that? James Buchanan?
0:12:57 > 0:13:00- Who were you going to say? - Polk? No.- James K Polk...
0:13:00 > 0:13:01All right. Buchanan.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Buchanan is right, yes.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06Right, ten points for this. Variants of what given name
0:13:06 > 0:13:11link the author of the 7th-century Welsh poem known as Y Gododdin
0:13:11 > 0:13:12and the Labour politician who was
0:13:12 > 0:13:15the principle architect of the National Health...?
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Aneirin?
0:13:17 > 0:13:18Aneirin is right, yes.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20APPLAUSE
0:13:21 > 0:13:24Right, Manchester, these bonuses are on a family.
0:13:24 > 0:13:29The Blessed Damozel and The Prince's Progress are 19th-century poems
0:13:29 > 0:13:32written by a brother and sister, respectively, with what surname?
0:13:32 > 0:13:33Rossetti.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37Correct. Dante Gabriel Rossetti married which of his models in 1860,
0:13:37 > 0:13:41less than two years before her death from an overdose of laudanum?
0:13:41 > 0:13:42Lizzie Siddall?
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Correct. "Figs to fill your mouth Citrons from the south
0:13:45 > 0:13:50"Sweet to tongue and sound to eye Come by, come by."
0:13:50 > 0:13:53These are lines from which narrative poem by Christina Rossetti
0:13:53 > 0:13:56illustrated by her brother in its 1862 edition?
0:13:56 > 0:13:57Goblin Market.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59Correct.
0:13:59 > 0:14:00A music round now.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03For your music starter, in a departure from our normal
0:14:03 > 0:14:08procedure, you will first hear the excerpt and then the question.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11If you buzz in incorrectly during the excerpt,
0:14:11 > 0:14:15you will lose five points in this instance. Listen very carefully.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Remember, you may not confer.
0:14:18 > 0:14:23# Five, four, three, two, one
0:14:25 > 0:14:26# Five, four, three, two, one
0:14:29 > 0:14:31# Five, four, three, two, one
0:14:33 > 0:14:35# Five, four, three, two, one
0:14:38 > 0:14:40# Five, four, three, two, one... #
0:14:41 > 0:14:44Right, answer as soon as your name is called.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48Give me the sum total of the numbers mentioned in the lyrics.
0:14:50 > 0:14:5115.
0:14:51 > 0:14:52No.
0:14:54 > 0:14:5514.
0:14:55 > 0:14:56No, it's 75.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01Right, we'll take the sound bonuses in a moment or two.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03Here is another starter question.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06A former mining engineer in both Australia and China, which
0:15:06 > 0:15:11US president gives his name to a major dam on the Colorado River...?
0:15:11 > 0:15:13- Hoover. - Hoover is right, yes.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15APPLAUSE
0:15:16 > 0:15:19OK, you heard 5-4-3-2-1 by Manfred Mann.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22Your bonuses are three more songs with numbers in the lyrics.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24In each case, I want you to give me
0:15:24 > 0:15:27the sum total of all the numbers in the excerpt.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30Obviously, you need to listen until the excerpt ends.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33Firstly, for five, the total number here, please.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37# And it's a two, four, six, eight Ain't never too late
0:15:37 > 0:15:41# Me and my radio truckin' on through the night
0:15:41 > 0:15:45# Three, five, seven, nine On a double white line
0:15:45 > 0:15:49# Motorway sun comin' up with the morning light
0:15:49 > 0:15:53# Whizz kid sitting pretty on your two-wheel stallion
0:15:53 > 0:15:56# This old 10-tonne lorry got a bead on you... #
0:15:57 > 0:15:5844.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01No, it's 56, you missed out "two-wheel stallion"
0:16:01 > 0:16:04- and "10-tonne lorry". - It's nice to know!
0:16:04 > 0:16:062-4-6-8 Motorway, Tom Robinson.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Let's hear the next one now and you can give me the same thing.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11# Tell you what
0:16:11 > 0:16:15# Why don't we cross the city limit
0:16:15 > 0:16:17# And head on down the M62?
0:16:18 > 0:16:23# It's only 39 miles and 45 minutes to Manchester
0:16:23 > 0:16:26# And that's my birthplace, you know
0:16:26 > 0:16:29# Driving away from home
0:16:29 > 0:16:32# 30 miles or more... #
0:16:32 > 0:16:35- 176.- I've got 177.
0:16:35 > 0:16:36Oh, is there an extra 1?
0:16:36 > 0:16:39- I think I heard an extra 1. - Was there an extra 1?
0:16:39 > 0:16:41177?
0:16:41 > 0:16:45Bad luck, it was 176! Good effort, though.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48Finally, the total of the numbers mentioned in this track, please.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52# I was your sorry ever after
0:16:52 > 0:16:55# 74, 75
0:16:58 > 0:17:02# Given me more and I'll do fine
0:17:02 > 0:17:05# Cos you're really only after
0:17:05 > 0:17:09# 74, 75... #
0:17:10 > 0:17:14- 298.- Yeah. 298.
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Correct!
0:17:15 > 0:17:18APPLAUSE
0:17:18 > 0:17:21Well done. OK, another starter question now.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Which novel by Charles Dickens ends thus?
0:17:24 > 0:17:28Gride is murdered, Ralph hangs himself, Sir Mulberry...
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Barnaby Rudge?
0:17:31 > 0:17:33No, you lose five points, I'm afraid.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36Mulberry Hawk dies in a debtors' prison, Kate marries Frank,
0:17:36 > 0:17:40the hero marries Madeline, and Squeers is transported.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Nicholas Nickleby.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Yes.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46APPLAUSE
0:17:46 > 0:17:50Right, Manchester, these bonuses are on the psychology of emotion.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52Firstly, for five points, in 1872,
0:17:52 > 0:17:55which English naturalist published the study entitled
0:17:55 > 0:17:58The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals,
0:17:58 > 0:18:02the first scientific examination of the phenomenon?
0:18:02 > 0:18:03- Do we have any idea?- No.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06Darwin would be a guess...
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Huxley, maybe?
0:18:08 > 0:18:09Huxley?
0:18:09 > 0:18:10No, it was Darwin.
0:18:10 > 0:18:15The Laws Of Emotion is a work of 2006 by which Dutch psychologist,
0:18:15 > 0:18:19who claims that emotion is an essentially unconscious process?
0:18:21 > 0:18:23- Do we know?- No idea.- No idea, sorry.
0:18:23 > 0:18:24That's by Nico Frijda.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28And finally, born 1842, the brother of an eminent novelist,
0:18:28 > 0:18:31which US psychologist proposed the theory that
0:18:31 > 0:18:35emotions are caused by physiological responses rather than vice versa?
0:18:36 > 0:18:39- I'm guessing William James. - William James?
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Correct. Ten points for this,
0:18:41 > 0:18:43what links the King of the Belgians
0:18:43 > 0:18:45during World War I,
0:18:45 > 0:18:49the constituency represented by William Hague, an event celebrated,
0:18:49 > 0:18:51possibly erroneously...?
0:18:51 > 0:18:52Richmond?
0:18:52 > 0:18:54No, you lose five points...
0:18:54 > 0:18:57..possibly erroneously, in the year 2000,
0:18:57 > 0:19:01a metonym for the UK parliament, a decisive battle of 1815
0:19:01 > 0:19:02and the capital of Jamaica?
0:19:07 > 0:19:08They're all named after kings?
0:19:08 > 0:19:12No, they're all bridges over the River Thames. Ten points for this.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16In food technology, E508 is used as an alternative to common
0:19:16 > 0:19:19table salt in low-sodium diets.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22What is the two-word name of this inorganic chemical?
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Potassium chloride.
0:19:25 > 0:19:26Correct.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28APPLAUSE
0:19:28 > 0:19:32Your bonuses are on landlocked countries, Southampton.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36Which South American country lost its coastline as a result
0:19:36 > 0:19:39- of the War of the Pacific from 1879-83?- Bolivia.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Correct. The breakup of the former Yugoslavia
0:19:41 > 0:19:44has left three countries that don't have a coastline.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46One's Kosovo, what are the other two?
0:19:46 > 0:19:50Serbia and Macedonia hasn't got a coastline, has it?
0:19:50 > 0:19:51Serbia and Macedonia.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Correct. Which African country lost its coastline
0:19:54 > 0:19:57when Eritrea gained its independence in 1993?
0:19:57 > 0:19:58Ethiopia.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:20:00 > 0:20:01In 1843,
0:20:01 > 0:20:05John Ruskin published the first part of Modern Painters
0:20:05 > 0:20:08to demonstrate the superiority of which English artist...?
0:20:09 > 0:20:11Erm, Holman Hunt?
0:20:11 > 0:20:14I'm sorry, no, you're wrong, but next time you buzz, you must answer
0:20:14 > 0:20:17straightaway, and I'm going to have to fine you five points...
0:20:17 > 0:20:19..the superiority of which English artist
0:20:19 > 0:20:21to all previous landscape painters?
0:20:22 > 0:20:25- Turner. - JMW Turner is right.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27APPLAUSE
0:20:27 > 0:20:31Your bonuses are on physics and space exploration, Manchester.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34A spacecraft's solar panel is maintained face onto the sun,
0:20:34 > 0:20:38and its output varies linearly with incident radiation.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43If its output is 1 kilowatt when the spacecraft is close to Earth,
0:20:43 > 0:20:46what is the output to the nearest watt when it reaches Neptune?
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Erm, Neptune is about...
0:20:52 > 0:20:53I would say...
0:20:55 > 0:20:56I would say...
0:21:00 > 0:21:02- About 40.- 40, 40 watts?- 40 kilowatts.
0:21:02 > 0:21:0440 kilowatts.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06No, it's 1 watt.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Oh, damn, no!
0:21:08 > 0:21:11Because of this fall-off in solar energy, missions to the outer
0:21:11 > 0:21:16solar system usually employ RTGs instead of solar cells.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20For what do the letters RTG stand?
0:21:22 > 0:21:25G could be "generate", maybe? Real-time generator?
0:21:27 > 0:21:31- Shall we give it a go? - Say maybe radiation. Radiation...
0:21:33 > 0:21:34Yeah, erm...
0:21:34 > 0:21:36I don't know.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39Real-time generator.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42No, it's radio-isotope thermoelectric generator.
0:21:42 > 0:21:47And finally, Voyager 1, the most distant of all space probes,
0:21:47 > 0:21:51is powered by three RTGs containing an isotope of which element?
0:21:55 > 0:21:57- Uranium.- Uranium?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Uranium?
0:21:59 > 0:22:01No, it's plutonium. We're going to take a picture round.
0:22:01 > 0:22:02For your picture starter,
0:22:02 > 0:22:05you'll see a caricature of an historical philanthropist.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09For ten points, I simply want his name, please.
0:22:11 > 0:22:12Andrew Carnegie?
0:22:12 > 0:22:13It is indeed, yes.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15APPLAUSE
0:22:16 > 0:22:20A perhaps somewhat stereotyped depiction of Carnegie.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23For your bonuses, three more caricatures of influential figures
0:22:23 > 0:22:27in American society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30Firstly, for five, who's this industrialist?
0:22:31 > 0:22:34- That's got to be Rockefeller. - Rockefeller.
0:22:34 > 0:22:35It is JD Rockefeller.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Secondly, this political activist?
0:22:40 > 0:22:43So, would it be someone asking for female...?
0:22:43 > 0:22:46It's not someone like...
0:22:46 > 0:22:50The woman who dared, it's not Eleanor Roosevelt, is it?
0:22:50 > 0:22:52Shall we go for it? Eleanor Roosevelt?
0:22:52 > 0:22:55No, it's Susan B Anthony, you know, the Suffragist.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57And finally, this political figure?
0:23:00 > 0:23:05- Is that, that'll be Roosevelt.- That kind of looks like FDR.- No, not FDR.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07- Oh, Teddy Roosevelt.- Yeah, Teddy Roosevelt.- Teddy Roosevelt?
0:23:07 > 0:23:10It is, yes. Right, ten points for this.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Which decade saw British defeat in the First Boer War,
0:23:13 > 0:23:15the death of Gordon of Khartoum...?
0:23:16 > 0:23:18The 1890s?
0:23:18 > 0:23:19No, you lose five points.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22..and the failure of the first Home Rule Bill?
0:23:23 > 0:23:251870s.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28No, it's the 1880s. Ten points for this.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Meanings of what eight-letter verb include
0:23:30 > 0:23:35"decrease in size or range", "shorten a word by elision...?"
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Diminish.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39No, I'm afraid you lose five points...
0:23:39 > 0:23:42..and "enter into a formal agreement".
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Contract.
0:23:46 > 0:23:47Correct.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49APPLAUSE
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Bonuses this time on two-letter words
0:23:52 > 0:23:55said to be familiar to serious Scrabble players.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58In each case, spell the word from its definition.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Firstly, from the Hawaiian language and worth two points,
0:24:01 > 0:24:05a word denoting a basaltic lava forming very rough jagged masses
0:24:05 > 0:24:09with a light frothy texture.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12If it's worth two points, it's got to be made up of vowels
0:24:12 > 0:24:13or with an S, hasn't it?
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Or Ts.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19- Does AI sound right? - A-I, shall we try it?
0:24:19 > 0:24:20A-I?
0:24:20 > 0:24:22No, it's A-A, "aa".
0:24:22 > 0:24:25Also worth two points, a Chinese unit of distance,
0:24:25 > 0:24:27equal to about 600 metres.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32We're just making it up as we go along.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37- A-I again?- No, it's L-I.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39And finally, worth 11 points,
0:24:39 > 0:24:42the circulating life force whose existence and properties
0:24:42 > 0:24:45form a basis for Chinese philosophy and medicine.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47X-I.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49No, it's Q-I, "qi", Ten points for this.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Commissioned by Pope Damasus in 382,
0:24:52 > 0:24:55and largely translated by Saint Jerome,
0:24:55 > 0:24:58what is the standard Latin version of the Bible used by...?
0:24:58 > 0:25:01- The Vulgate. - The Vulgate is right.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03APPLAUSE
0:25:03 > 0:25:07Your bonuses this time, Manchester, are on the later Ottoman Empire.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Under the 1878 Treaty of Berlin,
0:25:10 > 0:25:13parts of the Danube Vilayet or Province became which
0:25:13 > 0:25:17de facto independent principality under Ottoman Suzerainty?
0:25:19 > 0:25:22- The Danube... Do you think Romania or...?- Romania.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26- I'm thinking Romania or Bulgaria. - Romania or Bulgaria.- Bulgaria?
0:25:26 > 0:25:29- Bulgaria? Bulgaria?- Correct.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32The Treaty of Berlin also created which autonomous province
0:25:32 > 0:25:39with its capital at Plovdiv? It was annexed by Bulgaria in 1885.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Is that Transnistria? Well, I...
0:25:42 > 0:25:44- Transnistria.- That sounds about right.- Transnistria?
0:25:44 > 0:25:46No, that was Eastern Rumelia.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49And finally, the southern part of which historical region
0:25:49 > 0:25:52was ruled by the Ottoman Turks until the early 20th century?
0:25:52 > 0:25:56In 1923, the region east of the Maritsa River
0:25:56 > 0:25:58was restored to Turkey.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01Oh, erm, this was taken away by the Treaty of Versailles,
0:26:01 > 0:26:04- and they gave it back to it.- Do you think it would be...?- Is it Smyrna?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Could it be Smyrna? Smyrna.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08No, it's Thrace. Ten points for this.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Which town in Virginia was the British Army forced
0:26:11 > 0:26:13to surrender after a siege of 1781?
0:26:14 > 0:26:15Yorktown?
0:26:15 > 0:26:16Yorktown is correct.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19APPLAUSE
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Your bonuses, Manchester, are on a plant family.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26The plant family Ericaceae includes which evergreen shrub,
0:26:26 > 0:26:30Calluna vulgaris, commonly found on moorlands in Britain?
0:26:30 > 0:26:33- Is that heather? - Yeah, I think so.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Heather.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Correct. What is the common name of Vaccinium oxycoccos,
0:26:37 > 0:26:40a plant of the Ericaceae family with red berries
0:26:40 > 0:26:44that are cultivated for their juice and for use in sauces?
0:26:45 > 0:26:48- Cranberry.- Cranberry? Cranberry?
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Correct. Ericaceae's compost is often made from what substance,
0:26:51 > 0:26:53formed by the partial decomposition of organic matter
0:26:53 > 0:26:55and traditionally used as fuel?
0:26:57 > 0:26:58Peat?
0:26:58 > 0:27:00I'll go for peat.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02- Peat?- Peat is right.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04APPLAUSE
0:27:04 > 0:27:05Ten points for this.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08In Greek mythology, which god is ordered by Zeus
0:27:08 > 0:27:11to mould Pandora, the first human...?
0:27:11 > 0:27:14- Hephaestus.- Correct. You get a set of bonuses now
0:27:14 > 0:27:16on the subjunctive in Romance languages.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20The first person singular present subjunctive of the verb "to be"
0:27:20 > 0:27:25in Latin spells which three-letter acronym used in mobile telephony?
0:27:25 > 0:27:27- SIM?- S-I-M.- Er, S-I-M, SIM.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31Correct. The third person plural present subjunctive
0:27:31 > 0:27:33of the verb "ser", S-E-R, in Spanish,
0:27:33 > 0:27:36spells what given name of Irish origin?
0:27:36 > 0:27:38- Sean.- Sean.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Correct. What is the third person singular present subjunctive
0:27:41 > 0:27:42of the verb "to be" in French?
0:27:42 > 0:27:46It appears on the cover of United Kingdom passports.
0:27:46 > 0:27:47Honi soit...
0:27:47 > 0:27:50- Soit.- Is it soit? - Yeah, that sounds right.
0:27:50 > 0:27:51Er, soit.
0:27:51 > 0:27:52Correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54- In zoology... - CLOSING GONG
0:27:54 > 0:27:56And at the gong, Southampton University have 80,
0:27:56 > 0:27:57Manchester have 200.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59APPLAUSE
0:28:03 > 0:28:05Well, you were great fun in the music round in particular,
0:28:05 > 0:28:09and I'm very sorry we're saying goodbye to you, Southampton,
0:28:09 > 0:28:10but someone's got to go.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12Manchester, 200, another terrific performance from you.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14We shall look forward to seeing you in the semifinals.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16Many congratulations to you.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19I hope you can join us for the last of the quarterfinals next time.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23- But until then, it's goodbye from Southampton University. - Goodbye.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25- It's goodbye from Manchester University.- Goodbye.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29APPLAUSE