0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:22 > 0:00:26Asking the questions... Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Eight teams made it to this stage of the contest.
0:00:32 > 0:00:33Three have already gone home,
0:00:33 > 0:00:36another three are through to the semifinals.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39They are Trinity College, Cambridge, Somerville College, Oxford,
0:00:39 > 0:00:41and Manchester University.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45They'll be joined by whichever team wins tonight because both have one
0:00:45 > 0:00:47quarterfinal victory already behind them,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50but it will be curtains for the losers.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52The London School of Oriental and African Studies
0:00:52 > 0:00:55beat Southampton University in round one,
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Reading in round two, and Cardiff in their first quarterfinal,
0:00:58 > 0:01:00but their second saw them
0:01:00 > 0:01:03take a hammering at the hands of Trinity College, Cambridge.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Let's see if they can find the form they need tonight.
0:01:05 > 0:01:10Hello, my name is Maeve Weber, I'm from Knebworth in Hertfordshire,
0:01:10 > 0:01:14and I am reading for a BA in Ancient Near-East studies.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Hi, I am Luke Vivian-Neal, from Lusaka in Zambia,
0:01:17 > 0:01:19and I study Chinese.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20And their captain.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Hi, I am Peter McKean, I am from Wallington in South London,
0:01:23 > 0:01:26and I'm reading for an MA in African History.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Hi, I'm James Figueroa, I'm from Surrey,
0:01:28 > 0:01:32and I'm reading African Studies and Development Studies.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34APPLAUSE
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Now, the team from Queen's University Belfast
0:01:39 > 0:01:40beat Aberdeen in round one,
0:01:40 > 0:01:43and Downing College, Cambridge in round two.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46They fell foul of Southampton University in their first
0:01:46 > 0:01:49quarterfinal match but then beat Clare College, Cambridge
0:01:49 > 0:01:53to find themselves now playing for the last semifinal place.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Let's meet them again.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Hi, I am Suzanne Cobain, I'm from County Down,
0:01:57 > 0:01:59and I am reading History.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Hello, I am Gareth Gamble from Lurgan in County Armagh
0:02:02 > 0:02:04and I'm studying Medicine.
0:02:04 > 0:02:05And let's meet their captain.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Hello, I am Joseph Greenwood, I'm from Manchester
0:02:07 > 0:02:10and I'm studying for a PhD in Irish Theatre.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15Hi, I am Alexander Green from Lytham in Lancashire
0:02:15 > 0:02:18and I'm studying for a PhD in Plasma Physics.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20APPLAUSE
0:02:23 > 0:02:24You all know the rules.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:26 > 0:02:30The Gorbals Goebbels, "a sort of thin white Mugabe"
0:02:30 > 0:02:34and "the PM's all-swearing eye" are nicknames...
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Alistair Campbell.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39HE LAUGHS
0:02:39 > 0:02:41No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45..are nicknames for which fictional spin doctor, played in the film...
0:02:46 > 0:02:47Malcolm Tucker.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Malcolm Tucker is correct, yes.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52APPLAUSE
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Right, so you get the first set of bonuses
0:02:54 > 0:02:56and a writ for libel goes to you, Queen's.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00SOAS, here are your bonuses, they are on destroyed artworks.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03Commissioned in 1894 by the University of Vienna
0:03:03 > 0:03:07but regarded as too controversial to be displayed as originally intended,
0:03:07 > 0:03:12Philosophy was a ceiling panel painting by which Austrian artist?
0:03:12 > 0:03:16It was destroyed in 1945 by retreating SS forces.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21- Klimt?- Correct.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Diego Rivera's Rockefeller Centre mural, entitled
0:03:24 > 0:03:28Man At The Crossroads, was destroyed in 1934 after the Mexican
0:03:28 > 0:03:31artist refused to remove the image of which revolutionary?
0:03:40 > 0:03:42- Pancho Villa?- No, it was Lenin.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46Which artist's appliqued tent, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With
0:03:46 > 0:03:511963 to 1995, was lost in the Momart warehouse fire of 2004?
0:03:51 > 0:03:53- Tracey Emin.- Correct.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55Ten points for this starter question.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Which island is this? Sold to Venice in about 1204,
0:03:58 > 0:04:02it was under Turkish rule from the 17th century to the 19th century,
0:04:02 > 0:04:06and had 15 years of autonomy before being annexed by Greece in 193...
0:04:08 > 0:04:09Crete.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Crete is correct.
0:04:11 > 0:04:12APPLAUSE
0:04:14 > 0:04:17SOAS, these bonuses are on an astronomer.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19In the late 17th century, a table of the positions of Jupiter's
0:04:19 > 0:04:23satellites and the discovery of several moons of Saturn
0:04:23 > 0:04:27were among the achievements of which Italian-French astronomer?
0:04:34 > 0:04:36- Cassini?- Cassini is right.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Cassini's table of Jupiter's satellites was
0:04:38 > 0:04:41used by the Danish astronomer Ole Romer in 1675
0:04:41 > 0:04:46to establish that what universal physical constant is finite?
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Gravity?
0:04:59 > 0:05:01- Gravity.- No, it is the speed of light.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05Cassini was the first of four successive generations of his family
0:05:05 > 0:05:07to serve as director of the observatory
0:05:07 > 0:05:08of which European capital?
0:05:13 > 0:05:17- Paris?- Sorry?
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Let's go with Paris.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25- Paris.- Paris is right. 10 points for this.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29When measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii,
0:05:29 > 0:05:34an atmospheric concentration rising from around 314 parts per million
0:05:34 > 0:05:36in 1959 to 3...
0:05:38 > 0:05:39- Carbon dioxide.- Correct.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41APPLAUSE
0:05:42 > 0:05:46Bonuses for you, Queen's, on chancellors of the exchequer.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49The gold standard was suspended on the outbreak
0:05:49 > 0:05:52of the First World War and briefly re-established in 1928
0:05:52 > 0:05:55when which Conservative was chancellor?
0:06:03 > 0:06:06- Stanley Baldwin? - No, it was Winston Churchill.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10Christ and Carrots was Churchill's nickname for which
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Labour chancellor, a Christian socialist,
0:06:12 > 0:06:13noted for his aestheticism?
0:06:22 > 0:06:25- Erm, Bevin? - No, that was Stafford Cripps.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29Finally, chancellor from '51 to '55, which Conservative was associated
0:06:29 > 0:06:34with the 1944 Education Act which is frequently referred to by his name?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38(Rab Butler.)
0:06:38 > 0:06:40- Rab Butler.- Correct.
0:06:40 > 0:06:4510 points for this. Written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who...?
0:06:45 > 0:06:46South Park.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:06:48 > 0:06:49Written by Trey Parker
0:06:49 > 0:06:52and Matt Stone, who described it as an atheist love letter to religion,
0:06:52 > 0:06:56which satirical musical premiered in the West End in 2013 and shares
0:06:56 > 0:06:58its named with the sacred text
0:06:58 > 0:07:01of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?
0:07:01 > 0:07:03- The Book Of Mormon.- Yes.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06APPLAUSE
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Right, your bonuses are on films of 1973, Queen's.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12Name the film from the description.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14Firstly, based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth,
0:07:14 > 0:07:16the story of an assassination attempt in France
0:07:16 > 0:07:20in the early 1960s. Edward Fox plays the title character.
0:07:20 > 0:07:21The Day Of The Jackal.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Correct. Directed by James William Guercio,
0:07:24 > 0:07:27a cult film about an Arizona Highway Patrol officer
0:07:27 > 0:07:29who aspires to become a detective.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33It's named, in part, after a model of Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
0:07:43 > 0:07:44No. Don't know.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47It's Electra Glide In Blue.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Finally, an Academy Award-winning film starring Paul Newman
0:07:49 > 0:07:52and Robert Redford as confidence tricksters attempting
0:07:52 > 0:07:54to cheat a criminal banker.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57- The Sting.- Correct. We are going to take a picture round.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01For your picture starter, you will see the crest of a specific
0:08:01 > 0:08:03agency with any helpful wording removed.
0:08:03 > 0:08:0610 points if you can name the organisation to which it belongs.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16- United States Supreme Court.- No. Anyone like to buzz from Queen's?
0:08:18 > 0:08:20European Court of Justice.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24No, it belongs to the Federal Bureau Of Investigation, the FBI.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Picture bonuses shortly,
0:08:26 > 0:08:28another 10 points at stake with this starter question.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30The Way Of All Flesh by Samuel Butler,
0:08:30 > 0:08:33The Man With The Golden Gun by Ian Fleming,
0:08:33 > 0:08:37Maurice by E.M. Forster, and Persuasion by Jane Austen
0:08:37 > 0:08:38all have what in common
0:08:38 > 0:08:41relating to the circumstances of their publication?
0:08:43 > 0:08:44Published after the author's death.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Correct. Posthumously, yes.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52So you will recall we saw the crest of the FBI.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55For your bonuses, three more crests of former or current
0:08:55 > 0:08:59international intelligence agencies for you to identify.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00Firstly, for five.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Is it MI5?
0:09:04 > 0:09:06It's certainly an English one.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Secret Intelligence Service?
0:09:11 > 0:09:13We'll say MI5.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16No, it's MI6, SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service.
0:09:16 > 0:09:17Secondly...
0:09:19 > 0:09:21The Stasi?
0:09:21 > 0:09:23It's Eastern German.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30It's the symbol of East Germany. Stasi?
0:09:30 > 0:09:31It is the Stasi.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34And finally, this one.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36- Mossad.- Correct.
0:09:36 > 0:09:37Ten points for this.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40Derived in part from the name of the muse of history in Greek mythology,
0:09:40 > 0:09:44what term was coined by the US academic Stanley Reiter
0:09:44 > 0:09:46to denote the study of economic history
0:09:46 > 0:09:50using statistics and computer analysis?
0:09:50 > 0:09:51Cliometrics?
0:09:51 > 0:09:52Correct.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55APPLAUSE
0:09:56 > 0:10:00These bonuses, SOAS, are on animal viruses.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03Firstly, denoting one of its most obvious symptoms, what common name
0:10:03 > 0:10:07is given to the non-contagious virus spread to ruminants
0:10:07 > 0:10:11by Culicoides imicola, a species of midge?
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Blue-tongue, or something like that?
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Foot-and-mouth, or something like that?
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Blue-tongue?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Blue-tongue?
0:10:22 > 0:10:23Correct.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26Named after the German town where it was first detected in dairy cows
0:10:26 > 0:10:29in 2011, which virus causes foetal malformations
0:10:29 > 0:10:32and stillbirths in cattle, sheep and goats?
0:10:32 > 0:10:35HE WHISPERS
0:10:35 > 0:10:39- Creutzfeldt? Does that ring any bells?- What, sorry?
0:10:39 > 0:10:42That's a long time before that, Creutzfeldt.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45- Um...- Don't know.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49No, it's the Schmallenberg virus.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53And finally, its name indicating the animal it infects, FIV
0:10:53 > 0:10:56is an immuno-deficiency virus, primarily transmitted through
0:10:56 > 0:11:01bite wounds. For what does the F in FIV stand?
0:11:03 > 0:11:05- Feline?- Yeah, probably feline. - Feline?
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Correct. Ten points for this.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Giving access to the Baltic,
0:11:09 > 0:11:11to a state reconstituted after the First World War,
0:11:11 > 0:11:14what two-word term denotes the tract of land
0:11:14 > 0:11:17that separated Pomerania from East Prussia?
0:11:17 > 0:11:19It was used as a pretext for war by Hitler...
0:11:21 > 0:11:22- Schleswig-Holstein?- No.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25I'm afraid you're going to get fined five points.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28It was used as a pretext for war by Hitler in 1939.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34- Polish Corridor?- It is the Polish Corridor, yes.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41Your bonuses, Queen's, are on Prussian generals.
0:11:41 > 0:11:46Along with August von Gneisenau, which Prussian general was prominent
0:11:46 > 0:11:50in reforming the Prussian Army after defeat by Napoleon in 1806?
0:11:50 > 0:11:52He died of wounds in 1813.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54THEY CONFER
0:11:55 > 0:12:02- Um... Von Kiesling?- Von what? - Kiesling?- Kiesling?- Yeah.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04Er, no, it's Scharnhorst.
0:12:04 > 0:12:09A pupil of Scharnhorst at the Berlin War Academy, which Prussian general
0:12:09 > 0:12:13is best known for his unfinished treaties on war published in 1832?
0:12:15 > 0:12:16No idea.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18No, um... Heldenberg.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21- Are you just making these names up? - Yeah.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23LAUGHTER
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Commendably honest! No, that was Clausewitz.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29A disciple of Clausewitz, which general was the architect
0:12:29 > 0:12:33of victories over Austria and France between 1866 and 1871?
0:12:33 > 0:12:37His nephew was the German chief of staff at the outbreak of World War I.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42- Er, nominate Campbell.- Schleiken?
0:12:42 > 0:12:46No, it was von Moltke, von Moltke. Ten points for this.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50At the end of the Roman Civil War, the Greek astronomer Sosigenes
0:12:50 > 0:12:53devised which long-lasting innovation? In general use in Europe
0:12:53 > 0:12:58until the late 16th century, it was superseded in Britain only in...
0:12:58 > 0:12:59The Julian calendar?
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Correct.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08Right. These bonuses, Queen's, are on a play by Shakespeare.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away
0:13:10 > 0:13:12is a song in which of Shakespeare's plays?
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Sometimes described as a problem play,
0:13:15 > 0:13:18it's his only work set in Vienna.
0:13:25 > 0:13:30- A Winter's Tale?- In Vienna? No, it's Measure For Measure.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33"More than our brother is our chastity."
0:13:33 > 0:13:37This line is delivered by which character in Measure For Measure?
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Her name means "consecrated to God" or "God's promise".
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- Nominate Campbell.- Grace? - No, it's Isabella.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54What two-word term denotes the type of plot device
0:13:54 > 0:13:57used by Shakespeare in Measure For Measure
0:13:57 > 0:14:00which results in Angelo believing he slept with Isabella?
0:14:04 > 0:14:07Um...yeah, misidentification?
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Er, no, it's the bed trick or a bed trick.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12We're going to take a music round now.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15For your music starter, you'll hear a classical song cycle.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19Ten points if you can give me the name of the British composer.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:24 > 0:14:27- Elgar.- Correct, yes, Where Corals Lie.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32That's from his Sea Pictures song cycle.
0:14:32 > 0:14:36For your bonus questions, you're going to hear three pieces of instrumental classical music,
0:14:36 > 0:14:38all associated with the sea.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40For each, I simply want the name of the composer.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Firstly, this French composer.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44LIVELY MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Saint-Saens?
0:15:11 > 0:15:13No, it's Debussy's La Mer.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16Secondly, another French composer.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:28 > 0:15:32- Ravel?- It is indeed. Une Barque Sur L'ocean.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34And finally, this British composer.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37FAST ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:50 > 0:15:53- Vaughan Williams?- I think it's Benjamin Britten.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57Yeah, Benjamin Britten.
0:15:58 > 0:15:59Benjamin Britten.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03You're correct, yes, it's his The Storm, from Four Sea Interludes.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05Ten points for this starter question.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Listen carefully - answer promptly.
0:16:07 > 0:16:12In centimetres cubed, what volume of one molar sulphuric acid is
0:16:12 > 0:16:18needed to neutralise 20cm cubed of 0.5 molar sodium hydroxide solution?
0:16:22 > 0:16:24- Ten.- No.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28- Five centimetres cubed? - Five is correct, yes.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37Right, your bonuses, Queen's, are on the United Nations.
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Within the United Nations,
0:16:38 > 0:16:41intergovernmental organisations and non-member states can apply
0:16:41 > 0:16:45for what status by which they can take part in debates but can't vote?
0:16:57 > 0:17:02- Nominate.- Candidate?- No, it's observer, permanent observer status.
0:17:02 > 0:17:07Two non-member states are currently observers. One is the Holy See.
0:17:07 > 0:17:12What became the second in 2012 after a resolution was passed by the General Assembly?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14- Palestine?- Correct.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17A permanent observer since 1974 when it had nine member states,
0:17:17 > 0:17:23which organisation has voting rights on the UN Food And Agriculture and World Trade Organisations?
0:17:32 > 0:17:37- I'll nominate Campbell.- NAFTA? - No, it's the European Union.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Ten points for this.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41The four-letter name of which British river
0:17:41 > 0:17:44appears at the end of the common names of the game bird
0:17:44 > 0:17:48Lagopus lagopus, the parasitic insect.
0:17:48 > 0:17:53- Ouse, O-U-S-E.- Correct. Usually pronounced "ooze", but you're right.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55It's confusing. Well done.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03Your bonuses are on sets of four, SOAS.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06The Dutch ornithologist and ethologist Niko Tinbergen
0:18:06 > 0:18:10formulated the four questions of causation, development, function
0:18:10 > 0:18:13and evolution used in the study of what area of zoology?
0:18:22 > 0:18:25- Animal behaviour?- I think so.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Animal behaviour.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29Correct.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Which French thinker began his new seminar on
0:18:32 > 0:18:36the four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis in January 1964?
0:18:41 > 0:18:43It could be Sartre.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51- Go for Sartre.- Sartre? - No, it was Lacan.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55And finally, which Ancient Greek philosopher attributed change
0:18:55 > 0:18:57to four different kinds of cause -
0:18:57 > 0:19:00material, formal, efficient and final?
0:19:11 > 0:19:12Aristotle.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Correct. Ten points for this.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Both derived from an old French word meaning "mixture",
0:19:16 > 0:19:21which two words mean "fruit preserved and cooked in syrup"
0:19:21 > 0:19:24and "decaying biological matter used as fertiliser"?
0:19:24 > 0:19:26BELL RINGS
0:19:26 > 0:19:30- Compote.- Looking for two words. Queen's?
0:19:31 > 0:19:33- Compote and compost.- Correct.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37APPLAUSE
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Your bonuses, Queen's, are on presidents of the Royal Society -
0:19:40 > 0:19:43presidents of the Royal Society from 1915 to 1920.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Which physicist revolutionised the knowledge of
0:19:45 > 0:19:48atomic structure by his discovery of the electron?
0:19:48 > 0:19:49THEY CONFER
0:19:51 > 0:19:54- Nominate.- JJ Thomson.- Correct.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Which early-20th century president of the Royal Society
0:19:56 > 0:19:59gives his name to the dispersion of electromagnetic
0:19:59 > 0:20:01radiation by particles that have a radius less than
0:20:01 > 0:20:04approximately one-tenth the wavelength of the radiation?
0:20:04 > 0:20:07THEY CONFER
0:20:07 > 0:20:09- Rayleigh, I think.- Rayleigh.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Rayleigh is correct, yes.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14And finally, which pioneer of antiseptic surgery was
0:20:14 > 0:20:18president of the Royal Society from 1890 to '95.
0:20:18 > 0:20:19- Joseph Lister.- Correct.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22We're going to take a picture round now. For your starter,
0:20:22 > 0:20:26you'll see a somewhat disobliging depiction of a political figure.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28For ten points, I want the name of the figure
0:20:28 > 0:20:33and the TV programme in which the depiction featured.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37It's Spitting Image and it's Betty Boothroyd.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40It is indeed Baroness Boothroyd, as she became...
0:20:40 > 0:20:42- APPLAUSE - ..Speaker of the House of Commons.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45Following on from that puppet, you'll see
0:20:45 > 0:20:47puppets depicting some of the programme's regular
0:20:47 > 0:20:50political targets, all of whom are now either lords or knights.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52You know how it is in Britain(!)
0:20:52 > 0:20:56Firstly for five, these two.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59- (That's Lord Kinnock and Roy Hattersley.- Yeah.)
0:20:59 > 0:21:02It's Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05It is indeed. And who are these two?
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Oh, it's David Steel and David Owen.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10- David Steel and David Owen.- Indeed.
0:21:10 > 0:21:15And finally, who are these three former cabinet ministers?
0:21:15 > 0:21:18(John Major, Heseltine and Hurd.)
0:21:18 > 0:21:20It's Heseltine, Major and Hurd.
0:21:20 > 0:21:21It is indeed. Yes.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23APPLAUSE
0:21:23 > 0:21:25And you've taken the lead.
0:21:25 > 0:21:26Right, ten points for this.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29In Ancient Rome, what festival held in mid-December was observed...
0:21:30 > 0:21:32- Saturnalia.- Correct.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35APPLAUSE
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Right, your bonuses, SOAS,
0:21:36 > 0:21:40are on names that have a unique last letter within their own category.
0:21:40 > 0:21:46For example, Obama and Polk in the category US presidents.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50Firstly, four countries have short English names with a unique
0:21:50 > 0:21:53last letter. Bangladesh and Iraq are two.
0:21:53 > 0:21:58The other two are both EU member states. Name either one.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02THEY CONFER
0:22:07 > 0:22:09(Denmark?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11- (It could be Denmark.- Yeah. OK.)
0:22:12 > 0:22:13- Denmark.- Correct.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15The other one is Luxembourg. Well done.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Three US states have a unique last letter. New York is one.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Which two landlocked, contiguous western states are the others?
0:22:27 > 0:22:28THEY WHISPER
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Utah?
0:22:33 > 0:22:34Contiguous. Utah.
0:22:36 > 0:22:40THEY CONTINUE TO WHISPER
0:22:40 > 0:22:41New Mexico? No...
0:22:44 > 0:22:49- Come on, let's have it, please.- Um, Utah and, um...- No, I needed both.
0:22:49 > 0:22:50I'm sorry.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53It's Wyoming and Utah. Bad luck.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56Two world capitals have English names with a unique last letter.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00One is Zagreb, which city on the River Dnieper is the other?
0:23:02 > 0:23:04- Kiev. It's got to be Kiev. Kiev. - Kiev is right.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Four-and-a-half minutes to go and ten points for this.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11The flag of which European country consists of three horizontal bands,
0:23:11 > 0:23:14that are the same colours reading downwards as the fly band
0:23:14 > 0:23:17of the Italian flag, the central section of the Dutch flag...
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Hungary.
0:23:20 > 0:23:21Yes!
0:23:21 > 0:23:23APPLAUSE
0:23:25 > 0:23:28Your bonuses are on shorter words that can be made using
0:23:28 > 0:23:30any of the letters of the word whimsical.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32In each case give the word from the definition.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35Firstly, the unstressed central vowel.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38For example, the first sound of the word "again" -
0:23:38 > 0:23:41in the International Phonetic Alphabet,
0:23:41 > 0:23:44it is represented by an inverted, lower case letter E.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47Oh...
0:23:47 > 0:23:49schwa.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51- Nominate.- Schwa.- Correct.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53From the Latin for eyelash,
0:23:53 > 0:23:56minute hairlike projections on the surface of some cells,
0:23:56 > 0:23:58they are used as a means of locomotion
0:23:58 > 0:24:00in some aquatic organisms.
0:24:00 > 0:24:01(Cilia.)
0:24:01 > 0:24:04- Cilia. - That's correct. You get the lead.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07A computer coding system that assigns numbers to letters,
0:24:07 > 0:24:09digits and symbols.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11It is a seven-bit binary code
0:24:11 > 0:24:14allowing for 128 characters to be represented.
0:24:14 > 0:24:18- ASCII.- Nominate. - ASCII.- ASCII is correct. Yes.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Ten points for this.
0:24:20 > 0:24:21What common mineral shares its name with
0:24:21 > 0:24:24the abbreviation used for the negotiations
0:24:24 > 0:24:26begun in the late-1960s between the USA and the USSR...
0:24:28 > 0:24:30- Salt.- Salt is correct. Yes.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32APPLAUSE
0:24:34 > 0:24:37These bonuses are on the summation of infinite series.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40If a sequence of real numbers has a convergent infinite sum,
0:24:40 > 0:24:42what is the limiting value of the sequence?
0:24:43 > 0:24:45- THEY CONFER - Come on.
0:24:47 > 0:24:48- One.- No, it's zero.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52In solving the Basel problem, Leonard Euler proved that the sum
0:24:52 > 0:24:55of the reciprocals of the positive square numbers is equal to what?
0:24:58 > 0:25:01A half?
0:25:01 > 0:25:04- A half. - No, pi squared divided by six.
0:25:04 > 0:25:05In base three arithmetic,
0:25:05 > 0:25:08what number has ternary expansion 0.2 recurring -
0:25:08 > 0:25:11a quantity equal to twice the sum of the reciprocals
0:25:11 > 0:25:13of the positive powers of three?
0:25:16 > 0:25:18THEY CONFER
0:25:18 > 0:25:20- Come on.- I'll nominate.- Eight. - No, it's one.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23There's two-and-a-half minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27What regnal name links the popes who excommunicated Elizabeth I,
0:25:27 > 0:25:28opposed the French Revolution,
0:25:28 > 0:25:31decreed the Immaculate Conception and signed the...?
0:25:32 > 0:25:33- Pius.- Pius is right.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37These bonuses now are on National Parks in England.
0:25:37 > 0:25:42In which National Park are Gaping Gill Cave, Mossdale Caverns
0:25:42 > 0:25:45and the limestone ravine known as Gordale Scar?
0:25:45 > 0:25:47- The Peak District. - No, the Yorkshire Dales.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51The Lymington and Beaulieu Rivers flow through which National Park?
0:25:51 > 0:25:53- The New Forest.- New Forest.- Correct.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Dunkery Beacon is the highest point in which National Park?
0:25:56 > 0:25:59- Oh, that's, um, the... I think it's the South Downs.- OK.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02- The South Downs.- No, it's Exmoor. Ten points for this.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05In Roman Britain, the hard ridge of craggy rocks
0:26:05 > 0:26:06known as the Great Whin Sill
0:26:06 > 0:26:09was used to advantage when planning and building...
0:26:09 > 0:26:12- Hadrian's Wall.- Correct.
0:26:12 > 0:26:13You take the lead.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Your bonuses are on the King James Bible.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17In each case, identify the book of the Old Testament
0:26:17 > 0:26:19from verses taken from its opening chapter.
0:26:19 > 0:26:23"Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair;
0:26:23 > 0:26:24"thou hast doves' eyes".
0:26:24 > 0:26:26- The Song of Solomon.- Correct.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29Secondly for five - "Moses my servant is dead;
0:26:29 > 0:26:31"now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou,
0:26:31 > 0:26:35"and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them,
0:26:35 > 0:26:37"even to the children of Israel".
0:26:37 > 0:26:39THEY CONFER
0:26:39 > 0:26:42(Joshua?)
0:26:42 > 0:26:43- Joshua.- Correct.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly,
0:26:47 > 0:26:49"nor standeth in the way of sinners,
0:26:49 > 0:26:52"nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful".
0:26:52 > 0:26:53THEY CONFER
0:26:53 > 0:26:55- That's Psalms.- Correct.
0:26:55 > 0:26:56Ten points for this.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59In cosmology, what term denotes the period beginning about three minutes
0:26:59 > 0:27:03after the big bang, when protons and neutrons started to form...
0:27:03 > 0:27:05- Inflation.- No.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09..bound states with each other? You lose five.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13- Coherence. - No, it's nucleosynthesis.
0:27:13 > 0:27:14Ten points for this.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17Laid out in the 17th century, which formal gardens in Paris
0:27:17 > 0:27:19are all that remain of a former palace...?
0:27:19 > 0:27:22Versailles.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25No, you lose five points. ..built for Catherine de Medici,
0:27:25 > 0:27:27that was destroyed by fire in 1871?
0:27:29 > 0:27:30The Jardin du Luxembourg.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32No, it's the Tuileries. Ten points for this.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Catmaran, corundum, pariah, patchouli and veranda
0:27:35 > 0:27:38are among English words that derived from which language of South India?
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Hindi.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43No, anyone to buzz from SOAS?
0:27:43 > 0:27:44- GONG BONGS - And at the gong,
0:27:44 > 0:27:49Queen's University, Belfast, have 145, SOAS have 165.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52APPLAUSE
0:27:53 > 0:27:54Well, you very nearly did it.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57You provided us with a lot of entertainment, Queen's.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59We'll have to say goodbye to you and thank you very much for playing.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02And, SOAS, many congratulations.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Semifinals! Who knows what after that, eh?
0:28:04 > 0:28:06Well, we do know what possibly after that.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08But good luck anyway and thank you very much.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11I hope you can join us next time for the first semifinal match,
0:28:11 > 0:28:14but until then it's goodbye from Queen's, Belfast.
0:28:14 > 0:28:15ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18It's goodbye from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20- ALL: Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23APPLAUSE