0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28APPLAUSE
0:00:29 > 0:00:30Hello.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34Welcome to the penultimate match in this year's University Challenge.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36Last time, we saw Trinity College, Cambridge,
0:00:36 > 0:00:39win the first place in next week's final.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Tonight, we'll discover who they'll be playing.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45If one discounts the disdain with which they greeted a bonus set
0:00:45 > 0:00:47on Keynesian economics,
0:00:47 > 0:00:49which was clearly way too easy for them, the team
0:00:49 > 0:00:52from Somerville College, Oxford, have an unblemished record so far,
0:00:52 > 0:00:55with victories against Pembroke College, Cambridge,
0:00:55 > 0:00:58and York University in rounds one and two and then
0:00:58 > 0:00:59Clare College, Cambridge, and
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Southampton University in the quarterfinals.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Let's meet them for the fifth time.
0:01:04 > 0:01:09Hello. I'm Sam Walker from Stafford and I'm studying physics.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Hello. I'm Zack Vermeer from Sydney, Australia, and I study law.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15- And their captain. - Hi. I'm Michael Davies.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17I'm from Blackburn in Lancashire
0:01:17 > 0:01:20and I'm studying politics, philosophy and economics.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21Hi. I'm Chris Beer.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24I'm from Blyborough, Lincolnshire, and I study English literature.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27APPLAUSE
0:01:29 > 0:01:33The team from the London School Of Oriental And African Studies
0:01:33 > 0:01:36have proved that being a specialist institution isn't necessarily
0:01:36 > 0:01:37a handicap in this contest,
0:01:37 > 0:01:41having beaten the universities of Southampton and Reading
0:01:41 > 0:01:42in rounds and two
0:01:42 > 0:01:45and Cardiff University in their first quarterfinal.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48After a defeat against Trinity College, Cambridge,
0:01:48 > 0:01:50they redeemed themselves with another win
0:01:50 > 0:01:54over Queens University, Belfast, to secure their place here tonight.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57Let's meet them for the sixth time.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Hello. My name's Maeve Weber. I'm from Knebworth in Hertfordshire
0:02:00 > 0:02:04and I'm reading for a BA in Ancient Near East Studies.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08Hi. I'm Luke Vivian-Neal from Lusaka in Zambia and I study Chinese.
0:02:08 > 0:02:09This is their captain.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12Hi. I'm Peter McKean. I'm from Wallington in south London
0:02:12 > 0:02:15and I'm reading for an MA in African History.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19Hi. I'm James Figueroa from Surrey and I'm reading African Studies
0:02:19 > 0:02:21and Development Studies.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23APPLAUSE
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Shall we just do it and not recite the rules?
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Fingers on buzzers, then. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36Originally signed by 12 countries, a treaty in force since 1961
0:02:36 > 0:02:40guarantees the continuation of peaceful research and the banning...
0:02:41 > 0:02:42CERN.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45I'm afraid you lose five points. ..and the banning of military
0:02:45 > 0:02:48and nuclear activity in which large area of the globe?
0:02:49 > 0:02:51- Antarctica.- Correct.
0:02:53 > 0:02:54Antarctic Treaty.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58The first set of bonuses are on an economist, SOAS.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Essay On Population is an influential work by which
0:03:01 > 0:03:06political economist, born in Surrey in 1766?
0:03:06 > 0:03:07- Malthus.- Correct.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Malthus's views on population increase were used as
0:03:10 > 0:03:15a justification for the harshness of the reforms of 1834 to which law?
0:03:18 > 0:03:20THEY CONFER
0:03:29 > 0:03:30Corn Laws.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32No, it was the Poor Law.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35And often incorrectly thought to refer to Mathus's
0:03:35 > 0:03:38contributions to the thinking on population, the expression
0:03:38 > 0:03:43"dismal science" was coined in 1849 by which Scottish-born historian?
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Macaulay? Thomas Babington Macaulay?
0:03:51 > 0:03:52- Macaulay.- No, it's Carlyle.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Ten points for this.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56A Danish play, withdrawn two months before it was due to open
0:03:56 > 0:04:00in Copenhagen in January 2013, and a painting by the South African
0:04:00 > 0:04:04artist Marlene Dumas, bought by the National Portrait Gallery
0:04:04 > 0:04:06in London and displayed in November 2012,
0:04:06 > 0:04:12both have as their subject which British singer who died aged 27...?
0:04:13 > 0:04:14Amy Winehouse.
0:04:14 > 0:04:15Correct.
0:04:18 > 0:04:19These bonuses, SOAS,
0:04:19 > 0:04:24are on much-quoted instances of the word "famous".
0:04:24 > 0:04:25Firstly, for five points,
0:04:25 > 0:04:29"Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us."
0:04:29 > 0:04:31These words appear in which book of the apocrypha,
0:04:31 > 0:04:34also known as The Wisdom Of Sirach?
0:04:34 > 0:04:35Ecclesiasticus?
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Ecclesiasticus.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42Correct. "Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial."
0:04:42 > 0:04:45Which statesman says those words in
0:04:45 > 0:04:48Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War?
0:04:52 > 0:04:54- Pericles.- You think Pericles?
0:04:54 > 0:04:56- Pericles.- Correct.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59"In the future, everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes."
0:04:59 > 0:05:03These are the words of which US artist, born in 1927?
0:05:03 > 0:05:05- Andy Warhol. - Correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10With the atomic number 24, which element is a hard, lustrous
0:05:10 > 0:05:12metal that forms a tough oxide coat on...?
0:05:14 > 0:05:15Sodium.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17No. I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20It derives its name from the Greek for "colour",
0:05:20 > 0:05:23because of the brilliant appearance of its compounds.
0:05:25 > 0:05:26Chromium.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Chromium is correct, yes.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Right, your bonuses are on astronomy, SOAS.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38The Helix Nebula, Saturn Nebula and the yellow supergiant Sadalmelik
0:05:38 > 0:05:41are all found in which constellation of the zodiac?
0:05:51 > 0:05:53Taurus?
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Taurus.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56No, it's Aquarius.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Serpentarius, meaning "snake holder",
0:05:58 > 0:06:01is a former name of which constellation
0:06:01 > 0:06:03that straddles the celestial equator?
0:06:03 > 0:06:05It's the location of Barnard's Star.
0:06:09 > 0:06:10You think what?
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Sirius?
0:06:13 > 0:06:15He said "constellation".
0:06:15 > 0:06:18Yeah, but it's on the equator. That's how you work out dog days.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24So it would be Cano Major or one of those ones?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Nominate you?
0:06:26 > 0:06:27Sirius.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29No. It's Ophiuchus.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32And finally, Sagittarius A* is an astronomical radio source
0:06:32 > 0:06:34in the centre of our galaxy
0:06:34 > 0:06:37and is believed to be the location of what kind of object,
0:06:37 > 0:06:39which, in this case, has a mass of between
0:06:39 > 0:06:42two and five million times that of the sun?
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Supermassive black hole.
0:06:45 > 0:06:46Supermassive black hole.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Yes, it's a black hole - it's BELIEVED to be supermassive.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54An example being the tiresome assertion that the word "posh"
0:06:54 > 0:06:57is an acronym for "port out, starboard home"
0:06:57 > 0:06:59on ships between Britain and India,
0:06:59 > 0:07:02what two-word term is used in linguistics to denote
0:07:02 > 0:07:06a pervasive belief in false word and phrase origins?
0:07:10 > 0:07:12Urban myth.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14No. Somerville, one of you buzz?
0:07:15 > 0:07:16Fermi.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18No. It's folk etymology.
0:07:18 > 0:07:19Ten points for this.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22"Memorable as the most characteristic incarnation
0:07:22 > 0:07:25"of the secular spirit of the papacy of the 15th century."
0:07:25 > 0:07:28These words from the 1902 Encyclopaedia Britannica
0:07:28 > 0:07:31refer to which figure, born in 1431?
0:07:31 > 0:07:33I'll accept his given name and surname,
0:07:33 > 0:07:36or his regnal name and number as pontiff.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39Alexander VI.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Correct. Rodrigo Borgia.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43APPLAUSE
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Your bonuses, Somerville, are on a London churchyard.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Buried in St Pancras Old Churchyard,
0:07:48 > 0:07:51what is the surname of the composer with the forenames Johann Christian,
0:07:51 > 0:07:53known as the London member of his family?
0:07:53 > 0:07:55He died in 1782.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57- Bach.- Bach.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Correct. The family tomb of which neoclassical
0:07:59 > 0:08:02architect in St Pancras Old Churchyard is thought to have been
0:08:02 > 0:08:04an influence on Giles Gilbert Scott's design
0:08:04 > 0:08:06for the red telephone box?
0:08:06 > 0:08:10Born 1753, he gives his name to a museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17It's a bit too late for Nash, I think.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21- Just try Nash.- Nash.
0:08:21 > 0:08:22No. It's Sir John Soane.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25Buried in the same churchyard, the sculptor John Flaxman was,
0:08:25 > 0:08:31from 1775, a noted designer of jasperware for which English potter?
0:08:33 > 0:08:35- Try Wedgwood.- Wedgwood.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Wedgwood is correct. We're going to take a picture round.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42For your picture starter, you'll see a hemicycle depicting the seats won
0:08:42 > 0:08:46by the political parties at a recent European general election.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Ten points if you can name the country.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56Spain.
0:08:56 > 0:08:57Spain is right, yes.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03That was the outcome of the 2012 Spanish general election.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06Your bonuses are three more hemicycles showing the seats won
0:09:06 > 0:09:09by political parties in recent European elections.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11In each case, name the country.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Firstly, for five, from an election held in 2011.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Denmark?
0:09:22 > 0:09:23Germany, maybe, with the Ds?
0:09:23 > 0:09:25No. It's not Germany.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29You think Denmark? I think Italy.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Zack, are you thinking Italy as well?
0:09:33 > 0:09:35I really am not sure.
0:09:38 > 0:09:39It's too small...
0:09:40 > 0:09:42- Denmark.- Denmark's correct.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Secondly, from an election in 2010.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48THEY CONFER
0:09:49 > 0:09:52The Netherlands? I don't know. I'm just guessing. Or Belgium?
0:09:56 > 0:09:59There are lots of Vs - that sounds Dutch to me.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06I'm thinking "E/G" is like Ecologists/Green.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Dutch. The Netherlands.
0:10:09 > 0:10:10No. It's Belgium.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13And finally, from an election held, again, in 2011.
0:10:19 > 0:10:20Oh, this has got to be Ireland.
0:10:20 > 0:10:21Yeah.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24Yes. Ireland.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Yes, of course. Ten points for this.
0:10:26 > 0:10:30Born 1878, which French chemist gives his name to a reaction
0:10:30 > 0:10:32between protein and carbohydrate
0:10:32 > 0:10:34that results in non-enzymic browning,
0:10:34 > 0:10:37for example, in toasting bread?
0:10:39 > 0:10:40Guingard.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Nope.
0:10:42 > 0:10:43Maillard.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Maillard is right, yes.
0:10:48 > 0:10:53Somerville, these bonuses are on a designer.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Born in Paris in 1949, which designer came to prominence
0:10:56 > 0:10:57when he was commissioned in 1982
0:10:57 > 0:11:00to refurbish the Elysee Palace apartments
0:11:00 > 0:11:02of President Francois Mitterrand?
0:11:03 > 0:11:04What you thinking?
0:11:04 > 0:11:09- You've got to know designers. - Why do I know designers?
0:11:09 > 0:11:12You'd be round the right age. Saint Laurent?
0:11:12 > 0:11:14We can try it. Yves Saint Laurent.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16No. It's Philippe Starck.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19Both designed by Starck, the Asahi Beer Hall,
0:11:19 > 0:11:23topped with a 360-ton structure resembling a golden flame,
0:11:23 > 0:11:24and the Nani Nani Building,
0:11:24 > 0:11:28described by him as "a monster" are in which Asian capital?
0:11:28 > 0:11:30Tokyo? Asahi's Japanese beer.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32- Tokyo.- Correct.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34Starck designed the Hot Bertaa kettle
0:11:34 > 0:11:38and the Max Le Chinois colander for which Italian kitchenware company,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41noted for its use of pressed stainless steel?
0:11:41 > 0:11:42- Alessi.- Alessi?
0:11:42 > 0:11:44- Alessi, yes.- Alessi.
0:11:44 > 0:11:45Alessi is correct.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Ten points for this.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49What links words with the following meanings?
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Closed, plain curve,
0:11:51 > 0:11:54every point of which is equidistant from a given fixed point.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Mother of Edward VII.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Location of the Royal Academy.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02Tube lines.
0:12:02 > 0:12:03Yes.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05London Underground lines. Yes.
0:12:08 > 0:12:13Somerville, these bonuses are on the artist Ford Madox Brown.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Which English city commissioned Brown to paint murals
0:12:15 > 0:12:17for the interior of its town hall?
0:12:17 > 0:12:21Their titles include Crabtree Watching The Transit Of Venus,
0:12:21 > 0:12:23and The Opening Of The Bridgewater Canal.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25- I think this might be Manchester. - Manchester.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Correct. The historian Thomas Carlyle
0:12:27 > 0:12:30appears as an observer in which painting by Ford Madox Brown,
0:12:30 > 0:12:33begun in 1852? Its central figures are muscular labourers,
0:12:33 > 0:12:35digging a hole in a Hampstead street.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37- Work.- Work.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40Correct. A closet drama by which Romantic poet inspired
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Brown's Manfred On The Jungfrau,
0:12:42 > 0:12:45in the collection of the Manchester City Art Gallery?
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Its title character is depicted along with a chamois hunter
0:12:48 > 0:12:50on a snowy Alpine peak.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52It's inspired by Byron I think.
0:12:53 > 0:12:54They want the poet, don't they?
0:12:54 > 0:12:57- Yeah.- Yeah, go for that.- Byron?
0:12:57 > 0:12:58Byron.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01Byron is correct. Ten points for this. Listen carefully -
0:13:01 > 0:13:03given a circle of diameter R,
0:13:03 > 0:13:06inscribed a square of side length R,
0:13:06 > 0:13:10what is the probability that a randomly chosen point in the square
0:13:10 > 0:13:12will be contained inside the circle?
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Two thirds.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20Anyone like to buzz from Somerville?
0:13:22 > 0:13:24Two thirds pi.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Pi over four. Ten points for this.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28"Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait."
0:13:28 > 0:13:30This advice on writing fiction is often attributed
0:13:30 > 0:13:32to which prolific author?
0:13:32 > 0:13:36A frequent collaborator with Charles Dickens, he's best known...
0:13:36 > 0:13:38Bulwer-Lytton.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42A frequent collaborator with Charles Dickens,
0:13:42 > 0:13:44he's best known for novels of sensation
0:13:44 > 0:13:46that include Armadale, No Name...
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Wilkie... Wilkie Collins.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Correct.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54APPLAUSE
0:13:54 > 0:13:58You get a set of bonuses, SOAS, on information dispersal.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01Now used almost entirely in a derogatory sense,
0:14:01 > 0:14:03what word for the spreading of information comes from
0:14:03 > 0:14:05the name for a committee of cardinals
0:14:05 > 0:14:08founded in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV?
0:14:08 > 0:14:09Propaganda.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Correct. Who pioneered the field of public relations
0:14:12 > 0:14:14and the manipulation of public opinion,
0:14:14 > 0:14:16calling it the engineering of consent?
0:14:16 > 0:14:18A nephew of Sigmund Freud,
0:14:18 > 0:14:21he was the author in 1928 of the work Propaganda.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25THEY CONFER
0:14:28 > 0:14:31He was Minister Of Information in the First World War.
0:14:31 > 0:14:32And he was...
0:14:35 > 0:14:36Max Beaverbrook.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38No. It's Edward Bernays.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41Which 2002 television documentary series by Adam Curtis
0:14:41 > 0:14:44explained how Bernays repackaged Freud's ideas
0:14:44 > 0:14:48for the purposes of public relations in the US?
0:14:48 > 0:14:50Documentary or programme?
0:14:52 > 0:14:54It's not going to be Mad Men, then, is it?
0:14:58 > 0:14:59Don't know.
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Selling Politics.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02It's The Century Of The Self.
0:15:02 > 0:15:03Time for a music round.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of classical music.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10All you have to do to get ten points is give me the name of the composer.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:15:19 > 0:15:22- Saint-Saens. - It is Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27So that was based on a dance of death -
0:15:27 > 0:15:29a dance led by skeletons or by Death himself.
0:15:29 > 0:15:33For your bonuses, you'll hear three more pieces of classical music
0:15:33 > 0:15:36intended to evoke the macabre, or which are associated with it.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39For each one, I simply want the name of the composer.
0:15:39 > 0:15:40Firstly, this composer.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:15:49 > 0:15:51THEY CONFER
0:15:55 > 0:15:59- Mussorgsky?- I can't think of anything else.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00Mussorgsky.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03No. It's Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Secondly, this composer.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Is it Rachmaninoff?
0:16:26 > 0:16:27Rachmaninoff?
0:16:27 > 0:16:28Rachmaninoff.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31No. It's Liszt. It's part of Totentanz.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34And finally, this composer.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:16:39 > 0:16:41JS Bach.
0:16:41 > 0:16:42It is - part of the Toccata and Fugue.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Ten points for this.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47"The state is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class,
0:16:47 > 0:16:50"used to break the resistance of adversaries of that class."
0:16:50 > 0:16:55Which political figure made that statement in the 1924 work
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Foundations Of Leninism?
0:16:59 > 0:17:00Trotsky.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02No. Anyone?
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Joseph Stalin.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05It was Joseph Stalin. Yes.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Somerville, your bonuses are on ophthalmology.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12What term describes the adjustment of the refractive
0:17:12 > 0:17:13power of the lens of an eye,
0:17:13 > 0:17:17enabling images of objects at different distances to be focused?
0:17:22 > 0:17:24THEY CONFER
0:17:30 > 0:17:31Gren.
0:17:31 > 0:17:32Gren.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34No. It's accommodation.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Secondly, what is the name of the ring of striated smooth muscle,
0:17:38 > 0:17:41whose contraction and relaxation controls accommodation?
0:17:43 > 0:17:44Parts of the eye.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Cornea. Eyelash.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Erm...
0:17:49 > 0:17:50You got any ideas?
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Er...
0:17:53 > 0:17:55I think it's down to a guess.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Ocular sphincter?
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Ocular sphincter?
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Very interesting idea! No. It's the ciliary muscle or body.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04And finally, the focusing power of the lens
0:18:04 > 0:18:07is measured as the reciprocal of its focal length in metres.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09What is the unit of optical power called?
0:18:15 > 0:18:17It's not focal length...
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Afraid I don't know.
0:18:23 > 0:18:24Any ideas?
0:18:28 > 0:18:30R-Refractive index.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32No. It's dioptre. Ten points for this.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Which mountain range gives its name
0:18:34 > 0:18:36to a language family that includes Hill Mari...
0:18:38 > 0:18:39The Caucasuses.
0:18:39 > 0:18:40No.
0:18:40 > 0:18:45..Hill Mari, Meadow Mari, Tundra Nenets, Finnish and Hungarian?
0:18:45 > 0:18:49The range is one of the conventional boundaries between Europe and Asia.
0:18:51 > 0:18:52The Urals.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54Urals is correct, yes.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59These bonuses, Somerville, are on squirrels in literature.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03In Romeo and Juliet, which supernatural figure is described as
0:19:03 > 0:19:07the fairy's midwife whose chariot is an empty hazelnut
0:19:07 > 0:19:09made by the joiner squirrel?
0:19:12 > 0:19:13Queen Mab.
0:19:13 > 0:19:14It is.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17Which historical figure wrote an epigraph in 1772
0:19:17 > 0:19:20on the death of a pet squirrel, Mungo, given by him as a gift
0:19:20 > 0:19:22to the young daughter of friends
0:19:22 > 0:19:25while on a diplomatic journey from the colonies to Great Britain?
0:19:31 > 0:19:33Thomas Gray wrote one about a cat.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35I don't know.
0:19:38 > 0:19:39Go for Thomas Gray. Gray.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41No, Benjamin Franklin.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44"Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected."
0:19:44 > 0:19:47These words appear in the 1967 play Loot
0:19:47 > 0:19:50by which dramatist who died the same year?
0:19:50 > 0:19:52- Joe Orton.- Joe Orton.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54Correct. Ten points for this.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Which five-letter adverb links the first word of a statement
0:19:57 > 0:20:00by Winston Churchill on the Battle of Britain
0:20:00 > 0:20:02and Urban Fantasy by Neil Gaiman...?
0:20:02 > 0:20:03Never.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Never is right.
0:20:07 > 0:20:11Your bonuses are operas inspired by Shakespeare's plays.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14The only extant opera setting of Measure For Measure
0:20:14 > 0:20:17is Das Liebesverbot, first performed in 1836.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20An early work by which composer?
0:20:20 > 0:20:21Wagner.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24Correct. Which British composer's adaptation of The Tempest
0:20:24 > 0:20:27premiered at Covent Garden in 2004 and won the Olivier Award
0:20:27 > 0:20:30for Outstanding Achievement in Opera the following year?
0:20:30 > 0:20:31Modern British.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34I don't know, sorry.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41Tippit, but he's dead, I think.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43Tippit.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45No, Thomas Ades.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47With a final fugue based very loosely
0:20:47 > 0:20:50on the Seven Ages Of Man speech from As You Like It,
0:20:50 > 0:20:54Falstaff is a work of 1893 by which composer?
0:20:54 > 0:20:56- Is that Verdi?- Yeah.
0:20:56 > 0:20:57Verdi.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00It is, yes. Time for a second picture round.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02For your picture starter, you're going to see a painting
0:21:02 > 0:21:04by an Italian Renaissance artist.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Ten points if you can name the artist.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12Raphael.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14No, one of you buzz from Somerville.
0:21:16 > 0:21:17Donatello.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20No, it's by Botticelli, The Banquet In The Pine Woods.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24So, picture bonuses shorty. Ten points for this starter question.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Associated with the Restoration, which figure was both
0:21:27 > 0:21:31a dramatist whose works include The Relapse and The Provoked Wife?
0:21:31 > 0:21:32Vanbrugh.
0:21:32 > 0:21:33Correct, yes.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39We go back to the picture round for the bonuses.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Three more Renaissance paintings depicting banquets.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45In each case I want the name of the artist.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Which Italian artist painted this?
0:21:50 > 0:21:53THEY CONFER
0:22:14 > 0:22:16- Let's have it, please. - Tintoretto.
0:22:16 > 0:22:17No, it's Veronese.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19Identify this Flemish artist.
0:22:24 > 0:22:25Bruegel.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27No, it's van Cleve.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29And finally, another Italian artist.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38THEY CONFER
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Any ideas?
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Tintoretto or Titian, I don't know.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50- Tintoretto or Titian. - No, I don't think it's Tintoretto.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53OK. Try Titian.
0:22:53 > 0:22:54Titian.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57No, it's Tintoretto, The Wedding Feast At Cana.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Right, ten points for this.
0:22:59 > 0:23:00Chiefly used in philosophy,
0:23:00 > 0:23:04the inherent nature or essence of a person or thing
0:23:04 > 0:23:07is known by what term derived from the Latin for what?
0:23:11 > 0:23:12Qualia.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15No. Anyone like to buzz from SOAS?
0:23:19 > 0:23:20Entelechy.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23No, it's quiddity. Ten points for this.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Thought to be the subject of the only first-hand accounts
0:23:25 > 0:23:29of the entry of a large meteoroid into the Earth's atmosphere,
0:23:29 > 0:23:31what is the name of the event
0:23:31 > 0:23:33that destroyed around 80 million trees over...?
0:23:33 > 0:23:35Tunguska.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36Correct.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42SOAS, these bonuses are on a royal palace.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45In Jerome K Jerome's Three Men In A Boat,
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Harris proposes a visit to a tourist attraction
0:23:47 > 0:23:48where the ill-founded words,
0:23:48 > 0:23:51"We'll just walk round for ten minutes then go and get some lunch."
0:23:51 > 0:23:55To which attraction at which royal palace was he referring?
0:23:55 > 0:23:57The maze at Hampton Court Palace.
0:23:57 > 0:23:58Correct.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02In the Lower Orangery of Hampton Court, The Triumphs of Caesar
0:24:02 > 0:24:05is a set of nine canvases by which Italian artist,
0:24:05 > 0:24:08a court painter to Ludovico Gonzaga of Mantua?
0:24:13 > 0:24:14Raphael.
0:24:14 > 0:24:15No, it's Mantegna.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18Which cardinal gives his name to a closet in the palace that carries
0:24:18 > 0:24:21his motto, "Dominvs Michi Adjutor" - "the Lord is my helper"?
0:24:21 > 0:24:22Wolsey.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25Right. 3½ minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29After the death in 1788 of Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender,
0:24:29 > 0:24:32what name and number did his Jacobite supporters give
0:24:32 > 0:24:34to his brother...?
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Henry IX.
0:24:36 > 0:24:37Correct.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Your bonuses, Somerville, are on words that can be typed using
0:24:42 > 0:24:47only the middle row of characters on a standard QWERTY keyboard.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49In each case, give the word from the description.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53Firstly, the pure knight of Arthurian legend.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57In Malory's work, he's the son of Lancelot and Elaine.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59THEY CONFER
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Galahad.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06Correct. A leguminous fodder crop with clover-like leaves.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08It's known as lucerne.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16A-S-D-F...
0:25:16 > 0:25:18G-H...
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Come on, let's have it, please.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23We don't know.
0:25:23 > 0:25:24It's alfalfa.
0:25:24 > 0:25:28And finally, the US state whose settlements include Sitka,
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Ketchikan and Fairbanks.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31Alaska.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Correct. Ten points for this.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37Over 700km long, the Karun is a major river of which country?
0:25:37 > 0:25:40It rises in the Zagros mountains west of Isfahan
0:25:40 > 0:25:43and flows into the Shatt al-Arab.
0:25:43 > 0:25:44Iran.
0:25:44 > 0:25:45Correct.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51This set of bonuses, SOAS, are on linear algebra.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54In each case I want the name of the described scale or quantity
0:25:54 > 0:25:57associated to the square matrix M.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01A scala lambda for which there exists a non-zero vector V
0:26:01 > 0:26:04such that M multiplied by V equals lambda times V.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12Venezuela.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14No, it's igon value.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17The sum of the entries of the main diagonal of M.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23- Come on, let's crack on.- Pass.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25It's the trace.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27An alternating sum of products of entries of M,
0:26:27 > 0:26:31which in the case of the two by two matrix with top row AB
0:26:31 > 0:26:35and bottom row CD, is equal to AD minus BC.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Inverse.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40No, it's the determinant. Ten points for this.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46When written in hexadecimal, the decimal number 251 spells
0:26:46 > 0:26:50the abbreviation of which popular website?
0:26:52 > 0:26:54BBC.
0:26:54 > 0:26:55Anyone want to buzz from Somerville?
0:26:57 > 0:26:58Facebook.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Right, yes.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Bonuses this time on members of the United Nations, Somerville.
0:27:05 > 0:27:06In addition to Egypt,
0:27:06 > 0:27:09three other African countries were original members of the UN.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Ethiopia and South Africa were two -
0:27:12 > 0:27:14which West African country was the third?
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Liberia.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Correct. Which original member of the UN held joint membership with
0:27:20 > 0:27:24Egypt between 1958 and '61 before resuming individual membership?
0:27:27 > 0:27:28Syria.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32Correct. Formerly part of Malaysia, which country achieved independence
0:27:32 > 0:27:34and became a separate member of the UN in 1965?
0:27:34 > 0:27:35Singapore.
0:27:35 > 0:27:36Correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38What sequential link is shared by the novels
0:27:38 > 0:27:42Mr Midshipman Hornblower by CS Forester,
0:27:42 > 0:27:44The Magician's Nephew...?
0:27:44 > 0:27:46They were written after... They were first novels,
0:27:46 > 0:27:49but they were written after... They weren't written first.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52They're prequels. You get bonuses on the words of Franklin D Roosevelt.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55In each case, give the three words that complete the following quotations.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58- Firstly, from a speech of... - GONG RINGS
0:27:58 > 0:28:02The School of Oriental and African Studies have 105.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Somerville College, Oxford, have 190.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12Well, there is absolutely no shame in going out in the semifinal.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15Many congratulations to you, SOAS. We have to say goodbye to you.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16Somebody had to win.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19Somerville College, 190 - another pretty convincing
0:28:19 > 0:28:20and entertaining performance from you.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22We shall look forward to seeing you in the final.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25Thank you, both of you, very much for joining us.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28I hope you can join us next time for the long-awaited final.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31Until then, it's goodbye from the School of Oriental and African studies.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35It's goodbye from Somerville College, Oxford.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37- ALL: Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40APPLAUSE