0:00:20 > 0:00:22'University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25'Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.'
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello. The end is nigh.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34Around 130 teams had ambitions of getting here tonight.
0:00:34 > 0:00:39After 3,039 studio questions, only the best two in Britain remain.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42In just under 30 minutes, one of them will take the trophy
0:00:42 > 0:00:44and join the immortals.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46Now, Trinity College Cambridge arrived here by beating
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Christchurch, Oxford, Peterhouse, Cambridge,
0:00:49 > 0:00:51the London School of Oriental and African Studies,
0:00:51 > 0:00:54and the reigning champions, the University of Manchester,
0:00:54 > 0:00:56whom they had to beat twice,
0:00:56 > 0:00:59both in the quarter-finals and again in the semis.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Let's meet the Trinity team for the last time.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Hi. I'm Matthew Ridley.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07I'm from Northumberland, and I'm studying economics.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Hi. I'm Filip Drnovsek Zorko. I'm from Slovenia,
0:01:09 > 0:01:12- and I'm studying natural sciences. - And their captain.
0:01:12 > 0:01:13Hello. I'm Ralph Morley.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16I'm from Ashford in Kent, and I'm studying classics.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Hello. I'm Richard Freeland.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21I'm from Cowbridge in Glamorgan, and I'm studying mathematics.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25APPLAUSE
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Now, the team from Somerville College, Oxford,
0:01:28 > 0:01:31also arrived with a fearsome reputation.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34They've beaten Pembroke College, Cambridge, York University,
0:01:34 > 0:01:37Clare College, Cambridge, Southampton University
0:01:37 > 0:01:39and the London School of Oriental and African Studies.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42Let's say hello to the Somerville team for the last time.
0:01:42 > 0:01:47Hello. I'm Sam Walker from Stafford, and I'm studying physics.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Hello. I'm Zach Vermeer from Sydney, Australia, and I study law.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52And let's re-meet their captain.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Hi, I'm Michael Davies, I'm from Blackburn in Lancashire,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58and I'm studying politics, philosophy and economics.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Hi, I'm Chris Beer.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03I'm from Blyborough in Lincolnshire, and I'm studying English literature.
0:02:03 > 0:02:07APPLAUSE
0:02:08 > 0:02:11OK. The rules are constant as the Northern Star,
0:02:11 > 0:02:14so fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Who's this? In childhood, he was given the Duchy of Aquitaine,
0:02:17 > 0:02:19his mother's patrimony.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22As a youth, he joined a rebellion against his father, the king.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24As king himself, he spent years
0:02:24 > 0:02:27in military campaigns outside England...
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Richard the Lionheart?
0:02:29 > 0:02:30It is indeed Richard I, yes.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33APPLAUSE
0:02:33 > 0:02:35First blood to you, then, Somerville,
0:02:35 > 0:02:37and your bonuses are on wealth and riches.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39Firstly, "the chief enjoyment of riches
0:02:39 > 0:02:42"consists in the parade of riches."
0:02:42 > 0:02:46Which Scottish economist wrote those words in a work of 1776?
0:02:46 > 0:02:49- Adam Smith?- Yeah.
0:02:49 > 0:02:50Adam Smith?
0:02:50 > 0:02:51It was, yes.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53"To be clever enough to get all that money,
0:02:53 > 0:02:56"one must be stupid enough to want it."
0:02:56 > 0:02:59Who wrote those words in The Wisdom Of Father Brown?
0:02:59 > 0:03:01- GK Chesterton.- GK Chesterton.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Correct. Give the word that completes this remark,
0:03:03 > 0:03:06which has been attributed to L Ron Hubbard.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08"If you really want to make a million,
0:03:08 > 0:03:11"the quickest way is to start your own..." What?
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Religion?
0:03:13 > 0:03:16- I think it is, yeah. - Cynical! Religion.
0:03:16 > 0:03:17Religion is correct, yes.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20APPLAUSE
0:03:20 > 0:03:22Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24In mathematics, what word describes a polynomial
0:03:24 > 0:03:26having all its terms of the same degree,
0:03:26 > 0:03:29or a linear equation with zero constant term?
0:03:29 > 0:03:33In more general speech, it refers to something uniform in nature...
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Homogeneous.
0:03:36 > 0:03:37Correct.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40APPLAUSE
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Your first bonuses, Trinity College, are on the River Danube.
0:03:43 > 0:03:461992 saw the opening of a 170km-long canal
0:03:46 > 0:03:48linking the Danube with which river,
0:03:48 > 0:03:51an important right bank tributary of the Rhine?
0:03:53 > 0:03:55THEY CONFER
0:03:55 > 0:03:56Somewhere in Germany.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59Isn't the Moselle in France?
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Moselle's in the West.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03- The Elba?- Elba?
0:04:03 > 0:04:05No, it's the River Main.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08What two-word name is given to that section of the Danube
0:04:08 > 0:04:09which flows through a gorge,
0:04:09 > 0:04:12forming part of the border between Serbia and Romania?
0:04:14 > 0:04:17- Anyone know?- That's a bit too far away from Slovenia.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23- The blue Danube?- Blue Danube?
0:04:23 > 0:04:25No, it's the Iron Gates.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28And around a third of the Danube's total length is in which country,
0:04:28 > 0:04:31whose capital is often described as the Queen of the Danube?
0:04:32 > 0:04:34The...Czech Republic?
0:04:34 > 0:04:37Hang on, what's on the Danube? Belgrade is on the Danube.
0:04:37 > 0:04:38Romania?
0:04:38 > 0:04:39Hungary?
0:04:39 > 0:04:42I reckon it might be Serbia.
0:04:42 > 0:04:43HE WHISPERS
0:04:43 > 0:04:44Hungary?
0:04:44 > 0:04:46Hungary is correct. Ten points for this.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48What two-word term was coined in 1967
0:04:48 > 0:04:51by the physician Edward de Bono
0:04:51 > 0:04:53to describe a problem-solving method...
0:04:53 > 0:04:54Natural thinking.
0:04:54 > 0:04:55Correct.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57APPLAUSE
0:04:58 > 0:05:03Your bonuses are on the German scientist Gustav Kirchhoff.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07In the early 1860s, Kirchhoff worked with his countryman
0:05:07 > 0:05:09Robert Bunsen to discover rubidium
0:05:09 > 0:05:12and which other metallic element? The most alkaline
0:05:12 > 0:05:16and electro-positive element, it's used in photoelectric cells.
0:05:16 > 0:05:17THEY CONFER
0:05:17 > 0:05:18Caesium?
0:05:18 > 0:05:22Correct. Kirchhoff and Bunsen used which brand of optics
0:05:22 > 0:05:24to discover these two new elements?
0:05:24 > 0:05:27THEY CONFER
0:05:27 > 0:05:28Spectroscopy?
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Correct. And finally, Kirchhoff formulated two laws
0:05:32 > 0:05:34concerning electrical networks.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36The first states that the algebraic sum of the currents
0:05:36 > 0:05:40in all the conductors that meet in a point is what value?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43THEY CONFER
0:05:46 > 0:05:47Zero.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Zero is correct. We'll take a picture round.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52For your picture starter, you will see a stamp
0:05:52 > 0:05:55depicting a scene from a novel by Jane Austen.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58For ten points, I want you to give me the name of the novel.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Is that Pride And Prejudice?
0:06:03 > 0:06:04It is indeed, yes.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Where Lizzie Bennett comes face-to-face
0:06:08 > 0:06:09with Mr Darcy's portrait.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12So, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Pride And Prejudice,
0:06:12 > 0:06:16the Royal Mail released a set of stamps based on Jane Austen's works.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19You'll see three more stamps from the set,
0:06:19 > 0:06:23and for each, all you have to do is name the novel represented.
0:06:23 > 0:06:24Firstly:
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Could that be Northanger Abbey?
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Northanger Abbey is... Northanger Abbey?
0:06:32 > 0:06:33Correct. Secondly:
0:06:34 > 0:06:38Is that Persuasion, possibly, down in Lyme Regis?
0:06:38 > 0:06:39Persuasion?
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Correct. Finally:
0:06:42 > 0:06:45- Sense and Sensibility? - I think so.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47- Sense and Sensibility? - No, it's Emma.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Ten points for this. According to Kipling,
0:06:49 > 0:06:52what aren't to be found east of Suez?
0:06:52 > 0:06:55Hillaire Belloc is said to have suggested adding the words
0:06:55 > 0:06:58"Candidates should not attempt more than six of these..."
0:07:00 > 0:07:01The Ten Commandments.
0:07:01 > 0:07:02Indeed.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04APPLAUSE
0:07:05 > 0:07:09Right, your bonuses are on man, gods and mangoes.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13Which mogul emperor is said to have planted 100,000 mango trees
0:07:13 > 0:07:16at a location in present-day Bihar state?
0:07:16 > 0:07:20Noted for his religious tolerance, he reigned from 1556 to 1605.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23- Akbar the Great?- Akbar.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Akbar the Great is correct.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Which political leader's image appears
0:07:27 > 0:07:29on the so-called mango reliquaries?
0:07:29 > 0:07:32They commemorate in wax or plastic the gifts of the fruit
0:07:32 > 0:07:34he presented in 1968 to propaganda teams
0:07:34 > 0:07:37working in universities and factories?
0:07:38 > 0:07:41THEY CONFER
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Mao Tse-tung? Or... I don't know.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48- Could be.- I don't know.
0:07:51 > 0:07:52Mao Tse-tung?
0:07:52 > 0:07:56Correct. In Hindu statuary, which elephant-headed deity
0:07:56 > 0:07:59is often depicted seated beneath a mango tree?
0:07:59 > 0:08:00Ganesh.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Correct. Another starter question.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Which city's cathedral has been described as
0:08:04 > 0:08:07"the decorated cathedral par excellence"?
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Known as Isca Dumnoniorum in Roman times...
0:08:10 > 0:08:11Exeter.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Exeter is correct.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15APPLAUSE
0:08:15 > 0:08:18And your bonuses are on the works of Emile Zola
0:08:18 > 0:08:22in the words of JG Patterson in the 1912 work, A Zola Dictionary.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26In each case, give the French title of the novel from the description.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Firstly, the story of that terrific landslide
0:08:29 > 0:08:31which overwhelmed the second empire.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34It's a story of war, grim and terrible,
0:08:34 > 0:08:36of a struggle to the death between two great nations.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41THEY CONFER
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Pass.
0:08:44 > 0:08:45It's La Debacle.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Secondly, a terrible study of the effects of drink
0:08:47 > 0:08:51on the moral and social condition of the working class in Paris.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54The effects of intemperance are shown with grimness of realism
0:08:54 > 0:08:56and uncompromising force.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59THEY CONFER
0:08:59 > 0:09:00Are we going to try that?
0:09:00 > 0:09:01Nominate Ridley.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Therese Raquin?
0:09:03 > 0:09:04No, it's L'Assommoir.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07And finally, a novel dealing with the labour question
0:09:07 > 0:09:09in its special relation to coal mining.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11The scene of the book is laid in the north of France
0:09:11 > 0:09:14at a time preceding and during a great strike.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17- Nominate Ridley again. - Therese Raquin?
0:09:17 > 0:09:19No, it's Germinal. Ten points for this.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22Listen carefully and answer as soon as your name is called.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24If two parallel plates separated by one millimetre
0:09:24 > 0:09:28are charged to a potential difference of 1,000 volts,
0:09:28 > 0:09:30what in volts per metre
0:09:30 > 0:09:32is the electric field strength between them?
0:09:33 > 0:09:34One.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?
0:09:37 > 0:09:38A million?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40One million is correct, yes.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42APPLAUSE
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Right, your bonuses this time, Trinity College,
0:09:45 > 0:09:49are on fine art and music in the words of historian Kenneth Clark.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52"The Verrocchio is light, nimble, smiling and clothed.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56"The Michelangelo is vast, defiant and nude."
0:09:56 > 0:09:59These words from Clark's Civilisation compared two sculptures.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03Which biblical figure is the subject of both?
0:10:03 > 0:10:04David.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Correct. Clark likens the differences between the two Davids
0:10:07 > 0:10:09to the progression between two composers,
0:10:09 > 0:10:11both born in the second half of the 18th century.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12Who are they?
0:10:12 > 0:10:14THEY CONFER
0:10:16 > 0:10:17Mozart and Beethoven?
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Correct. Clark compares the departure of the lovers
0:10:19 > 0:10:23in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte to the 1712 painting
0:10:23 > 0:10:24Pilgrimage to Cythera.
0:10:24 > 0:10:25Who was the artist?
0:10:27 > 0:10:29- Yes, 1712.- Could that be...
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Velasquez?
0:10:35 > 0:10:37No, it's Watteau. Ten points for this.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Which well-known song has been described as beginning with
0:10:40 > 0:10:43a series of questions, to which the answers are...
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Blowing in the wind?
0:10:45 > 0:10:47No. I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50..to which the answers are "no", "no", "no", and "no",
0:10:50 > 0:10:52and "get them yourself".
0:10:57 > 0:10:59Are any of you going to buzz?
0:10:59 > 0:11:02You're going to kick yourselves. It's Jerusalem. Ten points for this.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06Which year saw the births of Marlon Brando and Jimmy Carter,
0:11:06 > 0:11:07the deaths of Lenin and Franz Kafka...
0:11:09 > 0:11:101926?
0:11:10 > 0:11:12No, you lose five points, I'm afraid.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14The first performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue,
0:11:14 > 0:11:17and Britain's first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald?
0:11:17 > 0:11:191924.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Correct.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22APPLAUSE
0:11:23 > 0:11:26Somerville, these bonuses are on the solar system.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29Assign each of the eight planets a numeral
0:11:29 > 0:11:31based on its order outward from the sun,
0:11:31 > 0:11:34with Mercury being 1 and so on,
0:11:34 > 0:11:37and then give the answer to the following calculations.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Firstly, the sum of all moonless planets.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Mercury, Venus...
0:11:43 > 0:11:47THEY CONFER
0:11:49 > 0:11:50Three.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Three is correct, yes,
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Secondly, the third most massive planet
0:11:54 > 0:11:57multiplied by the planet with the largest satellite.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58Uranus?
0:11:59 > 0:12:01THEY CONFER
0:12:01 > 0:12:03It's Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus. They get smaller.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Yeah, but it's the one with the most massive satellite.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Times seven, times something.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12I think Saturn might have the biggest.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16It's going to be Jupiter. 35, yeah.
0:12:16 > 0:12:1735.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20No, it's 40. It's Neptune times Jupiter.
0:12:20 > 0:12:25And finally, the least dense planet minus the second-largest planet.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Saturn and Mercury...
0:12:27 > 0:12:30Least dense? The gaseous planets...
0:12:30 > 0:12:31THEY CONFER
0:12:41 > 0:12:42Six.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44No, it's zero, because they're both Saturn.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46- Oh!- Right.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48We're going to take a music round now.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54For ten points, I just want the name of the composer, please.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57PIANO AND STRING MUSIC PLAYS
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Rachmaninov?
0:13:03 > 0:13:04It is Rachmaninov.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07Piano Concerto number two in C minor.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10That was one of the top 30 most popular choices
0:13:10 > 0:13:14among listeners of Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Your bonuses are three more classical pieces
0:13:16 > 0:13:18that made that list, and in each case,
0:13:18 > 0:13:20I want the composer and the title of the piece.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Firstly, the composer and the name of this piece
0:13:22 > 0:13:25that came number 28 on the list.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29CHORAL MUSIC
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Allegri's Miserere.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Correct. Secondly, the composer and the name of this work,
0:13:35 > 0:13:36at number six on the list.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39STRING MUSIC
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Sounds romantic, doesn't it?
0:13:49 > 0:13:52THEY CONFER
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Barbour's Adagio for Strings?
0:13:58 > 0:13:59No, it's Mahler's fifth.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02And finally, the composer and the name of this piece,
0:14:02 > 0:14:04the number one choice.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07STRING MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:07 > 0:14:09THEY CONFER
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Vaughan Williams, and that's The Lark Ascending.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15It is. Yes, well done. Ten points for this.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Which philosophical text of the 2nd century AD
0:14:17 > 0:14:19begins with these words:
0:14:19 > 0:14:22"From my grandfather Verus, I learned good morals..."
0:14:24 > 0:14:25The Meditations Of Marcus Aurelius.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Correct.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29APPLAUSE
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Right, these bonuses are on philosophy.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Which British philosopher argued that the traditional conception
0:14:36 > 0:14:38of the human mind as an entity occupying a physical body
0:14:38 > 0:14:41is based on what he called a category mistake,
0:14:41 > 0:14:45in the 1949 work The Concept Of The Mind?
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Is this...Ryle?
0:14:47 > 0:14:49I've never heard of Ryle.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52THEY CONFER
0:14:52 > 0:14:53It rings a bell for me.
0:14:53 > 0:14:54Ryle.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56It is, Gilbert Ryle, yes.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59By taking this step, Ryle challenged the traditional distinction
0:14:59 > 0:15:01between the body and the mind,
0:15:01 > 0:15:03delineated by which French philosopher? Born 1596...
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Descartes.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08Correct. What four-word phrase did Ryle use to describe the doctrine
0:15:08 > 0:15:11underpinning what he viewed as the logically incoherent
0:15:11 > 0:15:14dogma of Cartesian dualism?
0:15:14 > 0:15:17Is it the ghost in the machine or something like that?
0:15:18 > 0:15:21- It's the right number of words. - OK, ghost in the machine.
0:15:21 > 0:15:22Correct. Ten points for this.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26Mammals such as dogs that are born naked,
0:15:26 > 0:15:30blind and immobile are termed altricial.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33What word is used to describe those such as horses
0:15:33 > 0:15:34which are born with hair...
0:15:36 > 0:15:38- Precocious? - No, you lose five points.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41..such as horses which are born with hair or fur, able to walk
0:15:41 > 0:15:43and with their eyes open?
0:15:47 > 0:15:49They're called precocial, not precocious,
0:15:49 > 0:15:51that's a different thing altogether.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53Ten points for this, listen carefully.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57Ten of Canada's 13 provinces and territories are larger than the UK.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00For ten points, name two of the three that are smaller.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Correct, the other one is New Brunswick.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10You get a set of bonuses, this time on dual-gender French nouns.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13That is, those that have identical spelling
0:16:13 > 0:16:16but a different meaning depending on if they're masculine or feminine.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20In each case, I want you to spell the word described.
0:16:20 > 0:16:21Firstly which noun, when masculine,
0:16:21 > 0:16:25means a kitchen utensil used to shape a finished dish,
0:16:25 > 0:16:29and when feminine, indicates a bivalve mollusc,
0:16:29 > 0:16:31often served in a wine and onion sauce?
0:16:31 > 0:16:35- Escargot?- No, maybe moule. - Moule?- Like mussels.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38- M-O-U-L-E.- Correct.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Secondly, which short word, when masculine,
0:16:41 > 0:16:45means a way or method, and when feminine, fashion?
0:16:45 > 0:16:49- Mode.- M-O-D-E.- Correct.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52Which word means a turn, trick or outing when masculine, and when
0:16:52 > 0:16:57feminine, a tall, narrow structure with its base on the ground?
0:16:57 > 0:17:00- Tour? T-O-U-R.- Well done. Ten points for this.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05Including the lyrics "Tears, idle tears"
0:17:05 > 0:17:08and "Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white..."
0:17:09 > 0:17:11- The Princess?- Indeed, well done.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18Right, your bonuses are on religion in AD 373.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22St Ephrem, who died in 373, was a noted writer of hymns
0:17:22 > 0:17:24and treatises in which liturgical language,
0:17:24 > 0:17:27a variety of Middle Aramaic?
0:17:27 > 0:17:30- Is it Syriac?- Yeah, could be. - Syriac.- Correct.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33A prominent opponent of Arianism,
0:17:33 > 0:17:35which Bishop of Alexandria died in 373?
0:17:35 > 0:17:39He gives his name to a creed that focuses on the doctrine of the trinity.
0:17:39 > 0:17:40- Athanasius.- Athanasius.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42St Athanasius is correct.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Around 373, which saint founded the Abbey of Marmoutier,
0:17:45 > 0:17:48just outside the present-day city of Tours?
0:17:48 > 0:17:51There's a church dedicated to him on Trafalgar Square.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55- I don't know, St Martin was from Tours.- St Martin?
0:17:55 > 0:17:59St Martin of Tours is right. Ten points for this.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Greta Garbo as Melpomene, the muse of tragedy,
0:18:02 > 0:18:05and Virginia Woolf as Clio, the muse of history, are two of
0:18:05 > 0:18:08the prominent people who appear in the mosaics
0:18:08 > 0:18:10paving the floor of which...
0:18:10 > 0:18:11- The National Gallery.- Correct.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18These bonuses are on tea production in West Asia.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20Producing mainly for the domestic market,
0:18:20 > 0:18:25Rize province is a major tea-growing area in which West Asian country,
0:18:25 > 0:18:28one of the world's largest producers of tea?
0:18:28 > 0:18:29- Could it be, um...- Iran?
0:18:29 > 0:18:32- Did Iran produce tea? - Does Afghanistan make tea?
0:18:32 > 0:18:37- Does Pakistan make tea? - Shall I say Iran? Or Turkey?
0:18:37 > 0:18:39- Go for Iran.- Iran.
0:18:39 > 0:18:40No, it's Turkey.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Tea accounts for around 20% of the agricultural output
0:18:43 > 0:18:45of which country on the Black Sea?
0:18:45 > 0:18:49It produced a large proportion of the tea in the former USSR.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52- Georgia?- Georgia?- Correct.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55The provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran,
0:18:55 > 0:18:57south of the Caspian Sea,
0:18:57 > 0:19:00- are tea-growing areas in which country?- Is that Iran?
0:19:00 > 0:19:04- Iran?- That is Iran, yes. Right, another picture round.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07For your picture starter you will see a photograph of a scientist.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09To get ten points, you just have to name him.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18- Alfred Nobel? - Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Paul Dirac?
0:19:21 > 0:19:23No, it's Nikola Tesla.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Picture bonuses shortly, ten points for this starter question.
0:19:25 > 0:19:30Born 1821, which French chemist gives his name to a reagent
0:19:30 > 0:19:32that contains a magnesium atom...
0:19:33 > 0:19:35- Grignard.- Grignard is correct.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40So, Tesla, as you know, who was the picture starter,
0:19:40 > 0:19:44gives his name to the SI unit of magnetic flux density.
0:19:44 > 0:19:45For your bonuses, you're going to see
0:19:45 > 0:19:48portraits of three more scientists who've given names to SI units.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51In each case, I want the name of the SI unit.
0:19:51 > 0:19:56Firstly for five, the SI unit named after this scientist.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59- Um...- Joule? Could that be Joule?
0:19:59 > 0:20:02- Henri?- Joule sounds...- Joule?
0:20:02 > 0:20:05No, it's farad, that's Michael Faraday. Secondly...
0:20:06 > 0:20:09- Is that Volta, maybe?- Volt.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Volt is right, that is Alessandro Volta. And finally...
0:20:14 > 0:20:18- Is that Joule?- I don't know. We don't have much to go by here, do we?
0:20:18 > 0:20:24No. Darkness and light. Manichaeism. Um...
0:20:24 > 0:20:28- Joule.- No, it's watt, that's James Watt. Ten points for this.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Idealised rational acceptability under epistemically ideal conditions
0:20:31 > 0:20:35is a definition given by the US philosopher Hilary Putnam
0:20:35 > 0:20:38for what common five-letter word?
0:20:38 > 0:20:40- Truth.- Correct.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46These bonuses, Somerville College, are on physics.
0:20:46 > 0:20:50A space station in the low Earth orbit of 300km altitude
0:20:50 > 0:20:54experiences what acceleration due to Earth's gravity?
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Give your answer in metres per second squared
0:20:56 > 0:20:58to the nearest whole number, please.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01- Four?- Isn't it...
0:21:01 > 0:21:04Isn't it, is it not 9.8 or is that something different?
0:21:04 > 0:21:08- No, because that's on the Earth. Four.- Four.- No, it's nine.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11In a circular orbit, the square of the orbital speed is equal to
0:21:11 > 0:21:14acceleration multiplied by what quantity?
0:21:16 > 0:21:19- It's not the radius or anything like that, is it?- Say radius...
0:21:19 > 0:21:23- Sorry?- Cube of the radius? - Come on!- Cube of the radius.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25No, it's just the radius, bad luck.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29Therefore with an orbital radius of approximately 6,700km,
0:21:29 > 0:21:32what is the space station's speed in kilometres per second
0:21:32 > 0:21:33to the nearest whole number?
0:21:38 > 0:21:41- Oh, um...2,000.- 2,000.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44No, it's eight. Ten points for this.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48What two-word name links a Colm Toibin novel about Henry James,
0:21:48 > 0:21:51a nickname of the Surrey batsmen Sir Jack Hobbs,
0:21:51 > 0:21:54and a Doctor Who character played by Roger Delgado and John Simm?
0:21:54 > 0:21:56The Master.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58The Master is right, yes.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Your bonuses are on a term from the Greek.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06For the Greek meaning a stoppage, what noun means a slowing
0:22:06 > 0:22:08or a halting of the normal flow of body fluids
0:22:08 > 0:22:10or a state of equilibrium?
0:22:12 > 0:22:15- Clog, blockage... Clot? - That doesn't sound right.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17- Just try it.- Clot.
0:22:17 > 0:22:18No, it's stasis.
0:22:18 > 0:22:22In ancient Greek history, for example, the works of Thucydides,
0:22:22 > 0:22:25the term stasis denotes what political situation?
0:22:27 > 0:22:30What would you... How would you describe it?
0:22:30 > 0:22:33- War?- Rebellion?
0:22:33 > 0:22:35Civil war? I've no idea.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37War...
0:22:37 > 0:22:42No, it's specifically civil strife and party factional feuds.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45And finally, "Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue
0:22:45 > 0:22:48"Pour of tor and distances."
0:22:48 > 0:22:52These words begin the poem Ariel by which US-born writer?
0:22:53 > 0:22:55- Is that Sylvia Plath?- Could be.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57- Plath.- Sylvia Plath is correct.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Four minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02For what do the letters P-I-E stand
0:23:02 > 0:23:04when denoting the reconstructable common ance...
0:23:04 > 0:23:06- Proto-Indo-European.- Correct.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Trinity College, your bonuses are on words coined in the 20th century.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15In each case, give the decade in which the following originated
0:23:15 > 0:23:18according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Firstly, for five points. Cubism, isotopes and profiteer.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22- 1900s, I'd say.- 1900s.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24No, it's the 1910s. Second.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28Disinformation, hallucinogenic, meritocracy and modem.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35- Let's have it, please.- '50s.
0:23:35 > 0:23:371950s is right.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41Finally, biodiversity, liposuction, wannabe and shopaholic.
0:23:41 > 0:23:421990s.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44No, it's the 1980s. Ten points for this.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Meanings of what four-letter word include
0:23:46 > 0:23:49a colourful monocotyledon flowering plant,
0:23:49 > 0:23:52a type of quartz and the contractile disc between the cornea
0:23:52 > 0:23:55and the lens of the eye?
0:23:55 > 0:23:56Rose.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58No. Anyone want to buzz from Trinity?
0:24:01 > 0:24:02Iris.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03Iris is correct, yes.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Bonuses are on opening words in Shakespeare, Trinity College.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13Twelfth Night begins, "If music be the food of love, play on."
0:24:13 > 0:24:16What five words follow, and your answer has to be exact?
0:24:19 > 0:24:20"Give me excess of it."
0:24:20 > 0:24:23Correct. The opening two lines of Henry V call
0:24:23 > 0:24:27"For a muse of fire, that would ascend"... what?
0:24:34 > 0:24:35"The stairs of heaven."
0:24:35 > 0:24:37No, it's "The brightest heaven of invention."
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Julius Caesar begins, "Hence!
0:24:39 > 0:24:41"Home, you idle creatures, get you home."
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Followed by what four-word question?
0:24:46 > 0:24:48"What is your trade?"
0:24:48 > 0:24:49No, "Is this a holiday?"
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Two minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Cape Agulhas is the southernmost point of which country?
0:24:54 > 0:24:56It's name in Portuguese means "needles."
0:24:56 > 0:24:58It lies 20 degrees east of the Greenwich Meridian,
0:24:58 > 0:25:02marking the boundary between two of the world's major oceans.
0:25:05 > 0:25:06South Africa.
0:25:06 > 0:25:07Correct.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12These bonuses, Trinity College, are on palaeontology.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15Mississippian and Pennsylvanian are subdivisions of which period
0:25:15 > 0:25:17of the Palaeozoic era?
0:25:17 > 0:25:19Carboniferous.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Correct. Having wingspans of up to 70cm,
0:25:21 > 0:25:24meganeura is a genus of the Carboniferous period
0:25:24 > 0:25:28that resembled and is related to which present-day insect?
0:25:28 > 0:25:29Dragonfly.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30Correct.
0:25:30 > 0:25:34Around 20cm long, hylonomus, which lived during the late Carboniferous,
0:25:34 > 0:25:37is thought to be the earliest member of which class of vertebrates?
0:25:38 > 0:25:42- Birds?- No, definitely not birds.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Come on, let's have it, please.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- Say amphibians?- Amphibians.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48No, it's reptiles. Ten points for this starter question.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Shrewsbury Castle, Tintern Abbey
0:25:50 > 0:25:53and St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney are among prominent buildings
0:25:53 > 0:25:58made of what specific stone known by the abbreviation ORS?
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Old red sandstone.
0:26:02 > 0:26:03Correct.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08These bonuses are on a Middle Eastern state, Trinity College.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Muscat is the capital of which sultanate
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- on the southeast coast of the...? - Oman.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Correct. The Omani territories of Madha
0:26:15 > 0:26:18and Musandam are enclaves within which sovereign state?
0:26:21 > 0:26:22Saudi Arabia.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24No, it's the United Arab Emirates.
0:26:24 > 0:26:28The Gulf of Oman is connected to the Persian Gulf by which strait?
0:26:28 > 0:26:29Strait of Hormuz.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34In the binomial of the common intestinal bacterium E.coli,
0:26:34 > 0:26:37what genus is denoted by the letter E?
0:26:39 > 0:26:40Escherichia.
0:26:40 > 0:26:41Correct.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45Your bonuses are on bears, Trinity College.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49A bear and ragged staff appear on the arms of which English county?
0:26:49 > 0:26:52- GONG SOUNDS - Warwickshire.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Correct and at the gong.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Somerville College, Oxford have 135.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Trinity College, Cambridge have 240.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Well, you were two terrific teams
0:27:12 > 0:27:14and, Trinity, you're the champions, well done.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17To present the trophy is one of our leading writers.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20As well as being a prolific and award-winning novelist,
0:27:20 > 0:27:22she's written for the stage, radio and the press
0:27:22 > 0:27:24and has a considerable presence online.
0:27:24 > 0:27:25It's obviously some sort of compulsion.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28She received an OBE for services to literature in 2006
0:27:28 > 0:27:32and is the professor of new writing at Manchester University.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Please welcome Jeanette Winterson.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Welcome. Thanks very much for doing this.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46- What did you think? - Very impressive. Two great teams.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49If it had been me on either side, I would have got about 20 points,
0:27:49 > 0:27:51if that, and none of them on physics.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53What a surprise!
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Can I ask you to present the trophy to our winners,
0:27:55 > 0:27:58- Trinity College, Cambridge? - Yes, I'd love to.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00APPLAUSE
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Well done, that was brilliant. You looked very impressive.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06- Well done.- Thank you.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Great stuff, thank you.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10- Thank you very much.- Here we are.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13- This is for you. - Oh, thank you very much.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16I'm sorry it looks like something from The Hobbit.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18Thank you very much.
0:28:22 > 0:28:26Well, that's it. Congratulations to both our finalists
0:28:26 > 0:28:29and thanks to all the many teams who took part
0:28:29 > 0:28:30and demonstrated yet again that
0:28:30 > 0:28:33all this stuff about young people not knowing things is rubbish.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35I hope you can join us for the next series.
0:28:35 > 0:28:38Until then, though, it's goodbye from all of us. Goodbye.