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'University Challenge.

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'Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.'

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Hello. The end is nigh.

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Around 130 teams had ambitions of getting here tonight.

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After 3,039 studio questions, only the best two in Britain remain.

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In just under 30 minutes, one of them will take the trophy

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and join the immortals.

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Now, Trinity College Cambridge arrived here by beating

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Christchurch, Oxford, Peterhouse, Cambridge,

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the London School of Oriental and African Studies,

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and the reigning champions, the University of Manchester,

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whom they had to beat twice,

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both in the quarter-finals and again in the semis.

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Let's meet the Trinity team for the last time.

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Hi. I'm Matthew Ridley.

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I'm from Northumberland, and I'm studying economics.

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Hi. I'm Filip Drnovsek Zorko. I'm from Slovenia,

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-and I'm studying natural sciences.

-And their captain.

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Hello. I'm Ralph Morley.

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I'm from Ashford in Kent, and I'm studying classics.

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Hello. I'm Richard Freeland.

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I'm from Cowbridge in Glamorgan, and I'm studying mathematics.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, the team from Somerville College, Oxford,

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also arrived with a fearsome reputation.

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They've beaten Pembroke College, Cambridge, York University,

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Clare College, Cambridge, Southampton University

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and the London School of Oriental and African Studies.

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Let's say hello to the Somerville team for the last time.

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Hello. I'm Sam Walker from Stafford, and I'm studying physics.

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Hello. I'm Zach Vermeer from Sydney, Australia, and I study law.

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And let's re-meet their captain.

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Hi, I'm Michael Davies, I'm from Blackburn in Lancashire,

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and I'm studying politics, philosophy and economics.

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Hi, I'm Chris Beer.

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I'm from Blyborough in Lincolnshire, and I'm studying English literature.

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APPLAUSE

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OK. The rules are constant as the Northern Star,

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so fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.

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Who's this? In childhood, he was given the Duchy of Aquitaine,

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his mother's patrimony.

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As a youth, he joined a rebellion against his father, the king.

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As king himself, he spent years

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in military campaigns outside England...

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Richard the Lionheart?

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It is indeed Richard I, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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First blood to you, then, Somerville,

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and your bonuses are on wealth and riches.

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Firstly, "the chief enjoyment of riches

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"consists in the parade of riches."

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Which Scottish economist wrote those words in a work of 1776?

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-Adam Smith?

-Yeah.

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Adam Smith?

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It was, yes.

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"To be clever enough to get all that money,

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"one must be stupid enough to want it."

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Who wrote those words in The Wisdom Of Father Brown?

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-GK Chesterton.

-GK Chesterton.

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Correct. Give the word that completes this remark,

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which has been attributed to L Ron Hubbard.

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"If you really want to make a million,

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"the quickest way is to start your own..." What?

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Religion?

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-I think it is, yeah.

-Cynical! Religion.

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Religion is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, ten points for this starter question.

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In mathematics, what word describes a polynomial

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having all its terms of the same degree,

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or a linear equation with zero constant term?

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In more general speech, it refers to something uniform in nature...

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Homogeneous.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Your first bonuses, Trinity College, are on the River Danube.

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1992 saw the opening of a 170km-long canal

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linking the Danube with which river,

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an important right bank tributary of the Rhine?

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THEY CONFER

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Somewhere in Germany.

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Isn't the Moselle in France?

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Moselle's in the West.

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-The Elba?

-Elba?

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No, it's the River Main.

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What two-word name is given to that section of the Danube

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which flows through a gorge,

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forming part of the border between Serbia and Romania?

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-Anyone know?

-That's a bit too far away from Slovenia.

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-The blue Danube?

-Blue Danube?

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No, it's the Iron Gates.

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And around a third of the Danube's total length is in which country,

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whose capital is often described as the Queen of the Danube?

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The...Czech Republic?

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Hang on, what's on the Danube? Belgrade is on the Danube.

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Romania?

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Hungary?

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I reckon it might be Serbia.

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HE WHISPERS

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Hungary?

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Hungary is correct. Ten points for this.

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What two-word term was coined in 1967

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by the physician Edward de Bono

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to describe a problem-solving method...

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Natural thinking.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on the German scientist Gustav Kirchhoff.

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In the early 1860s, Kirchhoff worked with his countryman

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Robert Bunsen to discover rubidium

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and which other metallic element? The most alkaline

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and electro-positive element, it's used in photoelectric cells.

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THEY CONFER

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Caesium?

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Correct. Kirchhoff and Bunsen used which brand of optics

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to discover these two new elements?

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THEY CONFER

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Spectroscopy?

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Correct. And finally, Kirchhoff formulated two laws

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concerning electrical networks.

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The first states that the algebraic sum of the currents

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in all the conductors that meet in a point is what value?

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THEY CONFER

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Zero.

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Zero is correct. We'll take a picture round.

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For your picture starter, you will see a stamp

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depicting a scene from a novel by Jane Austen.

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For ten points, I want you to give me the name of the novel.

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Is that Pride And Prejudice?

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It is indeed, yes.

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Where Lizzie Bennett comes face-to-face

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with Mr Darcy's portrait.

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So, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Pride And Prejudice,

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the Royal Mail released a set of stamps based on Jane Austen's works.

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You'll see three more stamps from the set,

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and for each, all you have to do is name the novel represented.

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Firstly:

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Could that be Northanger Abbey?

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Northanger Abbey is... Northanger Abbey?

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Correct. Secondly:

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Is that Persuasion, possibly, down in Lyme Regis?

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Persuasion?

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Correct. Finally:

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-Sense and Sensibility?

-I think so.

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-Sense and Sensibility?

-No, it's Emma.

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Ten points for this. According to Kipling,

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what aren't to be found east of Suez?

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Hillaire Belloc is said to have suggested adding the words

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"Candidates should not attempt more than six of these..."

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The Ten Commandments.

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Indeed.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, your bonuses are on man, gods and mangoes.

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Which mogul emperor is said to have planted 100,000 mango trees

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at a location in present-day Bihar state?

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Noted for his religious tolerance, he reigned from 1556 to 1605.

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-Akbar the Great?

-Akbar.

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Akbar the Great is correct.

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Which political leader's image appears

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on the so-called mango reliquaries?

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They commemorate in wax or plastic the gifts of the fruit

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he presented in 1968 to propaganda teams

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working in universities and factories?

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THEY CONFER

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Mao Tse-tung? Or... I don't know.

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-Could be.

-I don't know.

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Mao Tse-tung?

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Correct. In Hindu statuary, which elephant-headed deity

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is often depicted seated beneath a mango tree?

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Ganesh.

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Correct. Another starter question.

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Which city's cathedral has been described as

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"the decorated cathedral par excellence"?

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Known as Isca Dumnoniorum in Roman times...

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Exeter.

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Exeter is correct.

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APPLAUSE

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And your bonuses are on the works of Emile Zola

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in the words of JG Patterson in the 1912 work, A Zola Dictionary.

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In each case, give the French title of the novel from the description.

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Firstly, the story of that terrific landslide

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which overwhelmed the second empire.

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It's a story of war, grim and terrible,

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of a struggle to the death between two great nations.

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THEY CONFER

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Pass.

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It's La Debacle.

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Secondly, a terrible study of the effects of drink

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on the moral and social condition of the working class in Paris.

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The effects of intemperance are shown with grimness of realism

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and uncompromising force.

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THEY CONFER

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Are we going to try that?

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Nominate Ridley.

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Therese Raquin?

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No, it's L'Assommoir.

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And finally, a novel dealing with the labour question

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in its special relation to coal mining.

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The scene of the book is laid in the north of France

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at a time preceding and during a great strike.

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-Nominate Ridley again.

-Therese Raquin?

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No, it's Germinal. Ten points for this.

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Listen carefully and answer as soon as your name is called.

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If two parallel plates separated by one millimetre

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are charged to a potential difference of 1,000 volts,

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what in volts per metre

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is the electric field strength between them?

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One.

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Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?

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A million?

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One million is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, your bonuses this time, Trinity College,

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are on fine art and music in the words of historian Kenneth Clark.

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"The Verrocchio is light, nimble, smiling and clothed.

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"The Michelangelo is vast, defiant and nude."

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These words from Clark's Civilisation compared two sculptures.

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Which biblical figure is the subject of both?

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David.

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Correct. Clark likens the differences between the two Davids

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to the progression between two composers,

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both born in the second half of the 18th century.

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Who are they?

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THEY CONFER

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Mozart and Beethoven?

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Correct. Clark compares the departure of the lovers

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in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte to the 1712 painting

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Pilgrimage to Cythera.

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Who was the artist?

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-Yes, 1712.

-Could that be...

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Velasquez?

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No, it's Watteau. Ten points for this.

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Which well-known song has been described as beginning with

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a series of questions, to which the answers are...

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Blowing in the wind?

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No. I'm afraid you lose five points.

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..to which the answers are "no", "no", "no", and "no",

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and "get them yourself".

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Are any of you going to buzz?

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You're going to kick yourselves. It's Jerusalem. Ten points for this.

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Which year saw the births of Marlon Brando and Jimmy Carter,

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the deaths of Lenin and Franz Kafka...

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1926?

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No, you lose five points, I'm afraid.

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The first performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue,

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and Britain's first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald?

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1924.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Somerville, these bonuses are on the solar system.

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Assign each of the eight planets a numeral

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based on its order outward from the sun,

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with Mercury being 1 and so on,

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and then give the answer to the following calculations.

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Firstly, the sum of all moonless planets.

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Mercury, Venus...

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THEY CONFER

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Three.

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Three is correct, yes,

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Secondly, the third most massive planet

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multiplied by the planet with the largest satellite.

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Uranus?

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THEY CONFER

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It's Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus. They get smaller.

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Yeah, but it's the one with the most massive satellite.

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Times seven, times something.

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I think Saturn might have the biggest.

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It's going to be Jupiter. 35, yeah.

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35.

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No, it's 40. It's Neptune times Jupiter.

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And finally, the least dense planet minus the second-largest planet.

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Saturn and Mercury...

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Least dense? The gaseous planets...

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THEY CONFER

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Six.

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No, it's zero, because they're both Saturn.

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-Oh!

-Right.

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We're going to take a music round now.

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For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.

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For ten points, I just want the name of the composer, please.

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PIANO AND STRING MUSIC PLAYS

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Rachmaninov?

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It is Rachmaninov.

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Piano Concerto number two in C minor.

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That was one of the top 30 most popular choices

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among listeners of Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.

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Your bonuses are three more classical pieces

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that made that list, and in each case,

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I want the composer and the title of the piece.

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Firstly, the composer and the name of this piece

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that came number 28 on the list.

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CHORAL MUSIC

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Allegri's Miserere.

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Correct. Secondly, the composer and the name of this work,

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at number six on the list.

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STRING MUSIC

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Sounds romantic, doesn't it?

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THEY CONFER

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Barbour's Adagio for Strings?

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No, it's Mahler's fifth.

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And finally, the composer and the name of this piece,

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the number one choice.

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STRING MUSIC PLAYS

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THEY CONFER

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Vaughan Williams, and that's The Lark Ascending.

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It is. Yes, well done. Ten points for this.

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Which philosophical text of the 2nd century AD

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begins with these words:

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"From my grandfather Verus, I learned good morals..."

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The Meditations Of Marcus Aurelius.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, these bonuses are on philosophy.

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Which British philosopher argued that the traditional conception

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of the human mind as an entity occupying a physical body

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is based on what he called a category mistake,

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in the 1949 work The Concept Of The Mind?

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Is this...Ryle?

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I've never heard of Ryle.

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THEY CONFER

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It rings a bell for me.

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Ryle.

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It is, Gilbert Ryle, yes.

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By taking this step, Ryle challenged the traditional distinction

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between the body and the mind,

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delineated by which French philosopher? Born 1596...

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Descartes.

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Correct. What four-word phrase did Ryle use to describe the doctrine

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underpinning what he viewed as the logically incoherent

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dogma of Cartesian dualism?

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Is it the ghost in the machine or something like that?

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-It's the right number of words.

-OK, ghost in the machine.

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Correct. Ten points for this.

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Mammals such as dogs that are born naked,

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blind and immobile are termed altricial.

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What word is used to describe those such as horses

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which are born with hair...

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-Precocious?

-No, you lose five points.

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..such as horses which are born with hair or fur, able to walk

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and with their eyes open?

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They're called precocial, not precocious,

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that's a different thing altogether.

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Ten points for this, listen carefully.

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Ten of Canada's 13 provinces and territories are larger than the UK.

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For ten points, name two of the three that are smaller.

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Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.

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Correct, the other one is New Brunswick.

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You get a set of bonuses, this time on dual-gender French nouns.

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That is, those that have identical spelling

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but a different meaning depending on if they're masculine or feminine.

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In each case, I want you to spell the word described.

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Firstly which noun, when masculine,

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means a kitchen utensil used to shape a finished dish,

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and when feminine, indicates a bivalve mollusc,

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often served in a wine and onion sauce?

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-Escargot?

-No, maybe moule.

-Moule?

-Like mussels.

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-M-O-U-L-E.

-Correct.

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Secondly, which short word, when masculine,

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means a way or method, and when feminine, fashion?

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-Mode.

-M-O-D-E.

-Correct.

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Which word means a turn, trick or outing when masculine, and when

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feminine, a tall, narrow structure with its base on the ground?

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-Tour? T-O-U-R.

-Well done. Ten points for this.

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Including the lyrics "Tears, idle tears"

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and "Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white..."

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-The Princess?

-Indeed, well done.

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Right, your bonuses are on religion in AD 373.

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St Ephrem, who died in 373, was a noted writer of hymns

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and treatises in which liturgical language,

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a variety of Middle Aramaic?

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-Is it Syriac?

-Yeah, could be.

-Syriac.

-Correct.

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A prominent opponent of Arianism,

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which Bishop of Alexandria died in 373?

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He gives his name to a creed that focuses on the doctrine of the trinity.

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-Athanasius.

-Athanasius.

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St Athanasius is correct.

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Around 373, which saint founded the Abbey of Marmoutier,

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just outside the present-day city of Tours?

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There's a church dedicated to him on Trafalgar Square.

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-I don't know, St Martin was from Tours.

-St Martin?

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St Martin of Tours is right. Ten points for this.

0:17:550:17:59

Greta Garbo as Melpomene, the muse of tragedy,

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and Virginia Woolf as Clio, the muse of history, are two of

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the prominent people who appear in the mosaics

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paving the floor of which...

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-The National Gallery.

-Correct.

0:18:100:18:11

These bonuses are on tea production in West Asia.

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Producing mainly for the domestic market,

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Rize province is a major tea-growing area in which West Asian country,

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one of the world's largest producers of tea?

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-Could it be, um...

-Iran?

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-Did Iran produce tea?

-Does Afghanistan make tea?

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-Does Pakistan make tea?

-Shall I say Iran? Or Turkey?

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-Go for Iran.

-Iran.

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No, it's Turkey.

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Tea accounts for around 20% of the agricultural output

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of which country on the Black Sea?

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It produced a large proportion of the tea in the former USSR.

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-Georgia?

-Georgia?

-Correct.

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The provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran,

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south of the Caspian Sea,

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-are tea-growing areas in which country?

-Is that Iran?

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-Iran?

-That is Iran, yes. Right, another picture round.

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For your picture starter you will see a photograph of a scientist.

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To get ten points, you just have to name him.

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-Alfred Nobel?

-Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?

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Paul Dirac?

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No, it's Nikola Tesla.

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Picture bonuses shortly, ten points for this starter question.

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Born 1821, which French chemist gives his name to a reagent

0:19:250:19:30

that contains a magnesium atom...

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-Grignard.

-Grignard is correct.

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So, Tesla, as you know, who was the picture starter,

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gives his name to the SI unit of magnetic flux density.

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For your bonuses, you're going to see

0:19:440:19:45

portraits of three more scientists who've given names to SI units.

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In each case, I want the name of the SI unit.

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Firstly for five, the SI unit named after this scientist.

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-Um...

-Joule? Could that be Joule?

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-Henri?

-Joule sounds...

-Joule?

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No, it's farad, that's Michael Faraday. Secondly...

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-Is that Volta, maybe?

-Volt.

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Volt is right, that is Alessandro Volta. And finally...

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-Is that Joule?

-I don't know. We don't have much to go by here, do we?

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No. Darkness and light. Manichaeism. Um...

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-Joule.

-No, it's watt, that's James Watt. Ten points for this.

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Idealised rational acceptability under epistemically ideal conditions

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is a definition given by the US philosopher Hilary Putnam

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for what common five-letter word?

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-Truth.

-Correct.

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These bonuses, Somerville College, are on physics.

0:20:440:20:46

A space station in the low Earth orbit of 300km altitude

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experiences what acceleration due to Earth's gravity?

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Give your answer in metres per second squared

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to the nearest whole number, please.

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-Four?

-Isn't it...

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Isn't it, is it not 9.8 or is that something different?

0:21:010:21:04

-No, because that's on the Earth. Four.

-Four.

-No, it's nine.

0:21:040:21:08

In a circular orbit, the square of the orbital speed is equal to

0:21:080:21:11

acceleration multiplied by what quantity?

0:21:110:21:14

-It's not the radius or anything like that, is it?

-Say radius...

0:21:160:21:19

-Sorry?

-Cube of the radius?

-Come on!

-Cube of the radius.

0:21:190:21:23

No, it's just the radius, bad luck.

0:21:230:21:25

Therefore with an orbital radius of approximately 6,700km,

0:21:250:21:29

what is the space station's speed in kilometres per second

0:21:290:21:32

to the nearest whole number?

0:21:320:21:33

-Oh, um...2,000.

-2,000.

0:21:380:21:41

No, it's eight. Ten points for this.

0:21:410:21:44

What two-word name links a Colm Toibin novel about Henry James,

0:21:440:21:48

a nickname of the Surrey batsmen Sir Jack Hobbs,

0:21:480:21:51

and a Doctor Who character played by Roger Delgado and John Simm?

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The Master.

0:21:540:21:56

The Master is right, yes.

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Your bonuses are on a term from the Greek.

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For the Greek meaning a stoppage, what noun means a slowing

0:22:030:22:06

or a halting of the normal flow of body fluids

0:22:060:22:08

or a state of equilibrium?

0:22:080:22:10

-Clog, blockage... Clot?

-That doesn't sound right.

0:22:120:22:15

-Just try it.

-Clot.

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No, it's stasis.

0:22:170:22:18

In ancient Greek history, for example, the works of Thucydides,

0:22:180:22:22

the term stasis denotes what political situation?

0:22:220:22:25

What would you... How would you describe it?

0:22:270:22:30

-War?

-Rebellion?

0:22:300:22:33

Civil war? I've no idea.

0:22:330:22:35

War...

0:22:350:22:37

No, it's specifically civil strife and party factional feuds.

0:22:370:22:42

And finally, "Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue

0:22:420:22:45

"Pour of tor and distances."

0:22:450:22:48

These words begin the poem Ariel by which US-born writer?

0:22:480:22:52

-Is that Sylvia Plath?

-Could be.

0:22:530:22:55

-Plath.

-Sylvia Plath is correct.

0:22:550:22:57

Four minutes to go, ten points for this.

0:22:570:22:59

For what do the letters P-I-E stand

0:22:590:23:02

when denoting the reconstructable common ance...

0:23:020:23:04

-Proto-Indo-European.

-Correct.

0:23:040:23:06

Trinity College, your bonuses are on words coined in the 20th century.

0:23:100:23:13

In each case, give the decade in which the following originated

0:23:130:23:15

according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

0:23:150:23:18

Firstly, for five points. Cubism, isotopes and profiteer.

0:23:180:23:20

-1900s, I'd say.

-1900s.

0:23:200:23:22

No, it's the 1910s. Second.

0:23:220:23:24

Disinformation, hallucinogenic, meritocracy and modem.

0:23:240:23:28

-Let's have it, please.

-'50s.

0:23:340:23:35

1950s is right.

0:23:350:23:37

Finally, biodiversity, liposuction, wannabe and shopaholic.

0:23:370:23:41

1990s.

0:23:410:23:42

No, it's the 1980s. Ten points for this.

0:23:420:23:44

Meanings of what four-letter word include

0:23:440:23:46

a colourful monocotyledon flowering plant,

0:23:460:23:49

a type of quartz and the contractile disc between the cornea

0:23:490:23:52

and the lens of the eye?

0:23:520:23:55

Rose.

0:23:550:23:56

No. Anyone want to buzz from Trinity?

0:23:560:23:58

Iris.

0:24:010:24:02

Iris is correct, yes.

0:24:020:24:03

Bonuses are on opening words in Shakespeare, Trinity College.

0:24:060:24:09

Twelfth Night begins, "If music be the food of love, play on."

0:24:090:24:13

What five words follow, and your answer has to be exact?

0:24:130:24:16

"Give me excess of it."

0:24:190:24:20

Correct. The opening two lines of Henry V call

0:24:200:24:23

"For a muse of fire, that would ascend"... what?

0:24:230:24:27

"The stairs of heaven."

0:24:340:24:35

No, it's "The brightest heaven of invention."

0:24:350:24:37

Julius Caesar begins, "Hence!

0:24:370:24:39

"Home, you idle creatures, get you home."

0:24:390:24:41

Followed by what four-word question?

0:24:410:24:43

"What is your trade?"

0:24:460:24:48

No, "Is this a holiday?"

0:24:480:24:49

Two minutes to go. Ten points for this.

0:24:490:24:51

Cape Agulhas is the southernmost point of which country?

0:24:510:24:54

It's name in Portuguese means "needles."

0:24:540:24:56

It lies 20 degrees east of the Greenwich Meridian,

0:24:560:24:58

marking the boundary between two of the world's major oceans.

0:24:580:25:02

South Africa.

0:25:050:25:06

Correct.

0:25:060:25:07

These bonuses, Trinity College, are on palaeontology.

0:25:090:25:12

Mississippian and Pennsylvanian are subdivisions of which period

0:25:120:25:15

of the Palaeozoic era?

0:25:150:25:17

Carboniferous.

0:25:170:25:19

Correct. Having wingspans of up to 70cm,

0:25:190:25:21

meganeura is a genus of the Carboniferous period

0:25:210:25:24

that resembled and is related to which present-day insect?

0:25:240:25:28

Dragonfly.

0:25:280:25:29

Correct.

0:25:290:25:30

Around 20cm long, hylonomus, which lived during the late Carboniferous,

0:25:300:25:34

is thought to be the earliest member of which class of vertebrates?

0:25:340:25:37

-Birds?

-No, definitely not birds.

0:25:380:25:42

Come on, let's have it, please.

0:25:420:25:43

-Say amphibians?

-Amphibians.

0:25:430:25:46

No, it's reptiles. Ten points for this starter question.

0:25:460:25:48

Shrewsbury Castle, Tintern Abbey

0:25:480:25:50

and St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney are among prominent buildings

0:25:500:25:53

made of what specific stone known by the abbreviation ORS?

0:25:530:25:58

Old red sandstone.

0:26:000:26:02

Correct.

0:26:020:26:03

These bonuses are on a Middle Eastern state, Trinity College.

0:26:050:26:08

Muscat is the capital of which sultanate

0:26:080:26:10

-on the southeast coast of the...?

-Oman.

0:26:100:26:12

Correct. The Omani territories of Madha

0:26:120:26:15

and Musandam are enclaves within which sovereign state?

0:26:150:26:18

Saudi Arabia.

0:26:210:26:22

No, it's the United Arab Emirates.

0:26:220:26:24

The Gulf of Oman is connected to the Persian Gulf by which strait?

0:26:240:26:28

Strait of Hormuz.

0:26:280:26:29

Correct. Ten points for this.

0:26:290:26:31

In the binomial of the common intestinal bacterium E.coli,

0:26:310:26:34

what genus is denoted by the letter E?

0:26:340:26:37

Escherichia.

0:26:390:26:40

Correct.

0:26:400:26:41

Your bonuses are on bears, Trinity College.

0:26:420:26:45

A bear and ragged staff appear on the arms of which English county?

0:26:450:26:49

-GONG SOUNDS

-Warwickshire.

0:26:490:26:52

Correct and at the gong.

0:26:520:26:54

Somerville College, Oxford have 135.

0:26:540:26:56

Trinity College, Cambridge have 240.

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Well, you were two terrific teams

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and, Trinity, you're the champions, well done.

0:27:120:27:14

To present the trophy is one of our leading writers.

0:27:140:27:17

As well as being a prolific and award-winning novelist,

0:27:170:27:20

she's written for the stage, radio and the press

0:27:200:27:22

and has a considerable presence online.

0:27:220:27:24

It's obviously some sort of compulsion.

0:27:240:27:25

She received an OBE for services to literature in 2006

0:27:250:27:28

and is the professor of new writing at Manchester University.

0:27:280:27:32

Please welcome Jeanette Winterson.

0:27:320:27:34

Welcome. Thanks very much for doing this.

0:27:390:27:42

-What did you think?

-Very impressive. Two great teams.

0:27:420:27:46

If it had been me on either side, I would have got about 20 points,

0:27:460:27:49

if that, and none of them on physics.

0:27:490:27:51

What a surprise!

0:27:510:27:53

Can I ask you to present the trophy to our winners,

0:27:530:27:55

-Trinity College, Cambridge?

-Yes, I'd love to.

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APPLAUSE

0:27:580:28:00

Well done, that was brilliant. You looked very impressive.

0:28:000:28:03

-Well done.

-Thank you.

0:28:040:28:06

Great stuff, thank you.

0:28:060:28:08

-Thank you very much.

-Here we are.

0:28:080:28:10

-This is for you.

-Oh, thank you very much.

0:28:110:28:13

I'm sorry it looks like something from The Hobbit.

0:28:130:28:16

Thank you very much.

0:28:160:28:18

Well, that's it. Congratulations to both our finalists

0:28:220:28:26

and thanks to all the many teams who took part

0:28:260:28:29

and demonstrated yet again that

0:28:290:28:30

all this stuff about young people not knowing things is rubbish.

0:28:300:28:33

I hope you can join us for the next series.

0:28:330:28:35

Until then, though, it's goodbye from all of us. Goodbye.

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