0:00:18 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello. Over the next 30 minutes,
0:00:30 > 0:00:33we'll be testing the mettle of two more student teams with
0:00:33 > 0:00:36a place in round two for whichever of them proves the stronger.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39The losers might also play again if their score is
0:00:39 > 0:00:43among the four highest runners-up from this first round.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46The University of Durham is the third oldest in England after
0:00:46 > 0:00:48Oxford and Cambridge.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51It received its charter from William IV in 1837,
0:00:51 > 0:00:53although both Henry VIII and Oliver Cromwell
0:00:53 > 0:00:56had attempted to found a university in the city
0:00:56 > 0:00:58to draw on the North East's centuries-old
0:00:58 > 0:01:00tradition of theological teaching.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04It's run on collegiate lines but because the majority of colleges
0:01:04 > 0:01:06don't offer formal teaching,
0:01:06 > 0:01:09instead concerning themselves with students' welfare and accommodation,
0:01:09 > 0:01:12the university enters this contest as a single entity.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Alumni include the ex-England cricketers Andrew Strauss
0:01:15 > 0:01:16and Nasser Hussain,
0:01:16 > 0:01:19the novelists Pat Barker and Minette Walters
0:01:19 > 0:01:22and the former Sunday Times editor Sir Harold Evans.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24With an average age of 21,
0:01:24 > 0:01:28representing around 16,000 students, let's meet the Durham team.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Hello, I'm Alex Richards, I'm from Breaston near Derbyshire
0:01:33 > 0:01:35and I'm studying chemistry.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Hi, I'm Daniel Hulme, I'm from Staffordshire
0:01:39 > 0:01:42- and I'm reading theoretical physics. - And their captain.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Hi, I'm Matt MacKenzie, I'm from Gloucestershire, I'm doing history.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48Hi, I'm Oliver Burnham, I'm originally from Hampshire
0:01:48 > 0:01:51and I'm currently working towards a PhD in chemistry.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54APPLAUSE
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Queens' College, Cambridge is named after two queens of England,
0:01:59 > 0:02:03Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI, who founded the college in 1448
0:02:03 > 0:02:06and Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV,
0:02:06 > 0:02:08who re-founded it nearly 20 years later.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10It's one of Cambridge's oldest
0:02:10 > 0:02:14and largest colleges with buildings on both sides of the River Cam,
0:02:14 > 0:02:16the elder half being known as the "Dark Side"
0:02:16 > 0:02:19while the newer, western half is the "Light".
0:02:19 > 0:02:22The two are connected by one of Cambridge's most photographed
0:02:22 > 0:02:25curiosities - the Mathematical Bridge,
0:02:25 > 0:02:28whose design is popularly attributed to Isaac Newton
0:02:28 > 0:02:30despite being built some years after his death.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Alumni include the Renaissance humanist Erasmus,
0:02:33 > 0:02:35the film director Paul Greengrass
0:02:35 > 0:02:38and Simon Bird who played Will in The Inbetweeners.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40With an average age of 20,
0:02:40 > 0:02:45representing around 900 students, let's meet the Queens' team.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Hi, I'm Paul Merchant, I'm from Surrey
0:02:47 > 0:02:49and I'm reading modern languages.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52Hi, I'm Rachel Gregory, I'm from Sheffield
0:02:52 > 0:02:54and I'm reading Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Their captain.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59Hi, I'm Rhys Jackson-Jones, I'm originally from London
0:02:59 > 0:03:01and I'm reading astrophysics.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04Hi, I'm David Phillips, I'm from St Albans in Hertfordshire
0:03:04 > 0:03:06and I'm reading maths.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08APPLAUSE
0:03:10 > 0:03:13OK, the rules are constant as the northern star
0:03:13 > 0:03:15so I won't recite them to you again, just put your fingers
0:03:15 > 0:03:19on the buzzers and be ready to buzz for this starter for 10.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23Euclid And His Modern Rivals, published in 1879, and a paper on
0:03:23 > 0:03:27Zeno's paradoxes entitled "What The Tortoise Said To Achilles"
0:03:27 > 0:03:29are works by which literary figure,
0:03:29 > 0:03:32better known for his books for children?
0:03:35 > 0:03:37AA Milne?
0:03:37 > 0:03:39No, anyone like to buzz from Queens'?
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Rudyard Kipling.
0:03:42 > 0:03:43No, it's Lewis Carroll.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45He was a mathematician. Ten points for this.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48Originally intended to be disparaging, what two-word
0:03:48 > 0:03:52term denotes a theoretical model of the universe which contradicted...?
0:03:53 > 0:03:55- Big bang. - Correct.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57APPLAUSE
0:03:57 > 0:03:59So you get the first set of bonuses then, Queens' College,
0:03:59 > 0:04:02they're on Oscar Wilde and cigarettes.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05In 1892, a press furore resulted
0:04:05 > 0:04:07when Oscar Wilde smoked a cigarette
0:04:07 > 0:04:10while taking a curtain call after the first performance of which
0:04:10 > 0:04:14comedy, subtitled A Play About A Good Woman?
0:04:14 > 0:04:15(Lady Windermere's Fan.)
0:04:16 > 0:04:17Nominate Merchant.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19- Lady Windermere's Fan. - Correct.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Which actress, for whom Wilde wrote the role of Salome,
0:04:22 > 0:04:26is reputed to have replied to his asking whether she minded
0:04:26 > 0:04:30if he smoked with the words, "Oscar, I don't care if you burn"?
0:04:31 > 0:04:34THEY CONFER
0:04:38 > 0:04:41- Em, no idea, sorry. - It was Sarah Bernhardt.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45And finally, in which work by Oscar Wilde does Lord Henry Wotton
0:04:45 > 0:04:49observe, "A cigarette is a perfect type of a perfect pleasure.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52"It is exquisite and leaves one unsatisfied"?
0:04:52 > 0:04:55(It's probably The Picture of Dorian Gray.)
0:04:55 > 0:04:58- Eh, The Picture of Dorian Gray. - Correct.
0:04:58 > 0:04:59Ten points for this.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02The name of which cornflour-based dessert entered the English
0:05:02 > 0:05:04language in the 14th century
0:05:04 > 0:05:07when it denoted a savoury dish made with rice and chicken,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10the name being derived from the French word for white?
0:05:11 > 0:05:13- Blancmange.- Correct.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15APPLAUSE
0:05:16 > 0:05:19Right, you get a set of bonuses, Durham,
0:05:19 > 0:05:21for your first set on US politics.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25Which office is fifth in the line of presidential succession?
0:05:25 > 0:05:29Recent holders include Larry Summers, Paul O'Neill
0:05:29 > 0:05:30and Hank Paulson.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33(Isn't it White House Chief of Staff, Vice President,
0:05:33 > 0:05:35(Secretary of State...? That's as far as I know.)
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Doesn't it then go into the Leaders of the Houses?
0:05:38 > 0:05:41Oh, Leader of the House, Leader of the Senate.
0:05:41 > 0:05:42And Speaker of the House?
0:05:42 > 0:05:45No, that is...the Speaker of the House is the Leader of the House.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Treasury Secretary? It's going to be one of the older ones.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53Yeah, go for Treasury?
0:05:53 > 0:05:55- Secretary of the Treasury. - Correct.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Who was Secretary of the Treasury during Roosevelt's New Deal?
0:05:59 > 0:06:01He gave his name to an unrealised plan to turn
0:06:01 > 0:06:05Germany into an agricultural state after 1945.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08That was Morgenthau. Morgenthau. The Morgenthau Plan.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10- Morgenthau.- Correct.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Who was the first US Treasury Secretary?
0:06:12 > 0:06:13Killed in a duel in 1804,
0:06:13 > 0:06:16his image appears on the obverse of the 10 bill.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18- Alexander Hamilton.- Correct.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Ten points for this starter question.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24What final two letters link words meaning European who amassed
0:06:24 > 0:06:27a fortune with the East India Company,
0:06:27 > 0:06:30chocolate substitute made from the fruit of the locust tree
0:06:30 > 0:06:33and a giant spider in the Lord of the Rings trilogy?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37- O-B.- Correct.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39APPLAUSE
0:06:39 > 0:06:42A set of bonuses now on oceanography for you, Durham.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Referring to a reduced level of oxygen in the water,
0:06:45 > 0:06:48what seven-letter term denotes the precise scientific process
0:06:48 > 0:06:50leading to a dead zone?
0:06:50 > 0:06:51- Hypoxia.- Hypoxia.
0:06:51 > 0:06:52Correct.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56In 2010, a conference in Stockholm supported an EU-led
0:06:56 > 0:06:59initiative to revitalise which sea?
0:06:59 > 0:07:02At that time, it contained seven of the world's ten largest
0:07:02 > 0:07:04marine hypoxic zones.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09- The Black Sea?- You think it is? - Is it the Black Sea?
0:07:09 > 0:07:11No, it's the Baltic Sea.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Contamination, notably from fish meal production plants,
0:07:14 > 0:07:17has created dead zones in Paracas Bay
0:07:17 > 0:07:19on the coast of which country?
0:07:21 > 0:07:24- Is it Chile?- Could it be Chile?
0:07:24 > 0:07:26- Is it Chile? - No, it's Peru.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30For your picture starter, you'll see a map of Italy.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34Ten points if you can name the region highlighted.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Lombardy.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39It is Lombardy, yes.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41APPLAUSE
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Bonuses, three more Italian regions to identify.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49In each case, name the region highlighted. Firstly, A, please.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57- Is that Basilicata?- Yeah, do you want to go with that?- Go for that.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Basilicata.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02No, it's Calabria. Secondly, B.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06- Campania.- Campania.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Correct. And finally, C.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11- Is it Liguria?- Liguria.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Correct. Ten points for this.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17In mathematics, meanings of which six-letter word include the number
0:08:17 > 0:08:20of coincident edges at a given vertex of a graph,
0:08:20 > 0:08:23the highest power or sum...?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25- Degree. - Degree is correct, yes.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27APPLAUSE
0:08:28 > 0:08:32These bonuses are on unseen characters, Queens' College.
0:08:32 > 0:08:33Not seen on stage
0:08:33 > 0:08:37but alluded to by others in Thomas Morton's 1798 play,
0:08:37 > 0:08:38Speed The Plough,
0:08:38 > 0:08:41the name of which character has become a by-word
0:08:41 > 0:08:45for a narrow-minded person who's censorious of breaches of propriety?
0:08:53 > 0:08:55- Pass.- It's Mrs Grundy.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Which of Shakespeare's unseen characters
0:08:57 > 0:08:59moves her rejected suitor to lament,
0:08:59 > 0:09:03"One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun
0:09:03 > 0:09:06"Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun."
0:09:08 > 0:09:11THEY CONFER
0:09:18 > 0:09:19Cleopatra.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21No, it's Romeo on Rosaline.
0:09:21 > 0:09:22And finally,
0:09:22 > 0:09:25"A kind of acquaintance" is one of the many references to the
0:09:25 > 0:09:28title character of which tragi-comedy in two acts,
0:09:28 > 0:09:32first performed in Paris in January 1953?
0:09:32 > 0:09:35- (Waiting For Godot or something.) - Godot.- Waiting For Godot.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37- Waiting For Godot.- Correct.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Ten points for this.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42Yellow Mountain Fir Peak, Spring Snail,
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Big Red Robe, Dragon Well
0:09:44 > 0:09:48and Iron Goddess are among names that appear in Chinese lists
0:09:48 > 0:09:53of the ten most notable varieties of which agricultural product?
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Rice.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58No, anyone like to buzz from Durham?
0:10:00 > 0:10:01Corn.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03No, it's tea. Ten points for this.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05"My food is not that of man.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08"I do not destroy the lamb and kid to glut my appetite,
0:10:08 > 0:10:11"acorns and berries afford my sufficient nourishment."
0:10:11 > 0:10:15These words are spoken by which character in a novel of 1818,
0:10:15 > 0:10:17subtitled The Modern Prometheus?
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Frankenstein. Oh, sorry, Frankenstein.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23No. Anyone like to buzz from Durham?
0:10:28 > 0:10:29Is it the monster?
0:10:29 > 0:10:30It is the monster,
0:10:30 > 0:10:32it's Frankenstein's creature, it's not Frankenstein.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38Right, these bonuses, Durham, are on a spice.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42The tropical evergreen Myristica fragrans yields two spices.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45The dried outer covering is known as mace.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47What name is given to its brown seed?
0:10:47 > 0:10:48- Nutmeg.- Nutmeg.
0:10:48 > 0:10:49Correct.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52A nutmeg appears on the flag of which Commonwealth state?
0:10:52 > 0:10:55The southern-most of the Windward Islands,
0:10:55 > 0:10:58it's situated between Trinidad and St Vincent.
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Grenada?
0:10:59 > 0:11:00Grenada.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Grenada is correct.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04And finally, a mild hallucinogenic,
0:11:04 > 0:11:06nutmeg is thought to have played a part in the composition
0:11:06 > 0:11:10of the supposedly prophetic quatrains of which physician,
0:11:10 > 0:11:12born in Provence in 1503?
0:11:15 > 0:11:16THEY CONFER
0:11:18 > 0:11:20- Oh, em... - Nostradamus.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23- Nostradamus.- Correct.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25APPLAUSE
0:11:25 > 0:11:28Right, listen carefully for your ten points here.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32Given two copies of the tesseract or four-dimensional hypercube,
0:11:32 > 0:11:35one with side length twice of that of the other,
0:11:35 > 0:11:37in what ratio are their volumes?
0:11:39 > 0:11:4016 to 1.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Correct, yes.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44APPLAUSE
0:11:44 > 0:11:46Right, these bonuses, Queens' College,
0:11:46 > 0:11:49are on reviewese or terminology used in book reviews
0:11:49 > 0:11:52in the words of the Times columnist Ben MacIntyre.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56The reviewese word "detailed" means, according to MacIntyre,
0:11:56 > 0:11:58that the work in question includes what additional
0:11:58 > 0:12:03pieces of information, an almost universal requirement in academia?
0:12:04 > 0:12:07- (Citations.)- Citations.
0:12:07 > 0:12:08No, I don't think I can accept that.
0:12:08 > 0:12:09You were nearly there,
0:12:09 > 0:12:12it's footnotes is what he's specifically referring to.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16Referring to high or steep drops, which reviewese adjective
0:12:16 > 0:12:20means so clever and showy that it made me feel a bit sick?
0:12:21 > 0:12:23THEY CONFER
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Nominate Gregory.
0:12:25 > 0:12:26- Vertiginous. - Correct.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28According to MacIntyre, it is
0:12:28 > 0:12:31a truth universally acknowledged that any review touching, however
0:12:31 > 0:12:35tangentially, on the lifetime's writing or recipes of which
0:12:35 > 0:12:38novelist must begin with this knackered introduction?
0:12:38 > 0:12:40- Oh, it's Jane Austen. - Jane Austen.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Correct. Ten points for this.
0:12:42 > 0:12:46The colonial administrator Frederick Lugard is especially
0:12:46 > 0:12:49associated with the creation of which major African state
0:12:49 > 0:12:53where he served as Governor and Governor-General from 1912 to 1919?
0:12:55 > 0:12:57- Zimbabwe.- No.
0:12:59 > 0:13:00Is it Sudan?
0:13:00 > 0:13:02No, it's Nigeria. Ten points for this.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06What common name is given to insects of the order Dermaptera?
0:13:06 > 0:13:09They are distinguished by membranous wings folded under short
0:13:09 > 0:13:13forewings and by pincer-like sensory appendages on the abdomen.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Praying mantis.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19No, one of you buzz from Queens'.
0:13:19 > 0:13:20Grasshopper.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22No, they're earwigs. Ten points for this.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28Meaning the exercise of rigorous self-discipline and abstinence,
0:13:28 > 0:13:31give the dictionary spelling of the word "ascetic".
0:13:32 > 0:13:34A-S-C-E-T-I-C.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Correct.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39APPLAUSE
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Right, these bonuses are on telescope projects.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46Firstly for five, July 2011 saw the launch of RadioAstron,
0:13:46 > 0:13:49a Russian space telescope that will combine its signals with
0:13:49 > 0:13:53those of ground telescopes to produce a single image.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55How is this technique known?
0:13:56 > 0:13:58THEY CONFER
0:13:58 > 0:14:00- Interferometry.- Correct.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Referring to the size of its collecting area, for what do
0:14:03 > 0:14:09the letters SK stand in the context of the worldwide SKA project?
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Its international headquarters is at Jodrell Bank.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19THEY CONFER
0:14:26 > 0:14:29- Nominate Richards. - Super collecting?- No, it's...
0:14:29 > 0:14:31A very odd way of spelling collecting.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33No, it's square kilometre as in Square Kilometre Array.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37And finally, the Gemini 8-Meter Telescopes Project
0:14:37 > 0:14:41saw an international partnership build two SKA-related devices.
0:14:41 > 0:14:46One is on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the other is on Cerro Pachon,
0:14:46 > 0:14:49a peak in which South American country?
0:14:49 > 0:14:52- (Ecuador.)- (I think it's Peru.)
0:14:52 > 0:14:53Peru.
0:14:53 > 0:14:54It's in Chile.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:59 > 0:15:03To get ten points, you just have to give me the name of the composer.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Is it Brahms?
0:15:18 > 0:15:20It is Brahms, yes, it's his Lullaby.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23APPLAUSE
0:15:23 > 0:15:27Now, his contemporary Tchaikovsky called him, "That scoundrel Brahms.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29"What a giftless bastard."
0:15:29 > 0:15:30For your bonuses,
0:15:30 > 0:15:34here are three more pieces along with a searing peer review.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37Firstly, who composed this piece?
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Tchaikovsky said of him, "I acknowledge the greatness
0:15:39 > 0:15:42"of some of his works but I do not love him."
0:15:42 > 0:15:46CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:01 > 0:16:04- Nominate Gregory. - Vaughan Williams.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08No, it's Beethoven, that was from the No 6 Pastoral.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11Secondly, name this composer whom Beethoven claimed would have been
0:16:11 > 0:16:15a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:24 > 0:16:25Rossini.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28It is Rossini, yes, the William Tell Overture.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31And finally, this composer of whom Rossini said,
0:16:31 > 0:16:34"One can't judge his work after a first hearing and I certainly
0:16:34 > 0:16:36"don't intend hearing it a second time."
0:16:36 > 0:16:42CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Verdi.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05No, it's Richard Wagner, The Bridal Chorus.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Ten points for this.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Which European language has co-official status alongside
0:17:10 > 0:17:12the local language in Macau and East Timor?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16- Portuguese. - Correct.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18APPLAUSE
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Right, your bonuses, this time,
0:17:21 > 0:17:23are on pairs of words that differ only in the addition
0:17:23 > 0:17:28of the letter B as the initial letter, for example, old and bold.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30In each case, give both words from the definitions.
0:17:30 > 0:17:36Firstly, pertaining to the opening at the end of the alimentary canal
0:17:36 > 0:17:40and commonplace, trite or lacking in originality.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45THEY CONFER
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Come on, let's have it please.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06- Anal and banal. - Correct.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Trickle or seep out slowly and colloquially,
0:18:09 > 0:18:14alcoholic beverages or to drink alcohol usually to excess.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16- Ooze and booze.- Correct.
0:18:16 > 0:18:21And finally, imperial measure of approximately 28 grams and to move
0:18:21 > 0:18:24quickly away from a surface after hitting it, for example, of a ball.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26- Ounce and bounce.- Correct.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Right, ten points for this.
0:18:29 > 0:18:33"The only genuine consciousness-expanding drug."
0:18:33 > 0:18:37These words of Arthur C Clarke refer to which precise genre of writing?
0:18:39 > 0:18:40Science fiction.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Correct. Puts you in the lead.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47And your bonuses are on things or people described as "iconic"
0:18:47 > 0:18:50on the website of The Guardian newspaper in 2012.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53In each case, give the answer from the description.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Firstly, the 2008 poster of Barack Obama,
0:18:56 > 0:19:02created by Shepard Fairey, has as its title what short abstract noun?
0:19:02 > 0:19:03- Hope.- Correct.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05In the design by Andy Warhol, what fruit
0:19:05 > 0:19:10appears on the cover of the Velvet Underground's 1967 debut album?
0:19:10 > 0:19:11- Banana.- Correct.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14The Member of Parliament for Chingford and Woodford Green
0:19:14 > 0:19:17since 1992, described as having an iconic
0:19:17 > 0:19:21status in the Conservative Party, he led the party from 2001 to 2003.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27THEY CONFER
0:19:29 > 0:19:30- Iain Duncan Smith.- Correct.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33Ten points for this starter question.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37What eight-letter place name links museums dedicated to
0:19:37 > 0:19:39William Wilberforce and Bob Marley with the starting point
0:19:39 > 0:19:42of Jerome K Jerome's Three Men In A Boat?
0:19:44 > 0:19:45- Kingston. - Kingston is right.
0:19:45 > 0:19:49Your bonuses, this time, are on marine mammals, Queens' College.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53What is the common two-word name of Enhydra lutris?
0:19:53 > 0:19:55Native to the North Pacific, it is
0:19:55 > 0:19:59the only fully marine species of the mustelid or weasel family.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01- Sea otter. - Sea otter.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03Correct.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05The order Sirenia includes the manatees
0:20:05 > 0:20:07and which herbivorous mammal?
0:20:07 > 0:20:08It inhabits warm waters
0:20:08 > 0:20:12and is distinguished by its broad snout and dolphin-like tail.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15THEY CONFER
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Come on, let's have it, please.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Porpoise.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32No, it's the dugong.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36The pinnipeds include seals, sea lions and which marine mammal,
0:20:36 > 0:20:40the sole living member of the family Odobenidae?
0:20:43 > 0:20:45(That could be dolphin.)
0:20:49 > 0:20:53THEY CONFER
0:20:53 > 0:20:55- Walrus. - Correct.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Right, we're going to take a second picture round now.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00For your picture starter, you'll see a photograph of a prominent US author.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Ten points if you can give me his name.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07- Ernest Hemingway. - It is Ernest Hemingway, yes.
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0:21:09 > 0:21:10OK, bonuses.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Ernest Hemingway's been credited with popularising the term
0:21:13 > 0:21:15the "Lost Generation" to describe a group of American writers
0:21:15 > 0:21:17active from the 1920s.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Your picture bonuses,
0:21:19 > 0:21:22three writers regularly cited as being from the "Lost Generation."
0:21:22 > 0:21:25All you have to do is to name the writer in each case.
0:21:25 > 0:21:26Firstly, this poet.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31THEY CONFER
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Come on, let's have it, please.
0:21:36 > 0:21:37No idea.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40It's EE Cumming. Secondly, this novelist.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47John Steinbeck.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49No, that's Henry Miller. And finally, this novelist.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55- F Scott Fitzgerald. - Correct.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57Ten points for this starter question.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01Born in 1858, which German physicist gives his name to a length
0:22:01 > 0:22:03of around...?
0:22:03 > 0:22:05- Max Planck. - Correct.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07APPLAUSE
0:22:08 > 0:22:12Good intervention. Right, bonuses, this time on medieval history.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14From an old Norse term meaning "pledge",
0:22:14 > 0:22:18what name was given to the bands of Scandinavian voyagers who
0:22:18 > 0:22:21established the Rurik dynasty in Russia in the 9th century?
0:22:24 > 0:22:26- Is it Vikings? - No, it's Varangians.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29From the reign of Basil II in the late 10th century,
0:22:29 > 0:22:35- Varangians form the bodyguard of the ruler of which major polity? - Byzantium.
0:22:35 > 0:22:36- Byzantium. - Correct.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39And killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066,
0:22:39 > 0:22:44which Norwegian king had served in the Varangian guard during...?
0:22:44 > 0:22:45Harald Hardrada.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Harald Hardrada is correct, ten points for this.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50Occurring widely in place names in Arabic-speaking countries,
0:22:50 > 0:22:54what short word denotes a valley, channel or ravine...?
0:22:55 > 0:22:57- Wadi. - Correct.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00APPLAUSE
0:23:00 > 0:23:02These bonuses are on botany, Durham.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04What's the common English name for the Hepaticophyta,
0:23:04 > 0:23:08a division of non-vascular plants related to the mosses?
0:23:10 > 0:23:12- Is it lichen? - No, it's liverworts.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Considering the alternation of generations,
0:23:14 > 0:23:17what is the dominant haploid generation of liverworts?
0:23:17 > 0:23:21THEY CONFER
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Dominant generation, I don't have a clue.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27- Come on, let's have it, please. - Nominate Burnham.- First?
0:23:27 > 0:23:29No, it's gametophyte.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32What is contained in the base of the flask-shaped archegonium
0:23:32 > 0:23:36which develops on the gametophyte phallus of liverworts?
0:23:38 > 0:23:41- (Spores.) - Spores.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44It's eggs or female gametes. Right, there's about four minutes to go
0:23:44 > 0:23:46and this is another starter question.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49Fairyhouse, Naas and Leopardstown are among racecourses that
0:23:49 > 0:23:51lie close to which European city?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55- Dublin. - Correct.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57APPLAUSE
0:23:57 > 0:23:58These bonuses, Queens' College,
0:23:58 > 0:24:01are on Members of the Westminster Parliament.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03In each case, I want the ceremonial county, for example,
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Greater Manchester or West Sussex,
0:24:05 > 0:24:08in which the following MPs were elected in 2010.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11Firstly, for five points, Louise Ellman, Frank Field
0:24:11 > 0:24:13and Esther McVey.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21- Middlesex. - No, it's Merseyside.
0:24:21 > 0:24:26- Second, Damian Green, Helen Grant and Michael Fallon.- Kent.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30Correct. Finally, Ed Balls, Yvette Cooper and Philip Davies.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34THEY CONFER
0:24:36 > 0:24:40- Yorkshire.- Specifically? - West Yorkshire.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42West Yorkshire, I will accept that,
0:24:42 > 0:24:43but please be more precise next time.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45OK, ten points for this.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48The term Winter War is most commonly applied to the
0:24:48 > 0:24:51conflict between which two countries...?
0:24:51 > 0:24:52Russia and Germany.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54No.
0:24:54 > 0:24:58One of you may buzz from Durham. You lose five points, Queens'...
0:24:58 > 0:25:00- Do you want the rest of the question?- The USSR and Finland.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Correct, yes.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04APPLAUSE
0:25:04 > 0:25:07Your bonuses are on Queen Elizabeth II, Durham.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11Give the year and month in which Elizabeth II acceded to the throne.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15THEY CONFER
0:25:17 > 0:25:19- May '52. - No, it was February '52.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Which US President was in office in February '52?
0:25:22 > 0:25:24THEY CONFER
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Quickly.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31- Truman. - It was Truman.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Who was the British Prime Minister
0:25:33 > 0:25:35at the time of Queen Elizabeth's accession?
0:25:35 > 0:25:36Churchill.
0:25:36 > 0:25:37Churchill is right.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41I'm sorry you were so dismissive, it was Churchill. Yes.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43OK, another starter question.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Chernozem, terra rossa and loam are all types of what substance,
0:25:46 > 0:25:49the study of which is called pedology?
0:25:49 > 0:25:51- Soil. - Soil is correct.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53APPLAUSE
0:25:53 > 0:25:55These bonuses are on meteorology.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58What quantity is defined as the ratio of the partial pressure
0:25:58 > 0:26:02- of water vapour in the atmosphere to the saturated vapour...?- Humidity.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05- Relative humidity.- All right, sorry. - So I can't accept that.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08What is the name of the instrument used to measure humidity?
0:26:11 > 0:26:13- Hygrometer. - Hygrometer is correct.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15And finally, what precise name is given to the
0:26:15 > 0:26:18temperature at which the relative humidity is 100%?
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Dew point.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23The dew point is correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26Born near Aberdeen in 1985, Pete Cashmore is the founder
0:26:26 > 0:26:31of which news website described as a one-stop shop of social media?
0:26:33 > 0:26:35The Huffington Post.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37No. Durham, one of you buzz.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41I'll tell you, it's Mashable. Ten points for this.
0:26:41 > 0:26:42Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45What is the smallest prime divisor of the number 2013?
0:26:48 > 0:26:50- Three. - Three is correct, yes.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52APPLAUSE
0:26:52 > 0:26:54These bonuses are on geography, Queens' College.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57In each case, name the country that shares land boundaries with
0:26:57 > 0:26:58only the following.
0:26:58 > 0:27:02Firstly, Italy, Austria, Croatia, Hungary and no others.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04- Slovenia.- Slovenia. - Correct.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07Secondly, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and no others.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13THEY CONFER
0:27:16 > 0:27:17- Come on. - Angola.
0:27:17 > 0:27:18No, it's Malawi.
0:27:18 > 0:27:22- And finally, Colombia, Peru and no others.- Ecuador.- Ecuador.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Ecuador is correct, ten points for this.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27In Greek mythology, which king of Thebes received
0:27:27 > 0:27:30a warning from an oracle that his son Oedipus would destroy him?
0:27:30 > 0:27:32GONG SOUNDS
0:27:32 > 0:27:35APPLAUSE
0:27:35 > 0:27:37And at the gong, Durham have 170,
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Queens' College, Cambridge have 190.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43Well, you led much of the way, Durham, and I would guess that 170
0:27:43 > 0:27:46will be one of the highest scores of the losers in this first round.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48I guess, with any luck, you'll come back.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51Queens', well done, you left it a bit late but you did it
0:27:51 > 0:27:53so that's good enough, eh? Round two for you.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56I hope you can join us next time for another first round match
0:27:56 > 0:27:59but until then, it's goodbye from Durham University...
0:27:59 > 0:28:01- ALL: Bye.- ..it's goodbye from Queens' College, Cambridge...
0:28:01 > 0:28:02ALL: Bye.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04..and it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07APPLAUSE
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