0:00:18 > 0:00:22APPLAUSE
0:00:22 > 0:00:26University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Hello. 30 minutes and around 100 or so questions
0:00:32 > 0:00:36stand between tonight's two teams and a place in the second round.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38As the losing team may earn themselves
0:00:38 > 0:00:41a place in the play-offs, if their score is good enough,
0:00:41 > 0:00:43it might be in both teams' interests to try and get through
0:00:43 > 0:00:45as many questions as possible tonight.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Now, Loughborough University grew out of a technical institute
0:00:48 > 0:00:50founded in 1909.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53When it received its Royal Charter in 1966,
0:00:53 > 0:00:56it became the UK's first technological university
0:00:56 > 0:00:59and it was renamed Loughborough University in 1996.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03As well as technology, it is of course one of the UK's foremost
0:01:03 > 0:01:05institutions for the development of sporting talent.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08And it was the official training base for Team GB
0:01:08 > 0:01:10during the 2012 Olympics.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13This specialism is reflected in its alumni, who include
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Sebastian Coe, Paula Radcliffe and Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21With an average age of 23 and representing around 16,000 students,
0:01:21 > 0:01:23let's meet the Loughborough team.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Hi, I am Ally Thornton, from Penicuik in Scotland,
0:01:26 > 0:01:29and I'm studying banking, finance and management.
0:01:30 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm Kathy Morten.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34I'm from Southampton and I'm studying aeronautical engineering.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37- And their captain. - Hi, my name's Grant Craig.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39I'm from Bonnybridge, near Falkirk,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42and I am studying for a PhD in analytical chemistry.
0:01:42 > 0:01:43Hi, I'm Katie Spalding.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46I'm from Ipswich, in Suffolk, and I'm studying maths.
0:01:46 > 0:01:51APPLAUSE
0:01:51 > 0:01:54Now, Clare College is the second oldest in Cambridge.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57It was founded in 1326 by Lady Elizabeth de Clare,
0:01:57 > 0:01:58granddaughter of Edward I,
0:01:58 > 0:02:02who took a vow of chastity after the death of her third husband
0:02:02 > 0:02:05and used her fortune to make provision for 20 fellows
0:02:05 > 0:02:07and ten poor scholars.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10Those numbers have grown to around 650
0:02:10 > 0:02:13who in the past have included the poet Siegfried Sassoon,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15the novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd
0:02:15 > 0:02:18and the naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough,
0:02:18 > 0:02:20a bronze bust of whom is housed in the college.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23It's said to be good luck to rub the bust's nose.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26So let's see if it's done tonight's four any good.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Their average age is 20.
0:02:28 > 0:02:29Hello, I'm Sam Watson.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32I'm from Navenby in Lincolnshire and I'm reading Chinese studies.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Hello, I'm Carys Redman-White.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36I'm from Hampshire and I read veterinary medicine.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38- And their captain. - Hi, my name's Tom Wright.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41I'm from Sevenoaks in Kent and I'm reading theology.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Hi, I'm Mark Chonofsky.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46I'm from Boston, Massachusetts, and I study physics.
0:02:46 > 0:02:52APPLAUSE
0:02:52 > 0:02:53OK, the rules are the same as ever.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Just remember there is a five-point penalty
0:02:56 > 0:02:58for an incorrect interruption to a starter question.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Otherwise, it's the usual 10s and 15s. So, fingers on the buzzers.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Here's your first starter for 10.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07What six-letter adjective links the nicknames of
0:03:07 > 0:03:12the snowboarder Shaun White and several Finnish sports...
0:03:12 > 0:03:13Flying.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17- Flying is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:03:17 > 0:03:20The first set of bonuses are on Oliver Cromwell.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22His birthplace in 1599,
0:03:22 > 0:03:26which borough elected Cromwell to Parliament in 1628?
0:03:26 > 0:03:28- It was later represented by John Major.- Huntingdon.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Correct. What two-word term describes
0:03:30 > 0:03:34the office of the Commonwealth to which Cromwell was appointed in 1653
0:03:34 > 0:03:38- after a period of government by Council of State?- Lord protector.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42Correct. "Peace hath her victories no less renowned than War."
0:03:42 > 0:03:46Who addressed those words to Cromwell in a sonnet of 1652?
0:03:48 > 0:03:50WHISPERING
0:03:50 > 0:03:52John Milton?
0:03:52 > 0:03:56Correct. We're going to take another starter question.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Last Man Standing: Memoirs Of A Political Survivor
0:03:59 > 0:04:02is a 2012 work by which public figure?
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Peter Mandelson?
0:04:05 > 0:04:07No, you lose five points.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09He became MP for Blackburn in 1979
0:04:09 > 0:04:13and later served as Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Jack Straw?
0:04:16 > 0:04:21- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:04:21 > 0:04:25So your first bonuses, Loughborough, are on Claude Monet.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28When exhibited in 1874, the title of a work by Monet
0:04:28 > 0:04:32was used derisively at first to name the impressionist movement.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35What natural phenomenon does the painting depict?
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Is it not the one with rain?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41- Go for rain.- Rain?
0:04:41 > 0:04:44No, it's sunrise. And "Impression, Sunrise" was the name of it.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47In 1876 and 1877,
0:04:47 > 0:04:51Monet painted a series of views around which Paris railway terminus?
0:04:54 > 0:04:58- Du Nord?- Yeah, that's good. Paris du Nord?
0:04:58 > 0:04:59No, it's Saint-Lazare.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03And finally, a principal focus of Monet's work during his later years,
0:05:03 > 0:05:07the paintings called the Nympheas are also known by what two-word name
0:05:07 > 0:05:10after the plants that appear prominently in them?
0:05:12 > 0:05:14- Water Lilies.- Water Lilies?- Correct.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Ten points for this starter question now.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21Denoting a beast of burden, what two final letters link words
0:05:21 > 0:05:26meaning an infectious disease eradicated in 1980, an event...
0:05:26 > 0:05:27Ox.
0:05:27 > 0:05:28O-X is correct, yes.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Right, these bonuses, Clare College, are on a scientist.
0:05:35 > 0:05:40Born on the Isle of Wight in 1635, which naturalist is usually credited
0:05:40 > 0:05:42with being the first to use the term "cell",
0:05:42 > 0:05:45in this case to describe the organisms he observed
0:05:45 > 0:05:48when viewing slices of pork through a microscope?
0:05:48 > 0:05:49- Robert Hooke?- Correct.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51Sometimes attributed to Wren,
0:05:51 > 0:05:54which stone column near the northern end of London Bridge was at least
0:05:54 > 0:05:58partly designed by Hooke in his role as surveyor to the city of London?
0:05:58 > 0:06:01- Temple Bar?- Temple Bar?
0:06:01 > 0:06:03- Temple Bar?- Sure.- Temple Bar?
0:06:03 > 0:06:05No, it's the Monument, to the Great Fire.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09For which Irish-born contemporary did Hooke develop the air pumps
0:06:09 > 0:06:13used in various gas law experiments conducted at Oxford in the 1660s?
0:06:13 > 0:06:15- Pretty sure it's Boyle, yeah.- Boyle?
0:06:15 > 0:06:18Robert Boyle is right. Ten points for this.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22The Derby At Epsom and Portrait Of A Kleptomaniac
0:06:22 > 0:06:26are among the works of which French artist, born 1791?
0:06:26 > 0:06:28He's perhaps best known for a startling
0:06:28 > 0:06:32painting of a shipwreck, known as The Raft Of The Medusa.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38- Toulouse-Lautrec.- Er, nope.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41One of you buzz from Clare?
0:06:44 > 0:06:49It's Gericault. Ten points for this. "I am not in the giving vein today."
0:06:49 > 0:06:52Which of Shakespeare's title characters says those words,
0:06:52 > 0:06:55refusing to grant an earldom to the Duke of Buckingham?
0:06:59 > 0:07:01- Henry V?- No, anyone want to buzz from Loughborough?
0:07:05 > 0:07:08- King John?- No, it's Richard III. Ten points for this.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Often seen on Sikh temples,
0:07:10 > 0:07:14the Gurmukhi script is principally associated with which language,
0:07:14 > 0:07:16named after a region of north-west...
0:07:16 > 0:07:18- Punjabi?- Correct.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Clare College, your bonuses are on names.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27I want the two given names of the following pairs of people
0:07:27 > 0:07:30and the surname they share.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31Firstly, an architect, born 1572,
0:07:31 > 0:07:34who introduced the Palladian style to England,
0:07:34 > 0:07:37and the winner of the gold medal in the women's tae kwon do
0:07:37 > 0:07:39at the 2012 London Olympics.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42- It's Inigo Jones, so Jones is the surname.- Yeah.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45- So what's the name? - It might be Sarah, I'm not sure.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48OK.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51- Inigo and Sarah Jones? - No, it's Inigo and Jade Jones.
0:07:51 > 0:07:56Secondly, the second president of the United States of America,
0:07:56 > 0:08:00and the winner of the gold medal in the women's flyweight boxing in 2012?
0:08:01 > 0:08:04- John Adams and Nicola Adams. - Correct.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07And finally, a scientist born in New Zealand in 1871
0:08:07 > 0:08:10and regarded as the founder of nuclear physics,
0:08:10 > 0:08:13and the winner of the gold medal in the long jump in 2012.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16- What's his name?- Ernest Rutherford. - And what's the...?
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Is it Greg Rutherford?
0:08:18 > 0:08:22- Um, Ernest Rutherford and Greg Rutherford?- Correct.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23A picture round now.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27For your picture starter, you'll see the crest of a UK football team.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Ten points if you can name the team.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Any helpful wording has of course been removed.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36- Newcastle United.- Correct.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42They were promoted to the Premier League in 2010.
0:08:42 > 0:08:46Your bonuses, three more crests of teams that have won promotion
0:08:46 > 0:08:47to the Premier League since 2010.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50In each case, I want the name of the club.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54Again, all helpful wording has been removed. Firstly for five.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57- Southampton.- Correct. Secondly.
0:09:01 > 0:09:02That's Blackpool.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08- Say that?- Yeah. Blackpool? - Correct. And finally.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11- Swansea.- Well done.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Another starter question. Listen carefully.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21If electricity is transmitted with a current of 10 amps
0:09:21 > 0:09:24through a wire of resistance 10 ohms,
0:09:24 > 0:09:26what in watts is the power lost?
0:09:29 > 0:09:31- 1,000?- Correct.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Right, these bonuses are on a natural function.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Firstly for five, hypnagogic and hypnopompic
0:09:41 > 0:09:46are terms used to refer specifically to the first and final stages
0:09:46 > 0:09:49- of which natural function of the body?- Sleep?
0:09:49 > 0:09:51- Hypno, yeah.- Sleep.- Correct.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54At the University of Chicago in 1953,
0:09:54 > 0:09:57the graduate student Eugene Aserinsky's observation
0:09:57 > 0:10:01of sleeping infants led to the discovery of what phenomenon?
0:10:01 > 0:10:04- Rapid eye movement?- REM sleep, yeah.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06- Rapid eye movement or REM?- Correct.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10The later stages of non-REM sleep represent periods of deep sleep
0:10:10 > 0:10:13when the heart rate slows and the brain produces waves
0:10:13 > 0:10:15denoted by which Greek letter?
0:10:15 > 0:10:19The slowest having the frequency of fewer than three cycles per second.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22- Delta waves.- Delta waves? - Correct. Well done.
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Right, another starter question.
0:10:26 > 0:10:30"Excuse me if I speak English. We're about to draw the raffle tickets.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32"Have a safe journey home and..."
0:10:32 > 0:10:34- Bradley Wiggins.- Yes!
0:10:37 > 0:10:40His victory speech after the Tour de France. Right.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42A set of bonuses for you, Loughborough.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44They're on women in men's clothing.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48Completed shortly after her divorce in 1939,
0:10:48 > 0:10:51Self-portrait With Cropped Hair in which she appears wearing
0:10:51 > 0:10:54a man's suit and tie is a work by which painter,
0:10:54 > 0:10:58often associated with both naive art and the surrealist movement?
0:11:00 > 0:11:03- Frida Kahlo?- Frida Kahlo?- Correct.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Born in Paris in 1824,
0:11:05 > 0:11:08which physician habitually dressed as a man in public,
0:11:08 > 0:11:12believing the demand to maintain a feminine appearance was a form of oppression?
0:11:12 > 0:11:15She was pioneer of a woman's right to choose abortion
0:11:15 > 0:11:18and an editor of the periodical La Suffragiste.
0:11:21 > 0:11:27- I don't know.- Marie...- Curie? Marie Stopes?- Marie Stopes?
0:11:28 > 0:11:30She was English! No, it's Madeleine Pelletier.
0:11:30 > 0:11:35And finally, Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin outraged bourgeois society
0:11:35 > 0:11:40in 19th-century France by wearing trousers and smoking in public.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42By what pen name was she better-known?
0:11:43 > 0:11:46- Is that George... George. - George Eliot?
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Sands?
0:11:48 > 0:11:50I have no idea. Nominate Spalding.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53- George Sands? - George Sand is correct, yes.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Right, ten points for this.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Which novel by Beryl Bainbridge centres on a 1950 production
0:11:59 > 0:12:02of Peter Pan by a Liverpool repertory theatre company?
0:12:02 > 0:12:07Its four-word title completes Peter's statement that "To die will be..."
0:12:12 > 0:12:17- Just another adventure?- No. Anyone want to buzz from Clare?
0:12:17 > 0:12:21- The last trip I make? - No, it's an awfully big adventure.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23You were right. Ten points for...
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Well, you were wrong, but you were close. Sorry!
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Ten points for this. Listen carefully,
0:12:28 > 0:12:31The French name for an inhabitant of which city is an anagram
0:12:31 > 0:12:34of another French word for a common analgesic,
0:12:34 > 0:12:37a derivative of salicylic acid?
0:12:38 > 0:12:39Parisien?
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Nope. Anyone want to buzz from Loughborough?
0:12:44 > 0:12:45Aspirin?
0:12:47 > 0:12:50No, you're both in the right area, but I asked for the name of a city.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54It is Paris, and aspirine, Parisien and aspirine are the anagrams.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57Right, ten points for this. In forensic science,
0:12:57 > 0:13:01what post-mortem change does the term algor mortis indicate?
0:13:01 > 0:13:05It may be used to estimate the time of death.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09- The heat of the body.- Correct, reduction in body temperature.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15These bonuses are on restoration drama.
0:13:15 > 0:13:19"Tis better to be left than never to have been loved."
0:13:19 > 0:13:22Thought to have inspired a similar line by Tennyson, these words
0:13:22 > 0:13:26are spoken by Mrs Marwood in The Way Of The World by which dramatist?
0:13:28 > 0:13:29I don't know.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35- I'm sorry, we've got no idea. - It's William Congreve.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Sir Fopling Flutter is the title character in which comedy,
0:13:38 > 0:13:43first performed in 1676, and written by Sir George Etherege?
0:13:44 > 0:13:47- Think of a funny answer. - Don't know.- I have no idea, sorry.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49It's The Man Of Mode.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52And finally, The Provoked Wife is a restoration comedy
0:13:52 > 0:13:54by which playwright, also known as the architect of
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace?
0:14:00 > 0:14:04- Wren or something?- Yeah, have a stab at that.- Christopher Wren?
0:14:04 > 0:14:06No, it's Sir John Vanbrugh.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Ten points if you can tell me the name of the group performing.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19STRINGS OVER ROCK BEAT
0:14:22 > 0:14:25- ELO?- Correct, the Electric Light Orchestra, yes.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Right, if you get these bonuses, you'll take the lead.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35They're on strings in pop, following on from the Electric Light Orchestra.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Three more pieces of popular music featuring string sections.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40In each case, I want the name of the performers.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Firstly for five, this group.
0:14:50 > 0:14:51Is that The Verve?
0:14:53 > 0:14:56CONFERRING DROWNED OUT BY MUSIC
0:14:58 > 0:15:01- The Verve?- No, it's Massive Attack, Unfinished Symphony.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03Secondly, this performer.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21- Take a stab at Elbow.- Elbow?
0:15:21 > 0:15:24No, it's Bjork, Play Dead. And finally this group.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27- That's The Verve.- The Verve.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30That is The Verve, yes, Bittersweet Symphony. Ten points for this.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33Which Scottish island comes next in this sequence,
0:15:33 > 0:15:36given in descending order by area?
0:15:36 > 0:15:41Lewis and Harris, Skye, Shetland mainland, and what?
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Orkney mainland?
0:15:46 > 0:15:47Nope.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52- Mull?- Mull is correct, yes.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58Right, you get a set of bonuses, Clare College,
0:15:58 > 0:16:00on words that begin with the name of a Greek letter.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04For example, muesli, philately and nubile.
0:16:04 > 0:16:05In each case, listen to the definitions
0:16:05 > 0:16:07and give the Greek letter that links the pair.
0:16:07 > 0:16:12Firstly, quadrilateral with both pairs of opposites sides
0:16:12 > 0:16:14parallel and all sides the same length,
0:16:14 > 0:16:18and substance in the retina also known as visual purple.
0:16:21 > 0:16:26- Rhombus and...- Rhodopsin, yes. - Rho.- Correct.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Pertaining to birds of the parrot family,
0:16:28 > 0:16:32and hallucinogenic substance found in some toadstools.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35- Psi?- Yeah.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37- Psi?- Correct.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41And lastly, spiked helmet formerly worn by German soldiers,
0:16:41 > 0:16:45and depiction of the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Christ.
0:16:47 > 0:16:48Don't know either of those.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55- Um, pi.- Correct!
0:17:00 > 0:17:01Ten points for this.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05According to Kepler's Third Law, the period of apparent true orbit
0:17:05 > 0:17:09is proportional to what power of the length of the major axis of the orbit?
0:17:12 > 0:17:13Cube?
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Nope.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18- Three halves? - Yes, three over two.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Right, bonuses for you, this time on physics.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23In the classical physics problem of two bodies orbiting each other
0:17:23 > 0:17:25under the action of central force,
0:17:25 > 0:17:27what name is given to the unique point
0:17:27 > 0:17:29about which both bodies orbit?
0:17:31 > 0:17:35- Focus?- No, it's apparently called the centre of mass, or barycentre.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37What name is given to the effective mass associated
0:17:37 > 0:17:40with the motion of the displacement vector between the bodies?
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Dist... No.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55- Jeff? - LAUGHTER
0:17:55 > 0:17:59If only it were, eh? No, it's the reduced mass.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02What in kilograms is the reduced mass of two bodies,
0:18:02 > 0:18:05each of which has a mass of three kilograms?
0:18:12 > 0:18:14- 1.5?- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Born near Paris in 1862,
0:18:16 > 0:18:19which composer's works include a book of preludes for piano,
0:18:19 > 0:18:24the opera Pelleas et Melisande, and the orchestral piece La Mer?
0:18:26 > 0:18:29- Chopin?- Er, no. Loughborough?
0:18:31 > 0:18:33- Debussy?- Debussy is correct, yes.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Your bonuses are on place names this time, Loughborough.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41In each case, identify the name from the description.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43They all begin with the same three letters.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Firstly, a city and region of Mediterranean Spain
0:18:46 > 0:18:48between Valencia and Andalusia.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Is that Castile?
0:18:51 > 0:18:56- Valencia, Andalusia. - Castile, you think?
0:18:56 > 0:18:58- Castile?- No, it's Murcia. Or Mer-thia.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01An atoll in French Polynesia, secondly,
0:19:01 > 0:19:05used as a nuclear testing site since the 1960s.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08- M-E-R...- M-U-R, it will be.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10- M-U-R?- So...
0:19:10 > 0:19:15- I've no idea. It just begins with M-U-R.- Anyone?
0:19:15 > 0:19:16- Sorry, we've got no idea. - It's Mururoa.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20And finally, a port of the Kola Peninsula on the Barents Sea,
0:19:20 > 0:19:24often described as the largest city north of the Arctic Circle?
0:19:24 > 0:19:27- Murmansk?- Yeah. - Murmansk?- Correct.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29We're going to take a second picture round.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31You're going to see a painting.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33Ten points if you can name the artist.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Hieronymus Bosch?
0:19:41 > 0:19:44It doesn't look the slightest bit like Hieronymus Bosch! No!
0:19:46 > 0:19:48Clare, one of you buzz?
0:19:48 > 0:19:50- Rubens?- No, it's by Titian.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Right, so picture bonuses in a moment,
0:19:52 > 0:19:54ten points for this starter question in the meantime.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Born in Lincoln in 1815,
0:19:56 > 0:19:59which mathematician gives his name to the algebra of logic
0:19:59 > 0:20:03that is basic to the design of digital computer circuits?
0:20:05 > 0:20:07- Babbage?- Nope.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Bayes? No, it's George Boole, as in Boolean.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18William Henry Harrison, John Tyler,
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore
0:20:20 > 0:20:24are US presidents who shared what party affiliation?
0:20:27 > 0:20:30- Whig?- They were Whigs, yes. Well done.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36So, we'll pick up the picture bonuses then.
0:20:36 > 0:20:40You recall you saw Titian's Europa to start this round.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42No one got it.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45In the collection of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48In 1990, an estimated 300 million worth of art
0:20:48 > 0:20:49was stolen from the museum,
0:20:49 > 0:20:53and yet thieves overlooked the very valuable Europa.
0:20:53 > 0:20:54For your bonuses,
0:20:54 > 0:20:58here are three paintings that were stolen in the same theft.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02In each case, simply name the artist. Firstly, this French artist.
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Is it a Renoir?
0:21:09 > 0:21:10Or a Manet?
0:21:10 > 0:21:13- Manet?- Manet is correct.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Secondly, this Dutch artist.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22- Rembrandt, I think.- Yeah.- Rembrandt?
0:21:22 > 0:21:24No! That's Vermeer.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26And finally, another Dutch artist.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34Van Dyck, or..? No, it's not van Dyck, is it?
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Let's go Rembrandt again, he's Dutch.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40- Rembrandt?- That is Rembrandt, yes.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Another starter question.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48Two of the historical provinces of Ireland are Ulster and Leinster.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50For ten points, name both of the others.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52- Connacht and Munster.- Correct.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58These bonuses, Clare College, are on biblical figures.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01In each case, name the person from the description.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04In the Book of Genesis, the grandfather of Noah.
0:22:04 > 0:22:08He is described as having lived 969 years.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12- Methuselah?- Yes, yes.
0:22:12 > 0:22:13- Methuselah?- Correct.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16The successor of King Solomon, his harsh rule resulted in
0:22:16 > 0:22:20the cessation of the ten northern tribes under Jeroboam.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:22:29 > 0:22:32Saul was after David. Saul was...
0:22:34 > 0:22:38- Shall we go Saul? It's the only name we've got. Saul?- No, it's Rehoboam.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41And finally, a Babylonian king who conquered Jerusalem
0:22:41 > 0:22:42and sent its inhabitants into exile.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44He's a major figure in the Book of Daniel.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46- Nebuchadnezzar?- Correct.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Five minutes to go, another starter question.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52Named after a German chemist, the Ostwald process is a method used
0:22:52 > 0:22:56to produce which acid via the oxidisation of ammonia?
0:22:58 > 0:22:59- Nitric acid.- Correct.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06These bonuses are on new world monkeys, Loughborough.
0:23:06 > 0:23:11What is the common name of monkeys of the genus Cebus?
0:23:11 > 0:23:14The name refers to their distinctive hair colouring
0:23:14 > 0:23:17which resembles the cowl worn by an order of friars?
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Ca...ca...capuchin?
0:23:19 > 0:23:23- Capuchin?- Nominate Spalding. - Capuchin monkeys?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Capuchin monkeys is correct.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28From an old French word meaning grotesque image, what generic name
0:23:28 > 0:23:32denotes small long-tailed monkeys in the genus Callithrix?
0:23:33 > 0:23:36So, gargoyle... No, um... French.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40- Gabin or something?- Gibbon?
0:23:40 > 0:23:43- Gibbon?- No, they're marmosets.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47And what is the common name, finally, of monkeys of the genus Alouatta?
0:23:47 > 0:23:51Their enlarged hyoid bones enable vocalisations that can carry
0:23:51 > 0:23:54- for up to five kilometres. - Howler monkeys.- Correct.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Another starter question. Native to the Tropics,
0:23:57 > 0:24:02species of the Diospyros genus yield which hard, heavy, dark wood?
0:24:04 > 0:24:06- Ebony?- Correct.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Right, this set of bonuses, Loughborough,
0:24:11 > 0:24:13are on an English cathedral.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16The buildings of Gloucester Abbey became Gloucester Cathedral
0:24:16 > 0:24:18during the reign of which monarch?
0:24:22 > 0:24:23- Henry IV or something?- Yeah.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26- Henry IV?- No, it was Henry VIII.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28A window in Gloucester Cathedral depicts
0:24:28 > 0:24:30the coronation of which 13th century English king,
0:24:30 > 0:24:34described in one reference work as naive, pious and well-meaning?
0:24:34 > 0:24:37- Edward the Confessor? - No, that's wrong.- 14th century.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41- Edward II or something? - I have no idea.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44- Edward II?- No, Henry III.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47And finally, Gloucester Cathedral houses the tomb of which king,
0:24:47 > 0:24:53who died in suspicious circumstances at nearby Berkeley Castle in 1327?
0:24:53 > 0:24:56- Isn't it Rufus...- 1327.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Oh, that must be...
0:24:58 > 0:25:01- I think...- Edward II.
0:25:01 > 0:25:02- Edward II?- Correct.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Just under three minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08What six-letter word may indicate both a former British Army rank,
0:25:08 > 0:25:11the equivalent of the modern second lieutenant, and a flag...
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- Ensign.- Ensign is correct, yes.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18These bonuses are on history, Loughborough.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21During which conflict did a British fleet sail up the Potomac River
0:25:21 > 0:25:24and burn the White House and other US government...
0:25:24 > 0:25:25- The War of 1812.- Correct.
0:25:25 > 0:25:29In January 1815, a British assault on New Orleans was defeated
0:25:29 > 0:25:33by a US force commanded by which future US President?
0:25:33 > 0:25:34- Andrew Jackson.- Correct.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38Which enduring song is a musical setting of Francis Scott Key's poem
0:25:38 > 0:25:42on the successful US defence of Fort McHenry outside Baltimore?
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Star Spangled... No.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46- Er...- Oh, say can you see.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49- That's Star Spangled Banner. - Star Spangled Banner?- Correct.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Ten points for this. Which imperial unit
0:25:51 > 0:25:54is equivalent to 259 hectares?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Acre?
0:25:58 > 0:26:01No. Anyone like to buzz from Loughborough?
0:26:01 > 0:26:03- Hectare?- No, he just said that.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05No, it's wrong, it's a square mile.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:26:07 > 0:26:13Which positive integer, n, maximises the expression n(100 - n)?
0:26:19 > 0:26:20- 50?- 50 is correct.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25These bonuses are on wool, Clare College.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Mohair is a fibre made from the lustrous hair
0:26:27 > 0:26:30of which domestic breed of the genus Capra?
0:26:32 > 0:26:35Capra is goats and things so that would be...
0:26:36 > 0:26:39- Come on, let's have it. - Don't know.- Angora.- It's Angora.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40- I just said that!- Too late.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43Which exotic wool takes its name from an old spelling of the name
0:26:43 > 0:26:46of a disputed region, now split between India and Pakistan?
0:26:46 > 0:26:49- Cashmere.- Correct.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Noted for its dense, silky fleece,
0:26:51 > 0:26:53normally prized by the Incan nobility,
0:26:53 > 0:26:57the vicuna is the national animal of which country?
0:26:57 > 0:26:59- Peru?- Probably.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01- Peru?- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Serving in both the Austro-Prussian and later the Franco-Prussian wars,
0:27:05 > 0:27:09which Field Marshal became the second president of the Weimar...
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Von Clausewitz?
0:27:11 > 0:27:12No, you lose five points.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16..became the second president of the Weimar Republic in April 1925?
0:27:17 > 0:27:19One of you may buzz. Von Papen?
0:27:19 > 0:27:22No, it's Hindenburg. Ten points for this.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26What geographical feature links Einstein, Dover and Chesil
0:27:26 > 0:27:29in the titles of works by Philip Glass?
0:27:29 > 0:27:30- Beach?- Beach is correct.
0:27:30 > 0:27:34And your bonuses this time are on the islands of Indonesia.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Slightly larger than England and Wales,
0:27:37 > 0:27:40which island is separated from Borneo by the Strait of Makassar?
0:27:40 > 0:27:42- Sumatra?- Yeah.- Come on.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44- Sumatra?- No, it's Sulawesi.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Around the size of Northern Ireland, which island lies...
0:27:46 > 0:27:47FINAL GONG
0:27:47 > 0:27:50At the gong, Loughborough University have 155,
0:27:50 > 0:27:52Clare College, Cambridge, have 195.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54APPLAUSE
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Well, that's a perfectly respectable score to lose with, I think.
0:28:00 > 0:28:01Who knows, you might come back
0:28:01 > 0:28:04as one of the four highest-scoring losers, I don't know.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06It's kind of borderline, but we'll see.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08But thank you for joining us, Loughborough.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Clare College, we look forward to seeing you in round two.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15Many congratulations to you and your stoat. Very attractive!
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Right, I hope you'll join us next time for another match,
0:28:18 > 0:28:20- but until then it's goodbye from Loughborough University...- Bye!
0:28:20 > 0:28:22- ..goodbye from Clare College, Cambridge...- Bye!
0:28:22 > 0:28:24..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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