0:00:16 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21'University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25'Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.'
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello. Tonight, two more student teams
0:00:30 > 0:00:35are attempting to amaze and delight us with the extent of their general knowledge.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37In half an hour, we'll let them know whether they've succeeded.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40One of them will certainly have earned themselves
0:00:40 > 0:00:42a place in the second round.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46Keele University is based in Staffordshire. It was founded in 1949.
0:00:46 > 0:00:51An early reputation for radicalism earned it the nickname The Kremlin On The Hill,
0:00:51 > 0:00:55and from the outset, it was unusual in promoting study across different disciplines.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59Even today, the majority of its 7,500 undergraduates
0:00:59 > 0:01:01study for joint honours.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04A team from Keele were series champions in 1968
0:01:04 > 0:01:07and that team reunited in 2002
0:01:07 > 0:01:09for our 40th anniversary series
0:01:09 > 0:01:12to find the best of the best teams from the programme's history,
0:01:12 > 0:01:14and on that occasion, they were runners-up.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16With that impressive record to live up to
0:01:16 > 0:01:20and with an average age of 27, let's meet the Keele team.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Hi, I'm Austin Haffenden, I'm from Eastbourne
0:01:23 > 0:01:27and I'm studying for a PhD in computational ecology.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Hi, I'm Rob Croton, originally from Uttoxeter in Staffordshire
0:01:30 > 0:01:33and I'm studying for an MRes in English Literature.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36- And their captain.- Hi, I'm Harriet Earle, I'm from Lincolnshire
0:01:36 > 0:01:39and I'm studying for a PhD in American Literature.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42Hi, I'm David Sharpe, originally from the Western Isles and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46APPLAUSE
0:01:47 > 0:01:53Now, Liverpool University began life as University College Liverpool in 1881.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Its Alfred Waterhouse designed Victoria Building
0:01:56 > 0:01:58was completed in 1892
0:01:58 > 0:02:04and led to the coining of the term "red brick" for six civic universities founded in that period.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06It received its royal charter in 1903.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09It's now home to around 20,000 students
0:02:09 > 0:02:11and out of a long, long list of alumni,
0:02:11 > 0:02:14surely none are more distinguished than Frank Duckworth,
0:02:14 > 0:02:17co-inventor of the Duckworth-Lewis method in cricket,
0:02:17 > 0:02:19ITN's science editor Lawrence McGinty,
0:02:19 > 0:02:22the head of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Frances Crook,
0:02:22 > 0:02:24and the design guru Stephen Bayley,
0:02:24 > 0:02:26all of whom entertained us over Christmas
0:02:26 > 0:02:29by playing for Liverpool in our special series for grown-ups.
0:02:29 > 0:02:34Tonight's team, by way of contrast, have an average age of only 20.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Let's meet them.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40I'm Katherine Monks, I'm from Bolton and I'm studying Classics.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Hi, I'm Daniel Jenkin-Smith,
0:02:42 > 0:02:45I do English and French and I'm from Birmingham.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48- And their captain.- Hi, I'm Chris Spencer, I'm from Salisbury
0:02:48 > 0:02:51and I'm studying for a PhD in tropical medicine.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Hi, I'm Luke Nugent, I'm from Southport and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59APPLAUSE
0:02:59 > 0:03:03OK, the rules are unchanging on this programme. I assume you know them.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06In fact, I think most people can be assumed to know them in the entire country.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09So fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12What two-digit number links the Capricci,
0:03:12 > 0:03:17written by Paganini between 1801 and 1807 for unaccompanied violin,
0:03:17 > 0:03:20the number of books in the Iliad...
0:03:20 > 0:03:24- 24.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:03:25 > 0:03:29Right, your bonuses are on fictional universities, Liverpool.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32Home to both the greatest library in the multiverse
0:03:32 > 0:03:35and the Tower of Art, the oldest building in the Discworld,
0:03:35 > 0:03:39which university sits at the centre of Ankh-Morpork?
0:03:39 > 0:03:42- The Unseen University?- Correct.
0:03:42 > 0:03:48The sociology lecturer Howard Kirk is the title character of which 1975 novel by Malcolm Bradbury,
0:03:48 > 0:03:50set in the University of Watermouth?
0:03:52 > 0:03:54- Pass.- That's The History Man.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57The Yaxley Quadrangle and Palmer's Tower
0:03:57 > 0:04:03form part of which fictional Oxford college in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials?
0:04:03 > 0:04:06- Jordan College. - Correct. Ten points for this.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10What six-letter name links a routing protocol in computer technology,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13a major tributary for the River Tigris,
0:04:13 > 0:04:16and a British army officer's personal servant?
0:04:17 > 0:04:20- Batman?- Batman is correct, yes.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22APPLAUSE
0:04:22 > 0:04:26Right, these bonuses, Liverpool, are on a 19th century journalist.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30Published in 1867, the English Constitution
0:04:30 > 0:04:36is a work by which journalist and essayist who was, for 17 years, the editor of the Economist?
0:04:38 > 0:04:41- Pass.- It was Walter Bagehot.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44In the English Constitution, of what specific political institution
0:04:44 > 0:04:49did Bagehot write that, "It prevents the rule of wealth, the religion of gold.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53"This is the obvious and natural idol of the Anglo-Saxon"?
0:04:53 > 0:04:56- Church Of England? - No, it's the House Of Lords.
0:04:56 > 0:05:02In the same work, what did Bagehot describe as, "a buckle which fastens the legislative part of the state
0:05:02 > 0:05:04"to the executive part of the state"?
0:05:05 > 0:05:07- Monarchy?- Yeah. The monarchy.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10No, it's the cabinet. Ten points for this.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14"At the heart of an 18th century enlightenment devoted to reason and civilisation,
0:05:14 > 0:05:18"this maverick intellectual spoke up for sentiment and nature."
0:05:18 > 0:05:22These words of the critic Terry Eagleton refer to which philosopher,
0:05:22 > 0:05:25born in Geneva in 1712?
0:05:25 > 0:05:28- Jean Jacques Rousseau.- Correct.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31APPLAUSE
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Liverpool, these bonuses are on a mathematician.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37Born 1768, which French mathematician
0:05:37 > 0:05:41developed the theory of infinite trigonometric sums which now takes his name?
0:05:41 > 0:05:44He used his theory to study the diffusion of heat in a solid body.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47- Pascal?- No, it's Fourier.
0:05:47 > 0:05:53In the theory of Complex Fourier Series, what is the third Fourier co-efficient of a constant function?
0:05:54 > 0:05:57- One.- No, it's zero.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01From 1798, Fourier accompanied Napoleon on his expedition to which country,
0:06:01 > 0:06:05where he carried out extensive research on local antiquities?
0:06:05 > 0:06:08- Egypt.- Correct. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:06:08 > 0:06:13On the surface of the Earth, consider the triangle inscribed by the equator,
0:06:13 > 0:06:18the prime meridian and the 90th meridian west of Greenwich.
0:06:18 > 0:06:23What is the sum, in degrees, of the three internal angles of this triangle?
0:06:25 > 0:06:30- 180 degrees. - No. Liverpool, one of you buzz. You may not confer, one of you can buzz.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40- 270 degrees? - Yes, 270 degrees is correct.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43So, you get a set of bonuses this time on a philosopher.
0:06:43 > 0:06:48Born in Prussia, the son of a Lutheran minister who died insane four years later,
0:06:48 > 0:06:52which philosopher's first book, The Birth Of Tragedy, was published in 1872?
0:06:52 > 0:06:55- Nietzsche?- Nietzsche.- Correct.
0:06:55 > 0:07:00As well as inspiring the 1896 Concerto for Orchestra by Richard Strauss,
0:07:00 > 0:07:02passages from Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra
0:07:02 > 0:07:07appear in the Third Symphony, also written in the 1890s,
0:07:07 > 0:07:09of which Austrian-born composer?
0:07:10 > 0:07:13- Mahler.- Correct. Sometimes translated as "Superman",
0:07:13 > 0:07:18what German name did Nietzsche use to denote the powerful human being
0:07:18 > 0:07:23whom Zarathustra announced as a goal to which humanity could aspire?
0:07:23 > 0:07:26- Ubermensch.- Ubermensch is right. Right, picture round.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29For your picture starter, you'll see an outline of a swing state
0:07:29 > 0:07:32in the 2012 US presidential election.
0:07:32 > 0:07:38Ten points if you can name the state and the party for which the state voted in that election.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43- Virginia, Democrat.- Correct.
0:07:43 > 0:07:48APPLAUSE
0:07:48 > 0:07:52So following on from Virginia, your bonuses are three more swing states
0:07:52 > 0:07:54from the 2012 US presidential election.
0:07:54 > 0:07:59Again, all you have to do is name the state and the party for which its electors voted.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Firstly for five, A.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07New Hampshire. That's New Hampshire and it's Democrat.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11- New Hampshire, Democrat. - Correct. Secondly, B, please.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14- North Carolina, Republican. - North Carolina, Republican.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Very good. And finally, C.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22They all went Democrat apart from North Carolina.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26- Colorado, Democrat. - Correct! Well done! - APPLAUSE
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Right, listen up for this for ten points.
0:08:31 > 0:08:36Choledocholithiasis is a medical condition caused by the presence...
0:08:36 > 0:08:41- Stones in the gallbladder.- Yes, gallstones is correct, or calculi.
0:08:41 > 0:08:46Right, you get a set of bonuses this time, Liverpool, on Renaissance artists.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Much reproduced on greetings cards and T-shirts,
0:08:49 > 0:08:52the image of two cherubs apparently leaning on the base of the painting
0:08:52 > 0:08:54and gazing at the figures above it
0:08:54 > 0:08:58is a detail of the Sistine Madonna by which Renaissance artist?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Sistine, Michelangelo.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02- Michelangelo.- No, it's by Raphael.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05The School of Athens was one of the frescos painted by Raphael
0:09:05 > 0:09:08for which Pope's private apartments in the Vatican?
0:09:11 > 0:09:13- Pius VI?- No, it was Julius II.
0:09:13 > 0:09:18And finally, the painting generally believed to be Raphael's last before his early death in 1520
0:09:18 > 0:09:22depicts and takes its title from which event in the life of Jesus?
0:09:22 > 0:09:26It took place on a mountain top in the presence of Peter, James and John.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29THEY WHISPER
0:09:31 > 0:09:34- Nominate Monks. - Is it the calming of the storm?
0:09:34 > 0:09:37No, it's the transfiguration. Ten points for this.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40Also known as the feast of dedication and the feast of lights,
0:09:40 > 0:09:43which Jewish holiday...
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- Diwali. I know.- No.
0:09:46 > 0:09:51You lose five points. ..which Jewish holiday begins on the 25th day of Kislev
0:09:51 > 0:09:57and commemorates the rededication of the second temple in Jerusalem by the daily lighting...
0:09:57 > 0:10:01- Hanukkah.- Hanukkah is right, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Well done.
0:10:03 > 0:10:08Diwali's a Hindu festival. Right, these bonuses, Keele, you're off the mark, they're on bacteriology.
0:10:08 > 0:10:13Which widely-used staining technique for the initial identification of bacteria,
0:10:13 > 0:10:16devised in 1884, is named after its Danish inventor?
0:10:16 > 0:10:20- I have no idea. - THEY WHISPER
0:10:25 > 0:10:27- Gram staining?- Correct.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30In Gram staining, the bacteria are treated with a dye
0:10:30 > 0:10:33which is retained by the Gram-positive bacteria.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35What colour is the dye?
0:10:36 > 0:10:40- I think it's purple.- Purple? - I think so.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42- Purple.- Purple is correct.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46The bacteria are flushed with a chemical solution followed by an organic solvent.
0:10:46 > 0:10:51What is the main chemical in the initial flushing solution?
0:10:54 > 0:10:59- No. I can't remember. - Guess. Make a guess, go on.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06- Ammonia.- Ammonia? No, it's iodine! You won't feel very well after that.
0:11:06 > 0:11:12Right, ten points for this starter question. What is the common name of fish of the genus Anguilla?
0:11:12 > 0:11:15The Sargasso Sea, south of Bermuda, is a major breeding ground.
0:11:15 > 0:11:20Lavae then grow and migrate to rivers in Europe and North America.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24- Salmon?- No.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29- Eel?- The eel is correct, yes.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33APPLAUSE
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Your bonuses this time, Liverpool, are on place names.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38In each case, I'll describe a word or a name
0:11:38 > 0:11:41that forms the first four letters of the English name of a European country.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44For example, fortified wine gives port,
0:11:44 > 0:11:47so the answer to the question would be Portugal.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52Firstly for five points, the given name of the Hungarian composer whose works include
0:11:52 > 0:11:56Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Cantata Profana.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00- Belarus. - Belarus is right, Bela Bartok.
0:12:00 > 0:12:05Secondly, a market town in Flintshire, just east of the Clwyd Hills.
0:12:05 > 0:12:10Since 1976, it's been the home of the Clwyd Theatre Cymru.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13It's Welsh. What's Welsh with four letters?
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Rhyl?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21- Pass.- It's Moldova, actually. Mold.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24And finally, the Gaelic name for Scotland.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29THEY WHISPER
0:12:29 > 0:12:32- Albania.- Albania's right, yes. Alba.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36Ten points for this. Of which play by Shakespeare did Samuel Johnson write disparagingly of
0:12:36 > 0:12:39"the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct
0:12:39 > 0:12:42"and the confusion of the names and manners of different times"?
0:12:42 > 0:12:47It derives in part from Geoffrey of Monmouth's account of a pre-Roman king of the Britons.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50- King Lear?- No, and I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54You get the rest of it, Liverpool. ..king of the Britons.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56You may not confer, one of you may buzz.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59- Cymbeline.- Cymbeline is right, yes.
0:12:59 > 0:13:04- APPLAUSE - So these bonuses now are on a US statistician, Liverpool.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08Which statistician, designer and emeritus professor at Yale University,
0:13:08 > 0:13:15self-published his debut book, The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information, in 1983?
0:13:16 > 0:13:19- Fisher?- No, it's Edward Tufte.
0:13:19 > 0:13:24What term did Tufte coin to describe unnecessary visual elements in slides and graphs,
0:13:24 > 0:13:28the elimination of which is a key part of his theory of data graphics?
0:13:29 > 0:13:32- Bombast.- No, it's chart junk.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35And finally, in an essay of 2003,
0:13:35 > 0:13:39Tufte described which Microsoft presentation computer programme as "evil",
0:13:39 > 0:13:43saying that "power corrupts, this corrupts absolutely."
0:13:43 > 0:13:45- PowerPoint.- Correct.
0:13:45 > 0:13:50We're going to take a music question now. For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54Ten points if you can name the German composer.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57CLASSICAL CHOIR SING
0:13:59 > 0:14:05- Bach.- Bach is right, it's his Mass in B Minor, or part thereof. - APPLAUSE
0:14:05 > 0:14:08So following on from that, you'll hear three other classical pieces
0:14:08 > 0:14:10with the word "Mass" in their title.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14Five points for each composer you can name. Firstly, this Hungarian composer.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC
0:14:19 > 0:14:22THEY WHISPER
0:14:24 > 0:14:29- Er, Liszt.- It is Liszt, his Hungarian Coronation Mass.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32And secondly, this Austrian composer.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH VOCALS
0:14:40 > 0:14:43THEY WHISPER
0:14:52 > 0:14:56- Mozart.- No, it's Haydn's Mass In Time Of War.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58And finally, another Austrian composer.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02CLASSICAL MUSIC WITH VOCALS
0:15:19 > 0:15:22- Mozart. - No, it's Schubert's Mass No. 2.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25Keele, there's still plenty of time to come back. Ten points for this.
0:15:25 > 0:15:31What colour links the titles of a 19th century gothic tale by Charlotte Perkins Gilman...
0:15:32 > 0:15:36- Yellow.- Yellow is right, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:15:37 > 0:15:41Right, these bonuses, Keele, are on history and poetry.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45Which Buckinghamshire MP came to prominence following his refusal
0:15:45 > 0:15:48to pay ship money in the 1630s.
0:15:48 > 0:15:53He died of wounds after the Battle of Chalgrove in 1643.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56- Nominate Sharpe.- John Hampden. - Correct.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59In which work of 1750 does the poet speculate
0:15:59 > 0:16:01that the area of which he speaks may contain
0:16:01 > 0:16:07"some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast, the little tyrants of his fields withstood"?
0:16:11 > 0:16:14THEY WHISPER
0:16:14 > 0:16:18- Thomas Gray?- No, sorry, you were asked for the name of the work,
0:16:18 > 0:16:22which obviously you knew. It was by Thomas Gray. It's the Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard.
0:16:22 > 0:16:27And finally, Gray's Elegy mentions two further historical figures. One is Hampden's cousin,
0:16:27 > 0:16:31a military and political figure, the other is an epic poet.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34For five points, name both.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39THEY WHISPER
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Thomas Fairfax and Virgil.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52No, it's Cromwell and Milton. Bad luck.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Ten points for this. Probably born in the city of Miletus
0:16:55 > 0:16:58and listed by Plato as one of the seven stages,
0:16:58 > 0:17:01which mathematician, philosopher and astronomer was...
0:17:02 > 0:17:07- Pythagoras?- No, you lose five points. ..was, according to Aristotle, the founder of physical science?
0:17:11 > 0:17:16- Archimedes?- No, it's Thales. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:17:16 > 0:17:21If two capacitors of capacitance 12 microfarads and 4 microfarads
0:17:21 > 0:17:24are connected in series,
0:17:24 > 0:17:27what in microfarads is the capacitance of the combination?
0:17:29 > 0:17:33- 16?- No. Anyone like to buzz from Liverpool?
0:17:36 > 0:17:39- Eight?- No, it's three. Ten points for this.
0:17:39 > 0:17:44What three initial letters link the main demotic form of the Mongolian language,
0:17:44 > 0:17:46the composer of the ballet Spartacus,
0:17:46 > 0:17:50the island that is the site of Iran's largest deep-water oil terminal
0:17:50 > 0:17:52and the capital of Sudan?
0:17:53 > 0:17:56K-H-A?
0:17:56 > 0:18:00- K-H-A is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:18:01 > 0:18:04Your bonuses this time, Liverpool, are on the FIFA World Cup.
0:18:04 > 0:18:09Three African nations have reached the quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup. For five points, name two.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12THEY WHISPER
0:18:12 > 0:18:16- Cameroon and Senegal. - The other one's Ghana. Correct.
0:18:16 > 0:18:21Two of the four UK home nations reached the quarterfinals of the 1958 World Cup in Sweden.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24- For five points, name both. - Not Northern Ireland.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27- England and Scotland. - No, Wales and Northern Ireland.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31In 2002, which team became the first from the Asian Football Confederation
0:18:31 > 0:18:33to reach the semifinals of the FIFA World Cup?
0:18:35 > 0:18:39- Japan.- No, it was South Korea, the Republic of Korea.- Sorry. Sorry.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Ten points for this. Which year saw the birth of Lewis Carroll,
0:18:42 > 0:18:44the death of Goethe, the end of the Greek War of Independence,
0:18:44 > 0:18:49the foundation of the University of Durham and the passing of the Great Reform Act?
0:18:50 > 0:18:54- 1832.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:18:55 > 0:19:00Right, these bonuses, Liverpool, are on The Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03The name of which humanoid race in The Lord Of The Rings is a homophone
0:19:03 > 0:19:09of that of a short-winged diving sea bird of the family Alcidae?
0:19:09 > 0:19:11- Orc.- Orc is correct.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14The name of which race rhymes with the surname
0:19:14 > 0:19:17of the English radical who founded the Political Register in 1802
0:19:17 > 0:19:22and published the series of essays known as Rural Rides?
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Nothing rhymes with Rohirrim, so...
0:19:25 > 0:19:30- Try dwarf.- Dwarf?- No, it's Hobbit, to rhyme with Cobbett, of course.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34The short name for a member of which race in The Lord Of The Rings
0:19:34 > 0:19:37shares a spelling with the German word the number 11?
0:19:37 > 0:19:41- Elf.- Correct. We're going to take a second picture round.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45For your picture starter question, you'll see an image representing one of the Canterbury Tales.
0:19:45 > 0:19:49For ten points, all you have to do is to name the tale.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56- The Knight's Tale. - It is The Knight's Tale, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:19:58 > 0:20:02So, Keele, for your bonuses, you're going to see three more illustrations
0:20:02 > 0:20:04from a 1904 edition of The Canterbury Tales.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07For each one you can name, I'll give you five points.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10I need the name of the tale. Firstly...
0:20:14 > 0:20:17THEY WHISPER
0:20:21 > 0:20:24- The Wife Of Bath's Tale? - No, that's The Squire's Tale.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Secondly...
0:20:35 > 0:20:39- The Wife Of Bath's Tale?- No, that's from Pardoner's Tale. And finally...
0:20:42 > 0:20:45THEY WHISPER
0:20:50 > 0:20:53- The Reeve's Tale?- No, that was The Wife Of Bath's Tale.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56- LAUGHTER - Right, ten points for this.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59A useful tool for teaching algebraic group theory,
0:20:59 > 0:21:03which puzzle toy was marketed from 1977 by...
0:21:04 > 0:21:08- The Rubik's Cube.- Correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:21:10 > 0:21:14Right, these bonuses, Liverpool, are on Danish computer scientists.
0:21:14 > 0:21:21Bjarne Stroustrup is best known as the designer of which general purpose programming language,
0:21:21 > 0:21:24defined on his homepage as "a better C"?
0:21:26 > 0:21:28- C-plus.- No, it's C-plus-plus.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Secondly, named after a British mathematician,
0:21:31 > 0:21:33which award, regarded as the Nobel Prize for computing,
0:21:33 > 0:21:36was won in 2005 by Peter Naur
0:21:36 > 0:21:39for his work on defining the ALGOL 60 programming language?
0:21:39 > 0:21:41- The Turing Award.- Correct.
0:21:41 > 0:21:45The Danish-born Lars Rasmussen is a co-inventor of which free
0:21:45 > 0:21:48browser-based software, launched in 2005?
0:21:51 > 0:21:55- Firefox?- No, it's Google Maps. Ten point for this.
0:21:55 > 0:22:02"No example is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects."
0:22:02 > 0:22:05These are the words of which French historian and politician
0:22:05 > 0:22:08in his 1856 work The Ancien Regime?
0:22:10 > 0:22:12- Alexis de Tocqueville.- Correct.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16APPLAUSE
0:22:16 > 0:22:19These bonuses, Liverpool, are on actors born in 1913.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23In each case, identify the person from the films in which they starred.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27Firstly, Sons And Lovers, The Heart Of The Matter and Brief Encounter.
0:22:31 > 0:22:35- John Wayne's of that period. - No. Pass.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39No, it's Trevor Howard. The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty,
0:22:39 > 0:22:42The Court Jester and White Christmas.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46No, it can't be Bing Crosby. Bing Crosby?
0:22:46 > 0:22:51No, that's Danny Kaye. And finally, Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150AD,
0:22:51 > 0:22:55The Curse Of Frankenstein, 1984 and The Brides Of Dracula.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01- Nominate Monks.- Bernard Cribbins?
0:23:01 > 0:23:04No, it's Peter Cushing. Ten points for this.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06MERLIN, now known as e-MERLIN,
0:23:06 > 0:23:09is an array of radio telescopes distributed around the UK
0:23:09 > 0:23:13and connected by an optical fibre network to which observatory in Cheshire?
0:23:14 > 0:23:18- Jodrell Bank.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:23:18 > 0:23:22Right, these bonuses are on French grammar, Liverpool.
0:23:22 > 0:23:28Meaning "I shall do", what is the first-person singular simple future tense of the verb "faire"?
0:23:28 > 0:23:31You may spell the words if you're unsure of the pronunciation.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36- Nominate Jenkin-Smith. - Je ferai.- Je ferai is correct.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40What is the past participle of the verb "boire", to drink?
0:23:40 > 0:23:42- Bu.- Correct.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45And finally, "aller", "venir" and "tomber"
0:23:45 > 0:23:51are among verbs that form the present perfect tense with which auxiliary verb?
0:23:51 > 0:23:53- Etre.- Etre is correct.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55- APPLAUSE - Four minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Meaning the backing or support of a person or body,
0:23:58 > 0:24:02what five-letter word derives from the name of a protective device
0:24:02 > 0:24:05borne by the Greek deities Zeus and Athena?
0:24:06 > 0:24:10- Aegis.- Aegis is right, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:24:10 > 0:24:13These bonuses are on dwarf planets, Liverpool.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17Discovered in 2003 orbiting the sun beyond Pluto,
0:24:17 > 0:24:21which dwarf planet is named after the Hawaiian goddess of birth and fertility?
0:24:22 > 0:24:26- Er... Make-Make?- No, it's Haumea.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30And secondly, the dwarf planet Make-Make
0:24:30 > 0:24:35is named after the creator god of the Polynesian inhabitants of which isolated Pacific island?
0:24:36 > 0:24:38- Easter Island.- Correct.
0:24:38 > 0:24:43About the same size as its fellow dwarf planet, Pluto, which body, initially nicknamed Xena,
0:24:43 > 0:24:48is now named after the personification of strife in Greco-Roman mythology?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50- Eris.- Eris is correct. Three minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53"He was an adventurer into the vaults and cellars
0:24:53 > 0:24:56"and horrible underground passages of the human soul."
0:24:56 > 0:25:00These words of DH Lawrence refer to which US poet and novelist,
0:25:00 > 0:25:03who died, aged 40, in 1849?
0:25:04 > 0:25:08- Edgar Allan Poe.- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:25:09 > 0:25:12Liverpool, these bonuses are on shorter words that can be made
0:25:12 > 0:25:15using any of the seven letters of the word perjury.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:25:17 > 0:25:24Firstly, an intransitive verb that according to Alexander Pope is human, while to forgive is divine.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27- To err.- To err is correct, yes.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31Ruta graveolens, an evergreen shrub with bitter leaves used in herbal medicine.
0:25:31 > 0:25:37By a different etymology, it means to wish an act could be undone.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40- Can we get regret from those letters? - No.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44- Pass.- That's rue. And thirdly,
0:25:44 > 0:25:46in book four of Virgil's Aeneid,
0:25:46 > 0:25:51the structure on which Dido ends her life as Aeneas sails away.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56- Pyre?- Pyre is right, yes. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:25:56 > 0:26:01The names of three counties of England and Wales appear in the names of UK national parks.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03For ten points, name two of them.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07- Yorkshire and Pembrokeshire. - Yes, I can accept that.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11Yorkshire Dales, Northumberland and Pembrokeshire were the three places in question,
0:26:11 > 0:26:13so you get a set of bonuses this time on place names.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16The last four letters of the name of which Commonwealth country
0:26:16 > 0:26:19spell a word meaning "other things" in Latin?
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Alia. A-L-I-A.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25- A-L-I-A.- No, the country.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29Sorry, I needed the country, and it was Australia.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33The last four letters of the name of which Eastern Mediterranean country spell an archaic word
0:26:33 > 0:26:37meaning "soon" or "shortly" used, for example, in Shakespeare?
0:26:37 > 0:26:43- Lebanon.- Correct. And finally, the last four letters of the name of which Latin American republic
0:26:43 > 0:26:46spell the Spanish word for "water"?
0:26:46 > 0:26:50- Er... - THEY WHISPER
0:26:54 > 0:26:57- Come on, let's have it, please. - Paraguay?
0:26:57 > 0:27:00Paraguay? No, it's Nicaragua. Ten points for this.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04Etymologically unconnected, what initial four letters link words
0:27:04 > 0:27:07meaning the physical science of soil and its formation
0:27:07 > 0:27:10and a device for estimating distance travelled on foot?
0:27:13 > 0:27:16- Pedology?- No, I...
0:27:16 > 0:27:20No, I can't accept that. First of all, you must answer as soon as you buzz,
0:27:20 > 0:27:23- and secondly, I was asking for the four letters.- Yeah.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26Can you tell me, anyone at Liverpool? One of you may buzz.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31- P-E-D-O.- Correct.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Your bonuses this time are on physics.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36What term denotes the piece of insulating material
0:27:36 > 0:27:39inserted between the plates of a capacitor to increase its capacitance?
0:27:39 > 0:27:42- Quickly.- Resistor? - No, it's dielectric.
0:27:42 > 0:27:47- What name is given to the phenomenon of the redistribution of positive... - GONG
0:27:47 > 0:27:52And at the gong, Keele University have 40, Liverpool University have 295.
0:27:52 > 0:27:56CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:27:56 > 0:28:00Well, Keele, you were unlucky with how the questions fell for you, I think,
0:28:00 > 0:28:03because on your test paper, you certainly deserved to do a lot better than that.
0:28:03 > 0:28:07We shall have to say goodbye to you, I'm afraid. Liverpool, 295 is a very good score
0:28:07 > 0:28:10and we shall look forward to seeing you in round two. Congratulations.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14I hope you can join us next time for another first round match, but until then,
0:28:14 > 0:28:16- it's goodbye from Keele University...- ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:16 > 0:28:20- ..goodbye from Liverpool University...- ALL: Goodbye. - ..and goodbye from me. Goodbye.
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