0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello, welcome to another season of recreational brain surgery
0:00:32 > 0:00:36in which we attempt to discover whether the student cranium is
0:00:36 > 0:00:37as untidy as his or her room.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40In the next several months we shall discover the cleverest team
0:00:40 > 0:00:43of clever clogs in Britain, at which point,
0:00:43 > 0:00:45like the amazed rustics listening to a sermon
0:00:45 > 0:00:50in Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, our jaws will drop.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52"And still they gazed and still the wonder grew
0:00:52 > 0:00:55"that one small head could carry all he knew."
0:00:55 > 0:00:56But to business.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00The University of Manchester is one of the UK's largest,
0:01:00 > 0:01:02with around 40,000 students.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05It's seen the birth of the computer revolution, built the world's
0:01:05 > 0:01:08largest steerable radio telescope
0:01:08 > 0:01:11and witnessed Rutherford's research into splitting the atom.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14All noteworthy at the time, no doubt, but now little more
0:01:14 > 0:01:17than flummery compared to the university's achievement
0:01:17 > 0:01:21in fielding teams which have won this competition four times,
0:01:21 > 0:01:24a distinction Manchester shares with Magdalene College, Oxford.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27Former students include the writer Anthony Burgess,
0:01:27 > 0:01:31the architect Norman Foster, and the actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34With an average age of 26, let's meet the latest team.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39Hello, my name's Edmund Chapman, I'm originally from Norwich,
0:01:39 > 0:01:41and I'm doing a PhD in Literature.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Hello, I'm Matthew Stallard, I'm from Wolverhampton,
0:01:44 > 0:01:47and I'm doing a PhD in American Studies.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50- Their captain.- Hi, I'm John Ratcliffe, I'm from Manchester,
0:01:50 > 0:01:52and I'm doing Chemical Engineering.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Hi, I'm Charlie Rowlands, I'm from Albrighton in Shropshire,
0:01:55 > 0:01:57and I'm studying Genetics and Chinese.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59APPLAUSE
0:02:03 > 0:02:05Now, the team from Selwyn College, Cambridge
0:02:05 > 0:02:08represent an institution that was founded in 1882.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11It was named after George Augustus Selwyn,
0:02:11 > 0:02:14the first Bishop of New Zealand, with the aim of encouraging habits
0:02:14 > 0:02:19of simple living and to develop the Christian character in its students,
0:02:19 > 0:02:22traits that are immediately discernible in its alumni,
0:02:22 > 0:02:24who include the writer Robert Harris, the politician
0:02:24 > 0:02:28Simon Hughes and the actors Tom Hollander and Hugh Laurie.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32With an average age of 20, let's meet the Selwyn team.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35Hello, I'm Afham Raoof, I'm from Colchester in Essex,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38and I'm reading Natural Sciences.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Hi, I'm Hannah Warwicker, I'm from Huddersfield,
0:02:40 > 0:02:42and I'm reading Classics.
0:02:42 > 0:02:46- And their captain.- Hi, I'm Joshua Pugh Ginn from Manchester,
0:02:46 > 0:02:49and I'm studying for a PhD in Classics.
0:02:49 > 0:02:50Hi, I'm Charles Cooper.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53I'm from Bedford and I'm reading Natural Sciences.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55APPLAUSE
0:02:58 > 0:03:01OK, the rules are the same as they've always been
0:03:01 > 0:03:03since Isaac Newton first devised them.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Starter questions are worth 10 points. They're solo efforts.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08There's a penalty of five points
0:03:08 > 0:03:11if you interrupt a starter question incorrectly.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Bonuses are worth 15, they are team efforts.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20Which year is the subject of the poem by Philip Larkin
0:03:20 > 0:03:25that contains the lines, "Never such innocence, never before or since?"
0:03:25 > 0:03:31The title is given in Roman numerals as MCMXIV.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33BELL RINGS
0:03:33 > 0:03:351914.
0:03:35 > 0:03:36Correct.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38APPLAUSE
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Right, the first set of bonuses
0:03:40 > 0:03:42are for you, Manchester, on European history.
0:03:42 > 0:03:43Firstly for five points,
0:03:43 > 0:03:47which imperial dynasty ruled Spain from 1516 to 1700?
0:03:47 > 0:03:50- Habsburgs?- Habsburgs.
0:03:50 > 0:03:51Habsburgs.
0:03:51 > 0:03:52Correct. Secondly for five points,
0:03:52 > 0:03:54when the last Spanish Habsburg monarch,
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Charles II, died in 1700,
0:03:57 > 0:04:00he named Philip of Anjou as his heir.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03What relation was Philip to Louis XIV of France?
0:04:04 > 0:04:07Grandson?
0:04:07 > 0:04:08- Grandson?- Don't know.
0:04:08 > 0:04:09Grandson?
0:04:09 > 0:04:13Correct. Thirdly for five points, disputes over Philip's accession
0:04:13 > 0:04:16resulted in the War of the Spanish Succession.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Which Dutch city gives its name to the series of treaties that
0:04:19 > 0:04:22- ended the war? - Utrecht.- Utrecht, yeah.
0:04:22 > 0:04:23Utrecht.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Correct. 10 points for this starter question, fingers on the buzzers.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30A usage dating to the 18th century, what Latin-derived term indicates
0:04:30 > 0:04:33a relic of a recognisable organism that was buried by natural
0:04:33 > 0:04:36- processes and subsequently... - BELL RINGS
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Fossil.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40- Correct. - APPLAUSE MASKS SPEECH
0:04:42 > 0:04:45Right, your bonuses are on islands.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47We'll try not to make them so easy.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Er, the first one for five points.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53Lying near the meeting point of Austria, Germany and Switzerland,
0:04:53 > 0:04:55the historic city of Lindau
0:04:55 > 0:04:58is on an island in the eastern part of which lake?
0:04:59 > 0:05:01- Geneva?- Geneva it must be, yeah. Geneva?
0:05:01 > 0:05:03No, it's Lake Constance. Secondly,
0:05:03 > 0:05:07the ancient port of Trogir lies on an island in the Adriatic
0:05:07 > 0:05:11and is linked by a bridge to which coastal area of Croatia that
0:05:11 > 0:05:13includes Dubrovnik and Split?
0:05:13 > 0:05:16Dalmatia? That's the name?
0:05:16 > 0:05:17Dalmatia?
0:05:17 > 0:05:21Correct. The island city of Male is the capital of which country
0:05:21 > 0:05:24consisting of a chain of about 1,200 coral islands in the Indian Ocean?
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Maldives.
0:05:26 > 0:05:27Correct, 10 points for this.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Who was the subject of an article in Life Magazine in 1964,
0:05:31 > 0:05:34asking whether he was the worst artist in the US?
0:05:34 > 0:05:38Tate Modern held a major retrospective of his work in 2013,
0:05:38 > 0:05:41including Look, Mickey, and Drowning Girl.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45BUZZER
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Pollock?
0:05:47 > 0:05:48No, anyone like to buzz from Manchester?
0:05:48 > 0:05:50BELL RINGS
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Jasper Johns.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55No. He'd be very insulted, or his descendants would.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58It's Roy Lichtenstein. 10 points for this.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01First introduced in 1962 by the US physicist Thomas Kuhn in
0:06:01 > 0:06:03The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,
0:06:03 > 0:06:06which two-word term describes a change in basic assumptions
0:06:06 > 0:06:09- within a ruling theory... - BUZZER
0:06:09 > 0:06:10Paradigm shift.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:06:15 > 0:06:18Right, Selwyn, your first bonuses are on the solar system.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22The letters making up the name of the largest satellite of Uranus
0:06:22 > 0:06:25include those of the name of the largest satellite of Saturn.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26Name both.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28Titan and...
0:06:28 > 0:06:30What's Uranus then? Erm...
0:06:32 > 0:06:35- Er...?- Titania?- Could be.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36- Yeah.- Titania's...- Yeah.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Let's have it, please.
0:06:38 > 0:06:39Er, Titan and Titania.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43Correct. Titania, with a mean radius of 789km
0:06:43 > 0:06:48and another uranium moon, Oberon, at 761km,
0:06:48 > 0:06:51were both discovered in 1787 by which astronomer?
0:06:51 > 0:06:54- Think it's Herschel? - Yeah, Herschel, it seems like.
0:06:54 > 0:06:55- Herschel?- William Herschel?
0:06:55 > 0:06:59Correct. And finally, two years later, Herschel discovered two inner
0:06:59 > 0:07:05satellites of Saturn with orbital periods of only 1.37 and 0.94 days.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Name either.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11Small moons of Saturn. Er, they'll be named after...
0:07:13 > 0:07:16- Something classical. - Yeah, no, erm...
0:07:17 > 0:07:21We need to guess this. Erm, Faunus.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24No, it's Enceladus and Mimas. Time for a picture round.
0:07:24 > 0:07:25For your picture starter
0:07:25 > 0:07:28you're going to see a map showing the route of a direct rail journey.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30For 10 points, I want you to identify
0:07:30 > 0:07:34the two terminal cities highlighted.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35BELL RINGS
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Moscow and Vladivostok.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40- Correct. - Very good.- Doing really well.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43Shall we just leave(?)
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Right, Manchester, the trip on the Rossiya
0:07:45 > 0:07:48between Moscow and Vladivostok is one of the largest direct
0:07:48 > 0:07:51rail journeys in the world, covering over 9,000km over seven days.
0:07:51 > 0:07:52Your picture bonuses show
0:07:52 > 0:07:55three more of the world's longest direct rail journeys.
0:07:55 > 0:07:56Again, in each case,
0:07:56 > 0:08:00I want you to identify the two terminal cities highlighted.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Firstly for five...
0:08:03 > 0:08:05THEY CONFER
0:08:06 > 0:08:07Perth and Sydney.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Correct. Secondly...
0:08:11 > 0:08:12Oh, no.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15Matt was going to say Lhasa, cos that's Tibet, isn't it?
0:08:15 > 0:08:20- On the left. What's on the right? - Beijing. That's not Beijing.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22- Shanghai?- Guangzhou.- What's this?
0:08:24 > 0:08:25- That's not Beijing.- What is it?
0:08:25 > 0:08:28- Guangzhou, maybe.- Guangzhou, and...?
0:08:28 > 0:08:32- Guangdong, sorry! - Guangdong and...?- Lhasa.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Guangdong and Lhasa.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38No, it's Guangzhou and Lhasa. And finally...
0:08:40 > 0:08:43- Vancouver, and is that...? - That's Toronto, so...
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Vancouver and Toronto.
0:08:46 > 0:08:47Correct.
0:08:47 > 0:08:4910 points for this starter question.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52In 2005, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman,
0:08:52 > 0:08:53- both aged... - BUZZER
0:08:53 > 0:08:54Reddit.
0:08:54 > 0:08:55Correct.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58APPLAUSE
0:08:59 > 0:09:01Selwyn, these bonuses are on Shakespeare.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05In each case identify the play in which the following lines appear.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08Firstly, in which play does Guiderius have the lines,
0:09:08 > 0:09:11"Fear no more the heat of the sun nor the furious winter's rages.
0:09:11 > 0:09:17"Thou thy worldly task hast done. Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages"?
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Cymbeline?
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Guiderius, it's going to be pretty obscure.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24- It's not one we know, so it's likely to be one like that.- Cymbeline?
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Cymbeline is right. In which play does Adam have the lines,
0:09:27 > 0:09:32"Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly"?
0:09:32 > 0:09:33King Lear, I think. Is that...?
0:09:35 > 0:09:36Er, King Lear?
0:09:36 > 0:09:38No, there's no Adam in King Lear, it's As You Like It.
0:09:38 > 0:09:42And finally, "For you there's rosemary and rue, these keep.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45"Seeming and savour all the winter long."
0:09:45 > 0:09:47In which play does Perdita say those words?
0:09:47 > 0:09:48Er, Winter's Tale.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Correct. 10 points for this, listen carefully.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54To which ancient building is Lord Byron referring
0:09:54 > 0:09:56in his narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
0:09:56 > 0:09:59in the lines, "Dull is the eye that will not weep
0:09:59 > 0:10:00"to see thy walls defaced,
0:10:00 > 0:10:03- "thy mouldering shrine..." - BUZZER
0:10:03 > 0:10:04The Parthenon.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:10:08 > 0:10:12Your bonuses are on works by Leonardo Da Vinci.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15What four-word title is usually given to two similar paintings
0:10:15 > 0:10:19by Leonardo Da Vinci, one held in London's National Gallery,
0:10:19 > 0:10:20the other in the Louvre?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22The title refers to one of the figures depicted
0:10:22 > 0:10:24and the nature of the setting.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26- Madonna?- On The Rocks? - Madonna On The Rocks, yes.
0:10:26 > 0:10:27Madonna On The Rocks?
0:10:27 > 0:10:30Madonna OF The Rocks, or the Virgin Of The Rocks, yes.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Secondly, both versions of the Virgin Of The Rocks
0:10:32 > 0:10:35demonstrate a technique known by what Italian term, defined by
0:10:35 > 0:10:40Leonardo as meaning, "with outlines or borders in the manner of smoke"?
0:10:40 > 0:10:41- Sfumato.- Sfumato.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Sfumato is correct.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46And finally, both versions depict The Adoration of the Christ Child
0:10:46 > 0:10:50by which other Biblical figure said to be six months his senior?
0:10:50 > 0:10:53- John the Baptist. - Er, John the Baptist.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Correct. 10 points for this.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58Anser and Branta are the two main genera of which ground-nesting
0:10:58 > 0:11:01- birds that are known to mate...? - BUZZER
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Geese.
0:11:02 > 0:11:03Geese is correct, yes.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05APPLAUSE
0:11:06 > 0:11:08That gives you the lead, Selwyn.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10These bonuses are on social commentary.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Hard Work: Life In Low-Pay Britain
0:11:13 > 0:11:16is a 2003 work by which journalist and political commentator?
0:11:16 > 0:11:19With David Walker she's co-authored works
0:11:19 > 0:11:24including Unjust Rewards: Ending the Greed That Is Bankrupting Britain.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28- Someone like Polly Toynbee?- Toynbee sounds sensible.- Yeah.- I don't know.
0:11:28 > 0:11:29Polly Toynbee?
0:11:29 > 0:11:33Correct. Which journalist's works include the 1998 work Dark Heart,
0:11:33 > 0:11:36subtitled The Shocking Truth About Hidden Britain,
0:11:36 > 0:11:38and the 2008 Flat Earth News
0:11:38 > 0:11:41concerned with standards and practices in global media?
0:11:43 > 0:11:46That would be... Not Tom Watson. It's not him.
0:11:46 > 0:11:51- Is it Starkey?- David Starkey? A different Starkey?
0:11:51 > 0:11:53A different... No, I'm not sure.
0:11:55 > 0:11:56Tom Watson?
0:11:56 > 0:11:59No, he's an MP. It's Nick Davies. Finally,
0:11:59 > 0:12:01what colloquial and controversial term is the title of
0:12:01 > 0:12:03a 2012 work by Owen Jones, subtitled
0:12:03 > 0:12:06The Demonization Of The Working Class?
0:12:06 > 0:12:09- Chavs.- Chavs is correct. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12In 2008, the Japanese physicists Kobayashi and Maskawa
0:12:12 > 0:12:15shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery
0:12:15 > 0:12:18of the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence
0:12:18 > 0:12:23of at least three families of what fundamental particles?
0:12:24 > 0:12:26Neutrino.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Anyone want to buzz from Manchester?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30You may not confer, one of you may...
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Quarks.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36Yes, but next time you buzz, you must answer straightaway, OK?
0:12:36 > 0:12:38I'm going to give you a set of bonuses in the meantime
0:12:38 > 0:12:39and they are on elements
0:12:39 > 0:12:42that, according to the British Geological Survey,
0:12:42 > 0:12:45have a high relative supply risk based on the location of
0:12:45 > 0:12:48current reserves and the political stability of those locations.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51In each case, name the element from the description.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Firstly, atomic number 51,
0:12:53 > 0:12:56a semi-metal used in industry to harden lead and similar metals.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Its principal ore is stibnite.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02- (Yes.) Antimony.- Correct.
0:13:02 > 0:13:07Atomic number 83, a high-density metal used in low-melting alloys,
0:13:07 > 0:13:09pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11THEY WHISPER
0:13:16 > 0:13:1983? No, it's...
0:13:22 > 0:13:24- Let's have it, please.- Zinc.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26No, it's bismuth.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29Atomic number 74, it has the highest melting point of all metals
0:13:29 > 0:13:31and has been used for the filaments of light bulbs.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34- Tungsten.- Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Which orchestral instrument links the first novel
0:13:36 > 0:13:41by the contemporary poet Jackie Kay, a polemical work by the Scottish...
0:13:41 > 0:13:43- Trumpet.- Correct.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45APPLAUSE
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Your bonuses, Manchester, this time, having taken the lead again,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53are on people who portrayed themselves on film.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57Which US poet played himself in both the 1970 film Prologue
0:13:57 > 0:14:01and the 1972 film Ciao! Manhattan,
0:14:01 > 0:14:04starring the Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick?
0:14:04 > 0:14:06In 2013, he was portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe
0:14:06 > 0:14:08in the film Kill Your Darlings.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10- Oh! Allen Ginsberg.- Yeah.
0:14:10 > 0:14:11- Allen Ginsberg.- Correct.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Secondly, born in Bavaria in 1945,
0:14:14 > 0:14:16which prolific German director, actor and writer
0:14:16 > 0:14:19appeared as himself in the 1978 portmanteau film
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Germany In Autumn?
0:14:22 > 0:14:25THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:14:25 > 0:14:26Werner Herzog?
0:14:26 > 0:14:27No, it's Fassbinder.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31Todd Graff's 2003 film Camp, about a summer camp
0:14:31 > 0:14:35for performing arts students, sees which US musical-theatre composer
0:14:35 > 0:14:37and lyricist play himself?
0:14:37 > 0:14:41- US composer?- Hmm.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Stephen Sondheim? I don't know.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45- Sondheim?- I've no idea.
0:14:45 > 0:14:46Stephen Sondheim.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49Correct. We will take a music round now. For your music starter,
0:14:49 > 0:14:51you will hear a piece of classical music
0:14:51 > 0:14:55by a German composer. Ten points if you can name the peace.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58CHEERFUL ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:14:58 > 0:15:00No, sorry.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02- Oh!- Sorry, guys.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04- You can hear little more. - MUSIC CONTINUES
0:15:19 > 0:15:20This is lamentable!
0:15:20 > 0:15:23Come on, it's one of the most famous pieces of classical music!
0:15:23 > 0:15:25The Rite Of Spring.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27No, it's the Sixth Symphony by Beethoven,
0:15:27 > 0:15:29so ten points for this starter question.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31Music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:15:31 > 0:15:35I'd like you to spell out the five letters of the word being described.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39With an accent on the final E, it denotes a guitar chord
0:15:39 > 0:15:42played with one finger lying across all the strings.
0:15:44 > 0:15:45B-A-R-R-E.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Correct.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50APPLAUSE
0:15:50 > 0:15:53So you get the music bonuses then, Selwyn.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55They are on the sort of bits of music
0:15:55 > 0:15:58that are played by councils while they get around, finally,
0:15:58 > 0:16:00three hours later, to answering your phone call.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Now, if you have ever phoned Salford City Council,
0:16:03 > 0:16:05you could have heard Beethoven's Sixth being played.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08You are going to hear three more pieces of classical music that,
0:16:08 > 0:16:11according to a Press Association Freedom Of Information request,
0:16:11 > 0:16:15have been used as hold music for city, borough and county councils.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19In each case, I want the title of the piece and the composer.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22Firstly, for five, the composer and title of this piece,
0:16:22 > 0:16:27used by Harrow Council to assuage complaints about roadworks.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30LIVELY ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:16:30 > 0:16:34- Sorry? - Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38- The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba by Handel.- That is correct.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Secondly, this piece, used by Warrington Council
0:16:40 > 0:16:44while they formulate a response to your bin enquiries.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47LILTING BUT GENTLE STRING MUSIC
0:16:47 > 0:16:51Erm... Erm...
0:16:53 > 0:16:59- I know I've played it! - Well, that's a start.
0:16:59 > 0:17:00Did you get the poster afterwards?
0:17:00 > 0:17:02THEY LAUGH
0:17:02 > 0:17:07- Any guesses?- Charles, it's your... - Composer?- I really don't know.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11- No.- No, I have no idea.- Pass.
0:17:11 > 0:17:12That's Boccherini's Minuet.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15Finally, this piece of music used by Thurrock Council
0:17:15 > 0:17:18about your call being important to them.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21SMOOTH BUT CHOPPY STRING MUSIC
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Mozart.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28Correct, yes, well done.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30So level pegging, ten points for this.
0:17:30 > 0:17:31Give both answers promptly.
0:17:31 > 0:17:32Easily mistyped,
0:17:32 > 0:17:35which two nine-letter anagrams mean
0:17:35 > 0:17:38an expression of discontent or protest
0:17:38 > 0:17:42and ready to yield to the wishes or desires of others?
0:17:45 > 0:17:48- Complaint and compliant. - Well done, yes.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50APPLAUSE
0:17:50 > 0:17:51You're on fire!
0:17:51 > 0:17:55Right, you get a set of bonuses on railway viaducts.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Lying on the route from King's Cross to Hogsmeade
0:17:57 > 0:17:58in the Harry Potter films,
0:17:58 > 0:18:02which viaduct between Fort William and Mallaig takes its name from
0:18:02 > 0:18:06the site at which Charles Edward Stuart raised his standard in 1745?
0:18:08 > 0:18:09THEY LAUGH
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Not Bannockburn or something, is it?
0:18:12 > 0:18:17I've forgotten. I can't remember, sorry. Caithness or something?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Cave Ness.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21No, it's Glenfinnan.
0:18:21 > 0:18:22Secondly, for five points,
0:18:22 > 0:18:25one of the longest viaducts in Britain, the Welland Viaduct,
0:18:25 > 0:18:28on the Oakham to Kettering Line, connects which two counties?
0:18:28 > 0:18:33- Kettering is...- Oakham is...Rutland.
0:18:33 > 0:18:39- I think it's Rutland. - Lincolnshire, Kettering?- Could be.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Rutland and Lincolnshire.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45No, it's Rutland and Northamptonshire.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48104 feet high and 440 yards in length,
0:18:48 > 0:18:51which viaduct was completed in 1875
0:18:51 > 0:18:55as part of the Midland Railways Settle to Carlisle Line?
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Erm...
0:19:08 > 0:19:10The Morecambe Bay Viaduct?
0:19:10 > 0:19:12- The Morecambe Bay Viaduct?! - LAUGHTER
0:19:12 > 0:19:15It's the Ribblehead Viaduct. Ten points for this.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18What specific tissue in vascular plants is composed mainly
0:19:18 > 0:19:22of elongated cells with perforated ends, known as sieve tubes?
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Its name derives from the Greek for bark.
0:19:26 > 0:19:27Tracheids?
0:19:27 > 0:19:30No, anyone like to buzz from Selwyn?
0:19:30 > 0:19:32- Phloem.- Correct.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34APPLAUSE
0:19:34 > 0:19:37These bonuses could give you the lead, Selwyn,
0:19:37 > 0:19:38and they are on electronics.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41What specific term denotes an electrical device that
0:19:41 > 0:19:44converts alternating current to direct current?
0:19:44 > 0:19:47- ADC. No... - Transformer?- Oh, rectifier!
0:19:47 > 0:19:49- Rectifier.- Correct.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52What is the root mean square value of a sinusoidal voltage
0:19:52 > 0:19:55from the output of a half-wave rectifier
0:19:55 > 0:19:57in terms of the peak voltage, V?
0:19:57 > 0:20:01- Is it 1 over root 2? Peak voltage over...- Nominate Raoof.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04- Peak voltage over the square root of 2.- Correct.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05V over 2. Yes.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08From that of a vacuum tube device with similar properties,
0:20:08 > 0:20:10what is the name of a semiconductor device often used
0:20:10 > 0:20:12in high-voltage rectifiers
0:20:12 > 0:20:16and consisting of four layers of alternating p- and n-type material?
0:20:16 > 0:20:20- Zener diode?- OK, I guess it could be. Zener diode?
0:20:20 > 0:20:21Zener diode?
0:20:21 > 0:20:24No, it's the thyristor. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27The names of a canal that links the Baltic and the North Sea,
0:20:27 > 0:20:29the longest river of Africa...
0:20:30 > 0:20:31Kiel?
0:20:31 > 0:20:33I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36..the longest river of Africa and the capital of Ukraine
0:20:36 > 0:20:41may all be made from the letters of the name of which SI base unit?
0:20:43 > 0:20:44Kelvin.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:20:49 > 0:20:51These bonuses are on English history, Selwyn.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54The Lords Appellant were five noblemen including
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray who brought an accusation of treason
0:20:57 > 0:21:00against several favourites of which king?
0:21:00 > 0:21:04- Richard II?- Richard II was... before Bolingbroke took over?- Yes.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06- Richard II.- Correct.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09What adjective is used to describe the resulting parliament in 1388
0:21:09 > 0:21:11in which several prominent members of Richard's court
0:21:11 > 0:21:14were sentenced to death?
0:21:14 > 0:21:18- 1388? Have you any idea?- Short, long, deadly...- They were later.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20THEY LAUGH
0:21:20 > 0:21:25- Erm... Er, the Fatal Parliament. - No, it was the Merciless Parliament.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28In an incident of 1398 recalled by Shakespeare,
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Richard intervened to prevent a duel between Bolingbroke and Mowbray
0:21:31 > 0:21:33and gave them instead what punishment?
0:21:33 > 0:21:36(They were both exiled.) Exiled. They were exiled.
0:21:36 > 0:21:37Correct. Banishment, yes.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39Right, we'll take another picture round now.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42For your picture starter, you'll see an early 20th-century postcard
0:21:42 > 0:21:44showing a view of an English resort.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Ten points if you can identify the resort.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Blackpool?
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Anyone like to buzz from Selwyn?
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Southend?
0:21:56 > 0:22:00No, it's Brighton. So picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Ten points for this starter question.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Everybody put your fingers on the buzzers.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Ernst Engel is remembered for Engel's Law,
0:22:06 > 0:22:08which states that the lower a family's income,
0:22:08 > 0:22:11the greater the proportion of it that is spent on what?
0:22:13 > 0:22:14Necessities?
0:22:14 > 0:22:16No. Manchester?
0:22:18 > 0:22:20- Food.- Food is correct, yes.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23APPLAUSE
0:22:23 > 0:22:25I got one right!
0:22:25 > 0:22:28So, you remember the picture starter was a picture of Brighton.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Your picture bonuses, three more postcards
0:22:30 > 0:22:33from the heyday of the British seaside resort.
0:22:33 > 0:22:34In each case, for five points,
0:22:34 > 0:22:36you have to identify the seaside town shown.
0:22:36 > 0:22:37Firstly, for five...
0:22:39 > 0:22:45- Llandudno, I think?- Is it? - It looks very nice.
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Llandudno?
0:22:46 > 0:22:48No, that's Scarborough. Secondly...
0:22:52 > 0:22:55THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Somewhere with boats...
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Come along!
0:23:02 > 0:23:04It's somewhere on the south coast. I think it's Whitby.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Let's say it anyway. It's not Whitby, but... Whitby.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10You're right, it's not Whitby, it's Weymouth. And finally...
0:23:15 > 0:23:17THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:23:20 > 0:23:23- (I've no idea.) - Let's have it, please.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28- Blackpool.- No, that is Eastbourne. Ten points for this.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30What short adjective links the nicknames of
0:23:30 > 0:23:32the island to the southeast of Maui,
0:23:32 > 0:23:34the US state of Montana
0:23:34 > 0:23:37and the cities of New Orleans and New York?
0:23:37 > 0:23:39Big.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42Big is correct, so you get a set of bonuses this time,
0:23:42 > 0:23:44on equality. Get them all, you are level pegging.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47Basing its title on words from the Book Of Proverbs,
0:23:47 > 0:23:51which 1926 work is TE Lawrence's account of his First World War
0:23:51 > 0:23:52exploits in the Middle East?
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, isn't it? That's his book.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57- Seven Pillars Of Wisdom.- Correct.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
0:24:01 > 0:24:04These are the words of which US philosopher in the 1890 work
0:24:04 > 0:24:07The Principles Of Psychology?
0:24:07 > 0:24:09THEY WHISPER
0:24:12 > 0:24:14- William James.- Correct.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17In a saying from the Dhammapada, who stated,
0:24:17 > 0:24:19"Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm,
0:24:19 > 0:24:22"even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame"?
0:24:22 > 0:24:24- Buddha.- Correct.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27Three and a half minutes to go and ten points at stake for this.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29In 1812, John Bellingham,
0:24:29 > 0:24:33a merchant with a grievance against the government, assassinated...
0:24:34 > 0:24:36- Perceval.- Spencer Perceval,
0:24:36 > 0:24:38indeed, on May 11th, 1812.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40APPLAUSE
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Right, these bonuses, Manchester, you having taken the lead,
0:24:43 > 0:24:45are on infections.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Mycosis, candidiasis and tinea pedis
0:24:48 > 0:24:51all belong to which general class of infection?
0:24:51 > 0:24:53- Fungal.- Correct.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56Impetigo and cellulitis are bacterial infections
0:24:56 > 0:24:58affecting which part of the body?
0:24:58 > 0:25:00- Skin.- The skin.- Correct.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03Meaning secret, what term denotes a hidden infection
0:25:03 > 0:25:06first recognised by secondary manifestations?
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Cryptic is secret,
0:25:08 > 0:25:10but I've never heard of that.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- I just can't think of... - Cryptic infection?- Let's have it.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- Cryptic infection.- No, it's occult.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17Ten points for this.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19In veterinary science, which organ of the cow
0:25:19 > 0:25:24includes the abomasum, the omasum and the reticulin?
0:25:24 > 0:25:26The udder.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29No. Selwyn?
0:25:29 > 0:25:31- The stomach. - The stomach is correct, yes.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33APPLAUSE
0:25:33 > 0:25:36These bonuses, Selwyn, are on the Winter Olympics.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Which winter sports resort near Mont Blanc in the French Alps
0:25:39 > 0:25:42hosted the first Winter Olympics in 1924?
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Chamonix?
0:25:43 > 0:25:44- Chamonix.- Correct.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48Which resort in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State
0:25:48 > 0:25:51hosted the Winter Olympics in both 1932 in 1980?
0:25:55 > 0:25:56Oh... Er...
0:25:56 > 0:25:59Stowe? No?
0:25:59 > 0:26:00I don't know.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Stowe?
0:26:02 > 0:26:03No, it's Lake Placid.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05And finally, which country
0:26:05 > 0:26:08hosted the Winter Olympics in 1972 and 1998?
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Who was it in '98?
0:26:12 > 0:26:16- No, that was the Summer Games. - Come on, let's have it, please.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20No, Salt Lake City... It's going to be...
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Something European, like...
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Em, Turin?
0:26:24 > 0:26:26No, it was Japan. Ten points for this.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29The short text known as the river fragments
0:26:29 > 0:26:33are associated with which ancient philosopher...?
0:26:33 > 0:26:34- Heraclitus.- Correct.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36APPLAUSE
0:26:38 > 0:26:39You take the lead, Selwyn,
0:26:39 > 0:26:42and your bonuses are on US presidents and dystopian fiction.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44In each case, name the president in office
0:26:44 > 0:26:46when the following were first published.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Firstly, Jack London's The Iron Heel.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52- Early 1900s?- Early 1900s.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55That's slightly later, isn't it?
0:26:55 > 0:26:59We want either Cleveland or... Roosevelt? First Roosevelt?
0:26:59 > 0:27:02- Theodore?- People have heard of him. - Let's have your answer.
0:27:02 > 0:27:03Teddy Roosevelt.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07Correct. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, secondly.
0:27:07 > 0:27:12- That's more recent.- That could be more like Nixon?- Nixon?
0:27:12 > 0:27:14- Nixon?- No, it was Reagan.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16Finally, Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games.
0:27:16 > 0:27:21- That's really recent. Is it Bush or Obama?- No, I think is Bush.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22George W, yeah.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24- George W Bush.- Correct.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28Ten points for this. From the 1880s, the German-born Franz Boas
0:27:28 > 0:27:31was a pioneer of which academic field of study in...
0:27:31 > 0:27:34Indology, the study of South Asia?
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Anyone like to buzz from Selwyn?
0:27:36 > 0:27:38You can hear a little more of the question
0:27:38 > 0:27:41and I'm afraid we've got to fine you five points, Manchester.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43..which academic field of study in the United States?
0:27:43 > 0:27:47Its notable students included Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50You may not confer.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52- Anthropology?- Correct.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55APPLAUSE
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Right, Selwyn, these bonuses are linked by a colour...
0:27:57 > 0:27:59OUT-OF-TIME GONG
0:27:59 > 0:28:01At the gong, Manchester University have 160,
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Selwyn College Cambridge have 190.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07APPLAUSE
0:28:07 > 0:28:09Well, you started well, Manchester,
0:28:09 > 0:28:12had a couple of unfortunate buzzes, but who knows?
0:28:12 > 0:28:15160 may be enough to come back as a high-scoring loser. Who knows?
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19Selwyn, many congratulations. We shall definitely see you
0:28:19 > 0:28:21in round two. We look forward to that very much.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24I hope you can join us next time, but until then,
0:28:24 > 0:28:26- it is goodbye from Manchester University...- Bye.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29- It's goodbye from Selwyn College, Cambridge.- Goodbye.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.