0:00:19 > 0:00:21APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:23University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. The price of wisdom may be above rubies
0:00:31 > 0:00:35but it can also earn you a place in the second round of this competition
0:00:35 > 0:00:38to find the cleverest student quiz team in the UK.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41Tonight's winners will go through automatically.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44The losers could also play again if their score is among the four
0:00:44 > 0:00:47highest losing totals from this stage of the contest.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51Now, UCL is the largest college of the University of London
0:00:51 > 0:00:54and was established in 1826 to extend higher education
0:00:54 > 0:00:57to students, regardless of race or religion.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00The driving forces behind its foundation are regarded
0:01:00 > 0:01:04as being two Scots, the poet Thomas Campbell and the statesman
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Henry Brougham, a follower of the utilitarian principles
0:01:07 > 0:01:10of Jeremy Bentham, who's often regarded
0:01:10 > 0:01:12as the college's spiritual father.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15An eclectic mix of architecture in and around Bloomsbury
0:01:15 > 0:01:17includes the imposing Senate House,
0:01:17 > 0:01:21supposedly an inspiration for the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's 1984.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Alumni include the inventor of the telephone,
0:01:24 > 0:01:27Alexander Graham Bell, the pioneer of birth control,
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Marie Stopes, the journalist Walter Bagehot and more recently,
0:01:31 > 0:01:35the film director Christopher Nolan, plus all the members of Coldplay.
0:01:35 > 0:01:36With an average age of 22
0:01:36 > 0:01:41and representing around 25,000 students, let's meet the UCL team.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43Hello, I'm Bethany Drew, I'm from Surrey
0:01:43 > 0:01:47and I'm currently in my first year studying English literature.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Hi, I'm Andrew Brueton, I'm from London
0:01:50 > 0:01:51and I'm studying law.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55- And their captain.- Hello, I'm Thomas Halliday, I'm from Edinburgh
0:01:55 > 0:01:58and I'm studying for a PhD in vertebrate palaeontology.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Hello, my name is Harold Gunnarsson
0:02:00 > 0:02:03and I'm doing a PhD in geomatic engineering.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05APPLAUSE
0:02:06 > 0:02:09Now, some students choose to attend a university close to the
0:02:09 > 0:02:13parental home, handy for taking home washing at the weekends.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Others prefer to be a long way from the parental eye
0:02:15 > 0:02:18and it is rumoured this is among one of the attractions
0:02:18 > 0:02:22of Exeter University, which is based around three compasses,
0:02:22 > 0:02:24two of them in the city and one in Cornwall.
0:02:24 > 0:02:29It too has 19th-century origins and received its Royal Charter in 1955.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33It expanded rapidly in the 1960s, almost doubling its student numbers.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37It has recently developed a considerable reputation
0:02:37 > 0:02:38in Arab and Islamic studies.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42Alumni include the author of the bestselling book series in history,
0:02:42 > 0:02:45JK Rowling, the playwright, Robert Bolt,
0:02:45 > 0:02:47and the pop idol and actor Will Young.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51With an average age of 33 and representing around 18,000,
0:02:51 > 0:02:53let's meet the Exeter team.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55Hello, I'm Harry Heath,
0:02:55 > 0:02:59I'm Bromsgrove in Worcestershire and I'm studying history.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Hello, I'm Katie Barry. I'm from Epsom in Surrey
0:03:01 > 0:03:03and I'm studying biochemistry.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05And this as their captain.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07I'm Jeffrey Sage, I'm from Louisville, Kentucky
0:03:07 > 0:03:10and I'm studying for a PhD in Arab and Islamic studies.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13Hi, I'm Rick Harmes. I'm from Looe in Cornwall
0:03:13 > 0:03:16and I'm working on a PhD in politics.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18APPLAUSE
0:03:21 > 0:03:24OK, the usual rules. Ten points for starter questions,
0:03:24 > 0:03:27which you have to answer on your own, and 15 points for bonuses,
0:03:27 > 0:03:29which are team efforts.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:31 > 0:03:36What concept is described in 1984 as "not a means but an end to..."?
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Power.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Power is correct, yes.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Your bonuses, UCL, are on culinary plants.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50The three are unrelated but begin with the same three letters.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52Firstly, which spice
0:03:52 > 0:03:56is known as adrak in Hindi and shoga in Japanese?
0:03:56 > 0:04:00Its edible rhizomes can be used as an accompaniment to sushi
0:04:00 > 0:04:02or as a flavouring in parkin.
0:04:03 > 0:04:04Ginger.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07Correct. Similar to some Jurassic fossils,
0:04:07 > 0:04:10which tree is also known as the maidenhair in China,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13where it's used to flavour a number of traditional dishes.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Its name means silver apricot.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Ginkgo.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Correct. Used for its restorative effects,
0:04:19 > 0:04:22which plant of the genus panax derives its name in part from the
0:04:22 > 0:04:26Chinese for "man" because the roots are thought to resemble human legs?
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Ginseng.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Correct. Another starter question.
0:04:31 > 0:04:36Which company was chartered by Elizabeth I in 1600 to challenge...
0:04:36 > 0:04:38The British East India Company.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Correct.
0:04:42 > 0:04:47These bonuses, Exeter, are on member states of the Nordic Council.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51In 2013, for the fifth successive year, the World Economic Forum's
0:04:51 > 0:04:55Global Gender Gap Report ranked which Nordic country number one
0:04:55 > 0:04:59in terms of narrowing inequality between men and women?
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Sweden.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11No, it's Iceland. Secondly, which is the only Nordic country
0:05:11 > 0:05:14whose majority language is non-Germanic?
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Finland.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21Correct. Which is the only country in the Nordic Council that is
0:05:21 > 0:05:23a member of both the European Union and NATO?
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Denmark.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Denmark is correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Born in 1788, the French mining engineer, Claude Burdin,
0:05:38 > 0:05:42is generally credited with coining what word for a rotary device turned
0:05:42 > 0:05:46by a liquid or gas, used in jet engines and electricity generators?
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Turbine.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Turbine is right.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56These bonuses are on British wading birds, UCL.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Having distinctive black and white plumage and a long,
0:05:58 > 0:06:03up-curved beak, which wading bird became the emblem of the RSPB
0:06:03 > 0:06:06following the marked success of projects to conserve it?
0:06:06 > 0:06:07Avocet.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11Correct. What is the six-letter common name of Calidris alpina?
0:06:11 > 0:06:14The commonest small wader found along the coast,
0:06:14 > 0:06:17it has a slightly down-curved bill and in breeding plumage,
0:06:17 > 0:06:19a distinctive black belly patch.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Plover.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28No, it's a dunlin. From its evocative call,
0:06:28 > 0:06:31what is the common name of Numenius arquata,
0:06:31 > 0:06:34found in winter estuaries and summer moorland?
0:06:34 > 0:06:37It has brown plumage and a long down-curved bill.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Curlew.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Correct. Ten points for this.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48"If the book of Job was partly its model, it was Job retold
0:06:48 > 0:06:52"for a godless world that offers no final consolation or redress."
0:06:52 > 0:06:56These words from Claire Tomalin's 2006 biography of Thomas Hardy
0:06:56 > 0:06:58described which of his later novels?
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Jude The Obscure.
0:07:01 > 0:07:02Correct.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08Right, your bonuses, Exeter, are on scientific epiphanies.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11Firstly, which inventor claimed to have visualised
0:07:11 > 0:07:14the principle of the rotating magnetic field
0:07:14 > 0:07:17while walking through a park in Budapest in 1882?
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Gauss.
0:07:25 > 0:07:26No, it's Tesla.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30Secondly, in the 1994 work the Quark And The Jaguar,
0:07:30 > 0:07:33which physicist and pioneer of complicity detailed how
0:07:33 > 0:07:36an encounter with a wildcat in Central America resonated
0:07:36 > 0:07:40with his thinking about the notion of individuality?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45- Pass.- That was Murray Gell-Mann.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48And finally, as he walked to his job at the Swiss Patent Office,
0:07:48 > 0:07:52Albert Einstein made the imaginative leap that which non-spatial
0:07:52 > 0:07:55continuum cannot be absolutely defined?
0:07:55 > 0:07:58It led to the special theory of relativity.
0:08:00 > 0:08:01Time.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Time is correct, yes. Time for a picture round.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07For your picture starter, you'll see part of a national coat of arms.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Ten points if you can identify
0:08:09 > 0:08:10the country it represents.
0:08:12 > 0:08:13Peru.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Anyone like to buzz from UCL?
0:08:17 > 0:08:18Chile.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21No, it's Bolivia. We'll see the whole thing now.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23That apparently is a llama in the middle of it.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26So, picture bonuses in a moment or two. Ten points at stake.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Figures on buzzers, please. Here's a starter question.
0:08:29 > 0:08:30Listen carefully.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Charles Babbage called his first calculating machine
0:08:33 > 0:08:36the difference engine. What name did he give to his second machine...
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Analytical engine.
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Correct.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Right, your picture bonuses, then.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47There are three more countries depicted in stylised landscapes
0:08:47 > 0:08:49on their national emblems or coats of arms.
0:08:49 > 0:08:53Five points for each country you can identify. Firstly, please.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Nepal.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Correct. Here is the whole thing. There we are.
0:08:58 > 0:08:59And secondly.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06(Burma, Cambodia? Like a Burmese temple.)
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Burma.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11No, it's Laos. We'll see the whole thing.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12And finally.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16(North Korea?)
0:09:19 > 0:09:21North Korea.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24It is indeed the People's Paradise of North Korea.
0:09:24 > 0:09:25Yes. Ten points for this.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Give your answer by using
0:09:27 > 0:09:30a spelling alphabet such as that used by NATO.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32For example, A for alpha.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35In English, what letter of the alphabet is most commonly
0:09:35 > 0:09:39used to represent the sound known in phonetics
0:09:39 > 0:09:41as voiceless alveolar plosive?
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Tango.
0:09:46 > 0:09:47Correct, yes, T.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Right, your bonuses are on the so-called "noughties" or
0:09:51 > 0:09:52the first decade of the 21st century.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56Simply name the year in which the following events took place.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58Firstly, the Tate Modern opened,
0:09:58 > 0:10:00Zadie Smith's novel White Teeth was published
0:10:00 > 0:10:04and Vladimir Putin became president of Russia for the first time.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09THEY CONFER
0:10:09 > 0:10:13- Maybe 2001?- Early... - He was prime minister before...
0:10:13 > 0:10:16OK. So 2001?
0:10:16 > 0:10:18- 2001.- No, it's 2000.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf of Mexico, Prince Charles married
0:10:22 > 0:10:26Camilla Parker Bowles and Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go was published.
0:10:28 > 0:10:29- 2005.- Correct.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33JK Rowling's Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows was published,
0:10:33 > 0:10:36Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union
0:10:36 > 0:10:39and Gordon Brown succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister.
0:10:40 > 0:10:412007.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Correct. Ten points for this.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45"If you're not able to sketch a man falling
0:10:45 > 0:10:49"out of a window in the time it takes him to get from the fifth
0:10:49 > 0:10:53"floor to the ground, you'll never be skilful enough to produce monumental work."
0:10:53 > 0:10:58These words are attributed to which French artist, born 1798,
0:10:58 > 0:11:01his works include Women of Algiers?
0:11:04 > 0:11:06- Brueton.- Pissarro?
0:11:06 > 0:11:09- No, anyone like to buzz from Exeter?- Harmes.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12- Delacroix. - Delacroix is correct. Yes.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19Now, Exeter, these bonuses are on Shakespeare's history plays.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22In each case, identify the play from its closing lines.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24"I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land to wash this
0:11:24 > 0:11:27"blood off from my guilty hand. March sadly after,
0:11:27 > 0:11:32"grace my mournings here in weeping after this untimely bier."
0:11:33 > 0:11:36No, it's a history play.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Henry IV Part Two?
0:11:38 > 0:11:40SHE WHISPERS
0:11:40 > 0:11:41No, it's a pilgrimage.
0:11:43 > 0:11:44I don't know.
0:11:47 > 0:11:48Henry IV Part II.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50No, it's Richard II.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Secondly, "my tongue is weary, my legs are too, I will bid you good
0:11:53 > 0:11:58"night and so kneel down before you, but indeed to pray for the Queen."
0:12:02 > 0:12:07I did Shakespeare... This is all sort of...
0:12:07 > 0:12:12- Henry VI Part I is what comes to mind.- Go with it.
0:12:12 > 0:12:13Henry VI Part I.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16No, it's Henry IV Part II that time.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19And finally, "now civil wounds are stopped,
0:12:19 > 0:12:24"peace lives again that she may long live here. God say amen."
0:12:24 > 0:12:25Richard III?
0:12:26 > 0:12:29- Richard III.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31Give me two answers as soon as your name is called.
0:12:31 > 0:12:36Imagine that the periodic table is a chessboard, the King is on oxygen.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40It has five possible moves, two are chlorine and nitrogen,
0:12:40 > 0:12:42give me two of the others.
0:12:44 > 0:12:45Gunnarsson.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47- Nitrogen, sorry...- I'm sorry.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50- Barry.- Fluorine and phosphorus.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Correct. The other one is sulphur.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Right, your bonuses are on chemistry this time.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03The Arrhenius equation describes how the rate constant
0:13:03 > 0:13:07of chemical reactions changes with temperature and what other variable?
0:13:07 > 0:13:10I need the precise two-word term, please.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15THEY CONFER
0:13:18 > 0:13:20..I can't even think of it!
0:13:20 > 0:13:22- Ideas?- Temperature and...
0:13:22 > 0:13:25- No, it's two words.- Yeah. Erm...
0:13:25 > 0:13:28- Relative temperature. - No, it's activation energy.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31The Arrhenius equation was first proposed by which Dutch
0:13:31 > 0:13:37chemist in 1884, five years before Svante Arrhenius provided physical evidence for it?
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Any idea?
0:13:40 > 0:13:43I think it begins with A, but I might be completely wrong.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45Pass.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47That was proposed by Van 't Hoff.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Finally, in the Arrhenius equation,
0:13:49 > 0:13:52the rule of thumb is that the rate of reaction almost doubles
0:13:52 > 0:13:55for a temperature increase of how many degrees Celsius?
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Yeah, it's got a log in it, so ten.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02- Ten.- Ten is correct.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Right. We'll take a music round.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08For your starter, you'll hear an excerpt from the piece of classical music.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10Ten points if you can name the composer.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:13 > 0:14:14Brueton.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16- Holst.- Holst is correct.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19It's Mars the Bringer of War, from The Planets.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23He had been declared unfit for military service
0:14:23 > 0:14:28but he worked as a music teacher for troops during the First World War.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Your music bonuses are three more composers who served in some
0:14:31 > 0:14:33way in the First World War.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35Five points for each you can identify.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Firstly for five, this French composer.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42LIVELY MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:46 > 0:14:49THEY CONFER
0:14:58 > 0:15:01Poulenc.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04No, that's Maurice Ravel. Secondly, this German composer.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07DRAMATIC SINGING
0:15:09 > 0:15:11- Carl Orff.- Correct.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Finally this British composer.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16LANGUID MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:27 > 0:15:29- Vaughan Williams. - That's Ralph Vaughan Williams, yes.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31Ten points this.
0:15:31 > 0:15:35Founded by Bruno de Zabala in 1726, which capital city links
0:15:35 > 0:15:38a 1933 convention that discusses the definition
0:15:38 > 0:15:40and rights of statehood, the sinking of the Graf Spee...
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Brueton.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44- Montevideo.- Correct.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51These bonuses, UCL, are on a sport.
0:15:51 > 0:15:56The Brotherhood of St Mark was founded in Frankfurt in 1478
0:15:56 > 0:15:59to control the instruction of which future Olympic sport?
0:15:59 > 0:16:02THEY WHISPER
0:16:03 > 0:16:04- Fencing.- Correct.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08According to the official Olympic glossary of fencing terminology,
0:16:08 > 0:16:10what's the name of the defensive action used
0:16:10 > 0:16:12when a fencer blocks the opponent's blade?
0:16:14 > 0:16:16- Parry.- Correct.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18In fencing, what name is given to the flexible or weaker
0:16:18 > 0:16:21half of the blade between the middle and point.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25In more general speech it denotes a feeling or weakness of character.
0:16:26 > 0:16:27- Foible.- Correct. Well done.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33Another starter question.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35In different colours, what distinctive symbol links
0:16:35 > 0:16:38the flags of the breakaway republic of Abkhazia
0:16:38 > 0:16:42on the Black Sea and the historical province of Ulster?
0:16:44 > 0:16:46- Brueton.- Hands.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Correct. White and red respectively.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53These bonuses are on Soviet leaders.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56"An erratic and at times jarringly outspoken leader whose tenure
0:16:56 > 0:17:00"was marked by dramatic de-Stalinization", these words from
0:17:00 > 0:17:06the Washington Post described which Soviet leader on his death in 1971?
0:17:06 > 0:17:08- Khrushchev.- Correct.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12In power for a brief 13 months before his death in 1985, which Soviet
0:17:12 > 0:17:17leader was described by Time Magazine as "the caretaker from Siberia"?
0:17:17 > 0:17:21- Andropov then Chernenko. - He was second. So...
0:17:23 > 0:17:26- He comes after Andropov. - So which one?
0:17:26 > 0:17:28I'm guessing Chernenko.
0:17:28 > 0:17:29- Chernenko.- That's right.
0:17:29 > 0:17:34"Revealed, red cabbage ruled Russia", was the Sun newspaper's
0:17:34 > 0:17:38headline in 1982 on the death of which Soviet leader?
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Referring to his deteriorating mental
0:17:40 > 0:17:42and physical condition in the last weeks of his life.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46- Andropov.- No, that was Brezhnev.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Another starter question.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52What given name links the author of How Mumbo-Jumbo
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Conquered The World, the spymaster of Elizabeth I,
0:17:55 > 0:18:01and the name adopted by Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he assumed off...
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Brueton.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05- Francis. - Francis is quite correct, yes.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Right, bonuses are on depictions of Socrates.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16Which comedy by Aristophanes portrays Socrates as a charlatan
0:18:16 > 0:18:19working in the tradition of the sophist with his Academy
0:18:19 > 0:18:23teaching how to make wrong arguments sound right?
0:18:23 > 0:18:25- The Clouds.- Correct.
0:18:25 > 0:18:29Purchased by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1931, the
0:18:29 > 0:18:33Death of Socrates is a major work by which French Neoclassical painter?
0:18:36 > 0:18:38I really don't know but he did Cicero.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40- And a lot of things. - French Revolution is...
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Davide.
0:18:42 > 0:18:43Davide is correct.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47In which film of 1989 is Socrates described with some degree
0:18:47 > 0:18:52of accuracy as, "the most bodacious philosophiser in ancient Greece"?
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Back to the Future?!
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Trainspotting.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05No, it's Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08Ten points for this. Constructed on the orders of Mehmed II,
0:19:08 > 0:19:11after he seized Constantinople in 1453...
0:19:11 > 0:19:12Sage.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14The Hagia Sophia.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20..which palace was the primary residence of the Ottoman sultans?
0:19:20 > 0:19:21- Brueton.- Topkapi Palace.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Topkapi Palace is correct, yes.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31You get three bonuses on physiology, UCL.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34The vagus and hypoglossal are three of the 12 pairs
0:19:34 > 0:19:37of nerves that perform sensory or motor functions.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39By what collective name are they known?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43- The cranial nerves.- Correct.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47Invertebrates, which of the cranial nerves is the olfactory nerve?
0:19:47 > 0:19:48I want its number, please.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55- Four.- No, it's the first.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58Olfaction is an example of chemoreception - what is the other
0:19:58 > 0:20:00sense of chemoreception in humans?
0:20:00 > 0:20:02- Taste.- Correct.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Right, we're going to take a second picture round.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07In a moment, you'll see a painting of a wedding celebration.
0:20:07 > 0:20:11For ten points, please give me the Spanish artist's name.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Velazquez?
0:20:14 > 0:20:17No. UCL, one of you buzz.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19- Goya?- Goya is right.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25Your bonuses are three more paintings of wedding celebrations,
0:20:25 > 0:20:27I want the name of the artist in each case, please.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30Firstly, this Flemish artist.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35No, I don't think it's...
0:20:37 > 0:20:41- Bruegel.- Yes, it was Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43Secondly, this Italian artist.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46- Early one. So maybe Titian.- Titian?
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Or Piero della Francesca.
0:20:49 > 0:20:53- I don't know!- It doesn't look quite like Titian.
0:20:53 > 0:20:57- OK, so...- I like Piero della Francesca.- Piero della Francesca.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01- No, it's Sandro Botticelli.- Oh! - And finally, this English artist.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04- It looks like...- Pre-Raphaelite.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07I think it might be Dante Gabriel Rossetti
0:21:07 > 0:21:12- but I'm not entirely 100%. Gustave Dore did do...- Rossetti.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15It is Rossetti, yes. Ten points for this.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18Which star comes next in this sequence
0:21:18 > 0:21:20given in ascending order of brightness?
0:21:20 > 0:21:25Alpha Centauri, Arcturus, Canopus, and...
0:21:26 > 0:21:28- Sirius?- Correct.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Right, these bonuses, Exeter, are on a historical region.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37The name of which region of south-eastern Europe
0:21:37 > 0:21:40derives ultimately from the German for "duke",
0:21:40 > 0:21:44a reference to the Duchy that preceded the 15th century Turkish conquest?
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Its name forms part of that of a country
0:21:46 > 0:21:50that proclaimed independence in 1992.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52- Herzegovina.- Herzegovina?- Yeah.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56- Herzegovina.- Correct.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59Herzegovina is home to one of its country's best-known structures,
0:21:59 > 0:22:04the Old Bridge built by the Ottomans in the 1560s in which city?
0:22:04 > 0:22:09- Mostar. Mostar.- I'm going to nominate you. Nominate Heath.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11- Mostar.- Correct.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14Herzegovina has a short coastline on the Adriatic
0:22:14 > 0:22:18surrounded on both sides by the territory of which country?
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- Croatia.- Croatia. - Correct, well done.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28For this starter, listen carefully.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31Of the four European capitals on the River Danube,
0:22:31 > 0:22:33which is the furthest upstream?
0:22:35 > 0:22:37- Vienna?- Correct.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45Your bonuses are on prime ministers and feminism.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47In each case, name the premier in office
0:22:47 > 0:22:49when the following were first published.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55- 1808.- Do you know when that was?
0:22:55 > 0:23:01- 1808 or so.- I'd say early 19th century.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05- I'm not sure then. Peel?- Peel?
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Peel?
0:23:07 > 0:23:08Too early for him, it's Pitt the Younger.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11John Stuart Mills' The Subjection Of Women.
0:23:13 > 0:23:171850, 1860, something like that.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21- Any thoughts?- Palmerston?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Melbourne?
0:23:25 > 0:23:28- Melbourne?- Yeah.- Melbourne?
0:23:28 > 0:23:30No, it was Gladstone, it was later than that.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Finally, which Prime Minister came to power in the year in which
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was first published?
0:23:36 > 0:23:38INDISTINCT
0:23:42 > 0:23:46- Ted Heath, it was.- Heath?
0:23:46 > 0:23:48- Heath?- It was, yes, in 1970, well done.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Ten points for this.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53Who is the eponymous heroine of the 1871 opera
0:23:53 > 0:23:57whose other characters include Amneris, Amonasro, and...
0:23:57 > 0:23:59- Aida?- Aida is correct, yes.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04These bonuses, UCL,
0:24:04 > 0:24:08are on official languages of India other than Hindi and English.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11In each case, give the official language of the state
0:24:11 > 0:24:14in which the following major cities are located.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16First for five points, Kolkata.
0:24:17 > 0:24:23- Bengali?- What's that, is it Bengali? - It's in the west, Bengali, isn't it?
0:24:23 > 0:24:24OK. Bengali.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Correct. Secondly, Bangalore.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28That's probably Tamil.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32It's in the south-east, so it's either Tamil or Telugu.
0:24:32 > 0:24:33- Tamil is more common.- Tamil.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36No, it's Kannada. And finally, Chennai.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39- Oh, that's...- That's Tamil.
0:24:39 > 0:24:43- No, Chennai is...- Punjabi?
0:24:43 > 0:24:46- Oh, could be.- Is it on the western coast?- Punjabi.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48No, it's Tamil.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51- Sorry!- Less than four minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Work this out before you buzz.
0:24:53 > 0:24:58Give the result in binary of adding the binary numbers 110 and 11.
0:25:02 > 0:25:0411000.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Nope.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09UCL? One of you buzz.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12- 1001.- Correct.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18These bonuses are on a name, UCL.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22Umberto or Humbert II was the last king of which European country,
0:25:22 > 0:25:25reigning for little more than a month in 1946?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28- Italy?- Wait, wait, wait...- 1946.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31Umberto, that sounds...
0:25:31 > 0:25:331946.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37It sounds Italian, Italy became a republic after the Second World War.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39- OK. Italy.- Correct.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42The title of which novel by Umberto Eco refers to a device
0:25:42 > 0:25:46named after a physicist and designed to demonstrate that the Earth rotates?
0:25:46 > 0:25:48- Foucault's Pendulum.- Correct.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51The obsessions of a middle-aged professor, Humbert Humbert,
0:25:51 > 0:25:53are the subject of which novel of 1955?
0:25:53 > 0:25:57- Lolita. - Correct, ten points for this.
0:25:57 > 0:25:58Listen carefully.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02Words meaning Polynesian language of New Zealand, capital of Latvia...
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Uh, A?
0:26:05 > 0:26:08I'm afraid I'm going to fine you five points.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11..capital of Latvia and former currency of Germany,
0:26:11 > 0:26:17may all be made using letters of the name of which SI base unit?
0:26:22 > 0:26:26- Metre?- No, it's kilogram. Ten points for this.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28"I have laboured carefully not to mock,
0:26:28 > 0:26:32"lament or execrate human actions, but to understand them."
0:26:32 > 0:26:34These are the words of which Dutch philosopher
0:26:34 > 0:26:38in his 1677 political treatise?
0:26:39 > 0:26:40- Spinoza?- Correct.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46These bonuses are on astronomy, Exeter.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48What name is given to the great circle on the sky
0:26:48 > 0:26:51on which the value of declination is everywhere zero?
0:26:52 > 0:26:54- The horizon?- Go for it.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56- Horizon? - No, it's the celestial equator.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00Which other major great circle lies at an angle of roughly
0:27:00 > 0:27:0463 degrees to the celestial equator?
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Celestial meridian?
0:27:06 > 0:27:07Celestial meridian.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09No, it's the galactic equator.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Finally, what name is given to the third major great circle
0:27:12 > 0:27:15at an angle of 23.4 degrees to the celestial equator?
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Tropical?
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Tropical something.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26- Tropical sphere?- No, it's the ecliptic. Ten points for this.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30Secured in November 1943, which atoll in the Gilbert Islands
0:27:30 > 0:27:34was the site of a major island attack by US forces in World War II?
0:27:34 > 0:27:37It's now the site of the capital of Kiribas.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42- Yap?- No, anyone like to buzz from...
0:27:42 > 0:27:44Sorry! Tarawa.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Tarawa is correct, yes.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50Your bonuses, Exeter, on political slogans.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52In each case, I want the party that used the slogan
0:27:52 > 0:27:55and the year of the UK election with which it's associated.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58Firstly, "Labour isn't working."
0:27:58 > 0:28:00Conservatives, '79?
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Conservatives, 1979.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Correct. "Britain deserves better."
0:28:08 > 0:28:10- Pass.- It's Labour in 1997.
0:28:10 > 0:28:15And finally, "We can't go on like this. I'll cut the deficit, not the NHS."
0:28:15 > 0:28:19- Cameron.- Conservatives, 2010. - Conservatives, 2010.- Correct.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Ten points for this. According to Julius Caesar,
0:28:21 > 0:28:25territory within which present day country was inhabited by...
0:28:25 > 0:28:27- France.- No, you lose five points.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29GONG
0:28:29 > 0:28:33And at the gong, Exeter have 140, UCL have 230.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37Well, you were right to go for it, Exeter.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39But I think we're going to be saying goodbye to you
0:28:39 > 0:28:41on that sort of score. You never know.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43UCL, many congratulations to you,
0:28:43 > 0:28:46we look forward to seeing you in the second stage of the contest.
0:28:46 > 0:28:49I hope you can join us next time for another first round match
0:28:49 > 0:28:52- but, until then, it's goodbye from the University of Exeter.- Goodbye.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55- It's goodbye from University College London.- Goodbye.
0:28:55 > 0:28:57And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59APPLAUSE
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