0:00:18 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:20 > 0:00:26University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello, both of the teams playing tonight are doing
0:00:31 > 0:00:33so on behalf of Oxford institutions.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36One of them being a constituent college of the ancient
0:00:36 > 0:00:40university, the other a modern university in its own right.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Oxford Brookes University began life as the Oxford School of Art
0:00:43 > 0:00:48in 1865 occupying just one room in the Taylor Institute on St Giles.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51Later a School of Science was added
0:00:51 > 0:00:54and in 1928 John Henry Brookes became the vice principal of what
0:00:54 > 0:00:57was by then the Oxford City Technical School.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01It became Oxford Polytechnic in 1970 and a university in its own
0:01:01 > 0:01:03right in 1992.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Alumni include the politicians Lynne Featherstone
0:01:06 > 0:01:10and Jonathan Djanogly and the George in Gilbert and George.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12With an average age of 31, representing
0:01:12 > 0:01:16over 18,000 students, let's meet the Oxford Brookes team.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Hi, I'm Simon Joyce from North Oxfordshire
0:01:20 > 0:01:23and I'm studying for an MSc in Spatial Planning.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25Hi, I'm Paula Ayers, originally from Hertfordshire,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28and I'm studying for an MA in the History of Medicine.
0:01:28 > 0:01:29And their captain.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm David Ballard, I'm from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire
0:01:31 > 0:01:35and I'm studying Politics and International Relations.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Hi, I'm Stephen Mayes, I'm from Canterbury in Kent,
0:01:37 > 0:01:38and I study History.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41APPLAUSE
0:01:43 > 0:01:47Now, by contrast, Jesus College, Oxford, was founded in 1571.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50It was Oxford's first Protestant college.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52The driving force behind its creation was the Welsh
0:01:52 > 0:01:56churchman Hugh Price, a portrait of whom attributed to Holbein,
0:01:56 > 0:01:58hangs in the college's hall.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Its connections with Wales remain apparent in its student
0:02:01 > 0:02:04population, bilingual college signs,
0:02:04 > 0:02:07and the St David's Day service conducted entirely in Welsh.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11Alumni include Harold Wilson and TE Lawrence and tonight's team,
0:02:11 > 0:02:13with an average age of 20,
0:02:13 > 0:02:16are playing on behalf of around 500 fellow students.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Let's meet the Jesus team.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Hi, I'm Betha Roberts from Barnoldswick in Lancashire
0:02:21 > 0:02:24and I'm studying English.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Hi, I'm Louisa Thompson, I'm from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire
0:02:26 > 0:02:28and I'm reading English.
0:02:28 > 0:02:29And their captain.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Hello, my name is Alex Browne, I'm from Buckinghamshire
0:02:31 > 0:02:33and I'm studying Chemistry.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Hi, my name is Jonathan Clingman, I'm from Finchley in North London
0:02:36 > 0:02:37and I'm studying Physics.
0:02:37 > 0:02:41APPLAUSE
0:02:42 > 0:02:45OK, the rules are the same as ever, so fingers on the buzzers,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52What final three letters link words meaning a gemstone variety of
0:02:52 > 0:02:57corundum, a literary form practiced by Horace and Juvenal,
0:02:57 > 0:02:58and the home area...
0:02:58 > 0:03:00BUZZER
0:03:00 > 0:03:01I-R-E.
0:03:01 > 0:03:07Correct as in sapphire, satire, and Tolkien's Hobbits' home.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11You get a set of bonuses, Jesus, then on a Tudor figure.
0:03:11 > 0:03:16Born in Putney around 1485, who was Henry VIII's chief adviser
0:03:16 > 0:03:21from 1532 until he was executed for heresy and treason in 1540.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23THEY CONFER
0:03:23 > 0:03:24Thomas More.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26No, it was Thomas Cromwell.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Secondly what was the name of the Archbishop of York
0:03:29 > 0:03:32who in the 1520s employed Cromwell as his solicitor dealing with
0:03:32 > 0:03:34the dissolution of the monasteries?
0:03:35 > 0:03:37THEY CONFER
0:03:37 > 0:03:38Cardinal Wolsey.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Correct. In 1534 Cromwell secured passage
0:03:41 > 0:03:44of which acts that recognised
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Henry VIII as the Head of the Church of England?
0:03:50 > 0:03:53THEY CONFER
0:03:56 > 0:03:58The Reformation Act.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01No, it was the Act of Supremacy. Right, fingers on the buzzers.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Another starter question. William Shakespeare,
0:04:03 > 0:04:05the Duke of Wellington, Florence Nightingale, Isaac Newton,
0:04:05 > 0:04:09Christopher Wren, George Stephenson, Michael Faraday, Charles Dickens
0:04:09 > 0:04:12and Edward Elgar have shared what distinction since 1980?
0:04:12 > 0:04:14BELL
0:04:14 > 0:04:16They've been on banknotes.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Indeed, English banknotes, yes.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21APPLAUSE
0:04:23 > 0:04:26A set of bonuses on a physical constant, Oxford Brookes.
0:04:26 > 0:04:31In 1676 the Danish scientist Ole Romer became the first to
0:04:31 > 0:04:34make an accurate measurement of what physical
0:04:34 > 0:04:37constant by observing the satellites of Jupiter?
0:04:39 > 0:04:42- (I honestly don't know.)- Pass.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44It was the speed of light.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48In 1727 the English astronomer James Bradley independently
0:04:48 > 0:04:49determined the speed of light
0:04:49 > 0:04:53while explaining the apparent circular movement of distant stars.
0:04:53 > 0:04:58This effect, due to the velocity of the Earth, is known by what term?
0:04:59 > 0:05:03THEY CONFER
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Doppler.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Doppler? No, it's stellar or annual aberration
0:05:08 > 0:05:10And finally, the first successful attempts to determine
0:05:10 > 0:05:13the speed of light through earthbound experiments were
0:05:13 > 0:05:18performed in 1849 by Armand Fizeau and which French physicist?
0:05:18 > 0:05:20He gives his name to a pendulum that demonstrates
0:05:20 > 0:05:22the rotation of the Earth.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25- Foucault. Foucault.- Foucault.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27Correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:27 > 0:05:28At standard temperature
0:05:28 > 0:05:32and pressure its bulk modulus is just over two gigapascals,
0:05:32 > 0:05:38its viscosity is 0.001 pascal seconds and its specific heat
0:05:38 > 0:05:42capacity is 4.19 kilojoules per kilogram per Kelvin.
0:05:42 > 0:05:43BUZZER
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Water.
0:05:45 > 0:05:46Water is correct.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48APPLAUSE
0:05:50 > 0:05:54Jesus, this set of bonuses are on Wikipedia editors.
0:05:54 > 0:05:55For, your first five, possibly,
0:05:55 > 0:05:59in 2012 the philosophy graduate Justin Knapp became the first
0:05:59 > 0:06:03person to be credited with one million Wikipedia edits.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06He is especially noted for his work on the bibliography
0:06:06 > 0:06:11page of which English novelist born in Bengal in 1903?
0:06:11 > 0:06:16THEY CONFER
0:06:29 > 0:06:30Nominate Thomson.
0:06:30 > 0:06:31Rudyard Kipling.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33No, it's George Orwell.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Secondly, what institutions associated with a beverage
0:06:36 > 0:06:39and with, for instance, the Chinese city of Chengdu
0:06:39 > 0:06:43give their name to the help space which is "A friendly place to
0:06:43 > 0:06:46"help new editors become accustomed to Wikipedia culture?"
0:06:46 > 0:06:50Something to do with tea possibly?
0:06:50 > 0:06:54Or coffee? I don't know.
0:06:55 > 0:06:56Pass.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58It's teahouse.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01In an interview in 2014 the Wikipedia co-founder
0:07:01 > 0:07:05Jimmy Wales stated that he used to edit a lot of entries about which
0:07:05 > 0:07:10specific UK political body often symbolised by a red portcullis?
0:07:12 > 0:07:15- Treasury.- The Treasury.
0:07:15 > 0:07:16No, it was the House of Lords.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18Ten points for this.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Then a small fishing village, which present day city is the
0:07:21 > 0:07:25location of an 1854 treaty that opened its country to foreign trade?
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Sometimes included on lists of the world's largest suburbs
0:07:28 > 0:07:31because of its proximity to its country's capital it was the...
0:07:31 > 0:07:33BUZZER
0:07:33 > 0:07:34Yokohama.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35Correct.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38APPLAUSE
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Right, Jesus, these are bonuses
0:07:41 > 0:07:44on the International Sociological Association's
0:07:44 > 0:07:47list of books of the 20th century.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Firstly, at number two on the list,
0:07:49 > 0:07:52The Sociological Imagination is a 1959 work that called
0:07:52 > 0:07:56for a humanist approach connecting the various dimensions of our lives.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Which US sociologist was the author?
0:08:03 > 0:08:04THEY CONFER
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Pass.
0:08:06 > 0:08:07C Wright Mills.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Secondly, which seven letter word completes
0:08:10 > 0:08:13the title of the fifth placed book, Peter Berger
0:08:13 > 0:08:17and Thomas Luckmann's 1966 work the Social Construction of...?
0:08:18 > 0:08:23THEY CONFER
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Culture.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37No, it's Reality.
0:08:37 > 0:08:38The first on the list,
0:08:38 > 0:08:43Economy and Society is a 1922 work by which German sociologist?
0:08:45 > 0:08:49THEY CONFER
0:08:50 > 0:08:53- Weber.- Weber.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Yes, Max Weber is correct.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Right, we're going to take a picture around now.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01For a picture starter you're going to see a common Russian word.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05For ten points all you have to do is to give me its meaning in English.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07BELL
0:09:07 > 0:09:08Good.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Good or well is correct, yes.
0:09:10 > 0:09:15APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Following on from khorosho, or horrorshow,
0:09:18 > 0:09:21as it's spelt in nadsat, the fictional register
0:09:21 > 0:09:24used in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange,
0:09:24 > 0:09:26here are three more Russian words
0:09:26 > 0:09:28on which nadsat words are based.
0:09:28 > 0:09:33In each case give both the nadsat word and the English equivalent.
0:09:33 > 0:09:34Firstly for five.
0:09:36 > 0:09:41It's Gulliver. I don't know what the nadsat word is.
0:09:41 > 0:09:46THEY CONFER
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Golov and throat.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59Golova is the Russian word. It means head.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01And gulliver is the nadsat word.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04So I can't accept that. Secondly.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08THEY CONFER
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Speak, I think. To speak.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Nominate Ayers.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28- Govori and speak.- No, it's govorit, meaning to speak.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31You've got the derivation, but you came to the wrong conclusion.
0:10:31 > 0:10:32Finally.
0:10:35 > 0:10:39THEY CONFER
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Nominate Ayers.
0:10:41 > 0:10:42Devochka, woman.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45Yes, it's more or less there. Meaning girl.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48Excellent. I'll accept that. Ten points for this.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52First performed in 2012 which play by Nick Payne is a two hander
0:10:52 > 0:10:55which uses the concept of a multiverse to explore
0:10:55 > 0:10:59the relationship between a beekeeper and a quantum cosmologist?
0:10:59 > 0:11:03The title is the plural for the term for a group of stars.
0:11:03 > 0:11:04BUZZER
0:11:04 > 0:11:05Constellations.
0:11:05 > 0:11:06Correct.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08APPLAUSE
0:11:10 > 0:11:14These bonuses, Jesus, are on infectious diseases.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17The broad group of viruses transmitted by vectors
0:11:17 > 0:11:22such as mosquitoes, lice and ticks is known by what nine letter term?
0:11:24 > 0:11:27THEY CONFER
0:11:32 > 0:11:33Parasitic.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35No, it's arbovirus.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Secondly the letters WNV stand for which arbovirus
0:11:38 > 0:11:41named in part after the major African river where it originated?
0:11:41 > 0:11:45There have been frequent outbreaks in North America since 1999.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47THEY CONFER
0:11:47 > 0:11:48West Nile Virus.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Correct. Causing jaundice and often fatal,
0:11:51 > 0:11:55which arbovirus is transmitted by mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti?
0:11:55 > 0:11:58It is endemic in large areas of Africa and South America.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00THEY CONFER
0:12:00 > 0:12:01Yellow fever.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05Correct. Another starter question. Pinguinus impennis has what
0:12:05 > 0:12:07two word common name?
0:12:07 > 0:12:10The last to be seen in Scotland was killed on St Kilda in 1840
0:12:10 > 0:12:13supposedly after islanders mistook it for...
0:12:13 > 0:12:14BELL
0:12:14 > 0:12:16- The great auk. - The great auk is correct.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19APPLAUSE
0:12:21 > 0:12:23Apparently they mistook it for a witch.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Your bonuses, Oxford Brookes, are on words
0:12:25 > 0:12:27and phrases coined in the 1990s.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31Firstly an imitation of the word literati.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34What eight letter term was coined in the 1990s for people having
0:12:34 > 0:12:38professional involvement or expertise in information technology?
0:12:38 > 0:12:42THEY CONFER
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Could be Twitterati.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51THEY CONFER
0:12:54 > 0:12:55Pass.
0:12:55 > 0:12:56It's digerati.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00Secondly, referring to a common internet address suffix what
0:13:00 > 0:13:04six letter term was coined in the mid-1990s for a company that
0:13:04 > 0:13:06uses the internet for business?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Dotcom. Dotcom.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Correct.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Coined in 1990 what seven letter term denotes software such
0:13:14 > 0:13:16as viruses, worms and trojans
0:13:16 > 0:13:18written with the intent of disrupting or
0:13:18 > 0:13:20damaging a computer?
0:13:20 > 0:13:21Malware.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Correct. Ten points for this.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26In which play by Shakespeare do characters take part in a pageant
0:13:26 > 0:13:29and present themselves as great men of antiquity including
0:13:29 > 0:13:33Judas Maccabeus, Hercules and Alexander the Great?
0:13:35 > 0:13:38BUZZER
0:13:38 > 0:13:39Love's Labour's Lost.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Correct.
0:13:41 > 0:13:42APPLAUSE
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Here are your bonuses, Jesus College.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49They're on posthumously published novels.
0:13:49 > 0:13:50Firstly, for five points,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53put together from a manuscript by her editor Brendan King,
0:13:53 > 0:13:56The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress is an unfinished novel by which
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Liverpool-born writer who died in 2010?
0:13:59 > 0:14:02THEY CONFER
0:14:06 > 0:14:08- Nominate Thompson. - Beryl Bainbridge.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12Correct. The Pale King, published in 2011, is an unfinished novel
0:14:12 > 0:14:15by which US author who died in 2008?
0:14:15 > 0:14:18His other works include the Broom of the System and Infinite Jest.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22- David Foster Wallace. - David Foster Wallace.
0:14:22 > 0:14:23Correct.
0:14:23 > 0:14:262011 saw the posthumous publication of Maeve Gilmore's novel
0:14:26 > 0:14:30Titus Awakes which was drawn from the notes left by which writer,
0:14:30 > 0:14:32her husband, who predeceased her?
0:14:37 > 0:14:43THEY CONFER
0:14:47 > 0:14:50- John Updike.- John Updike.
0:14:50 > 0:14:51No, it was Mervyn Peake.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53I think it's time we had a music round now.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56For your music starter you're going to hear
0:14:56 > 0:14:57a song from a film soundtrack.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00For ten points I want you to name the film.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03# I am a man... #
0:15:03 > 0:15:05BUZZER
0:15:05 > 0:15:06O Brother, Where Art Thou?
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Correct. By the Coen brothers.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12APPLAUSE
0:15:12 > 0:15:15As you obviously know, the main characters of
0:15:15 > 0:15:16O Brother, Where Art Thou?
0:15:16 > 0:15:18record a version of I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow,
0:15:18 > 0:15:21calling themselves the Soggy Bottom Boys.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25Your bonuses are three more performances by fictional bands.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27I want the title of the film that each comes from.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29Firstly for five a two word title.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32# Mustang Sally
0:15:36 > 0:15:41# Guess you better slow the Mustang down... #
0:15:41 > 0:15:45- The Commitments.- Yes.
0:15:45 > 0:15:46The Commitments.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49Correct. Secondly, a four word title.
0:15:49 > 0:15:55# I know all the games you play
0:15:55 > 0:15:59# And I'm going to find a way to let you know
0:15:59 > 0:16:03# That you'll be mine some day... #
0:16:03 > 0:16:09THEY CONFER
0:16:12 > 0:16:16- Let's have it please. - Pass.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20That was from That Thing You Do. And finally another four word title.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22# Stonehenge
0:16:22 > 0:16:26# Where the demons dwell where the banshees live
0:16:26 > 0:16:27# And they do live well... #
0:16:27 > 0:16:33THEY CONFER
0:16:36 > 0:16:40- This Is Spinal Tap. - This Is Spinal Tap.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Correct. Ten points for this.
0:16:42 > 0:16:47Chupaderos in Mexico and Mundrabilla in Australia are associated with
0:16:47 > 0:16:50notable examples of what general class of objects?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52They can be subdivided into
0:16:52 > 0:16:55aerolites, siderolites and siderites,
0:16:55 > 0:16:59the examples given being siderites with a mass of more than ten tonnes.
0:17:03 > 0:17:04BELL
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Meteorites.
0:17:06 > 0:17:07Correct.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09APPLAUSE
0:17:09 > 0:17:12This set of bonuses is on lasers.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15Which German-born scientist gives his name to two coefficients
0:17:15 > 0:17:19relating to spontaneous emission and stimulated emission.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Their ratio is used to determine how to achieve population
0:17:21 > 0:17:23inversion in a laser system?
0:17:23 > 0:17:25- Nominates Mayes.- Stefan Boltzmann.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27No, it's Einstein.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29Which French physicist gives his name to a scattering or
0:17:29 > 0:17:31phase shift of laser light
0:17:31 > 0:17:34upon interaction with sound waves moving within a material?
0:17:34 > 0:17:38THEY CONFER
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Doppler.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44No, it's Brillouin. Brillouin scattering.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48And finally natural lasing has been observed in the ten
0:17:48 > 0:17:51micrometer bands of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Venus
0:17:51 > 0:17:53and which other planet?
0:17:55 > 0:17:56THEY CONFER
0:17:57 > 0:17:58Mercury.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01No, it's Mars. Ten points for this.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04Being the first name by which they were best known, what links
0:18:04 > 0:18:07the highest run scorer in first-class cricket,
0:18:07 > 0:18:10the manager of the Republic of Ireland football team
0:18:10 > 0:18:12from 1986 to 95 and the US golfer...?
0:18:12 > 0:18:14BELL
0:18:14 > 0:18:15Charlton.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20..The manager of the Republic of Ireland football team
0:18:20 > 0:18:25from 1986 to 95 and the US golfer nicknamed The Golden Bear?
0:18:28 > 0:18:30BUZZER
0:18:30 > 0:18:31Bob.
0:18:31 > 0:18:32No, it's Jack.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:18:34 > 0:18:39Antiseptics such as Benzalkonium chloride or Cetrimide
0:18:39 > 0:18:44belong to a class of compounds with the shorter named QACs or QACS.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47For what does the abbreviation stand?
0:18:52 > 0:18:55None of you is going to tell me. Its Quaternary Ammonium Compounds.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Ten points for this.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59Which decade saw the subjugation of Catalonia by Philip V
0:18:59 > 0:19:03of Spain, the Treaty of Rastatt that which ended a major
0:19:03 > 0:19:06conflict between Austria and France, and in Scotland
0:19:06 > 0:19:10battles against Jacobite rebels at Sheriff Muir and Glen Shiel?
0:19:13 > 0:19:14BELL
0:19:14 > 0:19:161760s.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19No. One of you want to buzz from Jesus?
0:19:21 > 0:19:23BUZZER
0:19:23 > 0:19:241780s.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27No. It's the 1710s. Ten points for this starter question.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31"If a plant cannot live according to nature it dies, and so a man."
0:19:31 > 0:19:33These are the words of which US thinker
0:19:33 > 0:19:35in a work first published in 1849?
0:19:35 > 0:19:37BELL
0:19:37 > 0:19:39- Thoreau.- Thoreau is correct.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41APPLAUSE
0:19:45 > 0:19:48These bonuses are on Shakespeare and children's authors, Oxford Brookes.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51Beautiful Stories From Shakespeare is a collection by which
0:19:51 > 0:19:53children's author?
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Published in 1907, it followed her novels The Story Of The Amulet
0:19:56 > 0:19:59and The Railway Children the previous year.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04THEY CONFER
0:20:05 > 0:20:08- E Nesbit.- E Nesbit is correct.
0:20:08 > 0:20:12Shakespeare's Stories and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
0:20:12 > 0:20:14are works by which author born in 1921?
0:20:14 > 0:20:17His novels for children include Jack Holborn
0:20:17 > 0:20:18and The King Beneath The Sea.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24- Pass.- That was Leon Garfield.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27And finally what was the surname of the siblings who collaborated
0:20:27 > 0:20:30on Tales From Shakespeare in the early 19th century?
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Lamb.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Charles and Mary Lamb is correct.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37Now we're going to take another picture round.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39You're going to see a portrait of a notable writer.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41Ten points if you can name the writer.
0:20:47 > 0:20:48BUZZER
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Mark Twain.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52No. Anyone like to buzz from Oxford Brookes?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54BELL
0:20:54 > 0:20:55Dickens.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59Dickens? It doesn't look the slightest bit like Dickens. No.
0:20:59 > 0:21:03That is Anton Chekhov. Picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Another starter question in the meantime. Listen carefully.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10The French words for father and mother may both be made using
0:21:10 > 0:21:13letters of the name of which SI base unit?
0:21:13 > 0:21:15BUZZER
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Ampere.
0:21:18 > 0:21:19Correct.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21APPLAUSE
0:21:23 > 0:21:26You get the picture bonuses, Jesus College.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Chekov was the person you saw. His last play, The Cherry Orchard,
0:21:29 > 0:21:31premiered in 1904.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34For your bonuses three more photographs of writers,
0:21:34 > 0:21:37and each writer's works include at least one with the title
0:21:37 > 0:21:39naming a type of fruit.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43For five point I want the name of the work and the author.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Firstly this author and the literary work.
0:21:48 > 0:21:53THEY CONFER
0:21:57 > 0:22:00- No. Sorry.- Pass.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02That's Roald Dahl and the book we are looking for was
0:22:02 > 0:22:04James And The Giant Peach.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Secondly this author and the literary work?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11That's Steinbeck and The Grapes Of Wrath.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Steinbeck and The Grapes Of Wrath.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Correct. Finally this author
0:22:15 > 0:22:19and two of her works, each with the name of a fruit in the title?
0:22:21 > 0:22:26THEY CONFER
0:22:36 > 0:22:39- Come on, let's have it please. - Jeanette Winterson.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43- Oranges Are The Only Fruit and... Oranges Are Not...- Nominate Thompson.
0:22:43 > 0:22:49Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and The Apple Tree.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52No. Sexing The Cherry was the second one so I can't give you the points.
0:22:52 > 0:22:53Ten points for this.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57In 1930 who became the first Asian and the first non-American to be
0:22:57 > 0:23:00named Time magazine's man of the year?
0:23:00 > 0:23:01BELL
0:23:01 > 0:23:03Mahatma Gandhi.
0:23:03 > 0:23:04Correct.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06APPLAUSE
0:23:08 > 0:23:11Right, Oxford Brookes, your bonuses are on years that contain only
0:23:11 > 0:23:15two different digits, for example 1515 and 1666.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18In each case name the year that saw the following.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Firstly, the publication of John Howard's
0:23:20 > 0:23:23The State of the Prisons in England and Wales
0:23:23 > 0:23:24and the Battle of Saratoga?
0:23:24 > 0:23:28THEY CONFER
0:23:31 > 0:23:36- 1771.- It could be 1777.
0:23:38 > 0:23:401771.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43No. It's 1777.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Secondly, the passing of the Care of King During his Illness Act
0:23:46 > 0:23:50and the first performance of Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto?
0:23:50 > 0:23:54It's George III, isn't it?
0:23:54 > 0:23:58THEY CONFER
0:23:58 > 0:24:05- Could be 1818.- No, that's too late for George III isn't it?- 1771.
0:24:05 > 0:24:061771.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08No, it's 1811.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11And finally the abolition of slavery in Brazil and the deaths
0:24:11 > 0:24:15of the German emperors William I and Frederick III.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18THEY CONFER
0:24:23 > 0:24:241888.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25Correct.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28About three minutes to go and ten points for this.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32In Greek mythology the three Graeae had only one between them,
0:24:32 > 0:24:35The giant Argos had 100 and Poseidon's son...?
0:24:35 > 0:24:36BUZZER
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Teeth.
0:24:38 > 0:24:39No. I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41..And Poseidon's son Polyphemus
0:24:41 > 0:24:42had only one what?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44BELL
0:24:44 > 0:24:46Eyes.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Eyes is correct.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50APPLAUSE
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Right, your bonuses are on shorter words that can be made using
0:24:54 > 0:24:56any of the ten letters of the word voluptuous.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58In each case give the word from the definition.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01Firstly, the common name for the Egyptian water lily
0:25:01 > 0:25:04and the bird's foot trefoil, it also indicates a sutra often
0:25:04 > 0:25:07venerated as the highest Buddhist teaching.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20- Got anything at all?- No.- Pass.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22It's lotus.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25Secondly an SI derived unit equal to the potential
0:25:25 > 0:25:28difference between two points of a conducting wire carrying
0:25:28 > 0:25:29a constant current of one ampere
0:25:29 > 0:25:34when the power dissipated between these points is equal to one what?
0:25:39 > 0:25:43THEY CONFER
0:25:43 > 0:25:44Volt.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48Correct. Finally, a four letter Latin word used in music to denote
0:25:48 > 0:25:51a separate composition or set of compositions.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Opus.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59Correct. That puts us on level pegging. Ten points for this.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Which mammalian organ is the location of the utriculus,
0:26:01 > 0:26:04- the sacculus and the osseous ampule?
0:26:05 > 0:26:06BELL
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Ear.
0:26:08 > 0:26:09Correct.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11APPLAUSE
0:26:11 > 0:26:14These bonuses, Oxford Brookes, are on geology.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Which Hebridean island gives its name to a major
0:26:16 > 0:26:19division of Precambrian rocks in north-western Scotland?
0:26:19 > 0:26:22The metamorphic rock known as gneiss is predominant.
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Jura.
0:26:27 > 0:26:28No, it's Lewis.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Characterised by stubby lenses of feldspar
0:26:31 > 0:26:32which variety of gneiss takes
0:26:32 > 0:26:36its name from the German word for eyes, the sensory organs that is?
0:26:36 > 0:26:39THEY CONFER
0:26:43 > 0:26:47- Come on, let's have it please. - Nominate Joyce.
0:26:47 > 0:26:48Augen.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Correct. And finally, a sheer cliff of gneiss around 1,100 metres high,
0:26:51 > 0:26:55the Troll Wall, is in which European country?
0:26:56 > 0:26:57THEY CONFER
0:26:57 > 0:26:58Norway.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Which horse shared the stables with Merrylegs
0:27:02 > 0:27:05and Ginger at Birtwick Park in a children's work of 1877?
0:27:05 > 0:27:07BUZZER
0:27:08 > 0:27:09Black Beauty.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11Correct. Jesus, you get the bonuses.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13They are on the philosopher Francis Bacon.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Published from 1597, Bacon's Essays share their title with
0:27:16 > 0:27:21that of works by which French philosopher born 1533?
0:27:21 > 0:27:23Quickly.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24THEY CONFER
0:27:24 > 0:27:26- Come on. - Descartes.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29No, it's Montaigne. Bacon's utopian work New Atlantis
0:27:29 > 0:27:31took its title from the myth of Atlantis...
0:27:31 > 0:27:33GONG
0:27:33 > 0:27:35And at the gong Jesus College, Oxford have 120,
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Oxford Brookes have 130.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41APPLAUSE
0:27:44 > 0:27:47Well, it's not been the highest scoring match.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Jesus, you took too long, far too long conferring
0:27:49 > 0:27:51and making your minds up about things, but 120 is
0:27:51 > 0:27:54a perfectly respectable score. Oxford Brookes,
0:27:54 > 0:27:57congratulations to you. You left it a bit late, but you made it.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59We look forward to seeing you in round two.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01I hope you can join us for another first round match,
0:28:01 > 0:28:04but until then it's goodbye from Jesus College Oxford.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06Goodbye.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08- It's goodbye from Oxford Brookes University.- Goodbye.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12APPLAUSE