Episode 3

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0:00:23 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:26 > 0:00:28APPLAUSE

0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. Two more student teams are preparing

0:00:31 > 0:00:33to demonstrate a wisdom beyond their years

0:00:33 > 0:00:37with a place in the second round for whichever is the more convincing.

0:00:37 > 0:00:38The losers could play again

0:00:38 > 0:00:41if their score is among the four highest losing scores

0:00:41 > 0:00:43from these first round matches.

0:00:43 > 0:00:45Now, the University of Bristol traces its origins

0:00:45 > 0:00:48to a college which was established in 1876

0:00:48 > 0:00:51and later endowed by the Wills and Fry families,

0:00:51 > 0:00:54the manufacturers of cigarettes and chocolate respectively,

0:00:54 > 0:00:59which led to it receiving its Royal Charter from Edward VII in 1909.

0:00:59 > 0:01:02In more recent years, it's become known as the comedy university

0:01:02 > 0:01:04which is not a reference to its academic standards

0:01:04 > 0:01:08but to alumni who include David Walliams and Matt Lucas,

0:01:08 > 0:01:10Simon Pegg and Marcus Brigstoke.

0:01:10 > 0:01:14It's also the setting for David Nicholls' novel Starter For Ten

0:01:14 > 0:01:17about a student who competes in a television quiz programme

0:01:17 > 0:01:21and which contains salutary lessons for both teams playing tonight.

0:01:21 > 0:01:23With an average age of 21,

0:01:23 > 0:01:28representing about 19,000 students, let's meet the Bristol team.

0:01:28 > 0:01:31Hello, I'm Lewis Rendell, I'm from Saffron Walden in Essex

0:01:31 > 0:01:33and I'm studying Mathematics.

0:01:33 > 0:01:34Hello, I'm Benjamin Moon

0:01:34 > 0:01:36from Marksbury and Bath in north-east Somerset

0:01:36 > 0:01:39and I'm studying for a PhD in Geology,

0:01:39 > 0:01:42researching ichthyosaur systematics and taxonomy.

0:01:42 > 0:01:44- And their captain. - I'm Anastasia Reynolds,

0:01:44 > 0:01:47I'm originally from East London and I'm studying Czech and Russian.

0:01:47 > 0:01:49Hi, I'm Miles Coleman, I'm from North London

0:01:49 > 0:01:52and I'm studying Spanish and Portuguese.

0:01:52 > 0:01:54APPLAUSE

0:01:56 > 0:01:58Now, the Courtauld Institute of Art

0:01:58 > 0:02:01is making its first appearance on this series.

0:02:01 > 0:02:04A small specialist college within the University of London,

0:02:04 > 0:02:08it has around 400 students specialising in the History of Art.

0:02:08 > 0:02:13The collector Samuel Courtauld provided much of the money from his family's textile business

0:02:13 > 0:02:17to enable its foundation in Portman Square in 1932,

0:02:17 > 0:02:19although a relocation in 1989

0:02:19 > 0:02:23means that students are now in the enviable position of studying

0:02:23 > 0:02:27in the north building of William Chambers' Neoclassical masterpiece,

0:02:27 > 0:02:28Somerset House on the Strand.

0:02:28 > 0:02:33Anthony Blunt served at its director from 1947 until '74,

0:02:33 > 0:02:37during which time his pupils included the art critic Brian Sewell.

0:02:37 > 0:02:40The broadcaster Andrew Graham-Dixon studied there,

0:02:40 > 0:02:42as did the director of the Tate, Nicholas Serota,

0:02:42 > 0:02:46the novelist Anita Brookner and the actor Vincent Price.

0:02:46 > 0:02:49With an average age of 22, let's meet the Courtauld team.

0:02:49 > 0:02:52Hi, I'm Annie Gregoire, I'm from the New Forest in Hampshire

0:02:52 > 0:02:55and I'm studying History of Art.

0:02:55 > 0:02:58Hi, I'm Matthew McLean, I'm from Lewisham in South East London

0:02:58 > 0:03:00and I'm studying for an MA in the History of Art.

0:03:00 > 0:03:02And this is their captain.

0:03:02 > 0:03:04Hello, I'm Anna Preston from Sandwich in Kent

0:03:04 > 0:03:06and I'm studying History of Art.

0:03:07 > 0:03:10Hi, I'm Thomas Bodinetz from Reading and I'm also studying History of Art.

0:03:10 > 0:03:13APPLAUSE

0:03:15 > 0:03:17OK, I guess you all know the rules.

0:03:17 > 0:03:2010 points for starters, 15 for bonuses.

0:03:20 > 0:03:23Starters are solo efforts, bonuses are team efforts.

0:03:23 > 0:03:26Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.

0:03:26 > 0:03:28According to a well known speech of 1946,

0:03:28 > 0:03:32- what entity then stretched from Stettin in the Baltic to... - BUZZER

0:03:33 > 0:03:35- The Iron Curtain.- Correct.

0:03:39 > 0:03:43Right, Courtauld, your bonuses are on food names.

0:03:43 > 0:03:47Firstly, which city in New York State gives its name

0:03:47 > 0:03:50to a dish of deep-fried chicken wings coated in a spicy sauce

0:03:50 > 0:03:53and served with blue cheese dressing?

0:03:54 > 0:03:57INAUDIBLE

0:03:57 > 0:03:58(Yeah, I think so.)

0:03:58 > 0:04:00- Buffalo? - Buffalo is correct, yes.

0:04:00 > 0:04:03Which city on the island of Menorca gives its name to a condiment

0:04:03 > 0:04:06made from oil, egg yolks and either vinegar or lemon juice?

0:04:10 > 0:04:13WHISPERING

0:04:16 > 0:04:18Mayonnaise?

0:04:18 > 0:04:20No, the town is called Mahon.

0:04:20 > 0:04:23It is mayonnaise, of course, so you can't get those points.

0:04:23 > 0:04:26Around midway between Milan and Bologna,

0:04:26 > 0:04:29which city gives its name both to a delicate dry-cured ham

0:04:29 > 0:04:31and to a hard dry cheese?

0:04:31 > 0:04:33- Parma.- Correct.

0:04:33 > 0:04:3510 points for this starter question, fingers on buzzers.

0:04:35 > 0:04:38What 12-letter term denotes structures

0:04:38 > 0:04:43of which the three largest examples in Europe are a ruin outside Capua near Naples,

0:04:43 > 0:04:46the Roman arena in Verona and the Colosseum in Rome?

0:04:46 > 0:04:47BUZZER

0:04:47 > 0:04:49- Amphitheatre.- Correct.

0:04:52 > 0:04:56Right, your first bonuses, Bristol, are on masters and servants.

0:04:56 > 0:05:00Firstly, the stock comic character of the servus callidus,

0:05:00 > 0:05:02the servant who's cleverer than his master,

0:05:02 > 0:05:05is particularly associated with which Roman playwright?

0:05:05 > 0:05:09An example is his character Palaestrio in The Braggart Soldier.

0:05:10 > 0:05:12Roman playwrights, anyone?

0:05:15 > 0:05:17(Pass?)

0:05:17 > 0:05:19- Pass.- It's Plautus.

0:05:19 > 0:05:22The servant Mosca outwits and usurps his eponymous master

0:05:22 > 0:05:25in which comedy by Ben Jonson,

0:05:25 > 0:05:28a satire on greed and lust, first performed in 1606?

0:05:29 > 0:05:31(It's commedia dell'arte.)

0:05:31 > 0:05:33(I did it in GCSE and it's just gone from my head.)

0:05:33 > 0:05:35LAUGHTER

0:05:35 > 0:05:37Oh, man, erm...

0:05:38 > 0:05:42- Sorry, Mr Norton. No, nothing. - We don't know.

0:05:42 > 0:05:43It's Volpone.

0:05:43 > 0:05:46Which servant admits to reading improving books

0:05:46 > 0:05:48such as the works of Spinoza and Dostoyevsky

0:05:48 > 0:05:52whilst finding Nietzsche "fundamentally unsound"?

0:05:52 > 0:05:55He also takes exception to his employer wearing coloured spats

0:05:55 > 0:05:57and playing the banjolele.

0:05:57 > 0:05:59- That's Jeeves. - It is Jeeves, yes.

0:05:59 > 0:06:0010 points for this.

0:06:00 > 0:06:03According to evidence announced by NASA in 2012,

0:06:03 > 0:06:07which chemical substance falls as snow in the Martian atmosphere?

0:06:07 > 0:06:10At standard atmospheric pressure on Earth,

0:06:10 > 0:06:14- it sublimates at a temperature of minus 78... - BUZZER

0:06:14 > 0:06:15- Carbon dioxide?- Correct.

0:06:19 > 0:06:23Right, your bonuses, Bristol, are on Latin American rodents.

0:06:23 > 0:06:24Firstly for 5 points,

0:06:24 > 0:06:28after an even-toed ungulate and a historical region of Africa,

0:06:28 > 0:06:33what is the misleading two-word common name of Cavia porcellus,

0:06:33 > 0:06:36a domesticated South American rodent used as food?

0:06:36 > 0:06:38- (Guinea pig.) - (Guinea pig?)

0:06:38 > 0:06:39- Guinea pig?- Correct.

0:06:39 > 0:06:43What short common name denotes species of the genus Octodon,

0:06:43 > 0:06:46also known as brush-tailed rats?

0:06:46 > 0:06:49Common in Chile, they're seen as a potential invasive species

0:06:49 > 0:06:52and are prohibited as pets in some jurisdictions

0:06:52 > 0:06:54including California and Alaska.

0:06:56 > 0:06:58- (It could be chipmunk.)- (Chipmunk?)

0:06:59 > 0:07:00Chipmunk?

0:07:00 > 0:07:02No, they're the degu.

0:07:02 > 0:07:06And finally, also known as the carpincho or waterhog,

0:07:06 > 0:07:09which semi-aquatic mammal is the largest living rodent?

0:07:10 > 0:07:11Capybara.

0:07:11 > 0:07:13- Capybara.- Correct.

0:07:13 > 0:07:15Right, we're going to take a picture round now.

0:07:15 > 0:07:17For the picture starter you're going to see a list

0:07:17 > 0:07:19of Academy Award winners in a particular year.

0:07:19 > 0:07:23For 10 points simply name the film that won Best Picture that year.

0:07:28 > 0:07:30BUZZER

0:07:30 > 0:07:32- Million Dollar Baby?- Yes.

0:07:36 > 0:07:38So, let's get your picture bonuses under way.

0:07:38 > 0:07:41They're three more lists of Academy Award winners in recent years.

0:07:41 > 0:07:43In each case, I simply want you to tell me

0:07:43 > 0:07:46the film that won Best Picture in that year.

0:07:46 > 0:07:47Firstly for 5...

0:07:49 > 0:07:50I think it's The King's Speech.

0:07:50 > 0:07:53This is King's Speech because Tom Hooper was the director.

0:07:53 > 0:07:55- The King's Speech. - Correct. Secondly...

0:07:57 > 0:08:01- Uh...- Is that The Queen?- The Departed?

0:08:01 > 0:08:04- No, no, that was The Last King Of Scotland.- This is 2006.

0:08:04 > 0:08:07Did The Last King Of Scotland win that year? I think it was called The Departed.

0:08:07 > 0:08:09- Do you remember what won that year?- I don't know.

0:08:09 > 0:08:12Helen Mirren won Best actress. That was The Queen.

0:08:12 > 0:08:14I think it was The Departed.

0:08:14 > 0:08:16- The Departed?- Correct.

0:08:16 > 0:08:17And finally...

0:08:19 > 0:08:23- Oh, it's the Coen brothers...- That was...- Oh, no, Marion Cotillard.

0:08:23 > 0:08:26- She was Edith Piaf, wasn't she? La Vie En Rose.- Yeah.

0:08:26 > 0:08:28- So...- That was...

0:08:28 > 0:08:31Possibly Gangs Of New York but this isn't the question.

0:08:31 > 0:08:34- Could be The Hurt Locker. Could be The Hurt Locker.- Hurt Locker?- Yes.

0:08:34 > 0:08:35The Hurt Locker?

0:08:35 > 0:08:37No, it's No Country For Old Men by the Coen Brothers.

0:08:37 > 0:08:3810 points for this.

0:08:38 > 0:08:40What three-word term denotes the theory

0:08:40 > 0:08:45proposed by the US psychologist Abraham Maslow in 1943?

0:08:45 > 0:08:48- It's often illustrated as a five-layer pyramid. - BUZZER

0:08:48 > 0:08:50- Hierarchy of Needs.- Correct.

0:08:53 > 0:08:56Right, your bonuses this time are on British place names

0:08:56 > 0:08:57with counterintuitive pronunciations.

0:08:57 > 0:09:00In each case I need the spelling.

0:09:00 > 0:09:03Spell the word beaver in the name of the castle in Leicestershire,

0:09:03 > 0:09:05the ancestral home of the Dukes of Rutland.

0:09:14 > 0:09:15(B-E-V-E?)

0:09:16 > 0:09:17Any thoughts, Miles?

0:09:18 > 0:09:20HE LAUGHS

0:09:20 > 0:09:22B-E-V-E?

0:09:22 > 0:09:25No, it's B-E-L-V-O-I-R.

0:09:25 > 0:09:26Oh, Belvoir, yes.

0:09:26 > 0:09:29Secondly can you spell the word "chumley"

0:09:29 > 0:09:31as it appears in the name of a castle in Cheshire

0:09:31 > 0:09:33and the name of the literary award,

0:09:33 > 0:09:35both linked with the title of nobility.

0:09:37 > 0:09:38C...

0:09:38 > 0:09:46H-O-L-M-O-N-D-E-L-E-Y.

0:09:46 > 0:09:48Correct, yes.

0:09:48 > 0:09:51And finally, can you spell the word Beauly

0:09:51 > 0:09:54in the name of a palace house in Hampshire, home of the national motor museum?

0:09:54 > 0:09:57B-E-A-U-L-I-E-U.

0:09:57 > 0:09:59Correct.

0:09:59 > 0:10:01Right, another starter question.

0:10:01 > 0:10:05"The sun amid small stars not only among the Italians

0:10:05 > 0:10:07"but all the painters in the world."

0:10:07 > 0:10:12Paraphrasing Dante, these words of the art theorist Giovanni Lomazzo

0:10:12 > 0:10:18- refer to which Venetian artist who died in 1576? - BUZZER

0:10:18 > 0:10:20- Titian.- Titian is correct, yes.

0:10:23 > 0:10:26- Your bonuses are on chemistry, Courtauld Institute. - LAUGHTER

0:10:26 > 0:10:30In the borax bead test, a metal salt is mixed with borax

0:10:30 > 0:10:33and heated in an oxidising or reducing flame.

0:10:33 > 0:10:36The colour of the bead may be indicative of the metal in the sample.

0:10:36 > 0:10:39I want the metals that give the following colours, please.

0:10:39 > 0:10:45Firstly, yellow in oxidising flame and bottle green in reducing flame.

0:10:52 > 0:10:53Lithium?

0:10:53 > 0:10:56No, it's iron.

0:10:56 > 0:10:59Secondly, deep blue in both oxidising and reducing flames.

0:11:00 > 0:11:03(Just say lithium for everything. Try potassium.)

0:11:03 > 0:11:04Potassium?

0:11:04 > 0:11:05No, that's cobalt.

0:11:05 > 0:11:08And finally, violet in oxidising flame

0:11:08 > 0:11:11and grey or red in reducing flame.

0:11:11 > 0:11:14- Potassium. - No, that's nickel.

0:11:14 > 0:11:17Right, 10 points for this. Which country is this?

0:11:17 > 0:11:20Though a major exporter of agricultural products,

0:11:20 > 0:11:24around 90% of its 40 million inhabitants live in urban areas

0:11:24 > 0:11:28including more than 13 million in its capital,

0:11:28 > 0:11:30which was the first city in the southern hemisphere

0:11:30 > 0:11:32to have an underground railway system?

0:11:34 > 0:11:36BUZZER

0:11:36 > 0:11:37- Argentina?- Correct.

0:11:41 > 0:11:44Bristol, these bonuses are on Mozart.

0:11:44 > 0:11:47Mozart's Symphony No.35 In D Major is often known by the name

0:11:47 > 0:11:51of which prominent Salzburg family by whom it was commissioned?

0:11:53 > 0:11:55(I don't know.)

0:11:55 > 0:11:59(A prominent Salzburg family. Can anyone think of it?) (Esterhazy?)

0:11:59 > 0:12:00(Esterhazy?)

0:12:02 > 0:12:03Esterhazy?

0:12:03 > 0:12:05No, it's the Haffner Symphony.

0:12:05 > 0:12:09Mozart's Symphony No.38 In D Major has what popular name,

0:12:09 > 0:12:11after a present-day European capital?

0:12:16 > 0:12:17(Is it... Is it Madrid?)

0:12:17 > 0:12:20- (Madrid?)- (I don't think so but it might be...)

0:12:20 > 0:12:25The Madrid Waltz or something like that. You'd know more than me.

0:12:28 > 0:12:29- (Yeah, maybe.)- (Paris?)

0:12:29 > 0:12:31- Yeah.- Paris?

0:12:31 > 0:12:33No, it's Prague. Paris is 31, I think.

0:12:33 > 0:12:35After a Roman god,

0:12:35 > 0:12:39what name is given to Mozart's Symphony No.41 In C Major?

0:12:39 > 0:12:41- Jupiter? - Correct. 10 points for this.

0:12:41 > 0:12:44Listen carefully, answer as soon as your name is called.

0:12:44 > 0:12:50A rigid boat floats in deep, fresh water at four degrees Celsius.

0:12:50 > 0:12:55It has a constant horizontal cross-sectional area of 50 square metres.

0:12:55 > 0:12:58If you add one metric ton of cargo,

0:12:58 > 0:13:01by how many centimetres does the boat's draft increase?

0:13:06 > 0:13:08BUZZER

0:13:08 > 0:13:0912.5

0:13:09 > 0:13:12- No. - BUZZER

0:13:12 > 0:13:14- 40. - 40? No, it's 2.

0:13:14 > 0:13:16Right, 10 points for this.

0:13:16 > 0:13:18Which novel begins with a diary entry that reads

0:13:18 > 0:13:23"Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight,

0:13:23 > 0:13:25- "the last human..." - BUZZER

0:13:25 > 0:13:271984?

0:13:27 > 0:13:28No.

0:13:29 > 0:13:32"1 January 2021..." You lose 5 points.

0:13:32 > 0:13:35"..three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth

0:13:35 > 0:13:39"was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires,

0:13:39 > 0:13:44- "aged 25 years, 2 months and 12 days." - BUZZER

0:13:44 > 0:13:47- Is it Children Of Men? - It is The Children Of Men, yes.

0:13:47 > 0:13:49By PD James.

0:13:49 > 0:13:52These bonuses, Bristol, are on writings by politicians.

0:13:52 > 0:13:54Who published his first novel, Vivian Grey,

0:13:54 > 0:14:01anonymously in 1826 and his last completed work, Endymion, in 1880,

0:14:01 > 0:14:04having twice served as Prime Minister in the intervening period?

0:14:06 > 0:14:07Viscount Palmerston?

0:14:07 > 0:14:10No, it was the Earl of Beaconsfield, Disraeli.

0:14:10 > 0:14:12Secondly, A Defence Of Philosophic Doubt

0:14:12 > 0:14:16is a work of 1879 by which future Conservative Prime Minister?

0:14:16 > 0:14:20Critics have claimed that the title summed up his approach to politics.

0:14:33 > 0:14:34Campbell-Bannerman?

0:14:34 > 0:14:37No, it was Arthur Balfour, "Pretty Fanny" as he was called.

0:14:37 > 0:14:40Whose diaries of his time in Harold Wilson's cabinet

0:14:40 > 0:14:44were published posthumously from 1975 and were so revealing

0:14:44 > 0:14:45that the government took legal action

0:14:45 > 0:14:47to try to prevent publication?

0:14:50 > 0:14:54- I'm blanking.- Sorry?- No, no, no... Who served in Wilson's cabinet?

0:14:54 > 0:14:55I don't know.

0:14:55 > 0:14:58- We don't know. - That was Richard Crossman.

0:14:58 > 0:14:59We're going to take a music round now.

0:14:59 > 0:15:03For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of music from an opera.

0:15:03 > 0:15:06All you have to do is to name the opera.

0:15:06 > 0:15:11# Sempre libera degg'io folleggiare di...

0:15:11 > 0:15:13BUZZER

0:15:13 > 0:15:15Nabucco?

0:15:15 > 0:15:17Nope. Anyone want to buzz from Bristol?

0:15:17 > 0:15:22# ..vo'che scorra il viver mio pei sentieri del piacer.

0:15:22 > 0:15:25# Nasca il giorno, o il giorno muoia,

0:15:25 > 0:15:29# Sempre lieta ne' ritrovi, a diletti... #

0:15:29 > 0:15:31BUZZER

0:15:31 > 0:15:33Aida.

0:15:33 > 0:15:37No, it's La Traviata. You both had the right composer, but nonetheless,

0:15:37 > 0:15:39we'll come to the music bonuses in a moment or two, first off,

0:15:39 > 0:15:42somebody has to get a starter question right.

0:15:42 > 0:15:4310 points for this.

0:15:43 > 0:15:46The US engineer Percy Spencer is generally credited

0:15:46 > 0:15:50with the discovery in 1945 that led to the development

0:15:50 > 0:15:53- of which household appliance when...? - BUZZER

0:15:53 > 0:15:55- Microwave?- Correct, yes.

0:15:59 > 0:16:03Right, you heard for that starter which none of you managed to identify,

0:16:03 > 0:16:05which was Sempre Libra from La Traviata.

0:16:05 > 0:16:07That was Maria Callas.

0:16:07 > 0:16:10It heads a list of the most regularly performed operas in the world

0:16:10 > 0:16:12according to the website Operabase.

0:16:12 > 0:16:16For your bonuses, three more arias sung by Maria Callas,

0:16:16 > 0:16:19each from an opera in the top ten of that list.

0:16:19 > 0:16:22I want the title of the opera in each case.

0:16:22 > 0:16:24Firstly, number six on the list.

0:16:24 > 0:16:28# ...questo avverra, te lo prometto...

0:16:28 > 0:16:29(This must be...)

0:16:29 > 0:16:32# ...Tienti la tua... #

0:16:32 > 0:16:33Madame Butterfly?

0:16:33 > 0:16:35Well done, yes.

0:16:35 > 0:16:38Secondly, placing 7th on the list.

0:16:38 > 0:16:43# Una voce poco fa

0:16:43 > 0:16:47# qui nel cor mi risuono

0:16:47 > 0:16:50(It's either The Magic Flute or The Marriage Of Figaro.)

0:16:50 > 0:16:53# ...il mio cor ferito e gia...

0:16:55 > 0:16:58(The Magic Flute, maybe.)

0:16:58 > 0:17:00(I don't recognise it, so...)

0:17:00 > 0:17:02(Or Marriage Of Figaro.)

0:17:02 > 0:17:04# ...fu che il piago...

0:17:04 > 0:17:05Marriage Of Figaro?

0:17:05 > 0:17:07No, that is from The Barber Of Seville by Rossini.

0:17:07 > 0:17:10And finally, at number two on the list.

0:17:10 > 0:17:13# L'oiseau que tu croyais surprendere Battit d'aile et s'envola.

0:17:13 > 0:17:14(That's Carmen.)

0:17:14 > 0:17:16(Carmen.)

0:17:16 > 0:17:17- Carmen. - Correct.

0:17:18 > 0:17:1910 points for this.

0:17:19 > 0:17:23In heraldry, what four-letter term denotes a broad horizontal band

0:17:23 > 0:17:25across the middle of a shield?

0:17:25 > 0:17:28By a different etymology, it is an informal verb

0:17:28 > 0:17:32- meaning "admit wrongdoing" and is often followed by the word "up". - BUZZER

0:17:32 > 0:17:35- Fess.- Fess is correct, yes.

0:17:38 > 0:17:41These bonuses, Bristol, are on mathematics.

0:17:41 > 0:17:43How many real roots are there

0:17:43 > 0:17:47of the polynomial x to the power 100 minus 2?

0:17:50 > 0:17:52(Say two.)

0:17:52 > 0:17:54- Two.- Correct.

0:17:54 > 0:17:56How many complex roots are there

0:17:56 > 0:17:59of the polynomial x to the power 100 minus 2?

0:17:59 > 0:18:00(100.)

0:18:00 > 0:18:01- 100. - Correct.

0:18:01 > 0:18:05And finally, how many rational roots are there

0:18:05 > 0:18:08of the polynomial x to the power 100 minus 2?

0:18:08 > 0:18:09(Zero.)

0:18:09 > 0:18:11- Zero. - Congratulations, yes.

0:18:11 > 0:18:13- Well done, Lewis.- Thanks.

0:18:15 > 0:18:17Another starter question. Which city of central Italy

0:18:17 > 0:18:19is known as the universities town

0:18:19 > 0:18:22- from the number of its teaching institutions? - BUZZER

0:18:22 > 0:18:23Oh, no, it's not Bologna, is it?

0:18:25 > 0:18:27Bologna, but it's not.

0:18:27 > 0:18:29It's not, you're quite right. You're going to lose 5 points too.

0:18:29 > 0:18:31From the number of its teaching institutions.

0:18:31 > 0:18:35Based on the river Tiber, it is the capital of the region of Umbria.

0:18:39 > 0:18:41BUZZER

0:18:41 > 0:18:43Pisa?

0:18:43 > 0:18:45No.

0:18:45 > 0:18:47It's Perugia. 10 points for this.

0:18:47 > 0:18:49Present Indicative and Future Indefinite

0:18:49 > 0:18:52- are volumes of autobiography by which... - BUZZER

0:18:52 > 0:18:54- Noel Coward. - Correct, yes. Well done.

0:18:55 > 0:18:58Right, Bristol, these bonuses are on the words "I am."

0:18:58 > 0:19:02In each case name the Book of the King James Bible in which the following lines appear.

0:19:02 > 0:19:06Firstly "I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee

0:19:06 > 0:19:08"out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

0:19:08 > 0:19:12"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

0:19:12 > 0:19:14(Exodus? Exodus.)

0:19:14 > 0:19:16- Exodus?- Exodus is correct.

0:19:16 > 0:19:18"I am the way, the truth and the life.

0:19:18 > 0:19:21"No man cometh under the Father but by me."

0:19:24 > 0:19:27What's the one that we said it always is?

0:19:27 > 0:19:29LAUGHTER

0:19:29 > 0:19:31- Leviticus? - It's not always Leviticus!

0:19:31 > 0:19:33No, that's from John.

0:19:33 > 0:19:35"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending."

0:19:38 > 0:19:42- Could that be Revelation? - (Revelation?- Revelation.)

0:19:42 > 0:19:43Revelation?

0:19:43 > 0:19:45Correct.

0:19:45 > 0:19:47Time for another picture round.

0:19:47 > 0:19:48You're going to see a self-portrait.

0:19:48 > 0:19:5010 points if you can name the artist.

0:19:54 > 0:19:55BUZZER

0:19:55 > 0:19:57Frans Hals?

0:19:58 > 0:20:01No. Anyone want to buzz from Bristol?

0:20:01 > 0:20:03BUZZER Delacroix?

0:20:03 > 0:20:06No, it's Joseph Ducreux.

0:20:06 > 0:20:10So, picture bonuses shortly, 10 points at stake for this starter question, fingers on the buzzers.

0:20:10 > 0:20:12In the periodic table,

0:20:12 > 0:20:15which element appears above tungsten and below chromium,

0:20:15 > 0:20:18with which it's often alloyed in steel?

0:20:22 > 0:20:24BUZZER

0:20:24 > 0:20:25Ruthenium?

0:20:25 > 0:20:29- No, anyone like to buzz from the Courtauld? - BUZZER

0:20:29 > 0:20:30Thallium?

0:20:30 > 0:20:31Valium?!

0:20:31 > 0:20:35- Thallium! - So sorry... - LAUGHTER

0:20:35 > 0:20:37No, it's molybdenum.

0:20:37 > 0:20:39Right, another starter question for this.

0:20:40 > 0:20:43Blood And Sand, The Eagle and The Son Of The Sheikh

0:20:43 > 0:20:46are among the films of which silent movie star

0:20:46 > 0:20:49- whose sudden death in 1926... - BUZZER

0:20:49 > 0:20:50- Rudolph Valentino? - Correct.

0:20:55 > 0:20:58So, we're returning then to self-portraits

0:20:58 > 0:21:00you'll be pleased to hear.

0:21:00 > 0:21:04Following on from that idiosyncratic and internet-renowned self-portrait,

0:21:04 > 0:21:06three more unusual self-portraits to identify.

0:21:06 > 0:21:08In each case, please name the artist.

0:21:08 > 0:21:13Firstly this Italian artist, often posited as a double self-portrait.

0:21:14 > 0:21:16(Caravaggio.)

0:21:16 > 0:21:17Caravaggio.

0:21:17 > 0:21:20Yes, of course. Secondly, this German artist.

0:21:23 > 0:21:25WHISPERING

0:21:25 > 0:21:26(He wasn't German.)

0:21:26 > 0:21:30(I think maybe...)

0:21:31 > 0:21:34(Do you think it's someone more obvious than that?)

0:21:34 > 0:21:36- (Have you got any idea at all? - No, I've got...)

0:21:36 > 0:21:38(Try, erm, yeah, try Macher.)

0:21:38 > 0:21:39Macher?

0:21:39 > 0:21:43No, it's Ernst Kirchner. Maybe you've not got that far yet.

0:21:43 > 0:21:46Finally, this Dutch artist performing Blue Steel

0:21:46 > 0:21:48some centuries before it became popular.

0:21:49 > 0:21:51(That's Rembrandt.)

0:21:51 > 0:21:53- Rembrandt. - It is Rembrandt, yes.

0:21:53 > 0:21:55Right, 10 points for this.

0:21:55 > 0:21:56Pie bavarde in French,

0:21:56 > 0:22:00urraca in Spanish and gazza in Italian are among the common names

0:22:00 > 0:22:03- of which bird of the crow family? - BUZZER

0:22:03 > 0:22:05The raven.

0:22:05 > 0:22:09No, I'm afraid you lose 5 points. Known binomially as Pica pica.

0:22:12 > 0:22:14BUZZER

0:22:14 > 0:22:15Blackbird?

0:22:16 > 0:22:18That's not in the crow family.

0:22:18 > 0:22:19It's the magpie.

0:22:19 > 0:22:21Right, another starter question.

0:22:21 > 0:22:24Menelik II became ruler of which country in 1889?

0:22:24 > 0:22:27He's noted for an extensive programme of modernisation

0:22:27 > 0:22:30- and for his defeat of an Italian... - BUZZER

0:22:30 > 0:22:31- Ethiopia.- Correct.

0:22:36 > 0:22:39Right, these bonuses are on central Asia, Bristol.

0:22:40 > 0:22:42Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan,

0:22:42 > 0:22:47is less than 40km from the borders of which neighbouring country?

0:22:48 > 0:22:51(Uzbekistan?) Is it Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan?

0:22:51 > 0:22:54- It's that way so it's...- I think it's Uzbekistan.

0:22:54 > 0:22:56- Uzbekistan? - No, it's Iran.

0:22:56 > 0:22:58Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan,

0:22:58 > 0:23:02is within 60km of the border of which neighbouring country?

0:23:02 > 0:23:03That's Kyrgyzstan.

0:23:03 > 0:23:05Kyrgyzstan.

0:23:05 > 0:23:06No, that's Uzbekistan.

0:23:06 > 0:23:11And finally, two central Asian capitals are within 20km of the borders of Kazakhstan.

0:23:11 > 0:23:13For 5 points, name either one.

0:23:14 > 0:23:18- Tashkent and...- We only need one.

0:23:18 > 0:23:19Tashkent.

0:23:19 > 0:23:21Tashkent. Bishkek is the other one.

0:23:21 > 0:23:235 minutes to go, 10 points for this. Listen carefully.

0:23:23 > 0:23:26The use of computers to control production processes

0:23:26 > 0:23:30is sometimes known by the acronym CAD/CAM.

0:23:30 > 0:23:34- For what do the letters D and M in the acronym stand? - BUZZER

0:23:34 > 0:23:36- Design and Manufacture.- Correct.

0:23:41 > 0:23:45Right, these bonuses are on a playwright, Courtauld.

0:23:45 > 0:23:47"A little child whom the gods have whispered to."

0:23:47 > 0:23:50These words of Mrs Patrick Campbell refer

0:23:50 > 0:23:52to which Scottish playwright, born in 1860?

0:23:55 > 0:23:57(Don't know. Just pass, we don't know.)

0:23:57 > 0:24:00- I'm sorry, we don't know. - That's JM Barrie.

0:24:00 > 0:24:03Secondly, used by Peter Pan to describe death,

0:24:03 > 0:24:06what four words did Beryl Bainbridge use

0:24:06 > 0:24:08for the title of a novel in 1989?

0:24:10 > 0:24:15(Adventure. Great adventure? Great or big? You think it's great?)

0:24:15 > 0:24:18- (I think it's "A very big adventure".)- OK.

0:24:18 > 0:24:19A Very Big Adventure?

0:24:19 > 0:24:21Bad luck, it's An Awfully Big Adventure.

0:24:21 > 0:24:24And finally, give the two words that complete this line

0:24:24 > 0:24:27from Barrie's play The Admirable Crichton.

0:24:27 > 0:24:29"I'm not young enough to..." What?

0:24:34 > 0:24:37- (Do you know?)- (I don't know, "to care?")

0:24:37 > 0:24:40- ("To die?") - (Could be, could be.)

0:24:40 > 0:24:41Die?

0:24:41 > 0:24:43- No, it's "know everything."- Oh!

0:24:43 > 0:24:4410 points for this.

0:24:44 > 0:24:48In which present day country is the inland city of Brest,

0:24:48 > 0:24:52which gives its name to a peace treaty of March 1918?

0:24:52 > 0:24:54BUZZER

0:24:54 > 0:24:56- Belarus.- Correct.

0:24:58 > 0:25:01The treaty that took Russia out of the First World War.

0:25:01 > 0:25:04Your bonuses are on biochemistry, Bristol.

0:25:04 > 0:25:10Which functional group is added to a protein by the class of enzymes known as protein kinases?

0:25:10 > 0:25:13- (Amiam.)- (Amiam?) Amiam group?

0:25:13 > 0:25:14No, it's phosphate.

0:25:14 > 0:25:18Which two amino acids are phosphorylated by STK,

0:25:18 > 0:25:20that is, specific protein kinases?

0:25:23 > 0:25:27- (Alanine and... cysteine.)- (Alanine and cysteine?)

0:25:27 > 0:25:30- Alanine and cysteine. - No, it's serine and threonine.

0:25:30 > 0:25:33And finally, known by a three-letter abbreviation,

0:25:33 > 0:25:36what molecule is the usual donor of the phosphate molecule

0:25:36 > 0:25:39in protein kinase catalysed phosphorylation?

0:25:40 > 0:25:42- I... (ATP?)- (ATP.)

0:25:42 > 0:25:44- ATP.- Correct.

0:25:44 > 0:25:46Two and a half minutes to go, 10 points for this.

0:25:46 > 0:25:50The atomic spectrum of which gas is characterised by emission lines

0:25:50 > 0:25:54known as the Balmer, Lyman and Paschen series?

0:25:56 > 0:25:58BUZZER

0:25:58 > 0:26:00Oxygen?

0:26:00 > 0:26:02No, anyone want to buzz from Courtauld?

0:26:02 > 0:26:04BUZZER

0:26:04 > 0:26:06Sulphur dioxide?

0:26:06 > 0:26:07No, it's hydrogen.

0:26:07 > 0:26:09Right, another starter question.

0:26:09 > 0:26:11Which two rivers have their confluence

0:26:11 > 0:26:13at the promontory known as the Deutsches Eck

0:26:13 > 0:26:16or German Corner in Koblenz?

0:26:18 > 0:26:20BUZZER

0:26:20 > 0:26:23The Rhine and the... Main?

0:26:23 > 0:26:26- Anyone like to buzz from Bristol? - BUZZER

0:26:26 > 0:26:28The Rhine and the Rhone?

0:26:28 > 0:26:30No, it's the Rhine and the Moselle. 10 points for this.

0:26:30 > 0:26:33In 1613, which royal house was established

0:26:33 > 0:26:34after the Time Of Troubles,

0:26:34 > 0:26:39- during which several pretenders occupied the throne of Russia? - BUZZER

0:26:39 > 0:26:41- The Romanovs. - Correct.

0:26:44 > 0:26:46Your bonuses now are on British history, Bristol.

0:26:46 > 0:26:49Ennobled in 1918, the Conservative, George Cave,

0:26:49 > 0:26:52became the last member of the House of Lords

0:26:52 > 0:26:54to hold which great office of state?

0:26:59 > 0:27:02- (Shall we say the Chancellor?) - (Chancellor?)

0:27:02 > 0:27:03Chancellor.

0:27:03 > 0:27:05No, he was Home Secretary.

0:27:05 > 0:27:07Secondly, who was the last member of the House of Lords

0:27:07 > 0:27:08to have been Foreign Secretary?

0:27:08 > 0:27:10He resigned in 1982.

0:27:12 > 0:27:14- (Foreign Secretary?) - Foreign Secretary...

0:27:14 > 0:27:16Oof, erm...

0:27:18 > 0:27:20I'll know when I hear it. LAUGHTER

0:27:20 > 0:27:22- We don't know. - That was Lord Carrington.

0:27:22 > 0:27:24Resigned over the Falklands.

0:27:24 > 0:27:26Who was the last person to remain a peer

0:27:26 > 0:27:28throughout his time as Prime Minister?

0:27:28 > 0:27:31His last term was from 1895-1902.

0:27:32 > 0:27:36(Lord...) (No. That was the... No. The Marquess of Salisbury.)

0:27:36 > 0:27:38- The Marquess of Salisbury.- Correct.

0:27:38 > 0:27:3910 points for this, listen carefully.

0:27:39 > 0:27:41The term interstadial

0:27:41 > 0:27:45describes a minor period of less-cold climate during an ice age.

0:27:45 > 0:27:49What term denotes a longer and more marked period between two ice ages?

0:27:49 > 0:27:51BUZZER

0:27:51 > 0:27:53- Interglacial.- Correct.

0:27:53 > 0:27:55You get a set of bonuses, this time...

0:27:56 > 0:27:58..on an American novelist.

0:27:58 > 0:28:01Telegraph Avenue is a novel of 2012 by which author

0:28:01 > 0:28:02who won the Pulitzer Prize

0:28:02 > 0:28:06for The Amazing Adventures Of Cavalier And Clay?

0:28:06 > 0:28:11- GONG - And at the gong, the Courtauld Institute of Art have 75,

0:28:11 > 0:28:14Bristol University have 190.

0:28:14 > 0:28:16The answer, incidentally, is Michael Chabon.

0:28:18 > 0:28:20I think we're going to be saying goodbye to you, Courtauld,

0:28:20 > 0:28:24but you were a very, very nice team. Thank you for joining us.

0:28:24 > 0:28:27- And Bristol - actually, you're two nice teams!- Thank you.

0:28:27 > 0:28:29I must be getting soft.

0:28:29 > 0:28:31Anyway, you were both an absolute delight to have

0:28:31 > 0:28:33and we shall look forward to seeing you, Bristol,

0:28:33 > 0:28:35in the next stage of the competition.

0:28:35 > 0:28:38I hope you can join us next time for another first round match

0:28:38 > 0:28:41- but until then it's goodbye from the Courtauld Institute.- Goodbye.

0:28:41 > 0:28:44- It's goodbye from Bristol University.- Goodbye.

0:28:44 > 0:28:45And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.