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0:00:21 > 0:00:22University Challenge.

0:00:24 > 0:00:27Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:29 > 0:00:33Hello. We're here once again to look for old heads on young shoulders.

0:00:33 > 0:00:35Whichever team proves to be the creme de la creme

0:00:35 > 0:00:38will play again in the second round.

0:00:38 > 0:00:41Now, St Anne's College-Oxford began life as a concept

0:00:41 > 0:00:43rather than a location,

0:00:43 > 0:00:46that by providing inexpensive lodgings throughout the city,

0:00:46 > 0:00:50women of limited means could have access to a university education

0:00:50 > 0:00:54and as such, the Society of Home Students was formed in 1879.

0:00:54 > 0:00:57It became a full college of the university in 1952

0:00:57 > 0:01:00and admitted men from 1979.

0:01:00 > 0:01:03Former students include the formidable clutch of journalists

0:01:03 > 0:01:06including Polly Toynbee, Jackie Ashley and Tina Brown

0:01:06 > 0:01:10as well as the novelists Helen Fielding and Zoe Heller.

0:01:10 > 0:01:11The conductor Simon Rattle

0:01:11 > 0:01:14and the former England rugby player Victor Ubogu.

0:01:14 > 0:01:16Their mascots are a reference

0:01:16 > 0:01:19to the college's recent adoption of a beaver.

0:01:19 > 0:01:23The average age of the St Anne's team is 22. Let's meet them.

0:01:23 > 0:01:26Hi. I'm Sam Zwolinski. I'm from Northallerton in North Yorkshire.

0:01:26 > 0:01:29And I'm studying physics.

0:01:29 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm Laura Ludtke. I'm from Red Deer, Canada

0:01:31 > 0:01:34and I'm reading for a DPhil in English literature.

0:01:34 > 0:01:35And this is their captain.

0:01:35 > 0:01:39Hi. I'm Edward Hicks. I'm from Reading in Berkshire

0:01:39 > 0:01:41and I'm reading for a DPhil in history.

0:01:41 > 0:01:44Hi. I'm Rebecca McKavanagh from Croydon in Surrey

0:01:44 > 0:01:47and I'm reading for DPhil in clinical neurology.

0:01:52 > 0:01:56Now, their opponents, the team from Gonville Caius College-Cambridge

0:01:56 > 0:01:59represents an institution founded in the mid-14th century

0:01:59 > 0:02:05by Edmund Gonville, who enjoyed the title of King's clerk to Edward III.

0:02:05 > 0:02:06Having fallen on hard times,

0:02:06 > 0:02:09it was refounded around two centuries later by John Caius,

0:02:09 > 0:02:13a former alumnus and physician to Edward VI.

0:02:13 > 0:02:16Other alumni include the creator in around 1880

0:02:16 > 0:02:19of the eponymous diagram John Venn

0:02:19 > 0:02:22and fractionally more recently, the politician Ken Clarke.

0:02:22 > 0:02:24The late David Frost was a student there

0:02:24 > 0:02:26as was the comedian Jimmy Carr.

0:02:26 > 0:02:29They, too, have an average age of 22.

0:02:29 > 0:02:31Let's meet the Gonville Caius team.

0:02:31 > 0:02:33Hi. I'm Ted Loveday.

0:02:33 > 0:02:36I'm from Hammersmith in London and I'm doing law.

0:02:36 > 0:02:39Hello. I'm Michael Taylor from Ballymena in Northern Ireland

0:02:39 > 0:02:41and I'm studying for a PhD in history.

0:02:41 > 0:02:43And here's their captain.

0:02:43 > 0:02:44I'm Anthony Martinelli.

0:02:44 > 0:02:47I'm from Hertfordshire and I'm studying medicine.

0:02:47 > 0:02:48Hi I'm Jeremy Warner.

0:02:48 > 0:02:51I'm from Southhampton and I'm reading natural sciences.

0:02:57 > 0:02:58Rules are the same as ever.

0:02:58 > 0:03:01Ten points for starter questions, which are solo efforts.

0:03:01 > 0:03:04Bonus questions our team efforts. There are worth 15.

0:03:04 > 0:03:08Right. Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.

0:03:08 > 0:03:10What name links a US educator,

0:03:10 > 0:03:13reformer and co-founder of Tuskegee University,

0:03:13 > 0:03:17a 1922 treatment for the limitation of naval armaments, the author of...

0:03:19 > 0:03:21Washington. Correct. Yes.

0:03:25 > 0:03:29The first set of bonuses, St Anne's, are on an industrial area.

0:03:29 > 0:03:32What two-word name denotes the industrial area

0:03:32 > 0:03:35that corresponds closely to the former South Staffordshire Coalfield

0:03:35 > 0:03:39encompassing areas of Wolverhampton, Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley?

0:03:41 > 0:03:43Black Country. Correct.

0:03:43 > 0:03:47Born near Dudley in 1678, which iron founder is noted for the works

0:03:47 > 0:03:50he established at Colebrookdale in Shropshire?

0:03:50 > 0:03:53His son and grandson both bore his given name.

0:04:01 > 0:04:02Arkwright.

0:04:02 > 0:04:03No, it's Abraham Darby.

0:04:03 > 0:04:06An early example of an atmospheric steam pump

0:04:06 > 0:04:10named after which engineer was built near Dudley Castle in 1712?

0:04:21 > 0:04:22Watt.

0:04:22 > 0:04:24No, it's Thomas Newcomen.

0:04:24 > 0:04:25Ten points for this.

0:04:25 > 0:04:29Referring to Britain's declaration of war on August 4, 1914,

0:04:29 > 0:04:32what did the German Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg described as

0:04:32 > 0:04:36"a word, which in wartime, has so often been disregarded"?

0:04:38 > 0:04:40Treaty.

0:04:40 > 0:04:42No.

0:04:42 > 0:04:43Neutrality.

0:04:43 > 0:04:45Correct.

0:04:49 > 0:04:53Right. Your bonuses, Gonville Caius, are an African tisanes,

0:04:53 > 0:04:55or herbal infusions.

0:04:55 > 0:04:56First in for five.

0:04:56 > 0:04:58Central to social life in Maghreb countries,

0:04:58 > 0:05:01the preparation sometimes known in Morocco as nana tea

0:05:01 > 0:05:03is made with green tea,

0:05:03 > 0:05:05sugar and which generic herb?

0:05:08 > 0:05:11Peppermint. I'll except that.

0:05:11 > 0:05:13Yeah, yeah. Mint, generally, will do.

0:05:13 > 0:05:17From the first part of the binomial of the petals from which it is made,

0:05:17 > 0:05:19what name is given to the deep red cranberry-like infusion

0:05:19 > 0:05:22known as karkade in Egypt and Sudan?

0:05:22 > 0:05:24In Britain it's often blended with rosehip.

0:05:26 > 0:05:32INDISTINCT SPEECH

0:05:32 > 0:05:33Chamomile.

0:05:33 > 0:05:34No, it's hibiscus tea.

0:05:34 > 0:05:37And finally, what's the common name of the South African shrub

0:05:37 > 0:05:41Aspalathus linearis, which gives a mahogany coloured infusion

0:05:41 > 0:05:44free from caffeine?

0:05:44 > 0:05:46MURMURING

0:05:48 > 0:05:49Rooibos.

0:05:49 > 0:05:51Rooibos is correct. Red bush. Ten points for this...

0:05:51 > 0:05:54With a diameter of 106,000 km,

0:05:54 > 0:05:56the Le Verrier ring circle which planet?

0:05:56 > 0:06:00Its name commemorates the French mathematician, Urbain Le Verrier,

0:06:00 > 0:06:03whose laborious orbital calculations led to the planet's discovery.

0:06:06 > 0:06:08Neptune. Correct.

0:06:08 > 0:06:11APPLAUSE

0:06:13 > 0:06:16Gonville Caius, your bonuses are on English mathematicians.

0:06:16 > 0:06:19Which 18th century English mathematician gives his name

0:06:19 > 0:06:21to a theorem on statistical inference derived

0:06:21 > 0:06:23from a posthumous work entitled

0:06:23 > 0:06:27An Essay Towards Solving A Problem In The Doctrine Of Chances?

0:06:30 > 0:06:31Bayes.

0:06:31 > 0:06:32Bayes is correct.

0:06:32 > 0:06:36Born 1815, which mathematician gives his name to the algebra of logic

0:06:36 > 0:06:39used in the design of digital computer circuits?

0:06:43 > 0:06:44Nominate Loveday. Boole.

0:06:44 > 0:06:46Boole is correct. George Boole.

0:06:46 > 0:06:49Born around 1791, which mathematician drew out plans

0:06:49 > 0:06:51for the analytical engine

0:06:51 > 0:06:53generally regarded as the first computer?

0:06:54 > 0:06:57Babbage. Babbage is right. Ten points for this...

0:06:57 > 0:07:01The opera which includes the aria often referred to as Handel's Largo

0:07:01 > 0:07:03is named after which king of Persia

0:07:03 > 0:07:07who launched an invasion of Greece in the fifth century BC?

0:07:08 > 0:07:10Xerxes. Correct.

0:07:10 > 0:07:13We get a set of bonuses this time, St Anne's College.

0:07:13 > 0:07:19On "aches", that is words that end in the letters A-C-H-E,

0:07:19 > 0:07:21in each case, give the word from the definition.

0:07:21 > 0:07:24Firstly, a container generally holding a number of items

0:07:24 > 0:07:26and hidden at a specific location

0:07:26 > 0:07:29for uses of the global positioning system to discover

0:07:29 > 0:07:31in a pursuit similar to the pre-Internet activity

0:07:31 > 0:07:33known as letterboxing.

0:07:34 > 0:07:36Caches.

0:07:36 > 0:07:38No, it's geocache.

0:07:38 > 0:07:41Secondly, a smooth filling of whipped chocolate and cream

0:07:41 > 0:07:43used in truffles and other confectionery.

0:07:45 > 0:07:46Ganache.

0:07:46 > 0:07:50Correct. And finally, a material used in painting in which a gum

0:07:50 > 0:07:52or a similar substance has been added to watercolours

0:07:52 > 0:07:54to make them opaque.

0:07:59 > 0:08:01Gouache.

0:08:01 > 0:08:02Gouache is correct, yes.

0:08:02 > 0:08:04Right, we're going to take a picture round.

0:08:04 > 0:08:07For your picture starter, you'll see a Formula One grid

0:08:07 > 0:08:10featuring the top six placings in the Drivers' Championship

0:08:10 > 0:08:13in a given year with the champion's name missing.

0:08:13 > 0:08:15For ten points, give me his name.

0:08:18 > 0:08:19Damon Hill.

0:08:19 > 0:08:21Correct.

0:08:21 > 0:08:22APPLAUSE

0:08:25 > 0:08:29That was the 1996 Formula One championship which Damon Hill won.

0:08:29 > 0:08:32Your bonuses are three more grids showing the top six drivers

0:08:32 > 0:08:34in years in which there was a British champion.

0:08:34 > 0:08:37In each case, I simply want the name of the missing champion.

0:08:37 > 0:08:39Firstly, for five.

0:08:44 > 0:08:46Button.

0:08:46 > 0:08:48That was Jenson Button in 2009. Secondly, for five.

0:08:55 > 0:08:56Nigel Mansell.

0:08:56 > 0:08:58Correct, in 1992. And finally...

0:09:02 > 0:09:03James Hunt.

0:09:03 > 0:09:06In 1976, yes. Well done. Clean sweep.

0:09:06 > 0:09:07Ten points for this...

0:09:07 > 0:09:10"In a child's power to master the multiplication table,

0:09:10 > 0:09:12"there is more sanctity than in all your shouted

0:09:12 > 0:09:14"'Amens' and 'Hosannas',

0:09:14 > 0:09:18"an idea is a greater monument than a cathedral." Spo...

0:09:19 > 0:09:20Russo.

0:09:20 > 0:09:22No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:09:22 > 0:09:24..spoken by the actor Spencer Tracy,

0:09:24 > 0:09:30these words are from which 1961 film based on the Scopes Monkey Trial?

0:09:38 > 0:09:40I need one of you to buzz.

0:09:43 > 0:09:44Something about the wind.

0:09:44 > 0:09:47It is something about the wind, but that's not precise enough.

0:09:47 > 0:09:49It's Inherit The Wind.

0:09:49 > 0:09:50Ten points for this...

0:09:50 > 0:09:52Give both names promptly if you buzz for this.

0:09:52 > 0:09:56Which two short anagrams denote an extreme type of variable star

0:09:56 > 0:09:58that explodes periodically

0:09:58 > 0:10:01and the river span by the Clifton Suspension Bridge?

0:10:05 > 0:10:07Avon and nova. Correct.

0:10:07 > 0:10:09APPLAUSE

0:10:12 > 0:10:16Right, these bonuses, Caius, are on an 18th-century novel.

0:10:16 > 0:10:19Uncle Toby, Dr Slop, and Mrs Wadman

0:10:19 > 0:10:22are characters in which 18th century novel

0:10:22 > 0:10:23often regarded as the progenitor

0:10:23 > 0:10:26of modern stream of consciousness works?

0:10:30 > 0:10:31Tom Jones?

0:10:31 > 0:10:33No, it's Tristram Shandy.

0:10:33 > 0:10:35Originally of Danish extraction, he's said to be,

0:10:35 > 0:10:37which Parson interest from Shandy

0:10:37 > 0:10:41shares his name with an inanimate figure in Shakespeare's, Hamlet?

0:10:42 > 0:10:44Yorick. Parson Yorick, yes.

0:10:44 > 0:10:46Taken from words spoken by Parson Yorick,

0:10:46 > 0:10:49what is the title of the director Michael Winterbottom's

0:10:49 > 0:10:51film within a film adaptation of the novel?

0:10:53 > 0:10:55A Cock and Bull Story.

0:10:55 > 0:10:56Correct. Ten points for this...

0:10:56 > 0:11:00Opening with their first meeting at the 1917 Kentucky Derby

0:11:00 > 0:11:02and ending with a 2005 funeral where his ashes

0:11:02 > 0:11:05were fired into the sky by a cannon,

0:11:05 > 0:11:08The Joke's Over, by the cartoonist Ralph Steadman

0:11:08 > 0:11:10is a memoir of which journalist,

0:11:10 > 0:11:12the creator of the genre known as Gonzo?

0:11:14 > 0:11:15Hunter S Thompson.

0:11:15 > 0:11:17That is correct, yes.

0:11:17 > 0:11:19APPLAUSE

0:11:19 > 0:11:22Right, this set of bonuses, Caius, are on the solar system.

0:11:22 > 0:11:24In 1610, Galileo and Simon Marius

0:11:24 > 0:11:27made the first telescopic observations of the night sky

0:11:27 > 0:11:31which suddenly increased the number of known moons by what factor?

0:11:36 > 0:11:37Four.

0:11:37 > 0:11:39No, it's five. They found four.

0:11:39 > 0:11:41Among the four large moons of Jupiter

0:11:41 > 0:11:43that Galileo and Marius discovered,

0:11:43 > 0:11:45which one was later found to bear

0:11:45 > 0:11:50caldera-like depressions and domed formations called tholi?

0:11:50 > 0:11:53INDISTINCT SPEECH

0:11:54 > 0:11:56Ganymede. No, it's Io.

0:11:56 > 0:11:59The surface of which of Jupiter's moons bears landforms

0:11:59 > 0:12:01known as linea and lenticulae

0:12:01 > 0:12:05as well as broken ice flow-like terrain called chaos?

0:12:06 > 0:12:07Ganymede.

0:12:07 > 0:12:09It's Europa. Ten points for this...

0:12:09 > 0:12:1250 years after the monarchy was abolished and he went into exile,

0:12:12 > 0:12:15the former King Simeon II returned...

0:12:15 > 0:12:16Bulgaria.

0:12:16 > 0:12:18Bulgaria is right. Yes.

0:12:18 > 0:12:21APPLAUSE

0:12:21 > 0:12:24Right, these bonuses, Gonville Caius,

0:12:24 > 0:12:25are on medieval German rulers.

0:12:25 > 0:12:29What short of name is that of three successive German rulers,

0:12:29 > 0:12:30the first of whom known as The Great

0:12:30 > 0:12:33was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 962?

0:12:34 > 0:12:35Otto.

0:12:35 > 0:12:37Correct. Which German emperor spent three days

0:12:37 > 0:12:40barefoot in the snow at Canossa in 1077,

0:12:40 > 0:12:43an act of penitence to atone for his excommunication

0:12:43 > 0:12:45by Pope Gregory VII?

0:12:49 > 0:12:51Henry IV.

0:12:51 > 0:12:53Correct. What was the nickname of the Emperor Frederick I,

0:12:53 > 0:12:56a leader of the Third Crusade in 1189?

0:12:56 > 0:12:58Barbarossa.

0:12:58 > 0:13:00Correct. We're going to take a music round now.

0:13:00 > 0:13:03Your music starts, you'll hear a piece of popular music.

0:13:03 > 0:13:05All you have to do is to name the song.

0:13:05 > 0:13:08# You shout it out

0:13:08 > 0:13:10# But I can't hear... #

0:13:10 > 0:13:12Disturbia.

0:13:12 > 0:13:14No, you can hear a little more, St Anne's.

0:13:14 > 0:13:17# ..a word you say

0:13:17 > 0:13:21# I'm talking loud not saying much

0:13:24 > 0:13:29# I'm criticised but all your... #

0:13:30 > 0:13:31Bulletproof.

0:13:31 > 0:13:33No, it's David Guetta's Titanium.

0:13:33 > 0:13:35So music bonuses in a moment or two.

0:13:35 > 0:13:37Another starter question in the meantime.

0:13:37 > 0:13:40Andre Breton and Leonora Carrington

0:13:40 > 0:13:43are among those principally associated with which...

0:13:43 > 0:13:45Surrealism.

0:13:45 > 0:13:46Correct.

0:13:46 > 0:13:48APPLAUSE

0:13:50 > 0:13:53OK, so following on from Titanium you heard a moment ago,

0:13:53 > 0:13:55you're going to hear music bonuses.

0:13:55 > 0:14:00Titles of these three pieces can also be found in the periodic table.

0:14:00 > 0:14:05In each case, I want the element and its chemical symbol. Firstly...

0:14:06 > 0:14:08# Thank you for coming home

0:14:08 > 0:14:11# I'm sorry that the chairs are all worn

0:14:11 > 0:14:12# I left them here... #

0:14:12 > 0:14:14It's gold, Au.

0:14:14 > 0:14:16Correct. Secondly...

0:14:16 > 0:14:20MUSIC PLAYS

0:14:38 > 0:14:40Silicon, Si.

0:14:40 > 0:14:42No, it's oxygen, O. Finally...

0:14:42 > 0:14:45# I'm so happy cos today... #

0:14:45 > 0:14:47Lithium, Li.

0:14:47 > 0:14:48Correct. Ten points for this...

0:14:48 > 0:14:51In human biology, for what the letters LH stand

0:14:51 > 0:14:55when indicating a substance secreted...

0:14:55 > 0:14:57Luteinizing hormone. Correct.

0:15:00 > 0:15:05These bonuses are on female psychoanalysts, Gonville Caius.

0:15:05 > 0:15:06Believing that neurosis is caused by

0:15:06 > 0:15:09a child's experience of basic anxiety,

0:15:09 > 0:15:14which German-born US psychoanalyst wrote the 1937 work

0:15:14 > 0:15:16The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time?

0:15:18 > 0:15:20Any ideas? Any ideas? Ah, pass.

0:15:20 > 0:15:22It was Karen Horney.

0:15:22 > 0:15:25Secondly, the author of the psychoanalysis of children,

0:15:25 > 0:15:27which Austrian-born British psychologist's

0:15:27 > 0:15:29observation of free play

0:15:29 > 0:15:32provided insights into the child's unconscious fantasy life?

0:15:34 > 0:15:35Any ideas? Pass again.

0:15:35 > 0:15:37That's Melanie Klein.

0:15:37 > 0:15:40And finally, The Ego And Mechanisms Of Defence

0:15:40 > 0:15:43is a work by which pioneer of child psychoanalyst

0:15:43 > 0:15:45born in Vienna in 1985?

0:15:46 > 0:15:50No ideas. It was all females, so... Yeah, we don't know.

0:15:50 > 0:15:51That's Anna Freud.

0:15:51 > 0:15:53A starter question, which book of the New Testament

0:15:53 > 0:15:57comes next in this list given in reverse order?

0:15:57 > 0:16:01First Corinthians, Romans, Acts Of The Apostles and...

0:16:02 > 0:16:03John.

0:16:03 > 0:16:05John is correct, yes. APPLAUSE

0:16:06 > 0:16:08APPLAUSE DROWNS OUT SPEECH

0:16:09 > 0:16:13These bonuses are on cricket and literature, Gonville Caius.

0:16:13 > 0:16:16Which major city is the setting of Netherland

0:16:16 > 0:16:18in the Irish author of Joseph O'Neill's 2008 novel

0:16:18 > 0:16:21about a cricket playing Dutch banker? New York.

0:16:21 > 0:16:24Correct. "The finest book written about the game of cricket."

0:16:24 > 0:16:28Those words of John Arlott refer to Beyond A Boundary,

0:16:28 > 0:16:32a non-fiction work by which Trinidadian social theorist?

0:16:32 > 0:16:34Nominate Taylor. CLR James.

0:16:34 > 0:16:37Correct. A village match in which the title character Leo takes a

0:16:37 > 0:16:40catch and wins the game for Brandham Hall

0:16:40 > 0:16:43features in which a novel of 1953 by LP Hartley?

0:16:44 > 0:16:45HE WHISPERS

0:16:45 > 0:16:47The Go-Between.

0:16:47 > 0:16:48Correct. Ten points for this.

0:16:48 > 0:16:53GJ 436, Wolf 359 and Barnard's Star are all examples

0:16:53 > 0:16:55of what class of stellar object

0:16:55 > 0:16:57characterised by low mass, low temperature

0:16:57 > 0:16:59and low luminosity?

0:17:01 > 0:17:02Red dwarf.

0:17:02 > 0:17:03Correct.

0:17:04 > 0:17:08So here are your bonuses, Gonville Caius. They're on physics.

0:17:08 > 0:17:11What unit of energy is defined as the amount of heat

0:17:11 > 0:17:13required to raise the temperature of one gram of water

0:17:13 > 0:17:14by one degree Celsius?

0:17:16 > 0:17:18THEY WHISPER

0:17:20 > 0:17:22No, no, it's a calorie. Calorie.

0:17:22 > 0:17:26Correct. According to the law of Dulong and Petit

0:17:26 > 0:17:29what is the molar specific heat capacity of a solid

0:17:29 > 0:17:31in units of the gas constant R?

0:17:34 > 0:17:36THEY WHISPER

0:17:37 > 0:17:40Um, let's try 3 over 2R. 3 over 2R.

0:17:40 > 0:17:41No, it's 3R.

0:17:41 > 0:17:44And finally, what full specific name is given to the energy

0:17:44 > 0:17:47required to transform a quantity of liquid to a gas

0:17:47 > 0:17:49at constant temperature and pressure?

0:17:50 > 0:17:52THEY WHISPER

0:17:53 > 0:17:55Enthalpy of... Yeah, enthalpy of vaporisation.

0:17:55 > 0:17:56Enthalpy of vaporisation.

0:17:56 > 0:17:59Correct. Or the latent heat of vaporisation.

0:17:59 > 0:18:01So, St Anne's, there's plenty of time still to go

0:18:01 > 0:18:04so maybe you can get going with this starter question.

0:18:04 > 0:18:07According to Winston Churchill, the birth of which national leader

0:18:07 > 0:18:12was his people's worst misfortune and his death their next worse?

0:18:12 > 0:18:15The latter occurred in 1924.

0:18:17 > 0:18:19Oh, sorry. BUZZER

0:18:19 > 0:18:20Lenin.

0:18:20 > 0:18:22Lenin is correct, yes.

0:18:22 > 0:18:27You get a set of bonuses on regions of China, Gonville Caius.

0:18:27 > 0:18:30Around the size of France and Spain combined,

0:18:30 > 0:18:32which autonomous region of China shares part of its name

0:18:32 > 0:18:35with a country that borders it to the north?

0:18:35 > 0:18:36THEY WHISPER

0:18:38 > 0:18:41So what is it? BOTH: It's Inner Mongolia.

0:18:41 > 0:18:43Inner Mongolia? Yeah. Inner Mongolia.

0:18:43 > 0:18:45Correct. A little smaller than the UK,

0:18:45 > 0:18:48which autonomous region shares a border with Vietnam?

0:18:50 > 0:18:53THEY CONFER

0:18:59 > 0:19:00Tibet.

0:19:00 > 0:19:02No, it's the other side of the country. It's Guangxi.

0:19:02 > 0:19:03Slightly smaller than Alaska,

0:19:03 > 0:19:06what is the largest autonomous region of China?

0:19:06 > 0:19:09It borders several countries, including Pakistan and Kazakhstan.

0:19:13 > 0:19:15THEY CONFER Are they cities or are they countries?

0:19:16 > 0:19:18Guangdong? Guangdong.

0:19:18 > 0:19:20No, it's Xinjiang.

0:19:20 > 0:19:21Ten points for this.

0:19:21 > 0:19:23Give two answers as soon as your name is called.

0:19:23 > 0:19:26In addition to the Basque Country,

0:19:26 > 0:19:29three autonomous communities in Spain border France.

0:19:29 > 0:19:31Name two of them.

0:19:32 > 0:19:34Navarre and Galicia.

0:19:34 > 0:19:36No. Would anyone like to pass it on to...

0:19:36 > 0:19:39Navarre and Catalonia.

0:19:39 > 0:19:42The other one is Aragon. Yes. So you get a set of bonuses.

0:19:42 > 0:19:44This time, Gonville Caius, on the sciences.

0:19:44 > 0:19:47In cell biology, what type of stem cell has the potential

0:19:47 > 0:19:51to differentiate into cells derived from any of the three germ layers?

0:19:51 > 0:19:53Pluripotent? Yeah. Pluripotent.

0:19:53 > 0:19:54Correct.

0:19:54 > 0:19:58In 2012, which Japanese researcher shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine

0:19:58 > 0:20:00for his discovery that epithelial cells

0:20:00 > 0:20:03can be artificially induced to have pluripotent capabilities?

0:20:03 > 0:20:05Yamanaka.

0:20:05 > 0:20:09Correct. Also in 2012, Yamanaka shared the 1.2 million euro

0:20:09 > 0:20:12Millenium Technology Prize with Linus Torvalds,

0:20:12 > 0:20:15the creator of which is free and open source operating system?

0:20:17 > 0:20:18Linux. Linux.

0:20:18 > 0:20:20Correct. We're going to take a second picture round now.

0:20:20 > 0:20:21For your picture starter,

0:20:21 > 0:20:24you're going to see a painting of a literary character.

0:20:24 > 0:20:26Ten points if you can identify her.

0:20:29 > 0:20:30Is it Ophelia?

0:20:30 > 0:20:33It is Ophelia, by Delacroix, yes.

0:20:33 > 0:20:35Very good. Very good.

0:20:35 > 0:20:38Your picture bonuses are three more depictions of Ophelia,

0:20:38 > 0:20:40all of them also from the 19th century.

0:20:40 > 0:20:43This time, in each case, I simply want you to identify the artist.

0:20:43 > 0:20:44Firstly, for five.

0:20:47 > 0:20:50Which century was it? 19th century.

0:20:50 > 0:20:54THEY WHISPER

0:20:59 > 0:21:00Rossetti.

0:21:00 > 0:21:02Rossetti is correct. Secondly.

0:21:05 > 0:21:06THEY WHISPER

0:21:08 > 0:21:10Could be another Pre-Raphaelite, couldn't it?

0:21:10 > 0:21:11THEY WHISPER Hunt? Yeah.

0:21:11 > 0:21:12Hunt.

0:21:12 > 0:21:14No, it's John William Waterhouse. And finally.

0:21:16 > 0:21:19THEY WHISPER

0:21:19 > 0:21:20Millais.

0:21:20 > 0:21:22Millais is right. Right, it's a starter question.

0:21:22 > 0:21:24Joey Dunlop, who died in 2000,

0:21:24 > 0:21:29is best known for his 26 wins in various classes of which annual...

0:21:29 > 0:21:30Motorcycling.

0:21:30 > 0:21:32I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:21:32 > 0:21:34In various classes of which annual event

0:21:34 > 0:21:38run in late May and early June on the Snaefell Mountain Course?

0:21:42 > 0:21:43Skiing.

0:21:43 > 0:21:46No, it's the Isle Of Man TT.

0:21:46 > 0:21:47He'd given you most of it.

0:21:47 > 0:21:49We take another starter question now.

0:21:49 > 0:21:51The daughter of Asclepius and Epione,

0:21:51 > 0:21:54which goddess gives her name to a modern-day term

0:21:54 > 0:21:56for a universal remedy? Her name in Greek...

0:21:58 > 0:21:59Um...

0:21:59 > 0:22:01Sorry, if you buzz... Sorry. ..you must answer.

0:22:01 > 0:22:03You can have the rest of it, St Anne's,

0:22:03 > 0:22:06and I'm afraid you're going to lose five points.

0:22:06 > 0:22:08Caius, her name in Greek means "all healing."

0:22:11 > 0:22:13Um, Hole.

0:22:13 > 0:22:16No, it's Panacea. Ten points for this.

0:22:16 > 0:22:19Which ballet company was formed in Moscow in 1776

0:22:19 > 0:22:22by an English entrepreneur and a Russian patron of the arts?

0:22:22 > 0:22:24It derives its name from the Russian word for "big".

0:22:27 > 0:22:28Bolshoi.

0:22:28 > 0:22:29Bolshoi is correct, yes.

0:22:29 > 0:22:31APPLAUSE

0:22:34 > 0:22:37Right, these bonuses are on a revolutionary, St Anne's.

0:22:37 > 0:22:40In an address to the UN General Assembly in 1964,

0:22:40 > 0:22:44who said that the last hour of colonialism has struck

0:22:44 > 0:22:45and millions rise

0:22:45 > 0:22:48to assert their unrestricted right to self-determination?

0:22:49 > 0:22:51THEY WHISPER Castro.

0:22:51 > 0:22:52No, it was Che Guevara.

0:22:52 > 0:22:55Che Guevara was born in 1928 in which country?

0:22:56 > 0:22:58SHE WHISPERS: Argentina. Argentina.

0:22:58 > 0:23:01Correct. In which country was Che Guevara killed in 1967

0:23:01 > 0:23:04while leading a guerrilla group in the... Bolivia.

0:23:04 > 0:23:06Correct. Ten points for this. Five minutes to go.

0:23:06 > 0:23:10Notations including 'e' for the base of natural logarithms

0:23:10 > 0:23:12and 'i' for the square root of -1...

0:23:13 > 0:23:14Euler.

0:23:14 > 0:23:15Euler is correct, yes.

0:23:15 > 0:23:17APPLAUSE

0:23:19 > 0:23:23Gonville Caius, these bonuses are on the films of Wim Wenders.

0:23:23 > 0:23:25In each case, name the film from the description.

0:23:25 > 0:23:28Firstly, a 1984 film that opens with a man walking out of the desert...

0:23:28 > 0:23:29That's Paris, Texas.

0:23:29 > 0:23:34Correct. Secondly, a 1987 film about an angel who falls in love

0:23:34 > 0:23:35with a trapeze artist.

0:23:35 > 0:23:36Wings Of Desire.

0:23:36 > 0:23:40Correct. And finally, a 1999 documentary about Cuban musicians.

0:23:40 > 0:23:42HE WHISPERS: Buena Vista Social Club.

0:23:42 > 0:23:43Buena Vista Social Club.

0:23:43 > 0:23:44Correct, ten points for this.

0:23:44 > 0:23:48Won by one of China's largest internet portals,

0:23:48 > 0:23:50which microblogging service had by mid-2012

0:23:50 > 0:23:53gained more than 300 million registered users

0:23:53 > 0:23:56and has been called China's version of Twitter?

0:23:58 > 0:23:59Weibo.

0:23:59 > 0:24:01I'll accept that. "Wei-bore" is how you pronounce it. Sina Weibo.

0:24:01 > 0:24:03Well done. Set of bonuses for you.

0:24:03 > 0:24:05Your bonuses are on music.

0:24:05 > 0:24:07In each case, listen to the pair of composers

0:24:07 > 0:24:12and give the unique full decade during which both were alive,

0:24:12 > 0:24:13understand? Yep.

0:24:13 > 0:24:15Firstly, Frank Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn.

0:24:17 > 0:24:18THEY WHISPER 1810s?

0:24:20 > 0:24:2120s? Yeah.

0:24:21 > 0:24:221820s.

0:24:22 > 0:24:23No, it was the 1810s.

0:24:23 > 0:24:26Secondly, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

0:24:26 > 0:24:29Later '40s or something maybe.

0:24:29 > 0:24:30'50s maybe. THEY WHISPER

0:24:30 > 0:24:311840s.

0:24:31 > 0:24:35It was the 1840s. And finally, Hector Berlioz and Edvard Grieg.

0:24:36 > 0:24:381880s or something. Yeah. 1880s.

0:24:38 > 0:24:40No, it's the 1850s. Ten points for this.

0:24:40 > 0:24:45Which royal officer gave his name to a law of 1494 that made the...

0:24:45 > 0:24:47Poynings.

0:24:47 > 0:24:48Poynings is correct, yes.

0:24:48 > 0:24:53You get a set of bonuses this time on a scientific study, St Anne's.

0:24:53 > 0:24:57Cytology, that is C-Y-T-O, is the study

0:24:57 > 0:25:01of the structure and function of what biological entities?

0:25:01 > 0:25:02SHE WHISPERS: Cells. Cells.

0:25:02 > 0:25:05Correct. In plant cells, what is the key structure or organelle

0:25:05 > 0:25:07necessary for photosynthesis?

0:25:07 > 0:25:09SHE WHISPERS: Chloroplast. Chloroplast.

0:25:09 > 0:25:12Correct. Which organelles found in animal cells

0:25:12 > 0:25:13contain hydrolytic enzymes

0:25:13 > 0:25:16that break down waste materials and cellular debris?

0:25:17 > 0:25:18SHE WHISPERS

0:25:18 > 0:25:19Lysosomes.

0:25:19 > 0:25:22Lysosomes is right. Two and a half minutes to go. Ten points for this.

0:25:22 > 0:25:24What five-letter word links a magnetometer

0:25:24 > 0:25:27which uses pairs of superconducting Josephson junctions

0:25:27 > 0:25:30and a cephalopod with eight arms and two tentacles?

0:25:31 > 0:25:32Squid.

0:25:32 > 0:25:34Squid is correct.

0:25:34 > 0:25:38Here are your bonuses. This time, on the writings of Angela Carter.

0:25:38 > 0:25:40Angela Carter's 1984 novel Nights At The Circus

0:25:40 > 0:25:42has as its protagonist Fevvers,

0:25:42 > 0:25:45a practitioner of what circus skill?

0:25:47 > 0:25:49SHE WHISPERS: Don't know if it's a tightrope walker.

0:25:49 > 0:25:50Tightrope walker.

0:25:50 > 0:25:52No, she was an aerialiste.

0:25:52 > 0:25:55Uh, in the collection entitled Black Venus,

0:25:55 > 0:25:57which US historical figure does Carter portray

0:25:57 > 0:26:00in her short story The Fall River Axe Murders?

0:26:03 > 0:26:06SHE WHISPERS Sorry?

0:26:06 > 0:26:07Don't know. Don't know, sorry.

0:26:07 > 0:26:08It was Lizzie Borden.

0:26:08 > 0:26:10Did you lean over just to be told, "I don't know?"

0:26:10 > 0:26:12THEY LAUGH

0:26:12 > 0:26:13And finally, for five points,

0:26:13 > 0:26:15based on her short story of the same name,

0:26:15 > 0:26:17what is the title of the 1984 film

0:26:17 > 0:26:21directed by Neil Jordan, with whom she wrote the screenplay?

0:26:22 > 0:26:26SHE WHISPERS

0:26:26 > 0:26:29THEY WHISPER

0:26:32 > 0:26:33Oprah Winfrey.

0:26:33 > 0:26:34THEY LAUGH

0:26:34 > 0:26:37No, it's The Company Of Wolves. Ten points for this.

0:26:37 > 0:26:43Norway, Sweden, Burma, Austria, Peru, Egypt, Ghana and South Korea

0:26:43 > 0:26:47are the countries of origin of those who, since...

0:26:48 > 0:26:50Secretary-General of the United Nations.

0:26:50 > 0:26:52Correct. APPLAUSE

0:26:53 > 0:26:56A set of bonuses for you on phobias.

0:26:56 > 0:26:59From the Greek, the term alektorophobia

0:26:59 > 0:27:00denotes a fear of what animals?

0:27:02 > 0:27:05THEY WHISPER

0:27:06 > 0:27:08It's not snakes and spiders.

0:27:08 > 0:27:09Come on, let's have it.

0:27:09 > 0:27:11Alligators. Alligators.

0:27:11 > 0:27:12No, it's chickens.

0:27:12 > 0:27:15Also from the Greek, dikephobia is a fear of what concept?

0:27:16 > 0:27:19Jus... It's justice. Justice.

0:27:19 > 0:27:20Correct.

0:27:20 > 0:27:22And, again, from the Greek, rhytiphobia

0:27:22 > 0:27:24is a fear of what symptom of ageing?

0:27:26 > 0:27:28Wrinkles? Wrinkles or... Wrinkles.

0:27:28 > 0:27:31Getting wrinkles is correct. Ten points for this.

0:27:31 > 0:27:34What was originally composed as War Song Of The Army Of The Rhine

0:27:34 > 0:27:36by the army officer...

0:27:36 > 0:27:37The Marseillaise.

0:27:37 > 0:27:39The Marseillaise is right, yes.

0:27:39 > 0:27:40APPLAUSE

0:27:42 > 0:27:45Right, your bonuses now are on SI prefixes.

0:27:45 > 0:27:48In each case, give the power of 10 represented by the following,

0:27:48 > 0:27:49firstly, exa.

0:27:51 > 0:27:5418... Eight... 18.

0:27:54 > 0:27:57Correct. Secondly, pico.

0:27:57 > 0:27:58GONG SOUNDS

0:28:00 > 0:28:01APPLAUSE And that's the Gong.

0:28:01 > 0:28:03St Anne's College, Oxford have 105.

0:28:03 > 0:28:06Gonville Caius College, Cambridge have 305.

0:28:09 > 0:28:11Well, St Annes, I'm afraid you were well beaten there

0:28:11 > 0:28:15and I very, very, very much doubt that that'll be a high enough score

0:28:15 > 0:28:17to come back as one of the highest scoring losers, but never mind,

0:28:17 > 0:28:20you were a nice team and you played in the spirit of the game

0:28:20 > 0:28:23so thank you very much. At least you seemed to enjoy it.

0:28:23 > 0:28:25Gonville Caius, 305 is a terrific score

0:28:25 > 0:28:27and we shall look forward to seeing you for sure

0:28:27 > 0:28:29in the next round of the contest.

0:28:29 > 0:28:31Thank you very much for joining us and congratulations.

0:28:31 > 0:28:33I hope you can join us next time, but until then,

0:28:33 > 0:28:36it's goodbye from St Anne's College, Oxford. ALL: Bye.

0:28:36 > 0:28:39And it's goodbye from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. ALL: Bye.

0:28:39 > 0:28:41And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

0:28:41 > 0:28:43APPLAUSE

0:29:28 > 0:29:29Imagine a world

0:29:29 > 0:29:31where you could see with sound.