0:00:18 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:20 > 0:00:25University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello, it's time to frack with the student mind.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Whichever team yields the more riches will return
0:00:34 > 0:00:36to play in the second round.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Making its debut in this competition, St Peter's
0:00:39 > 0:00:42is a babe in arms compared to most Oxford colleges, having been
0:00:42 > 0:00:47founded fewer than 100 years ago as a hostel by Francis Chavasse,
0:00:47 > 0:00:49the former Bishop of Liverpool,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52to provide a university education for students of limited means.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55It became a full college of the University in 1961
0:00:55 > 0:00:58and admitted women from 1979.
0:00:58 > 0:00:59Former Peterites include
0:00:59 > 0:01:01the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney,
0:01:01 > 0:01:04the TV cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall,
0:01:04 > 0:01:07and that glorious figure of English literature,
0:01:07 > 0:01:10the Reverend W Awdry, creator of Thomas The Tank Engine.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Its Master is the former controller of Radio 4, Mark Damazer,
0:01:13 > 0:01:16who viewers may remember captained the winning team
0:01:16 > 0:01:18in our Christmas series for grown-ups.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21Plenty for tonight's team to live up to, then.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25Representing around 470 students, with an average age of 20,
0:01:25 > 0:01:26let's meet the St Peter's team.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29Hello, I'm John Armitage from Lancaster
0:01:29 > 0:01:31and I'm currently reading Mathematics.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34Hi, I'm Ed Roberts, I'm from London, and I'm studying History.
0:01:34 > 0:01:35And their captain.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Hello, I'm Gabriel Trueblood, I'm from London,
0:01:37 > 0:01:38and I'm studying Medicine.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Hello, I'm Spike Smith,
0:01:40 > 0:01:42I'm from Maidenhead and I'm reading Mathematics.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45APPLAUSE
0:01:47 > 0:01:50The University of Sussex has done well in this
0:01:50 > 0:01:53contest in the past, having been series champions twice,
0:01:53 > 0:01:56although, as the second occasion was 45 years ago,
0:01:56 > 0:02:00their attempt to secure a hat-trick has lacked some sense of urgency.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02With a campus designed by Sir Basil Spence it was
0:02:02 > 0:02:06one of the wave of new universities established in the 1960s
0:02:06 > 0:02:07and quickly earned itself
0:02:07 > 0:02:11a reputation for radicalism, which it appears to have retained with
0:02:11 > 0:02:12stories of student protests
0:02:12 > 0:02:16and subsequent arrests appearing in the press in recent months.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Past students include the novelists Ian McEwan
0:02:19 > 0:02:20and Philippa Gregory,
0:02:20 > 0:02:23the politicians Hilary Benn, Ben Bradshaw and Peter Hain,
0:02:23 > 0:02:26and the comedians Bob Mortimer and Frankie Boyle.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28With an average age of 30,
0:02:28 > 0:02:32representing around 12,000 students, let's meet the Sussex team.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36Hello, my name is Tom Whitehurst, I'm from Rhyl in North Wales,
0:02:36 > 0:02:39and I'm studying for an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Hello, I'm David Spence, I'm originally from Leicester,
0:02:42 > 0:02:45and I'm studying for an MSc in Scientific Computation.
0:02:45 > 0:02:46And this is their captain.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50Hello, I'm Joss Macdonald, I'm from Romsey in Hampshire,
0:02:50 > 0:02:53and I'm studying for a BA in History and Politics.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55Hello, my name is Matthew Dean, I'm from Birmingham,
0:02:55 > 0:02:58and I'm studying for a BA in Philosophy.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00APPLAUSE
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Usual rules. Ten points for starters,
0:03:05 > 0:03:0715 for bonuses. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:09 > 0:03:14What short adjective links a tea lighter in body than green tea,
0:03:14 > 0:03:17the Beatles ninth official album...?
0:03:17 > 0:03:18BELL
0:03:18 > 0:03:20White.
0:03:20 > 0:03:21Correct.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24APPLAUSE
0:03:24 > 0:03:28The first set of bonuses are on the sun and the moon, St Peter's.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32"And God made two great lights, great for their use to man,
0:03:32 > 0:03:36"the greater to have rule by day, the less by night altern."
0:03:36 > 0:03:42These are lines from which epic poem originally published in 1667?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44THEY CONFER
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Paradise Lost.
0:03:46 > 0:03:47Correct. In Shakespeare's The Tempest,
0:03:47 > 0:03:50which character reminds Prospero that he once taught him how
0:03:50 > 0:03:54to name the bigger light and how the less, that burned by day and night?
0:03:54 > 0:03:55Caliban.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Correct. In which of Charles Dickens' novels
0:03:58 > 0:04:00does the oleaginous preacher Chadband speak of
0:04:00 > 0:04:02the light that is "the ray of rays,
0:04:02 > 0:04:06"the sun of suns, the moon of moons, the star of stars.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08"It is the light of Terewth?"
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Bleak House.
0:04:12 > 0:04:13Correct. Ten points for this.
0:04:17 > 0:04:22Ismet Inonu became the second president of which country in 1938?
0:04:22 > 0:04:25His predecessor had introduced a modified Latin alphabet in place...
0:04:25 > 0:04:27BUZZER
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Turkey.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30Correct.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32APPLAUSE
0:04:32 > 0:04:35He succeeded Ataturk. And your first set of bonuses, Sussex,
0:04:35 > 0:04:37are on a prime minister.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41"Safety first" is a slogan associated with which prime minister
0:04:41 > 0:04:44born in Worcestershire in 1867?
0:04:47 > 0:04:50THEY CONFER
0:04:55 > 0:04:56Stanley Baldwin.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59Correct. According to the Dictionary of National Biography,
0:04:59 > 0:05:02"safety first" is the least appropriate slogan for his career.
0:05:02 > 0:05:08He did not play safe over the Coalition in 1922, tariffs in 1923,
0:05:08 > 0:05:14the political levy and coal subsidy in 1925, and which event of 1926?
0:05:14 > 0:05:17- General Strike.- The General Strike.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21Correct. The DNB notes that the slogan "safety first" was intended
0:05:21 > 0:05:24to contrast with the poor reputation of which earlier prime minister?
0:05:27 > 0:05:28THEY CONFER
0:05:34 > 0:05:35Andrew Bonar Law.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38No, it was David Lloyd George. Ten points for this.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41In fluid mechanics, what term denotes the formation of vapour
0:05:41 > 0:05:44bubbles in a fluid whose pressure is less than the vapour pressure,
0:05:44 > 0:05:46as caused for instance...?
0:05:46 > 0:05:47BUZZER
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Cavitation.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Correct.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52APPLAUSE
0:05:52 > 0:05:55These bonuses are on cloud types, Sussex.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58A rare form of stratospheric cloud mainly observed in Scotland
0:05:58 > 0:06:03and Scandinavia, iridescent clouds have what alternative name
0:06:03 > 0:06:06after the inner layer of the shell of some molluscs?
0:06:09 > 0:06:12THEY CONFER
0:06:12 > 0:06:14- Mantle.- Yeah. Mantle.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17No, it's mother of pearl or nacreous clouds.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Sometimes described as a stack of pancakes,
0:06:20 > 0:06:23what word describes cloud formations in the troposphere that have
0:06:23 > 0:06:26been offered as an explanation for some UFO sightings?
0:06:28 > 0:06:30THEY CONFER
0:06:34 > 0:06:36No?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Don't know?
0:06:39 > 0:06:40Sorry, no idea.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Lenticular, lens like.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Polar mesospheric clouds are luminous clouds
0:06:44 > 0:06:48occasionally seen at night in summer in high altitudes
0:06:48 > 0:06:52and are also known by what name from the Latin for night and shine?
0:06:52 > 0:06:55THEY CONFER
0:06:57 > 0:07:00- Noctilucent.- Noctilucent.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Correct.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Right, ten points for this.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07"They had on their side three things
0:07:07 > 0:07:10"that the English public never forgives -
0:07:10 > 0:07:12"youth, power and enthusiasm."
0:07:12 > 0:07:15These words of Oscar Wilde refer to which group of artists
0:07:15 > 0:07:16and writers formed in the 1840s?
0:07:16 > 0:07:18BELL
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Pre-Raphaelites.
0:07:21 > 0:07:22Correct.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24APPLAUSE
0:07:26 > 0:07:27Right, St Peter's,
0:07:27 > 0:07:30you get three bonuses on terms used in critical theory.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34Firstly, a general term denoting a decline in cultural standards,
0:07:34 > 0:07:38which word was first used in its aesthetic sense in Theophile Gautier's
0:07:38 > 0:07:431868 preface to Baudelaire's collection Les Fleurs Du Mal?
0:07:44 > 0:07:47THEY MOUTH
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Degeneration.
0:07:51 > 0:07:52No, it's decadence.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56Adding the "de" prefix to a Freudian term gives a word denoting which
0:07:56 > 0:08:00process whereby art is rendered banal and powerless?
0:08:00 > 0:08:03It was explored by Herbert Marcuse in his 1964 work
0:08:03 > 0:08:05One-Dimensional Man.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09THEY CONFER
0:08:12 > 0:08:13Deconstruction.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15No, it's desublimation.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19And finally, in his sceptical approach to the possibility of coherent meaning,
0:08:19 > 0:08:24Jacques Derrida adapted the name of the reading strategy deconstruction
0:08:24 > 0:08:29from terms used by which German philosopher born in 1889?
0:08:29 > 0:08:33THEY CONFER
0:08:35 > 0:08:36Wittgenstein.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40No, it's Heidegger. We are going to take a picture round now.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42In a moment you will see a map of northern England.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44For ten points give me
0:08:44 > 0:08:48the name of the confectionery associated with the marked location.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51BUZZER
0:08:52 > 0:08:53Eccles cake.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Correct.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57APPLAUSE
0:08:57 > 0:09:00For your bonuses you're going to see three more locations
0:09:00 > 0:09:03in northern England associated with a cake or confection.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06For five points name the product in each case.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07Firstly for five, A.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11THEY CONFER
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Kendal Mint Cake.
0:09:13 > 0:09:15Correct. Secondly, B.
0:09:15 > 0:09:16THEY CONFER
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Bakewell tart.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Correct. And finally.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23THEY CONFER
0:09:33 > 0:09:35I don't know. We don't know.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Pontefract cakes. Ten points for this.
0:09:38 > 0:09:42What ductile and malleable mineral is a naturally occurring alloy
0:09:42 > 0:09:45primarily of gold, usually with at least 20% silver...?
0:09:45 > 0:09:47BELL
0:09:47 > 0:09:49Electrum.
0:09:49 > 0:09:50Correct.
0:09:50 > 0:09:51APPLAUSE
0:09:53 > 0:09:58This set of bonuses, St Peter's, are on an artistic medium.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00Citing David Octavius Hill
0:10:00 > 0:10:03and Julia Margaret Cameron among others, the critic Walter Benjamin
0:10:03 > 0:10:08claimed that the prime of which artform occurred in its first decade?
0:10:11 > 0:10:14THEY CONFER
0:10:14 > 0:10:15Poetry.
0:10:15 > 0:10:16No, it's photography.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19In the Ontology Of The Photographic Image, the film critic
0:10:19 > 0:10:23Andre Bazin claimed that what artform had been forced to
0:10:23 > 0:10:25offer us illusion,
0:10:25 > 0:10:29but now its practitioners had been freed from the resemblance complex.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31THEY CONFER
0:10:32 > 0:10:33Painting.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36Correct. Which French literary critic claimed that
0:10:36 > 0:10:41while writing Camera Lucida he was overcome by an ontological desire
0:10:41 > 0:10:45and wanted to learn at all costs what photography was in itself?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49THEY CONFER
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Pass.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53It's Roland Barthes. Ten points for this.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Which Babylonian king was overthrown by the Persians in 539 BC?
0:10:56 > 0:10:58The eve of his...
0:10:58 > 0:10:59BELL
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Belshazzar.
0:11:01 > 0:11:02Correct.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05APPLAUSE
0:11:05 > 0:11:08That gives you the lead, St Peter's, and these bonuses are on cosmology.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11In cosmology a constant named after which astronomer relates
0:11:11 > 0:11:15the proper distance to a galaxy to its recessional velocity?
0:11:15 > 0:11:18THEY CONFER
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Hubble? Hubble.
0:11:22 > 0:11:23Correct.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26Observations of what kind of astrophysical object provided
0:11:26 > 0:11:31evidence in 1998 that the expansion of the universe is accelerating?
0:11:31 > 0:11:34THEY CONFER
0:11:35 > 0:11:36Quasars.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38No, it's supernovae.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Usually denoted by the Greek letter lambda, what term in the Einstein
0:11:41 > 0:11:44field equations can explain this expansion?
0:11:44 > 0:11:47THEY CONFER
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Redshift.
0:11:49 > 0:11:50No, it's the cosmological constant.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Ten points for this.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Which physicist gives his name to a law stating that the
0:11:54 > 0:11:56rate of cooling of a body is proportional to the
0:11:56 > 0:11:58temperature difference between the body...?
0:11:58 > 0:11:59BELL
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Isaac Newton.
0:12:01 > 0:12:02Correct.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04APPLAUSE
0:12:04 > 0:12:07These bonuses are on monoliths, St Peter's.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Thought to be one of the largest monoliths in Asia,
0:12:10 > 0:12:16Savandurga in Karnataka State is around 60 kilometres west of which major city?
0:12:16 > 0:12:20THEY CONFER
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Delhi.
0:12:24 > 0:12:29No, it's Bangalore. To the nearest whole kilometre what is the circumference of Uluru,
0:12:29 > 0:12:31or Ayers Rock, in Australia's Northern Territory?
0:12:31 > 0:12:34You can have a kilometre either way.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37THEY CONFER
0:12:39 > 0:12:40Six.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42No, it's nine.
0:12:42 > 0:12:46Men Omborth or the Logan Rock is a large granite rocking stone
0:12:46 > 0:12:48near Treen in which British county?
0:12:53 > 0:12:54Any suggestions?
0:12:54 > 0:12:56Lincolnshire.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59No, it's Cornwall. Ten points for this.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01"How he lives beggars belief,
0:13:01 > 0:13:04"constantly nicking old foreign necklaces."
0:13:04 > 0:13:07This sentence begins a mnemonic for the symbols of which
0:13:07 > 0:13:09well-known scientific progression?
0:13:09 > 0:13:13The number of words in the mnemonic totals 118.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14BUZZER
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Chemical elements.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Anyone like to buzz from St Peter's?
0:13:20 > 0:13:22BELL
0:13:22 > 0:13:23Periodic Table.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25Correct.
0:13:25 > 0:13:26APPLAUSE
0:13:26 > 0:13:29These bonuses are on religious movements, St Peter's.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33In his System Of Positive Polity published in the 1850s,
0:13:33 > 0:13:36which French pioneer of sociology attempted to institute
0:13:36 > 0:13:39a religion of humanity without God or the supernatural?
0:13:42 > 0:13:44THEY CONFER
0:13:46 > 0:13:47Pass.
0:13:47 > 0:13:48It's Auguste Comte.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Secondly, respecting the freedom of the individual,
0:13:51 > 0:13:54which spiritual science was founded in the years
0:13:54 > 0:13:57before the First World War by the Austrian thinker Rudolf Steiner?
0:13:59 > 0:14:03Would that be humanism? Do you have any better ideas? Humanism?
0:14:03 > 0:14:04Any better ideas?
0:14:04 > 0:14:05Humanism.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07No, it's anthroposophy. And finally,
0:14:07 > 0:14:10called the wickedest man in the world by the British press,
0:14:10 > 0:14:14which English occultist founded the cult of Thelema in the early 20th century?
0:14:14 > 0:14:17- (Aleister Crowley.)- Aleister Crowley.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Correct. We are going to take a music round now.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22For your music starter you will hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24Ten points if you can name the German composer.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:26 > 0:14:27BELL
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Bach.
0:14:29 > 0:14:30Bach is right.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH
0:14:34 > 0:14:36That was a Yo-Yo Ma performance
0:14:36 > 0:14:38of the prelude to Bach's Cello Suites.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41It has received more than ten million hits on YouTube.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43For your bonuses, three more pieces of classical music
0:14:43 > 0:14:45that have exceeded the million mark on YouTube.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48In each case I want the piece and the composer.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51Firstly, the name usually given to this specific concerto
0:14:51 > 0:14:56by an Italian composer, with over 5.7 million hits.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Spring by Vivaldi.
0:15:01 > 0:15:02Correct.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05Secondly the precise name of this movement by a French composer
0:15:05 > 0:15:09with over 1.8 million hits.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:11 > 0:15:16THEY CONFER
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Saint Saens, Aquarium.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Correct. And finally this song by an Austrian composer,
0:15:21 > 0:15:22with over 20 million hits.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25SONG PLAYS
0:15:28 > 0:15:30THEY CONFER
0:15:30 > 0:15:31Schubert, Ave Maria.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34Correct. Ten points for this.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37What does the novelist Justin Cartwright describe as
0:15:37 > 0:15:39"a respite from being human."
0:15:39 > 0:15:43To Coleridge it's "a gentle thing beloved from pole to pole,"
0:15:43 > 0:15:46while to Shakespeare it's "nature's soft nurse."
0:15:46 > 0:15:47BELL
0:15:48 > 0:15:49Opium.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52Nope. Sussex, one of you buzz?
0:15:53 > 0:15:55BUZZER
0:15:55 > 0:15:57Love.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59No, it's sleep. Ten points for this.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Chestnut-mandibled and yellow-ridged are
0:16:02 > 0:16:05among species of which tropical bird whose prominent bills
0:16:05 > 0:16:07can comprise up to one third of their length?
0:16:07 > 0:16:09BELL
0:16:09 > 0:16:10Toucan.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Correct.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14APPLAUSE
0:16:14 > 0:16:18These bonuses are on climatic types, St Peter's.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Which sea gives its name to a climate type that prevails
0:16:20 > 0:16:24on the western side of continents at around latitude 35 degrees?
0:16:24 > 0:16:29It's characterised by mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31THEY CONFER
0:16:31 > 0:16:32Mediterranean.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35Correct. Usually described as having a Mediterranean climate,
0:16:35 > 0:16:37the region known as the Matorral
0:16:37 > 0:16:40spans the central parts of which South American country?
0:16:43 > 0:16:44Brazil.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48No, it's Chile. Which major city of South Africa has a climate type
0:16:48 > 0:16:51usually identified as Mediterranean?
0:16:53 > 0:16:56THEY CONFER
0:16:59 > 0:17:00Cape Town.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02Correct. Ten points for this.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Called the Moirae in Greek mythology...?
0:17:04 > 0:17:05BELL
0:17:05 > 0:17:07The Fates.
0:17:07 > 0:17:08Correct.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10APPLAUSE
0:17:12 > 0:17:15These bonuses, St Peter's, are on August 1914.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19In August 1914, which country went to war with Plan XVII,
0:17:19 > 0:17:23aimed at the recovery of lost territories?
0:17:23 > 0:17:24It was notably unsuccessful.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26THEY CONFER
0:17:26 > 0:17:27France.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Correct. Repassing an attack on their territory, the Battle of
0:17:30 > 0:17:35Mount Cer in mid-August 1914 was a decisive victory for which country?
0:17:37 > 0:17:41THEY CONFER
0:17:41 > 0:17:42Austria Hungary.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45No, it was Serbia, their opponents.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49Which country declared war on Germany on August 23, 1914?
0:17:51 > 0:17:54Was that Russia? Do you think it's Russia?
0:17:54 > 0:17:55Russia.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57No, it was Japan. Ten points for this.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Give the two-word name of the short-lived republic
0:18:00 > 0:18:04founded in 1819 by Simon Bolivar that included
0:18:04 > 0:18:07much of present-day Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia.
0:18:07 > 0:18:08BUZZER
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Gran Canada.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12No, I'm afraid that's wrong.
0:18:12 > 0:18:13BELL
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Gran Colombia.
0:18:15 > 0:18:16Correct.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19And I'm afraid I'm going to have to fine you five points.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22You just, as they say in America, misspoke.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24You get the points, St Peter's, you get the bonuses.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26They're on 16th-century monarchs.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28In each case listen to the pair of rulers
0:18:28 > 0:18:30and give the unique full decade during which both
0:18:30 > 0:18:33were on the thrones of their respective countries.
0:18:33 > 0:18:37Firstly, James IV of Scotland and Louis XII of France.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41THEY CONFER
0:18:46 > 0:18:48- 1580s?- Yeah.
0:18:48 > 0:18:491580s.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51No, it's the 1500s.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55Secondly Gustav I, or Gustav Vasa of Sweden,
0:18:55 > 0:18:57and Henry VIII of England?
0:19:00 > 0:19:02THEY CONFER
0:19:02 > 0:19:041520s.
0:19:04 > 0:19:05No, it's the 1530s.
0:19:05 > 0:19:10Finally, Henry IV of France and Elizabeth I of England.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13THEY CONFER
0:19:23 > 0:19:241570s.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26No, it's the 1590s. Ten points for this.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29Among the leptons of the standard model of particle physics
0:19:29 > 0:19:32which has the shortest name and the greatest mass?
0:19:32 > 0:19:34BUZZER
0:19:34 > 0:19:35Tau.
0:19:35 > 0:19:36Correct.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38APPLAUSE
0:19:38 > 0:19:40These bonuses are on a given name, Sussex.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Located at the site where
0:19:42 > 0:19:46he was murdered in 1393 by King Wenceslas IV, a statue
0:19:46 > 0:19:51of St John of Nepomuk stands on the Charles Bridge in which capital?
0:19:51 > 0:19:52THEY CONFER
0:19:52 > 0:19:54Prague.
0:19:54 > 0:19:55Correct.
0:19:55 > 0:20:01Born in 1778, Johann Nepomuk Hummel is noted for a Concerto in E Major
0:20:01 > 0:20:04that is part of the standard repertoire of which instrument?
0:20:06 > 0:20:08THEY CONFER
0:20:08 > 0:20:09Cello.
0:20:09 > 0:20:14No, it's the trumpet. Clemens Wenzel Nepomuk were the given names of which Austrian
0:20:14 > 0:20:18statesman, a prominent figure at the Congress of Vienna in 1815?
0:20:18 > 0:20:23THEY CONFER
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Metternich.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Correct. We're going to take a picture round.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31For your picture starter you'll see a photo of a scientist and inventor.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34Ten points if you can give me his name.
0:20:40 > 0:20:41BELL
0:20:41 > 0:20:42Thomas Edison.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45No. One of you like to buzz from Sussex?
0:20:45 > 0:20:46BUZZER
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Niels Bohr.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51No, it's John Logie Baird.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54Ten points for this starter question. Picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58Three-letter words meaning transgression against divine law...
0:20:58 > 0:20:59BELL
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Sin.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03No. You lose five points.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06..Space, interval, or difference, and source of a metal,
0:21:06 > 0:21:09together form the name of which small densely populated country?
0:21:09 > 0:21:11BUZZER
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Singapore.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14Correct.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16APPLAUSE
0:21:16 > 0:21:19John Logie Baird appears on a list of famous Glaswegians
0:21:19 > 0:21:21compiled by Glasgow City Council.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23For your bonuses, three more names from that official list.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Five points for each figure you can name.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29Firstly, can you identify this architect and designer?
0:21:32 > 0:21:33THEY CONFER
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Rennie Mackintosh.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39Charles Rennie Mackintosh is right. Secondly, this literary figure.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45THEY CONFER
0:21:49 > 0:21:50No idea.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53That's Liz Lochhead. And finally, this politician.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57THEY CONFER
0:21:57 > 0:21:58Donald Dewar.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01Correct. Ten points for this.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05The name of the car manufacturer Fiat originated as an acronym
0:22:05 > 0:22:07incorporating the name of which Italian city?
0:22:07 > 0:22:08BUZZER
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Turin.
0:22:10 > 0:22:11Torino is correct.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15Here's a set of bonuses on Latin America for you, Sussex.
0:22:15 > 0:22:16Which South American country
0:22:16 > 0:22:19is home to the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere?
0:22:19 > 0:22:21I need the name of the country and the mountain.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23THEY CONFER
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Nominate Dean.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Aconcagua in Chile.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32No, it's in Argentina, I'm afraid.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35You only got half of it right. Situated in Ecuador,
0:22:35 > 0:22:38what is the world's highest active volcano?
0:22:38 > 0:22:41THEY CONFER
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Nominate Dean.
0:22:46 > 0:22:47Cotopaxi.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49Correct.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52More than 5,400 metres in height, Popocatepetl is an active
0:22:52 > 0:22:56volcano around 70 kilometres from which Latin American capital?
0:22:56 > 0:22:59THEY CONFER
0:23:05 > 0:23:06Mexico City.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Correct. Ten points at stake and five minutes to go.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11In the Old Testament, who was successively the wife of
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Uriah the Hittite, the wife of King David...?
0:23:14 > 0:23:15BELL
0:23:15 > 0:23:16Bathsheba.
0:23:16 > 0:23:17Correct.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20APPLAUSE
0:23:20 > 0:23:23These bonuses, St Peter's, are on zoology.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26The duckbilled platypus and the spiny anteater are both
0:23:26 > 0:23:29classified in which order of animals?
0:23:30 > 0:23:31Mammals.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33No, they're monotremes, monotremata.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36- To which class do monotremata belong?- Mammals.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40Correct. What feature of the reproductive process distinguishes
0:23:40 > 0:23:42monotremes from other mammals?
0:23:42 > 0:23:43They lay eggs.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Correct.
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Ten points for this.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49In material science, what term is used to describe a fracture
0:23:49 > 0:23:53that takes place in a specimen without plastic deformation?
0:23:55 > 0:23:56BUZZER
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Crack.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00No, anyone like to buzz from St Peter's?
0:24:00 > 0:24:01BELL
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Hairline.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05No, it's brittle. Ten points for this.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove are features on which 95-mile-long
0:24:09 > 0:24:12stretch of coastline named after a...?
0:24:12 > 0:24:13BUZZER
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Jurassic Coast.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Correct.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22These bonuses, Sussex, are on Olympic venues.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Named after a third-century emperor, which ancient
0:24:24 > 0:24:28baths in Rome were the venue for the 1960 Olympic gymnastic events?
0:24:31 > 0:24:34THEY CONFER
0:24:34 > 0:24:35Constantine.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37No, it's Caracalla.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Secondly, the diving events of the 1992 Olympics were
0:24:40 > 0:24:42staged in a venue on the Montjuic hill, giving commanding
0:24:42 > 0:24:45views of which host city below it?
0:24:45 > 0:24:46THEY CONFER
0:24:46 > 0:24:47Barcelona.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51Correct. Horse Guards Parade at the end of St James's Park in Central London was
0:24:51 > 0:24:54the venue for which event at the 2012 Olympics?
0:24:54 > 0:24:55THEY CONFER
0:24:55 > 0:24:56Beach volleyball.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Correct. Ten points for this.
0:24:58 > 0:25:03What links Winston Smith's residence in 1984, May 8th 1945,
0:25:03 > 0:25:06and Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar?
0:25:07 > 0:25:08BELL
0:25:08 > 0:25:10The letter V.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Yes, we were looking for the word, but you're quite right.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16V does link them all. V for Victory. Well done.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18You get a set of bonuses, St Peter's. They're on a descriptive term.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21What name is given to a musical note that is raised or
0:25:21 > 0:25:24lowered by one or two semitones from the key signature
0:25:24 > 0:25:27marked by a sharp, flat or natural sign?
0:25:27 > 0:25:28Accidental.
0:25:28 > 0:25:33Correct. Whose accidental death appears in the title of a 1970 play
0:25:33 > 0:25:35by the Nobel Prize winning author Dario Fo?
0:25:38 > 0:25:39THEY CONFER
0:25:39 > 0:25:40Pass.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44It's an anarchist. In the title of the work, by 2001 whom did the US journalist
0:25:44 > 0:25:48David Kaplan describe as The Accidental President?
0:25:49 > 0:25:51THEY CONFER
0:25:52 > 0:25:54George W Bush.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Correct. Ten points at stake for this.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01How many litres are there in one cubic metre?
0:26:01 > 0:26:02BUZZER
0:26:02 > 0:26:041,000.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Correct. You get a set of bonuses this time
0:26:06 > 0:26:10on pre-20th century works of practical philosophy.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13Firstly for five points, an exponent of stoic philosophy,
0:26:13 > 0:26:17which Roman emperor of the second century used imperfection
0:26:17 > 0:26:20and the acceptance of things as they are as the theme of his meditations?
0:26:22 > 0:26:23THEY CONFER
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Marcus Aurelius.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28Correct. In the 1841 essay Self-Reliance,
0:26:28 > 0:26:33which US literary figure advised, "Insist on yourself, never imitate?"
0:26:35 > 0:26:36THEY CONFER
0:26:40 > 0:26:42- No. Don't know. - It was Ralph Waldo Emerson.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45In his autobiography, which US Founding Father argued that
0:26:45 > 0:26:48a person's character could become noble
0:26:48 > 0:26:50through constant self-assessment?
0:26:50 > 0:26:52THEY CONFER
0:26:52 > 0:26:53Franklin.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56Benjamin Franklin is right. Ten points for this.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58What general type of structure links the titles of novels
0:26:58 > 0:27:01by Iain Banks, Thornton Wilder and Robert James Waller?
0:27:01 > 0:27:03BELL
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Bridge.
0:27:04 > 0:27:05Correct.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08APPLAUSE
0:27:08 > 0:27:11These bonuses are on country code top level domain names,
0:27:11 > 0:27:14for example, .uk.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18In each case give the six-letter word formed by concatenating
0:27:18 > 0:27:23the two-letter internet TLDs of the three countries listed.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27Firstly, Sierra Leone, Indonesia and Spain?
0:27:27 > 0:27:30THEY CONFER
0:27:32 > 0:27:33Slines.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35No, it's slides.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39Slines isn't a word. Secondly, Germany, Mauritius and Reunion.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44THEY CONFER
0:27:48 > 0:27:50GONG
0:27:50 > 0:27:53And at the gong, Sussex have 150,
0:27:53 > 0:27:56St Peter's College Oxford have 205.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02I thought you could have taken that at one point in this contest,
0:28:02 > 0:28:05but 150 may well, Sussex, be a high enough score to come
0:28:05 > 0:28:07back as one of the highest scoring losers. Who knows?
0:28:07 > 0:28:10We'll have to wait and see what happens in the rest of the contest.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13St Peter's, many congratulations to you. That's a terrific score.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15We look forward to seeing you in round two.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Thank you for joining us. Congratulations.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match,
0:28:20 > 0:28:23but until then, it's goodbye from Sussex University.
0:28:23 > 0:28:24ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26It's goodbye from St Peter's College Oxford.
0:28:26 > 0:28:27ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31APPLAUSE