0:00:19 > 0:00:20University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. Two colleges of the University of London are playing
0:00:31 > 0:00:33each other tonight with a place in the second round
0:00:33 > 0:00:35for whichever proves the stronger.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38The losers might earn the right to play again if their score
0:00:38 > 0:00:43is among the four highest losing totals in these first round matches.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46The London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine is making
0:00:46 > 0:00:48only its second appearance on this programme.
0:00:48 > 0:00:52It was founded in 1899 by Sir Patrick Manson,
0:00:52 > 0:00:54the Scottish physician whose discovery that mosquitoes
0:00:54 > 0:00:57spread the disease filariasis led him
0:00:57 > 0:01:00to be regarded as the father of tropical medicine.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04It's located in Bloomsbury, including its Gower Street premises
0:01:04 > 0:01:06which are home to numerous mosquito colonies,
0:01:06 > 0:01:09some of which need to be fed with the blood of a human volunteer.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Tonight's team have told us that some people are just
0:01:12 > 0:01:16into parasites, and indeed their favourite parasite is the botfly.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Whether they brought one with them tonight as a mascot
0:01:19 > 0:01:21it's impossible to tell from this side of the studio.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25With an average age of 27, representing around 4,000 students,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28let's meet the LSHTM team.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm Andy Taylor, I'm originally from Oxford and I'm
0:01:31 > 0:01:35studying for a master's in tropical medicine and international health.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Hi, my name is Rebecca Glover.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39I'm originally from Ottawa, Canada
0:01:39 > 0:01:42and I'm studying for an MSc in the control of infectious disease.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Let's meet their captain.
0:01:44 > 0:01:45Hi, I'm Sarah Legrand.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48I'm from London and I'm studying for a master's in epidemiology.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Hi, I'm Anjaneya Bapat. I'm from the Wirral
0:01:51 > 0:01:54and I'm studying for a master's in tropical medicine
0:01:54 > 0:01:56and international health.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58APPLAUSE
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Their opponents are playing for the London School Of Economics
0:02:04 > 0:02:08which was founded after a discussion over breakfast in 1894
0:02:08 > 0:02:11between the Fabians Beatrice and Sidney Webb,
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15It was established to further the Fabian aims
0:02:15 > 0:02:20of reforming society by researching issues of poverty and inequality.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24It became the university's faculty of economics in 1900.
0:02:24 > 0:02:25The father of the welfare state,
0:02:25 > 0:02:28William Beveridge, was its director between the wars.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31Clement Attlee taught there, as did Ramsay MacDonald
0:02:31 > 0:02:34and its students have included John F. Kennedy, Mick Jagger
0:02:34 > 0:02:36and Ed Miliband.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40Representing nearly 9,000 students and with an average age of 26,
0:02:40 > 0:02:41let's meet the LSE team.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45Hi, I'm Peter Sims.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48I'm from Edmonton, Canada and I'm doing a PhD in economic history.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Hi, I'm Jeffrey Mo. I'm from Calgary, also in Canada
0:02:51 > 0:02:54and I'm studying for a master's degree in econometrics
0:02:54 > 0:02:55and mathematical economics.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57And this is their captain.
0:02:57 > 0:02:58Hello, I'm Jimmy Chen.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00I'm from Colchester in Essex
0:03:00 > 0:03:04and I'm studying for a bachelor's degree in government and history.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Hi, I'm Pedro Franco de Campos Pinto.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10I am originally from Brazil and I'm studying for a PhD in economics.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12APPLAUSE
0:03:16 > 0:03:18If you don't know the rules you shouldn't be here
0:03:18 > 0:03:19so let's just get on with it.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25After his death, it was 2,000 years before the world produced any
0:03:25 > 0:03:26philosopher who could be regarded...
0:03:26 > 0:03:28BUZZER
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Aristotle.
0:03:30 > 0:03:31Correct, yes.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33APPLAUSE
0:03:34 > 0:03:36The assessment of Bertrand Russell.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40Right. Your bonuses. The first set of bonuses in tonight's contest
0:03:40 > 0:03:42are on Caribbean cuisine.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46Firstly, for five points, made with a porridge of cornmeal and okra,
0:03:46 > 0:03:51Cou-cou and flying fish is the national dish of which country,
0:03:51 > 0:03:53the easternmost of the lesser Antilles?
0:03:56 > 0:03:57WHISPERING
0:04:01 > 0:04:02Grenada.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04No, it's Barbados.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07A soup or stew made with leaf vegetables, coconut,
0:04:07 > 0:04:11crab or pork, Callaloo is often described as the national dish
0:04:11 > 0:04:16of which island country situated between Grenada and Venezuela?
0:04:19 > 0:04:21(I think it's Jamaica.)
0:04:23 > 0:04:24Jamaica.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27No, it's Trinidad and Tobago.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30And lastly, ackee and salt fish is generally regarded
0:04:30 > 0:04:34as the national dish of which island of the greater Antilles?
0:04:34 > 0:04:36(I think that's Jamaica.)
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Jamaica.
0:04:38 > 0:04:39That is Jamaica, yes.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Right, ten points for this.
0:04:41 > 0:04:42What term was coined in 1958
0:04:42 > 0:04:45by the sociologist and Labour politician Michael Young
0:04:45 > 0:04:46to denote a form of government...
0:04:46 > 0:04:49BUZZER
0:04:49 > 0:04:50Meritocracy.
0:04:50 > 0:04:51Yes.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53APPLAUSE
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Right, you get a second set of bonuses.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01They're on poets' responses to war and revolution.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
0:05:03 > 0:05:05"but to be young was very heaven."
0:05:05 > 0:05:10Which poet wrote those lines and to which event was he referring?
0:05:10 > 0:05:12WHISPERING
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Was it Wordsworth and the French Revolution?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27It was, yes.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29In 1914, which poet wrote,
0:05:29 > 0:05:31"Now God be thanked who has matched us
0:05:31 > 0:05:35"with his hour and caught our youth and wakened us from sleeping."
0:05:35 > 0:05:36(Rupert Brooke.)
0:05:37 > 0:05:38Rupert Brooke.
0:05:38 > 0:05:39Correct.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42Primarily associated with the First World War,
0:05:42 > 0:05:44which poet wrote in May, 1940,
0:05:44 > 0:05:47"Now, multifold, let Britain's
0:05:47 > 0:05:51"patient power be proven within us for the world to see"?
0:05:54 > 0:05:55Siegfried Sassoon.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03In vertebrate anatomy, which bone has a broad quadrangular
0:06:03 > 0:06:05upper part called the manubrium that articulates...
0:06:05 > 0:06:07BUZZER
0:06:07 > 0:06:08Sternum.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Sternum, breastbone is correct, yes.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17This set of bonuses are on the Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Firstly, for five points, the Sanskrit word for the number one,
0:06:20 > 0:06:24Mendeleev used what three-letter prefix to name undiscovered
0:06:24 > 0:06:28elements whose existence he predicted.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33WHISPERING
0:06:41 > 0:06:42We'll try U-N-U.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44No, it's E-K-A, eka.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48Mendeleev's eka-aluminium was later discovered in 1875
0:06:48 > 0:06:51and given what name after a large historical region of Western Europe?
0:06:54 > 0:06:57WHISPERING
0:07:01 > 0:07:02We'll try Germanium.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04No, it was Gallium.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07And finally, Mendeleev gave the name ekasilicon to another
0:07:07 > 0:07:11undiscovered element on its discovery in 1886.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Clemens Winkler gave it what name
0:07:13 > 0:07:16after the Roman name of his native country?
0:07:20 > 0:07:22WHISPERING
0:07:27 > 0:07:28Helveticum.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30No, that was germanium.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35Your picture starter is a graphic representation of the title
0:07:35 > 0:07:39of an opera in the style of mobile phone emoticons.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42Ten points if you can give me the opera's title, please.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46BUZZER
0:07:46 > 0:07:47The Barber of Seville.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50It is embarrassing, isn't it? You're quite right.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52APPLAUSE
0:07:55 > 0:07:59Right. Your bonuses. Three more sets of emoticons representing the titles
0:07:59 > 0:08:01of operas, each of which is based on a work of art or literature.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04For five points, I want the name of the opera
0:08:04 > 0:08:07and the composer in each case.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Firstly, this opera by a Russian composer.
0:08:12 > 0:08:13(Rake's Progress?)
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Rake's Progress.
0:08:29 > 0:08:30By?
0:08:32 > 0:08:33Come on.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36Shostakovich.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38No, it's by Stravinsky.
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Secondly, this Russian opera.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44(Any idea here?)
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Queen Of Spades by Shostakovich.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54No, it's by Tchaikovsky. Bad luck.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Finally, this English opera.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04The Turn Of The Screw by Britten.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Which novelist wrote a work whose chapters include,
0:09:09 > 0:09:12"What Snobs Admire", "Military Snobs",
0:09:12 > 0:09:14and "Party-giving Snobs",
0:09:14 > 0:09:17known as the Book of Snobs, it was first serialised in Punch
0:09:17 > 0:09:22from 1846 around the same time as his novel, Vanity Fair.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Thackeray.
0:09:24 > 0:09:25Thackeray is right, yes.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27APPLAUSE
0:09:29 > 0:09:33Right, your first set of bonuses, LSE, are on triptychs.
0:09:33 > 0:09:34On display in the Prado,
0:09:34 > 0:09:38which triptych by Hieronymus Bosch depicts God, Adam and Eve
0:09:38 > 0:09:42on its left panel, and the torments of hell on the right.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Its central panel depicts life's pleasures
0:09:44 > 0:09:46and gives its name to the entire piece.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52WHISPERING
0:10:00 > 0:10:01The Garden Of Eden.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03No, it's The Garden Of Earthly Delights.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06Secondly, on display in the Cathedral Of Our Lady in Antwerp,
0:10:06 > 0:10:09The Raising Of The Cross is a triptych completed
0:10:09 > 0:10:13in around 1611 by which Flemish artist associated with the Baroque?
0:10:15 > 0:10:17(Rubens? Is that Rubens?)
0:10:17 > 0:10:18(Who else is Flemish?)
0:10:18 > 0:10:19(Durer?)
0:10:20 > 0:10:22(I think it was Rubens.)
0:10:22 > 0:10:23Durer.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25No, it was Rubens.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28First exhibited in 1945, and now in Tate Britain,
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Three Studies For Figures At The Base Of A Crucifixion
0:10:31 > 0:10:34is a major work by which Dublin-born painter?
0:10:36 > 0:10:37Francis Bacon.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Correct. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43In 1769, a three-day festival in Stratford-upon-Avon
0:10:43 > 0:10:46to celebrate the life of William Shakespeare is believed
0:10:46 > 0:10:49to have been largely responsible for putting the town on the
0:10:49 > 0:10:53literary map and for cementing the playwright's reputation.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Which actor staged it?
0:10:56 > 0:10:58David Garrick.
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Correct.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01APPLAUSE
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Right, these bonuses are on a political figure.
0:11:06 > 0:11:11Firstly, who succeeded Lord Elgin as Viceroy of India in 1899
0:11:11 > 0:11:14and ordered a major restoration of the decaying Taj Mahal?
0:11:14 > 0:11:17He was Foreign Secretary from 1919 to 1924.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21WHISPERING
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Arthur Balfour.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28No, that was Lord Curzon.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32Curzon resigned as Viceroy in 1905 after a disagreement
0:11:32 > 0:11:35with which commander-in-chief of the Indian army,
0:11:35 > 0:11:39a major figure of the Sudan campaign and the South African War?
0:11:39 > 0:11:40- Kitchener. - Correct.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Proposed by Curzon in 1920 when he was Foreign Secretary,
0:11:43 > 0:11:46the Curzon Line demarcated the border
0:11:46 > 0:11:47between Russia and which country?
0:11:52 > 0:11:53Poland.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Correct. Ten points for this.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Give both answers promptly.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Which two neighbouring planets of the solar system have the
0:12:00 > 0:12:04lowest and highest geometric albedos, that is,
0:12:04 > 0:12:09they are the darkest and palest of the planets?
0:12:09 > 0:12:11BUZZER
0:12:11 > 0:12:13Mars and Earth.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Nope.
0:12:15 > 0:12:16One of you buzz.
0:12:16 > 0:12:17Mars and Jupiter.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20No, it's Mercury and Venus. Ten points for this.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Starting in the early 19th century,
0:12:22 > 0:12:25which country's golden age of art is associated with the painter
0:12:25 > 0:12:29Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and his pupil Christen Kobke
0:12:29 > 0:12:32as well as the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34BUZZER
0:12:34 > 0:12:35Denmark.
0:12:35 > 0:12:36Correct.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38APPLAUSE
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Right, your bonuses are on lines from films of the 1930s.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46In each case, listen to the lines and name both the film
0:12:46 > 0:12:47and the actor who speaks them.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Firstly, from a film of 1931,
0:12:50 > 0:12:52"Listen to them, children of the night.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54"What music they make."
0:12:57 > 0:12:59WHISPERING
0:13:09 > 0:13:10Gone With The Wind.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12No, it's Bela Lugosi in Dracula.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16From a film of 1930, secondly,
0:13:16 > 0:13:18"One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20"How it got in my pyjamas, I don't know."
0:13:22 > 0:13:24WHISPERING
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Duck soup.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32No, it was Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35And finally, from a film of 1939,
0:13:35 > 0:13:37"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
0:13:39 > 0:13:41(That's, er, Casablanca.)
0:13:42 > 0:13:44(Isn't that Gone With The Wind?)
0:13:44 > 0:13:45(Oh, yeah.)
0:13:45 > 0:13:47(Who is it in Gone With The Wind?)
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind.
0:13:52 > 0:13:53- The actor, please. - Rhett Butler.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55No, that's the character.
0:13:55 > 0:13:56It's Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04For ten points, all you have to do is to name the band performing.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07- # Ski-doo-be-dop - We were at a party... #
0:14:08 > 0:14:09The B-52s.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11It is the B-52s, Rock Lobster.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13APPLAUSE
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Now, the B-52s lead singer, Fred Schneider
0:14:17 > 0:14:20is noted for his Sprechgesang style of singing,
0:14:20 > 0:14:22literally, "spoken voice".
0:14:22 > 0:14:25For your bonuses, three more pieces of pop music
0:14:25 > 0:14:26performed by singers in that style.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29Five points for each band or artist you can name.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32# There was a guy
0:14:37 > 0:14:39# An underwater guy who controlled the sea
0:14:45 > 0:14:49# Got killed by ten million pounds of sludge... #
0:14:49 > 0:14:51(It's from the 1990s, I think.)
0:14:54 > 0:14:57(Is this Arctic Monkeys, or The Black Stripes, or...?)
0:14:58 > 0:15:00The Arctic Monkeys.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03No, it's the Pixies, Monkey Gone To Heaven.
0:15:04 > 0:15:05Secondly.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07# From the deserts of Sudan
0:15:09 > 0:15:12# And the gardens of Japan
0:15:12 > 0:15:16# From Milan to Yucatan... #
0:15:16 > 0:15:19(I don't know. Simply Red, or Pet Shop Boys, maybe?)
0:15:23 > 0:15:28# Hit me with your rhythm stick Hit me, hit me... #
0:15:30 > 0:15:31Pass.
0:15:31 > 0:15:39That's Ian Dury, Hit Me With You Rhythm Stick. And finally.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39# "No way", "not today", makes you wonder what it meant
0:15:39 > 0:15:43# And this hollow feeling grows and grows and grows and grows
0:15:43 > 0:15:47# And you want to call your mother and say, "Mother..." #
0:15:47 > 0:15:49No idea.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56Pass.
0:15:56 > 0:15:57That's Pulp.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Right, ten points for this.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02What surname links the Scottish bacteriologist who shared
0:16:02 > 0:16:06the 1945 Nobel Prize for Medicine with Florey and Chain,
0:16:06 > 0:16:08the director of Gone With The Wind,
0:16:08 > 0:16:12and the authors of News From Tartary and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
0:16:12 > 0:16:14BUZZER
0:16:14 > 0:16:15Hopkirk.
0:16:18 > 0:16:19Fleming.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21Fleming is right, yes.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23APPLAUSE
0:16:25 > 0:16:29Bonuses this time on internet and technology corporations, LSE.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33The founder of a non-profit support community for women, Sheryl Sandberg
0:16:33 > 0:16:37became chief operating officer of which internet corporation in 2008?
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Facebook.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Correct. Formerly an executive at Google,
0:16:40 > 0:16:44Marisa Mayer became CEO of which corporation in 2012,
0:16:44 > 0:16:48making high-profile acquisitions including Summly and Tumblr?
0:16:48 > 0:16:49Yahoo.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52Correct. In 2011, Ginni Rometty became the first female CEO
0:16:52 > 0:16:57in the 100-year history of which major US technology corporation?
0:17:01 > 0:17:03WHISPERING
0:17:10 > 0:17:11General Electric.
0:17:11 > 0:17:12No, it's IBM.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Ten points for this.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17Which evolutionary hypothesis suggests that species must
0:17:17 > 0:17:19continually evolve to survive
0:17:19 > 0:17:21and maintain their relative positions in the same ecosystem?
0:17:23 > 0:17:24Red Queen hypothesis.
0:17:24 > 0:17:25Correct.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27APPLAUSE
0:17:30 > 0:17:33These bonuses are on genetics.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37First noticed in petunias when biologists attempting to deepen the
0:17:37 > 0:17:40purple colour of the petals instead produced white flowers,
0:17:40 > 0:17:45what general term denotes the means by which small RNA molecules
0:17:45 > 0:17:48can provide a regulatory mechanism for gene expression?
0:17:52 > 0:17:54WHISPERING
0:18:05 > 0:18:06Imprinting?
0:18:06 > 0:18:08No, it's RNA interference.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Secondly, what Greek-derived term denotes
0:18:10 > 0:18:13the region at the end of each chromosome containing repetitive
0:18:13 > 0:18:17DNA sequences that protect against degradation and crossover?
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Telomere.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21Correct. Which amino acid is present at the start of the protein-coding
0:18:21 > 0:18:24DNA sequence for every gene in all eukaryotes?
0:18:28 > 0:18:31WHISPERING
0:18:33 > 0:18:34Lysine.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37No, it's methionine. Ten points for this.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40Which class of organic compounds is characterised by the presence
0:18:40 > 0:18:43of a carbonyl group in which the carbon atom is covalently
0:18:43 > 0:18:47bonded to an oxygen atom, acetone being a common example?
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Ketone.
0:18:49 > 0:18:50Correct.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53APPLAUSE
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Your bonuses are on world capitals.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58In each case, identify the city from its location.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01All three have names that begin and end with the same letter.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Firstly, a city close to the Greenwich Meridian
0:19:03 > 0:19:07and around midway between Abidjan and Lagos.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10Accra.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14Correct. Secondly, a city roughly midway between Odessa and Damascus?
0:19:22 > 0:19:23Ankara.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27Correct. Finally, a city roughly midway between Khartoum in Sudan
0:19:27 > 0:19:28and Sana'a in Yemen?
0:19:30 > 0:19:31Addis Ababa.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32No, it's Asmara.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Ten points for this.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38When written in Roman numerals and with the addition of the letter O,
0:19:38 > 0:19:41which three-digit decimal number spells the name
0:19:41 > 0:19:44of the Muse of history?
0:19:44 > 0:19:46BUZZER
0:19:46 > 0:19:47100.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49No, anyone want to buzz from...
0:19:49 > 0:19:51550.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53No, it's 151. Clio.
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Right, ten points for this.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57In 1755, Pascal Paoli founded a republic
0:19:57 > 0:19:59on which Mediterranean island?
0:20:01 > 0:20:02Corsica.
0:20:02 > 0:20:03Corsica is correct.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05APPLAUSE
0:20:05 > 0:20:06That gives you the lead
0:20:06 > 0:20:09and you get a set of bonuses on Europe in the 9th century.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11The Pactum Ludovicianum was
0:20:11 > 0:20:16an agreement of 817 between the papacy and which son of Charlemagne?
0:20:16 > 0:20:19I need his regnal name and number or byname.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25WHISPERING
0:20:29 > 0:20:30Ludwig I.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32No, it's Louis I, or Louis the Fair.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34I believe he is called Ludwig I in German
0:20:34 > 0:20:37but since you were given a form of words very close to that
0:20:37 > 0:20:39in the question, I can't accept it, I'm afraid.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41Now, in Northern France, which city gives its name to
0:20:41 > 0:20:45a treaty of 843 that divided the Carolingian Empire?
0:20:48 > 0:20:50WHISPERING
0:20:51 > 0:20:52Amiens.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53No, it's Verdun.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55And finally, the Peace of Wedmore is a name given
0:20:55 > 0:20:57to an agreement of 878 between
0:20:57 > 0:21:00the Danish King Guthrum and which king of Wessex?
0:21:02 > 0:21:03Alfred.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Alfred The Great is correct, yes.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11For your picture starter, you'll see a painting of a beach scene.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Ten points if you can name the artist.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18BUZZER
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Whistler.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22No, anyone like to buzz from the LSE?
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Mary Cassatt.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28No, it's Monet.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30So, we'll take the picture bonuses shortly but ten points at stake
0:21:30 > 0:21:33for this starter question. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Around two miles south-west of the source of the Severn,
0:21:36 > 0:21:40a stream on the eastern slopes of Plynlimon in Mid Wales
0:21:40 > 0:21:42is the source of which river?
0:21:42 > 0:21:45It joins the Severn Estuary near Chepstow.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47BUZZER
0:21:47 > 0:21:48Wye.
0:21:48 > 0:21:49The Wye is correct, yes.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51APPLAUSE
0:21:53 > 0:21:57Now, you get a set of picture bonuses, LSE.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Three more beach scenes by notable artists.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01I want the name of the artist in each case, please.
0:22:01 > 0:22:02Firstly.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05(This looks pretty modern. Picasso?)
0:22:05 > 0:22:07(You think it may be Picasso? Early Picasso?)
0:22:09 > 0:22:10Picasso.
0:22:10 > 0:22:11No, that's by Van Gogh.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Secondly, who's this by?
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Manet.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23No, that's by Renoir. Le Lavandou.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24And finally.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Manet.
0:22:36 > 0:22:37Manet is right. Boulogne.
0:22:37 > 0:22:41Ten points for this. In 1768, who became the first president
0:22:41 > 0:22:43of the Royal Academy Of Arts?
0:22:43 > 0:22:45His paintings include The Age Of Innocence...
0:22:45 > 0:22:48BUZZER
0:22:48 > 0:22:49Joshua Reynolds.
0:22:49 > 0:22:50Correct.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52APPLAUSE
0:22:53 > 0:22:57Your bonuses are on the Bible translator William Tyndale.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00Tyndale's English translation of the new testament was first
0:23:00 > 0:23:03published in full in 1526 in which German city?
0:23:03 > 0:23:07It gives its name to an assembly or diet of 1521
0:23:07 > 0:23:10at which Martin Luther answered charges of heresy.
0:23:10 > 0:23:11Worms.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Correct. Later canonised by the Roman Catholic church,
0:23:14 > 0:23:17which English political figure described Tyndale as,
0:23:17 > 0:23:19"A hell-hound in the kennel of the devil"?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25WHISPERING
0:23:26 > 0:23:27Thomas More.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Correct. Tyndale was arrested by the imperial authorities
0:23:30 > 0:23:35and executed near which present-day European capital in 1536?
0:23:37 > 0:23:39WHISPERING
0:23:47 > 0:23:48Come on.
0:23:50 > 0:23:51Brussels.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Correct.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58You always seem so pleasantly astonished when you get it right.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Right, ten points for this.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04In physics, which Greek letter signifies the ratio of isothermal to
0:24:04 > 0:24:07adiabatic compressibility, or equivalently, the ratio of
0:24:07 > 0:24:13heat capacity at constant pressure to heat capacity at constant volume?
0:24:13 > 0:24:15BUZZER
0:24:15 > 0:24:16Lambda.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18No, anyone like to buzz from LSE?
0:24:18 > 0:24:19BUZZER
0:24:19 > 0:24:20Mu.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22No, it's gamma. Ten points for this.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun,
0:24:25 > 0:24:26is the author of which work of 199...
0:24:26 > 0:24:28BUZZER
0:24:28 > 0:24:30Dead Man Walking.
0:24:30 > 0:24:31Correct.
0:24:32 > 0:24:33That's given you the lead
0:24:33 > 0:24:38and your bonuses are on asexual reproduction in fungi.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42In Phycomycetes such as mucor,
0:24:42 > 0:24:45what term denotes the well-developed spherical capsules
0:24:45 > 0:24:50carried on aerial hyphae that contain many asexual spores?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54WHISPERING
0:24:58 > 0:25:00Come on, let's have it, please.
0:25:00 > 0:25:01Sporocysts.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03No, they're sporangia.
0:25:03 > 0:25:04From the Greek for dust,
0:25:04 > 0:25:07what term denotes fungal spores asexually produced
0:25:07 > 0:25:12by constriction of sterigmata and not enclosed in a sporangium?
0:25:14 > 0:25:15(Any idea?)
0:25:15 > 0:25:17(Greek? Anyone?)
0:25:19 > 0:25:20Pass.
0:25:20 > 0:25:21They're conidia.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25And finally, in yeasts, what term denotes asexual reproduction
0:25:25 > 0:25:29in which a new cell is produced as an outgrowth of the parent?
0:25:34 > 0:25:35Budding.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Correct. Two and half minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39Answer clearly and audibly as soon as your name is called.
0:25:39 > 0:25:43What word is spelt by concatenating the silent
0:25:43 > 0:25:47letters in the words honour, biscuit and mnemonic?
0:25:51 > 0:25:53BUZZER
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Hun. H, U, N.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58No, anyone want to buzz from the...
0:25:59 > 0:26:00Hum.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03Hum is correct, yes. H, U, M. Yes.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05APPLAUSE
0:26:07 > 0:26:10Right, your set of bonuses now are on marine mammals.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14In zoology, the family Phocoenidae has what common name
0:26:14 > 0:26:16from the Latin meaning roughly, pig-fish?
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Seal.
0:26:20 > 0:26:21No, it's the porpoise.
0:26:21 > 0:26:25The term Pinnipedia encompasses three families of carnivorous
0:26:25 > 0:26:27sea mammals, true seals, sea lions and which other?
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Walruses.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35Correct. Which horny keratinous substance forms a series of
0:26:35 > 0:26:38comb-like plates that filter and trap prey
0:26:38 > 0:26:41in the upper jaws of true whales?
0:26:42 > 0:26:43Baleen.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Correct. We're going to take another starter question.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49The Economist newspaper was founded in 1843 as a voice
0:26:49 > 0:26:51against what protectionist legislation...?
0:26:51 > 0:26:53BUZZER
0:26:53 > 0:26:55The Corn Laws.
0:26:55 > 0:26:56Correct.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58APPLAUSE
0:26:58 > 0:27:01These bonuses, LSE, are on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04In each case, identify the speaker of the following lines.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08Firstly, "Murder most foul, as in the best it is."
0:27:10 > 0:27:11Claudius.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13No, it's the ghost, old Hamlet.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
0:27:18 > 0:27:19Hamlet.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21No, that's Marcellus. And finally,
0:27:21 > 0:27:24"Good night, sweet prince and flights of angels
0:27:24 > 0:27:25"sing thee to thy rest."
0:27:27 > 0:27:29WHISPERING
0:27:34 > 0:27:35Horatio.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Horatio is correct, yes.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Right, another starter question.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41In 1980, the novelist Marguerite Yourcenar
0:27:41 > 0:27:45became the first woman to be elected to which learned body?
0:27:45 > 0:27:46The Academie Francaise.
0:27:46 > 0:27:47Correct.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Get these bonuses, you'll take the lead again.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53They're on Paleoanthropology.
0:27:53 > 0:27:57Meaning "southern ape", what generic name is given those species
0:27:57 > 0:28:01of extinct bipedal hominids that include Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia?
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Her skeleton is around 3.2 million years old.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07WHISPERING
0:28:10 > 0:28:12END OF GAME GONG
0:28:12 > 0:28:14And at the gong, the LSE have 140,
0:28:14 > 0:28:17the London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine have 150.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19APPLAUSE
0:28:22 > 0:28:23Well, you were close...
0:28:25 > 0:28:28..but no cigar. But thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31140, you might come back as one of the highest scoring losing teams.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34Who knows? It's certainly higher than some losing...
0:28:34 > 0:28:37it's higher, frankly, than some winning teams we've had so far.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine, well done.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42You were a delightful team despite your apparent astonishment
0:28:42 > 0:28:44when you got something right.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47Thank you. I hope you can join us next time, but until then,
0:28:47 > 0:28:50- it's goodbye from the London School Of Economics.- ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53Goodbye from the London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine.
0:28:53 > 0:28:54ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:54 > 0:28:55And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.