0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:22University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Hello. Again tonight we're bringing out the metaphorical thumbscrews
0:00:32 > 0:00:35in an attempt to extract information from the student mind.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Whichever team squeals the most knowingly
0:00:37 > 0:00:40will play again in the second round.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Now, from humble beginnings on the site of a disused mental asylum,
0:00:43 > 0:00:46the University of Liverpool was established as a university college
0:00:46 > 0:00:51in 1881, with its first students being accepted the following year.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Its Victoria building, designed by Alfred Waterhouse,
0:00:54 > 0:00:57gave rise to the term "red-brick university"
0:00:57 > 0:01:00being applied to Liverpool and to several other urban universities
0:01:00 > 0:01:02founded around the same time.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Alumni include the essayist Lytton Strachey,
0:01:05 > 0:01:07the literary critic Frank Kermode,
0:01:07 > 0:01:09and the architect Sir James Stirling.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13More recent graduates include the actress Anna Maxwell Martin
0:01:13 > 0:01:15and the Radio 1 presenter Nick Grimshaw.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20Representing around 21,000 students, with an average age of 21,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22let's meet the Liverpool team.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25Hi. I'm Ben Mawdsley, I'm from Southport,
0:01:25 > 0:01:27and I'm studying astrophysics.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Hi. My names Jim Davis, I'm from Gullane near Edinburgh,
0:01:30 > 0:01:33- and I'm studying tropical disease biology.- And their captain.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Hi. I'm Dachman Crew, I'm originally from Liverpool,
0:01:35 > 0:01:38and I'm studying for a BSc in biochemistry.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41Hi. I'm Hugh Hiscock, I'm from Southampton,
0:01:41 > 0:01:44and I'm studying for an MA in French.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46APPLAUSE
0:01:48 > 0:01:50From the other side of the Pennines,
0:01:50 > 0:01:53the team from the University of Sheffield represent an institution
0:01:53 > 0:01:56which emerged out of the amalgamation in the 19th century
0:01:56 > 0:01:59of a medical school, a technical school and the Firth College.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03In 1897 they formed the University College of Sheffield,
0:02:03 > 0:02:06which in 1905 became a university in its own right.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09Alumni include the author Hilary Mantel,
0:02:09 > 0:02:11the comedian Eddie Izzard,
0:02:11 > 0:02:13and the politician David Blunkett.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Tonight's team all study in the same department,
0:02:15 > 0:02:17which might be something of a disadvantage,
0:02:17 > 0:02:21or indeed quite the opposite, but it does mean they know each other.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23Or they knew each other before the team was even selected.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26Mr Cunliffe was best man at Mr Aspray's wedding.
0:02:26 > 0:02:31With an average age of 21, representing around 27,000 students,
0:02:31 > 0:02:33let's meet the Sheffield team.
0:02:33 > 0:02:34Hi. My name's Andrew Trueman,
0:02:34 > 0:02:36I'm originally from Hartlepool in County Durham,
0:02:36 > 0:02:38and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42Hi, my name's Nathaniel Aspray, I'm from Basingstoke in Hampshire
0:02:42 > 0:02:44- and I'm also studying medicine. - And this is their captain.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Hi, I'm Jonathan Cunliffe, I'm from Solihull,
0:02:46 > 0:02:49and I'm also studying medicine.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52Hello, I'm Claire Greenwood, I'm from Bedford
0:02:52 > 0:02:53and I'm also studying medicine.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55APPLAUSE
0:02:59 > 0:03:01You must all know the rules, so let's get on with it.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04Fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Which daily financial and business newspaper
0:03:07 > 0:03:10was first published on July 8, 1889,
0:03:10 > 0:03:15having been founded by the American journalist Charles H Dow
0:03:15 > 0:03:16of Dow Jones & Co?
0:03:16 > 0:03:18Liverpool, Hiscock.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20The Wall Street Journal.
0:03:20 > 0:03:21Correct.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22APPLAUSE
0:03:22 > 0:03:26So the first set of bonuses, Liverpool, are on museum ships.
0:03:26 > 0:03:31Now preserved as a museum ship at a seaport south of Tokyo,
0:03:31 > 0:03:33having been built at Barrow-in-Furness,
0:03:33 > 0:03:37the Mikasa was Admiral Togo's flagship during which conflict?
0:03:37 > 0:03:39THEY CONFER
0:03:41 > 0:03:42I have no idea.
0:03:46 > 0:03:47World War II?
0:03:47 > 0:03:49No, it was the Russo-Japanese war.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Secondly, a survivor of the Russo-Japanese war
0:03:52 > 0:03:54noted for its role in the October Revolution,
0:03:54 > 0:03:59the cruiser Aurora is a museum ship in which major city?
0:04:00 > 0:04:02St Petersburg?
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Correct. The site of the Japanese surrender in 1945,
0:04:04 > 0:04:06USS Missouri is a museum ship
0:04:06 > 0:04:10at which historically significant naval base?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Pearl Harbor?
0:04:19 > 0:04:20Pearl Harbor?
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Correct! Ten points for this starter question.
0:04:23 > 0:04:25In physics, what property of a wave
0:04:25 > 0:04:29is given by wavelength divided by propagation speed?
0:04:29 > 0:04:33The same term also has a precise use in geochronology,
0:04:33 > 0:04:36specifying an interval intermediate in scale
0:04:36 > 0:04:38between an era and an epoch.
0:04:41 > 0:04:42Liverpool, Mawdsley.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Frequency?
0:04:44 > 0:04:46Anyone like to buzz from Sheffield?
0:04:48 > 0:04:49Sheffield, Trueman.
0:04:49 > 0:04:50Amplitude?
0:04:50 > 0:04:52No, it's a period. Ten points for this.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Which given name links a woman
0:04:54 > 0:04:58who was beheaded on Rome's Ponte Sant'Angelo in 1599
0:04:58 > 0:05:01for the murder of her abusive father Francesco Cenci,
0:05:01 > 0:05:03the fifth daughter of Queen Victoria,
0:05:03 > 0:05:07the muse of the medieval poet Dante, and the cousin of Hero
0:05:07 > 0:05:09in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing?
0:05:15 > 0:05:16Sheffield, Aspray.
0:05:16 > 0:05:17Beatrice.
0:05:17 > 0:05:18Correct!
0:05:18 > 0:05:20APPLAUSE
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Right, you're off the mark,
0:05:22 > 0:05:24and your bonuses are on historical figures born in Somerset.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27In each case, name the person from the description.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Firstly, born Somerset 1773,
0:05:30 > 0:05:33a scientist noted for his wave theory of light
0:05:33 > 0:05:36and his contributions to the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39He gives his name to a modulus on elasticity
0:05:39 > 0:05:41first defined in 1807.
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Young?
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Thomas Young is right, yes. Born in Somerset in 1838,
0:05:50 > 0:05:53an actor noted for his Shakespearean roles
0:05:53 > 0:05:56and for his theatrical partnership with Ellen Terry.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00In 1895 he became the first actor to gain a knighthood.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Christopher Hooper.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Christopher Hooper?
0:06:08 > 0:06:09Interesting.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11No, it was Sir Henry Irving.
0:06:11 > 0:06:12Born in Somerset in 1881,
0:06:12 > 0:06:15a founder of the Transport and General Workers Union,
0:06:15 > 0:06:17later a member of Churchill's War Cabinet,
0:06:17 > 0:06:20he became Foreign Secretary in 1945.
0:06:36 > 0:06:37Clement Attlee?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39No, it was Ernest Bevin. Ten points for this.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43Life's Little Ironies and A Group Of Noble Dames
0:06:43 > 0:06:46are collections of short stories by which literary figure,
0:06:46 > 0:06:48whose first published novel, Desperate Remedies,
0:06:48 > 0:06:50appeared in 1871?
0:06:50 > 0:06:53His second, Under The Greenwood Tree,
0:06:53 > 0:06:55appeared the following year.
0:06:55 > 0:06:56Sheffield, Greenwood.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57James Joyce.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01No. Anyone like to have a go from Liverpool?
0:07:01 > 0:07:02Liverpool, Hiscock.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03Thomas Hardy.
0:07:03 > 0:07:04Correct.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06APPLAUSE
0:07:06 > 0:07:09Liverpool, these bonuses are on church architecture.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12In a work of 1817, what enduring two-word term
0:07:12 > 0:07:15did Thomas Rickman coin to indicate the architectural period
0:07:15 > 0:07:18between Norman and Decorated?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20It began in the late 12th century.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25High Gothic?
0:07:25 > 0:07:26No, it's Early English.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Secondly, built between 1220 and 1258,
0:07:29 > 0:07:32which cathedral in Southern England is almost entirely
0:07:32 > 0:07:34in the Early English style?
0:07:34 > 0:07:37It's also noted for its unusually tall spire,
0:07:37 > 0:07:39completed around 50 years later.
0:07:45 > 0:07:46Salisbury.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Correct. Derived from the name of a weapon,
0:07:48 > 0:07:52what six-letter term denotes the narrow, acutely pointed windows
0:07:52 > 0:07:55characteristic of the Early English style?
0:07:59 > 0:08:01- I don't know.- Is it dagger, maybe?
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Might be a good guess.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Dagger?
0:08:05 > 0:08:06No, they're lancet windows.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12for your picture starter you'll see a diagram showing the final rounds
0:08:12 > 0:08:16of the Wimbledon Men's Singles competition in a particular year.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Ten points if you can tell me the year.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26- Anyone like to buzz? - Sheffield, Cunliffe.
0:08:26 > 0:08:282009?
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Anyone like to buzz from Liverpool?
0:08:30 > 0:08:31Liverpool, Hiscock.
0:08:31 > 0:08:322008?
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Correct.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36APPLAUSE
0:08:36 > 0:08:40Your bonuses are three more Wimbledon singles competitions.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42In each case, I want you to tell me
0:08:42 > 0:08:45the year in which the tournament played out as shown.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47This time you can have a year either way.
0:08:47 > 0:08:48Firstly, for five.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Er, '77.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10No, that was 1980. Secondly...
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Billie Jean King...
0:09:24 > 0:09:25'66.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28No, it was 1970. And finally...
0:09:32 > 0:09:332001.
0:09:33 > 0:09:34Correct!
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Right, ten points for this. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Listen carefully, answer as soon as your name is called.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41What is the total number of carbon atoms
0:09:41 > 0:09:44in a molecule of benzene, a molecule of methane,
0:09:44 > 0:09:47and a molecule of ethanol?
0:09:48 > 0:09:49Liverpool, Davis.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Eight?
0:09:51 > 0:09:52Sheffield?
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Sheffield, Trueman.
0:09:54 > 0:09:55- Nine?- Nine is correct, yes.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58APPLAUSE
0:09:58 > 0:10:02These bonuses are on notable Test innings at Headingley.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Which Australian scored triple centuries against England
0:10:06 > 0:10:08in the Headingley Tests in 1930 and '34?
0:10:08 > 0:10:10I know nothing about cricket.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14- You a big cricketer?- No.
0:10:18 > 0:10:19I think we'll have to pass.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21That was Don Bradman.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Secondly, in a remarkable comeback in 1981,
0:10:24 > 0:10:27which all-rounder scored 149 not out in the second innings
0:10:27 > 0:10:31as England beat Australia after following on?
0:10:35 > 0:10:36Ian Botham?
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Correct! And finally, in the Headingley Test of 1991,
0:10:39 > 0:10:42which England captain scored 154 not out
0:10:42 > 0:10:46as England gained their first home victory against the West Indies
0:10:46 > 0:10:47for more than 20 years?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51'90s.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59Michael Vaughan?
0:10:59 > 0:11:00No, it was Graham Gooch.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03Right. Ten points for this. In the United States,
0:11:03 > 0:11:05the attempted annexation of the Dominican Republic,
0:11:05 > 0:11:07the scandal known as the Whiskey Ring
0:11:07 > 0:11:10and the first suppression of the Ku Klux Klan
0:11:10 > 0:11:14were events during the presidency of which former military commander...
0:11:14 > 0:11:15Liverpool, Davis.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Ulysses S Grant?
0:11:17 > 0:11:18Correct.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21APPLAUSE
0:11:21 > 0:11:25These bonuses are on Western Europe, Liverpool.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28Which Western European country is closest in area
0:11:28 > 0:11:31to Yemen, Thailand, Turkmenistan and Cameroon?
0:11:31 > 0:11:35That is, a little more than twice the size of the UK.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Er, Spain?
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Correct! Which Western European country
0:11:53 > 0:11:57is closest in area to South Korea, Hungary, Jordan and Serbia?
0:11:57 > 0:12:00That is a little larger than Scotland.
0:12:05 > 0:12:06Portugal?
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Correct. Which Western European country is closest in area
0:12:09 > 0:12:12to Samoa, Mauritius and the Comoros?
0:12:12 > 0:12:15That is around the size of Cheshire or Dorset.
0:12:17 > 0:12:18Er, Luxembourg?
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Correct, well done!
0:12:20 > 0:12:22APPLAUSE
0:12:22 > 0:12:25Right. Another starter question.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Once used as a synonym for the world "logic",
0:12:27 > 0:12:31which term refers more specifically in Hegelian philosophy
0:12:31 > 0:12:34to the synthesis of conflicting ideas through reasoned argument?
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Liverpool, Hiscock.
0:12:36 > 0:12:37Dialectic.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39Correct.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41APPLAUSE
0:12:41 > 0:12:45These bonuses are on native British reptiles, Liverpool.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48In each case, give the two-word common name
0:12:48 > 0:12:52from the binomial and description. Firstly, Anguis fragilis,
0:12:52 > 0:12:56a greyish-brown snake-like reptile with a shiny appearance.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Unlike snakes, it has eyelids,
0:12:58 > 0:13:00and can drop its tail to escape from a predator.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09I'd say slowworm.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Er, slowworm.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Correct. Secondly, Lacerta agilis,
0:13:15 > 0:13:18a short, bulky lizard whose UK habitats
0:13:18 > 0:13:20are restricted to heathlands and dunes
0:13:20 > 0:13:22such as Hesketh golf links in Manchester?
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Er, natterjack toad?
0:13:32 > 0:13:34No, it's the sand lizard.
0:13:34 > 0:13:35And finally, natrix natrix,
0:13:35 > 0:13:39a non-venomous snake usually found near water.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Grey-green in colour, it has a distinctive yellow and black collar.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46I only know venomous snakes.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Just think of...
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Er, grass snake.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Correct! Ten points for this.
0:13:54 > 0:13:58Babesiosis and Lyme Disease are among the zoonotic diseases
0:13:58 > 0:14:01transmitted to humans by which arachnids, members...
0:14:01 > 0:14:02Liverpool, Davis.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03Er, ticks.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Ticks is correct, yes.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08Right, these bonuses are on holograms, Liverpool.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Examples appearing on the cover of National Geographic magazine
0:14:11 > 0:14:14and on credit cards, what term denotes holograms
0:14:14 > 0:14:17made by a double holographic process
0:14:17 > 0:14:19that can be viewed in white light?
0:14:21 > 0:14:23- Any idea?- Volumetric image?
0:14:23 > 0:14:24Try that.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26Er, volumetric image.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29No. They're rainbow holograms, or Benton holograms.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Secondly, which Russian physicist gives his name
0:14:32 > 0:14:34to reflection holograms created
0:14:34 > 0:14:36using Lippmann's photographic process?
0:14:36 > 0:14:37They can be viewed in colour
0:14:37 > 0:14:40if more than one coherent light source is available.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Do you know any Russian physicists?
0:14:46 > 0:14:47Er...
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Vladimir Putin.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53He's a very talented man, isn't he? No, it's Denisyuk holograms.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56In holography, the size of the viewed image scales
0:14:56 > 0:14:59with what property of the viewing light?
0:15:01 > 0:15:02- Frequency?- Wavelength?
0:15:04 > 0:15:05Er, wavelength.
0:15:05 > 0:15:09Correct. We're going to take a music round. For your music starter,
0:15:09 > 0:15:11you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15Ten points if you can name the composer and the specific piece.
0:15:15 > 0:15:16CHORAL SINGING
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Liverpool, Hiscock.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Beethoven, Ninth Symphony.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Correct, yes, the Ode To Joy.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26APPLAUSE
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Right. You will recall that that was used as incidental music
0:15:29 > 0:15:32throughout the first Die Hard film.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35For your bonuses, three more pieces of classical music
0:15:35 > 0:15:38that have featured on the soundtrack in the Die Hard series.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41I want the composer in each case. Firstly, the composer of this piece,
0:15:41 > 0:15:44also used in the first Die Hard film.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:46 > 0:15:48That's Mozart, isn't it?
0:15:48 > 0:15:50Might be Mozart.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00It's very nice, whatever it is.
0:16:05 > 0:16:06Mozart?
0:16:06 > 0:16:09No, that's Bach. It's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11Secondly, this composer, please.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14The piece was used in Die Hard With A Vengeance.
0:16:14 > 0:16:15MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:26 > 0:16:28THEY CONFER
0:16:44 > 0:16:45Shostakovich?
0:16:45 > 0:16:47No, that's Brahms's First Symphony.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49And finally, the composer of this piece,
0:16:49 > 0:16:52used in Die Hard 2.
0:16:52 > 0:16:53MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:59 > 0:17:00THEY CONFER
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Er, nominate Davis.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17Prokofiev?
0:17:17 > 0:17:19No, it's Sibelius's Finlandia. Ten points for this.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23In medicine, what adjective describes treatment
0:17:23 > 0:17:25applied locally to the afflicted area?
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Sheffield, Trueman.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28- Topical.- Correct.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30APPLAUSE
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Wouldn't want to be treated by you if you didn't recognise that!
0:17:35 > 0:17:41Right. Bonuses this time are on colours used in HTML web pages.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Firstly, which shade of brown in HTML
0:17:44 > 0:17:46shares its name with a South American country
0:17:46 > 0:17:49where Paul Gauguin spent his early years?
0:17:58 > 0:18:00- Do you know?- No idea.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Brazil?
0:18:02 > 0:18:04No, it's Peru.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07The name of which shade of pale grey in HTML
0:18:07 > 0:18:09is an abbreviated version of the surname
0:18:09 > 0:18:12of an English painter born in 1727?
0:18:14 > 0:18:15Painter?
0:18:19 > 0:18:21Constable?
0:18:21 > 0:18:22No, it's Gainsborough.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Which shade of brown in HTML
0:18:24 > 0:18:29comes from the name of a Tuscan city associated with the artist Duccio?
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Sienna? Sienna.
0:18:34 > 0:18:35Sienna?
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Correct! Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41In Spanish often added to the names of political figures,
0:18:41 > 0:18:43what four-letter suffix
0:18:43 > 0:18:45generally has derogatory force in English,
0:18:45 > 0:18:50having been appended to words such as fashion, Blair,
0:18:50 > 0:18:52and the newspaper The Guardian?
0:18:52 > 0:18:53Liverpool, Hiscock.
0:18:53 > 0:18:54Ista.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Ista is right, yes, I-S-T-A.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59APPLAUSE
0:18:59 > 0:19:02These bonuses are on philosophy, Liverpool.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05An object whose constituent parts have been gradually replaced
0:19:05 > 0:19:08so that it is no longer materially the same as the original
0:19:08 > 0:19:11represents a paradox often known as
0:19:11 > 0:19:15the ship of which legendary king of Athens?
0:19:19 > 0:19:20Timon?
0:19:20 > 0:19:22No, it's Theseus.
0:19:22 > 0:19:23Secondly, for five points,
0:19:23 > 0:19:26the Ship of Theseus is also known as the sock
0:19:26 > 0:19:28of which philosopher of the English Enlightenment,
0:19:28 > 0:19:33noted for his contributions to epistemology and political thought?
0:19:34 > 0:19:36Locke.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40- Locke. Because sock.- Oh, yeah!
0:19:40 > 0:19:41Er, Locke.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43That's correct, it was John Locke.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46In recent years, the same paradox has become known
0:19:46 > 0:19:49by what two-word term after the cleaning implement
0:19:49 > 0:19:54of a character in the comedy series Only Fools And Horses?
0:19:54 > 0:19:56It's Trigger's...broom, isn't it?
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Trigger's broom?
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Correct! right, we're going to take another picture round now.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04For your picture starter you're going to see a photograph
0:20:04 > 0:20:06showing an actor in the role of a musician.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09Ten points if you can name both the actor and the musician.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Sheffield, Aspray.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Johnny Cash, Joachim Phoenix.
0:20:14 > 0:20:15Correct, yes. Joachim Phoenix
0:20:15 > 0:20:19was the man who played Johnny Cash, of course.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21After Joachim Phoenix as Johnny Cash,
0:20:21 > 0:20:24that was in the 2005 film Walk The Line,
0:20:24 > 0:20:27picture bonuses - three more actors playing musicians in films.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30Again, in each case, I want you to identify both the actor
0:20:30 > 0:20:32and the musician. Firstly for five...
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Someone playing Mick Jagger.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40Do you know who the actor is?
0:20:43 > 0:20:44Er, Mick Jagger and...
0:20:44 > 0:20:48No, it's not, it's Jim Morrison being played by Val Kilmer.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Secondly...
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Elvis Costello?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54I don't know who the... Or is it Buddy Holly?
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Played by someone?
0:20:56 > 0:20:58- Just go.- I don't know who the actor is.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03- Go...Buddy Holly...- Come on!
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Nominate Aspray.
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Er, Buddy Holly...
0:21:06 > 0:21:09No, it's John Lennon being played by Aaron Johnson.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11And finally...
0:21:14 > 0:21:16I think it's Edith Piaf.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18I don't know who the actress is.
0:21:18 > 0:21:19Anyone recognise the actress?
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Don't know.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26- Not sure.- It was Edith Piaf,
0:21:26 > 0:21:29and she was being played by Marion Cotillard.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31So...you didn't get any of those. Right, ten points for this.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35Which river of southeast Asia serves as a large part of the border
0:21:35 > 0:21:38between Thailand and Laos and forms a delta in southern Vietnam,
0:21:38 > 0:21:41where it empties into the South China Sea?
0:21:41 > 0:21:42Sheffield, Greenwood.
0:21:42 > 0:21:43Mekong.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Correct!
0:21:45 > 0:21:48APPLAUSE
0:21:48 > 0:21:50These bonuses are on oceanography, Sheffield.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Extensive, permanent ocean currents
0:21:52 > 0:21:55characterised by their circular surface rotation
0:21:55 > 0:21:57are known by what short name,
0:21:57 > 0:22:00from the Greek for "circle" or "ring"?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07- Rotunda?- I think that's Latin.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Is it going to be, like, whirlpools or something?
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Let's have it, please.
0:22:13 > 0:22:14Rotunda.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16No, they're gyres.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19Which state gives its name to the current of the North Pacific gyre
0:22:19 > 0:22:21that flows southwards from British Columbia
0:22:21 > 0:22:24down the western coast of North America?
0:22:32 > 0:22:33California.
0:22:33 > 0:22:37Correct. Born in 1769, which German scientist
0:22:37 > 0:22:39gives his name to the current that cools
0:22:39 > 0:22:42the west coast of South America as far as the Equator?
0:22:47 > 0:22:49- Kepler?- No, it's Humboldt.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Ten points for this starter question.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53What five words begin the 23rd Psalm?
0:22:53 > 0:22:56A metrical version is often sung to the tune Crimond
0:22:56 > 0:22:58and portrays the deity in a pastoral role.
0:22:58 > 0:22:59Sheffield, Aspray.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01The Lord is my shepherd.
0:23:01 > 0:23:02Correct.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04APPLAUSE
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Your bonuses, Sheffield, are on the languages of Afghanistan.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10One of the country's two official languages,
0:23:10 > 0:23:13what word of four letters denotes the variety of Persian or Farsi
0:23:13 > 0:23:15used in Afghanistan?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Kurd?
0:23:25 > 0:23:26No, it's Dari.
0:23:26 > 0:23:30Widely spoken in northwest Pakistan, which eastern Iranian language
0:23:30 > 0:23:33is the second official language of Afghanistan?
0:23:35 > 0:23:36Nominate Greenwood.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38- Pashto.- Pashto is correct.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41And finally, the official language of a neighbouring country,
0:23:41 > 0:23:43which Turkic language is the mother tongue
0:23:43 > 0:23:45of an estimated 9% of Afghans?
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Kurdish?
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Kurdish?
0:23:51 > 0:23:53No, it's Uzbek.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Ten points for this. What given name links the authors of
0:23:56 > 0:23:59The City Of Stars, The World As Will And Representation,
0:23:59 > 0:24:02The Second Mrs Tanquerey and Death Of A Salesman?
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Liverpool, Hiscock.
0:24:05 > 0:24:06Er, Martin?
0:24:06 > 0:24:08- No.- Sheffield, Greenwood.
0:24:08 > 0:24:09Arthur.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Arthur is correct, yes.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13APPLAUSE
0:24:13 > 0:24:17These bonuses are on distance scales in the solar system.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21One megametre is approximately the diameter of which celestial body,
0:24:21 > 0:24:25due to be visited by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in 2015?
0:24:30 > 0:24:32- Celestial body?- Mars?
0:24:32 > 0:24:34No, they've already sent the Mars Rover.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Nominate Aspray.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Eagle Nebula?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43No, it's Ceres. You'd better hurry up, cos we're in the dying minutes.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Earth is approximately eight light-minutes from the sun.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49What is one light-minute measured in gigametres,
0:24:49 > 0:24:50to the nearest whole number?
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Four.
0:24:55 > 0:24:56No, it's 18.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58If you were in the plane of the ecliptic
0:24:58 > 0:25:00at a distance of one terametre from the sun,
0:25:00 > 0:25:04you would be between the orbits of which two planets?
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Saturn and Jupiter?
0:25:11 > 0:25:12Correct! Less than three minutes to go,
0:25:12 > 0:25:15and another starter question. Answer promptly.
0:25:15 > 0:25:16Which fundamental force of nature
0:25:16 > 0:25:20is not included within the standard model of particle physics?
0:25:20 > 0:25:21Sheffield, Trueman.
0:25:21 > 0:25:22Gravity.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Correct. You get a set of bonuses this time
0:25:24 > 0:25:27on Time Magazine's Person Of The Year.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30In 1935, the year his country was invaded by Italy,
0:25:30 > 0:25:33which head of state became the third non-American
0:25:33 > 0:25:36and the first African to be named Time Magazine's Person of the Year?
0:25:36 > 0:25:38Haile Selassie.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41Correct. Which Asian head of state and his wife were Couple Of The Year
0:25:41 > 0:25:44for 1937, the year their country was invaded by Japan?
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Er...China?
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Yes, but I wanted the name - it was Chiang Kai-Shek.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Named Person Of The Year for 1951,
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Mohammed Mosaddegh was later overthrown by a coup
0:26:00 > 0:26:02backed by MI6 and the CIA.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Of which country was he prime minister?
0:26:10 > 0:26:11Iran.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13It was Iran, yes.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16Ten points for this. For what do the initials stand
0:26:16 > 0:26:18in the acronym SETI - that's S-E-T...
0:26:18 > 0:26:19Liverpool, Davis.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Er, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Correct.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26APPLAUSE
0:26:26 > 0:26:29Right, these bonuses, Liverpool, are on the actor Albert Finney.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Finney played the title role in which 1963 film
0:26:32 > 0:26:34based on a novel by Henry Fielding?
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- Let's have it, come on.- Er, I...
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Pass.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43It's Tom Jones. Based on a novel by Malcolm Lowry,
0:26:43 > 0:26:46in which 1984 film did Finney play
0:26:46 > 0:26:48the alcoholic consul Geoffrey Firmin?
0:26:50 > 0:26:51Under The Volcano.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Under The Volcano?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Correct. Which historical figure did Finney play
0:26:55 > 0:26:57in the 2002 film The Gathering Storm?
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Chamberlain?
0:27:02 > 0:27:03Chamberlain.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06No, it was Winston Churchill. Ten points for this.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08Words meaning "elephant" in Chinese,
0:27:08 > 0:27:11"fool" in French and "runner" in German
0:27:11 > 0:27:13all denote which chess piece?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Liverpool, Crew.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18- Knight.- Sheffield?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20One of you buzz?
0:27:20 > 0:27:21Sheffield, Aspray.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Pawn?
0:27:22 > 0:27:24No, it's the bishop. Ten points for this.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Listen carefully. The binomial of an organism
0:27:26 > 0:27:28consists of two parts.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30The second part states the species.
0:27:30 > 0:27:31What does the first part state?
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Sheffield, Cunliffe.
0:27:33 > 0:27:34Genus.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38Correct. You get a set of bonuses this time on human memory.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Also called a memory trace, what six-letter term
0:27:40 > 0:27:44denotes a hypothetical alteration of neural tissue for memory storage?
0:27:49 > 0:27:50Pass.
0:27:50 > 0:27:51It's engram.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53GONG
0:27:53 > 0:27:55And at the gong, Sheffield University have 130,
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Liverpool University have 155.
0:27:57 > 0:28:02Well, Sheffield, if only you had got off a little more quickly,
0:28:02 > 0:28:04who knows, you might have won that!
0:28:04 > 0:28:07But you know, you may come back as a high-scoring loser,
0:28:07 > 0:28:08we'll have to wait and see.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10But thank you very much for playing.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12And, er, congratulations, Liverpool.
0:28:12 > 0:28:16155 is not the highest winning score we've had in this contest so far,
0:28:16 > 0:28:18but it's a good enough one to get you through to the next round.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20Congratulations to you.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match,
0:28:23 > 0:28:26- but until then it's goodbye from Sheffield University...- Goodbye.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28- It's goodbye from Liverpool University...- Goodbye.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33APPLAUSE