0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:29 > 0:00:33Hello. Scotland plays England tonight for a place in the second round.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35The winners go through automatically,
0:00:35 > 0:00:36the losers could play again
0:00:36 > 0:00:40if their score places them among the four highest-scoring
0:00:40 > 0:00:42losing teams in the first round.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45The University of Bath can trace its roots to a trade school
0:00:45 > 0:00:47established in Bristol in 1856,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50which later came under the wing of the Merchant Venturers,
0:00:50 > 0:00:52an ancient guild which at one time
0:00:52 > 0:00:55had effective control over Bristol's port.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Following the Robbins Committee report in 1963,
0:00:58 > 0:01:02and with Bristol unable to provide land for the rapidly expanding college,
0:01:02 > 0:01:06it found a location on Claverton Down, overlooking the city of Bath.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10The University has a strong reputation in science and sport,
0:01:10 > 0:01:11and in their captain's words,
0:01:11 > 0:01:14"Bath students are characterised by
0:01:14 > 0:01:16"hypertrophic left brains and biceps."
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Even the most cursory glance at tonight's four
0:01:18 > 0:01:20tells us everything about their biceps,
0:01:20 > 0:01:23the next half hour will reveal all about their brains.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25Alumni include the weatherman Bill Giles
0:01:25 > 0:01:28and the former boss of Sainsbury's Justin King.
0:01:28 > 0:01:29And with an average age of 20,
0:01:29 > 0:01:34representing around 15,000 students, let's meet the Bath team.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37Hi, I'm Phil Herbert. I'm from Harrogate in North Yorkshire
0:01:37 > 0:01:39and I'm studying computer science and maths.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42Hello, I'm Scott Kemp. I'm from Hertford and I'm reading mathematics.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44And this is their captain.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48Hi, I'm Miles Thomas. I'm from London and I'm studying mathematics.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Hi, I'm Henry Rackley. I'm from Cirencester in Gloucestershire
0:01:51 > 0:01:52and I'm reading chemistry.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55APPLAUSE
0:01:56 > 0:02:00The University of Glasgow is making its first appearance
0:02:00 > 0:02:02on this series for almost ten years.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04The team reckon 2014 is an auspicious year for them
0:02:04 > 0:02:06with Scotland hosting the Commonwealth Games,
0:02:06 > 0:02:09and, of course, the referendum on independence.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12The University is the second oldest in Scotland.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14It was created by a papal bull
0:02:14 > 0:02:19issued in 1451 by Pope Nicholas V at the suggestion of James II
0:02:19 > 0:02:24to allow Bishop William Turnbull to add a university to the city's cathedral,
0:02:24 > 0:02:27and teaching began in the confines of the chapter house.
0:02:27 > 0:02:28It later expanded,
0:02:28 > 0:02:33with a gift in 1563 of 13 acres of land from Mary Queen of Scots.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Alumni include the economist Adam Smith,
0:02:36 > 0:02:37the writer Tobias Smollet,
0:02:37 > 0:02:39the inventor of television John Logie Baird
0:02:39 > 0:02:41and the politicians Vince Cable,
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Menzies Campbell and Charles Kennedy.
0:02:43 > 0:02:48Representing over 23,000 students, with an average age of 23,
0:02:48 > 0:02:50let's meet the Glasgow team
0:02:50 > 0:02:53aiming to be the first Scottish university to win this series
0:02:53 > 0:02:54since 1983.
0:02:54 > 0:02:59Hi, I'm Jonathan Gillan. I'm from Inverness and I'm studying classics.
0:02:59 > 0:03:03Hi, I'm Christina McGuire. I'm from Glasgow and I'm studying chemistry.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05And this is their captain.
0:03:05 > 0:03:06Hi, I'm Daniel Hill.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09I'm from Cupar in Fife and I'm studying archaeology and history.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13Hi, I'm Erin White. I'm from Edinburgh and I'm studying genetics.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15APPLAUSE
0:03:18 > 0:03:21The rules never change, so let's put fingers on buzzers
0:03:21 > 0:03:23and have your first starter for ten.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Meanings of what term include in psychology,
0:03:26 > 0:03:30a close relationship that provides emotional security and support,
0:03:30 > 0:03:33in Buddhism, clinging to sense pleasures or mistaken views
0:03:33 > 0:03:36and in computing, a file that's sent in an e-mail...?
0:03:36 > 0:03:39BUZZER
0:03:39 > 0:03:40- Attachment.- Correct.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43APPLAUSE
0:03:43 > 0:03:48Right, your first set of bonuses are on British monarchs since 1707.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50In rejecting the Scottish Militia Bill,
0:03:50 > 0:03:53who became the last British monarch to refuse the royal assent
0:03:53 > 0:03:56to a bill passed by both Houses of Parliament?
0:03:56 > 0:03:58- Queen Anne.- Yes, she didn't trust the Scots, you see.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Who was the last British monarch to lead troops into battle?
0:04:01 > 0:04:06I want the monarch and the present-day country in which the battle took place.
0:04:06 > 0:04:07(George II?)
0:04:08 > 0:04:09And the country...
0:04:11 > 0:04:12George II, Germany.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Correct, yes. The Battle of Dettingen.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Finally, who was the last British monarch to rule over India?
0:04:18 > 0:04:20(George VI?)
0:04:21 > 0:04:23- George VI.- Clean sweep, well done.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26APPLAUSE
0:04:27 > 0:04:28Right, a starter question.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Her husband's succession to the peerage in 1919
0:04:31 > 0:04:33led to the election of which political figure
0:04:33 > 0:04:35as the member for Plymouth Sutton,
0:04:35 > 0:04:38the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons?
0:04:38 > 0:04:40BUZZER
0:04:40 > 0:04:41- Nancy Astor.- Yes.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43APPLAUSE
0:04:45 > 0:04:48Bonuses this time on philosophy and literature, Glasgow.
0:04:48 > 0:04:49From the Latin for nothing,
0:04:49 > 0:04:52what term denotes the philosophy of scepticism
0:04:52 > 0:04:54and the repudiation of moral principles
0:04:54 > 0:04:57that originated in 19th century Russia?
0:04:57 > 0:04:58- Nihilism.- Correct.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02In the 1862 novel Fathers And Sons, which Russian author
0:05:02 > 0:05:06popularised the term nihilist through the figure of Bazarov?
0:05:06 > 0:05:08- Turgenev.- Correct.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Nihilism is a theme in The Bet and Three Sisters,
0:05:11 > 0:05:15works by which Russian literary figure born in 1860?
0:05:15 > 0:05:17(Tolstoy?)
0:05:17 > 0:05:19(Dostoyevsky?)
0:05:22 > 0:05:24What are we going to go for?
0:05:24 > 0:05:26- Go for it.- Dostoyevsky.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28No, it was Chekhov.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Ten points for this. A number of chemical elements have more neutrons
0:05:32 > 0:05:35than protons in the nucleus of their most abundant isotope.
0:05:35 > 0:05:40Which of these elements has the smallest atomic number?
0:05:40 > 0:05:42BUZZER
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Hydrogen?
0:05:44 > 0:05:47- Bath, one of you like to buzz? - BUZZER
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Deuterium.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51No, it's lithium. Ten points for this.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54What single word links a geological theory
0:05:54 > 0:05:56put forward by Alfred Wegener,
0:05:56 > 0:05:59the army of the 13 colonies during the American War of Independence...?
0:05:59 > 0:06:01BUZZER
0:06:01 > 0:06:02- Continental.- Correct.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04APPLAUSE
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Your bonuses are on evolution, Glasgow.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12From the Greek meaning "other land", what type of speciation occurs
0:06:12 > 0:06:15when a population is separated by habitat fragmentation
0:06:15 > 0:06:20such as a geographical barrier and evolves into two independent groups?
0:06:21 > 0:06:22- Any ideas?- Um...
0:06:24 > 0:06:28Yes, but no, erm... Ah...
0:06:32 > 0:06:35- (Pass.) - Pass.- It's allopatric speciation.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38Secondly, what two-word term denotes the hypothesis,
0:06:38 > 0:06:41popularised by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould,
0:06:41 > 0:06:44which proposes that, once established, most species
0:06:44 > 0:06:47do not change significantly over long periods of time?
0:06:50 > 0:06:53(Something stagnation? Two-word, erm...)
0:06:56 > 0:07:00Any ideas? No? Sorry, pass.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01It's punctuated equilibrium.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05And finally, what five-letter term denotes a monophyletic
0:07:05 > 0:07:09group of organisms containing an ancestor and all its descendants?
0:07:09 > 0:07:12It may be regarded as a single branch on a tree of life.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17- Phylum.- No, it's a clade.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22For your picture starter, you'll see the track listing
0:07:22 > 0:07:25of the first side of an album with the title track removed.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28For ten points, I want you to give me the missing title.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31BUZZER
0:07:31 > 0:07:33- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.- Correct.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36APPLAUSE
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Glasgow, your bonuses for this picture round are the track lists
0:07:41 > 0:07:44of three more seminal albums, each with the eponymous tracks removed.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48In each case, I simply want you to give me the missing title. Firstly, for five.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02- London Calling by The Clash. - Correct.
0:08:02 > 0:08:03Secondly.
0:08:05 > 0:08:06(It's Dylan.)
0:08:09 > 0:08:10(Blonde On Blonde?)
0:08:11 > 0:08:15- (Maybe. Yeah.) - Shall we go with Blonde On Blonde?
0:08:15 > 0:08:19- Er, Blonde On Blonde. - Nearly, it was Highway 61 Revisited.
0:08:19 > 0:08:20And finally.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23(It's Thriller.)
0:08:24 > 0:08:26- Thriller, Michael Jackson.- Yes.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28- APPLAUSE - Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Which German mathematician and philosopher
0:08:30 > 0:08:33- was the author of the 18...? - BUZZER
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Leibniz.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:08:36 > 0:08:41The 1879 work Begriffsschrift or Concept Writing,
0:08:41 > 0:08:43a principle work of modern mathematical logic
0:08:43 > 0:08:47that pioneered the analytic tradition in philosophy?
0:08:47 > 0:08:48BUZZER
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Hegel?
0:08:50 > 0:08:53Nope. It was Frege. Ten points for this.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Characters including the psychologist,
0:08:55 > 0:08:57the provincial mayor and the medical man
0:08:57 > 0:09:01meet for dinner at the home of the creator of what eponymous device...?
0:09:01 > 0:09:03BUZZER
0:09:03 > 0:09:05- The Time Machine.- Yes.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07APPLAUSE
0:09:09 > 0:09:10More books now.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13Your bonuses are on teachers' favourite books according
0:09:13 > 0:09:16to a survey in 2013 in the Times educational supplement.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Number one on the list, which 19th-century novel
0:09:19 > 0:09:22may have come out on top because, according to one expert,
0:09:22 > 0:09:25"There are more female than male teachers
0:09:25 > 0:09:27"and people who like that book tend to be female"?
0:09:29 > 0:09:32WHISPERING
0:09:32 > 0:09:35- (Unless it's, like, the Brontes...) - Was it 18th century?- Yeah.
0:09:35 > 0:09:39- (Then could it be Villette because that's set in a school?) - Let's say that.- Villette.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41No, it's Pride And Prejudice.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44All of the top five books on the list are by women authors.
0:09:44 > 0:09:49To Kill A Mockingbird and the Harry Potter series are at two and three,
0:09:49 > 0:09:53which novels, published in 1847, are at four and five?
0:09:54 > 0:09:57- (1847...)- (1847.)
0:09:58 > 0:09:59(I don't know.)
0:10:03 > 0:10:07(Say Wuthering Heights and whichever other Bronte we know.)
0:10:07 > 0:10:09- Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. - Correct.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13At number 56 in the survey,
0:10:13 > 0:10:17the transformational plot of which children's counting book
0:10:17 > 0:10:19was described by one academic as being,
0:10:19 > 0:10:25"Worthy of Life Of Pi, possibly even more meaningful than Life Of Pi"?
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Counting book?
0:10:26 > 0:10:29- It's going to be, like, The Hungry Caterpillar or something. - I think so.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32- Let's say The Hungry Caterpillar. - We're saying that?- Yeah.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34The Hungry Caterpillar.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37You've got the right book. It's called The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39- APPLAUSE - OK, ten points for this.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Marine ragworms, paddle worms, earth worms
0:10:41 > 0:10:44and leeches all belong to which animal phylum?
0:10:44 > 0:10:47Its name derives from the Latin for ring denotes worms with
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- a distinct... - BUZZER
0:10:49 > 0:10:50Annulus.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53No. Glasgow? You can have a little more actually.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Denoting worms with a distinct head and clear segmentation.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58That means I must fine you five points, I'm sorry.
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Anyone want to buzz from Glasgow?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03You just misremembered. They're annelids.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Right, ten points for this.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08Coming into wide usage in the 17th century
0:11:08 > 0:11:10with the writings of the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius,
0:11:10 > 0:11:13what two-word Latin term indicates a public justification
0:11:13 > 0:11:16for military action against another country?
0:11:16 > 0:11:17BUZZER
0:11:17 > 0:11:21- Casus belli.- Casus belli is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:11:23 > 0:11:28Right, these bonuses are on buildings that were never built.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30Firstly, the architect Vladimir Tatlin
0:11:30 > 0:11:33designed a 400m-high double-helixed tower
0:11:33 > 0:11:36intended to mark which revolutionary congress in Petrograd
0:11:36 > 0:11:37in 1919 and 20?
0:11:39 > 0:11:41(The first Soviet...)
0:11:41 > 0:11:43(The first Bolshevik?)
0:11:43 > 0:11:45(1919...)
0:11:45 > 0:11:46(The insurgents?)
0:11:47 > 0:11:49(I don't know.)
0:11:51 > 0:11:55- Erm... First Soviet Congress? - No, it was the Third International.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Secondly, which architect worked with Adolf Hitler
0:11:58 > 0:12:00on the design of the People's Hall in Berlin?
0:12:00 > 0:12:03The projected building was so vast that the condensed breath
0:12:03 > 0:12:07of its 180,000 capacity crowd would have caused rainfall.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09- Albert Speer.- Correct.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13Which US architect designed the Illinois in 1956, a mile-high
0:12:13 > 0:12:17Chicago skyscraper capable of containing a city of 100,000 people?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21- Frank Lloyd Wright.- Correct.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22- APPLAUSE - Ten points for this.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25One of Britain's earliest safari parks,
0:12:25 > 0:12:27which stately home near Warminster in Wiltshire is the seat...?
0:12:27 > 0:12:30BUZZER
0:12:30 > 0:12:32- Longleat.- Longleat is correct, yes. - APPLAUSE
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Just round the corner from you, isn't it?
0:12:37 > 0:12:40Right, your bonuses are on European politics, Bath.
0:12:40 > 0:12:45In each case, identify the country from three of its current political parties.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Firstly, PASOC, New Democracy and Golden Dawn.
0:12:50 > 0:12:51- Greece.- Correct.
0:12:51 > 0:12:56Partido Social Democrata, Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes"
0:12:56 > 0:12:58and Bloco de Esquerda.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02- (Portugal or Spain?) - - (Spain? Spanish?)
0:13:02 > 0:13:04- (I reckon it's Portugal.)
0:13:05 > 0:13:07- Portugal.- It is Portugal.
0:13:07 > 0:13:11And finally, for a possible five, the Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie,
0:13:11 > 0:13:16Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams and the Mouvement Reformateur.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19- (Pretty sure that's the Netherlands.) - (Do you think?)- (Yeah.)
0:13:19 > 0:13:22- The Netherlands or Belgium. - Or Germany? It's not Germany. - Not Germany, OK.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26- The Netherlands then.- Could it be Belgium?- Could be, but...
0:13:26 > 0:13:29- Netherlands. - No, it was Belgium, bad luck.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Right, music round now.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34For your music starter you'll hear three pieces of popular music
0:13:34 > 0:13:36segued into one another.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40For ten points, I want the city that connects all these artists
0:13:40 > 0:13:42either by birth or career.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45# I am a passenger
0:13:45 > 0:13:49# And I ride and I ride... #
0:13:49 > 0:13:52# Danger, danger! # BUZZER
0:13:52 > 0:13:54- Detroit.- Detroit is right, yes.
0:13:54 > 0:13:55APPLAUSE
0:13:58 > 0:14:00You heard Iggy Pop, Electric Six.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03You would have heard Marvin Gaye if you'd carried on listening,
0:14:03 > 0:14:04but you were too quick.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Well done.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09So, they were all connected, as you noticed, with Detroit.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11Your bonuses, three more montages of popular musicians
0:14:11 > 0:14:12with a location in common.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Five points for each you can name, and again,
0:14:15 > 0:14:17you'll be hearing three pieces for each question.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20So it might be in your interest to hear all three before you answer,
0:14:20 > 0:14:21up to you.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Firstly, the US State that links the following three.
0:14:24 > 0:14:28# Just couldn't take it I tried hard not to fake it
0:14:28 > 0:14:30# But I fumbled it When I came down to the wire... #
0:14:30 > 0:14:31(We'll just listen.)
0:14:34 > 0:14:39# Don't speak I know just what you're saying
0:14:39 > 0:14:43# So please stop explaining Don't tell me cos it hurts... #
0:14:43 > 0:14:45(California?)
0:14:45 > 0:14:49# Do you have the time To listen to me whine
0:14:49 > 0:14:53# About nothing and everything all at once? #
0:14:53 > 0:14:54California.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57Indeed, you got it straightaway. It's Haim, No Doubt and Green Day.
0:14:57 > 0:15:01Secondly, the country connecting these three.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03# Do what I want cos I can and if I don't because I wanna... #
0:15:03 > 0:15:05(That's Sweden. Swedish.)
0:15:12 > 0:15:15- # I saw the sign... # - (Ace of Base!)
0:15:15 > 0:15:19# It opened up my eyes I saw the sign... #
0:15:22 > 0:15:26# Love me, love me Say that you love me
0:15:26 > 0:15:28# Fool me, fool me... #
0:15:28 > 0:15:30- Sweden.- It is Sweden.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33That was The Hives, Ace of Base and The Cardigans.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Finally, the city connecting these three.
0:15:38 > 0:15:43# Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday... #
0:15:44 > 0:15:47# In this world We've got to find the time... #
0:15:47 > 0:15:50(It's The Lightning Seeds, isn't it?)
0:15:50 > 0:15:52# For the life of Riley... #
0:15:54 > 0:15:56# There she goes... #
0:15:56 > 0:15:58(Then it's Liverpool.)
0:15:58 > 0:16:00# There she goes again... #
0:16:01 > 0:16:03It's er...Liverpool.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05You're good at this, aren't you? Yes, that's right,
0:16:05 > 0:16:08Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, The Lightning Seeds and The La's.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11Well done. Ten points for this starter question.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15Which human steroid hormone is produced by Leydig cells
0:16:15 > 0:16:18which are found adjacent to the seminiferous tubules?
0:16:18 > 0:16:19BUZZER
0:16:19 > 0:16:20- Testosterone.- Correct.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23APPLAUSE
0:16:25 > 0:16:29Right, these bonuses are on paintings and art galleries, Glasgow.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32The Courtauld Gallery in London houses an earlier version
0:16:32 > 0:16:34of which painting by Manet?
0:16:34 > 0:16:37The later version, now in Musee d'Orsay, sparked notoriety
0:16:37 > 0:16:40because of its portrayal of a nude woman with fully-dressed men.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44- (I have no idea at all.)- No idea?
0:16:44 > 0:16:45Sorry, we don't know.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48It's Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe, luncheon on the grass.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Born 1684, which Flemish artist painted works
0:16:52 > 0:16:55on the theme of Kithira, the island of love,
0:16:55 > 0:16:58now housed in the Charlottenburg in Berlin and in the Louvre?
0:17:00 > 0:17:01(Any Flemish artists...?)
0:17:07 > 0:17:09- Er, pass.- That was Watteau.
0:17:09 > 0:17:13And finally, galleries in Munich, Tokyo, Amsterdam and London
0:17:13 > 0:17:15house noted examples of paintings
0:17:15 > 0:17:18from a still-life series begun in 1888.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21Who is the artist and what objects are depicted?
0:17:25 > 0:17:27(From a still life?)
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Cezanne and flowers.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36No, it's Van Gogh's Sunflowers. So, another starter question.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40Listen carefully, during the 20th century, four men succeeded
0:17:40 > 0:17:43to the US presidency following the death of the incumbent.
0:17:43 > 0:17:47Theodore Roosevelt was the first, can you name two of the others?
0:17:47 > 0:17:49BUZZER
0:17:49 > 0:17:53Er, Lyndon B Johnson and...William McKinley?
0:17:53 > 0:17:55- No. - BUZZER
0:17:55 > 0:17:59Lyndon B Johnson and Calvin Coolidge.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02- Correct, yes. Truman was the other one. - APPLAUSE
0:18:04 > 0:18:07So, Bath, your bonuses are on household water usage
0:18:07 > 0:18:11using figures from the website of the Consumer Council for Water.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13In each case, you can have 10% either way.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15According to the Consumer Council for Water,
0:18:15 > 0:18:19the average household bath uses how many litres of water?
0:18:19 > 0:18:24(What's the dimensions, roughly?) (I reckon it's about 70 litres.)
0:18:24 > 0:18:27(Probably about 1.7m long...)
0:18:27 > 0:18:30- (And 70...)- (50... Call it 65.)
0:18:30 > 0:18:32(No... Just guess.)
0:18:34 > 0:18:37- 70.- No, it's 80 apparently.
0:18:37 > 0:18:42Based on typical usage of different types of shower, including power showers,
0:18:42 > 0:18:46the Council estimates the average shower to be how many litres?
0:18:46 > 0:18:50- (I think it's less. It is, it's less.)- (30, about 30?)
0:18:50 > 0:18:52- 30.- No, it's 46 litres.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56And finally, based on typical average usage
0:18:56 > 0:18:59of different types of toilets, including dual flush,
0:18:59 > 0:19:02how many litres are used in the average lavatory flush?
0:19:02 > 0:19:06(How much does a cistern hold?) (Probably about... Three to four?)
0:19:07 > 0:19:09(I'll say five. Say five.)
0:19:09 > 0:19:13- Five.- No, it's seven and a half, apparently.
0:19:13 > 0:19:14Right, ten points for this.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18Which country of birth or residence links the following literary figures?
0:19:18 > 0:19:24Elena Poniatowska, Laura Esquivel, Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26BUZZER
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Italy.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30- Glasgow? - BUZZER
0:19:30 > 0:19:33- Mexico.- Mexico is correct.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36APPLAUSE
0:19:36 > 0:19:39These bonuses are on mathematics, Glasgow.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40As X tends to infinity,
0:19:40 > 0:19:45what is the limit of the function obtained by dividing X to the power n
0:19:45 > 0:19:48by the exponential function E to the power X?
0:19:48 > 0:19:49(Who here has higher maths?)
0:19:50 > 0:19:51(Divided by...?)
0:19:53 > 0:19:55(Is there any point?)
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Pass.
0:19:59 > 0:20:00It's zero.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02The function obtained by dividing X to the power N
0:20:02 > 0:20:06by the exponential function is maximised on the positive
0:20:06 > 0:20:09real axis at which value of X?
0:20:10 > 0:20:13(Should we just guess some numbers?)
0:20:13 > 0:20:15- One.- No, it's N.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19In analytic geometry, what term from the Greek for "not falling together"
0:20:19 > 0:20:21denotes a straight line that continually approaches
0:20:21 > 0:20:25a given curve but doesn't meet it at any finite distance?
0:20:27 > 0:20:29- Nominate McGuire.- Asymptote. - Correct.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32APPLAUSE
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38For your picture starter, you'll see a photograph of an historical figure.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Ten points if you can name the man in the car.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43BUZZER
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Franz Ferdinand.
0:20:45 > 0:20:46It is the Archduke Franz Ferdinand,
0:20:46 > 0:20:50taken just before...his assassination.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53The assassination of Franz Ferdinand, of course,
0:20:53 > 0:20:54sparked the First World War.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57For your bonuses, three depictions of leading political figures
0:20:57 > 0:21:00during the war, five points for each you can name.
0:21:00 > 0:21:01Firstly, who's this?
0:21:09 > 0:21:11(He was assassinated?)
0:21:11 > 0:21:12(No, leading figures in the war.)
0:21:17 > 0:21:19- Clemenceau.- It is Clemenceau,
0:21:19 > 0:21:21a portrait by Edouard Manet. Secondly.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29- Asquith.- It was, the Prime Minister at the start of the war. And finally.
0:21:31 > 0:21:37- (Er, that's...)- (The Czar?)- (Is it the Czar or is it the English one?
0:21:37 > 0:21:38George the...)
0:21:43 > 0:21:46- George V.- No, that's Czar Nicholas II.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49There is a vague resemblance, but no, it wasn't. That's the Czar.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Right, ten points for this.
0:21:51 > 0:21:52After oxygen and carbon,
0:21:52 > 0:21:56what is the third most abundant chemical element in the human body,
0:21:56 > 0:21:59- comprising around 10% of its weight? - BUZZER
0:21:59 > 0:22:00Nitrogen.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05- No. One of you buzz from Glasgow. - BUZZER
0:22:05 > 0:22:08- Phosphorous.- No, it's not phosphorous, it's hydrogen.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Ten points for this. In addition to Pen-y-ghent and Whernside,
0:22:11 > 0:22:14which hill in the Yorkshire dales must be ascended
0:22:14 > 0:22:18to complete the walk known as the Three Peaks Challenge?
0:22:18 > 0:22:20BUZZER
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Is it Ben Nevis?
0:22:22 > 0:22:27- No.- In the Yorkshire Dales? No. Er, Glasgow? - BUZZER
0:22:27 > 0:22:30- Scafell Pike.- No, that's in the Lake District. It's Ingleborough.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Ten points for this. In the context of recent fictional titles,
0:22:33 > 0:22:36which plural noun comes next in this sequence?
0:22:36 > 0:22:40- A Clash Of Kings, A Storm Of Swords and A Feast For... - BUZZER
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Crows.
0:22:42 > 0:22:43Crows is correct, yes.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45APPLAUSE
0:22:47 > 0:22:52Game Of Thrones. Your bonuses are on French past participles.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55In each case, give the culinary term from the description.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58Firstly, from the French verb "to melt",
0:22:58 > 0:23:03a sauce made of melted cheese and wine into which pieces of bread or meat are dipped.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08(That's not a roux, is it?) (It's not a roux.)
0:23:08 > 0:23:09(Is it, like, a jus?)
0:23:11 > 0:23:13- Nominate Rackley.- A jus.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16No, that's a juice usually. It's a fondue.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19Secondly, from the past participle of "to blow",
0:23:19 > 0:23:22a baked dish made with whisked egg whites.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24- Souffle.- Correct.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27From the past participle of the French for "to jump",
0:23:27 > 0:23:29a verb meaning to fry lightly and quickly.
0:23:30 > 0:23:31- Saute.- Yes.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Four and a half minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37"I believe there has been no law so often infamously administered,
0:23:37 > 0:23:40"no law so openly violated."
0:23:40 > 0:23:44These words of Charles Dickens refer to which law, reformed in 1834?
0:23:44 > 0:23:45BUZZER
0:23:45 > 0:23:48- Poor laws.- Poor law is correct, yes.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50APPLAUSE
0:23:50 > 0:23:52These bonuses are on a shared prefix, Bath.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54What term denotes a system of beliefs
0:23:54 > 0:23:57mistakenly regarded as based on scientific method?
0:23:57 > 0:24:01It was first recorded in 1796 in reference to alchemy.
0:24:01 > 0:24:02Pseudoscience?
0:24:02 > 0:24:05Correct. What is the literal meaning of pseudocarp?
0:24:05 > 0:24:07It is applied to strawberries and apples
0:24:07 > 0:24:10which incorporate tissue not derived from the ovary wall.
0:24:12 > 0:24:13(False, maybe?)
0:24:16 > 0:24:17(False. False what?)
0:24:18 > 0:24:21- False body?- No, it's false fruit.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Pseudopodia are temporary cytoplasmic extensions
0:24:24 > 0:24:29formed for the purpose of locomotion by which unicellular protozoans?
0:24:30 > 0:24:32(Amoeba?)
0:24:32 > 0:24:33(It's going to be false something.)
0:24:36 > 0:24:38- Amoeba.- Amoeba is right. Ten points for this.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Discovered in 1944, which transuranic element,
0:24:41 > 0:24:42with the atomic number 95,
0:24:42 > 0:24:44- is found in many types...? - BUZZER
0:24:45 > 0:24:47- Americium.- Correct.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50APPLAUSE
0:24:50 > 0:24:53These bonuses are on Russian cities, Bath.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Between 1940 and 1957,
0:24:55 > 0:24:59the city of Perm was renamed after which Soviet foreign minister?
0:24:59 > 0:25:02The Finns gave his name to home-made incendiary devices used...
0:25:02 > 0:25:04- Molotov.- Correct.
0:25:04 > 0:25:08Between 1932 and 1990, the name of the city of Nizhny Novgorod
0:25:08 > 0:25:10was changed to which pseudonym
0:25:10 > 0:25:14of the author Alexei Maximovich Peshkov?
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- (Might be Petrograd.) - Petrograd.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17No, it was Gorky.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19After a major river, what is the name of the city
0:25:19 > 0:25:25known until 1925 as Tsaritsyn and from then until 1961 as Stalingrad?
0:25:25 > 0:25:27- Nominate Rackley.- Volgograd.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Volgograd is correct. Ten points for this.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Which of Shakespeare's tragedies includes the lines,
0:25:32 > 0:25:34"But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36- "For daws to peck at..."? - BUZZER
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- Othello.- Othello is correct, yes.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41These bonuses are on an ancient region, Glasgow.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45Sidon and Tyre were major cities of which ancient region,
0:25:45 > 0:25:47roughly corresponding to modern Lebanon?
0:25:47 > 0:25:48- Phoenicia.- Correct.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Which ancient city of Phoenicia gave its name
0:25:51 > 0:25:54to the early Greek name for papyrus and later, by extension,
0:25:54 > 0:25:57to the English word for a particular sacred text?
0:26:00 > 0:26:02- Let's have it, please. - Byblos.- Correct.
0:26:02 > 0:26:07Traditionally founded by the Phoenicians of Tyre in 814 BCE,
0:26:07 > 0:26:09which great city of antiquity is now part of...?
0:26:09 > 0:26:12- Carthage.- Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14What short word is spelt by using
0:26:14 > 0:26:16the symbol for momentum in physics,
0:26:16 > 0:26:19the symbol of the base of the natural logarithm
0:26:19 > 0:26:23- and the letter at the top of a compass rose? - BUZZER
0:26:23 > 0:26:25- Pen.- Pen is correct. Here are your bonuses.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28They're on Europe in the 1490s.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30At the Peace of Etaples in 1492,
0:26:30 > 0:26:34Charles VIII of France agreed to withdraw support
0:26:34 > 0:26:37for which pretender to the English throne?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40(Holland, maybe?)
0:26:42 > 0:26:43- Come on.- Nominate Rackley.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45- Henry II.- No, it was Perkin Warbeck.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47Which town in north western Spain
0:26:47 > 0:26:49gives its name to a treaty of 1494
0:26:49 > 0:26:53that aimed to divide newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal?
0:26:55 > 0:26:56(La Coruna, was it?)
0:26:58 > 0:27:00- Nominate Kemp.- La Coruna.
0:27:00 > 0:27:01No, it's Tordesillas.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03By the Treaty of Basel in 1499,
0:27:03 > 0:27:06which emperor recognised the virtual independence
0:27:06 > 0:27:08of the Swiss Confederation from the Holy Roman Empire?
0:27:10 > 0:27:12(Try Frederick.)
0:27:12 > 0:27:15- Frederick the Great.- No, it was Maximilian I. Ten points for this.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18"It was long a despotism tempered by epigrams."
0:27:18 > 0:27:21These words of Thomas Carlyle refer to which country,
0:27:21 > 0:27:24the subject of his historical work of 1837?
0:27:26 > 0:27:27BUZZER
0:27:27 > 0:27:31- England.- No. Glasgow, one of you buzz. - BUZZER
0:27:31 > 0:27:35- Prussia?- No, it's France. Another starter question. Listen carefully.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39What digit completes this sequence, read in reverse order?
0:27:39 > 0:27:468, 2, 8, 1, 8, 2, 8, 1, 7.0 and...?
0:27:46 > 0:27:47BUZZER
0:27:47 > 0:27:50- Two?- Correct. - APPLAUSE
0:27:50 > 0:27:52Your bonuses are on the operas of Benjamin Britten now.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54In each case, name the work from the description.
0:27:54 > 0:27:59Firstly, a 1951 opera, adapted from a novella by Herman Melville.
0:27:59 > 0:28:00- Do we know any?- Quick.
0:28:02 > 0:28:03- (Oh, Moby Dick.) - Moby Dick.
0:28:03 > 0:28:08- No, it was Billy Bud. A 1954 opera adapted from a novella by Henry... - GONG
0:28:08 > 0:28:14- And at the gong, Bath have 120, Glasgow have 190. - APPLAUSE
0:28:18 > 0:28:21It was The Turn Of The Screw. You'd have got that, of course, but...
0:28:21 > 0:28:24You'd have got a lot of stuff, if we had another half hour.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26It took you a long time to get going, Bath.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28In those last few minutes, we saw what you could possibly do.
0:28:28 > 0:28:33Glasgow, 190, well done. Convincing victory from you. We look forward to seeing you in Round Two.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35I hope you can join us next time for another first round match,
0:28:35 > 0:28:39- but until then it's goodbye from Bath University...- Goodbye.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41- ..it's goodbye from Glasgow University.- Goodbye.
0:28:41 > 0:28:42Goodbye from me, goodbye.