0:00:19 > 0:00:22University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello, only one place remains in the second round.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34It'll go to whichever team wins tonight.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Now, both of tonight's contestants lost their first-round matches
0:00:37 > 0:00:40but did so with scores creditable enough
0:00:40 > 0:00:43to earn them this final chance to qualify.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45The team from the University of Southampton
0:00:45 > 0:00:47took an early lead in their first-round match
0:00:47 > 0:00:49against St Catharine's College, Cambridge
0:00:49 > 0:00:52who obliged them by digging themselves into the minuses
0:00:52 > 0:00:54and looking quite happy there by the halfway mark.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Though, they lost the lead and fell to regain it
0:00:57 > 0:00:59and were 30 points behind at the gong.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Still, it would have been much worse without Southampton's knowledge
0:01:02 > 0:01:05of meerkats, wolverines and raccoons
0:01:05 > 0:01:08and their familiarity with the Horrible Histories books.
0:01:08 > 0:01:13With an average age of 26, let's meet the Southampton team again.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Hello, I'm Will Cable.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18I'm from Swindon and I'm studying for a Masters in history.
0:01:18 > 0:01:19Hi, I'm Sarah Stock.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22I'm originally from Cardiff and I'm reading chemistry.
0:01:22 > 0:01:23And this is their captain.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25Hello, my name is Tricia Goggin.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27I'm originally from New Ross in Ireland
0:01:27 > 0:01:30and I'm doing a PhD in biomedical engineering.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Hi, I'm Roland Sadler, I'm from London and I'm doing biology.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35APPLAUSE
0:01:38 > 0:01:40The team from Queen Mary University of London
0:01:40 > 0:01:43had a similar experience to Southampton's
0:01:43 > 0:01:44in their first-round match
0:01:44 > 0:01:46with an early lead against Nuffield College, Oxford
0:01:46 > 0:01:51dwindling down to a losing score of 130 to 165 at the gong.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53They were strong on the events of the noughties,
0:01:53 > 0:01:56the history of the Smithsonian and the plays of Bertolt Brecht
0:01:56 > 0:01:59despite the fact that some of them are pursuing areas of study
0:01:59 > 0:02:02that might be regarded as somewhat niche.
0:02:02 > 0:02:07Let's remind ourselves of those as we meet again the team from Queen Mary.
0:02:07 > 0:02:08Hi, I'm Kate Lynes.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11I'm originally from Nottingham and I'm studying for an MD
0:02:11 > 0:02:13in sphincter preservation.
0:02:13 > 0:02:14Hi, I'm Stephanie Howard-Smith.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16I'm from Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire
0:02:16 > 0:02:19and I'm a PhD student working on the cultural history of the lapdog
0:02:19 > 0:02:20in the long 18th century.
0:02:20 > 0:02:21And this is their captain.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23Hi, my name is Verity Williams.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25I'm from Eastbourne and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Hi, I'm Yolanda Lovelady.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30I'm from Formby near Liverpool and I'm studying medical genetics.
0:02:35 > 0:02:36Well, you all know the rules,
0:02:36 > 0:02:37let's just get on with it.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Ten points for this.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Meanings of what four-letter word include a person who stands firm,
0:02:43 > 0:02:47the solid mineral material that forms the surface of the earth,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50the flesh of a dogfish, cubed ice in a drink...
0:02:50 > 0:02:51BELL RINGS
0:02:51 > 0:02:52Rock.
0:02:52 > 0:02:53Correct.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Your bonuses, the first set of bonuses, Southampton,
0:02:58 > 0:03:00are on swallows. Quote.
0:03:00 > 0:03:04"For as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes the spring,
0:03:04 > 0:03:09"so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy."
0:03:09 > 0:03:12This statement appears in the Nicomachean Ethics,
0:03:12 > 0:03:15a work by which Greek philosopher?
0:03:16 > 0:03:17It's Aristotle.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19- Aristotle.- Correct.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22"True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26"Kings it makes gods and meaner creatures kings."
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Richmond says these words on the eve of battle
0:03:29 > 0:03:30in which of Shakespeare's histories?
0:03:30 > 0:03:31(Richard III.)
0:03:31 > 0:03:32Richard III.
0:03:32 > 0:03:33Correct.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35"Now with treble soft
0:03:35 > 0:03:37"The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft
0:03:37 > 0:03:40"And gathering swallows twitter in the skies."
0:03:40 > 0:03:43These are the last lines of an ode by John Keats.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45To whom or what is it addressed?
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Nightingale?
0:03:47 > 0:03:48THEY MUMBLE
0:03:48 > 0:03:50- SADLER:- Nightingale.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52- Nightingale. - No, it's to autumn.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Ten points for this.
0:03:54 > 0:03:55Which novel in 1910 contains
0:03:55 > 0:03:57the following lines in its introduction?
0:03:57 > 0:04:01"When I began to ransack the archives of the National Academy of Music,
0:04:01 > 0:04:04"I was at once struck by the surprising coincidences
0:04:04 > 0:04:07"between the phenomena ascribed to the 'ghost'
0:04:07 > 0:04:10"and the most extraordinary and fantastic tragedy
0:04:10 > 0:04:13"that ever excited the minds of the Paris upper classes."
0:04:13 > 0:04:15BELL RINGS
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Phantom Of The Opera.
0:04:18 > 0:04:19Correct.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26These bonuses, Southampton, are on 19th-century legislation.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29Which decade saw the passing of The Infant Custody Act
0:04:29 > 0:04:32after a campaign led by the novelist Caroline Norton?
0:04:32 > 0:04:35Her estranged husband had refused her access to her children
0:04:35 > 0:04:38and unsuccessfully cited the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne,
0:04:38 > 0:04:40in a claim of adultery.
0:04:40 > 0:04:421830s, I think.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44- 1830s.- Correct.
0:04:44 > 0:04:45Some of Norton's later proposals
0:04:45 > 0:04:48were included in the Matrimonial Causes Act
0:04:48 > 0:04:51which permitted women to sue for divorce in a civil court.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54During which decade was this act passed?
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Lord Palmerston was Prime Minister at the time.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00It's either '50s or '60s.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04I think it was in the 1850s.
0:05:04 > 0:05:061850s.
0:05:06 > 0:05:07Correct.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09The Married Women's Property Act of 1882
0:05:09 > 0:05:11ensured that married women had the same rights
0:05:11 > 0:05:14over their property as unmarried women.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Who was Prime Minister at the time?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Gladstone.
0:05:18 > 0:05:19- Gladstone.- Correct.
0:05:19 > 0:05:20Ten points for this.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Give the four-letter name of the plant cultivated
0:05:24 > 0:05:28since ancient times for both yarn and oil
0:05:28 > 0:05:32and which has featured several times on pound coins as a floral emblem
0:05:32 > 0:05:33of Northern Ireland.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35BELL RINGS
0:05:35 > 0:05:36Flax.
0:05:36 > 0:05:37Correct.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42Southampton, these bonuses are on microbiology.
0:05:42 > 0:05:47Firstly, what infectious agents are classified by the Baltimore system?
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Viruses.
0:05:50 > 0:05:51Correct.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54In this system, Group II are those viruses
0:05:54 > 0:05:57with a genome designated as ssDNA.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00For what does the double S in this expression stand?
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Single-strand.
0:06:02 > 0:06:03Single-strand, it is correct.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07In the same system, Group V includes the Orthomyxoviruses genera
0:06:07 > 0:06:12of which cause what broad group of diseases in vertebrates,
0:06:12 > 0:06:15including pandemic outbreaks affecting humans?
0:06:15 > 0:06:18- SHE MUMBLES - Myxovirus...
0:06:18 > 0:06:21It's definitely not the flu virus.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23CABLE WHISPERS
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Give me a type of disease. Type of disease?
0:06:27 > 0:06:30THEY WHISPER
0:06:30 > 0:06:33Is it just plagues?
0:06:33 > 0:06:36- GOGGIN SIGHS - I don't know.
0:06:36 > 0:06:37Skin diseases.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39No, it's flu, influenza.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Ten points for this.
0:06:41 > 0:06:42Which pear-shaped organ
0:06:42 > 0:06:44is located in the upper abdomen
0:06:44 > 0:06:46with its head adjacent to the duodenum
0:06:46 > 0:06:50and its tail extending across the midline almost to the spleen?
0:06:50 > 0:06:52BUZZER
0:06:52 > 0:06:53Pancreas.
0:06:53 > 0:06:54Pancreas is correct, yes.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01Right, these bonuses are on the operas of Verdi, Queen Mary.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Rewritten after Francesco Maria Piave's original libretto was banned
0:07:04 > 0:07:08for what its Venetian censors called its "obscene triviality",
0:07:08 > 0:07:11which of Verdi's operas was based on Victor Hugo's play
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Le Roi S'Amuse?
0:07:19 > 0:07:23- HOWARD-SMITH WHISPERS - I don't know.
0:07:23 > 0:07:24We don't know.
0:07:24 > 0:07:25That's Rigoletto.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Secondly, unusual among Verdi's operas
0:07:28 > 0:07:31in that it has an abstract concept as its title,
0:07:31 > 0:07:34which work features the family of the Marquis of Calatrava
0:07:34 > 0:07:37and premiered in St Petersburg in 1862?
0:07:42 > 0:07:43THEY WHISPER
0:07:43 > 0:07:46- Trovatore.- Trovatore.
0:07:46 > 0:07:50- HOWARD-SMITH WHISPERS - Don't know.
0:07:51 > 0:07:52Trovatore.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55No, it's the Force Of Destiny, La Forza Del Destino.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57And, finally, based on a Shakespearean theme
0:07:57 > 0:08:00and featuring characters named Bardolfo, Pistola
0:08:00 > 0:08:02and Mistress Quickly,
0:08:02 > 0:08:05what was the last opera to be written by Verdi?
0:08:05 > 0:08:06Falstaff.
0:08:06 > 0:08:07Correct.
0:08:07 > 0:08:08We're going to take
0:08:08 > 0:08:09a picture round now.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12For your picture starter, you're going to see a map
0:08:12 > 0:08:13showing a European city.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Ten points if you can identify the city.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20BUZZER
0:08:20 > 0:08:21Bologna.
0:08:21 > 0:08:22Bologna is correct, yes.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27Bologna, as you know, is home to what's usually held
0:08:27 > 0:08:30to be the oldest university in the Western world.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Your picture bonuses show the locations of three more
0:08:32 > 0:08:34of Europe's oldest universities,
0:08:34 > 0:08:38all founded before 1300 and remaining in operation today.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41In each case, I simply want the name of the city marked.
0:08:41 > 0:08:42Firstly, for five...
0:08:49 > 0:08:50Salamanca.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51Correct.
0:08:51 > 0:08:52Secondly...
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Is that Lisbon?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58No, that's almost on the coast.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00I don't know.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03- Shall we go for Lisbon?- Yeah.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06- Lisbon. - No, it's Coimbra. And, finally...
0:09:09 > 0:09:12Siena? Oh, no, wait, Pisa.
0:09:12 > 0:09:13Is that not Pisa?
0:09:13 > 0:09:16It's got a really old university, hasn't it?
0:09:16 > 0:09:17Pisa.
0:09:17 > 0:09:18No, it's Siena. Bad luck.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Ten points for this.
0:09:20 > 0:09:21"Instrumentation is to music
0:09:21 > 0:09:24"precisely what colour is to painting."
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Which French composer made that statement?
0:09:27 > 0:09:30Born in 1803, his works include Harold In Italy,
0:09:30 > 0:09:33The Damnation Of Faust and the Symphonie Fantastique.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35BELL RINGS
0:09:35 > 0:09:37Oh, it's wrong, I was going to say Saint-Saens
0:09:37 > 0:09:39but the actual name's gone out of my head.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41You're right, it is wrong. Right,
0:09:41 > 0:09:43anyone like to buzz from Queen Mary? BUZZER
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- Berlioz. - Berlioz is correct, yes.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52Right, these bonuses, Queen Mary, are on gambling.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55Used in Ancient Greece as an early form of dice in games of chance,
0:09:55 > 0:09:59the astragalus is a bone in which joint of the human body?
0:09:59 > 0:10:01THEY WHISPER
0:10:03 > 0:10:06They definitely used knuckle bones for gambling.
0:10:07 > 0:10:08Knuckle.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12No, it's the ank... How many of you are doctors or medics over there?
0:10:12 > 0:10:13It's in the ankle.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16In the 1650s, which French mathematician conducted
0:10:16 > 0:10:19a frequent correspondence with Blaise Pascal
0:10:19 > 0:10:21about the solution to a gambling game
0:10:21 > 0:10:23and in doing so laid the foundations
0:10:23 > 0:10:25of a mathematical theory of probability?
0:10:30 > 0:10:32- Galois.- No, it's Fermat.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35And, finally, set in the fictional town of Roulettenburg,
0:10:35 > 0:10:38The Gambler is a short novel by which Russian writer?
0:10:43 > 0:10:46- Pushkin, maybe. - THEY WHISPER
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Pushkin? Pushkin?
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Dostoyevsky.
0:10:55 > 0:10:56Dostoyevsky.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Correct. Ten points for this.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Give the four-letter abbreviation
0:11:00 > 0:11:02of the international organisation
0:11:02 > 0:11:04that produces the Red List of Threatened Species,
0:11:04 > 0:11:06a comprehensive...
0:11:06 > 0:11:07IUCN.
0:11:07 > 0:11:08Correct. Yes.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Right, your bonuses are on food.
0:11:13 > 0:11:18Specifically, dishes that, according to the You.Gov website,
0:11:18 > 0:11:20are among the ten listed as particular favourites
0:11:20 > 0:11:22of viewers of this programme.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24In each case, name the dish from the description.
0:11:24 > 0:11:29Firstly, a meat dish named after the composer of the 1816 opera
0:11:29 > 0:11:30The Barber Of Seville.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33It consists of fillet steak with foie gras truffles
0:11:33 > 0:11:34and a Madeira sauce.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38- Tournedos Rossini or beef Rossini. - Beef Rossini.
0:11:38 > 0:11:39Beef Rossini.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41No, it's tournedos Rossini.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45An Indonesian dish of chicken stewed in coconut milk and spices
0:11:45 > 0:11:48in a style sometimes known as caramelised curry.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54Beef rendang?
0:11:54 > 0:11:55Beef rendang.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Well, I said specifically it was chicken.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59- Oh.- Chicken rendang.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02I'll accept, that is rendang, yes, I'll accept that.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04Credited to Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume
0:12:04 > 0:12:06at the London Cordon Bleu cookery school,
0:12:06 > 0:12:09a dish devised to mark an event of 1953.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13- Coronation chicken.- Oh, yeah. - Coronation chicken.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14Correct. Ten points for this.
0:12:14 > 0:12:15Listen carefully.
0:12:15 > 0:12:16Abbreviated forms of words
0:12:16 > 0:12:18meaning the queen of the sciences
0:12:18 > 0:12:19according to Gauss
0:12:19 > 0:12:21and alcohol impregnated with methanol
0:12:21 > 0:12:26may both be made using letters of the name of which British River?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30BELL RINGS
0:12:31 > 0:12:32The Thames.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Correct.
0:12:36 > 0:12:37Maths and meths, for example.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39Right, a set of bonuses for you this time
0:12:39 > 0:12:41on historical climatology, Southampton.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45For what do the letters LIA stand
0:12:45 > 0:12:48when referring to a period from the 14th to the 19th centuries,
0:12:48 > 0:12:52marked in general terms by colder winters in Europe?
0:12:52 > 0:12:53Little Ice Age.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Correct. The Little Ice Age coincided
0:12:55 > 0:12:58with a Sporer minimum and a Maunder minimum -
0:12:58 > 0:13:02periods of unusually low activity of what solar phenomenon?
0:13:02 > 0:13:04- Solar...- Sunspots.- Sunspots.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06- Sunspots are sort of...- Sunspots.
0:13:06 > 0:13:07Sunspots.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Correct. One theory holds that the Little Ice Age in Europe
0:13:10 > 0:13:13resulted from the reversal of an atmospheric circulation pattern
0:13:13 > 0:13:16over the North Atlantic abbreviated to NAO.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19For what does the letter O stand?
0:13:19 > 0:13:21- Oscillation.- Oscillation.
0:13:21 > 0:13:22Correct. Ten points
0:13:22 > 0:13:23for this starter question.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24The Conservative politician
0:13:24 > 0:13:29Iain Macleod is credited with coining what portmanteau term in 1965
0:13:29 > 0:13:34to describe a situation of high unemployment combined with high...
0:13:34 > 0:13:35BUZZER
0:13:35 > 0:13:38- Stagflation. - Stagflation is right, yes.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Right, your bonuses are on the words of Oscar Wilde.
0:13:43 > 0:13:47In each case, give the precise single word that completes the following.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Firstly, from The Importance Of Being Earnest.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53"The truth is rarely pure and never..."
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Is it simple?
0:13:58 > 0:13:59Simple.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02Correct. Secondly, from Lady Windermere's Fan.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05"Experience is the name everyone gives to their..."
0:14:05 > 0:14:06Mistakes.
0:14:06 > 0:14:07Mistakes.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11Correct. And, finally, from The Picture Of Dorian Gray.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13"A man cannot be too careful in his choice of..."
0:14:13 > 0:14:16- Enemies?- Yeah, sounds good.
0:14:16 > 0:14:17- Enemies.- Correct.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19We'll take a music round now.
0:14:19 > 0:14:20For your music starter,
0:14:20 > 0:14:22you'll hear a piece
0:14:22 > 0:14:23of orchestral music
0:14:23 > 0:14:24by an American composer.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27Ten points if you can give me his name, please.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:29 > 0:14:31BUZZER
0:14:31 > 0:14:35- Copland.- Correct. Barley Wagons from Of Mice And Men.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40That was part of the film score, of course, of the film of that name.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44Your bonuses are pieces for film by three more classical composers
0:14:44 > 0:14:47who, like Copland, produced a significant body of music
0:14:47 > 0:14:49for film in addition to their concert works.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53In each case I simply want you to identify the composer, please.
0:14:53 > 0:14:54Firstly, for five.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:14 > 0:15:17THEY CONFER
0:15:25 > 0:15:27I don't recognise that.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31- LOVELADY:- Williams. - Yeah, why not?
0:15:31 > 0:15:33- LYNES:- Just go with John.
0:15:33 > 0:15:34John Williams.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37No, that's Ralph Vaughan Williams' Scott On The Glacier
0:15:37 > 0:15:39from Scott Of The Antarctic. Secondly...
0:15:39 > 0:15:41ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Oh, my God.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56I know it's...it's from Robin Hood.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58- THEY CONFER - Was it from Robin Hood?
0:15:58 > 0:16:01Adventures...
0:16:01 > 0:16:04THEY CONFER
0:16:09 > 0:16:10Oh, my God.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13TEAM LAUGH
0:16:13 > 0:16:15Come on, I think we'd better have an answer.
0:16:15 > 0:16:16- Robin Hood.- Menken?.- No.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19Um...
0:16:21 > 0:16:23Willi...
0:16:23 > 0:16:25- Come on, I need an answer. - I don't know.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27What a shame cos you did have the right film,
0:16:27 > 0:16:29it was from The Adventures Of Robin Hood.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33It was by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. And, finally...
0:16:33 > 0:16:35ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:35 > 0:16:38Oh, it's from Mary Poppins, isn't it?
0:16:38 > 0:16:40No, it's not. It's not at all.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51THEY CONFER
0:17:01 > 0:17:03I don't know.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Come on, let's have it, please.
0:17:06 > 0:17:07I don't know.
0:17:07 > 0:17:08That's Shostakovich.
0:17:08 > 0:17:09We're going to take another
0:17:09 > 0:17:11starter question now.
0:17:11 > 0:17:12Fingers on the buzzers.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Their name derived from the Old French for throat
0:17:14 > 0:17:17and specifically associated with the Gothic period,
0:17:17 > 0:17:20which often grotesque architectural features...
0:17:20 > 0:17:22BELL RINGS
0:17:22 > 0:17:23Gargoyles.
0:17:23 > 0:17:24Gargoyles is right, yes.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29Right, these bonuses, Southampton,
0:17:29 > 0:17:30which will give you the lead if you get them,
0:17:30 > 0:17:32are on ballerinas.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Having performed in Nureyev's Swan Lake in 1984,
0:17:35 > 0:17:39which French ballerina became at the age of 19 the youngest person
0:17:39 > 0:17:41in the history of the Paris Opera Ballet
0:17:41 > 0:17:44to hold the rank of star?
0:17:44 > 0:17:47A French ballerina. Fonteyn, she's too old.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Anybody, French ballerina?
0:17:49 > 0:17:51No.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Margot Fonteyn.
0:17:54 > 0:17:55No, it's Sylvie Guillem.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Which Spanish ballerina left the Royal Ballet in 2012
0:17:58 > 0:18:02to take up the artistic directorship of the English National Ballet?
0:18:02 > 0:18:06- Sophie...Sophie... - I don't know her surname.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Sofia... Is it Mona?
0:18:09 > 0:18:11I was thinking an R word, like...
0:18:14 > 0:18:17- Ramonez. - No, it's Tamara Rojo.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21And, finally, born in St Petersburg in 1881, which prima ballerina
0:18:21 > 0:18:25was particularly noted for her performance of the dying swan?
0:18:26 > 0:18:28GOGGIN WHISPERS
0:18:28 > 0:18:30No, much older.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Maybe that is Fonteyn.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Russian?
0:18:34 > 0:18:36- Oh, not Russian.- Russian ballerina.
0:18:36 > 0:18:37Oh, Margot Fonteyn again.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39No, it's Anna Pavlova.
0:18:39 > 0:18:40Right, another starter question.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42In the first words of Jesus
0:18:42 > 0:18:43in St Mark's Gospel
0:18:43 > 0:18:44in the New International Version
0:18:44 > 0:18:46and Tweedledee's recitation
0:18:46 > 0:18:48in Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking Glass,
0:18:48 > 0:18:51what four precise words precede,
0:18:51 > 0:18:55"The kingdom of God is near" and "the Walrus said"?
0:18:57 > 0:18:59BUZZER
0:18:59 > 0:19:01"It's time to talk."
0:19:01 > 0:19:03JEREMY CHUCKLES
0:19:03 > 0:19:06Anyone like to buzz from Southampton?
0:19:07 > 0:19:08It's, "The time has come."
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Ten points for this.
0:19:10 > 0:19:1218,000 light years away
0:19:12 > 0:19:14and containing a microquasar,
0:19:14 > 0:19:16the nebula previously known as W50
0:19:16 > 0:19:21was renamed in 2013 after what aquatic mammal
0:19:21 > 0:19:24sometimes known as a sea cow whose shape...
0:19:24 > 0:19:26BELL RINGS
0:19:26 > 0:19:27A manatee.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30Manatee is correct, yes. That puts you in the lead.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34And your bonuses, Southampton, are on botany.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36From the Latin for juice, what term denotes a plant
0:19:36 > 0:19:41with fleshy, thick tissues, adapted to water storage such as cacti?
0:19:41 > 0:19:44- Succulent.- Succulent? Yeah. - I think so.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Succulent.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Correct. Secondly, succulents employ a modified version
0:19:49 > 0:19:54of carbon dioxide fixation and photosynthesis known as CAM.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56For what do the letters CAM stand?
0:20:01 > 0:20:03Modification?
0:20:06 > 0:20:09Carbon activated modification...
0:20:09 > 0:20:10Carbon activated modification.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13No, it's crassulacean acid metabolism.
0:20:13 > 0:20:14And, finally, a popular house plant -
0:20:14 > 0:20:17which succulent has thick, serrated leaves
0:20:17 > 0:20:20and produces a bitter medicinal sap used in cosmetics
0:20:20 > 0:20:22and as a treatment for burns?
0:20:22 > 0:20:23Aloe vera.
0:20:23 > 0:20:24Correct.
0:20:24 > 0:20:25Right, we're going to take
0:20:25 > 0:20:27a second picture round now.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29For your picture starter you're going to see a poster
0:20:29 > 0:20:31for a film adaptation of a short story.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Ten points if you can tell me the title
0:20:33 > 0:20:35and the author of the story.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Any helpful wording has, of course, been removed.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42BELL RINGS
0:20:42 > 0:20:44The Pit And The Pendulum.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46- Yes, who's it by?- Edgar Allan Poe.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Correct, yes. We'll see the whole thing now. There it is.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Now, The Pit And The Pendulum was one of a series of adaptations
0:20:52 > 0:20:54of Poe's Tales Of Terror by the film-maker Roger Corman.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Your picture bonuses are the posters of three more of them,
0:20:57 > 0:20:59again with some text removed.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02In each case, I want the title of the work by Poe
0:21:02 > 0:21:04on which the film is based.
0:21:04 > 0:21:05Firstly, for five.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Stories by Poe?
0:21:08 > 0:21:09THEY WHISPER
0:21:09 > 0:21:13It's not The Raven either. It doesn't look like The Raven.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16- Um...- I haven't... - Come on, let's have it, please.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20- The terrifying, red-faced man. - LAUGHTER
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Well, close, but not close enough.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24It's The Masque Of The Red Death.
0:21:24 > 0:21:25- Oh.- Secondly...
0:21:25 > 0:21:29Oh, goodness.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Night of the cat.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34Anybody? Night Of The Cat.
0:21:34 > 0:21:35No, that's Ligeia.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Let's see the whole thing. There it is.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38And, finally...
0:21:42 > 0:21:46Hmm. Goodness. What was the one you said?
0:21:46 > 0:21:48The Tell-Tale Heart. I don't think it is.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50One of them has to be a famous one.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Yeah, The Tell-Tale Heart.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55No, that's The Fall Of The House Of Usher.
0:21:55 > 0:21:56There it is.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Right, ten points for this.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00Which Latin American country links a fungal disease
0:22:00 > 0:22:03that can devastate banana crops with a type of headgear
0:22:03 > 0:22:04made in Ecuador?
0:22:04 > 0:22:06The latter has a wide... BELL RINGS
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Panama.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Panama is correct, yes.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Right, your bonuses are on islands
0:22:13 > 0:22:15named after the day of their discovery.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Firstly, for five points.
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Which volcanic island was named
0:22:18 > 0:22:21by Columbus after the day of the week on which he first sighted it?
0:22:21 > 0:22:25It was the birthplace of the novelist Jean Rhys in 1890
0:22:25 > 0:22:28and it became independent of Britain in 1978.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Dominican Republic was named after Sunday?
0:22:31 > 0:22:33- Yeah.- Dominica?- Dominica.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36- Dominica, named after Sunday?- Yes.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Dominica.
0:22:38 > 0:22:39Dominica is correct.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Named by a Portuguese navigator in 1503,
0:22:41 > 0:22:44which volcanic island was uninhabited until British marines
0:22:44 > 0:22:47were stationed there in 1815 to forestall attempts
0:22:47 > 0:22:50to help Napoleon escape from St Helena?
0:22:50 > 0:22:51The one down the...
0:22:51 > 0:22:54- Ascension Island. - Yeah. Ascension Island.
0:22:54 > 0:22:55Correct.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58And, finally, one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world,
0:22:58 > 0:23:02which Chilean territory is also known as Rapa Nui
0:23:02 > 0:23:03or Isla De Pascua?
0:23:03 > 0:23:04Easter Island.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06Correct. Ten points
0:23:06 > 0:23:07for this starter question.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10Sinis, the pine-bender, and Procrustes, the stretcher,
0:23:10 > 0:23:12were among the bandits and outlaws overcome
0:23:12 > 0:23:15by which legendary king of Athens? BELL RINGS
0:23:15 > 0:23:16Theseus.
0:23:16 > 0:23:17Correct.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Your bonuses, Southampton, are on colours.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25In each case, tell me the shade of green named after the following.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28Firstly, known by a four-letter common name,
0:23:28 > 0:23:30any of more than 10,000 species
0:23:30 > 0:23:35of small, flowerless, spore-bearing plants of the class Bryopsida.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36Fern.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37No, it's moss.
0:23:37 > 0:23:42Secondly, a copper carbonate mineral used ornamentally and as a gemstone.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45Jade? No.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49- Green?- Amber?- Copper carbonate. - Amber's...- Amber's not green.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51- Green. Ma...- Jade.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54- No, it's malachite. - No, I was about to say malachite.
0:23:54 > 0:23:55Oh, sorry.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58And, finally, a small dabbling duck, for example, Anas crecca.
0:23:58 > 0:23:59Teal.
0:23:59 > 0:24:00Teal is right.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Another starter question now.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Often used with barnacles,
0:24:04 > 0:24:07what term in zoology derives from the Latin for "to sit"
0:24:07 > 0:24:10and means immobile in botany... BELL RINGS
0:24:10 > 0:24:11Sessile.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Sessile is correct.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16Your bonuses this time are on euro coins, Southampton,
0:24:16 > 0:24:20using information from the website of the European Central Bank.
0:24:20 > 0:24:24Which country's one and two euro coins depict its national emblem,
0:24:24 > 0:24:27a two-barred cross on three hills?
0:24:28 > 0:24:31- Slovakia, Slovakia. - Is it? OK. Slovakia.
0:24:31 > 0:24:32Correct.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Which country's one and two euro coins
0:24:34 > 0:24:37show a cruciform idol from around 3000BC?
0:24:37 > 0:24:40It is said to reflect the country's place
0:24:40 > 0:24:43at the heart of civilisation and antiquity.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45- Greece?- Yeah.
0:24:45 > 0:24:46Greece.
0:24:46 > 0:24:47No, it's Cyprus.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49And, finally, Raphael's portrait of which poet
0:24:49 > 0:24:52appears on the two euro coin of Italy?
0:24:53 > 0:24:54Italian poet.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59- Dante?- It's the only one... - SADLER WHISPERS
0:24:59 > 0:25:01- Let's go for Dante.- Dante would have been...in the 1400s.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03- OK.- Dante.
0:25:03 > 0:25:04Dante is correct.
0:25:04 > 0:25:05Two and a half minutes to go.
0:25:05 > 0:25:06Ten points for this.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09What is the five-letter common name of epidemic parotitis?
0:25:09 > 0:25:12So called because one of its symptoms is the swelling of the parotid
0:25:12 > 0:25:14and other saliva... BUZZER
0:25:14 > 0:25:15Mumps.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Mumps is right, yes.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Your bonuses this time are on publishing, Queen Mary.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25In 1937, Penguin Books gave the name of which other bird
0:25:25 > 0:25:27to a series of non-fiction publications
0:25:27 > 0:25:29launched with George Bernard Shaw's
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Intelligent Women's Guide To Socialism?
0:25:32 > 0:25:33Pelican.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Correct. In 1940, Penguin began publishing books for children
0:25:36 > 0:25:38under what imprint, also the name of a sea bird?
0:25:38 > 0:25:39Puffin.
0:25:39 > 0:25:40Correct. Appearing in 1946,
0:25:40 > 0:25:42the first volume in the Penguin Classics series
0:25:42 > 0:25:47was EV Rieu's translation of which epic poem?
0:25:47 > 0:25:48Iliad. The Iliad.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50No, it was The Odyssey. Ten points for this.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54In which country is the Baikonur Cosmodrome?
0:25:54 > 0:25:55BELL RINGS
0:25:55 > 0:25:56Kazakhstan.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Kazakhstan is correct, yes.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Your bonuses this time are on Ancient Greece
0:26:01 > 0:26:02and modern vocabulary.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Firstly, from the inhabitants of the Greek city
0:26:05 > 0:26:06on the Gulf Of Taranto,
0:26:06 > 0:26:10which adjective means devoted to luxury and indulgence?
0:26:11 > 0:26:13- Hedonistic?- Yeah.- Hedonistic?
0:26:13 > 0:26:16That's what it means, I don't know if that's a place in Greece.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20- Hedonistic. - No, it's sybaritic, from Sybaris.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23After the perceived corruption of the Attic dialect
0:26:23 > 0:26:25by colonists of Soloi in Cilicia,
0:26:25 > 0:26:29what term denotes a non-standard or improper use of grammar or syntax?
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Anybody? No, we don't know.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36That's a solecism.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39And, finally, the region around ancient Sparta is the origin
0:26:39 > 0:26:43of which adjective meaning concise or pithy in verbal expression?
0:26:43 > 0:26:44Laconic. Laconic.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Laconic.
0:26:46 > 0:26:47Correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50Born in around 1502, Atahualpa was the last ruler
0:26:50 > 0:26:52of which empire? BELL RINGS
0:26:52 > 0:26:53The Inca Empire.
0:26:53 > 0:26:54Correct.
0:26:54 > 0:26:5815 points for these bonuses, Southampton, they're on Russia.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00In each case, give the present day name from the description.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02All three begin with the same two letters.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Firstly, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea
0:27:05 > 0:27:07- between Poland and Lithuania. - Kaliningrad.
0:27:07 > 0:27:08Kaliningrad.
0:27:08 > 0:27:12Correct. Secondly, an inlet of the Arctic Ocean into which major rivers
0:27:12 > 0:27:14such as the Ob and the Yenisei flow.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17- STOCK WHISPERS - No, it begins with K.- Oh, yeah.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21- Ka...ka...- Ka...
0:27:21 > 0:27:23- Pass.- That's the Kara Sea.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25And, finally, a peninsula in the Russian far east -
0:27:25 > 0:27:28the location of around 10% of the world's active volcanoes.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Kamchatka.
0:27:30 > 0:27:31Correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:31 > 0:27:32Which of Shakespeare's
0:27:32 > 0:27:34title characters is the son of Volumnia
0:27:34 > 0:27:36and the husband of Virgilia? BELL RINGS
0:27:36 > 0:27:38Coriolanus.
0:27:38 > 0:27:39Correct.
0:27:39 > 0:27:40You get a set of bonuses this time
0:27:40 > 0:27:42on Archbishops of Canterbury, Southampton.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45What is the surname of the father and son who both died...
0:27:45 > 0:27:47GONG
0:27:47 > 0:27:48And at the gong,
0:27:48 > 0:27:49Queen Mary - London have 120
0:27:49 > 0:27:52but Southampton have 235.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54APPLAUSE
0:27:54 > 0:27:56THEY WHISPER
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Well, Queen Mary, we're going to have to say goodbye to you.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02It's back to the lapdogs and sphincters for you.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04But thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06You've been a real treat to have with us.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Southampton, 235. It's a wonderful performance.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11We shall look forward to seeing you in the second round of the contest.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13Thank you very much for joining us too.
0:28:13 > 0:28:14I hope you'll join us next time
0:28:14 > 0:28:16for the start of the second round matches
0:28:16 > 0:28:19but until then, it's goodbye from Queen Mary - London.
0:28:19 > 0:28:20- ALL:- Bye-bye.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22It's goodbye from Southampton University.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25- ALL:- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.