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University Challenge.

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Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.

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Hello, only one place remains in the second round.

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It'll go to whichever team wins tonight.

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Now, both of tonight's contestants lost their first-round matches

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but did so with scores creditable enough

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to earn them this final chance to qualify.

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The team from the University of Southampton

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took an early lead in their first-round match

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against St Catharine's College, Cambridge

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who obliged them by digging themselves into the minuses

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and looking quite happy there by the halfway mark.

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Though, they lost the lead and fell to regain it

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and were 30 points behind at the gong.

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Still, it would have been much worse without Southampton's knowledge

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of meerkats, wolverines and raccoons

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and their familiarity with the Horrible Histories books.

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With an average age of 26, let's meet the Southampton team again.

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Hello, I'm Will Cable.

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I'm from Swindon and I'm studying for a Masters in history.

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Hi, I'm Sarah Stock.

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I'm originally from Cardiff and I'm reading chemistry.

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And this is their captain.

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Hello, my name is Tricia Goggin.

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I'm originally from New Ross in Ireland

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and I'm doing a PhD in biomedical engineering.

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Hi, I'm Roland Sadler, I'm from London and I'm doing biology.

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APPLAUSE

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The team from Queen Mary University of London

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had a similar experience to Southampton's

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in their first-round match

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with an early lead against Nuffield College, Oxford

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dwindling down to a losing score of 130 to 165 at the gong.

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They were strong on the events of the noughties,

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the history of the Smithsonian and the plays of Bertolt Brecht

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despite the fact that some of them are pursuing areas of study

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that might be regarded as somewhat niche.

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Let's remind ourselves of those as we meet again the team from Queen Mary.

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Hi, I'm Kate Lynes.

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I'm originally from Nottingham and I'm studying for an MD

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in sphincter preservation.

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Hi, I'm Stephanie Howard-Smith.

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I'm from Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire

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and I'm a PhD student working on the cultural history of the lapdog

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in the long 18th century.

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And this is their captain.

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Hi, my name is Verity Williams.

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I'm from Eastbourne and I'm studying medicine.

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Hi, I'm Yolanda Lovelady.

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I'm from Formby near Liverpool and I'm studying medical genetics.

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Well, you all know the rules,

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let's just get on with it.

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Ten points for this.

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Fingers on the buzzers.

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Meanings of what four-letter word include a person who stands firm,

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the solid mineral material that forms the surface of the earth,

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the flesh of a dogfish, cubed ice in a drink...

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BELL RINGS

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Rock.

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Correct.

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Your bonuses, the first set of bonuses, Southampton,

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are on swallows. Quote.

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"For as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes the spring,

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"so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy."

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This statement appears in the Nicomachean Ethics,

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a work by which Greek philosopher?

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It's Aristotle.

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-Aristotle.

-Correct.

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"True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings.

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"Kings it makes gods and meaner creatures kings."

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Richmond says these words on the eve of battle

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in which of Shakespeare's histories?

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(Richard III.)

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Richard III.

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Correct.

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"Now with treble soft

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"The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft

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"And gathering swallows twitter in the skies."

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These are the last lines of an ode by John Keats.

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To whom or what is it addressed?

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Nightingale?

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THEY MUMBLE

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-SADLER:

-Nightingale.

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-Nightingale.

-No, it's to autumn.

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Ten points for this.

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Which novel in 1910 contains

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the following lines in its introduction?

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"When I began to ransack the archives of the National Academy of Music,

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"I was at once struck by the surprising coincidences

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"between the phenomena ascribed to the 'ghost'

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"and the most extraordinary and fantastic tragedy

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"that ever excited the minds of the Paris upper classes."

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BELL RINGS

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Phantom Of The Opera.

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Correct.

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These bonuses, Southampton, are on 19th-century legislation.

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Which decade saw the passing of The Infant Custody Act

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after a campaign led by the novelist Caroline Norton?

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Her estranged husband had refused her access to her children

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and unsuccessfully cited the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne,

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in a claim of adultery.

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1830s, I think.

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-1830s.

-Correct.

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Some of Norton's later proposals

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were included in the Matrimonial Causes Act

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which permitted women to sue for divorce in a civil court.

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During which decade was this act passed?

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Lord Palmerston was Prime Minister at the time.

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It's either '50s or '60s.

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I think it was in the 1850s.

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1850s.

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Correct.

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The Married Women's Property Act of 1882

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ensured that married women had the same rights

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over their property as unmarried women.

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Who was Prime Minister at the time?

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Gladstone.

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-Gladstone.

-Correct.

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Ten points for this.

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Give the four-letter name of the plant cultivated

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since ancient times for both yarn and oil

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and which has featured several times on pound coins as a floral emblem

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of Northern Ireland.

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BELL RINGS

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Flax.

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Correct.

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Southampton, these bonuses are on microbiology.

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Firstly, what infectious agents are classified by the Baltimore system?

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Viruses.

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Correct.

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In this system, Group II are those viruses

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with a genome designated as ssDNA.

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For what does the double S in this expression stand?

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Single-strand.

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Single-strand, it is correct.

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In the same system, Group V includes the Orthomyxoviruses genera

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of which cause what broad group of diseases in vertebrates,

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including pandemic outbreaks affecting humans?

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-SHE MUMBLES

-Myxovirus...

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It's definitely not the flu virus.

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CABLE WHISPERS

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Give me a type of disease. Type of disease?

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THEY WHISPER

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Is it just plagues?

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-GOGGIN SIGHS

-I don't know.

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Skin diseases.

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No, it's flu, influenza.

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Ten points for this.

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Which pear-shaped organ

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is located in the upper abdomen

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with its head adjacent to the duodenum

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and its tail extending across the midline almost to the spleen?

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BUZZER

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Pancreas.

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Pancreas is correct, yes.

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Right, these bonuses are on the operas of Verdi, Queen Mary.

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Rewritten after Francesco Maria Piave's original libretto was banned

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for what its Venetian censors called its "obscene triviality",

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which of Verdi's operas was based on Victor Hugo's play

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Le Roi S'Amuse?

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-HOWARD-SMITH WHISPERS

-I don't know.

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We don't know.

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That's Rigoletto.

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Secondly, unusual among Verdi's operas

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in that it has an abstract concept as its title,

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which work features the family of the Marquis of Calatrava

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and premiered in St Petersburg in 1862?

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THEY WHISPER

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-Trovatore.

-Trovatore.

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-HOWARD-SMITH WHISPERS

-Don't know.

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Trovatore.

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No, it's the Force Of Destiny, La Forza Del Destino.

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And, finally, based on a Shakespearean theme

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and featuring characters named Bardolfo, Pistola

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and Mistress Quickly,

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what was the last opera to be written by Verdi?

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Falstaff.

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Correct.

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We're going to take

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a picture round now.

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For your picture starter, you're going to see a map

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showing a European city.

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Ten points if you can identify the city.

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BUZZER

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Bologna.

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Bologna is correct, yes.

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Bologna, as you know, is home to what's usually held

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to be the oldest university in the Western world.

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Your picture bonuses show the locations of three more

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of Europe's oldest universities,

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all founded before 1300 and remaining in operation today.

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In each case, I simply want the name of the city marked.

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Firstly, for five...

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Salamanca.

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Correct.

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Secondly...

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Is that Lisbon?

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No, that's almost on the coast.

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I don't know.

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-Shall we go for Lisbon?

-Yeah.

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-Lisbon.

-No, it's Coimbra. And, finally...

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Siena? Oh, no, wait, Pisa.

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Is that not Pisa?

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It's got a really old university, hasn't it?

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Pisa.

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No, it's Siena. Bad luck.

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Ten points for this.

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"Instrumentation is to music

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"precisely what colour is to painting."

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Which French composer made that statement?

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Born in 1803, his works include Harold In Italy,

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The Damnation Of Faust and the Symphonie Fantastique.

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BELL RINGS

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Oh, it's wrong, I was going to say Saint-Saens

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but the actual name's gone out of my head.

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You're right, it is wrong. Right,

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anyone like to buzz from Queen Mary? BUZZER

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-Berlioz.

-Berlioz is correct, yes.

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Right, these bonuses, Queen Mary, are on gambling.

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Used in Ancient Greece as an early form of dice in games of chance,

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the astragalus is a bone in which joint of the human body?

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THEY WHISPER

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They definitely used knuckle bones for gambling.

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Knuckle.

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No, it's the ank... How many of you are doctors or medics over there?

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It's in the ankle.

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In the 1650s, which French mathematician conducted

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a frequent correspondence with Blaise Pascal

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about the solution to a gambling game

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and in doing so laid the foundations

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of a mathematical theory of probability?

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-Galois.

-No, it's Fermat.

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And, finally, set in the fictional town of Roulettenburg,

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The Gambler is a short novel by which Russian writer?

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-Pushkin, maybe.

-THEY WHISPER

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Pushkin? Pushkin?

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Dostoyevsky.

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Dostoyevsky.

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Correct. Ten points for this.

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Give the four-letter abbreviation

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of the international organisation

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that produces the Red List of Threatened Species,

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a comprehensive...

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IUCN.

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Correct. Yes.

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Right, your bonuses are on food.

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Specifically, dishes that, according to the You.Gov website,

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are among the ten listed as particular favourites

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of viewers of this programme.

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In each case, name the dish from the description.

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Firstly, a meat dish named after the composer of the 1816 opera

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The Barber Of Seville.

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It consists of fillet steak with foie gras truffles

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and a Madeira sauce.

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-Tournedos Rossini or beef Rossini.

-Beef Rossini.

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Beef Rossini.

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No, it's tournedos Rossini.

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An Indonesian dish of chicken stewed in coconut milk and spices

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in a style sometimes known as caramelised curry.

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Beef rendang?

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Beef rendang.

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Well, I said specifically it was chicken.

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-Oh.

-Chicken rendang.

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I'll accept, that is rendang, yes, I'll accept that.

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Credited to Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume

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at the London Cordon Bleu cookery school,

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a dish devised to mark an event of 1953.

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-Coronation chicken.

-Oh, yeah.

-Coronation chicken.

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Correct. Ten points for this.

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Listen carefully.

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Abbreviated forms of words

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meaning the queen of the sciences

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according to Gauss

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and alcohol impregnated with methanol

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may both be made using letters of the name of which British River?

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BELL RINGS

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The Thames.

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Correct.

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Maths and meths, for example.

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Right, a set of bonuses for you this time

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on historical climatology, Southampton.

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For what do the letters LIA stand

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when referring to a period from the 14th to the 19th centuries,

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marked in general terms by colder winters in Europe?

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Little Ice Age.

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Correct. The Little Ice Age coincided

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with a Sporer minimum and a Maunder minimum -

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periods of unusually low activity of what solar phenomenon?

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-Solar...

-Sunspots.

-Sunspots.

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-Sunspots are sort of...

-Sunspots.

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Sunspots.

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Correct. One theory holds that the Little Ice Age in Europe

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resulted from the reversal of an atmospheric circulation pattern

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over the North Atlantic abbreviated to NAO.

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For what does the letter O stand?

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-Oscillation.

-Oscillation.

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Correct. Ten points

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for this starter question.

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The Conservative politician

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Iain Macleod is credited with coining what portmanteau term in 1965

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to describe a situation of high unemployment combined with high...

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BUZZER

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-Stagflation.

-Stagflation is right, yes.

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Right, your bonuses are on the words of Oscar Wilde.

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In each case, give the precise single word that completes the following.

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Firstly, from The Importance Of Being Earnest.

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"The truth is rarely pure and never..."

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Is it simple?

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Simple.

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Correct. Secondly, from Lady Windermere's Fan.

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"Experience is the name everyone gives to their..."

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Mistakes.

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Mistakes.

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Correct. And, finally, from The Picture Of Dorian Gray.

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"A man cannot be too careful in his choice of..."

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-Enemies?

-Yeah, sounds good.

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-Enemies.

-Correct.

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We'll take a music round now.

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For your music starter,

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you'll hear a piece

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of orchestral music

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by an American composer.

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Ten points if you can give me his name, please.

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ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS

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BUZZER

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-Copland.

-Correct. Barley Wagons from Of Mice And Men.

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That was part of the film score, of course, of the film of that name.

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Your bonuses are pieces for film by three more classical composers

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who, like Copland, produced a significant body of music

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for film in addition to their concert works.

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In each case I simply want you to identify the composer, please.

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Firstly, for five.

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ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS

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THEY CONFER

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I don't recognise that.

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-LOVELADY:

-Williams.

-Yeah, why not?

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-LYNES:

-Just go with John.

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John Williams.

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No, that's Ralph Vaughan Williams' Scott On The Glacier

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from Scott Of The Antarctic. Secondly...

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ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS

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Oh, my God.

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I know it's...it's from Robin Hood.

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-THEY CONFER

-Was it from Robin Hood?

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Adventures...

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THEY CONFER

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Oh, my God.

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TEAM LAUGH

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Come on, I think we'd better have an answer.

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-Robin Hood.

-Menken?.

-No.

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Um...

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Willi...

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-Come on, I need an answer.

-I don't know.

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What a shame cos you did have the right film,

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it was from The Adventures Of Robin Hood.

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It was by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. And, finally...

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ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS

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Oh, it's from Mary Poppins, isn't it?

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No, it's not. It's not at all.

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THEY CONFER

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I don't know.

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Come on, let's have it, please.

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I don't know.

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That's Shostakovich.

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We're going to take another

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starter question now.

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Fingers on the buzzers.

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Their name derived from the Old French for throat

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and specifically associated with the Gothic period,

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which often grotesque architectural features...

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BELL RINGS

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Gargoyles.

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Gargoyles is right, yes.

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Right, these bonuses, Southampton,

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which will give you the lead if you get them,

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are on ballerinas.

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Having performed in Nureyev's Swan Lake in 1984,

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which French ballerina became at the age of 19 the youngest person

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in the history of the Paris Opera Ballet

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to hold the rank of star?

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A French ballerina. Fonteyn, she's too old.

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Anybody, French ballerina?

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No.

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Margot Fonteyn.

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No, it's Sylvie Guillem.

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Which Spanish ballerina left the Royal Ballet in 2012

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to take up the artistic directorship of the English National Ballet?

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-Sophie...Sophie...

-I don't know her surname.

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Sofia... Is it Mona?

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I was thinking an R word, like...

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-Ramonez.

-No, it's Tamara Rojo.

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And, finally, born in St Petersburg in 1881, which prima ballerina

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was particularly noted for her performance of the dying swan?

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GOGGIN WHISPERS

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No, much older.

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Maybe that is Fonteyn.

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Russian?

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-Oh, not Russian.

-Russian ballerina.

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Oh, Margot Fonteyn again.

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No, it's Anna Pavlova.

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Right, another starter question.

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In the first words of Jesus

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in St Mark's Gospel

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in the New International Version

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and Tweedledee's recitation

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in Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking Glass,

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what four precise words precede,

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"The kingdom of God is near" and "the Walrus said"?

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BUZZER

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"It's time to talk."

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JEREMY CHUCKLES

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Anyone like to buzz from Southampton?

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It's, "The time has come."

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Ten points for this.

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18,000 light years away

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and containing a microquasar,

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the nebula previously known as W50

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was renamed in 2013 after what aquatic mammal

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sometimes known as a sea cow whose shape...

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BELL RINGS

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A manatee.

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Manatee is correct, yes. That puts you in the lead.

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And your bonuses, Southampton, are on botany.

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From the Latin for juice, what term denotes a plant

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with fleshy, thick tissues, adapted to water storage such as cacti?

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-Succulent.

-Succulent? Yeah.

-I think so.

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Succulent.

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Correct. Secondly, succulents employ a modified version

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of carbon dioxide fixation and photosynthesis known as CAM.

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For what do the letters CAM stand?

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Modification?

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Carbon activated modification...

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Carbon activated modification.

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No, it's crassulacean acid metabolism.

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And, finally, a popular house plant -

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which succulent has thick, serrated leaves

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and produces a bitter medicinal sap used in cosmetics

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and as a treatment for burns?

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Aloe vera.

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Correct.

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Right, we're going to take

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a second picture round now.

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For your picture starter you're going to see a poster

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for a film adaptation of a short story.

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Ten points if you can tell me the title

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and the author of the story.

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Any helpful wording has, of course, been removed.

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BELL RINGS

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The Pit And The Pendulum.

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-Yes, who's it by?

-Edgar Allan Poe.

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Correct, yes. We'll see the whole thing now. There it is.

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Now, The Pit And The Pendulum was one of a series of adaptations

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of Poe's Tales Of Terror by the film-maker Roger Corman.

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Your picture bonuses are the posters of three more of them,

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again with some text removed.

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In each case, I want the title of the work by Poe

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on which the film is based.

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Firstly, for five.

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Stories by Poe?

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THEY WHISPER

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It's not The Raven either. It doesn't look like The Raven.

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-Um...

-I haven't...

-Come on, let's have it, please.

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-The terrifying, red-faced man.

-LAUGHTER

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Well, close, but not close enough.

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It's The Masque Of The Red Death.

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-Oh.

-Secondly...

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Oh, goodness.

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Night of the cat.

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Anybody? Night Of The Cat.

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No, that's Ligeia.

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Let's see the whole thing. There it is.

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And, finally...

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Hmm. Goodness. What was the one you said?

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The Tell-Tale Heart. I don't think it is.

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One of them has to be a famous one.

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Yeah, The Tell-Tale Heart.

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No, that's The Fall Of The House Of Usher.

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There it is.

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Right, ten points for this.

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Which Latin American country links a fungal disease

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that can devastate banana crops with a type of headgear

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made in Ecuador?

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The latter has a wide... BELL RINGS

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Panama.

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Panama is correct, yes.

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Right, your bonuses are on islands

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named after the day of their discovery.

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Firstly, for five points.

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Which volcanic island was named

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by Columbus after the day of the week on which he first sighted it?

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It was the birthplace of the novelist Jean Rhys in 1890

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and it became independent of Britain in 1978.

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Dominican Republic was named after Sunday?

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-Yeah.

-Dominica?

-Dominica.

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-Dominica, named after Sunday?

-Yes.

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Dominica.

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Dominica is correct.

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Named by a Portuguese navigator in 1503,

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which volcanic island was uninhabited until British marines

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were stationed there in 1815 to forestall attempts

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to help Napoleon escape from St Helena?

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The one down the...

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-Ascension Island.

-Yeah. Ascension Island.

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Correct.

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And, finally, one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world,

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which Chilean territory is also known as Rapa Nui

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or Isla De Pascua?

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Easter Island.

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Correct. Ten points

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for this starter question.

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Sinis, the pine-bender, and Procrustes, the stretcher,

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were among the bandits and outlaws overcome

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by which legendary king of Athens? BELL RINGS

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Theseus.

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Correct.

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Your bonuses, Southampton, are on colours.

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In each case, tell me the shade of green named after the following.

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Firstly, known by a four-letter common name,

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any of more than 10,000 species

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of small, flowerless, spore-bearing plants of the class Bryopsida.

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Fern.

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No, it's moss.

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Secondly, a copper carbonate mineral used ornamentally and as a gemstone.

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Jade? No.

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-Green?

-Amber?

-Copper carbonate.

-Amber's...

-Amber's not green.

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-Green. Ma...

-Jade.

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-No, it's malachite.

-No, I was about to say malachite.

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Oh, sorry.

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And, finally, a small dabbling duck, for example, Anas crecca.

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Teal.

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Teal is right.

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Another starter question now.

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Often used with barnacles,

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what term in zoology derives from the Latin for "to sit"

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and means immobile in botany... BELL RINGS

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Sessile.

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Sessile is correct.

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Your bonuses this time are on euro coins, Southampton,

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using information from the website of the European Central Bank.

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Which country's one and two euro coins depict its national emblem,

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a two-barred cross on three hills?

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-Slovakia, Slovakia.

-Is it? OK. Slovakia.

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Correct.

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Which country's one and two euro coins

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show a cruciform idol from around 3000BC?

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It is said to reflect the country's place

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at the heart of civilisation and antiquity.

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-Greece?

-Yeah.

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Greece.

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No, it's Cyprus.

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And, finally, Raphael's portrait of which poet

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appears on the two euro coin of Italy?

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Italian poet.

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-Dante?

-It's the only one...

-SADLER WHISPERS

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-Let's go for Dante.

-Dante would have been...in the 1400s.

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-OK.

-Dante.

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Dante is correct.

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Two and a half minutes to go.

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Ten points for this.

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What is the five-letter common name of epidemic parotitis?

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So called because one of its symptoms is the swelling of the parotid

0:25:090:25:12

and other saliva... BUZZER

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Mumps.

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Mumps is right, yes.

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Your bonuses this time are on publishing, Queen Mary.

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In 1937, Penguin Books gave the name of which other bird

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to a series of non-fiction publications

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launched with George Bernard Shaw's

0:25:270:25:29

Intelligent Women's Guide To Socialism?

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Pelican.

0:25:320:25:33

Correct. In 1940, Penguin began publishing books for children

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under what imprint, also the name of a sea bird?

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Puffin.

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Correct. Appearing in 1946,

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the first volume in the Penguin Classics series

0:25:400:25:42

was EV Rieu's translation of which epic poem?

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Iliad. The Iliad.

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No, it was The Odyssey. Ten points for this.

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In which country is the Baikonur Cosmodrome?

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BELL RINGS

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Kazakhstan.

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Kazakhstan is correct, yes.

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Your bonuses this time are on Ancient Greece

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and modern vocabulary.

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Firstly, from the inhabitants of the Greek city

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on the Gulf Of Taranto,

0:26:050:26:06

which adjective means devoted to luxury and indulgence?

0:26:060:26:10

-Hedonistic?

-Yeah.

-Hedonistic?

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That's what it means, I don't know if that's a place in Greece.

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-Hedonistic.

-No, it's sybaritic, from Sybaris.

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After the perceived corruption of the Attic dialect

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by colonists of Soloi in Cilicia,

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what term denotes a non-standard or improper use of grammar or syntax?

0:26:250:26:29

Anybody? No, we don't know.

0:26:310:26:34

That's a solecism.

0:26:340:26:36

And, finally, the region around ancient Sparta is the origin

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of which adjective meaning concise or pithy in verbal expression?

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Laconic. Laconic.

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Laconic.

0:26:440:26:46

Correct. Ten points for this.

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Born in around 1502, Atahualpa was the last ruler

0:26:470:26:50

of which empire? BELL RINGS

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The Inca Empire.

0:26:520:26:53

Correct.

0:26:530:26:54

15 points for these bonuses, Southampton, they're on Russia.

0:26:540:26:58

In each case, give the present day name from the description.

0:26:580:27:00

All three begin with the same two letters.

0:27:000:27:02

Firstly, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea

0:27:020:27:05

-between Poland and Lithuania.

-Kaliningrad.

0:27:050:27:07

Kaliningrad.

0:27:070:27:08

Correct. Secondly, an inlet of the Arctic Ocean into which major rivers

0:27:080:27:12

such as the Ob and the Yenisei flow.

0:27:120:27:14

-STOCK WHISPERS

-No, it begins with K.

-Oh, yeah.

0:27:140:27:17

-Ka...ka...

-Ka...

0:27:180:27:21

-Pass.

-That's the Kara Sea.

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And, finally, a peninsula in the Russian far east -

0:27:230:27:25

the location of around 10% of the world's active volcanoes.

0:27:250:27:28

Kamchatka.

0:27:280:27:30

Correct. Ten points for this.

0:27:300:27:31

Which of Shakespeare's

0:27:310:27:32

title characters is the son of Volumnia

0:27:320:27:34

and the husband of Virgilia? BELL RINGS

0:27:340:27:36

Coriolanus.

0:27:360:27:38

Correct.

0:27:380:27:39

You get a set of bonuses this time

0:27:390:27:40

on Archbishops of Canterbury, Southampton.

0:27:400:27:42

What is the surname of the father and son who both died...

0:27:420:27:45

GONG

0:27:450:27:47

And at the gong,

0:27:470:27:48

Queen Mary - London have 120

0:27:480:27:49

but Southampton have 235.

0:27:490:27:52

APPLAUSE

0:27:520:27:54

THEY WHISPER

0:27:540:27:56

Well, Queen Mary, we're going to have to say goodbye to you.

0:27:570:28:00

It's back to the lapdogs and sphincters for you.

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But thank you very much for joining us.

0:28:020:28:04

You've been a real treat to have with us.

0:28:040:28:06

Southampton, 235. It's a wonderful performance.

0:28:060:28:08

We shall look forward to seeing you in the second round of the contest.

0:28:080:28:11

Thank you very much for joining us too.

0:28:110:28:13

I hope you'll join us next time

0:28:130:28:14

for the start of the second round matches

0:28:140:28:16

but until then, it's goodbye from Queen Mary - London.

0:28:160:28:19

-ALL:

-Bye-bye.

0:28:190:28:20

It's goodbye from Southampton University.

0:28:200:28:22

-ALL:

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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