Episode 17

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0:00:19 > 0:00:21APPLAUSE

0:00:21 > 0:00:22University Challenge.

0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:29 > 0:00:33Hello. 28 teams qualified to appear in this competition,

0:00:33 > 0:00:36but now with the first round matches completed,

0:00:36 > 0:00:38we've already lost 12 of them.

0:00:38 > 0:00:40And their groans can sometimes be heard

0:00:40 > 0:00:43rising from the oubliette under the studio floor.

0:00:43 > 0:00:4716 happier teams will now play in the second round

0:00:47 > 0:00:51where a win will place them in the quarterfinals.

0:00:51 > 0:00:53The team from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge,

0:00:53 > 0:00:56beat King's College, Cambridge in their first round match

0:00:56 > 0:00:59with an impressive margin of 195 to 60.

0:00:59 > 0:01:01They were strong on mythical creatures,

0:01:01 > 0:01:06archaeological sites in Africa, world events since 2001 and Tilda Swinton.

0:01:06 > 0:01:09But may have spent some time since that appearance

0:01:09 > 0:01:11swotting up on the women in the life of Edward IV.

0:01:11 > 0:01:14Let's meet them again.

0:01:14 > 0:01:18Hi, I'm Nicholas Bennett, I'm from London and I'm reading mathematics.

0:01:18 > 0:01:22Hi, I'm Ellie Thompson, I'm from Nottingham and I study physics.

0:01:22 > 0:01:23Here's their captain.

0:01:23 > 0:01:25Hi, I'm Thomas Hitchcock, I'm from Ashford in Kent

0:01:25 > 0:01:27and I'm studying natural sciences.

0:01:27 > 0:01:30Hi, I'm Dan Wilson, I'm from Buckinghamshire

0:01:30 > 0:01:31and I'm studying German and Russian.

0:01:31 > 0:01:34APPLAUSE

0:01:36 > 0:01:39Now, the team from Imperial College London had a very convincing win

0:01:39 > 0:01:44over Reading University in round one with 285 points to 110.

0:01:44 > 0:01:47Despite being a team of self-proclaimed science geeks,

0:01:47 > 0:01:51they were strong on the history of Tasmania, plays by Tom Stoppard,

0:01:51 > 0:01:54the boroughs of New York, but when it came to the novels

0:01:54 > 0:01:57of DH Lawrence, they seem to have got no further than Sons And Lovers.

0:01:57 > 0:02:00Let's meet the Imperial team again.

0:02:00 > 0:02:02Good evening. My name is Ben Fernando,

0:02:02 > 0:02:04I'm from Birmingham and I'm studying physics.

0:02:04 > 0:02:05Hi, I'm Ashwin Braude,

0:02:05 > 0:02:08I'm from North London and I'm also studying physics.

0:02:08 > 0:02:09And this is their captain.

0:02:09 > 0:02:10Hello, I'm James Bezer.

0:02:10 > 0:02:13I'm from Manchester and I'm also studying physics.

0:02:13 > 0:02:15Hello, I'm Onur Teymur,

0:02:15 > 0:02:19I'm from London and I'm studying for a PhD in mathematical statistics.

0:02:19 > 0:02:22APPLAUSE

0:02:23 > 0:02:27OK, fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.

0:02:27 > 0:02:32What word is this? You may give the verb or the noun formed from it.

0:02:32 > 0:02:35Used by Shakespeare to mean eat or feed,

0:02:35 > 0:02:38it came to mean "read in a desultory way."

0:02:38 > 0:02:41Since the 1990s, an agent noun formed from it

0:02:41 > 0:02:44has become the standard term for a programme

0:02:44 > 0:02:46used to access the world wide web.

0:02:48 > 0:02:50Browse. Browse or browser is correct, yes.

0:02:53 > 0:02:56Right, the first set of bonuses, Imperial College,

0:02:56 > 0:02:58are on the Apollo 11 moon landing.

0:02:58 > 0:03:01Firstly, the common name of which raptor

0:03:01 > 0:03:05was given to the lunar module of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission?

0:03:05 > 0:03:08Eagle? Eagle. Correct.

0:03:08 > 0:03:11The command module was named Columbia after the Columbiad,

0:03:11 > 0:03:15the giant cannon from which a spacecraft is fired

0:03:15 > 0:03:19in which author's 1865 novel, From The Earth To The Moon?

0:03:19 > 0:03:22Jules Verne. Correct.

0:03:22 > 0:03:25Three new minerals were discovered by the mission.

0:03:25 > 0:03:27One was named Armalcolite,

0:03:27 > 0:03:31taking letters from the surname of Armstrong, Aldrin

0:03:31 > 0:03:33and which astronaut who remained in the command module?

0:03:33 > 0:03:36Michael Collins. Correct. 10 points for this.

0:03:36 > 0:03:39Probably coined in the late 19th century,

0:03:39 > 0:03:43what Greek-derived term denotes the movement in art, music

0:03:43 > 0:03:46and architecture that was a reaction against the ornamentation

0:03:46 > 0:03:48of the baroque and rococo,

0:03:48 > 0:03:51and sought to return to the simpler forms of antiquity?

0:03:54 > 0:03:56Classicism?

0:03:57 > 0:03:59Anyone like to buzz from Imperial? One of you may buzz.

0:03:59 > 0:04:01No-one confer.

0:04:01 > 0:04:03Neoclassicism. Correct.

0:04:07 > 0:04:11Right, your bonuses are on novels published in 1928, Imperial College.

0:04:11 > 0:04:16In each case, identify the work by the extract from its opening lines.

0:04:16 > 0:04:18"He - for there could be no doubt of his sex,

0:04:18 > 0:04:21"though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it -

0:04:21 > 0:04:24"was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor."

0:04:26 > 0:04:29MUTTERING

0:04:31 > 0:04:35I don't know. No. Forget that.

0:04:35 > 0:04:37I've no idea. Pass.

0:04:37 > 0:04:40We don't know. It's Virginia Woolf's Orlando.

0:04:40 > 0:04:41Secondly -

0:04:41 > 0:04:44"'Sent down for indecent behaviour, eh?'

0:04:44 > 0:04:46"said Paul Pennyfeather's guardian.

0:04:46 > 0:04:50"'Well, thank God your poor father has been spared this disgrace, that's all I can say.'"

0:04:50 > 0:04:53Decline And Fall. Decline And Fall. Correct.

0:04:53 > 0:04:57"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."

0:05:00 > 0:05:03Great Gatsby? Great Gatsby?

0:05:03 > 0:05:06No, it's Lady Chatterley's Lover. 10 points for this.

0:05:06 > 0:05:09In physics, one of the first successful applications

0:05:09 > 0:05:13of general relativity was an accurate explanation of the advancement

0:05:13 > 0:05:18by 43 seconds each century of the perihelion of the orbit...

0:05:18 > 0:05:20Mercury. Of Mercury, you're right.

0:05:24 > 0:05:28Right, your bonuses this time, Imperial College, are on zoology.

0:05:28 > 0:05:31From that of the Dutch physician who first identified it,

0:05:31 > 0:05:32what name is given to the organ

0:05:32 > 0:05:35in the hard palate of many vertebrates

0:05:35 > 0:05:37that detects chemical stimulae?

0:05:39 > 0:05:42The only one I can think of is Leeuwenhoek, but I don't think...

0:05:42 > 0:05:45I don't think it is. Um... Leeuwenhoek?

0:05:45 > 0:05:47No, it's Jacobson's organ.

0:05:47 > 0:05:51What is the medical name of the first cranial nerve,

0:05:51 > 0:05:53a branch of which transmits nerve impulses

0:05:53 > 0:05:56from Jacobson's organ to the brain?

0:05:56 > 0:05:58I think that's olfactory.

0:05:58 > 0:06:01Give it a shot. Olfactory? Correct.

0:06:01 > 0:06:02A main function of Jacobson's organ

0:06:02 > 0:06:05is to detect chemical communication signals

0:06:05 > 0:06:07between members of the same species.

0:06:07 > 0:06:11From the Greek meaning convey, what term denotes such signals?

0:06:11 > 0:06:13Pheromone.

0:06:13 > 0:06:16Pheromone. Correct. 10 points for this.

0:06:16 > 0:06:19The primary military objective of the French and British forces

0:06:19 > 0:06:24in the Crimean War was the capture of which city and naval base?

0:06:24 > 0:06:26Sevastopol. Correct.

0:06:29 > 0:06:31So, Sidney Sussex, your first set of bonuses,

0:06:31 > 0:06:33they're on quotations about art.

0:06:33 > 0:06:40"A hint, don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction."

0:06:40 > 0:06:44Which French artist wrote those words in a letter of 1888,

0:06:44 > 0:06:47a few weeks before travelling to Arles to stay with Van Gogh?

0:06:47 > 0:06:50(I think that's Gauguin. Yeah.)

0:06:50 > 0:06:51Gauguin? Correct.

0:06:51 > 0:06:54"Art is meant to disturb."

0:06:54 > 0:06:58These are the words of which French artist, born in 1882?

0:06:58 > 0:07:02His works include Houses At L'Estaque and Man With A Guitar.

0:07:05 > 0:07:07Braque? Braque is correct.

0:07:07 > 0:07:11"Art is not truth, art is a lie that makes us realise truth."

0:07:11 > 0:07:13These are the words of which artist,

0:07:13 > 0:07:15who, together with Braque, pioneered Cubism?

0:07:15 > 0:07:17Picasso. Correct.

0:07:20 > 0:07:23Time for the first picture round. For your starter, you'll see a map

0:07:23 > 0:07:26of the present-day mainland United States

0:07:26 > 0:07:29with a number of states highlighted, all of which attain statehood

0:07:29 > 0:07:33under the United States' Constitution in the same decade.

0:07:33 > 0:07:36For 10 points, just give the decade, please.

0:07:39 > 0:07:441770s? No. One of you like to buzz from Imperial?

0:07:44 > 0:07:471780s? It is the 1780s, yes.

0:07:50 > 0:07:53So, you get the picture bonuses, then, Imperial College.

0:07:53 > 0:07:56Three more maps, each showing a number of states

0:07:56 > 0:07:58that attained statehood in the same decade.

0:07:58 > 0:08:01For five points each, I want the decade. Firstly -

0:08:03 > 0:08:08I've no idea. I think it's earlier. 1820s? 1830s?

0:08:08 > 0:08:101830s?

0:08:10 > 0:08:13No, that's the 1810s, those states. And secondly -

0:08:15 > 0:08:19That's quite late. 1860s. 1870s?

0:08:19 > 0:08:21Could be. Late, later.

0:08:22 > 0:08:251860s? Correct. And finally -

0:08:26 > 0:08:29It's 1950s. 1950s.

0:08:29 > 0:08:31Yes, well done. Right, 10 points for this.

0:08:31 > 0:08:35What three-word phrase is used frequently in the Book of Ezekiel,

0:08:35 > 0:08:39in the King James Bible, to emphasise the prophet's humanity?

0:08:39 > 0:08:41It was used as a title by Dennis Potter

0:08:41 > 0:08:44for an influential television play of 1969,

0:08:44 > 0:08:47and by Rene Magritte for his 1964...

0:08:48 > 0:08:50Son of man. Correct.

0:08:53 > 0:08:57Imperial College, these bonuses are on European history.

0:08:57 > 0:09:02In 1514, Henry VIII's sister, Mary Tudor, married which French king?

0:09:02 > 0:09:06He died the following year and was succeeded by Francis I.

0:09:06 > 0:09:09No idea. Probably Louis.

0:09:09 > 0:09:11Louis X. I don't know. Louis X?

0:09:11 > 0:09:13No, it was Louis XII.

0:09:13 > 0:09:16The mother of Henry III and the widow of King John,

0:09:16 > 0:09:20which queen married Hugh X of Lusignan in 1220?

0:09:20 > 0:09:23By her two husbands, she had 14 children,

0:09:23 > 0:09:26all of whom survived into adulthood.

0:09:26 > 0:09:28I need only her given name.

0:09:28 > 0:09:31Matilda? Matilda? Maybe Matilda.

0:09:31 > 0:09:33Matilda? No, it's Isabella.

0:09:33 > 0:09:34And finally, in 1114,

0:09:34 > 0:09:39which daughter of Henry I married the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V?

0:09:39 > 0:09:41She later claimed the English throne

0:09:41 > 0:09:43after it was seized by Stephen of Blois.

0:09:43 > 0:09:45Must be Matilda. Yeah, probably.

0:09:45 > 0:09:49Matilda. Matilda is correct. 10 points for this.

0:09:49 > 0:09:51In 1867, which Swedish physicist

0:09:51 > 0:09:55was the first to examine the spectrum of the aurora borealis,

0:09:55 > 0:09:59detecting a characteristic bright line in its yellow-green region?

0:09:59 > 0:10:05He gives his name to a unit of length equal to 1/10 of a nanometre.

0:10:05 > 0:10:06Angstrom. Angstrom is correct, yes.

0:10:09 > 0:10:13Your bonuses, Imperial, are on nettles in Shakespeare.

0:10:13 > 0:10:17"Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."

0:10:17 > 0:10:21In which of Shakespeare's histories does Hotspur say those words?

0:10:21 > 0:10:25Oh, Hotspur. No, sorry.

0:10:27 > 0:10:29Um...Henry IV, Part 1? Correct.

0:10:29 > 0:10:32"The strawberry grows underneath the nettle

0:10:32 > 0:10:34"And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best

0:10:34 > 0:10:37"Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality."

0:10:37 > 0:10:41These words of the Bishop of Ely refer to the transformation

0:10:41 > 0:10:45of which title character after he accedes to the English throne?

0:10:45 > 0:10:48Um... No idea.

0:10:50 > 0:10:53Richard III. No, it's Henry V.

0:10:53 > 0:10:55And finally, "We call a nettle but a nettle

0:10:55 > 0:10:57"and the faults of fools but folly."

0:10:57 > 0:11:01In which play does Menenius Agrippa say those words?

0:11:01 > 0:11:04MUMBLING

0:11:04 > 0:11:06I don't think it was. Um...

0:11:06 > 0:11:10I don't think it's Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar? No, it's Coriolanus.

0:11:10 > 0:11:1110 points for this.

0:11:11 > 0:11:14Give all four answers promptly if you buzz for this.

0:11:14 > 0:11:18The elements of the periodic table belong to one of four main blocks,

0:11:18 > 0:11:21based on their outermost elect...

0:11:21 > 0:11:22S, P, D, F.

0:11:22 > 0:11:24S, P, D and F, that's correct, yes.

0:11:27 > 0:11:31Right, your bonuses are on medieval rulers, Imperial College.

0:11:31 > 0:11:33From the 9th century, Baldwin Iron Arm

0:11:33 > 0:11:37and his son Baldwin the Bald, were the first two rulers

0:11:37 > 0:11:41of which historical territory which is now a region of Belgium?

0:11:41 > 0:11:43Flanders or Wallonia?

0:11:43 > 0:11:47Can't imagine... Maybe Brabant. Go with Flanders.

0:11:47 > 0:11:49Flanders. Flanders is right.

0:11:49 > 0:11:53Born around 980, Baldwin the Bearded expanded the domains of Flanders

0:11:53 > 0:11:57to include which territory, now a province of the Netherlands?

0:11:57 > 0:12:00It gives its name to a country in the South Pacific.

0:12:00 > 0:12:04MUMBLING

0:12:04 > 0:12:07Um, Fiji.

0:12:07 > 0:12:11Netherlands, so Brabant...

0:12:11 > 0:12:13MUMBLING

0:12:13 > 0:12:16Say Zealand. Zealand? Correct.

0:12:16 > 0:12:19In 1204, Baldwin IX of Flanders was crowned

0:12:19 > 0:12:25Latin Emperor following the sack of which city during the Fourth Crusade?

0:12:25 > 0:12:28MUMBLING

0:12:28 > 0:12:29Try Jerusalem.

0:12:29 > 0:12:31Jerusalem?

0:12:31 > 0:12:33No, it's Constantinople.

0:12:33 > 0:12:35Sidney Sussex, there's still plenty of time to come back,

0:12:35 > 0:12:38we're not even halfway. 10 points for this.

0:12:38 > 0:12:41"Why on earth was I lying on the back seat of a blue minivan

0:12:41 > 0:12:44"with tinted windows? Good question."

0:12:44 > 0:12:47This recollection of being driven to a meeting with Barack Obama in 2008

0:12:47 > 0:12:54begins Hard Choices, a memoir of 2014 by which former US secretary...

0:12:55 > 0:12:57Hillary Clinton. Correct.

0:13:00 > 0:13:04Your bonuses this time, Imperial, are on the US journalist

0:13:04 > 0:13:06and social commentator, HL Mencken.

0:13:06 > 0:13:10In each case, give the one-word term for which he is providing

0:13:10 > 0:13:13his own somewhat subjective definition.

0:13:13 > 0:13:17Firstly, "The theory that the common people know what they want

0:13:17 > 0:13:19"and deserve to get it good and hard."

0:13:19 > 0:13:22Must be democracy. Democracy. Correct.

0:13:22 > 0:13:27Secondly, "The inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking."

0:13:27 > 0:13:29Conscience? Conscience? Correct.

0:13:29 > 0:13:33And finally, "The delusion that one woman differs from another."

0:13:35 > 0:13:36Feminism?

0:13:36 > 0:13:38That's a dangerous answer!

0:13:38 > 0:13:41Love. Love is right, yes.

0:13:43 > 0:13:45We're going to take a music round now.

0:13:45 > 0:13:49For your starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.

0:13:49 > 0:13:5110 points if you can name the British composer.

0:13:51 > 0:13:54GRAND, STATELY MUSIC

0:14:01 > 0:14:04Vaughan Williams. No, you can hear a little more, Sidney Sussex.

0:14:04 > 0:14:07OPERATIC SINGING

0:14:13 > 0:14:18Benjamin Britten? No, it's Elgar. It's part of his Sea Pictures.

0:14:18 > 0:14:20So, music bonuses in a moment or two.

0:14:20 > 0:14:2210 points at stake for this starter question.

0:14:22 > 0:14:24The name of what object was popularly applied

0:14:24 > 0:14:28to the pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong in 2014?

0:14:28 > 0:14:30It refers to the objects...

0:14:30 > 0:14:32Umbrella. Umbrella is right, yes.

0:14:34 > 0:14:36So, you recall, we've just heard

0:14:36 > 0:14:39a bit of Elgar's Sea Pictures song cycle.

0:14:39 > 0:14:42Your bonuses are three more pieces of music by British composers

0:14:42 > 0:14:46all with maritime themes. Five points each time.

0:14:46 > 0:14:48I would like the name of the composer, please. Firstly -

0:14:48 > 0:14:51TRUMPET BLASTS

0:14:51 > 0:14:54FEMALE VOICES: # After the sea-ship

0:14:54 > 0:14:57# After the whistling winds... #

0:14:57 > 0:15:00Do you have any better suggestions than Britten?

0:15:00 > 0:15:05# ..After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes... #

0:15:05 > 0:15:07I've no idea really.

0:15:07 > 0:15:11MALE VOICES: # Below A myriad, myriad waves hastening... #

0:15:15 > 0:15:20Benjamin Britten? No, that's part of Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony.

0:15:20 > 0:15:21Secondly...

0:15:21 > 0:15:25# Shine, shine, shine

0:15:25 > 0:15:29# Pour down your warmth, great sun... #

0:15:29 > 0:15:32THEIR CONVERSATION IS DROWNED BY MUSIC

0:15:49 > 0:15:52John Tavener? No, that's by Delius, it's part of Sea Drift.

0:15:52 > 0:15:54And finally...

0:15:54 > 0:15:57# We sail the ocean blue

0:15:57 > 0:15:59# And our saucy ship's a beauty

0:15:59 > 0:16:01# We're sober men and true

0:16:01 > 0:16:03# And attentive to our duty

0:16:03 > 0:16:07# When the balls whistle free o'er the bright blue sea... #

0:16:07 > 0:16:11Did one of them write the lyrics and one wrote the music?

0:16:11 > 0:16:15THEIR CONVERSATION IS DROWNED BY MUSIC

0:16:17 > 0:16:19Gilbert and Sullivan? Which one?

0:16:19 > 0:16:23Any ideas? Come on! Gilbert?

0:16:23 > 0:16:26No, wrong, it was Sir Arthur Sullivan. Bad luck!

0:16:26 > 0:16:29From HMS Pinafore. Ten points for this.

0:16:29 > 0:16:31"Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep,

0:16:31 > 0:16:33"He hath awaken'd from the dream of life..."

0:16:33 > 0:16:35Written by Shelley in 1821,

0:16:35 > 0:16:40these lines refer to which poet who had died seven weeks earlier?

0:16:42 > 0:16:46No... Byron. No, anyone like to buzz from...?

0:16:46 > 0:16:48Keats? Keats is correct, yes.

0:16:48 > 0:16:50APPLAUSE

0:16:52 > 0:16:54Right, Sidney Sussex, there's a way to come back,

0:16:54 > 0:16:56but you could do it, there's time.

0:16:56 > 0:16:59Three questions on an international organisation for your bonuses.

0:16:59 > 0:17:03Asean, that's A-S-E-A-N, was established in 1967

0:17:03 > 0:17:08by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

0:17:08 > 0:17:11For what does the acronym Asean stand?

0:17:11 > 0:17:14Association of South East Asian Nations? Alliance.

0:17:14 > 0:17:16I don't know what the first one...

0:17:16 > 0:17:17Alliance of South East Asian Nations.

0:17:17 > 0:17:20Nominate Wilson. Alliance of South East Asian Nations?

0:17:20 > 0:17:22No, it's ASSOCIATION of South East Asian Nations.

0:17:22 > 0:17:25Not close enough, I'm afraid. Secondly, for five,

0:17:25 > 0:17:30the five original members were joined in 1984 by which Asian state

0:17:30 > 0:17:33whose full name includes the word "Darussalam",

0:17:33 > 0:17:35meaning "abode of peace".

0:17:35 > 0:17:36Brunei?

0:17:36 > 0:17:38Brunei is correct.

0:17:38 > 0:17:42Which country joined Asean in 1999 as its tenth member?

0:17:42 > 0:17:46It gained independence from France in 1953 and is a monarchy,

0:17:46 > 0:17:50although its king was deposed from 1970 until 1993.

0:17:52 > 0:17:53Cambodia?

0:17:53 > 0:17:55Correct. Ten points for this.

0:17:55 > 0:17:57Plancher-les-Mines in eastern France

0:17:57 > 0:17:59and great Langdale in Cumbria

0:17:59 > 0:18:02are prehistoric sites principally associated with

0:18:02 > 0:18:04the production of which implements?

0:18:06 > 0:18:07Pencils?

0:18:07 > 0:18:09Anyone like to buzz from Imperial?

0:18:12 > 0:18:15Hand axes? Yes, axe heads, axes, yes.

0:18:15 > 0:18:19Right, your bonuses are on a language this time, Imperial.

0:18:19 > 0:18:21What is the majority language of the countries that comprise

0:18:21 > 0:18:24the Dach region, that is D-A-C-H?

0:18:24 > 0:18:27Used, for example, in commerce and recruitment,

0:18:27 > 0:18:29the word is an acronym

0:18:29 > 0:18:31of international vehicle registration codes.

0:18:31 > 0:18:36Must be German. Germany? German. Oh, German. German is correct, yes.

0:18:36 > 0:18:38German is an official language

0:18:38 > 0:18:40of which province south of the Brenner Pass?

0:18:40 > 0:18:43Ceded by Austria after the First World War,

0:18:43 > 0:18:46it forms part of the autonomous Italian region

0:18:46 > 0:18:47of Trentino-Alto Adige.

0:18:47 > 0:18:49South Tyrol. Correct.

0:18:49 > 0:18:53German is one of the four national languages of Switzerland.

0:18:53 > 0:18:55Can you name the other three?

0:18:55 > 0:18:56THEY CONFER

0:18:56 > 0:18:58Romansh, French and Italian.

0:18:58 > 0:19:00Correct. Ten points for this.

0:19:00 > 0:19:03Found in the Irish Sea, barrel, blue, campus

0:19:03 > 0:19:07and lion's mane are species of which...?

0:19:07 > 0:19:09Jellyfish. Jellyfish is right.

0:19:09 > 0:19:11APPLAUSE

0:19:11 > 0:19:13These bonuses, Imperial, are on sheep.

0:19:13 > 0:19:17Described as very hardy with the ability to thrive

0:19:17 > 0:19:20on low levels of nutrition, which breed of sheep

0:19:20 > 0:19:25takes its name from the island group that includes Yell, Unst and Fetlar?

0:19:25 > 0:19:29Is there a sheep called Shetland? Well, those are the Shetlands. OK.

0:19:29 > 0:19:30Shetland?

0:19:30 > 0:19:34Correct. Which white-faced breed of sheep takes its name from a range

0:19:34 > 0:19:37of hills that form around 30 miles of the boundary

0:19:37 > 0:19:39between England and Scotland?

0:19:39 > 0:19:41They lie largely in Northumberland.

0:19:41 > 0:19:44THEY CONFER

0:19:44 > 0:19:47Nominate Braude. Cheviot. Cheviot is correct.

0:19:47 > 0:19:49What is the most numerous sheep breed in Britain?

0:19:49 > 0:19:52Found mainly in Scotland, it takes its name

0:19:52 > 0:19:54from a characteristic of the upper body.

0:19:54 > 0:19:55Blackface? Yeah.

0:19:55 > 0:19:57Blackface? Correct.

0:19:57 > 0:19:59We're going to take a picture round now.

0:19:59 > 0:20:01For your picture starter, you are going to see

0:20:01 > 0:20:03the central panel of a triptych.

0:20:03 > 0:20:06Ten points if you can identify the artist.

0:20:08 > 0:20:10Hieronymus Bosch.

0:20:10 > 0:20:17It is indeed. His depiction of The Temptation of St Anthony.

0:20:17 > 0:20:19Three more artists' interpretations

0:20:19 > 0:20:23of how the devil tested Anthony's faith.

0:20:23 > 0:20:28is to identify the painter of the work you see.

0:20:30 > 0:20:35Any sort of weird painters, like...? Breugel?

0:20:35 > 0:20:38I don't think it's Breugel. Unless you have a better...

0:20:38 > 0:20:40Erm...Breugel?

0:20:40 > 0:20:41Which one?

0:20:41 > 0:20:45Peter? Peter Breugel, isn't it? Go on. Peter?

0:20:45 > 0:20:47Which one?! LAUGHTER

0:20:47 > 0:20:49Come on, I need... The Elder?

0:20:49 > 0:20:58It's too late now,

0:20:58 > 0:21:05Pick something, James.

0:21:07 > 0:21:09That's Max Ernst.

0:21:09 > 0:21:12And finally, a rather different form of temptation...?

0:21:13 > 0:21:16Must be Matisse? Could be?

0:21:23 > 0:21:29Listen carefully.

0:21:29 > 0:21:33from three of the five letters with a value of four points

0:21:33 > 0:21:35in standard English-language Scrabble.

0:21:37 > 0:21:39W-H-Y. Correct.

0:21:39 > 0:21:46APPLAUSE

0:21:46 > 0:21:48In each case, I want the name of an element.

0:21:48 > 0:21:51Firstly, which element has the same symbol

0:21:51 > 0:21:54as that of the SI-derived unit of inductance?

0:21:54 > 0:21:59H... H... Hydrogen! Yeah!

0:21:59 > 0:22:01Hydrogen. Correct.

0:22:01 > 0:22:04Ignoring case, which element has the same symbol

0:22:04 > 0:22:07as that of the SI-derived unit of solid angle?

0:22:07 > 0:22:08Steradian... Strontium.

0:22:08 > 0:22:10Strontium. Correct.

0:22:10 > 0:22:12And finally, which element shares its symbol

0:22:12 > 0:22:14with the SI-derived unit of power?

0:22:14 > 0:22:15Tungsten. Tungsten.

0:22:15 > 0:22:18Correct. Ten points for this.

0:22:18 > 0:22:22The departure of painters such as Kandinsky and Franz Marc

0:22:22 > 0:22:25from the New Association of Artists in Munich,

0:22:25 > 0:22:29led to the emergence in 1911 of which new movement?

0:22:32 > 0:22:33Fauvism?

0:22:33 > 0:22:35No, Sidney Sussex...?

0:22:35 > 0:22:37Dadaism?

0:22:37 > 0:22:40No, it's the Blaue Reiter, the Blue Rider movement.

0:22:40 > 0:22:42Right, ten points for this. In information theory,

0:22:42 > 0:22:45one of the most important tools in the spectral analysis

0:22:45 > 0:22:47of steady-state waves

0:22:47 > 0:22:50is named after which French mathematician and...?

0:22:50 > 0:22:51Fourier.

0:22:51 > 0:22:52Fourier is correct, yes.

0:22:52 > 0:22:55APPLAUSE

0:22:55 > 0:22:58These bonuses are on Greek kings, Imperial,

0:22:58 > 0:23:01as described in Homer's Iliad. The epithets that follow

0:23:01 > 0:23:05are English versions that appear in EV Rieu's translation.

0:23:05 > 0:23:09Firstly, which King of Mycenae and leader of the Greek forces

0:23:09 > 0:23:11does Homer called "king of men"?

0:23:11 > 0:23:15Not Menelaus? No. I thought it was Agamemnon, but... Really?

0:23:15 > 0:23:20I would go Agamemnon, but... I thought Menelaus was Mycenae...?

0:23:20 > 0:23:23Oh, yeah, actually... Yeah. Menelaus?

0:23:23 > 0:23:25No, it's Agamemnon. Sorry.

0:23:25 > 0:23:27Secondly, which aged charioteer

0:23:27 > 0:23:31and King of Pylos is described as "the master of the courteous word"?

0:23:31 > 0:23:33King of Pylos... Erm...

0:23:36 > 0:23:40Midas? I don't know. Come on! Yeah, yeah.

0:23:40 > 0:23:41Midas?

0:23:41 > 0:23:42No, it is Nestor.

0:23:42 > 0:23:45Godlike, noble and crafty are among the adjectives

0:23:45 > 0:23:48applied in the Iliad to which King of Ithaca?

0:23:48 > 0:23:50That's Odysseus. Odysseus.

0:23:50 > 0:23:53Correct. There are 4? minutes to go. Ten points for this.

0:23:53 > 0:23:55Originally played by Mark Rylance,

0:23:55 > 0:23:58Johnny "Rooster" Byron is the central character

0:23:58 > 0:24:00of which award-winning play by Jez Butterworth,

0:24:00 > 0:24:02first performed...?

0:24:02 > 0:24:03Jerusalem?

0:24:03 > 0:24:05Jerusalem is correct.

0:24:05 > 0:24:08APPLAUSE

0:24:08 > 0:24:11Your bonuses are on geography this time, Imperial.

0:24:11 > 0:24:14From the Spanish for "cauldron", what term denotes

0:24:14 > 0:24:17a wide bowl-shaped depression caused by the collapse of a volcanic cone?

0:24:17 > 0:24:20Caldera. Caldera is correct.

0:24:20 > 0:24:24Noted for its brilliant blue water, Crater Lake is located

0:24:24 > 0:24:28in a caldera in the Cascade Range in which US state?

0:24:28 > 0:24:29Oregon. Correct.

0:24:29 > 0:24:33The highest Hebridean peak outside Skye, Ben More,

0:24:33 > 0:24:37forms part of the rim of a caldera now largely removed by erosion

0:24:37 > 0:24:40on which Scottish island?

0:24:40 > 0:24:42Skye? No, I think...

0:24:42 > 0:24:44That's what I would have said.

0:24:44 > 0:24:47Lewis? Lewis? Lewis?

0:24:47 > 0:24:49No, it's Mull. Ten points for this.

0:24:49 > 0:24:54Previously known by names including timbromania and timbrology,

0:24:54 > 0:24:56what hobby was renamed in 1864...?

0:24:58 > 0:25:00Stamp collecting. Stamp collecting, or philately, is right.

0:25:00 > 0:25:03APPLAUSE

0:25:03 > 0:25:06Sidney Sussex, these bonuses are on entomology.

0:25:06 > 0:25:10What Greek prefix is added to the word "thorax"

0:25:10 > 0:25:13to denote the posterior segment of an insect's thorax?

0:25:13 > 0:25:17THEY CONFER QUIETLY

0:25:21 > 0:25:23Just make a guess. Pass.

0:25:23 > 0:25:26It's "meta".

0:25:26 > 0:25:28Secondly, in the order Diptera, or true flies,

0:25:28 > 0:25:32what term denotes the modified hind wings carried on the meta-thorax?

0:25:32 > 0:25:34Halteres? Correct.

0:25:34 > 0:25:37At the base of the halteres are mechanoreceptors

0:25:37 > 0:25:39called campaniform sensilla,

0:25:39 > 0:25:42the name indicating that they take what shape?

0:25:43 > 0:25:46THEY WHISPER

0:25:48 > 0:25:49Bell. A bell?

0:25:49 > 0:25:52Bell is correct, yes. Ten points for this.

0:25:52 > 0:25:55Ntombi of Swaziland and Margrethe II of Denmark

0:25:55 > 0:25:59are among the royal figures depicted in Reigning Queens,

0:25:59 > 0:26:05a screen-print portfolio created in 1985 by which US artist?

0:26:08 > 0:26:10Jasper Johns?

0:26:10 > 0:26:11No. One of you buzz.

0:26:11 > 0:26:13Rauschenberg.

0:26:13 > 0:26:16No, it was Andy Warhol. Ten points for this.

0:26:16 > 0:26:20The oxide of which element is the main constituent of pitchblende,

0:26:20 > 0:26:22used from the 1890s in...?

0:26:22 > 0:26:24Uranium?

0:26:24 > 0:26:26Uranium is correct.

0:26:26 > 0:26:30Your bonuses now are on National Trust properties in England.

0:26:30 > 0:26:32In each case, name the ceremonial county,

0:26:32 > 0:26:36for example South Yorkshire, in which the following are located.

0:26:36 > 0:26:41Firstly, Felbrigg Hall, Blickling Hall and Sheringham Park.

0:26:41 > 0:26:42THEY CONFER

0:26:42 > 0:26:44Norfolk? Correct.

0:26:44 > 0:26:48Secondly, Castle Drogo, Lydford Gorge and Buckland Abbey.

0:26:48 > 0:26:50Devon. Correct.

0:26:50 > 0:26:54Beningbrough Hall, Brimham Rocks and Malham Tarn Estate.

0:26:54 > 0:26:57No idea. Sounds northern?

0:26:57 > 0:26:58Northumberland?

0:26:58 > 0:27:01No, it's North Yorkshire. Ten points for this.

0:27:01 > 0:27:03Premiered in 2013 by the Royal Ballet,

0:27:03 > 0:27:07Raven Girl is a collaboration between the choreographer

0:27:07 > 0:27:10Wayne McGregor and which US...?

0:27:11 > 0:27:14No, sorry. Bad luck, I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:27:14 > 0:27:18..between the choreographer Wayne McGregor and which US author,

0:27:18 > 0:27:21also noted for The Time Traveller's Wife?

0:27:25 > 0:27:26Philip Roth?

0:27:26 > 0:27:28No, it's Audrey Niffenegger. Ten points for this.

0:27:28 > 0:27:31What adjective derives ultimately from the Latin for "fear"?

0:27:31 > 0:27:35Originally connoting a timid or over-careful approach,

0:27:35 > 0:27:37it's now used in a positive sense

0:27:37 > 0:27:39to mean unstintingly precise and thorough?

0:27:44 > 0:27:46Meticulous?

0:27:46 > 0:27:49Correct. APPLAUSE

0:27:49 > 0:27:52Your bonuses are on the Commonwealth, Sidney Sussex.

0:27:52 > 0:27:54Three Commonwealth member states

0:27:54 > 0:27:56are also members of the European Union.

0:27:56 > 0:27:59The UK is one, name both of the others.

0:27:59 > 0:28:01Malta and Cyprus. Correct.

0:28:01 > 0:28:05Only three of the 13 Commonwealth member states in the Americas...

0:28:05 > 0:28:08GONG

0:28:08 > 0:28:10And at the gong, Sidney Sussex have 75,

0:28:10 > 0:28:14Imperial College London have 305.

0:28:14 > 0:28:16Well, bad luck, Sidney Sussex.

0:28:16 > 0:28:17We have to say goodbye to you,

0:28:17 > 0:28:20but you were up against very strong opposition,

0:28:20 > 0:28:22so thank you very much for taking part.

0:28:22 > 0:28:24And, Imperial, storming performance from you.

0:28:24 > 0:28:26We look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals.

0:28:26 > 0:28:27Congratulations.

0:28:27 > 0:28:30I hope you can join us next time for another second-round match,

0:28:30 > 0:28:33but until then, it's goodbye from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

0:28:33 > 0:28:35Goodbye.

0:28:35 > 0:28:37It's goodbye from Imperial College London. Goodbye.

0:28:37 > 0:28:39And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

0:28:39 > 0:28:42APPLAUSE

0:29:10 > 0:29:11MUSIC: Boombastic by Shaggy

0:29:11 > 0:29:13# Mr Lover Lover, mmm

0:29:13 > 0:29:16# Mr Lover Lover, girl

0:29:16 > 0:29:19# Mr Lover Lover, mmm... #