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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
Hello. Last time, we saw Imperial College, London take the first of the | 0:00:28 | 0:00:32 | |
eight places in the quarterfinal stage of this competition. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
Whichever team wins tonight will join them. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:39 | |
The team from Warwick University beat Clare College, Cambridge | 0:00:39 | 0:00:43 | |
by 195 points to 100. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
Their strengths included chemical elements, central | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
Asia, Scandinavian crime fiction, Cypriot wine and exclamation marks. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
Let's see if they can demonstrate a similarly eclectic knowledge tonight. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:58 | |
Hi, I'm Hugh Osborn, I'm from Norwich | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
and I'm studying for a PhD in Astronomy. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
Hi, my name's Emily Stevenson, I'm from Oxford | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
and I'm studying English Literature. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
-And this is their captain. -Hi, I'm Ashley Page, | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
I'm from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
and I'm studying for a PhD in Chemistry. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:12 | |
Hi, I'm James Leahy, I'm from Shrewsbury | 0:01:12 | 0:01:15 | |
and I'm reading a degree in French and History. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:17 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
Now, the team from Nuffield College, Oxford were | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
trailing in their first-round | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
match against Queen Mary College, London, but managed to pull | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
ahead and had 165 points at the gong, compared to their opponents' 130. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:35 | |
Despite their international line-up, they were quick to recognise | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
that very British phenomenon drizzle, and they were strong on 19th-century | 0:01:39 | 0:01:43 | |
paintings of Paris, book titles in IPA and Henry the Navigator. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:48 | |
Let's meet the Nuffield team again. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
Hello, I'm Spencer Smith, I'm from Holland, Michigan | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
and I study Economics. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
Hello, I'm Alexander Sayer Gard-Murray, I'm | 0:01:56 | 0:01:58 | |
from Los Angeles, California, and I study Politics. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
-And this is their captain. -Hello, my name is | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
Mathias Ormestad Frendem, I'm from Oslo, Norway, | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
and I study International Relations. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
I'm Daniel Kaliski, I'm from Cape Town, South Africa, | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
and I'm studying Economics. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
Right, you all know the rules by now, so let's just get on with it. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
Fingers on the buzzers. Your first starter for ten. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
In Roman legend, which hero escaped from the fallen city of Troy... | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
Aeneas. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:27 | |
Aeneas is correct, yes. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
The first set of bonuses are on prime ministers, Nuffield. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
Born in Dublin in 1737, the Earl of Shelburne became Prime Minister | 0:02:34 | 0:02:39 | |
towards the end of which war? | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
His immediate predecessors were the Marquess of Rockingham | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
and Lord North. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:46 | |
The War of American Independence. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
Indeed. Also born in Dublin before the 1801 Act of Union, which former | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
military figure became Prime Minister for the first time in 1929? | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
The Duke of Wellington. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
Correct. Born in New Brunswick, Canada, | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
who became Prime Minister after a meeting of the Carlton Club | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
in October 1922 during which he spoke against the coalition? | 0:03:06 | 0:03:10 | |
Arthur Bonar-Law. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:14 | |
It was Andrew Bonar-Law, but Bonar-Law was the surname I wanted | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
and I got it. Thanks. Right, ten points for this. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
What single-word term was coined by the author | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
William Gibson in 1982 in a short story called Burning Chrome | 0:03:23 | 0:03:28 | |
and is used to mean the virtual world created by the links... | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
Cyberspace? | 0:03:33 | 0:03:34 | |
Cyberspace is right, yes. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
Your bonuses are on animals this time, Nuffield. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
Which large raptor has two species native to Britain, the golden | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
and the sea or white-tailed? | 0:03:43 | 0:03:45 | |
Hawk. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:49 | |
Oh, no, that's too generic. It's an eagle. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
The beagle is a dog breed whose ancestors are thought to | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
include which extinct breed? | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
Its six-letter name is a traditional pub name, perhaps because of | 0:03:57 | 0:04:01 | |
its association with heraldic badges and with the Earls of Shrewsbury. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:05 | |
Should have gone to more pubs! | 0:04:10 | 0:04:12 | |
Sorry, we don't know. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:15 | |
It's a talbot. You sound as if you've never been in a pub! | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
And finally, found chiefly in the North Atlantic, | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
the porbeagle is a species of which broad group of cartilaginous | 0:04:21 | 0:04:25 | |
fish related to rays and skates? | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
-I'd say flatfish or flounder. -Right, well, which one do you prefer? | 0:04:32 | 0:04:37 | |
Plaice? | 0:04:37 | 0:04:38 | |
All right. Plaice. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:40 | |
No, it's a shark. Ten points for this. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
What is being described? | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
A two-dimensional graph with space on the x-axis and time on the y... | 0:04:45 | 0:04:49 | |
Oh. Er... | 0:04:51 | 0:04:52 | |
Acceleration? | 0:04:52 | 0:04:53 | |
No. If you buzz, you must answer straight away, and I'm going to have | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
to fine you five points for an incorrect interruption. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
..space on the x-axis, time on the y-axis, | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
straight lines depict fermions, wavy lines depict bosons. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:05 | |
They're used by physicists to calculate processes | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
such as electron-electron scattering in quantum electrodynamics. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:12 | |
Feynman diagram? | 0:05:15 | 0:05:16 | |
Correct. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:17 | |
These bonuses are on astronomy, Warwick. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
What six-letter term did the US astronomer Ed Spiegel | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
coin in 1978 to denote an unusually strong source of gamma rays? | 0:05:27 | 0:05:32 | |
The extragalactic object Markarian 421 is an example. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:37 | |
-Quasar. -Quasar? | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
No, it's blazar. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:40 | |
Varying by as much as 50% flux in a single day, | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
for what does the abbreviation OVV stand when referring to | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
a class of blazar consisting of a few rare, bright radio galaxies? | 0:05:47 | 0:05:53 | |
I don't know. Any ideas? | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
I don't know. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:02 | |
-No, we don't know. -It's Optically Violent Variable. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:06 | |
And finally, named after a US astronomer in 1943 | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
and believed by many astronomers to be the same objects as quasars | 0:06:09 | 0:06:13 | |
but viewed differently, what type of active galactic nuclei show | 0:06:13 | 0:06:18 | |
broad emission lines in their spectrum? | 0:06:18 | 0:06:20 | |
-Nominate Osborn. -Seyfert galaxies? | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
Correct. Ten points for this. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
Dating from the early 2nd century BC, the Rosetta Stone carries | 0:06:26 | 0:06:30 | |
the same inscription in three distinct writing systems. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:33 | |
Please name two of them. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:35 | |
Er, Greek and Ancient Egyptian. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
That's correct, yes. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:41 | |
Right, you get a set of bonuses on the Circle Line. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
In each case, give the single-word name of the station that | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
shares its name with the following. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
And for the avoidance of doubt, we're talking about the | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
Circle Line of the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit System. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:06:59 | 0:07:00 | |
Firstly, ultimately from the Latin meaning "levelled" | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
and later applied to the flat ground on the top of a rampart, | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
the term that now denotes an area where one walks for pleasure, | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
typically by the sea. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:11 | |
Promenade? | 0:07:13 | 0:07:14 | |
No, it's Esplanade. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:15 | |
Secondly, the naval commander who became Viceroy of India in 1946. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:20 | |
He was assassinated in Ireland in 1979. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
Lord Mountbatten. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
Mountbatten is correct. And finally, | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
a designation used by the RAF for the Douglas DC-3 airliner. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:32 | |
It appears in the names of two US states. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
-Dakota? -Think so? | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
I think it's Dakota. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
But wouldn't it be weird to have Dakota in... | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
-Or Carolina. -I feel better about Dakota. -OK. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
Dakota. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
Dakota is correct, yes. We're going to take a picture round. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
For your picture starter, you'll see part of the cast list of a film. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:55 | |
For ten points, I want both the name | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
of the missing actress who won an Oscar | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
for her performance in the film and the name of the character she played. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
Faye Dunaway, Annie Hall? | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
No. Anyone want to buzz from Warwick? | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
Diane Keaton, Annie Hall. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:14 | |
Correct. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:15 | |
For your bonuses, three more lists which omit the name | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
of the actress who won an Oscar for her performance in that film. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
Five points. In each case I'd like the name of the actor | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
and her character. Firstly... | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
Liza Minnelli. It's... | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
-Sally Bowles. -Nominate Stevenson. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
Liza Minnelli, Sally Bowles. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
That's correct, as in Cabaret, yes. Secondly... | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
It's Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
-Do you know who played her? -Smith? | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
It's Nurse Ratched and... Ann Radcliffe? | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
No, it was Louise Fletcher, | 0:08:54 | 0:08:55 | |
who played her in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. And finally... | 0:08:55 | 0:08:59 | |
Is this Fargo? | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
Yeah, this is Fargo, so it's Frances McDormand. Ah, what's her name? | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
-The detective. -Any idea what her name is? | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
Start with Smith. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:14 | |
Frances McDormand and...Smith. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:16 | |
No, it was Marge Gunderson, was the name of the character. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
Never mind, you did well enough there. Right, ten points for this. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
Quote - "Do you feel an uncomfortable heat at the pit of your stomach, | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
"sir, and a nasty thumping at the top of your head? Ah, not yet. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
"It will lay hold of you. I call it the detective fever." | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
These are the word of Gabriel Betteredge in which work of 1868, | 0:09:34 | 0:09:38 | |
often considered the first detective... | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
The Moonstone? | 0:09:42 | 0:09:43 | |
The Moonstone's right, yes. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:44 | |
Right, these bonuses are on pairs of anagrams. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
In each case, give both words from the definitions. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:54 | |
Firstly, two five-letter words meaning | 0:09:54 | 0:09:57 | |
added an ingredient to enhance flavour, | 0:09:57 | 0:09:59 | |
for example whisky in coffee, and a noun denoting a design | 0:09:59 | 0:10:04 | |
prepared on a treated paper for transfer onto another surface. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:08 | |
Trace... | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
Lace. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:14 | |
No, they're anagrams. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:16 | |
Caret...?! | 0:10:18 | 0:10:20 | |
Yeah, trace and...caret?! | 0:10:20 | 0:10:23 | |
-No, it's laced and decal. -Ah. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
Secondly, two seven-letter words, one meaning to cover, | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
entwine or encircle, the other meaning the general | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
Climate... | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
Weather? | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
Both seven letters. Can anyone think of an anagram? | 0:10:45 | 0:10:49 | |
-No, we don't know. -It's wreathe and weather. Bad luck. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:54 | |
And finally, two seven-letter words, | 0:10:54 | 0:10:56 | |
one a colloquial term meaning damaged or wrecked, | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
the other an informal term used primarily in the US to mean clothes. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:03 | |
Trashed, maybe? | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
-No, we don't know, do we? -No. -No, we don't know. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
It is trashed, and threads is the anagram. Right, ten points for this. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
Who won the world table-tennis championships in Budapest in 1929, | 0:11:16 | 0:11:21 | |
the same year that his father was elected Labour MP for Kettering? | 0:11:21 | 0:11:25 | |
Six years later, he became the first man to have won at some | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
point in his career each of the Lawn Tennis Grand Slam singles titles. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:33 | |
Fred Perry? | 0:11:35 | 0:11:36 | |
Correct. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:37 | |
These bonuses could give you the lead, if you get them. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:43 | |
They're on exhibitions in the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:46 | |
Firstly for five points, "It's a work about mass production," | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
said which Chinese artist of Sunflower Seeds, | 0:11:50 | 0:11:54 | |
his 2010 Turbine Hall installation that | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
consisted of millions of hand-crafted pieces of porcelain? | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
Ai Weiwei. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:01 | |
Correct. Made from 14,000 polyethylene casts | 0:12:01 | 0:12:04 | |
of the interiors of different cardboard | 0:12:04 | 0:12:07 | |
boxes, Embankment was the 2005 exhibit by which | 0:12:07 | 0:12:12 | |
Turner Prize-winning sculptor? | 0:12:12 | 0:12:14 | |
-Kapoor? Anish Kapoor? -Yeah? | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
Kapoor? | 0:12:22 | 0:12:23 | |
No, that was by Rachel Whiteread. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
And finally, performed in the Turbine Hall in 2013, | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
The Catalogue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | 0:12:29 | 0:12:33 | |
was a series of visual and sonic performances | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
by which German electronic-music group? | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
-Kraftwerk. -Correct. Ten points for this. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:44 | |
What word results when one concatenates the initial | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
letters of the capitals of Ecuador, Mongolia, | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
Pakistan and Croatia? | 0:12:50 | 0:12:52 | |
Quiz. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:56 | |
Quiz is correct, yes. | 0:12:56 | 0:12:58 | |
Right, your bonuses are on a mathematical function, Warwick. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:06 | |
What is the name of the mathematical function that for positive integers N | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
is defined as the product of the integers from 1 to N? | 0:13:10 | 0:13:14 | |
Factorial. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:16 | |
Factorial is correct. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:17 | |
Which 18th-century Scottish mathematician gives his name | 0:13:17 | 0:13:20 | |
to a commonly used approximation to the factorial function? | 0:13:20 | 0:13:24 | |
Could be Napier? | 0:13:25 | 0:13:28 | |
I'm not convinced. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:29 | |
Napier? | 0:13:30 | 0:13:32 | |
No, it's Stirling, the Stirling approximation. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
And finally, the gamma function evaluated at N = 10 | 0:13:35 | 0:13:39 | |
is equal to the factorial of which integer? | 0:13:39 | 0:13:41 | |
Y'know, I don't know, and I feel like I probably should. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
Just guess. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:51 | |
100. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
No, it's 9. We're going to take a music round. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
Ten points if you can identify the composer. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:02 | |
Johann Sebastian Bach? | 0:14:08 | 0:14:10 | |
Nope. You can hear a little more, Warwick. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
Handel? | 0:14:27 | 0:14:28 | |
No, it was one of Vivaldi's concerti for recorders. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:33 | |
So we'll come to the music bonuses in a moment or two. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:36 | |
In the meantime, here's a starter question. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:38 | |
A Kerr-Newman with both charge and angular momentum, | 0:14:38 | 0:14:42 | |
and a Schwarzschild, which has no charge and no angular momentum, | 0:14:42 | 0:14:46 | |
are two of the four possible types of what astronomical object? | 0:14:46 | 0:14:50 | |
Black hole? | 0:14:52 | 0:14:54 | |
Correct. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:55 | |
Right, so we're going to go back to the music bonuses now, | 0:14:59 | 0:15:03 | |
and your music bonuses, three more reminders that the recorder is | 0:15:03 | 0:15:07 | |
good for more than just primary-school assemblies. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:09 | |
I want the name of the German-born composer in each case, please. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:13 | |
Firstly for five... | 0:15:13 | 0:15:14 | |
Handel? | 0:15:30 | 0:15:31 | |
It is Handel, yes. And secondly... | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
Bach? | 0:15:41 | 0:15:42 | |
No, that's Telemann. And finally... | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
Bach. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:51 | |
That IS Bach, yes! Ten points for this. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:55 | |
In addition to methane, what gas is released suddenly and in great | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
quantity in the phenomenon known as a limnic eruption or lake overturn? | 0:15:58 | 0:16:03 | |
The gas... | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
Carbon monoxide? | 0:16:05 | 0:16:06 | |
No. You lose five points. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:09 | |
The gas discharged can suffocate large numbers of wildlife | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
and humans, as for example at Lake Nyos in Cameroon in 1986. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:17 | |
Nitrous oxide? | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
No, it's carbon dioxide. You said carbon monoxide. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
Which philosopher's first major work was subtitled An Attempt | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
To Introduce The Experimental Method Of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects? | 0:16:29 | 0:16:33 | |
A simplified version of the work was published in 1748. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
Immanuel Kant? | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
No. You lose five points. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:41 | |
A simplified version of the work was published in 1748 entitled | 0:16:41 | 0:16:44 | |
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
Hume? | 0:16:49 | 0:16:50 | |
It was David Hume, yes. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:51 | |
Right, your bonuses this time are on ruling dynasties. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:57 | |
Which landlocked Asian country has been ruled by the Wangchuck | 0:16:57 | 0:17:01 | |
dynasty since 1907? | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
The monarch is styled Druk Gyalpo or "Dragon King". | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
-Bhutan? -Bhutan is right. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
Which Mediterranean country has been ruled by the Alaouite dynasty | 0:17:13 | 0:17:16 | |
since 1666? Its current head is King Mohammed VI. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:21 | |
Probably Morocco. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:24 | |
I can't think of any other monarchy. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:28 | |
Morocco. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:29 | |
Correct. The monarch of which country acceded in 1989 and is said to be | 0:17:29 | 0:17:34 | |
the 125th descendant of the country's first emperor, Jimmu? | 0:17:34 | 0:17:39 | |
-Japan. -Japan. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:40 | |
Correct. Ten points for this. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:42 | |
What surname links the US philosopher who wrote | 0:17:43 | 0:17:46 | |
Democracy And Education, the man who, according to an erroneous | 0:17:46 | 0:17:50 | |
headline in the Chicago Tribune, defeated Harry Truman... | 0:17:50 | 0:17:54 | |
Dewey. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:56 | |
Dewey is right, yes. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
Your bonuses, Warwick, are on the 16th century. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
In each case, name the decade in which the following took place. | 0:18:03 | 0:18:06 | |
Firstly, the brief reign of Lady Jane Grey, the marriage of Mary I | 0:18:06 | 0:18:11 | |
to Philip of Spain and the coronation of Elizabeth I. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:15 | |
The 1550s. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:16 | |
Correct. The marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:24 | |
1580s. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:26 | |
Correct. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:27 | |
And lastly, the death of Christopher Marlowe and the first publication | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
of both Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller and Bacon's Essays. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:34 | |
We've just had '80s, so... | 0:18:36 | 0:18:38 | |
1590s. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:39 | |
Correct. Right, ten points for this. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:43 | |
Always falling between January 21st and February 21st, which holiday | 0:18:43 | 0:18:47 | |
is known in its region of origin as Spring Festival because it | 0:18:47 | 0:18:51 | |
usually falls on the new moon closest to the beginning of the solar | 0:18:51 | 0:18:54 | |
term known as the start of spring? | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
Nowruz? | 0:18:59 | 0:19:00 | |
No. Anyone want to buzz from Nuffield? | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
Lunar New Year. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:04 | |
Yes, or Chinese New Year. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:06 | |
So a set of bonuses for you now, Nuffield. They're on zoology. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
Spiders have an exoskeleton, a segmented body | 0:19:09 | 0:19:13 | |
and jointed appendages and are therefore members of which phylum? | 0:19:13 | 0:19:17 | |
Insects? | 0:19:19 | 0:19:21 | |
-Not insects. -Yeah, but phylum, so it must be something bigger. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:25 | |
-If we've got nothing else, we can say insecta. -No, it's not. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:34 | |
No clues? | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
Insects! | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
They're arthropods. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:41 | |
The head and midsection of a spider are fused into a single segment. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:45 | |
What's it called, please? | 0:19:45 | 0:19:46 | |
Thorax. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:51 | |
No, it's the prosoma or the cephalothorax. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:54 | |
The segment of the spider known as the opisthosoma is often | 0:19:54 | 0:19:58 | |
known by what more common name? | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
-Let's have it, please. -OK, what should we answer? -Thorax. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
Thorax. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:14 | |
No, it's the abdomen! | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:20:16 | 0:20:17 | |
We're going to take | 0:20:17 | 0:20:18 | |
a second picture round now. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:20 | |
You're going to see a photograph of an author. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
Ten points if you can name him. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:24 | |
Kafka? | 0:20:27 | 0:20:28 | |
No, anyone like to buzz from Nuffield? | 0:20:28 | 0:20:30 | |
HG Wells? | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
No, it's not. It is EM Forster. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:38 | |
So, picture bonuses in a moment or two, | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
ten points for this starter question in the meantime. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:43 | |
Using orchestra and voices, | 0:20:43 | 0:20:45 | |
what large-scale musical form is characterised by the use | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
of narrative, and is typically on a sacred theme? | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
Examples include Handel's Messiah... | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
Oratorio? | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
Oratorio is right. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:57 | |
You'll recall we saw a photograph of EM Forster - | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
you're going to see photographs now of three literary figures | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
who, like Forster, are commonly known | 0:21:06 | 0:21:08 | |
by the initials of their given names and their surname. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:12 | |
This time I want the given names for which the initials stand. Firstly... | 0:21:12 | 0:21:16 | |
-Do you know who it is? -Is that EE Cummings? | 0:21:17 | 0:21:19 | |
But we need the given names... | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
Edward... | 0:21:24 | 0:21:25 | |
If it is EE Cummings, Edward Ernest, but I don't really know. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
Edward Ernest. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:32 | |
No, it's Thomas Stearns. It's TS Eliot. Secondly... | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
He looks vaguely familiar, but I can't come up with a name. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:42 | |
It'll be obvious after we hear it. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:21:44 | 0:21:45 | |
Let's have it, please. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
We don't know. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:50 | |
That's WH Auden, his first names were Wystan Hugh. And finally... | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
-So this is 19th century... -It's not HG Wells... | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
Could be HG Wells. | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
-What does the HG stand for? -Henry... | 0:21:59 | 0:22:02 | |
-Henry Graham? -Henry George? | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
I don't know. Might as well try. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:07 | |
Henry George. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:08 | |
No, it's William Butler Yeats. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:09 | |
Ten points for this. Named after a 19th-century German physicist, | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
what unit is used to measure the clock rate of a computer - | 0:22:12 | 0:22:17 | |
that is, the frequency at... | 0:22:17 | 0:22:20 | |
Hertz? | 0:22:20 | 0:22:21 | |
Hertz is right, yes. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
These bonuses, Nuffield, are on a Belgian city. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:29 | |
Which city in Flanders | 0:22:29 | 0:22:30 | |
gives its name to a pacification of 1576 during the Spanish-Dutch War, | 0:22:30 | 0:22:36 | |
and to a treaty that concluded the war of 1812 | 0:22:36 | 0:22:40 | |
between Britain and the United States? | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
Ghent. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:43 | |
Correct. Which ruler took refuge | 0:22:43 | 0:22:45 | |
in Ghent during the Hundred Days in 1815? | 0:22:45 | 0:22:47 | |
Must be Napoleon? | 0:22:47 | 0:22:49 | |
I mean, he's the only ruler who could have taken... | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
-It's the Hundred Days... -OK. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
Napoleon. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:56 | |
No, it was Louis XVIII. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:57 | |
And finally, named after a corruption of the city's name, | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
John of Gaunt was the younger son of which King of England? | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
John of Gaunt was... | 0:23:05 | 0:23:06 | |
Edward III or something like that? | 0:23:06 | 0:23:10 | |
It's in a Shakespeare play - which Shakespeare play is he in? | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
I can't remember. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
-So the name of the king in a Shakespeare play? -Yeah. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:17 | |
-Is there an Edward III play? -Come on, let's have it, please... | 0:23:17 | 0:23:20 | |
Edward III. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:22 | |
Correct. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:23 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:25 | |
If its three colours from hoist to fly are reversed, | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
the national flag of Ivory Coast | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
most closely resembles that... | 0:23:31 | 0:23:34 | |
Ireland. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:35 | |
Of Ireland. Well done. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
Right, Warwick, these bonuses are on similar though unrelated words - | 0:23:40 | 0:23:44 | |
in each case, give the term from the definition. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:46 | |
Answers all begin with the same four letters. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
Firstly, a six-letter term used in ornithology | 0:23:49 | 0:23:53 | |
for a bird of the crow family. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:55 | |
Don't know. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:01 | |
No, pass. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:03 | |
They're corvids. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:04 | |
A historical term, secondly, from the old French, | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
denoting compulsory unpaid labour | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
done by those of lower social status, | 0:24:09 | 0:24:11 | |
for example as a feudal obligation. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
Corvee? | 0:24:14 | 0:24:16 | |
Correct. Finally, a small warship designed for convoy escort duty. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:20 | |
Corvette. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:23 | |
Corvette is right, | 0:24:23 | 0:24:24 | |
ten points for this. Under which Prime Minister | 0:24:24 | 0:24:26 | |
did James Callaghan, Roy Jenkins | 0:24:26 | 0:24:28 | |
and Denis Healey... | 0:24:28 | 0:24:30 | |
Wilson. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:32 | |
Correct, yes. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:33 | |
Your bonuses this time, Nuffield, are on cell biology. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:38 | |
The cell cycle of eukaryotic cells | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
has been divided into so-called G, S and M phases. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:44 | |
For what does the letter G stand? | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
-M is mitosis I think. -Hm? | 0:24:47 | 0:24:49 | |
M is mitosis. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:50 | |
Come on, let's have it... | 0:24:50 | 0:24:52 | |
Generator or genesis? | 0:24:52 | 0:24:53 | |
Generator. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
No, it's gap. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:56 | |
What molecule is replicated in the S or synthesis stage? | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
Some sort of protein... | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
-Do you have an idea? -DNA. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
-Come on... -DNA? | 0:25:05 | 0:25:06 | |
Correct. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
Mitosis occurs in the M phase - | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
in which phase of mitosis do sister chromatids move to opposite poles? | 0:25:10 | 0:25:14 | |
Do you have any idea? | 0:25:16 | 0:25:18 | |
Let's have it, please... | 0:25:18 | 0:25:21 | |
Sorry, we don't know. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:24 | |
It's anaphase. Ten points for this. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:26 | |
What five-letter word from the Yiddish | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
means an expert in a particular field? | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
The same five letters form the abbreviation used | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
for the Nasa probe that entered orbit around Mars in September 2014. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:37 | |
Rover? | 0:25:43 | 0:25:45 | |
Nope. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:47 | |
Maven. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:48 | |
Maven is correct, yes. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
These bonuses are on nicknames of US states, Nuffield. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:56 | |
The character Natty Bumppo in James Fenimore Cooper's | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
Leatherstocking Tales shares what nickname with the state of Iowa? | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
My mom's FROM Iowa... | 0:26:04 | 0:26:07 | |
-Potatoes...? -Come on... | 0:26:07 | 0:26:10 | |
No, it's corn. But it's not called the Corn State. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
Do you have any... | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
Come on! | 0:26:16 | 0:26:17 | |
The Corn State. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:18 | |
No, it's Hawkeye. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:19 | |
Mostly nocturnal, which mammal | 0:26:19 | 0:26:21 | |
is a nickname for the state of Wisconsin? | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
Which mammal... | 0:26:23 | 0:26:25 | |
-Bat...? -Badger. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:27 | |
Badger. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:29 | |
Correct. Which object used in apiculture | 0:26:29 | 0:26:31 | |
provides a nickname for the state of Utah? | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
Honeybee... Isn't it? | 0:26:35 | 0:26:37 | |
Yeah... | 0:26:37 | 0:26:38 | |
Yeah. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:40 | |
Honeybee. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:42 | |
No, it's beehive, it's the Beehive State. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:44 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:45 | |
In addition to Cairo and Khartoum, | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
through which capital city does the River Nile flow? | 0:26:47 | 0:26:51 | |
Kampala? | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
Nope. | 0:26:56 | 0:26:57 | |
N'Djamena? | 0:26:58 | 0:27:00 | |
No, it's Juba. Ten points for this. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:02 | |
What generic term denotes a low-level computer programming language | 0:27:02 | 0:27:05 | |
that sits one level above machine code or machine language, and uses... | 0:27:05 | 0:27:10 | |
Compiler? | 0:27:10 | 0:27:12 | |
No, you lose five points. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:13 | |
..and uses short mnemonic codes for instructions? | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
It's an assembly or assembler code. Ten points for this. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
What short word denotes the tidal movement that coincides | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
with the first and third quarters of the moon, | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
and has the smallest difference in water level | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
between high tide and low tide? | 0:27:29 | 0:27:31 | |
Neap? | 0:27:33 | 0:27:35 | |
Neap is correct, you get a set of bonuses now | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
on the films of the Czech-born British director Karel Reisz. | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
Karel Reisz's first feature in 1960 | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
starred Albert Finney as a Midlands... | 0:27:43 | 0:27:45 | |
GONG | 0:27:45 | 0:27:46 | |
And at the gong, the University of Warwick have 120 | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
but Nuffield College, Oxford have 160. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:51 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:27:51 | 0:27:52 | |
So Warwick, I'm afraid we're going to have to say goodbye to you, | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
but thank you very much for joining us. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
Nuffield, you go straight through to the quarterfinals, congratulations. | 0:27:57 | 0:28:01 | |
I hope you can join us next time for another second-round match, | 0:28:01 | 0:28:03 | |
but until then, it's goodbye | 0:28:03 | 0:28:05 | |
-from the University of Warwick... ALL: -Goodbye. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:07 | |
-..it's goodbye from Nuffield College... ALL: -Goodbye. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:10 | |
..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:11 |