0:00:15 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:18 > 0:00:20University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Whichever team wins tonight will join Imperial College London
0:00:32 > 0:00:34and Nuffield College, Oxford in the labyrinth
0:00:34 > 0:00:37that is the quarterfinal stage of this contest.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41Whichever team loses can console themselves with the thought
0:00:41 > 0:00:44that they don't have to play in the quarterfinals.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Now the team from Glasgow University lost to Peterhouse, Cambridge
0:00:47 > 0:00:51in round one, but won their play-off for the highest scoring losing teams
0:00:51 > 0:00:55and improved their score when they met St Peter's College, Oxford.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58They were quick on game theory, the Cayman Islands and rotten tomatoes,
0:00:58 > 0:01:01and particularly strong on artists of the Bauhaus.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Let's meet the Glasgow team again.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Hi, my name is Andrew Davidson, I'm from Stranraer
0:01:06 > 0:01:08and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Hello, my name is Vitali Brejevs, I am from Riga in Latvia
0:01:11 > 0:01:13and I am studying mathematics.
0:01:13 > 0:01:14And this is their captain.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Hi, I'm Evelyn McMenamin, I'm from North London
0:01:16 > 0:01:18and I'm studying geography.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Hi, my name is Ollie Allen, I'm originally from Catford in London
0:01:22 > 0:01:23and I study maths.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26APPLAUSE
0:01:26 > 0:01:30Now their opponents from the University of Newcastle beat
0:01:30 > 0:01:35Kent University in their first round match, wining by 160 points to 115.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39It wasn't the highest scoring match of the round and they could do with
0:01:39 > 0:01:41brushing up on ballet and the months of the year.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44But they were impressive on hypothetical tourist signs,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46cloud formations and Greek mythology.
0:01:46 > 0:01:51With an average age of 28, let's meet the Newcastle team again.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54Hello, I'm Alexander Kirkman, I'm from Guildford in Surrey
0:01:54 > 0:01:56and I'm studying biomedical sciences.
0:01:56 > 0:01:57Hi, my name is Nick Smith, I'm from
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Chorley in Lancashire, and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:00 > 0:02:01And their captain.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Hello, I'm Tony Richardson, originally from County Durham,
0:02:04 > 0:02:06studying for a master's in international politics.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Hi, I'm Kate Bennett, I'm from Chichester
0:02:08 > 0:02:12and I'm studying for a master's in film theory and practice.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15APPLAUSE
0:02:17 > 0:02:19OK, let's crack on with it, then.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:21 > 0:02:25The name of which British overseas territory is derived from that of
0:02:25 > 0:02:29a Moorish general of the 8th century and the Arabic word for mountain.
0:02:31 > 0:02:32- Gibraltar?- Correct.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35APPLAUSE
0:02:36 > 0:02:40The first set of bonuses are on Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42In each case, name the full-length novel
0:02:42 > 0:02:44in which Holmes speaks these words.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47The first, serialised from 1901.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51"Well, Sir Henry, I'm of one mind with you as to the advisability
0:02:51 > 0:02:53"of you going down to Devonshire without delay.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56"There's only one provision which I must make,
0:02:56 > 0:02:58"you certainly must not go alone."
0:02:58 > 0:03:00The Hound Of The Baskervilles.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Correct. Secondly, serialised from 1914.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06"You can tell an old master by the sweep of his brush,
0:03:06 > 0:03:08"I can tell a Moriarty when I see one.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11"This crime is from London, not from America."
0:03:14 > 0:03:15The Sign Of Four?
0:03:15 > 0:03:19No, that's The Valley Of Fear. And, finally, first appearing in 1890,
0:03:19 > 0:03:22"A 7% solution, would you care to try it?"
0:03:24 > 0:03:25The Sign Of Four?
0:03:25 > 0:03:26Indeed.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29APPLAUSE Right, 10 points for this starter question.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32Oreads inhabited mountains and grottos,
0:03:32 > 0:03:35naiads rivers and lakes, Oceanids the sea...
0:03:36 > 0:03:39Muses? No, nymphs! It's nymphs!
0:03:39 > 0:03:40Oh, no!
0:03:40 > 0:03:42I'm sorry, I have to take your first answer and you've now
0:03:42 > 0:03:44- given them the correct answer.- Sorry!
0:03:44 > 0:03:46I'm going to have to fine you five points.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Just be careful next time. I'm sorry about that,
0:03:48 > 0:03:50there's no point in my giving it to you, Newcastle,
0:03:50 > 0:03:52because she did eventually get there,
0:03:52 > 0:03:54cos you knew the right answer all along.
0:03:54 > 0:03:5610 points for this starter question.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Born in 1869, the Scottish physicist CTR Wilson
0:03:59 > 0:04:01is noted for the invention of what device?
0:04:02 > 0:04:03Cloud chamber.
0:04:03 > 0:04:04Correct.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06APPLAUSE
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Forget it and move on.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Set of bonuses for you this time, Glasgow.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14They're on native British trees
0:04:14 > 0:04:17in the words of the Royal Horticultural Society website.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20In each case, give the common name of the tree from the description.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22First, Sorbus aucuparia,
0:04:22 > 0:04:25an upright, deciduous tree with pinnate leaves,
0:04:25 > 0:04:29turning yellow in autumn and flat clusters of white flowers
0:04:29 > 0:04:33in late spring, followed by orange-red berries in early autumn.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36- (Don't know.- Any ideas?)
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Rowan tree? It's got orange-red berries.
0:04:39 > 0:04:40Rowan tree?
0:04:40 > 0:04:41Rowan is correct, or the mountain ash.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Secondly, Taxus baccata,
0:04:43 > 0:04:45a medium-sized bushy evergreen tree
0:04:45 > 0:04:48with narrow, leathery dark green leaves arranged in two rows
0:04:48 > 0:04:51on the shoots and insignificant flowers
0:04:51 > 0:04:55followed on female plants by fleshy red fruits.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58THEY CONFER
0:05:02 > 0:05:04- Try a plum tree?- Plum tree, yeah.
0:05:04 > 0:05:05A plum tree?
0:05:05 > 0:05:07No, that's the common or English yew.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Finally, Pinus sylvestris, a large evergreen tree
0:05:10 > 0:05:14developing a picturesque irregular outline with maturity.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Twisted grey-green needles are born in pairs.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21I need the two word name at the top of the RHS list here.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25- Some kind of pine, so it's pine... - Scots pine, maybe?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27It's the top of the list, so...
0:05:27 > 0:05:31- So, A, something A. - Something like that, yeah.
0:05:31 > 0:05:32Er...
0:05:32 > 0:05:34I don't know!
0:05:35 > 0:05:37- Scots pine?- Correct!
0:05:37 > 0:05:38APPLAUSE
0:05:38 > 0:05:4110 points for this. Joseph Lister and Lord Kelvin were among
0:05:41 > 0:05:43the inaugural recipients of which honour, first awarded
0:05:43 > 0:05:46at the time of the coronation of Edward VII
0:05:46 > 0:05:48and currently limited to 24...
0:05:49 > 0:05:51- Order of Merit?- Correct.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54APPLAUSE
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Newcastle, these bonuses are on the films of John Hughes
0:05:58 > 0:06:00in words taken from the website rottentomatoes.com -
0:06:00 > 0:06:03in each case, name the film from the synopsis.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Firstly, "Wannabe hipster Gary and his nebbish,
0:06:06 > 0:06:09"weak-willed best friend, Wyatt, are a pair of high-school geeks
0:06:09 > 0:06:12"who are hapless with members of the opposite sex.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14"Using Wyatt's computer they create
0:06:14 > 0:06:17"what they believe is the ideal woman."
0:06:17 > 0:06:20- Weird Science.- Weird Science.
0:06:20 > 0:06:21- Correct.- (Get in!)
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Secondly, "Trapped in a day-long Saturday detention
0:06:24 > 0:06:28"in a prison-like school library are the princess, the jock, the criminal,
0:06:28 > 0:06:29"the brain and the basket case."
0:06:29 > 0:06:31- The Breakfast Club.- Correct.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33And, finally, "Intending to make one last
0:06:33 > 0:06:35"grand duck-out before graduation,
0:06:35 > 0:06:39"the title character calls in sick, borrows a Ferrari and embarks
0:06:39 > 0:06:42"on a one day bacchanal through the streets of Chicago."
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Correct. We're going to take a picture round now.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48For your picture starter you'll see
0:06:48 > 0:06:49the plot of probability distribution
0:06:49 > 0:06:51assuming the parameters
0:06:51 > 0:06:52defined in the legend.
0:06:52 > 0:06:53For 10 points, I want you
0:06:53 > 0:06:55to identify the distribution.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Er, normal.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01No, anyone like to...
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Gaussian?
0:07:03 > 0:07:04No, it's binomial.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07So we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two,
0:07:07 > 0:07:1010 points at stake for this started question.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14What five letter prefix links a substance with zero viscosity,
0:07:14 > 0:07:17a person who lives to the age of 110
0:07:17 > 0:07:21and the company that manufactured the World War II Spitfire aeroplane?
0:07:23 > 0:07:24Super.
0:07:24 > 0:07:25Correct.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27APPLAUSE
0:07:29 > 0:07:32Right, your picture bonuses are three more plots of commonly used
0:07:32 > 0:07:33probability distributions.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37Each of them is shown for three different sets of defined parameters
0:07:37 > 0:07:39given in the legend in conventional notation.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Again, in each case I want you to
0:07:41 > 0:07:43identify the distribution represented.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Firstly, for five.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Boltzmann? That's a distribution...
0:07:53 > 0:07:54Boltzmann?
0:07:54 > 0:07:56No, that's chi-squared distribution.
0:07:56 > 0:07:57Secondly.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Alex, any ideas?
0:08:02 > 0:08:04(Try that one again?)
0:08:04 > 0:08:06We'll try Boltzmann again.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08No, that's Pareto distribution.
0:08:08 > 0:08:09And, finally...
0:08:11 > 0:08:13(I have no idea.)
0:08:15 > 0:08:16(Could be anything.)
0:08:18 > 0:08:20- (Will we try Boltzmann again? - I was thinking...)
0:08:20 > 0:08:22We're going to have to try Boltzmann again.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Poor bloke. No, that isn't right, either.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26No, it's poisson distribution.
0:08:26 > 0:08:27Right, 10 points for this.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31Which British monarch concluded the Treaty Of Dover with France?
0:08:31 > 0:08:35It provided for a joint attack on the Netherlands and, in a secret clause,
0:08:35 > 0:08:37for a French army to cross the Channel
0:08:37 > 0:08:41to help the monarch in question to re-establish Catholicism?
0:08:45 > 0:08:48- James...- Mary... Mary I.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49No. Anyone like to buzz from Glasgow?
0:08:52 > 0:08:53Henry VII.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55No, it's Charles II.
0:08:55 > 0:08:5610 points for this.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00Known as Elissa in some sources and thought to have been born in Tyre,
0:09:00 > 0:09:04which legendary Phoenician princess is traditionally regarded
0:09:04 > 0:09:06as the founder of a major city on the coast of...
0:09:08 > 0:09:10- Dido.- Dido is correct, yes.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13APPLAUSE
0:09:13 > 0:09:14Queen of Carthage.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17So, Newcastle, your bonuses this time are on chemical bonding.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21Named after the two German scientists who formulated it in 1918,
0:09:21 > 0:09:24what term denotes the cycle that breaks down the overall process of
0:09:24 > 0:09:30the formation of an ionic bond into a series of steps of known energy?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32THEY CONFER
0:09:36 > 0:09:39- No, we don't have anything. - It's the Born-Haber cycle. Secondly,
0:09:39 > 0:09:41what term denotes the energy released
0:09:41 > 0:09:45when gaseous ions are combined to form a crystalline solid?
0:09:45 > 0:09:47It's usually measured in kilojoules per mole.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51THEY CONFER
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Nominate Kirkman.
0:09:59 > 0:10:00Latent heat of evaporation?
0:10:00 > 0:10:02No, it's lattice energy.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04And finally, as a general rule,
0:10:04 > 0:10:07when neither of the elements in a compound is a metal,
0:10:07 > 0:10:11the compound is likely to be formed by what type of chemical bond?
0:10:11 > 0:10:12(Covalent? Is it covalent?)
0:10:12 > 0:10:14(Covalent, yeah.)
0:10:14 > 0:10:16- Covalent.- Correct.
0:10:16 > 0:10:1810 points for this.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22Phascolarctos cinereus has what five letter common name?
0:10:22 > 0:10:25It's an arboreal, herbivorous marsupial
0:10:25 > 0:10:27whose generic name means pouch bear.
0:10:30 > 0:10:31Wombat?
0:10:31 > 0:10:33No, that's got six letters. Oh, God.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37- Er, Koala.- Koala is correct, yes.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40APPLAUSE
0:10:41 > 0:10:45Newcastle, your bonuses this time are on place names.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47In each case, name the location from the description.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51All three names begin with the same three letters.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55The Caliph Muawiyah established which city as the capital of the
0:10:55 > 0:10:58Umayyad Caliphate in 661?
0:10:58 > 0:11:00First settled in the second millennium BC,
0:11:00 > 0:11:04it's one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
0:11:04 > 0:11:05Damascus?
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Mesopotamia, maybe?
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Damascus, it's a city.
0:11:09 > 0:11:10I'd say Egypt.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Damascus. It's a city.
0:11:15 > 0:11:16If you want to try Damascus.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18- Damascus.- Correct.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21- Sorry!- The main city of a union territory of India,
0:11:21 > 0:11:23an enclave on the coast of Gujarat,
0:11:23 > 0:11:25it was ruled by Portugal until the 1960s.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29(Do you know?)
0:11:29 > 0:11:32(They all begin with the same three letters.)
0:11:32 > 0:11:35- (Can you help?- I'm not sure. - I can't think of any.)
0:11:36 > 0:11:38- Let's have it, please.- Damaris?
0:11:38 > 0:11:40No, it's Daman.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Finally, the English name of the eastern branch of the Nile Delta.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51THEY CONFER
0:11:52 > 0:11:53No.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55It's Damietta. 10 points for this.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58One of the coldest low-lying locations in the UK,
0:11:58 > 0:12:02which village in Aberdeenshire hosts an annual highland games gathering
0:12:02 > 0:12:04traditionally attended by the Royal...
0:12:05 > 0:12:07- Braemar?- Braemar is correct, yes.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09APPLAUSE
0:12:10 > 0:12:13You get a set of bonuses, Glasgow, on Mary, Queen of Scots.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Firstly for five,
0:12:15 > 0:12:18which royal residence was the location of Mary's marriages
0:12:18 > 0:12:19to her second and third husbands
0:12:19 > 0:12:23and the scene of the murder of her secretary, David Rizzio?
0:12:24 > 0:12:27- Hmm.- I never did this in history...
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Well, I'm not Scottish, that's my defence.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31Holyrood?
0:12:31 > 0:12:32- Balmoral...- Holyrood?
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Correct.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Secondly, having been a prisoner there for over 10 months,
0:12:37 > 0:12:41in 1568 Mary escaped by boat from which Scottish castle
0:12:41 > 0:12:44aided by members of her captor's family?
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Stirling, maybe?
0:12:47 > 0:12:49- By boat, though.- Can you get a boat from Stirling?
0:12:49 > 0:12:51No, it's on a hill!
0:12:51 > 0:12:53- There's Stirling Bridge, there is a river.- But it's on a hill,
0:12:53 > 0:12:57- a stone castle is on a hill, it's definitely not that.- Eilean Donan?
0:12:57 > 0:12:59- Eilean Donan? - No, it's Loch Leven Castle.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03And, finally, almost entirely demolished in the 17th century,
0:13:03 > 0:13:05which castle in Northamptonshire
0:13:05 > 0:13:07was the scene of Mary's trial and execution?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Castle in Northamptonshire?
0:13:09 > 0:13:11No.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15- No.- Northampton Castle?
0:13:15 > 0:13:16No, it's Fotheringhay Castle.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21For your music starter, you're going to hear an excerpt from an opera.
0:13:21 > 0:13:2510 points if you can identify the composer and the opera.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:13:34 > 0:13:35The Magic Flute by Mozart?
0:13:35 > 0:13:38No, you can hear a little more, Glasgow.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40OPERA MUSIC CONTINUES
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Mozart and Don Giovanni?
0:13:49 > 0:13:51No, it was Mozart, you both got that,
0:13:51 > 0:13:53but it was the Marriage of Figaro,
0:13:53 > 0:13:55so we'll take the music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58Another 10 points at stake for this starter question.
0:13:58 > 0:13:59From the Greek for "to contract",
0:13:59 > 0:14:03what term denotes a medical application that checks bleeding
0:14:03 > 0:14:06either by causing blood vessels to narrow
0:14:06 > 0:14:09or by speeding the clotting process?
0:14:09 > 0:14:12Cauterisation?
0:14:12 > 0:14:13No.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Haemostasis?
0:14:16 > 0:14:17No, it's styptic.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Ten points for this. Give both answers promptly.
0:14:19 > 0:14:24If the US presidents are listed alphabetically by surname,
0:14:24 > 0:14:27which surnames would appear first and last?
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Adams and Wilson?
0:14:34 > 0:14:35Correct!
0:14:41 > 0:14:45Right, that music starter that everyone so signally failed to get
0:14:45 > 0:14:46was from Marriage of Figaro
0:14:46 > 0:14:49as I say, it was, in fact, the marriage of Figaro -
0:14:49 > 0:14:51that is the double wedding ceremony at the end of Act III.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55Your music bonuses are three more wedding ceremonies in opera,
0:14:55 > 0:14:57all by Italian composers.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00I'd like the name of the composer in each case please.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03Firstly for five?
0:15:03 > 0:15:05OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:11 > 0:15:14THEY CONFER
0:15:24 > 0:15:26We'll go with Puccini.
0:15:26 > 0:15:27Puccini?
0:15:27 > 0:15:29No, that's from Verdi's Falstaff.
0:15:29 > 0:15:30And, secondly...
0:15:30 > 0:15:32OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:41 > 0:15:44- Puccini?- I don't know.
0:15:50 > 0:15:51Puccini?
0:15:51 > 0:15:54No, that's by Donizetti from Lucia di Lammermoor.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56And finally...
0:15:56 > 0:15:59OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:59 > 0:16:01I don't believe this!
0:16:02 > 0:16:04We've only got Puccini left!
0:16:04 > 0:16:06Well, you're quite right in that case.
0:16:06 > 0:16:07It was from Madame Butterfly!
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Right, 10 points for this.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Harriet Taylor's essay, The Enfranchisement of Women,
0:16:12 > 0:16:17was published in 1851 under what name, that of her husband?
0:16:17 > 0:16:19He later...
0:16:19 > 0:16:20Harriet Tubman?
0:16:20 > 0:16:22No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25He later dedicated On Liberty to her?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Thomas Paine?
0:16:28 > 0:16:31Nope, it's John Stuart Mills,
0:16:31 > 0:16:34so we'll take another starter question.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Derived ultimately from the Latin for sky,
0:16:37 > 0:16:39what word may precede pole,
0:16:39 > 0:16:42parallel, sphere, horizon and mechanics
0:16:42 > 0:16:44to form terms in astronomy?
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Celestial?
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Correct.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53Here are your bonuses, they're on Japanese culture.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57Meaning "treasure every meeting which will never recur",
0:16:57 > 0:17:00the Japanese expression, "ichigo ichie",
0:17:00 > 0:17:03is associated with which stylised tradition
0:17:03 > 0:17:06known as sado or chanoyu?
0:17:07 > 0:17:09The tea ceremony?
0:17:09 > 0:17:10THEY CONFER
0:17:10 > 0:17:11What about calligraphy?
0:17:11 > 0:17:15- It might be, I don't know.- It's a tradition, a traditional ceremony.
0:17:15 > 0:17:16Calligraphy?
0:17:16 > 0:17:18No, it is the tea ceremony.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22Secondly, used to flavour ice cream and traditional confectionery,
0:17:22 > 0:17:24what name is given to the powdered variety
0:17:24 > 0:17:26of green tea used in the tea ceremony?
0:17:29 > 0:17:30Chai?
0:17:30 > 0:17:33- That's Indian.- Let's just guess. - Chai?
0:17:33 > 0:17:34No, it's matcha.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37And finally, the tea ceremony is especially associated
0:17:37 > 0:17:40with which broad school of East Asian Buddhism,
0:17:40 > 0:17:44its monks used tea to prevent drowsiness during meditations?
0:17:45 > 0:17:46- Zen?- Correct.
0:17:46 > 0:17:4810 points for this.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Replacing the originally intended title Buonaparte,
0:17:50 > 0:17:53what name did Beethoven give to his third symphony
0:17:53 > 0:17:55in response to Napoleon's...
0:17:55 > 0:17:56Eroica?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Eroica is correct, yes.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04Right, these bonuses are on mathematical physics, Glasgow.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Born in 1902, which scientist gives his name to a generalised
0:18:07 > 0:18:10distribution function, also known as the delta function,
0:18:10 > 0:18:12- that takes the value zero...- Dirac.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15- ..at all points except the origin?- Dirac.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18Correct. Born in 1850, which English scientist gives his name to both
0:18:18 > 0:18:22a layer in the ionosphere associated with the transmission of radio waves,
0:18:22 > 0:18:27and the step function, obtained by integrating the Dirac delta function?
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- Um, Green?- Green?
0:18:29 > 0:18:31- No, it's Heaviside.- Oh!
0:18:31 > 0:18:34What is the numerical value of the Heaviside function
0:18:34 > 0:18:37for strictly positive values of its argument?
0:18:37 > 0:18:38Er, I think it's one.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41- One.- It is. 10 points for this.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Its name referring to a Roman general,
0:18:43 > 0:18:45known for his delaying tactics,
0:18:45 > 0:18:49which socialist grouping was founded in 1884 by...?
0:18:50 > 0:18:51Fabian.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53The Fabian Society is correct, yes.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59These bonuses, Newcastle, are on a writer.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01In 1988, the University of Dusseldorf was renamed
0:19:01 > 0:19:03in honour of which lyric poet?
0:19:03 > 0:19:05He was born in the city in 1797,
0:19:05 > 0:19:08but lived in Paris for much of his adult life.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Goethe?
0:19:10 > 0:19:11No, it's Heine.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14Poems from Heine's collection Lyrical Intermezzo
0:19:14 > 0:19:17were set to music by which Romantic composer
0:19:17 > 0:19:20in his song cycle, Dichterliebe, or A Poet's Love?
0:19:25 > 0:19:26(Schumann.)
0:19:26 > 0:19:27Schumann?
0:19:27 > 0:19:29Correct, Robert Schumann, yes.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Which water nymph and enchantress of German folklore
0:19:32 > 0:19:35is the subject of a poem by Heine, later set to music by Liszt?
0:19:45 > 0:19:46The Valkyrie.
0:19:46 > 0:19:47- No, it's Lorelei.- Lorelei!
0:19:47 > 0:19:49We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52For your picture starter, you'll see a painting depicting the signing
0:19:52 > 0:19:55of a specific historical document.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58For 10 points, I want the name of that document, please.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Is it the Declaration of Independence?
0:20:03 > 0:20:06No. Anyone like to buzz from Newcastle? You may not confer.
0:20:06 > 0:20:07One of you may buzz.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10The United States Constitution.
0:20:10 > 0:20:11It is indeed, yes.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13APPLAUSE
0:20:15 > 0:20:16So, for your picture bonuses,
0:20:16 > 0:20:18you're going to see portraits of three people
0:20:18 > 0:20:21whose work wielded significant influence on the political thought
0:20:21 > 0:20:24of the Founding Fathers of the nascent United States.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Five points for each you can identify.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Firstly, this English-born political theorist.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35Thomas Payne.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Correct. Secondly, this American Founding Father
0:20:37 > 0:20:40and one of the authors of the Federalist Papers.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48James Madison.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49No, it's Alexander Hamilton,
0:20:49 > 0:20:52although Madison was, of course, one of the authors of that.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55And, finally, this English philosopher born in the 17th century.
0:21:00 > 0:21:01John Locke.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Correct. 10 points for this starter question.
0:21:03 > 0:21:07Of the seven SI base units, which has the shortest name
0:21:07 > 0:21:10and the longest symbol, differing in length by only one letter?
0:21:17 > 0:21:18Kilogram.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Nope. Newcastle, one of you buzz?
0:21:24 > 0:21:26It's mole. 10 points for this.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29In Norse mythology, what word is broadly equivalent
0:21:29 > 0:21:32to the German "Gotterdammerung", both of them referring to the...?
0:21:34 > 0:21:35Ragnarok.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Correct.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Right, you get a set of bonuses on chemistry, Glasgow.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45After the first element in the series, what term denotes the series
0:21:45 > 0:21:49of metallic elements with atomic numbers 90 to 103?
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Actinides, I think. I think actinides.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54- Nominate Brejevs.- Actinides.
0:21:54 > 0:21:59Correct. What term denotes elements with atomic numbers greater than 92?
0:21:59 > 0:22:02- Transuranic. - Nominate Brejevs.- Transuranic.
0:22:02 > 0:22:03Transuranic is right.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06And, finally, named after the American University city where
0:22:06 > 0:22:10it was first synthesised, which actinide has the atomic number 97?
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Livermorium.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15- Nominate Brejevs.- Livermorium.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17No, it's berkelium. 10 points for this.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21Named after a German physician born in 1848, which severe
0:22:21 > 0:22:24and sometimes fatal form of leptospirosis
0:22:24 > 0:22:25can be transmitted by rats?
0:22:27 > 0:22:28Weil's disease.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31Yes. Right, 15 points for these bonuses.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33At an elevation of more than 1,500 metres,
0:22:33 > 0:22:36which Swiss town is the highest in Europe?
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Davos?
0:22:46 > 0:22:50Correct. Which novel by Thomas Mann was inspired in part by his visits
0:22:50 > 0:22:54to his wife during her treatment in the sanatorium at Davos in 1912?
0:23:05 > 0:23:07- Come on.- Death In Venice.
0:23:07 > 0:23:08- Death In Venice in Davos?- I know.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10No, it was The Magic Mountain.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13For what do the letters WEF stand in the context
0:23:13 > 0:23:16of the annual meeting in Davos committed to,
0:23:16 > 0:23:18"improving the state of the world"?
0:23:18 > 0:23:19World Economic Forum.
0:23:19 > 0:23:20That is correct.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Four minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24China's largest e-commerce business,
0:23:24 > 0:23:27which internet corporation was founded in 1999...?
0:23:28 > 0:23:29Alibaba?
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Correct, yes.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35These bonuses are on Homer's Odyssey, Glasgow.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38Described in Cooper's translation as, "the bearer of the golden wand",
0:23:38 > 0:23:41which God gives Odysseus a plant called moly to help him resist
0:23:41 > 0:23:45- the magic of Circe? - The messenger...- Hermes.- Hermes.
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Hermes is right.
0:23:46 > 0:23:50Hermes later convinces which nymph to release Odysseus from captivity
0:23:50 > 0:23:53- on her island of Ogygia?- Calypso.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Calypso's correct. In Book 24, Hermes conducts to the Underworld
0:23:56 > 0:23:58the shades of which group of men slain by Odysseus...?
0:23:58 > 0:24:00The suitors.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02The suitors is correct. 10 points for this.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07What is the total sum represented by the seven denominations
0:24:07 > 0:24:08of euro banknotes?
0:24:18 > 0:24:19Is it 198 euros?
0:24:21 > 0:24:22Nope.
0:24:23 > 0:24:24698 euros.
0:24:24 > 0:24:29No, it's 885. 500, 200, onwards down.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Right, 10 points for this starter question, then.
0:24:31 > 0:24:36Hever Castle, bestowed on Anne of Cleves by Henry VIII in 1540,
0:24:36 > 0:24:39had been the childhood home of which of his other wives?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Catherine of Aragon?
0:24:44 > 0:24:45Nope.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47Jane Seymour?
0:24:47 > 0:24:49No, it was Anne Boleyn. 10 points for this.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Sir Michael Tippett's opera, The Midsummer Marriage
0:24:51 > 0:24:54and TS Eliot's poem, The Waste Land both include
0:24:54 > 0:24:56a clairvoyant by what name?
0:24:58 > 0:24:59Sosostris.
0:24:59 > 0:25:03Yes, that's correct, so you get a set of bonuses now, Newcastle, on Norway.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06Nidaros Cathedral is built over the burial site of Saint Olav,
0:25:06 > 0:25:08the patron saint of Norway,
0:25:08 > 0:25:11and is located in which city around 500 kilometres north of Oslo?
0:25:19 > 0:25:20Trondheim.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Correct. Which town north of the Arctic Circle
0:25:22 > 0:25:23is the terminus of a railway
0:25:23 > 0:25:26built to transport iron ore from Sweden?
0:25:26 > 0:25:30It was the scene of fierce fighting during the German invasion in 1940.
0:25:31 > 0:25:32Narvik.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35Correct. The birthplace of the composer Edvard Grieg,
0:25:35 > 0:25:37what is Norway's second-largest city?
0:25:39 > 0:25:40Bergen.
0:25:40 > 0:25:41Bergen is correct.
0:25:41 > 0:25:4210 points for this.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44What is the two-word English
0:25:44 > 0:25:46translation of "Yutu",
0:25:46 > 0:25:49the name of China's lunar rover
0:25:49 > 0:25:52released onto the moon's surface in December 2013?
0:25:56 > 0:25:57Neph... Rabbit?
0:25:57 > 0:26:01Yes, I'll accept that. I asked for a translation.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03It's normally known as the Jade Rabbit.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06You get a set of bonuses this time, Glasgow, on domes.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Built during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian,
0:26:08 > 0:26:13which building in Rome has a concrete dome 43 metres in diameter,
0:26:13 > 0:26:15the largest in the world at the time of its construction?
0:26:16 > 0:26:19Dome... I don't know. Anything.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21- Pantheon, I don't know.- What?
0:26:21 > 0:26:22Pantheon. I don't know.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Pantheon?
0:26:24 > 0:26:25The Pantheon is correct.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29Completed in 1436, the double-shell dome of the Cathedral of
0:26:29 > 0:26:33Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence was designed by which architect?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36- Brunelleschi, maybe.- Brunelleschi.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Correct. And finally, on the death of Michelangelo in 1564,
0:26:39 > 0:26:43the architects Pirro Ligorio and Giacomo da Vignola
0:26:43 > 0:26:45supervised the completion of the dome of which building?
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- St Peter's Basilica?- Yeah. - St Peter's Basilica.
0:26:50 > 0:26:51Correct. 10 points for this.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55The union of Bernicia and Deira in the 7th century
0:26:55 > 0:26:57resulted in the establishment of which kingdom?
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Wessex.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06No. Anyone want to buzz from Glasgow?
0:27:09 > 0:27:10The Moor kingdom?
0:27:10 > 0:27:13No, it's Northumbria. 10 points for this.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16"Et in Arcadia ego" and "I have been here before",
0:27:16 > 0:27:21are the title and opening words respectively of Book One, Chapter One
0:27:21 > 0:27:23of which novel of 1945?
0:27:30 > 0:27:33- Homage to Catalonia?- No, anyone like to buzz from Glasgow?
0:27:33 > 0:27:36GONG RINGS And at the gong, Glasgow have 135,
0:27:36 > 0:27:38Newcastle have 175.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Well, Glasgow, I'm afraid that means
0:27:40 > 0:27:41we're going to have to say goodbye to you.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43You will be spared the quarterfinals, though,
0:27:43 > 0:27:46but thank you very much for playing and, Newcastle,
0:27:46 > 0:27:49you're going to have to endure and enjoy the quarterfinals.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Thank you very much. Well done.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53I hope you can join us next time for another second round match
0:27:53 > 0:27:57- but until then, it's goodbye from Glasgow University...- Goodbye!
0:27:57 > 0:27:59- ..it's goodbye from Newcastle University...- Bye.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye. APPLAUSE