0:00:15 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. Three places taken, five still to fill
0:00:31 > 0:00:34in the quarterfinal stage of this competition
0:00:34 > 0:00:36as we play another second round match.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40It is do or die at this stage. Winners go through, losers go home.
0:00:40 > 0:00:45Now, the team from Southampton University lost by 135 to the 165
0:00:45 > 0:00:49scored by St Catharine's College, Cambridge, in round one,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52but then redeemed themselves in the losers' play-offs,
0:00:52 > 0:00:55with 235 against Queen Mary, London's 120.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57As well as being fast on the buzzer,
0:00:57 > 0:01:00they were strong on 19th-century legislation,
0:01:00 > 0:01:04the names of islands and historical climatology.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Let's see if they can get themselves into the quarterfinals
0:01:06 > 0:01:08as we meet them for the third time.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Hello, I'm Will Cable,
0:01:10 > 0:01:11I'm from Swindon
0:01:11 > 0:01:13and I'm studying for a master's in history.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16Hi, I'm Sarah Stock, I'm originally from Cardiff,
0:01:16 > 0:01:17and I'm studying chemistry.
0:01:17 > 0:01:18And their captain.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22Hello, I'm Tricia Goggin, I'm originally from New Ross in Ireland
0:01:22 > 0:01:24and I'm doing a PhD in biomedical engineering.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28Hi, I'm Roland Sadler, I'm from London and I'm doing biology.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32APPLAUSE
0:01:32 > 0:01:35The team from Liverpool University had a very convincing win
0:01:35 > 0:01:38over St Peter's College, Oxford in the first round
0:01:38 > 0:01:40with 205 points to 130 at the gong.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43What they didn't know about subatomic physics,
0:01:43 > 0:01:45which was anything at all,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48they made up for with much more useful information
0:01:48 > 0:01:51about Wagner's Tannhauser, Anthony Van Dyke's beard
0:01:51 > 0:01:53and Dr Strangelove's neurological disorder.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56For such a young team, with an average age of 20,
0:01:56 > 0:02:00they are also surprisingly good on things long dead,
0:02:00 > 0:02:02from extinct birds to fossil hominids.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Let's meet the Liverpool team again.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06Hi, I'm Jenny McLoughlin,
0:02:06 > 0:02:09I'm from Leeds and I'm studying biological and medical sciences.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13Hi, I'm Jack Bennett, I'm from Lancaster and I'm studying law.
0:02:13 > 0:02:14And their captain.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16Hi, I'm Robin Wainwright, I'm from the Wirral
0:02:16 > 0:02:17and I'm studying biological sciences.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20Hi, I'm Ed Bretherton, I'm from Bampton in Devon
0:02:20 > 0:02:21and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:21 > 0:02:25APPLAUSE
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Well, let's just get on with it, shall we?
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere,
0:02:33 > 0:02:36"would much rather you weren't doing it."
0:02:36 > 0:02:39These words are generally attributed to which writer,
0:02:39 > 0:02:42who died in March 2015?
0:02:46 > 0:02:47- Terry Pratchett?- Correct.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50APPLAUSE
0:02:50 > 0:02:53OK, you get the first set of bonuses then, Southampton,
0:02:53 > 0:02:55they're on names and places. In each case,
0:02:55 > 0:02:57give the word from the definition.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00All three begin with the same three letters.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03Firstly, the English name of the mountain on the borders of Turkey,
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Iran and Armenia where Noah's Ark is said
0:03:06 > 0:03:07to have come to rest after the flood.
0:03:07 > 0:03:08Ararat.
0:03:08 > 0:03:09Correct.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Secondly, an indigenous people of the South American mainland
0:03:12 > 0:03:14and historically of the Greater Antilles.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16They were encountered by Columbus on Hispaniola
0:03:16 > 0:03:19and subsequently suffered a catastrophic loss of population.
0:03:19 > 0:03:20Arawak.
0:03:20 > 0:03:21Correct.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24And, finally, a genus of pine-like coniferous plants
0:03:24 > 0:03:26that includes the Chile pine or monkey puzzle tree.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Oh, Araucaria?
0:03:28 > 0:03:30- Araucaria?- (Yeah.)
0:03:30 > 0:03:31- Araucaria.- Correct.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Ten points for this. Which decisive battle took its name
0:03:34 > 0:03:36from a town in southern Pennsylvania,
0:03:36 > 0:03:38now the site of a national military park?
0:03:39 > 0:03:41- Gettysburg?- Correct.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43APPLAUSE
0:03:43 > 0:03:46These bonuses are on penguins, Southampton.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50Which species of penguin is named after that portion of Antarctica
0:03:50 > 0:03:53where they were first scientifically described in 1840
0:03:53 > 0:03:56by the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville?
0:03:56 > 0:03:58He had named the region in honour of his wife.
0:03:58 > 0:03:59(Adelie.)
0:03:59 > 0:04:01- Daly?- Yeah.- Adelie.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03- Daly?- Adelie.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05- Adelie.- Correct.
0:04:05 > 0:04:06Which island group gives its name
0:04:06 > 0:04:08to the most northerly of penguin species,
0:04:08 > 0:04:12with 90% of its population restricted to the islands
0:04:12 > 0:04:13of Fernandina and Isabela?
0:04:16 > 0:04:17No?
0:04:17 > 0:04:19INAUDIBLE
0:04:19 > 0:04:22South Georgia? Is that a species of penguin?
0:04:22 > 0:04:25It might be that. There are penguins there.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27South Georgia? OK.
0:04:27 > 0:04:28South Georgia penguin.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30No, it's the Galapagos penguin.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33And, finally, the most numerous of all the world's penguin,
0:04:33 > 0:04:36which species is distinguished by the gold and yellow crest
0:04:36 > 0:04:39sweeping backwards over the eyes?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41- Macaroni.- Indeed, yes.
0:04:42 > 0:04:43Right, ten points for this.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Based at the University of Washington in Seattle,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49the Eot-Wash Torsion Pendulum Experiment is designed to examine
0:04:49 > 0:04:53the behaviour of what fundamental force on scales below a millimetre?
0:04:55 > 0:04:57- Gravity?- Correct.
0:04:57 > 0:04:58APPLAUSE
0:05:01 > 0:05:05Right, you get bonuses, Liverpool, on infernal science.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Firstly, the informal division of Precambrian time
0:05:08 > 0:05:13between 4.6 and 4 billion years ago and the deepest zone in the oceans
0:05:13 > 0:05:17both have names derived from that of which mythological underworld?
0:05:17 > 0:05:20- Is it Hades?- Hades.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Correct. Which denizen of Hades gives his name to an effect
0:05:23 > 0:05:26used in quantum optics to cool trapped atoms
0:05:26 > 0:05:30by making them repeatedly move up a potential gradient?
0:05:30 > 0:05:34- (Cerberus?)- (Charon, the boatman.)
0:05:34 > 0:05:37(He doesn't live in Hades, though.)
0:05:37 > 0:05:39- Cerberus?- No, it's Sisyphus.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43Which transition metal with atomic number 73
0:05:43 > 0:05:46takes its name from a son of Zeus who was punished in Hades?
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Tantalum.
0:05:48 > 0:05:49Correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52What two-word term did the literary critic Frederick Boas coin
0:05:52 > 0:05:57initially to describe Shakespeare's plays All's Well That Ends Well,
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Measure For Measure and Troilus...
0:05:59 > 0:06:01- Problem plays.- Correct.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03APPLAUSE
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Your bonuses this time, Liverpool, are on opera.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10For each of the following, name the opera in which it appears,
0:06:10 > 0:06:12and give the composer.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16Firstly, Thy Hand, Belinda is a free-flowing recitative
0:06:16 > 0:06:20from which late 17th-century opera based on Book 4 of Virgil's Aeneid?
0:06:23 > 0:06:24Haven't a clue.
0:06:26 > 0:06:27We don't know.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29That's Dido and Aeneas by Purcell.
0:06:29 > 0:06:34Secondly, La Ci Darem La Mano, or You'll Lay Your Hand In Mine,
0:06:34 > 0:06:37is a duet sung by Zerlina and the title character
0:06:37 > 0:06:39in which 18th-century opera?
0:06:39 > 0:06:41It's not Madame Butterfly, is it?
0:06:41 > 0:06:44- What?- Madame Butterfly or something, but I've no idea.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Madame Butterfly?
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Madame Butterfly.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51No, it's Don Giovanni, by Mozart.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55And finally, first performed in 1896, in which opera does Rodolfo sing
0:06:55 > 0:07:01Che Gelida Manina, or Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen, on first meeting Mimi?
0:07:01 > 0:07:02That's Madame Butterfly.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Madame Butterfly, by Puccini.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06No, that's La Boheme by Puccini.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Right, we're going to take our first picture round now.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11For your picture starter, you're going to see
0:07:11 > 0:07:14a map of South Asia with eight cities highlighted.
0:07:14 > 0:07:15For ten points, tell me
0:07:15 > 0:07:18their sporting significance as of 2015.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Erm, cricket grounds, hosts for the Cricket World Cup?
0:07:26 > 0:07:28No.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32Is it football teams in the new Indian Super League?
0:07:32 > 0:07:35No, they're home cities of the Indian Premier League, which is
0:07:35 > 0:07:38slightly different, so we're going to take another starter question.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41We'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two. Listen carefully
0:07:41 > 0:07:43for this starter question.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45I need a four-word answer here.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49A 63-clause document drafted in June 1215
0:07:49 > 0:07:53and a legendary object associated with Joseph of Arimathea
0:07:53 > 0:07:58may be combined to form the title of which 2013 album by Jay Z?
0:08:02 > 0:08:04- Magna Carta Holy Grail?- Correct.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06APPLAUSE
0:08:08 > 0:08:12OK, for your bonuses, you are now going to see highlighted three cities
0:08:12 > 0:08:16that are home to a current Indian Premier League cricket team.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20In each case, I want the name of the team based in that city.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Firstly, the team based in the city at A.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27(Is it Rajasthan?)
0:08:27 > 0:08:29(The Royals.)
0:08:29 > 0:08:30The Rajasthan Royals.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33No, Rajasthan is on the other side of the country.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35It's called the Kolkata Knight Riders.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Secondly, the team based in the city at B.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43THEY WHISPER
0:08:48 > 0:08:51- Kerela?- Kerela is a state, not a city.
0:08:51 > 0:08:52We don't know.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54They're the Chennai Super Kings.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56And thirdly, the team based at the city at C.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04I don't know.
0:09:07 > 0:09:08No, no idea.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11They're the Delhi Daredevils. Ten points for this.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Answer as soon as your name is called. What number is obtained
0:09:14 > 0:09:17if you multiply the number of planets in our solar system
0:09:17 > 0:09:19interior to the asteroid belt
0:09:19 > 0:09:23by the number of planets between the asteroid and Kuiper belts?
0:09:26 > 0:09:2745.
0:09:29 > 0:09:30Nope.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34- 16.- 16, indeed, four in each case.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37APPLAUSE
0:09:37 > 0:09:40So you get a set of bonuses now on Central Asia, Liverpool,
0:09:40 > 0:09:42having just taken the lead.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46In which country is the modern city of Mary situated
0:09:46 > 0:09:48in an oasis in the Karakum Desert?
0:09:48 > 0:09:50It lies close to the ruined city of Merv,
0:09:50 > 0:09:55often identified with the settlement known as Alexandria in Margiana.
0:09:55 > 0:09:56Turkmenistan.
0:09:56 > 0:09:57- Turkmenistan.- Correct.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Khujand is a major city in which country?
0:10:00 > 0:10:02It lies at the entrance to the Fergana Valley
0:10:02 > 0:10:09and is often identified with the ancient city known as Alexandria Eschate, or Alexandria the Furthest.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11- Tajikistan.- Tajikistan.- Correct.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14And finally, its name often said to derive from that of Alexander,
0:10:14 > 0:10:16which major city of Afghanistan
0:10:16 > 0:10:20is thought to occupy the city of Alexandria in Arachosia?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22- Kandahar.- Kandahar.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24Kandahar is right. Well done.
0:10:24 > 0:10:25Ten points for this.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29In 1940, what two-word term was used by Michael Foot
0:10:29 > 0:10:33and two other commentators writing under the pen name...
0:10:33 > 0:10:34Guilty men?
0:10:34 > 0:10:35Guilty men is correct, yes.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38APPLAUSE
0:10:38 > 0:10:42Your bonuses, Southampton, are on art in the 20th century.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46Firstly, for five points, which art critic was the subject of a biography
0:10:46 > 0:10:50by Virginia Woolf published in 1940, six years after his death?
0:10:50 > 0:10:54Closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group, his works include
0:10:54 > 0:10:58the essay collections Vision And Design and Transformations.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00- Ruskin.- Ruskin.
0:11:00 > 0:11:01No, it's Roger Fry.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Secondly, Fry is credited with
0:11:03 > 0:11:06coining the name of which art movement
0:11:06 > 0:11:10when he curated the 1910 exhibition entitled Manet and the what?
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Impressionists?
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Impressionists? Postimpressionists?
0:11:15 > 0:11:18INAUDIBLE
0:11:18 > 0:11:20- Postimpressionists.- Correct.
0:11:20 > 0:11:24In 1927, Fry published a biography of which French postimpressionist
0:11:24 > 0:11:28whose paintings include The Bathers and The Card Players?
0:11:28 > 0:11:30- Oh, Cezanne.- Yeah.- Cezanne.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Cezanne is right. Ten points for this.
0:11:32 > 0:11:36Which two figures of the first Book of Samuel give their names
0:11:36 > 0:11:39to a 2013 book by the Canadian journalist Malcolm Gladwell,
0:11:39 > 0:11:44subtitled Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants?
0:11:44 > 0:11:46- David and Goliath.- Correct.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48APPLAUSE
0:11:50 > 0:11:56Liverpool, these bonuses are on words made up of a repeated string of letters, such as papa or murmur.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59In each case, identify the word from the definition.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02Firstly, an informal term for a salivary deposit
0:12:02 > 0:12:06on the surface of the teeth also known as a calculus.
0:12:06 > 0:12:07- Tartar.- Tartar.
0:12:07 > 0:12:08Correct.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Secondly, a member of a people of north Africa
0:12:11 > 0:12:14now more commonly known as Amazighs.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18Their Almoravid dynasty founded the city of Marrakech.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20- Berber.- Correct.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Thirdly, a term coined by Richard Dawkins for a cultural symbol
0:12:23 > 0:12:25or habit passed from generation to generation,
0:12:25 > 0:12:27analogous to the transmission of genetic material.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29- Meme.- Correct.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Ten points for this. In 2007, an astronomical doctoral thesis
0:12:32 > 0:12:35entitled Radial Velocities In The Zodiacal Dust Cloud
0:12:35 > 0:12:40was presented at Imperial College London 36 years after it was begun...
0:12:41 > 0:12:42Brian May.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Brian May is right, yes.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46APPLAUSE
0:12:46 > 0:12:51Right, these bonuses are on the standard model of particle physics.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55First, which specific fundamental particle of the standard model
0:12:55 > 0:12:57has an electric charge of plus one
0:12:57 > 0:13:02and a mass energy of 105.7 million electron volts?
0:13:08 > 0:13:12I think in the structure of a proton, it's either two up quarks
0:13:12 > 0:13:15and a down quark or two down quarks and an up quark.
0:13:15 > 0:13:16Two ups, it's two ups.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19- Two ups for a proton?- Yes. - So it's an up quark.
0:13:19 > 0:13:20An up quark.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23No, it's an anti-muon.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27Secondly, which two particles are massless and electrically neutral?
0:13:27 > 0:13:28Oh, that's a photon.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Photon and...
0:13:30 > 0:13:32- Which two?- Two.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34Massless and neutral?
0:13:34 > 0:13:35- Gluon?- Yeah.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37- Photon and gluon.- Correct.
0:13:37 > 0:13:42Finally, which is the only standard model article to have zero spin?
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Um, a photon has half spin.
0:13:46 > 0:13:47Zero spin...
0:13:49 > 0:13:50Um...
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Go with...
0:13:52 > 0:13:56- Another "on" - muon, gluon... - Graviton?- Graviton.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58- No, it's the Higgs boson. - Yeah, I was going to say...
0:13:58 > 0:14:01Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:14:01 > 0:14:02For your music starter,
0:14:02 > 0:14:05you will hear short excerpts from pieces of popular music.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09For ten points, I want the name of the now defunct record label
0:14:09 > 0:14:12that links the three bands you hear.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS - BEAT PLUS GUITAR
0:14:20 > 0:14:24- NEW SONG:- # Son, I'm 30
0:14:24 > 0:14:28# I only went with your mother cos she's dirty
0:14:28 > 0:14:32# And I don't have a decent bone in me... #
0:14:32 > 0:14:36- NEW SONG:- # I feel so extraordinary
0:14:36 > 0:14:39# Something's got... #
0:14:39 > 0:14:41- Factory Records.- Yes!
0:14:41 > 0:14:43APPLAUSE
0:14:46 > 0:14:48OK, Southampton, you're on level pegging now.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50For each of your music bonuses,
0:14:50 > 0:14:53you're going to hear three bands or artists, and again I need the name
0:14:53 > 0:14:55of the record label that links them.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58Firstly, for five, what label links the following?
0:14:58 > 0:15:00It began as an independent label
0:15:00 > 0:15:03but is now a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05- RAPPING:- # What up, Pop Brace yourself as I ride on top
0:15:05 > 0:15:07# Close your eyes as you ride Right out your socks
0:15:07 > 0:15:10# Double, lose his mind as he grind in the tunnel
0:15:10 > 0:15:11# Wanna gimme the cash... #
0:15:11 > 0:15:12- Who's this? - I don't know.
0:15:12 > 0:15:13Anybody know who it is?
0:15:13 > 0:15:16- NEW SONG, RAPPING: - # ..had a little horsey named Paul Revere
0:15:16 > 0:15:18# Just me and my horsey and a quart of beer
0:15:18 > 0:15:20# Riding across the land Kicking up sand
0:15:20 > 0:15:23# Sheriff's posse's on my tail cos I'm in demand... #
0:15:23 > 0:15:25- NEW SONG, RAPPING: - # Bass! How low can you go?
0:15:25 > 0:15:27# Death row What a brother know?
0:15:27 > 0:15:31# Once again, back is the incredible rhyme animal... #
0:15:31 > 0:15:33I'm going to have to guess something.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Beastie Boy Records.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37No, one of the tracks there was by The Beastie Boys
0:15:37 > 0:15:39- but it's Def Jam, was the label.- Oh!
0:15:39 > 0:15:42Secondly, what label links these bands?
0:15:42 > 0:15:46# It's just that mean old Texas sun
0:15:46 > 0:15:50# It makes me dizzy, dizzy Dizzy in my head... #
0:15:52 > 0:15:54- NEW SONG:- # Get off the car
0:15:54 > 0:15:56# Kick his chain
0:15:56 > 0:15:58# Kick his pride
0:15:58 > 0:16:01# Get him soaked, hit, run... #
0:16:02 > 0:16:06- NEW SONG:- # There is a wait so long - So long, so long
0:16:06 > 0:16:10# You'll never wait so long
0:16:10 > 0:16:14# Here comes your man
0:16:14 > 0:16:15# Here comes your... #
0:16:16 > 0:16:20- RCA?- No. Island Records?
0:16:20 > 0:16:24No, it's 4AD. And finally, what label links these artists?
0:16:24 > 0:16:29# Cos you can't keep nothing from me Cos I know what I've seen now... #
0:16:29 > 0:16:31THEY LAUGH
0:16:31 > 0:16:35- NEW SONG:- # Yeah, the bad boys are always catching my eye... #
0:16:35 > 0:16:38OK, so what's Simon Cowell's record label called?
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Oh, is that defunct now?
0:16:40 > 0:16:42- No, they're not all defunct any more.- Oh, OK.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45- What's his label? Syco, I thought.- I've no idea.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48- NEW SONG:- # Baby, you light up my world like nobody else... #
0:16:48 > 0:16:51- Is his label called Syco?- Yes!
0:16:51 > 0:16:53We'll try that.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55- Syco.- Well done!
0:16:55 > 0:16:56APPLAUSE
0:16:56 > 0:16:57Right, ten points for this -
0:16:57 > 0:17:01what single-word title of French origin is shared by Beethoven's
0:17:01 > 0:17:06Piano Sonata Number Eight in C minor and Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony?
0:17:09 > 0:17:10Liverpool, Wainwright.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12- Pathetique.- Correct.
0:17:12 > 0:17:13APPLAUSE
0:17:15 > 0:17:19You retake the lead and your bonuses are on reapers, Liverpool.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22A cultivar of Capsicum chinense,
0:17:22 > 0:17:26Carolina Reaper is a variety of what culinary vegetable?
0:17:26 > 0:17:28On the Scoville scale, it has an average of more
0:17:28 > 0:17:32than 1.5 million units, which is an exceptionally high rating.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35- Chilli pepper.- Correct.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37Referring to a revolt that began in 1640,
0:17:37 > 0:17:41the song Els Segadors, or The Reapers,
0:17:41 > 0:17:46was adopted in 1993 as the national anthem of which European region?
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Basque? Basque Country?
0:17:48 > 0:17:51- Basque Country?- No, it's Catalonia.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54"Only reapers, reaping early in among the bearded barley..."
0:17:54 > 0:17:59hear the song of the title character in the 1842 version of which poem?
0:18:03 > 0:18:05No, we don't know.
0:18:05 > 0:18:06It's The Lady of Shalott.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Right, ten points for this.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11The preface to which philosophical work on human autonomy
0:18:11 > 0:18:14states that it seeks the solution to the question
0:18:14 > 0:18:18regarding the possibility or impossibility of metaphysics?
0:18:18 > 0:18:21It was written in German and first published in 1781.
0:18:24 > 0:18:25Critique Of Reason.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Yes, I'll accept that.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30It's the Critique Of Pure Reason, you've got the right publication.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32So that gives you level pegging
0:18:32 > 0:18:35and a set of bonuses on French photographers.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37The Europeans and The Face Of Asia
0:18:37 > 0:18:40are collections by which French photographer
0:18:40 > 0:18:42who died in 2004, aged 95?
0:18:43 > 0:18:45Cartier-Bresson?
0:18:45 > 0:18:47- He's a French photographer. - Is he that late, though?
0:18:47 > 0:18:50I think he died a long time before that.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52Name another French photographer.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54The only one I can think of is Bresson now.
0:18:54 > 0:18:55Cartier-Bresson.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59Correct. What pseudonym was adopted by Gaspard-Felix Tournachon,
0:18:59 > 0:19:02noted both for his photographic portraits
0:19:02 > 0:19:04of prominent 19th-century French figures
0:19:04 > 0:19:06and for his early aerial photography?
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Man Ray?
0:19:10 > 0:19:12No. Maybe.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Man Ray.
0:19:14 > 0:19:15No, it's Felix Nadar.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19And finally, Le Baiser De L'Hotel De Ville, or The Kiss By The Town Hall,
0:19:19 > 0:19:23is a work by which 20th-century Parisian photographer?
0:19:23 > 0:19:24Oh...
0:19:26 > 0:19:28I have no idea.
0:19:28 > 0:19:29Oh, I do know it.
0:19:35 > 0:19:36No.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40No.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42It's by Robert Doisneau.
0:19:42 > 0:19:43Ten points for this.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Aorak, the highest peak
0:19:45 > 0:19:47in New Zealand's Southern Alps, is also known by...
0:19:48 > 0:19:50Mount Cook.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Mount Cook is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:19:52 > 0:19:56So you will take the lead, Liverpool, and your bonuses are on cell biology.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58What inorganic compound is produced
0:19:58 > 0:20:01by the parietal cells of the gastric epithelium?
0:20:04 > 0:20:05Hydrochloric acid.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09Correct. The hormone gastrin stimulates parietal cells
0:20:09 > 0:20:11to produce hydrochloric acid.
0:20:11 > 0:20:12What cells secrete gastrin?
0:20:15 > 0:20:18THEY CONFER
0:20:23 > 0:20:24We don't know.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26They're G cells.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30Which nerve controls the release of gastrin by G cells?
0:20:32 > 0:20:35THEY CONFER
0:20:35 > 0:20:36Vagul nerve.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Yes, the vagus, or the tenth cranial nerve.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41So, we're going to take the picture round now.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43So, fingers on the buzzers. Here's your picture starter.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45You're going to see a photograph of an author
0:20:45 > 0:20:47whose major works were in English,
0:20:47 > 0:20:49despite this not being his mother tongue.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Ten points if you can give me the author's name and first language.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Joseph Conrad, Ukrainian.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00Anyone like to buzz from Southampton?
0:21:01 > 0:21:02Chekhov, Russian.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05No, it's Joseph Conrad and Polish.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09That was his first language. So, picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11In the meantime, here's another starter question.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Taking its name from a genus of free-floating seaweed,
0:21:15 > 0:21:19which area of the North Atlantic is often cited as being the only sea...?
0:21:21 > 0:21:22Sargasso.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Yes, well done. APPLAUSE
0:21:26 > 0:21:28So you get three more photographs
0:21:28 > 0:21:31of authors who wrote works in the English language
0:21:31 > 0:21:33but whose mother tongue was not English.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37In each case, I want the name of the author and their first language.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38Firstly...
0:21:42 > 0:21:44We don't know.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47That's Nabokov, whose first language was Russian.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Secondly, who's this?
0:21:55 > 0:21:56We don't know again.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59That's Chinua Achebe. His first language was Igbo.
0:21:59 > 0:22:00And finally....
0:22:02 > 0:22:05That's Roald Dahl, isn't it?
0:22:05 > 0:22:06Roald Dahl and Norwegian.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Correct.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10APPLAUSE Right, another starter question now.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13Which ancient region of Mesopotamia
0:22:13 > 0:22:15has a name that, when read backwards,
0:22:15 > 0:22:18forms the name of one of the legendary brothers
0:22:18 > 0:22:20associated with the founding of Rome?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22BUZZER
0:22:22 > 0:22:23Sumer.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25Sumer is correct, yes.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30This set of bonuses, Liverpool,
0:22:30 > 0:22:32are on winners of the Bafta Award
0:22:32 > 0:22:34for the Outstanding British Film of the Year.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36In each case, name the film from the description.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Firstly, the 2007 winner,
0:22:38 > 0:22:40a drama based on a novel by Giles Foden.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43It stars Forest Whitaker and James McAvoy.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Last King Of Scotland.
0:22:45 > 0:22:46- Last King Of Scotland.- Correct.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Secondly, the 2009 winner, a documentary by James Marsh.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Based on Philippe Petit's book To Reach The Clouds,
0:22:52 > 0:22:54it recalls an event of 1974
0:22:54 > 0:22:57around the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00THEY CONFER
0:23:02 > 0:23:03Man On Wire.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05Correct. And lastly, the 2012 winner,
0:23:05 > 0:23:08an espionage film based on a novel by John le Carre
0:23:08 > 0:23:10and starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Correct. Ten points for this.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15What part of the small intestine
0:23:15 > 0:23:17derives its name from the Latin for "fasting"
0:23:17 > 0:23:21because it was usually found empty during dissection?
0:23:21 > 0:23:23It lies between the duodenum and the ileum.
0:23:25 > 0:23:26- Jejunum.- Correct.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28A set of bonuses this time for you, Liverpool,
0:23:28 > 0:23:31on the later Roman Republic.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Firstly, for five points,
0:23:33 > 0:23:35elected Consul an unprecedented seven times,
0:23:35 > 0:23:38which Roman general defeated Germanic tribes
0:23:38 > 0:23:41at the battles of Aquae Sextiae and Vercellae
0:23:41 > 0:23:44in 102 and 101 BC?
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Any idea?
0:23:49 > 0:23:50We don't know.
0:23:50 > 0:23:51It's Gaius Marius.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Secondly, having defeated Mithridates of Pontus,
0:23:54 > 0:23:57which commander marched his army on Rome
0:23:57 > 0:23:58and became dictator in 82 BC?
0:23:58 > 0:24:02After reforming the constitution, he retired into private life.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08I feel like I should know this.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10No, we don't know.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12That was Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15And finally, who defeated the Gauls at the Battle of Alesia?
0:24:15 > 0:24:17He was proclaimed dictator for life in 44 BC,
0:24:17 > 0:24:19the year of his death.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21- Julius Caesar.- Correct. Three and a half minutes to go.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Ten points for this. What four-letter acronym came to prominence
0:24:24 > 0:24:27after the US sociologist E Digby Baltzell
0:24:27 > 0:24:30used it in the tables for this 1964 book
0:24:30 > 0:24:33The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste...?
0:24:33 > 0:24:34BUZZER
0:24:34 > 0:24:36WASP.
0:24:36 > 0:24:37WASP is correct.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40This set of bonuses is on astronomy, Liverpool.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44On approaching the sun, comets may develop visible tails
0:24:44 > 0:24:46that generally fall into two types.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50What term denotes a tail that tends to be straight and bluish in colour?
0:24:52 > 0:24:55THEY CONFER
0:24:55 > 0:24:56Arrow.
0:24:56 > 0:24:57No, it's an ion tail.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01What type of tail tends to be yellowish and is often curved?
0:25:03 > 0:25:05- We don't know.- That's a dust tail. And finally,
0:25:05 > 0:25:08what two-word term describes the phenomenon
0:25:08 > 0:25:12predicted by the German astronomer Ludwig Biermann in 1951,
0:25:12 > 0:25:16to account for the rapid acceleration observed in ion or plasma tails?
0:25:20 > 0:25:21No idea, again.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24That's solar wind. Ten points for this.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27Give any of the three years in which WB Yeats,
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Wladyslaw Reymont and George Bernard Shaw
0:25:30 > 0:25:32were successive recipients of the Nobel Prize...
0:25:34 > 0:25:351924.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Correct. '23 and '25 were the other two.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39You get a set of bonuses on show caves,
0:25:39 > 0:25:42that is, cave complexes open to the public, Southampton.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48Dan-yr-Ogof, also known as the National Showcave Centre for Wales,
0:25:48 > 0:25:50lies within the boundary of which national park?
0:25:50 > 0:25:54- Snowdonia?- No.- Brecon Beacons.- Yeah.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56- Brecon Beacons.- Correct. Named after a natural formation,
0:25:56 > 0:25:58the Marble Arch Cave lies
0:25:58 > 0:26:00to the south-east of Enniskillen in which county?
0:26:00 > 0:26:03- Fermanagh.- Correct. In which English county
0:26:03 > 0:26:07are the Treak Cliff Cavern and the Blue John Caverns,
0:26:07 > 0:26:09the latter named after a semi-precious mineral?
0:26:11 > 0:26:13- Yorkshire?- Yorkshire.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15No, it's Derbyshire. Ten points for this.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Listen carefully. The elementary charge, or charge of the proton,
0:26:18 > 0:26:19has a value in coulombs
0:26:19 > 0:26:23approximately equal to 1.6 x 10 raised to what exponent?
0:26:25 > 0:26:27- To the minus 19?- Correct.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31You get a set of bonuses, this time on currencies of South America.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35In each case, name both the currency and the country in which it's used.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39Firstly, which major world currency replaced the sucre in 2000
0:26:39 > 0:26:41following a major financial crisis?
0:26:41 > 0:26:43THEY CONFER
0:26:47 > 0:26:48Come on.
0:26:48 > 0:26:49Peso in Argentina.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51No, it was the US dollar in Ecuador.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Co-official with Spanish in the country concerned,
0:26:53 > 0:26:57which indigenous language shares its name with the country's currency?
0:27:02 > 0:27:04No?
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Peso again.
0:27:06 > 0:27:07No, it's the guarani in Paraguay.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11And finally, born 1783, which independence leader gives his name
0:27:11 > 0:27:13to a South American currency?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15- Bolivar.- In?- Bolivia.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18- No, it's in Venezuela. - Venezuela, sorry!- Bad luck.
0:27:18 > 0:27:19Ten points for this. Which animal
0:27:19 > 0:27:22features in a crowned form on the coat of arms of Austria,
0:27:22 > 0:27:25in a two-headed form on the flag of Albania...?
0:27:25 > 0:27:27- Eagle.- Correct.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29You get set of bonuses now
0:27:29 > 0:27:31on US states in literature, Southampton.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33First published in 1936,
0:27:33 > 0:27:35Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind is set largely
0:27:35 > 0:27:39in her native Atlanta and Clayton County in which US state?
0:27:39 > 0:27:40- Georgia.- Correct.
0:27:40 > 0:27:44In Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir 12 Years A Slave,
0:27:44 > 0:27:47the writer recounts his period of servitude on plantations
0:27:47 > 0:27:49in which US state?
0:27:50 > 0:27:52GONG
0:27:52 > 0:27:55It's Louisiana. But you weren't there in time, Southampton, I'm afraid.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58If we'd gone on another few minutes, you might have overtaken them.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00We're going to have to say goodbye to you,
0:28:00 > 0:28:03but thank you very much, you've been a nice team to have with us.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05Liverpool, many congratulations to you.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07We'll look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals,
0:28:07 > 0:28:10which go on and on and on. You'll enjoy them.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13I hope you can join us next time for another second-round match,
0:28:13 > 0:28:16- but until then, it's goodbye from Southampton University...- Bye!
0:28:16 > 0:28:19- ..it's goodbye from Liverpool University...- Bye.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.