0:00:18 > 0:00:20University Challenge...
0:00:21 > 0:00:25..asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello. Both teams playing tonight
0:00:30 > 0:00:34could be forgiven for thinking that this contest is a bit of a pushover,
0:00:34 > 0:00:37as they both had very easy victories in their first-round matches.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Now that they're playing each other, though, things could be different,
0:00:40 > 0:00:43and only the winners will progress to the quarterfinals.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45The team from Christ's College, Cambridge
0:00:45 > 0:00:49beat Kellogg College, Oxford by 205 points to 60,
0:00:49 > 0:00:53and demonstrated their familiarity with Occam's razor and Albania,
0:00:53 > 0:00:57Aristotle, aqua vitae and St Thomas Aquinas.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01With an average age of 19, let's meet the Christ's team again.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05Hi. I'm Vivek Midha, I'm from London and I'm studying economics.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Hello. My name's Joe Kitchen, I'm from Much Hadham in Hertfordshire
0:01:08 > 0:01:11- and I'm reading history. - And this is their captain.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Hello. I'm Douglas Morton, I'm from Bearsden, near Glasgow,
0:01:14 > 0:01:15and I'm studying law.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Ey-up. I'm Evan Lynch, I'm from Castleford in West Yorkshire,
0:01:18 > 0:01:20and I study natural sciences.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21APPLAUSE
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Now, their opponents from the University of York
0:01:26 > 0:01:30had the second-highest score of the first-round matches, 265,
0:01:30 > 0:01:35against the 90 earned by an uncharacteristically low-key team
0:01:35 > 0:01:36from Manchester University,
0:01:36 > 0:01:39who are now on a witness protection programme somewhere.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42They knew their way around Indonesia, Genoa, Uzbekistan,
0:01:42 > 0:01:44and various island nations,
0:01:44 > 0:01:47and were strong on people called Rupert, noteworthy Germans,
0:01:47 > 0:01:49and Humphrey Littleton.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52With an average age of 22, let's meet the York team again.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56Hello. My name's Barto Joly de Lotbiniere, I'm from London,
0:01:56 > 0:01:57and I'm studying history.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Hi. I'm Sam Smith, I'm from Guernsey,
0:02:00 > 0:02:02- and I study chemistry. - And this is their captain.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Hello. My name's David Landon Cole,
0:02:04 > 0:02:07I'm from Yeovil in Somerset, and I'm studying politics.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10Hi. I'm Joseph McLoughlin, I'm from Oldham in Lancashire,
0:02:10 > 0:02:11and I'm studying chemistry.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15APPLAUSE
0:02:15 > 0:02:16OK, well, let's crack on with it, then.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22In economics, what six-letter term denotes the means by which
0:02:22 > 0:02:25the exchange of goods and services takes place
0:02:25 > 0:02:27as a result of buyers and sellers being...
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Barter?
0:02:29 > 0:02:31No, you lose five points.
0:02:31 > 0:02:32..being in contact with one another,
0:02:32 > 0:02:36either directly or through mediating institutions or agents?
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Market?
0:02:38 > 0:02:39Correct.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44You get bonuses on paradoxes in economics.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47Coined by Professor Richard Easterlin,
0:02:47 > 0:02:51the Easterlin Paradox proposes that increased wealth
0:02:51 > 0:02:55does not produce a corresponding growth in what state of being?
0:02:55 > 0:02:56Happiness? Must be.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59- Happiness. - Happiness or wellbeing, yes.
0:02:59 > 0:03:03Which Scottish economist originated the diamond-water paradox,
0:03:03 > 0:03:05asking why diamonds are in such high demand
0:03:05 > 0:03:07and water in such low demand
0:03:07 > 0:03:10when the former's a luxury and the latter's a necessity?
0:03:10 > 0:03:12THEY CONFER
0:03:14 > 0:03:16- Smith.- Adam Smith is correct.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Which British economist developed the paradox of thrift
0:03:19 > 0:03:22to show that efforts to increase levels of savings
0:03:22 > 0:03:23have the opposite effect?
0:03:23 > 0:03:26- John Maynard Keynes.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29What acronym denotes a crystalline rock
0:03:29 > 0:03:32found on the highlands of the moon, and is derived from
0:03:32 > 0:03:35its high concentrations of rare Earth elements potassium and phosphorous?
0:03:35 > 0:03:38A homophone of the term denotes the slow defamation
0:03:38 > 0:03:40of a solid material.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45It's Kreep. Ten points for this.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49Named after the Iranian city, the Ramsar convention of 1971...
0:03:50 > 0:03:52- Wetlands?- Wetlands is right, yes.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55APPLAUSE
0:03:55 > 0:03:58These bonuses are on American literature, York.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01The author of Couples and Memories Of The Ford Administration,
0:04:01 > 0:04:05which novelist set much of his later fiction in New England,
0:04:05 > 0:04:06where he lived from the 1960s?
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Who did Bonfire? Tom Wolfe?
0:04:12 > 0:04:13Tom Wolfe?
0:04:13 > 0:04:15No, it's John Updike.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Which author claimed to be retiring in 2010
0:04:17 > 0:04:20with the publication of his 24th novel Nemesis?
0:04:20 > 0:04:24His other works include The Human Stain and The Dying Animal.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30Tom Wolfe.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32No, it was Philip Roth.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35And finally, Hitler's childhood was the subject of the 2007 work
0:04:35 > 0:04:38The Castle In The Forest by which author?
0:04:38 > 0:04:42He made his debut almost 50 years earlier with The Naked And The Dead.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46No, sorry.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49- I'm afraid we're really bad on American authors.- Clearly.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51- Pass.- That's Norman Mailer. Ten points for this.
0:04:51 > 0:04:55"Peace is not an absence of war - it's a virtue, a state of mind,
0:04:55 > 0:04:57"a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
0:04:57 > 0:05:00These are the words of which philosopher,
0:05:00 > 0:05:03born in 1632 in Amsterdam?
0:05:03 > 0:05:04Spinoza?
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Spinoza is correct, yes!
0:05:06 > 0:05:09APPLAUSE
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Right, you're off the mark, then, Christ's.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13These bonuses are on astronomy.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16Among stars within 12 light years of Earth,
0:05:16 > 0:05:19only three are intrinsically more luminous than the sun.
0:05:19 > 0:05:23What is the common name of the most luminous? A binary system,
0:05:23 > 0:05:26it appears in the constellation Canis Major.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28THEY CONFER
0:05:30 > 0:05:32- Sirius.- Correct.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Also a binary system and appearing in Canis Minor,
0:05:35 > 0:05:38what is the common name of the second most luminous star
0:05:38 > 0:05:39within 12 light years?
0:05:39 > 0:05:43The same name denotes a genus of mammals commonly known as raccoons.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45THEY CONFER
0:05:56 > 0:05:58- Alpha Centauri.- No, it's Procyon.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01Finally, what is the third most luminous star within 12 light years?
0:06:01 > 0:06:05A triple system, its usual name coincides with its Bayer designation.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12- Alpha Centauri.- Correct.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15Ten points for this. Brought up in a magnificent castle
0:06:15 > 0:06:19among the barbarians, tempest, shipwreck, and earthquake,
0:06:19 > 0:06:21and a beautiful auto de fe
0:06:21 > 0:06:24are among the experiences of which fictional character?
0:06:24 > 0:06:27- Candide.- Candide is correct, yes.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33You get a set of bonuses, York, on Mexican film directors.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Firstly, set in Spain in 1944,
0:06:36 > 0:06:38which film by Guillermo del Toro
0:06:38 > 0:06:40tells of the fantasy world of Ophelia,
0:06:40 > 0:06:43the young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer?
0:06:43 > 0:06:44Pan's Labyrinth.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48Correct. Released in 2000, which director's film Amores Perros
0:06:48 > 0:06:50is credited with heralding
0:06:50 > 0:06:52the 21st-century prominence of Mexican cinema?
0:06:52 > 0:06:54THEY CONFER
0:06:54 > 0:06:56We think it's Inarritu.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Correct. Recognised for the film Gravity,
0:06:58 > 0:07:02who became the first Mexican to win the Academy Award for Best Director?
0:07:02 > 0:07:04It's just come out, hasn't it?
0:07:04 > 0:07:06It's Sean Penn's friend, but I can't remember what he's called.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08- Amenabar?- Yeah, that sounds right.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Alejandro Amenabar.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12No, it's Alfonso Cuaron.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15For your picture starter question, we've taken the first stanza
0:07:15 > 0:07:17of a poem as it appears in the poet's collected works.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19We've removed everything but the nouns
0:07:19 > 0:07:21and arranged them in alphabetical order.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Ten points if you can identify the poem from the nouns.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26I need the title and the poet.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32Dulce Et Decorum Est and Wilfred Owen?
0:07:32 > 0:07:33Correct.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36APPLAUSE
0:07:36 > 0:07:38So for your picture bonuses, Christ's,
0:07:38 > 0:07:41you get three more first stanzas of 20th-century poems
0:07:41 > 0:07:44stripped of all but the lexical nouns and arranged alphabetically.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Any nouns that appear in the title of the poem
0:07:46 > 0:07:48have also been removed.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52Five points each if you can name the poem and the poet.
0:07:52 > 0:07:53Firstly...
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Would that be Eliot? Or possibly Pound?
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Masks Of Anarchy, maybe?
0:07:58 > 0:08:00THEY CONFER
0:08:09 > 0:08:10I've nothing.
0:08:12 > 0:08:13TS Eliot, The Wasteland.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15No, it's The Second Coming by Yeats.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17And secondly...
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Who's into Lincolnshire, poet-wise?
0:08:21 > 0:08:25- It's not Larkin, or something? Or possibly Betjeman?- Could be.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Oh, it could be Larkin, Church Going.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Philip Larkin, Church Going.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36No, it's the Whitsun Weddings. You got the right poet, though.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38And finally...
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Could this...war poem?
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Is it Slough, by...?
0:08:47 > 0:08:48Betjeman.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Is it just "Slough"?
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Er, John Betjeman, Slough.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Correct, yes.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Right, we're going to take another starter question now.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59The abbreviation of the name of which trigonometric function
0:08:59 > 0:09:00also begins words meaning
0:09:00 > 0:09:04the study of the creation and development of the universe...
0:09:04 > 0:09:05Cosine.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Cosine is correct, yes!
0:09:10 > 0:09:13Your bonuses are on islands, Christ's.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Named after a fourth-century Spanish saint,
0:09:16 > 0:09:18which island in the eastern Caribbean
0:09:18 > 0:09:21forms a country with the nearby Grenadines?
0:09:23 > 0:09:24- St Vincent.- Correct.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27What is the precise four-word name of the country in the Gulf of Guinea
0:09:27 > 0:09:30consisting of an island named after St Thomas the Apostle,
0:09:30 > 0:09:34a neighbouring island, and several rocky islets?
0:09:35 > 0:09:37Sao Tome and Principe.
0:09:37 > 0:09:38Correct. What is the more common name
0:09:38 > 0:09:40of the Caribbean island of Saint Christopher,
0:09:40 > 0:09:43which forms a country with the neighbouring island of Nevis?
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- Saint Kitts. - Correct. Ten points for this.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49Whoever gets it takes the lead.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52What Biblical name do the following literary characters have in common?
0:09:52 > 0:09:57Firstly, Amelia Sedley's rich older brother in Vanity Fair,
0:09:57 > 0:10:00secondly, the Earnshaw family's vinegar-faced servant
0:10:00 > 0:10:01in Wuthering Heights,
0:10:01 > 0:10:05and thirdly, the protagonist in Franz Kafka's The Trial?
0:10:08 > 0:10:09Joseph?
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Correct.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Right, these bonuses are on East Asia, Christ's.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Doctrine Of The Mean and Mencius
0:10:17 > 0:10:20are two of the four books in the central canon
0:10:20 > 0:10:23of which East Asian system of morals and political thought?
0:10:24 > 0:10:28- Confucianism.- Correct. Confucianism propounds a hierarchy
0:10:28 > 0:10:30of four classes or professions,
0:10:30 > 0:10:33with scholar-administrators at the top, followed by farmers.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34Which class is at the bottom?
0:10:34 > 0:10:37Could it be slaves, or labourers?
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Peasants?
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Merchants would be above that. Shall we go for peasants?
0:10:41 > 0:10:44- Peasants.- No, it's merchants. Merchant classes.
0:10:44 > 0:10:49And finally, in 17th-century Japan, the scholar-administrator class
0:10:49 > 0:10:51was identified with a hereditary warrior class
0:10:51 > 0:10:53known by what Japanese name?
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Samurai.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01Unveiled by Edward VIII in 1936, the National Vimy Memorial
0:11:01 > 0:11:04at the site of the First World War battle site of Vimy Ridge
0:11:04 > 0:11:08commemorates the casualties of which Commonwealth country?
0:11:08 > 0:11:09Canada.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Canada is correct, yes.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17Right, you get a set of promises on Period 3 elements, York.
0:11:17 > 0:11:22That is those in the same row of the periodic table as sodium.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25Firstly, with a melting point around 112 degrees Celsius,
0:11:25 > 0:11:29which of the Period 3 elements is extracted using the Frasch process?
0:11:29 > 0:11:32One of its common allotropes is a cyclic molecule
0:11:32 > 0:11:34containing eight atoms.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37- Sulphur.- Correct.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41Which Period 3 element is found in the crystalline compound carborundum,
0:11:41 > 0:11:43used as an abrasive?
0:11:43 > 0:11:45It has the highest melting point of those in Period 3.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47THEY CONFER
0:11:54 > 0:11:56- Silicon.- Correct.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Which of the elements of Period 3 has the lowest melting point,
0:11:59 > 0:12:02at around minus 189 degrees Celsius?
0:12:04 > 0:12:06- Argon?- Correct.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09OK, another starter question now. You've taken the lead.
0:12:09 > 0:12:10Ten points for this.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Characteristic of supersonic flow regimes,
0:12:13 > 0:12:16what phenomenon involves a sudden change in the pressure and density
0:12:16 > 0:12:18of a compressible fluid?
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Sonic boom.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22No. That was an interruption.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25- Shockwave.- Correct, yes.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30So York, these bonuses are on geographical locations
0:12:30 > 0:12:33whose names start and end with the same pair of letters,
0:12:33 > 0:12:36for example Amsterdam, AM, or Christchurch, CH.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Identify the location in each case.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41First, the autonomous region on the north coast of Spain,
0:12:41 > 0:12:44the cities of which include Oviedo and Gijon?
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Asturias.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48- Asturias?- Correct.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Secondly, the historic county of Scotland,
0:12:50 > 0:12:53the towns of which include Paisley and Erskine?
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Renfrewshire.
0:12:58 > 0:12:59- Renfrewshire.- Correct.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01And finally, the capital city
0:13:01 > 0:13:03of the country formerly known as Upper Volta?
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Ouagadougou.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Nominate Smith!
0:13:07 > 0:13:08- Ouagadougou.- Indeed!
0:13:08 > 0:13:10LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:13:10 > 0:13:12We're going to take a music round.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18For ten points, all you have to do is name the composer.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20CHORAL SINGING
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Er, Mahler.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Mahler is correct, it's part of his 8th Symphony...
0:13:36 > 0:13:40..sometimes known as the Symphony of a Thousand, of course,
0:13:40 > 0:13:42because it requires such a large
0:13:42 > 0:13:44orchestral and choral ensemble to perform it.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47Your music bonuses are excerpts from three more classical pieces
0:13:47 > 0:13:49scored for notably large ensembles.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52I simply want you to identify the composer in each case.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Firstly for five, this French composer.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57ROUSING ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:14:10 > 0:14:12- Berlioz.- It is, from his Requiem.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Secondly, this Austrian composer.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17CHORAL SINGING
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Schubert?
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Schubert?! No, it's Schoenberg.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46And finally, this Russian composer.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Nominate McLoughlin.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03- Is it Scriabin?- No, it's Prokofiev.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Right. Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Answer promptly and completely if you buzz.
0:15:07 > 0:15:11Name all the planets that appear on Copernicus's 16th-century
0:15:11 > 0:15:14diagram of a sun-centred universe.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.
0:15:19 > 0:15:20Correct.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23APPLAUSE
0:15:23 > 0:15:26Right, these bonuses are on painters and how to recognise them
0:15:26 > 0:15:29according to the website TheMetaPicture.com -
0:15:29 > 0:15:32quote, "If everyone in the painting, including the women,
0:15:32 > 0:15:34"looks like Vladimir Putin,"
0:15:34 > 0:15:37then it's by which early Netherlandish painter?
0:15:37 > 0:15:39His work can be seen on the Ghent altarpiece.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41We think it's Van Eyck.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45It is, yes. Secondly, "If everything is highly contrasted and sharp,
0:15:45 > 0:15:48"sort of blue-ish, and everyone has gaunt, bearded faces,"
0:15:48 > 0:15:50then it's by which painter?
0:15:50 > 0:15:52For example, in The Disrobing Of Christ
0:15:52 > 0:15:54in the Sacristy Of Toledo Cathedral.
0:15:56 > 0:15:57- El Greco.- Correct.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00And finally, "If everyone is beautiful, naked and stacked,"
0:16:00 > 0:16:03for example, in The Last Judgement,
0:16:03 > 0:16:05it's by which Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor?
0:16:05 > 0:16:07"Stacked", in this context,
0:16:07 > 0:16:10meaning buxom or muscular, depending on the gender.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13I really don't know.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15- Michelangelo.- Correct! Good, isn't it?
0:16:18 > 0:16:19Right, ten points for this.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22Deriving ultimately from a verse in the Book of Isaiah,
0:16:22 > 0:16:24which three-word metaphor for God
0:16:24 > 0:16:28was used by the Reverend Augustus Montague Toplady
0:16:28 > 0:16:31in the first line of a popular 18th-century hymn?
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Still, small voice?
0:16:39 > 0:16:42No. One of you buzz from Christ's?
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Never was a college more inappropriately named!
0:16:47 > 0:16:49It's Rock of Ages. Ten points for this.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52Listen carefully. In Olympic archery, what total score
0:16:52 > 0:16:54would be obtained by three arrows
0:16:54 > 0:16:57that respectively strike the inner gold, the inner red,
0:16:57 > 0:16:59and the outer white regions?
0:17:03 > 0:17:0419.
0:17:04 > 0:17:05Correct.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10Christ's, these bonuses are on British prime ministers.
0:17:10 > 0:17:14In each case, name the politician and the party to which they belonged
0:17:14 > 0:17:15at the given time.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19Firstly, who was prime minister on the accession of King George V?
0:17:19 > 0:17:22George V was 1910,
0:17:22 > 0:17:25so I think that would have been...Asquith?
0:17:27 > 0:17:29- You need the party. - Yeah, he's Liberal.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31THEY CONFER
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Er, Herbert Asquith, Liberal.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Correct. Secondly, who was prime minister
0:17:38 > 0:17:39on the accession of King George VI?
0:17:39 > 0:17:41THEY CONFER
0:17:41 > 0:17:441930, I think it was Stanley Baldwin.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49And he was coalition, wasn't he? Or is he Conservative?
0:17:49 > 0:17:51THEY CONFER
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Baldwin, Conservative.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Correct. Finally, who was prime minister
0:17:55 > 0:17:57on the accession of Queen Elizabeth II?
0:17:59 > 0:18:01- Churchill, Conservative.- Correct.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06Ten points for this. Born in Geneva in 1768,
0:18:06 > 0:18:09which mathematician gives his name to a so-called diagram
0:18:09 > 0:18:13that's a geometrical representation of complex numbers?
0:18:15 > 0:18:17- Argand.- Correct.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Right, Christ's. These bonuses are on an epic poem
0:18:22 > 0:18:27composed about 300 BCE by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30Which epic poem tells of the title figure's journey
0:18:30 > 0:18:34to rescue his wife Sita after her abduction by the demon-king Ravana?
0:18:37 > 0:18:38Nominate Midha.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40- Ramayana?- Correct.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Widely worshipped as a subsidiary deity,
0:18:42 > 0:18:44which monkey commander leads a monkey army
0:18:44 > 0:18:46to help Rama in his quest?
0:18:48 > 0:18:49- Hanuman.- Correct.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Rama is regarded as the seventh avatar or incarnation
0:18:53 > 0:18:55of which principal Hindu deity?
0:18:57 > 0:18:59- Vishnu.- Vishnu is correct.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04For your picture starter question,
0:19:04 > 0:19:08you'll see an element of a national flag removed from its usual context.
0:19:08 > 0:19:12For ten points, I need the name of the country on whose flag it appears.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Egypt.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Egypt, we'll see the whole thing now.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Well done. So you get a set of bonuses
0:19:18 > 0:19:21which consist of three more birds that have been plucked from
0:19:21 > 0:19:24their national flags. Five points for each country you can identify.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Firstly...
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Zimbabwe.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31- Zimbabwe.- It is Zimbabwe, as we can see now. There we are.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32And secondly...
0:19:34 > 0:19:35Caribbean, maybe?
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Well, it's not Dominica.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Is it going to be somewhere in Polynesia?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43I doubt it.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46Come on, chaps, let's have an answer, please.
0:19:46 > 0:19:47Dominica?
0:19:47 > 0:19:50No, it's the quetzal bird of Guatemala. There we are.
0:19:50 > 0:19:51And finally...
0:19:56 > 0:19:58- Papua New Guinea.- Well done.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01Right. Another starter question now.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04In botany, what organelle of a plant cell
0:20:04 > 0:20:05is surrounded by the tonoplast?
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Er, the choloroplast.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Anyone like to buzz from Christ's?
0:20:14 > 0:20:15Golgi apparatus?
0:20:15 > 0:20:18No, it's the vacuole. Right, ten points for this.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Slightly larger than Somerset, Gelderland is the largest...?
0:20:21 > 0:20:23- The Netherlands.- Correct.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28You get a set of bonuses on zoology now, York.
0:20:28 > 0:20:29From the Greek for "soft",
0:20:29 > 0:20:34malacology is the study of which phylum of invertebrates?
0:20:35 > 0:20:37THEY CONFER
0:20:44 > 0:20:46- Slugs?- No, it's molluscs.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Derived from the Greek for "head feet",
0:20:48 > 0:20:52which class of molluscs includes the octopuses and squid?
0:20:54 > 0:20:55Oh...
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Come on, let's have it, please.
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Capiped.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08No, it's cephalopods. And finally,
0:21:08 > 0:21:11the structure of cephalopod invertebrate eyes are similar.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14What precise adjective describes evolution
0:21:14 > 0:21:15that results in such similarities?
0:21:17 > 0:21:19- Convergent.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22Winter Wind is an etude in A Minor for piano
0:21:22 > 0:21:26by which composer born in 1810 in a village near Warsaw?
0:21:28 > 0:21:31- Chopin?- Chopin is correct, yes.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Your bonuses are on fictional figures
0:21:35 > 0:21:37discussed in the work Faulks On Fiction
0:21:37 > 0:21:39by the novelist Sebastian Faulks.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Which 20th-century author created the character of Jim Dixon
0:21:42 > 0:21:44discussed in the Heroes section?
0:21:51 > 0:21:52We don't know.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54It's Kingsley Amis in Lucky Jim.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57Born in 1954, which author created Nick Guest,
0:21:57 > 0:22:00who is the title of a chapter in the Lovers section?
0:22:00 > 0:22:03THEY CONFER
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Lawrence?
0:22:05 > 0:22:06No, it's Alan Hollinghurst.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09And finally, who created Jean Brodie, who's examined
0:22:09 > 0:22:12along with Emma Woodhouse and James Bond in the Snobs section?
0:22:15 > 0:22:16- Let's have it, please.- I'm afraid
0:22:16 > 0:22:19- we're about as good with British literature as American.- Oh, dear!
0:22:19 > 0:22:21It's Muriel Spark. Right, ten points for this.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Epoisses is a pungent cheese
0:22:23 > 0:22:27named after a village in which French region?
0:22:27 > 0:22:28Normandy.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31No. You lose five points.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34The village lies midway between Auxerre and Dijon.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38- Burgundy?- Correct.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40You get a set of bonuses this time
0:22:40 > 0:22:43on words that may follow the names of English cities,
0:22:43 > 0:22:46for example, in the autocomplete function of a search engine.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48In each case, name the city from the options given
0:22:48 > 0:22:50when its name, or the first part of its name, is entered.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53For example, "Quays", "Red Devils" and "Greater Manchester"
0:22:53 > 0:22:55give Salford.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58Firstly, "Under Lyme", "New South Wales" and "Falcons".
0:22:58 > 0:23:00- Newcastle.- Newcastle.
0:23:00 > 0:23:04Correct. Secondly, "Festival", "Rhinos" and "Carnegie".
0:23:04 > 0:23:05- Leeds.- Leeds?
0:23:05 > 0:23:09Correct. And finally, "Newington", "Poges" and "Bishop".
0:23:09 > 0:23:10- Stoke.- Stoke.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Stoke is correct. Four minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15Following the fire of 1834,
0:23:15 > 0:23:19which architect collaborated with Augustus Pugin to design London...?
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Haussmann?
0:23:21 > 0:23:23No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26..to design London's new Houses of Parliament.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28- Barry.- Sir Charles Barry is right.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32You get a set of bonuses on architecture of the 1930s.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36In 1935, the Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J Kaufmann
0:23:36 > 0:23:40hired which architect to design a house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania?
0:23:40 > 0:23:41Is it Gehry?
0:23:41 > 0:23:44- Gehry?- No, it was Frank Lloyd Wright.
0:23:44 > 0:23:48Its design combining medieval Tudor and contemporary minimalist forms
0:23:48 > 0:23:51and completed in 1930, Castle Drogo in Devon
0:23:51 > 0:23:54is the work of which British architect?
0:23:56 > 0:23:58THEY CONFER
0:23:59 > 0:24:02- Let's have an answer, please.- Foster. - No, it's Lutyens.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05Completed in the early 1930s, New York's Chrysler Building
0:24:05 > 0:24:06and the Empire State Building
0:24:06 > 0:24:10both exemplify what architectural and artistic style?
0:24:10 > 0:24:13THEY CONFER
0:24:13 > 0:24:14Art Deco.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Correct. Ten points for this.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19In chemistry, Epsom salt is a heptahydrated inorganic...
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Magnesium.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25No, I'm afraid you're going to lose five points.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28..inorganic salt. Which three elements are present
0:24:28 > 0:24:29in the anhydrous molecule?
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Er, magnesium, carbon and oxygen.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38No, no, it's sulphur and oxygen.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40We're going to take another starter question.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43The penultimate novel in Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle,
0:24:43 > 0:24:47which 1892 work is set during the Franco-Prussian War
0:24:47 > 0:24:49and the Paris Commune?
0:24:50 > 0:24:51Germinal?
0:24:51 > 0:24:54No. Anyone like to buzz from York?
0:24:54 > 0:24:56It's La Debacle. Ten points for this.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58A slogan meaning "all in one rhythm",
0:24:58 > 0:25:00a three-banded armadillo and the Brazuca
0:25:00 > 0:25:03were all associated with which event of 2014?
0:25:04 > 0:25:07- Er, the football World Cup in Brazil.- Correct.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10You get a set of bonuses now on botany, Christ's.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12From the Greek meaning "to divide",
0:25:12 > 0:25:14what term denotes regions of plant tissues
0:25:14 > 0:25:18that contain actively or potentially actively dividing cells?
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Come on.
0:25:20 > 0:25:21Xylon.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23No, it's meristems.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25What seven-letter term denotes the lateral meristem
0:25:25 > 0:25:27that gives rise to secondary growth?
0:25:31 > 0:25:32- Pass.- It's cambium.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35The cambium known as the pericambium or phellogen
0:25:35 > 0:25:37produces what type of cell?
0:25:39 > 0:25:41THEY CONFER
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Come on!
0:25:42 > 0:25:44- Stem cell.- No, it's cork cells.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Ten points for this. Which political figure comes next in this sequence,
0:25:47 > 0:25:49given in chronological order?
0:25:49 > 0:25:53Dan Quayle, Jack Kemp, Joe Lieberman, John Edwards, Sarah Palin and...?
0:25:54 > 0:25:55Joe Biden?
0:25:55 > 0:25:57No.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00- Paul Ryan?- Paul Ryan is correct.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Running mates on the losing ticket.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06So these bonuses, Christ's, are on medieval taxes.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09Levied at the rate of 10% of all goods and revenues,
0:26:09 > 0:26:14the Saladin Tithe was imposed in 1188 by which English king
0:26:14 > 0:26:17to raise funds for a proposed Crusade?
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Richard I.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22No, it wasn't, it was Henry II.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25Richard I was crowned the following year, I think.
0:26:25 > 0:26:26From the Latin for "shield",
0:26:26 > 0:26:30what term denotes a tax levied on a knight's fee or allocation of land
0:26:30 > 0:26:33and was paid in lieu of military service?
0:26:33 > 0:26:36THEY CONFER
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Skusen.
0:26:38 > 0:26:39- No, it's skutage.- Ah.
0:26:39 > 0:26:43And finally, in 1294, Edward I added a tax
0:26:43 > 0:26:45which came to be called the Maltolt,
0:26:45 > 0:26:48meaning an unjust or bad tax, on sacks of which commodity?
0:26:52 > 0:26:55- Grain.- No, it was wool. Ten points for this.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58The repetitive stress injury medial tibial stress syndrome
0:26:58 > 0:27:01is more commonly known by what two-word...?
0:27:01 > 0:27:02Tennis elbow?
0:27:02 > 0:27:05No, you lose five points, Christ's, I'm afraid.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08..what two-word name? One of you buzz, York.
0:27:10 > 0:27:11Carpal tunnel?
0:27:11 > 0:27:13No, it's shin splints. Ten points for this.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15In computer engineering, flash memories
0:27:15 > 0:27:17are often referred to as EEPROMS.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Sorry, I've no idea why I buzzed.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Er, OK! One of you buzz from Christ's.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24You're going to lose five points, I'm afraid, York.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28EEPROMS. For what do the letters EEP stand?
0:27:28 > 0:27:30GONG CHIMES
0:27:30 > 0:27:33And at the gong, Christ's College, Cambridge have 120,
0:27:33 > 0:27:35York University have 225.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38APPLAUSE
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Well, bad luck, Christ's, but you were up against strong opposition,
0:27:41 > 0:27:44so we'll have to say goodbye to you. Thank you very much for playing.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46And congratulations, York,
0:27:46 > 0:27:49that's another terrific, storming performance from you.
0:27:49 > 0:27:50You're a well-balanced team.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Good luck to you, we'll look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56I hope you can join us next time for another second-round match.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59- Until then, goodbye from Christ's College, Cambridge...- Goodbye.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02- It's goodbye from York University... - Goodbye.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06APPLAUSE