0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:20University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello, both teams playing tonight won their first round matches
0:00:32 > 0:00:34and tonight's fixture will determine which of them
0:00:34 > 0:00:37has what it takes to endure the rigours of the quarterfinals.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41Five teams are already through to that stage of the competition
0:00:41 > 0:00:43and tonight's winners will become the sixth.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Now, in the first round, the team from St George's, London,
0:00:46 > 0:00:48had a comfortable time of it against
0:00:48 > 0:00:51another London medical establishment, the Institute Of Cancer Research,
0:00:51 > 0:00:54whom they beat by 190 points to 70.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57As science specialists, we can forgive their lapses on
0:00:57 > 0:01:00William Morris and Jeanette Winterson and architecture
0:01:00 > 0:01:03but they were both impressive and quick on Mercury Prize winners,
0:01:03 > 0:01:07US cinema, the size of Kazakhstan and Quidditch
0:01:07 > 0:01:10and, given the nature of their studies, it was something of a relief
0:01:10 > 0:01:11to all of us they also somehow managed
0:01:11 > 0:01:13to identify the Heimlich manoeuvre.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17With an average age of 26, let's meet the St George's team again.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Hi, my name's Alex Costley-White, I'm from London
0:01:20 > 0:01:22and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Hi, I'm Charles Nicholas. I'm from Lewes, East Sussex
0:01:24 > 0:01:26and I'm also studying medicine.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27- And their captain.- Hi,
0:01:27 > 0:01:29I'm Tom Burns. I'm from Amersham in Buckinghamshire
0:01:29 > 0:01:32and I'm also studying medicine.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35Hello, my name's Lucy Studd. I live in London and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38APPLAUSE
0:01:38 > 0:01:39Now, by contrast,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42the team from Peterhouse, Cambridge, had a tougher time in their first
0:01:42 > 0:01:46round match but even so, they managed to retain the lead throughout
0:01:46 > 0:01:51and won by 185 points to Glasgow University's 155.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53On the basis of that performance, we can say with some certainty
0:01:53 > 0:01:56that none of them has read Bleak House
0:01:56 > 0:01:58but they were strong on Thomas Aquinas,
0:01:58 > 0:01:59Alessandro Volta,
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Simon Sharma and, perhaps surprisingly,
0:02:02 > 0:02:03neglected tropical diseases.
0:02:03 > 0:02:08With an average age of 20, let's meet the Peterhouse team again.
0:02:08 > 0:02:09Hello, I'm Thomas Langley.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12I'm from Newcastle upon Tyne and I'm reading history.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Hello, I'm Oscar Powell. I'm from York
0:02:14 > 0:02:16and I'm reading geological sciences.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18This is their captain.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Hi, and Hannah Woods. I'm from Manchester
0:02:20 > 0:02:22and I'm studying for a PhD in history.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Hello, my name's Julian Sutcliffe. I'm from Reading in Berkshire
0:02:25 > 0:02:27and I'm also reading history.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30APPLAUSE
0:02:31 > 0:02:35Well, there's no point in hanging around reciting the rules again, you
0:02:35 > 0:02:39all know them, so fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42What five-letter word matches all of these definitions?
0:02:42 > 0:02:45A form of address expressing friendly familiarity,
0:02:45 > 0:02:49a playful touch under the chin, a cut of beef extending from
0:02:49 > 0:02:51the neck to the shoulder blade,
0:02:51 > 0:02:53a device for holding a tool in a drill...
0:02:53 > 0:02:55- Chuck.- Chuck is correct.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57APPLAUSE
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Your bonuses are on the 19th-century landscape gardener
0:03:02 > 0:03:03and architect Joseph Paxton.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07In 1826, the Duke of Devonshire appointed
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Paxton superintendant of gardens at which Derbyshire stately home,
0:03:11 > 0:03:13where he built a noted iron and glass conservatory?
0:03:13 > 0:03:15- Chatsworth.- Correct.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18In 1844, Paxton designed the Emperor Fountain,
0:03:18 > 0:03:22able to project water to a height of around 80 metres.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25It was built to mark the proposed visit of which Russian monarch
0:03:25 > 0:03:28to Chatsworth, although the visit never happened?
0:03:28 > 0:03:30- What year?- I don't know.
0:03:31 > 0:03:32Alexander I or II?
0:03:33 > 0:03:36- II?- Alexander II.- Alexander II.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40No, it wasn't, it was his predecessor, Nicholas I.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Finally, based on his conservatory at Chatsworth, Paxton designed
0:03:43 > 0:03:47the venue for which event conceived by Prince Albert?
0:03:47 > 0:03:49It took place in Hyde Park in 1851.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52- The Great Exhibition.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Ten points for this starter question.
0:03:54 > 0:03:58"I burst into tears in Dresden before the garden of flora by Poussin.
0:03:58 > 0:03:59"In the middle of my sorrow,
0:03:59 > 0:04:02"a guard came over and said it was forbidden to cry."
0:04:02 > 0:04:04These are the words of which art critic
0:04:04 > 0:04:09noted for his columns in the London Evening Standard?
0:04:09 > 0:04:11- Brian Sewell.- Correct.
0:04:11 > 0:04:12APPLAUSE
0:04:14 > 0:04:19Right, these bonuses are on names with their opening letters in common.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Firstly, known as the pure knight,
0:04:21 > 0:04:25which figure in Mallory's Morte d'Arthur is the son by
0:04:25 > 0:04:29bewitchment of Sir Lancelot and Elaine, the daughter of King Pelles?
0:04:29 > 0:04:30- Galahad.- Correct.
0:04:30 > 0:04:35Derived ultimately from the Greek word for milk, the term galanthophile
0:04:35 > 0:04:39refers to an aficionado of which early spring flowers?
0:04:39 > 0:04:43- Daffodils?- Yeah, or snowdrops. - I think it might be daffodils.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45- Go for daffodils.- Daffodils.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46- No, it was snowdrops.- Oh, sorry.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49The Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean are named after
0:04:49 > 0:04:53the Spanish for a species of what animal native to the island?
0:04:53 > 0:04:57- So...- Oh, God.- Penguin, tortoise. - I don't think it's tortoise.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59HE STUTTERS
0:04:59 > 0:05:01- Finches.- Is it finches? - Shall we try finch?
0:05:01 > 0:05:06- No, erm, go for... - Penguins.- No, tortoises.
0:05:07 > 0:05:08- Tortoises.- Correct.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Ten points for this.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13The winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1953, which
0:05:13 > 0:05:15German-born scientist gives his name
0:05:15 > 0:05:18to the series of biochemical reactions...?
0:05:18 > 0:05:20- Is it Hans Krebs?- It is.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22APPLAUSE
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Right, you're off the mark. Your bonuses.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29The first set are on the solar system, St George's.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32At sea-level on earth, mean atmospheric pressure
0:05:32 > 0:05:34is roughly 100,000 pascals.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37On which planet is pressure at ground level known to be
0:05:37 > 0:05:39approximately 600 pascals?
0:05:41 > 0:05:45- Somewhere with a very heavy atmosphere like...Uranus.- Venus?
0:05:45 > 0:05:49- It's going to be very low, isn't it? - Oh, sorry.- Mars?- Mars?
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Mars is correct.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52On which planet is the ground-level pressure known to
0:05:52 > 0:05:54be around nine million pascals?
0:05:54 > 0:05:58Almost a factor of ten higher than that of the tyres of a road bicycle.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00- Jupiter.- Jupiter.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03- I think I'll go for Jupiter. - Yeah, why not?
0:06:03 > 0:06:04- Jupiter.- No, it's Venus.
0:06:04 > 0:06:08Which moon of the solar system has an atmosphere with a ground-level
0:06:08 > 0:06:11pressure of about 150,000 pascals?
0:06:11 > 0:06:131.5 times that of Earth.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15The moon...the moon...
0:06:15 > 0:06:18- Europa.- Go Titan.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20- Titan.- Titan's correct.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Ten points for this.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25"A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear."
0:06:25 > 0:06:28Which of Shakespeare's title characters said those words to his
0:06:28 > 0:06:32wife, whom he believed to have died giving birth during a storm at sea?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37- Pericles?- Correct.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40APPLAUSE
0:06:40 > 0:06:43You get a set of bonuses, Peterhouse, on acting.
0:06:43 > 0:06:47Using the actor's emotional memory to develop a characterisation,
0:06:47 > 0:06:50the system known as the method is based on the approach of which
0:06:50 > 0:06:54Russian actor and theorist born in 1863?
0:06:54 > 0:06:57- Nominate Sutcliffe. - Constantin Stanislavski.
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Correct.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02In 1951, Lee Strasberg became the artistic director of which
0:07:02 > 0:07:03drama school in New York,
0:07:03 > 0:07:07founded in 1947 by a group of directors including Elia Kazan
0:07:07 > 0:07:09and noted for teaching the method?
0:07:11 > 0:07:14- Any ideas? I can't think what it's called.- The Juilliard?
0:07:14 > 0:07:17- Shall I try that?- That's the one in High School Musical.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Do we have any advances on High School Musical?
0:07:20 > 0:07:23- No, no, Juilliard. It is. - Shall we try it?- Yeah.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26- Juilliard? - You're being facetious, of course.
0:07:26 > 0:07:27No, it's The Actors Studio.
0:07:27 > 0:07:32Directed by Sydney Pollack, which film of 1982 lampoons the excesses
0:07:32 > 0:07:36of the method in a scene in which Dustin Hoffman's character justifies
0:07:36 > 0:07:41his refusal to sit down while dressed as a tomato for a TV commercial?
0:07:43 > 0:07:44I don't know.
0:07:44 > 0:07:45Erm...
0:07:47 > 0:07:48We don't know, sorry.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51It's Tootsie. Right, we're going to take a picture round.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53For your picture starter, you're going to see
0:07:53 > 0:07:55a map showing the route of an inland waterway.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57For ten points, I want you to give me its name.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02- The Caledonian Canal. - Correct, it is.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04APPLAUSE
0:08:04 > 0:08:07The 60-mile Caledonian Canal is one of the works of the engineer
0:08:07 > 0:08:11Thomas Telford, nicknamed the Colossus of Roads.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Telford oversaw thousands of miles of civil engineering projects
0:08:14 > 0:08:16in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19Your picture bonuses show three more civil engineering works
0:08:19 > 0:08:23associated with Telford. Five points for each you can identify.
0:08:23 > 0:08:24Firstly, for five,
0:08:24 > 0:08:28this shows the extant routes of which historic canal system?
0:08:28 > 0:08:32Telford was lead engineer on various of its constituent parts.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38- What is that?- On the Welsh border.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40My sister loves Telford.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41OK, erm, that's useful(!)
0:08:43 > 0:08:45- I don't know. Bangor? - Can we make a guess?
0:08:45 > 0:08:47- Is that near Bangor?- No.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50- No idea. We don't know, do we?- I don't know.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53- Is that near Liverpool?- No. - We don't know.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55That's the Shropshire Union.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Secondly, you'll see highlighted a short section of which canal
0:08:58 > 0:09:01noted for Telford's aqueduct at the point highlighted?
0:09:02 > 0:09:07- Do you know a canal? - Bridgewater's...Manchester.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09- What were you saying, Julian? - I don't know.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11- I said, "Do you know a canal?" - Oh, right.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14- I don't think we have any idea, do we?- We don't know.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16That's the Llangollen Canal.
0:09:16 > 0:09:20And, finally, name the structure by Telford at the point highlighted.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Can't remember the name.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27- Oh, it's the Menai...- Menai Strait Bridge.- The Menai Bridge.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30- The Menai Bridge.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Listen carefully. Who was the last reigning monarch of Great Britain
0:09:33 > 0:09:38who was born before his or her immediate predecessor on the throne?
0:09:38 > 0:09:43In this case, the years of birth were 1660 and 1665.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49Queen Anne?
0:09:49 > 0:09:50Nope.
0:09:54 > 0:09:55William III?
0:09:56 > 0:10:00No, it was George I, who succeeded Queen Anne, of course.
0:10:00 > 0:10:01Ten points for this.
0:10:01 > 0:10:05What term was coined by Julian Huxley and George Tessier
0:10:05 > 0:10:08in 1936 after Huxley had been studying
0:10:08 > 0:10:10the large claw of the male fiddler crab?
0:10:10 > 0:10:12The term originally referred to
0:10:12 > 0:10:15the scaling relationship between the size of a body part
0:10:15 > 0:10:16and the size of the body as a whole.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20- Allometry?- Correct.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23APPLAUSE
0:10:23 > 0:10:26These bonuses, Peterhouse, are on aromatic compounds.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Firstly, in benzene,
0:10:28 > 0:10:32the carbon-carbon-carbon bond angle is equal to how many degrees?
0:10:32 > 0:10:35OK, let's try 120. I mean, there's an hexagonal ring.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38- Yeah, yeah, it must be.- 120. - Correct.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41What is the common seven-letter name of the compound methylbenzene?
0:10:41 > 0:10:43The name is derived from that of a South American tree
0:10:43 > 0:10:48from which the chemical was extracted in the 19th century.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50- So quinine.- Quinine, yes. Quinine.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53- No, it's toluene.- Ah, yes.
0:10:53 > 0:10:573-dimethylbenzene isomers are commonly given the identifying
0:10:57 > 0:11:00abbreviations O, M and P, corresponding to the relative
0:11:00 > 0:11:02positions of the attached methyl groups.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06For what three prefixes do those letters stand?
0:11:06 > 0:11:08M and P...
0:11:08 > 0:11:10O and P, O and P.
0:11:10 > 0:11:11Erm...
0:11:13 > 0:11:18- I mean, no, I'm not going to get that. Pass.- Are we passing?
0:11:18 > 0:11:20HE TAPS ON THE COUNTER
0:11:20 > 0:11:23- Ortho... Ortho, no, yeah.- Pass.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25- You were getting there, it's Ortho, Meta and Para.- Oh.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Ten points for this.
0:11:27 > 0:11:32Streymoy and Eysturoy are the largest of which group of 18 volcanic
0:11:32 > 0:11:33islands in the North Atlantic?
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Their name means "sheep islands" in Old Norse
0:11:36 > 0:11:39and they've been a self-governing region of Denmark...
0:11:39 > 0:11:42- The Faroes. - The Faroe Islands is correct, yes.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45APPLAUSE
0:11:45 > 0:11:49These bonuses are on archaeological sites in Britain, Peterhouse.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51At least 800,000 years old,
0:11:51 > 0:11:54the oldest hominid footprint outside Africa was
0:11:54 > 0:11:58discovered in 2010 in sediments at Happisburgh by the North Sea.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00In which English county is Happisburgh?
0:12:00 > 0:12:02- Norfolk...- Or Suffolk.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Do we think it's Norfolk?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07It's on East Anglia. It's on East Anglia.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Norfolk...
0:12:09 > 0:12:10Any advances?
0:12:10 > 0:12:12- Norfolk or Suffolk.- Guess.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14I don't know.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16- Norfolk.- Correct.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19A hominid tibia around half a million years old was discovered
0:12:19 > 0:12:25in 1993 at Boxgrove, a village near which small city in southern England?
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Erm, Winchester?
0:12:29 > 0:12:31Boxgrove, is that not Devon?
0:12:31 > 0:12:33I've never heard of it, I'm afraid.
0:12:33 > 0:12:34Winchester's a small city.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37- Shall we try Winchester? - Yeah, yeah, Exeter's not small.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40- Winchester?- No, it's Chichester.
0:12:40 > 0:12:44The so-called Red Lady of Paviland is an adult male skeleton
0:12:44 > 0:12:45covered in red ochre.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48It was discovered in 1823 in a cave on which peninsula to
0:12:48 > 0:12:50the west of Swansea?
0:12:50 > 0:12:53- Is that the Gower?- The Gower. - Yup, the Gower Peninsula.
0:12:53 > 0:12:54Correct.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58Ten points for this. First reported in London in 1837,
0:12:58 > 0:13:01what nickname was given to an elusive figure of urban legend held
0:13:01 > 0:13:04responsible for numerous attacks...?
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Sorry, I was going to say Jack the Ripper
0:13:06 > 0:13:07but I think that's obviously wrong.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Yes, it is. I'm afraid it cost you five points too.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13..held responsible for numerous attacks and malicious pranks
0:13:13 > 0:13:16and supposedly possessing a superhuman speed and agility?
0:13:22 > 0:13:25- Werewolf? - No, it's Spring-Heeled Jack.
0:13:25 > 0:13:26Ten points for this.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29The convertible mark pegged to the German mark
0:13:29 > 0:13:33when it was introduced following the date and accords of 1995
0:13:33 > 0:13:37is the unit of currency in which European country
0:13:37 > 0:13:40whose cities include Banja Luka and Mostar?
0:13:42 > 0:13:44- Bosnia?- Correct.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47APPLAUSE
0:13:49 > 0:13:53These bonuses are on China in the 1920s, Peterhouse.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55The Chinese Communist Party was founded in which year?
0:13:55 > 0:14:00The same year saw the inauguration of the US president Warren G Harding.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06- 23?- Which century?- Oh, 1923.- 19.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08- 1923.- 1923.
0:14:08 > 0:14:09No, it was 1921.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11In which year did Chiang Kai-shek
0:14:11 > 0:14:15launch the Northern Expedition in alliance with the Communists?
0:14:15 > 0:14:18The UK general strike took place in May of the same year.
0:14:18 > 0:14:19- 26?- Yup.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21- 1926.- That's correct.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24And finally, in which year was the Shanghai Massacre -
0:14:24 > 0:14:27a violent suppression of Communist Party organisations by
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Chiang's forces?
0:14:29 > 0:14:33The same year saw Charles Lindbergh's first solo nonstop
0:14:33 > 0:14:35transatlantic flight.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37- 28?- 27? 7?
0:14:39 > 0:14:40I think 9.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43Go for 8, it's in the middle. 8.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46- 1928?- No, it's 1927, bad luck.
0:14:46 > 0:14:47Right, there's still plenty of time
0:14:47 > 0:14:49for you to get back in the game, St George's.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51We're going to take a music round now.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57For ten points, I want you to identify both the singers.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02# Je t'aime, je t'aime
0:15:02 > 0:15:04# Oh, oui, je t'aime
0:15:04 > 0:15:07# Moi non plus
0:15:10 > 0:15:11# Oh, mon amour... #
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg?
0:15:17 > 0:15:20Nope. You can hear a little more, Peterhouse.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin.
0:15:24 > 0:15:25That is correct.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29APPLAUSE
0:15:29 > 0:15:32That was banned by the BBC for many years, you know.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus, which was the name of that immortal work,
0:15:35 > 0:15:38was the first single in a language other than English...
0:15:38 > 0:15:41If it was in a language, it was mostly grunting, as far as I recall.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44..language other than English to top the UK charts.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Your music bonuses are three more non-anglophone songs that
0:15:47 > 0:15:49were top ten hits in the UK.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52This time, however, I want you to listen carefully and identify
0:15:52 > 0:15:56the language in which each is principally sung.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00Firstly, for five, I want the language of this number four hit.
0:16:00 > 0:16:06# A recordacao vai estar com ele aonde for
0:16:06 > 0:16:11# A recordacao vai estar pra sempre aonde for... #
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Any ideas? Spanish?
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Julian thinks Spanish.
0:16:18 > 0:16:19Shall we try that?
0:16:21 > 0:16:22Spanish?
0:16:22 > 0:16:24No, that's in Portuguese.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27Secondly, the language of this number six hit.
0:16:27 > 0:16:32# Ue wo muite, arukou
0:16:34 > 0:16:39# Namida ga koborenai you ni ... #
0:16:40 > 0:16:44I was thinking Scandinavian for some reason.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46# Haru no hi... #
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Yeah, go for it.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50- Is it Swedish?- No.
0:16:50 > 0:16:51Italian?
0:16:51 > 0:16:54Do you speak Italian? It doesn't sound anything like Italian!
0:16:54 > 0:16:56It's Japanese. LAUGHTER
0:16:56 > 0:17:00Finally, the language of this number three hit.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02MUSIC: Numa Numa by O-Zone
0:17:02 > 0:17:04- Romanian.- It is Romanian, yes.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Right, ten points for this.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08In terms for thermodynamic quantities,
0:17:08 > 0:17:10give the three-letter sequence
0:17:10 > 0:17:15that encloses the word fragments erg, E-R-G,
0:17:15 > 0:17:18trop, T-R-O-P, and thalp, T-H-A-L-P.
0:17:21 > 0:17:22P-H-Y?
0:17:22 > 0:17:23Nope.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30E-N...T?
0:17:30 > 0:17:32No, it's E-N-Y.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35- Ah, sorry.- Ten points for this. Which US state is this?
0:17:35 > 0:17:36Slightly smaller than Cornwall,
0:17:36 > 0:17:40it's second only to New Jersey in terms of population density
0:17:40 > 0:17:43and its official name includes the words
0:17:43 > 0:17:45"And providence plantations."
0:17:45 > 0:17:47- Rhode Island.- Correct.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49APPLAUSE
0:17:49 > 0:17:53Right, these bonuses, Peterhouse, are on biochemistry.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55In an enzyme catalysed reaction,
0:17:55 > 0:17:58the graph of reciprocal substrate concentration against reciprocal
0:17:58 > 0:18:03initial reaction velocity takes its name from which two US chemists?
0:18:04 > 0:18:06Make a guess.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10What's the acidity equation called?
0:18:14 > 0:18:17- Henderson-Hasselbalch but that's definitely not...- Shall I...?- Yeah.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Henderson-Hasselbalch?
0:18:18 > 0:18:21No, it's the Lineweaver-Burk graphal plot.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25In a Lineweaver-Burk plot, the reciprocal of which kinetic
0:18:25 > 0:18:28constant is given by the intercept of the line and the Y axis?
0:18:30 > 0:18:31Erm... So...
0:18:31 > 0:18:34Rate constant, maybe. Rate constant or K.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37- The rate constant. - No, it's maximum velocity.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40And finally, what constant is equal to the substrate
0:18:40 > 0:18:43concentration at half the maximum initial velocity?
0:18:43 > 0:18:45Substrate concentration...
0:18:45 > 0:18:48- Do you know what this means? - Perhaps enzymatic half...
0:18:48 > 0:18:51I don't know if there's an enzymatic version of half-life, so...
0:18:51 > 0:18:53I mean, I hate biochemistry, it's really dull
0:18:53 > 0:18:55- but go for half-life.- Half-life?
0:18:55 > 0:18:57No, it's Michaelis-Menten.
0:18:57 > 0:18:58Ten points for this.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02From the name of the Roman god of boundary markers, what precise
0:19:02 > 0:19:05name is used in astronomy for the moving line separating
0:19:05 > 0:19:08the illuminated day and the dark-night side
0:19:08 > 0:19:10of a planet or satellite?
0:19:13 > 0:19:16- Terminus, but that's wrong, probably.- You're right.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18It IS wrong. LAUGHTER
0:19:18 > 0:19:20St George's? One of you want to buzz?
0:19:24 > 0:19:25Twilight?
0:19:25 > 0:19:28No, it's a terminator. You were nearly there but not.
0:19:28 > 0:19:29Ten points for this.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Which two letters begin the names of the 16th-century author
0:19:32 > 0:19:36of the Spanish tragedy, the currency of Burma and the former
0:19:36 > 0:19:40Japanese capital that gives its name to an environmental protocol...
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- KY.- Correct.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45APPLAUSE
0:19:45 > 0:19:50Your bonuses are on the French artist Jacques-Louis David.
0:19:50 > 0:19:54What is the title of the work of 1784 in which three figures raise their
0:19:54 > 0:19:58right arms and swear to give their lives for Rome in the war with Alba?
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Their father, facing them, holds their swords.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05- Hmm.- Something about Tarquin. - No, it's...
0:20:05 > 0:20:08THEY MUMBLE
0:20:08 > 0:20:09Is it something to do with victory...?
0:20:09 > 0:20:12- It's not The Metella or something? - I don't know.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14It could be what's his name... Turnus?
0:20:14 > 0:20:17- Come on, let's have it, please, chaps.- Sons Of Turnus.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19No, it's the Oath Of The Horatii.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23And secondly, a work of 1787 depicts the final moments
0:20:23 > 0:20:25of which Greek philosopher?
0:20:25 > 0:20:26- Socrates.- Correct.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30And a painting of 1793 portrays which revolutionary leader
0:20:30 > 0:20:33immediately after his encounter with the Girondin sympathiser
0:20:33 > 0:20:34Charlotte Corday?
0:20:34 > 0:20:37- Marat.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:20:37 > 0:20:39We're going to take another picture round now.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40For your picture starter,
0:20:40 > 0:20:42you will see a photograph of a 20th-century playwright.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44Ten points if you can give me his name.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Is that Arthur Miller?
0:20:49 > 0:20:50It is Arthur Miller, yes!
0:20:50 > 0:20:52APPLAUSE
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Miller was one of those on the Hollywood blacklist
0:20:57 > 0:21:00during the Red Scare of the '40s and '50s,
0:21:00 > 0:21:02on the basis of alleged Communist sympathies.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06You're now going to see three more photographs of prominent figures
0:21:06 > 0:21:07associated with film and theatre
0:21:07 > 0:21:10who were also accused of being Communist sympathisers.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12Five points for each you can name.
0:21:12 > 0:21:13Firstly...
0:21:14 > 0:21:16That looks like Leonard Bernstein.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18- Who?- Leonard Bernstein.
0:21:18 > 0:21:19- Leonard Bernstein?- Correct.
0:21:19 > 0:21:20Secondly...
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Your guess is as good as mine.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28- Annie?- No, sorry.
0:21:30 > 0:21:31No idea.
0:21:31 > 0:21:32That's Dorothy Parker.
0:21:32 > 0:21:33And finally...
0:21:36 > 0:21:38- Is that Marlon Brando?- No.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40- Elia Kazan?- No idea.
0:21:40 > 0:21:41Elia Kazan?
0:21:41 > 0:21:43- Nominate Studd.- Elia Kazan?
0:21:43 > 0:21:44No, it's Charlie Chaplin.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47Hard to recognise without his moustache, isn't he?
0:21:47 > 0:21:48Ten points for this.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51Which Italian composer drew on works by the German playwright Schiller
0:21:51 > 0:21:55for operas such as Luisa Miller, Joan Of Arc and Don Carlos?
0:21:59 > 0:22:01- Verdi.- Verdi is correct, yes.
0:22:01 > 0:22:02APPLAUSE
0:22:05 > 0:22:08St George's, your bonuses are on Stanley Kubrick's film
0:22:08 > 0:22:102001: A Space Odyssey.
0:22:10 > 0:22:112001 was released in which year?
0:22:11 > 0:22:14The same year saw the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia,
0:22:14 > 0:22:17and the first manned orbit of the Moon by Apollo 8.
0:22:17 > 0:22:2061... Hmm. 61 or 62?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22- 1962?- No, it's 1968.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26The title music for the film is Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
0:22:26 > 0:22:30an 1896 tone poem by which German composer?
0:22:32 > 0:22:33- Are you sure it's Richard?- Richard.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35- Richard Strauss.- Correct.
0:22:35 > 0:22:372001 was based on The Sentinel,
0:22:37 > 0:22:41a 1951 short story by which British author?
0:22:41 > 0:22:45His novels include The City And The Stars and Rendezvous With Rama.
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Is it Arthur C Clarke?
0:22:46 > 0:22:48It is Arthur C Clarke, yes. APPLAUSE
0:22:48 > 0:22:51Ten points for this. Listen carefully. During the 19th century,
0:22:51 > 0:22:53four men succeeded to the US presidency
0:22:53 > 0:22:55following the death of the incumbent.
0:22:55 > 0:22:56Give the surnames of any two.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01- Truman and Coolidge.- No.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05Anyone like to buzz from...?
0:23:05 > 0:23:06Tyler and Taylor?
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Tyler is one,
0:23:08 > 0:23:10but the others were Fillmore, Johnson and Arthur,
0:23:10 > 0:23:12so I'm afraid I can't give you the points.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Another starter question coming up now.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16Named after a French physician,
0:23:16 > 0:23:19the Mantoux test is an intradermal injection...
0:23:20 > 0:23:21- Tuberculosis.- Correct.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23APPLAUSE
0:23:25 > 0:23:28St George's, these bonuses are on medieval Europe.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32Gorm the Old, who died around 958,
0:23:32 > 0:23:34is often cited as the first forebear
0:23:34 > 0:23:36of the monarchy of which present-day country?
0:23:39 > 0:23:40- France?- No, it's Denmark.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43Which of Gorm's sons succeeded him?
0:23:43 > 0:23:44More than 1,000 years later,
0:23:44 > 0:23:49his byname denotes a technology standard in wireless communication.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51I need the regnal name and the byname.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54By name in technology...
0:23:54 > 0:23:57- Maybe it's like Ericsson. - I don't know.- Bluetooth?- Ericsson?
0:23:59 > 0:24:00Eric Bluetooth?
0:24:00 > 0:24:01No, it's Harald Bluetooth.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03LAUGHTER
0:24:03 > 0:24:06And finally, which grandson of Harald Bluetooth
0:24:06 > 0:24:08became king of England in 1016?
0:24:10 > 0:24:11THEY MUMBLE
0:24:11 > 0:24:13- ..or Cnut?- Cnut? Cnut?- Yeah.
0:24:13 > 0:24:14- Cnut?- Cnut is correct. APPLAUSE
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Four minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20Screaming, absinthe, India, Pakistan, Brunswick
0:24:20 > 0:24:22and avocado are all shades of...
0:24:24 > 0:24:26- Green.- Correct.
0:24:26 > 0:24:27APPLAUSE
0:24:29 > 0:24:34Your bonuses are on the structure of a hen's egg, St George's.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Firstly, in an unfertilised egg,
0:24:36 > 0:24:40what term denotes the twisted cords of dense albumen
0:24:40 > 0:24:42that connect the yolk to the shell membrane?
0:24:43 > 0:24:45- Yolk sac?- Yeah...go for it.
0:24:45 > 0:24:46Yolk sac?
0:24:46 > 0:24:48No, it's the chalaza.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52In a fertilised egg, what membrane closely covers the embryo
0:24:52 > 0:24:55and becomes filled with fluid to form the embryo sac?
0:24:55 > 0:24:57- Trophoblast?- Trophoblast? Trophoblast?- Yeah.
0:24:57 > 0:24:58Trophoblast?
0:24:58 > 0:25:00No, that's the amnion, or amniotic sac.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03And finally, what is the major inorganic compound
0:25:03 > 0:25:05found in an egg shell?
0:25:05 > 0:25:08- Oh.- Inorganic?- Is it not calcium carbonate?- Yeah.- Calcium carbonate.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10- Calcium carbonate?- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:25:10 > 0:25:13Right, ten points for this starter question. The Venerable Bede,
0:25:13 > 0:25:16King Louis the Pious, and Offa of Mercia all lived
0:25:16 > 0:25:19during the timespan of which Chinese dynasty?
0:25:21 > 0:25:23The Ming Dynasty?
0:25:23 > 0:25:24No, anyone like to buzz from Peterhouse?
0:25:26 > 0:25:27Tang Dynasty?
0:25:27 > 0:25:29The Tang Dynasty is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:25:31 > 0:25:34These bonuses are on 20th century politics, Peterhouse.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37Herbert Gladstone, Winston Churchill and Reginald McKenna
0:25:37 > 0:25:40all served as Home Secretary under which Prime Minister?
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Erm, it's...
0:25:42 > 0:25:45- It's Asquith.- I think it is Asquith. - It is Asquith.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47- Asquith.- Correct.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50Which Prime Minister made RA Butler Home Secretary
0:25:50 > 0:25:51when he first came to power?
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Butler was later replaced by Henry Brooke.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57- Er... Churchill.- Definitely?
0:25:57 > 0:26:00- Do we think Churchill? - Churchill or Eden.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02It's... It's Churchill or Eden, I'm not sure.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05- Churchill. - No, it was Harold Macmillan.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08And finally, Roy Jenkins and James Callaghan both served
0:26:08 > 0:26:11as Home Secretary under which Prime Minister?
0:26:11 > 0:26:12Erm... What's-his-name Wilson.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Wilson.
0:26:15 > 0:26:16It was Harold Wilson, yes. APPLAUSE
0:26:16 > 0:26:17Ten points for this.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Which unit of volume is equal to one cubic decimetre, or 1,000...?
0:26:22 > 0:26:24- A litre?- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:26:24 > 0:26:27You get a set of bonuses, St George's, now, on Japanese food.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30In each case, give the four letter term from the description.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Firstly...
0:26:32 > 0:26:34A savoury paste made from fermented soya beans,
0:26:34 > 0:26:39often with barley or rice malt. It's used to make soup or noodle broth.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40- (Miso?)- Tofu?
0:26:40 > 0:26:42- No, it's miso.- Oh, sorry.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45Secondly, edible seaweed of the genus porphyra,
0:26:45 > 0:26:47used in Britain to make laverbread.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49In Japan, it's often used to wrap sushi.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52- Oh. - HE CHUCKLES
0:26:52 > 0:26:54- Pass if you don't know. - Call it seaweed?- Don't know.
0:26:54 > 0:26:55It's nori.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58And finally, the Japanese word for buckwheat
0:26:58 > 0:27:00and for thin noodles made from it.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04- Oh, is that udon? It's like... - Yeah, yeah.- Try udon. Try it.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Udon?
0:27:06 > 0:27:07No, those are thicker. It's soba.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Ten points for this.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12"Man is the measure of all things"
0:27:12 > 0:27:15is an assertion of which sophist Greek philosopher?
0:27:15 > 0:27:18Born in Abdera around 490 BC,
0:27:18 > 0:27:20he gives his name to a dialogue by Plato...
0:27:22 > 0:27:23I'm sorry, no, it's gone.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25I'm sorry, I'm going to offer it to you, Peterhouse.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27I'm going to have to take five away.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30- Parmenides?- No, it's Protagoras.
0:27:30 > 0:27:31Ten points for this.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34How many carbon atoms are there in an atom of naphthalene?
0:27:36 > 0:27:37- Ten?- Ten is correct.
0:27:37 > 0:27:38APPLAUSE
0:27:40 > 0:27:42Your bonuses are on African flags this time, Peterhouse.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46The flag of Mali is a vertical tricolour of green, gold and red.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Which neighbouring country's flag has those colours in reverse order,
0:27:49 > 0:27:51with no stars or other symbols?
0:27:51 > 0:27:55- Green, gold and red?- Yes.- Guinea?
0:27:55 > 0:27:59- Do you think? I don't know. - I think it's Guinea.- Guinea?
0:27:59 > 0:28:00- Guinea?- Correct.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Which country's flag...? GONG BONGS
0:28:02 > 0:28:04APPLAUSE At the gong, St George's have 90
0:28:04 > 0:28:06and Peterhouse have 195.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08APPLAUSE
0:28:11 > 0:28:12Well, St George's,
0:28:12 > 0:28:14it's a lot better than I feared it was going to be at one point.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18You seemed to just be half asleep on 20 points or something. It's...
0:28:18 > 0:28:20You know, it's fine to go out at this stage,
0:28:20 > 0:28:22so thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Peterhouse, that was a very impressive performance from you,
0:28:24 > 0:28:26and you confer very amusingly.
0:28:26 > 0:28:27LAUGHTER
0:28:27 > 0:28:29I am sad you hate biochemistry, Mr Powell.
0:28:29 > 0:28:30LAUGHTER
0:28:30 > 0:28:32It's only... It's a reasonable position...
0:28:32 > 0:28:34- Yeah, but it's useful to know, isn't it?- No.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36LAUGHTER It is useful to know, it's...
0:28:36 > 0:28:38Round here, matey, it's very useful.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Anyway, I hope you can join us next time
0:28:41 > 0:28:43for another second round match,
0:28:43 > 0:28:46- but until then it's goodbye from St George's, London. TEAM:- Goodbye.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48- It's goodbye from Peterhouse, Cambridge. TEAM:- Goodbye.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:50 > 0:28:52APPLAUSE