0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. There are eight places in the quarter-final stage of this
0:00:32 > 0:00:35competition, and six of them have already been taken.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38The seventh will go to whichever team wins tonight.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40But for the losers, it's the final curtain.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44The team from Nottingham University won their first round match, albeit
0:00:44 > 0:00:47in a somewhat low-scoring fixture against the University of Swansea,
0:00:47 > 0:00:51and at the gong were ahead by 135 points to 110.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55They were quick enough on the buzzer though to keep their opponents
0:00:55 > 0:00:57away from the bonus questions for a good 15 minutes.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59And they knew their stuff on HMS Beagle,
0:00:59 > 0:01:03the Book of Proverbs, Mendelssohn, poitin and plum brandy.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07With an average age of 23, let's meet the Nottingham team again.
0:01:08 > 0:01:13Hi, I'm Michael Alexander from south London, and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:13 > 0:01:14Hi, I'm Ben Scrafield from Sheffield,
0:01:14 > 0:01:16and I'm studying chemistry.
0:01:16 > 0:01:17This is their captain:
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Hi, I'm Alice Lilly, I'm from Harrogate in North Yorkshire,
0:01:20 > 0:01:23and I'm studying for an PhD in American Studies.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Hi, I'm Mark Dennis, I'm from Nottinghamshire,
0:01:26 > 0:01:28and I'm studying for a PhD in mathematics.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30APPLAUSE
0:01:33 > 0:01:36The team from St Catherine's College Cambridge managed to put
0:01:36 > 0:01:39themselves on -10 in the opening minutes of their first round
0:01:39 > 0:01:43match against the University of Southampton, but they had the lead by
0:01:43 > 0:01:48the halfway point and they were ahead at the gong by 165 points to 135.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Strengths proved to be the valkyries, the Turing machine,
0:01:51 > 0:01:53European history and the squawk.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57With an average age of 19, let's meet the St Cat's team again.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Hi, and Callum Watson, I'm from Stirlingshire
0:01:59 > 0:02:01and I'm studying maths.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03Hi, I'm Ellie Chan, I'm from Brighton
0:02:03 > 0:02:06and I'm reading for a PhD in history of art.
0:02:06 > 0:02:07And this is their captain:
0:02:07 > 0:02:12Hello, I'm Calum Bungey, I'm from London, and I'm reading chemistry.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Hi, I'm Alex Cranston, I'm from London, I'm reading
0:02:15 > 0:02:18biological natural sciences, and we're all here for the wheel.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20APPLAUSE
0:02:21 > 0:02:25Fingers on the buzzers, your first starter for ten:
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Listen carefully, a country's two euro coin bears a portrait
0:02:28 > 0:02:33of an early winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Bertha von Suttner.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37Which composer appears on the same country's one euro coin?
0:02:40 > 0:02:41Mahler?
0:02:41 > 0:02:43No. St Catherine's?
0:02:44 > 0:02:47- Mozart? - Mozart. It's Austria, of course.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49APPLAUSE
0:02:49 > 0:02:51So you get a set of bonuses,
0:02:51 > 0:02:53the first ones of tonight's competition,
0:02:53 > 0:02:56on artists' muses, Cat's.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59Olga Khokhlova, Dora Maar and Francoise Gilot
0:02:59 > 0:03:02were amongst the muses and lovers of which Spanish artist?
0:03:04 > 0:03:06- Spanish?- Spanish...
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Who did...? Picasso had a few, didn't he?
0:03:09 > 0:03:12- Famously.- Yeah, he was famously... - Yeah.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14- Picasso.- Correct.
0:03:14 > 0:03:15Much influenced by Picasso,
0:03:15 > 0:03:19which surrealist artist often signed his works with his own name
0:03:19 > 0:03:22and that of his wife, to whom he said,
0:03:22 > 0:03:26"It's mostly with your blood, Gala, that I paint my pictures"?
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Gala...?
0:03:29 > 0:03:33- Sorry?- It's just a guess, to be honest.- Who are you guessing?
0:03:33 > 0:03:37- I was going to say Dali, or something.- Dali... Did he marry?
0:03:37 > 0:03:39I can't remember for the life of me.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42I don't think so.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44- Dali?- It is Salvador Dali, yes.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48Dali's circle included which New York-born photographer and artist?
0:03:48 > 0:03:51His works include many portraits of Alice Prin,
0:03:51 > 0:03:55an artist's model also known as Kiki de Montparnasse,
0:03:55 > 0:03:58of which Le Violon d'Ingres is perhaps the best-known.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03- Try Man Ray.- Pardon?- Man Ray.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05- Man Ray.- Man Ray is right, yes.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Ten points for this:
0:04:07 > 0:04:10Which three letters begin the names of the bay in which the
0:04:10 > 0:04:14Andaman Islands are located, the English name of the island...?
0:04:16 > 0:04:20- M, A, L? - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23The English name of the island between North and South Uist,
0:04:23 > 0:04:26and the capital of Karnataka state in India,
0:04:26 > 0:04:28a centre of high-technology industry?
0:04:31 > 0:04:33- B-E-N.- Correct, yes.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35APPLAUSE
0:04:35 > 0:04:37As in Bengal, Benbecula, and so on.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40So we get to a set of bonuses for you Nottingham,
0:04:40 > 0:04:43and they're on fields of economics.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46From Greek roots meaning house, manage and measure,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49what term denotes the study of formal methods
0:04:49 > 0:04:53for drawing inferences from statistical evidence?
0:04:53 > 0:04:54Something-metrics?
0:04:54 > 0:04:57- House is...?- I don't know.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00Anything at all?
0:05:00 > 0:05:03something-anthrometrics.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06- Anthrometrics?- Yeah, something like that.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09- Anthrometrics? - No, it's econometrics.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Secondly, which branch studies the emotional dimensions of economics?
0:05:12 > 0:05:16An example of this type of study, the Allais paradox,
0:05:16 > 0:05:18shows the impact of psychological factors on
0:05:18 > 0:05:21consumer decision-making in conditions of risk.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Think that's behavioural.
0:05:23 > 0:05:24- That makes sense.- Yeah, go for it.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26- Behavioural economics?- Correct.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Given its name by Thorstein Veblen in 1900,
0:05:29 > 0:05:32which approach emphasises the way in which firms
0:05:32 > 0:05:35and individuals maximise their objectives?
0:05:35 > 0:05:39It serves as the basis for coordinating activities in the global market system.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44I can only think of conspicuous consumption.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46I don't know.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49About maximising utility.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Anything?
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Guess.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57- Pass. - That's neoclassical economics.
0:05:57 > 0:05:58Ten points for this:
0:05:58 > 0:06:02From the Greek meaning "equal part", what term in physics denotes atomic
0:06:02 > 0:06:07nuclei with the same atomic and mass numbers, but different energy states?
0:06:07 > 0:06:08In chemistry, the same term...
0:06:10 > 0:06:12- Isomers.- Correct.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15APPLAUSE
0:06:15 > 0:06:18And your bonuses are on chemical elements, St Catherine's.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Which letter of the alphabet designates the block
0:06:20 > 0:06:24of the periodic table that contains the lanthanide and actinide elements?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26- F.- Correct.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29What name is given to the progressive shrinking of the ionic radii
0:06:29 > 0:06:33of the elements of the lanthanide series caused by the weak shielding
0:06:33 > 0:06:36of nuclear charge by electrons in the 4F orbital?
0:06:36 > 0:06:39- Lanthanide contraction.- Correct.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43And finally, the first two group 3 metal elements are often
0:06:43 > 0:06:47classified as rare earth metals as they have similar chemical properties
0:06:47 > 0:06:51to the lanthanides, although they don't lie in the lanthanide series.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Can you name either of them, please?
0:06:53 > 0:06:56- Hafnium. - No, it's scandium and yttrium.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57We're going to take a picture round now.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00For your picture starter you will see the titles of selected works
0:07:00 > 0:07:04by a Nobel prize-winning author, given in their original language.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07For ten points, all you have to do is to identify the author.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14- Gabriel Garcia Marquez. - It is indeed.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Let's see the titles in English, there they are.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19So your picture bonuses are the titles of works by three more
0:07:19 > 0:07:22writers awarded the Nobel Prize in literature,
0:07:22 > 0:07:24again given in the original language.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27In each case, for five points, name the writer.
0:07:27 > 0:07:28Firstly, for five:
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Italian...
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Oh, it's however many people in search of an author.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37It's...Pirandello?
0:07:37 > 0:07:40Luigi Pirandello. Is that right?
0:07:40 > 0:07:42You can nominate.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45- Nominate Alexander.- Pirandello. - Correct. Let's see them in English.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47There they are.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Secondly:
0:07:52 > 0:07:55- Can you read it?- Gulag. So Solzhenitsyn.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.- Correct, we'll see them in English now.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00There we are.
0:08:00 > 0:08:01And finally:
0:08:03 > 0:08:05- This is Camus.- Albert Camus.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08That's correct, let's see them in English, there they are.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10APPLAUSE
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Well done.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14Ten points for this starter question:
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Which German state gives its name to a transuranic element with
0:08:17 > 0:08:19the atomic number 108?
0:08:19 > 0:08:21The generic term for German mercenaries...
0:08:23 > 0:08:25- Hesse.- Hesse is correct, yes.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27APPLAUSE
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Your bonuses this time, Cat's, are on a composer.
0:08:31 > 0:08:35Which leading German composer of the post-war era collaborated with
0:08:35 > 0:08:40Chester Kallman and WH Auden on the opera Elegy For Young Lovers?
0:08:41 > 0:08:44- Can't really think of many modern German composers.- No.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46I'm going to have to say Mahler.
0:08:46 > 0:08:47Well, shall we...
0:08:47 > 0:08:50- Let's go through some Germans!- I...
0:08:52 > 0:08:56- Come on, let's have an answer, please.- Mahler.- Mahler?!
0:08:56 > 0:08:58No, it's Hans Werner Henze.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00That's very interesting.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03The second Kallman/Auden libretto for an opera by Henze was
0:09:03 > 0:09:07The Bassarids, based on the Bacchae by which Greek dramatist?
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Is that... It's Euripides.
0:09:09 > 0:09:10- Euripides.- Correct.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Based on Gericault's painting,
0:09:12 > 0:09:17Henze composed the Raft Of The Medusa in 1968 as a requiem
0:09:17 > 0:09:22for which revolutionary who'd been killed the previous year?
0:09:22 > 0:09:231968?
0:09:23 > 0:09:26- Which year, sorry?- 1968.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28- Is it Che?- Yeah.
0:09:28 > 0:09:29- Che Guevara?- Correct.
0:09:29 > 0:09:30Ten points for this:
0:09:30 > 0:09:33A Muslim pilgrimage site near the city of Osh,
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Sulayman II Sacred Mountain is a Unesco World Heritage Site
0:09:37 > 0:09:39in which central Asian country?
0:09:39 > 0:09:43It shares borders with Tajikistan, China and Kazakhstan.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46- Kyrgyzstan. - Kyrgyzstan is correct, yes.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48APPLAUSE
0:09:50 > 0:09:53These bonuses, St Catherine's, are on a flower.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55According to Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale,
0:09:55 > 0:09:58which flowers of the genus Narcissus,
0:09:58 > 0:10:03"Come before the swallow dares and take the winds of March with beauty?"
0:10:03 > 0:10:06Daffodil?
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Yeah, go on.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10- Daffodils.- Correct.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14"And then thy heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils."
0:10:14 > 0:10:18This is the closing couplet of a poem by Wordsworth.
0:10:18 > 0:10:19What is the first line?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22- I wandered lonely...- Yeah.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24I wandered lonely as a cloud.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26I wandered lonely as a cloud is correct.
0:10:26 > 0:10:30"Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth."
0:10:30 > 0:10:35Which poet says that in the 1983 prose collection, Required Writing?
0:10:37 > 0:10:40- What...?- I've heard the quote, but I can't remember who it is.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44Can you remember anything else about them?
0:10:44 > 0:10:45- Is it Larkin?- Maybe...
0:10:45 > 0:10:47It's SO Larkin!
0:10:47 > 0:10:51- Philip Larkin? - It is Philip Larkin, yes.
0:10:51 > 0:10:52Ten points for this:
0:10:52 > 0:10:57Listen carefully - what specific two-word term refers to a person who,
0:10:57 > 0:11:01at a particular time, lies first in a line of royal succession,
0:11:01 > 0:11:04but who may be superseded by the subsequent...?
0:11:04 > 0:11:06- Heir presumptive.- Correct.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08APPLAUSE
0:11:09 > 0:11:13These bonuses, Cat's, are an on accidental inventions.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Firstly, while working on refrigerants in 1938,
0:11:16 > 0:11:19the US chemist, Roy Plunkett, discovered which polymer
0:11:19 > 0:11:25when a gas solidified on the sides of a canister, creating a slick surface?
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Presumably Teflon, I'd have thought. It would be so lubricated...
0:11:27 > 0:11:30- Pardon?- PTFE.- Yeah.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32- PTFE.- Teflon, yes, that's correct.
0:11:32 > 0:11:36In 1856, the British chemist William Perkin discovered the first
0:11:36 > 0:11:39synthetic dye while trying to synthesise quinine.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Originally known as aniline purple or Tyrian purple,
0:11:42 > 0:11:46by what five-letter name is it usually known today?
0:11:46 > 0:11:47- Mauve.- Correct.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50While researching synthetic substitutes for rubber
0:11:50 > 0:11:54in the 1940s, the Scottish-born engineer James Wright combined
0:11:54 > 0:11:58boric acid and silicon oil and discovered a malleable substance
0:11:58 > 0:12:00later marketed as a toy under what name?
0:12:00 > 0:12:03- Silly putty.- Is that...?
0:12:03 > 0:12:05No, is it called silly putty?
0:12:05 > 0:12:09- Silly putty?- Silly putty, or nutty potty, or potty putty.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12Ten points for this, answer as soon as your name is called.
0:12:12 > 0:12:17If three resistors of resistance two, three and four ohms respectively
0:12:17 > 0:12:20are connected in parallel,
0:12:20 > 0:12:23what fraction denotes the total resistance of the configuration?
0:12:28 > 0:12:29A half.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31No. Nottingham?
0:12:33 > 0:12:341/24th?
0:12:34 > 0:12:36No, it's 12/13.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40So another starter question coming up now, ten points for this, fingers on the buzzers.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43In 1900, John Redmond became the leader of which political party?
0:12:43 > 0:12:45After the elections of 1910,
0:12:45 > 0:12:48his party held the balance of power in the Commons, and the Liberals
0:12:48 > 0:12:52introduced the legislation for which he had long campaigned.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57The Independent Labour Party?
0:12:57 > 0:13:00No, anybody like to buzz from Nottingham?
0:13:00 > 0:13:02Unionist Party?
0:13:02 > 0:13:05No, it's quite the opposite, it's the Irish Parliamentary Party.
0:13:05 > 0:13:06Another starter question:
0:13:06 > 0:13:12In 2014, Microsoft paid 2.5 billion for the Swedish firm Mojang.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Its products include which videogame?
0:13:16 > 0:13:18- Minecraft.- Yes!
0:13:18 > 0:13:19APPLAUSE
0:13:21 > 0:13:24No area of a misspent youth is ever wasted.
0:13:24 > 0:13:25Here are your bonuses,
0:13:25 > 0:13:28they're on syncretic religions and beliefs, St Catherine's.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31Drawing practices from Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism
0:13:31 > 0:13:35and Catholicism, the Cao Dai religious movement was
0:13:35 > 0:13:39officially established in 1926 in which Asian country?
0:13:41 > 0:13:44- Pardon?- Vietnam, he says. - Sorry, can't hear.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Vietnam he says.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48- Vietnam.- Correct.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Blending Nigeria's Yoruba religion with Roman Catholicism
0:13:51 > 0:13:53and native Indian traditions,
0:13:53 > 0:13:57Santeria originally developed on which Caribbean island?
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Yeah, I was thinking Haiti.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05- Haiti.- No, it's Cuba.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09The Rastafarian movement believes that which Emperor of Ethiopia
0:14:09 > 0:14:11was the incarnation of the second coming of Christ?
0:14:11 > 0:14:13- Haile Selassie.- Correct.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17Right, with the scores on 40 and 130, but still plenty of time for you
0:14:17 > 0:14:20guys in Nottingham to come back, we're go into take a music round.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:14:51 > 0:14:52Tchaikovsky.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55No, anyone like to buzz from St Catherine's?
0:14:55 > 0:14:57MUSIC RESUMES
0:15:01 > 0:15:04- Mussorgsky?- No, it's Beethoven.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06It's part of the overture for Egmont.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08So music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12Ten points at stake for this starter question, fingers on the buzzers.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15In astronomy, what Greek-derived term denotes the visible
0:15:15 > 0:15:19surface of the sun, that is, the area from which light is radiated?
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Heliosphere.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24No, anyone like to buzz from Nottingham?
0:15:26 > 0:15:29- Perihelion. - No, it's the photosphere.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31Another starter question, fingers on the buzzers.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33Quote, "A writer must refuse to allow himself to be
0:15:33 > 0:15:36"transformed into an institution."
0:15:36 > 0:15:40These are the words, in translation, of which writer, in 1964,
0:15:40 > 0:15:43on refusing the Nobel...?
0:15:43 > 0:15:44- Jean-Paul Sartre.- Correct.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46APPLAUSE
0:15:48 > 0:15:50So, Nottingham, you get the music bonuses.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53That piece by Beethoven was written as incidental
0:15:53 > 0:15:55music for Goethe's play, Egmont.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58For your music bonuses, three more examples of classical composers
0:15:58 > 0:16:00writing incidental music for drama.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03This time, in each case, I want the name of the composer
0:16:03 > 0:16:06and the play for which the piece was written.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08Firstly, for five:
0:16:08 > 0:16:11CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:16:27 > 0:16:29Pass.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33Is that the name of a composer or...?
0:16:33 > 0:16:36It was part of Mendelssohn's overture for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
0:16:36 > 0:16:37Secondly:
0:16:37 > 0:16:40CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:16:50 > 0:16:53If we don't know, we need to pass. We need to get through it.
0:17:07 > 0:17:08Come on.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10- Pass.- That was Henry Purcell,
0:17:10 > 0:17:13part of the incidental music for Abdelazer.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15And finally:
0:17:15 > 0:17:18CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Prokofiev and Romeo and Juliet.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41No, it's part of Grieg's music for Peer Gynt.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43So, ten points at stake for this starter question:
0:17:43 > 0:17:47In anatomy, what seven-letter term denotes the hollow muscular tube
0:17:47 > 0:17:50that descends from the oral and nasal cavities in the head
0:17:50 > 0:17:53down to the oesophagus, larynx and trachea?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58- The pharynx.- Correct.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00APPLAUSE
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Nottingham, these are a set of bonuses
0:18:02 > 0:18:04on computing terminology for you.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07In each case give the term in full, or the abbreviation.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Firstly, at the 1968 Joint Computer Conference,
0:18:10 > 0:18:13the US internet pioneer Douglas Engelbart demonstrated
0:18:13 > 0:18:18a virtual desktop incorporating windows, menus, icons and folders -
0:18:18 > 0:18:22a visual method of computer interaction known as what?
0:18:22 > 0:18:27- It's a Gui, isn't it? Graphical user interface.- Yeah.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- Graphical user interface.- Correct.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Commonly used, despite supporting only 256 colours,
0:18:32 > 0:18:35which file format for pictures on the World Wide Web
0:18:35 > 0:18:37was developed by CompuServe in 1987?
0:18:37 > 0:18:39JPEG.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43- JPEG.- No, it's graphics interchange format, G-IF.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45And finally, established in 1992,
0:18:45 > 0:18:49which compression format is now the most commonly used for storing
0:18:49 > 0:18:51and sharing photographic images on the web?
0:18:51 > 0:18:52Is this JPEG?
0:18:52 > 0:18:55- That's probably JPEG, yeah. - JPEG?- Yeah.
0:18:55 > 0:18:56- JPEG.- It is JPEG, yes.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Ten points for this starter question:
0:18:59 > 0:19:01In a conjecture now believed to be broadly correct,
0:19:01 > 0:19:04which German philosopher proposed that the solar system condensed
0:19:04 > 0:19:10out of a disc of primordial material in a work first published in 1755?
0:19:13 > 0:19:14Leibniz.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18No, anyone like to buzz from St Catherine's?
0:19:18 > 0:19:19Kepler.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21No, it's Immanuel Kant. Ten points for this:
0:19:21 > 0:19:25Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Nazca, Scotia, Caribbean, African
0:19:25 > 0:19:28and Eurasian are all examples of what...?
0:19:29 > 0:19:31- Tectonic plates.- Correct.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33APPLAUSE
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Nottingham, these bonuses are on art historians.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41Following the development of modern art from the impressionists onward,
0:19:41 > 0:19:44the 1980 television series, The Shock Of The New was written
0:19:44 > 0:19:48and presented by which Australian art historian and critic?
0:19:48 > 0:19:50I was going to say John Berger, but I don't know if he was Australian?
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Just say it.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55- John Berger? - No, he's English, I think.
0:19:55 > 0:19:56It was Robert Hughes.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59Part of the so-called Monuments Men division of the
0:19:59 > 0:20:03Allied forces in World War II, which US academic's works include
0:20:03 > 0:20:07the 1969 History Of Italian Renaissance Art?
0:20:08 > 0:20:11- I can't think of any American art historians.- I can't. Pass.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13- Pass.- That's Frederick Hartt.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16And finally, the international bestseller, The Story Of Art,
0:20:16 > 0:20:19was written by which art historian, born in Vienna 1909?
0:20:19 > 0:20:21- EH Gombrich.- That is correct.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23We're going to take another picture round now.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26For your picture starter you'll see a photograph of a former
0:20:26 > 0:20:31professional footballer who spent his entire playing career at one club.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33For ten points, I want the name of the player
0:20:33 > 0:20:34and the club he played for?
0:20:38 > 0:20:40- Matt Le Tissier, Southampton. - Correct.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42APPLAUSE
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Following on from Matt Le Tissier, you're now going to see
0:20:46 > 0:20:49three more former professional football players, all of whom
0:20:49 > 0:20:52spent their English league careers at one club.
0:20:52 > 0:20:56In each case, I want the name of the player and the club they played for.
0:20:56 > 0:20:57Firstly:
0:21:02 > 0:21:05- Is that Tom Finney?- I'm not sure.
0:21:05 > 0:21:10- Unless it's one of the Charltons. - OK.- Go for Tom Finney.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12Tom Finney and Preston North End?
0:21:12 > 0:21:14No, it's very old photograph of Jack Charlton,
0:21:14 > 0:21:16who played for Leeds United.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Secondly, this player
0:21:18 > 0:21:20and club he spent his entire English league career with?
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Is that Tom Finney, or am I going mad?
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Just try it again, because I've no idea.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28Is THAT Tom Finney and Preston North End?
0:21:28 > 0:21:30It is indeed, yes.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32And finally:
0:21:32 > 0:21:37- Is that Martin Keown?- I'm not sure. - Go for it.- I'm not sure it is.
0:21:37 > 0:21:41- I don't think it is, but I can't think who else...- What club?
0:21:41 > 0:21:44- It was Arsenal. - Shall we go with that?
0:21:44 > 0:21:45Martin Keown and Arsenal?
0:21:45 > 0:21:49It was Arsenal, but that's Tony Adams. Ten points for this:
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Which city gives its name to a plating technique
0:21:51 > 0:21:54invented in around 1742 by Thomas Boulsover
0:21:54 > 0:21:56in which a furnace is used to fuse
0:21:56 > 0:21:59a sterling silver coating to copper sheets?
0:22:01 > 0:22:03Pinchbeck.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05No, anyone like to buzz from Saint Catherine's?
0:22:07 > 0:22:10- Vienna?- No, it's Sheffield. Ten points for this:
0:22:10 > 0:22:14New Dana and Nickel-Strunz are major classification systems for what
0:22:14 > 0:22:17substances in the field of Earth science?
0:22:21 > 0:22:22Soils.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23No, anyone like to buzz...?
0:22:24 > 0:22:26- Minerals.- Minerals is correct, yes.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28APPLAUSE
0:22:29 > 0:22:33These bonuses are on botany, Saint Catherine's.
0:22:33 > 0:22:34From the Greek for "pressed together,"
0:22:34 > 0:22:37what term describes plant responses that are caused by
0:22:37 > 0:22:41external stimuli, but are unrelated to the direction of the stimulus?
0:22:44 > 0:22:48Trophic. It's not trophic, and it is not atrophic?
0:22:48 > 0:22:50Pardon?
0:22:50 > 0:22:54- Is it not isotrophic, which means...?- Isotropic or atrophic?
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Isotropic?
0:22:56 > 0:22:59No, they're nastic or nasty responses.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Giving rise to one of the common names of Mimosa pudica,
0:23:01 > 0:23:06what stimulus brings about a haptonastic response?
0:23:06 > 0:23:10- Touching? - Touching or vibration will do, yes.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13And finally, a dramatic haptonastic response is seen in
0:23:13 > 0:23:18Dionaea muscipula, a subtropical plant with what three-word name?
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Venus fly trap.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24- Venus fly trap. - Well done. Ten points for this:
0:23:24 > 0:23:28A groundbreaking piece of travel writing, the 1879 work,
0:23:28 > 0:23:32Travels With A Donkey, was an early published work by which...?
0:23:33 > 0:23:35- Robert Louis Stevenson.- Correct.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37APPLAUSE
0:23:38 > 0:23:39Your bonuses, St Catherine's,
0:23:39 > 0:23:42this time are on pairs of years with reordered digits.
0:23:42 > 0:23:46For example, 1066 and 1660.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49In each case, give the two years in which the following occurred:
0:23:49 > 0:23:54Firstly, the accession of Henry II of England and the Battle of Agincourt.
0:23:54 > 0:23:561415.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59- 1415, and...- 1415 and is 1154.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02- 1415 and 1154.- Correct.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05Secondly, the union of the Parliaments of England and Scotland,
0:24:05 > 0:24:08and Captain Cook's landing at Botany Bay.
0:24:08 > 0:24:101707 and 1770.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13- 1707 and 1770.- That's correct.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17And finally, the start of Charles I's 11-year personal rule
0:24:17 > 0:24:20and the UK's ten-day general strike.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Is it 16...?
0:24:23 > 0:24:27General strike...
0:24:27 > 0:24:291629, surely too...?
0:24:33 > 0:24:351926? 1926 and...
0:24:35 > 0:24:361629.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38That's correct, yes.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40About 3.5 minutes to go, ten points for this:
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Born in 1931, which British mathematician gives his name
0:24:43 > 0:24:46to any of a finite number of shapes that are components
0:24:46 > 0:24:47of a spatially non-periodic...?
0:24:49 > 0:24:51- Penrose.- Penrose is correct, yes.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Your bonuses this time are on literary characters, Nottingham.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55In George Eliot's The Mill On The Floss,
0:24:55 > 0:24:58what is the name of Maggie Tulliver's brother,
0:24:58 > 0:25:00with whom she drowns in the novel's final chapter?
0:25:00 > 0:25:02- Don't remember.- Come on!
0:25:02 > 0:25:04- Pass.- It's Tom.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07In which novel does the narrator say of the character Tom Buchanan that,
0:25:07 > 0:25:09"There were men at New Haven who hated his guts."
0:25:09 > 0:25:11- The Great Gatsby.- Correct.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Finally, the high-living conman and murderer Tom Ripley
0:25:14 > 0:25:17is the central character in a series of five novels by which US author?
0:25:17 > 0:25:21- Nominate Alexander. - Patricia Highsmith. - Correct, ten points for this:
0:25:21 > 0:25:25Cheeses, including Fourme d'Ambert, Saint-Nectaire, Salers and Cantal
0:25:25 > 0:25:28are among noted produce of which region of South Central France?
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Its capital city is Clermont-Ferrand.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34- The Auvergne.- Correct.
0:25:34 > 0:25:35You get a set of bonuses this time
0:25:35 > 0:25:38on London architecture, St Catherine's.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Which architect was responsible for the design of many London
0:25:40 > 0:25:44churches commissioned after the 50 New Churches Act of 1711?
0:25:44 > 0:25:46They include Christchurch in Spitalfields
0:25:46 > 0:25:49and St George's in Bloomsbury.
0:25:52 > 0:25:5317-something?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Let's have it, please.
0:25:55 > 0:25:56It's not Wren...
0:25:56 > 0:25:58- Hawksmoor?- Correct.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01Employed by the same commission, which Scottish architect designed
0:26:01 > 0:26:04the churches of St Mary le Strand and St Martin-in-the-Fields?
0:26:07 > 0:26:10- It's not Wren...- Come on, please.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- Nominate Watson.- Alexander Thomson.
0:26:12 > 0:26:13No, it was James Gibbs.
0:26:13 > 0:26:18In 1719, Gibbs added a spire to the church of St Clement Danes,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21designed by which architect almost 40 years earlier?
0:26:24 > 0:26:26- What did you say? - I think it is Wren.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28- Wren. - It was Sir Christopher Wren, yes.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32Ten points for this: In botany, the term culm, that's C-U-L-M,
0:26:32 > 0:26:35refers to what part of a grass or sedge?
0:26:38 > 0:26:39Tip.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42No, anyone like to buzz from St Catherine's?
0:26:42 > 0:26:45- Blade.- No, it's the stem or the stalk. Ten points for this:
0:26:45 > 0:26:48When applied to a computer system, the acronym Bios, B-I-O-S,
0:26:48 > 0:26:50stands for what four words?
0:26:57 > 0:26:59- Basic input/output system.- Correct.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01APPLAUSE
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Your bonuses are on human physiology.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09Underactivity of which endocrine gland causes myxoedema?
0:27:09 > 0:27:12It's symptoms include dry and swollen skin around the limbs.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15It's not thyroid...
0:27:15 > 0:27:19- What else do we have? What other glands?- Lymph.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21Lymph? No, no.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24- That's not a gland, that's... - Come on, let's have it, please.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28- Is not thyroid, but, thyroid?- Correct.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30The activity of the thyroid gland, secondly,
0:27:30 > 0:27:33is regulated by a thyroid-stimulating hormone.
0:27:33 > 0:27:38Which specific part of the pituitary gland secretes this hormone?
0:27:38 > 0:27:40GONG
0:27:40 > 0:27:43And at the Gong, Nottingham have 120, St Catherine's have 210.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45APPLAUSE
0:27:47 > 0:27:50Well, I think you were probably unlucky in the questions you got,
0:27:50 > 0:27:52although you do need to brush up on classical music.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55You're absolutely hopeless on that, Nottingham.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58But thank you for joining us, you're an entertaining team to watch.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02St Catherine's, we'll look forward to seeing you in the quarter-finals, congratulations to you.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06I hope you can join us next time for the last of the second-round matches,
0:28:06 > 0:28:09- but until then, it's goodbye from Nottingham University.- Goodbye.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12- It's goodbye from St Catherine's College Cambridge.- Goodbye.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16APPLAUSE