0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. 28 teams qualified to appear in this series.
0:00:32 > 0:00:3412 fell by the wayside during the first round.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38Seven more have bitten the dust during this second round,
0:00:38 > 0:00:41which ends tonight. Only one place remains in the quarterfinals
0:00:41 > 0:00:43and both tonight's teams want it.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Well, they think they do now.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47The four from St John's College, Oxford, achieved
0:00:47 > 0:00:49one of the strongest scores of the first round
0:00:49 > 0:00:54when they beat Bristol University by 255 points to 125.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56They missed very little and did well
0:00:56 > 0:01:00on dungeons and dragons in English literature and biblical book clouds.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04And they were very happy with some gruesome depictions
0:01:04 > 0:01:06of what Judith did to Holofernes.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10With an average age of 19, let's meet the St John's team again.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Hi, my name is Alex Harries.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15I'm originally from South Wales and I'm reading History.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Hello, my name is Charlie Clegg, I'm from Glasgow
0:01:18 > 0:01:20and I'm reading Theology.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23- This is their captain. - Hi, my name is Angus Russell,
0:01:23 > 0:01:26I'm from Mill Hill in north London and I study History and Russian.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Hi, I'm Dan Sowood.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31I'm from Uxbridge in Middlesex and I'm reading Chemistry.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34APPLAUSE
0:01:36 > 0:01:39The team from Queen's, Belfast, maintained a steady lead
0:01:39 > 0:01:43throughout their first-round match against Sussex University,
0:01:43 > 0:01:46winning comfortably by 195 points to 125.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49They may need to brush up their Shakespeare,
0:01:49 > 0:01:51but they recognised Edmund Burke, WH Auden
0:01:51 > 0:01:55and the Velvet Underground as if they were all old pals.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59With an average age of 28, let's meet the Queen's, Belfast, team again.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03Hi, I'm Alistair Mallon from Belfast.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06I'm studying a Masters degree in Irish Studies.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Hi, I'm Jethro Waldron.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10I'm originally from Ripley in Derbyshire
0:02:10 > 0:02:13and I'm studying for a Masters in Irish Literature.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15And let's meet their captain.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19Hello, my name is Jack Ruddy, I'm from Dorset and I'm reading History.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22Hi, I'm Charlie Shimmins, I'm from the Isle of Man
0:02:22 > 0:02:25and I'm studying International Politics and Conflict Studies.
0:02:25 > 0:02:29APPLAUSE
0:02:29 > 0:02:33OK, shall we just get on with it? Fingers on buzzers.
0:02:33 > 0:02:34Here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:34 > 0:02:39What word denotes in general terms a receptacle for a grocery item,
0:02:39 > 0:02:43in computing, a decoy website to draw hackers or spammers,
0:02:43 > 0:02:46in espionage, a form of recruitment through seduction,
0:02:46 > 0:02:48and in the tourism industry...?
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Honey trap.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52No. And you lose five points.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54And in the tourism industry,
0:02:54 > 0:02:57a place that draws a large number of visitors.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01- Honeypot.- Honeypot is correct, yes.
0:03:03 > 0:03:09OK, you get a set of bonuses on the human figure in British art.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Firstly, a living human figure sleeping in a glass vitrine
0:03:12 > 0:03:16comprises the work The Maybe, first displayed in 1995
0:03:16 > 0:03:21and exhibited again in 2013 in New York's Museum of Modern Art.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Which actress was the figure on display?
0:03:26 > 0:03:30- Tilda Swinton?- Did she go in for things like this?- Go for it?
0:03:31 > 0:03:33- Tilda Swinton?- Correct.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36100 life-sized human figures created by Antony Gormley
0:03:36 > 0:03:42for a work entitled Another Place took up permanent residence in 2007
0:03:42 > 0:03:44on which beach in Merseyside?
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Merseyside?
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Morecambe's not Merseyside.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Um... Oh, gosh.
0:03:51 > 0:03:56I thought it was Crosby beach. That's Merseyside.
0:03:56 > 0:03:57- Crosby?- Correct.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01Two living human figures painted gold and miming to a song
0:04:01 > 0:04:05by Flanagan and Allen comprise the Singing Sculpture of 1969,
0:04:05 > 0:04:08devised and performed by which artists?
0:04:08 > 0:04:11- Gilbert and George.- Nominate Clegg.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13- Gilbert and George.- Correct. 10 points for this.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17"His philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him
0:04:17 > 0:04:19"to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22"He set it out with so much obscurity
0:04:22 > 0:04:24"that people thought it must be profound."
0:04:24 > 0:04:27These words of Bertrand Russell refer to which philosopher?
0:04:27 > 0:04:30Born in Stuttgart in 1770, he's especially noted
0:04:30 > 0:04:34for his three-stage process of dialectical reasoning.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37- Hegel?- Hegel is correct, yes.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40APPLAUSE
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Your first bonuses, Queen's, are on apps.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Launched in February 2013,
0:04:45 > 0:04:48which app for decluttering Gmail inboxes
0:04:48 > 0:04:50was bought by the cloud storage firm Dropbox
0:04:50 > 0:04:54for a rumoured 100 million the following month?
0:04:59 > 0:05:00- Pass.- It's Mailbox.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Founded by Michael Hayward,
0:05:02 > 0:05:05which app has been called a mashup of Twitter and Snapchat
0:05:05 > 0:05:09and allows users to type out a short confessional message,
0:05:09 > 0:05:13overlay it on a related image and share it anonymously?
0:05:13 > 0:05:15It's not Kick, is it?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18- Is it Kick?- Kick.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20No, it's Whisper.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Allowing users to trade text, pictures and videos
0:05:23 > 0:05:26over their smartphones, which mobile messaging service
0:05:26 > 0:05:31was bought by Facebook for 19 billion in February 2014?
0:05:31 > 0:05:32WhatsApp?
0:05:34 > 0:05:36- WhatsApp.- Correct. 10 points for this.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Which London Street is this?
0:05:38 > 0:05:42In Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Mr Rushworth takes a house there.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45In Shaw's Pygmalion, Henry Higgins lived at 27a.
0:05:45 > 0:05:50At number 50, Elizabeth Barrett was kept a virtual prisoner by her father...
0:05:50 > 0:05:52- Wimpole Street.- Correct.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55APPLAUSE
0:05:55 > 0:05:58These bonuses, Queen's, are on sociology.
0:05:58 > 0:06:03Coined in 1922 by the US sociologist William Ogburn,
0:06:03 > 0:06:06what two-word term refers to the gap that develops
0:06:06 > 0:06:08between fast-changing technology
0:06:08 > 0:06:12and other slower-paced socio-cultural traits?
0:06:15 > 0:06:19- Culture gap. - It's the cultural lag, is the term.
0:06:19 > 0:06:23Secondly, what term was introduced by US sociologist William G Sumner
0:06:23 > 0:06:26in his 1906 work Folkways?
0:06:26 > 0:06:28He defined it as the view of things
0:06:28 > 0:06:31in which one's own group is the centre of everything
0:06:31 > 0:06:35and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it?
0:06:37 > 0:06:40INAUDIBLE CONFERRING
0:06:46 > 0:06:50- Socio-centric. - No, it's ethnocentrism.
0:06:50 > 0:06:56Abbreviated to TCK, what term was coined by Dr Ruth Hill Useem
0:06:56 > 0:07:00and refers to a young person who spent a significant part
0:07:00 > 0:07:03of their developmental years outside their parents' culture?
0:07:06 > 0:07:10INAUDIBLE
0:07:11 > 0:07:13- Pass.- It's third culture kid.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15We'll take a picture round now.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18You're going to see a map showing the migration of a specific group
0:07:18 > 0:07:20during the period that saw
0:07:20 > 0:07:23a large-scale movement of peoples across the territory
0:07:23 > 0:07:26and former territories of the moribund Western Roman Empire.
0:07:26 > 0:07:2910 points if you can give the name by which the group
0:07:29 > 0:07:32who made the indicated migration are commonly known.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37- The Huns?- Correct.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40APPLAUSE
0:07:40 > 0:07:42OK, Queen's, you're going to see
0:07:42 > 0:07:44three more migrations now for your picture bonuses,
0:07:44 > 0:07:46this time all made by Germanic tribes
0:07:46 > 0:07:49into the territories of the collapsing Western Roman Empire.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52Five points for each tribe you can name. Firstly...
0:08:02 > 0:08:05- The Visigoths.- That is correct, yes. Secondly...
0:08:17 > 0:08:19- The Goths.- No, that's the Vandals.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22You can see they took Carthage there. And finally...
0:08:27 > 0:08:30It's either the Angles or the Saxons.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Or is it the Jutes? Jutes?
0:08:32 > 0:08:35- Jutes?- It is the Jutes, yes. 10 points for this.
0:08:35 > 0:08:41Examples being found in Texas, Florida, Alaska, Oklahoma and Idaho,
0:08:41 > 0:08:44what informal term denotes a narrow strip of territory
0:08:44 > 0:08:47with a land border on at least two sides,
0:08:47 > 0:08:49extending out from the geographical body of the state?
0:08:49 > 0:08:52The term refers to a part of a household...?
0:08:52 > 0:08:54- Panhandle.- Correct.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57APPLAUSE
0:08:57 > 0:09:00You could retake the lead if you get these bonuses.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02They're on mythical creatures.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Which mythical beast is usually described as having
0:09:05 > 0:09:09the head of a man, the body of a lion and the tail of a dragon or scorpion?
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Its name appears in the title of the second volume
0:09:11 > 0:09:15of Robertson Davies's the Deptford Trilogy.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19- Yes.- Sphinx?
0:09:19 > 0:09:20No, it's the Manticore.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24In Greek mythology, which child-eating monster is a serpent
0:09:24 > 0:09:26with the head and breasts of a woman?
0:09:26 > 0:09:30She is also the title character of a poem by Keats.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33- Hydra?- Yeah.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36- Hydra?- No, it's Lamia.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Which mythical beast has the head and four legs of a horse
0:09:39 > 0:09:41and the body and tail of a dolphin or fish?
0:09:41 > 0:09:43It's among the figures depicted
0:09:43 > 0:09:46in the sculpture of the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53There's one in Rockefeller as well.
0:09:53 > 0:09:54It's a, um...
0:09:55 > 0:09:57- Triton's the god.- Yeah, it's...
0:09:59 > 0:10:01- It's like a mermaid, but it's not. - I'll go with Triton.
0:10:01 > 0:10:02Triton?
0:10:02 > 0:10:05No, it's a Hippocamp or Hippocampus. 10 points for this.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08The astronomical sources Centaurus X-3,
0:10:08 > 0:10:12Vela and the Crab all hold what type of object
0:10:12 > 0:10:15that typically emits short bursts of radio
0:10:15 > 0:10:19and other electromagnetic radiation in a regular pattern?
0:10:19 > 0:10:21- Pulsar.- Correct.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24APPLAUSE
0:10:24 > 0:10:27You get the lead and a set of bonuses on mathematics.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30What is the lowest order of polynomial
0:10:30 > 0:10:33for which no general solution can be expressed
0:10:33 > 0:10:36in terms of simple arithmetical operations?
0:10:49 > 0:10:52- One?- No, it's the fifth, the quintic.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55The proof that the quintic is not solvable algebraically
0:10:55 > 0:10:58is attributed jointly to the Italian Paolo Ruffini
0:10:58 > 0:11:00and which Norwegian mathematician?
0:11:00 > 0:11:03In group theory, commutative groups are named after him.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10INAUDIBLE
0:11:10 > 0:11:13- Nominate Sowood.- Schoenflies? - No, it's Abel.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Finally, born in 1811,
0:11:15 > 0:11:19which French mathematician gives his name to the class of groups
0:11:19 > 0:11:22with which the general quintic equation can be associated?
0:11:24 > 0:11:28- What was the date again?- 1811.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31I think it's a bit late for Pascal, isn't it?
0:11:35 > 0:11:39- Try De Moivre.- De Moivre?- Yes.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41- De Moivre?- No, it's Galois. 10 points for this.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44What precise three-word term did President Eisenhower coin
0:11:44 > 0:11:48to describe the Alliance of Armed Forces, government agencies...?
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- Military industrial complex. - Correct. Well done.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53APPLAUSE
0:11:53 > 0:11:57Your bonuses are on cities in the Rhone Valley.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Firstly for five, which city provided inspiration for Vincent van Gogh
0:12:00 > 0:12:02when he settled there for 15 months?
0:12:02 > 0:12:06His works from that period include Starry Night Over The Rhone
0:12:06 > 0:12:08and Cafe Terrace At Night.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10Arles? Could be Arles.
0:12:10 > 0:12:11Go for Arles?
0:12:11 > 0:12:14- Arles.- Arles is correct.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Which town between Valence and Orange
0:12:16 > 0:12:19is a major centre for the production of nougat?
0:12:23 > 0:12:26INAUDIBLE CONFERRING
0:12:32 > 0:12:34- It's not Avignon, is it?- Avignon?
0:12:34 > 0:12:36No, it's Montelimar.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40Finally, from 1309 until 1377, which city on the Rhone
0:12:40 > 0:12:43was the residence of the Popes during their exile from Rome?
0:12:43 > 0:12:45It remained in papal hands until the Revolution.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47- Avignon.- Avignon is correct.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49We'll take a music round now.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54For 10 points, give me the name of the singer you hear.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58# Go tell that lonesome... #
0:12:58 > 0:13:01- Johnny Cash. - It is Johnny Cash, yes.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04APPLAUSE
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Performing there God's Gonna Cut You Down
0:13:06 > 0:13:09or Run On For A Long Time, a traditional song of unknown origin.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12Your music bonuses are three more examples
0:13:12 > 0:13:15of popular music artists performing traditional songs.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18I want the band or the artist you hear in each case.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Firstly for five, both of these performers,
0:13:21 > 0:13:26the song's roots can be traced back to a 17th-century British ballad.
0:13:27 > 0:13:32# Tell her to make me a cambric shirt... #
0:13:32 > 0:13:34- Simon and Garfunkel.- That's correct.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Secondly, I want both singers
0:13:36 > 0:13:39of this version of an 18th-century Scottish song.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41# And the wind did roar
0:13:41 > 0:13:44# And the wind did moan
0:13:44 > 0:13:46# La-la-la-la-la
0:13:46 > 0:13:48# La-la-la-la-li
0:13:48 > 0:13:53# A little bird lit down on Henry Lee... #
0:13:53 > 0:13:56- Is it Cerys Matthews? - OK, with Tom Jones?
0:13:56 > 0:13:59- Probably not. - No, they did duet together.- OK.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03- Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews. - No, it's Nick Cave and PJ Harvey.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07Finally, this band performing a 19th-century Appalachian folk song.
0:14:07 > 0:14:13# My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
0:14:13 > 0:14:18# Tell me where did you sleep last night?
0:14:20 > 0:14:23# In the pines, in the pines
0:14:23 > 0:14:26# Where the sun don't ever shine... #
0:14:26 > 0:14:30- Bon Jovi?- No, that's Nirvana. 10 points for this.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Which decade saw the capture of Beijing
0:14:32 > 0:14:34by the Manchu Qing Dynasty?
0:14:34 > 0:14:39In Japan, the Dutch began trading from the island of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay,
0:14:39 > 0:14:41while in England the King was executed.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43- The 1640s.- Correct.
0:14:43 > 0:14:47APPLAUSE
0:14:47 > 0:14:50St John's, your bonuses are on words that appear in the surnames
0:14:50 > 0:14:52of Booker prize-winning authors.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56For example, "man" and "ant" in Hilary Mantell.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58In each case, listen to the definition and give the name
0:14:58 > 0:15:03of the author in whose surname the defined word appears.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Firstly, a term by Rudyard Kipling that includes the line
0:15:06 > 0:15:09"Talk with crowds and keep your virtue."
0:15:11 > 0:15:16- Are they all Booker prize-winners? - Yeah, Booker prize-winners.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18- If?- Someone Candliffe?
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Shall we try something like that?
0:15:27 > 0:15:30- Northcliffe.- No, it's Graham Swift.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33You got "If", of course, from where the lines are taken.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36The surname of an author born near Birmingham in 1961.
0:15:36 > 0:15:41His novels include The Rotters' Club and What A Carve Up!
0:15:48 > 0:15:50- Is "if" in it?- No, I don't think so.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53The surname makes something up.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58Oh, gosh, what? Will Self, is it?
0:15:58 > 0:16:00That's got "elf" in it.
0:16:00 > 0:16:01Self.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03No, it's... Jonathan Coe was the author.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05JM Coetzee was the Booker prize-winner.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08Finally, the first name of the elder of the brothers Grimm
0:16:08 > 0:16:12and of the man became President of South Africa in 2009.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15- Jacob. Howard Jacobson. Howard Jacobson.- Correct.
0:16:15 > 0:16:1710 points for this. Listen carefully.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19Answer soon as your name is called.
0:16:19 > 0:16:23What date corresponds to the 183rd day of a year
0:16:23 > 0:16:27that is not a leap year, therefore marking its midpoint?
0:16:31 > 0:16:33- July 2?- Correct.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35APPLAUSE
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Did you just work that out? It's pretty good.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43Right, here are your bonuses, they're on British birds, St John's.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46Caprimulgus europaeus has what common name
0:16:46 > 0:16:50reflecting its nocturnal habits and distinctive churring call?
0:16:50 > 0:16:54It's also known as the goat sucker or fern owl.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58The night... The nightcap?
0:16:58 > 0:17:00- What, sorry?- No.
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Nighthawk?
0:17:03 > 0:17:06- Yeah, nighthawk is a bird.- OK.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09- Nighthawk.- No, it is the nightjar.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Also named for its distinctive cry,
0:17:11 > 0:17:14which summer visitor is similar in form to the nightjar?
0:17:14 > 0:17:19It's a brood parasite on species such as reed warblers and dunnocks.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22- The cuckoo is a parasite on warblers.- Cuckoo?
0:17:22 > 0:17:23Correct.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26With its pointed wings and long tail, the nightjar resembles
0:17:26 > 0:17:30which common raptor often seen near road verges?
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Its binomial is Falco tinnunculus.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42- Kite.- No, it's smaller than that, it's a kestrel or windhover.
0:17:42 > 0:17:4510 points for this. Alluding to William Paley's argument from design,
0:17:45 > 0:17:49what term did Richard Dawkins coin for the title of his...?
0:17:49 > 0:17:51- The Blind Watchmaker.- Correct.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54APPLAUSE
0:17:54 > 0:17:58Your bonuses are on film adaptations of a play by Shakespeare.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02With its action transposed to feudal Japan,
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Akira Kurosawa's 1957 film Throne Of Blood
0:18:05 > 0:18:09is an adaptation of which of Shakespeare's tragedies?
0:18:09 > 0:18:10Macbeth.
0:18:12 > 0:18:13- Macbeth.- Correct.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16With the tag line "greasy spoon, bloody murder",
0:18:16 > 0:18:21which 2001 adaptation of Macbeth relocates the events and characters
0:18:21 > 0:18:24to a Pennsylvania burger bar in the 1970s?
0:18:24 > 0:18:27- Scotland PA. - OK, I'll go with that.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- Scotland PA.- Correct.
0:18:29 > 0:18:33Which Polish-born director collaborated with the critic Kenneth Tynan
0:18:33 > 0:18:37on the screenplay for his 1971 film version of Macbeth?
0:18:37 > 0:18:38Roman Polanski.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40- Polanski.- Correct.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43APPLAUSE
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Right, there's plenty of time for you to make up ground, Queen's.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48We'll take a second picture round.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52For your picture starter you'll see a painting by a Dutch artist.
0:18:52 > 0:18:5410 points if you can identify the artist.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59- Rembrandt.- It is.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01The Woman Taken In Adultery.
0:19:02 > 0:19:06That's part of the collection bought by the British government
0:19:06 > 0:19:10in 1824 from the private collector John Julius Angerstein
0:19:10 > 0:19:12to form a basis for the new National Gallery.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16Your picture bonuses, three more paintings from that founding acquisition,
0:19:16 > 0:19:19all of which remain in the National Gallery today.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22In each case I simply need you to identify the artist.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Firstly for five, this French artist.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28I'm fairly sure that's Claude Lorraine.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31- His Embarkation Of Daedalus. - Nominate Clegg.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33- Claude Lorraine.- It is.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Secondly, this Italian artist.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40Is it Titian?
0:19:42 > 0:19:44- Titian.- No, that's Raphael.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Finally, this Flemish artist.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49- That's Rubens, isn't it?- Rubens.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53Rape Of The Sabine Women, yes, well done. 10 points for this.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Described by Bill Clinton as the Woodstock of the mind,
0:19:56 > 0:19:59which major event has been held annually since 1988
0:19:59 > 0:20:02in a town in the Black Mountains of the Brecon Beacons National Park?
0:20:02 > 0:20:06- The Hay Literary Festival. - The Hay Festival is correct, yes.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11You get a set of bonuses, Queen's, Belfast, on first names.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14Which girl's name rose in popularity following events
0:20:14 > 0:20:17in the Outer Hebrides in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden?
0:20:17 > 0:20:21It's also that of the Roman goddess of the spring.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Flora.
0:20:23 > 0:20:24- Flora.- Correct.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28Which name comes from that of the mythological lover of Apollo,
0:20:28 > 0:20:32killed by Zephyrus? His spilt blood grew into a flower.
0:20:35 > 0:20:36Don't know.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39- Pass.- That's Hyacinth.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43Which floral name links the son of the Pooters in The Diary Of A Nobody
0:20:43 > 0:20:46and the gentleman burglar created by Maurice Leblanc
0:20:46 > 0:20:50as a given name and surname respectively?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Lupin, I think.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55- Lupin?- Lupin is correct, yes. Another starter question.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58Its remains found throughout Europe,
0:20:58 > 0:21:02the large mammal Ursus spelaeus has what two-word common name?
0:21:02 > 0:21:05It became extinct during the Pleistocene Epoch.
0:21:06 > 0:21:11- Woolly mammoth.- No. Queen's, one of you buzz.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14European bear?
0:21:14 > 0:21:17No, it's the cave bear. 10 points for this.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19To the east of Stockport in greater Manchester,
0:21:19 > 0:21:23the confluence of the rivers Etherow, Goyt and Tame form...
0:21:23 > 0:21:25- The Mersey. - The Mersey is correct, yes.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28APPLAUSE
0:21:28 > 0:21:32Your bonuses are on Rhodes Scholars, Queen's, Belfast.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34In each case, name the person from the description.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37Firstly, an astronomer, who in the words of one author in 1925,
0:21:37 > 0:21:40released findings that ultimately established that
0:21:40 > 0:21:45"our universe was 1,000 trillion times larger than previously believed,
0:21:45 > 0:21:48"filled with myriad galaxies like our own."
0:21:53 > 0:21:55- Hubble?- Yeah, go for it.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57- Hubble.- Correct.
0:21:57 > 0:22:02Born in 1907, a historian who greatly expanded the field of Chinese studies,
0:22:02 > 0:22:06he was the co-author of East Asia: Tradition And Transformation,
0:22:06 > 0:22:07a standard text on the subject.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11- I'm not sure.- Any ideas?
0:22:13 > 0:22:16- Pass.- That was Fairbank. John King Fairbank.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Finally, a social critic and activist,
0:22:18 > 0:22:21the author of The Beauty Myth and the 2008 work
0:22:21 > 0:22:24Give Me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30I don't know.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33No, no.
0:22:33 > 0:22:37- Pass.- That's Naomi Wolf. 10 points for this.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40In human anatomy, the adjective popliteal or poplitic
0:22:40 > 0:22:45refers to the indentation between the tendons behind which joint?
0:22:48 > 0:22:51- Knee?- The knee is correct, yes.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Your bonuses, St John's, are on schools of art now.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58Firstly, for five, which village in Cornwall gives its name
0:22:58 > 0:23:02to the group of artists including Stanhope Forbes and Walter Langley,
0:23:02 > 0:23:05who worked there in the late 19th and early 20th century?
0:23:05 > 0:23:09- St Ives.- No, that was a bit later. It's the Newlyn School.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12What name is given to a group of artists who specialise
0:23:12 > 0:23:14in scenes of daily life in New York around 1900?
0:23:14 > 0:23:19Its members included George Bellows, Robert Henri and John Sloan.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21- Ashcan.- Correct.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Named after a village near Fontainebleau,
0:23:23 > 0:23:27which group of artists included Jean-Francois Millet and Theodore Rousseau
0:23:27 > 0:23:31and is regarded as a forerunner of the Impressionist school?
0:23:37 > 0:23:39- Sevres?- Near Fontainebleau?
0:23:39 > 0:23:42INDISTINCT CONFERRING
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- Sevres?- No, it's the Barbizon School. 10 points for this.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49Which French writer's works include semi-autobiographical accounts
0:23:49 > 0:23:54of his experiences in Mettray Penal Colony and Fontevrault Prison
0:23:54 > 0:23:56in the 1946 work...?
0:23:56 > 0:23:59- Camus.- No. You lose five points.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02..the 1946 work The Miracle Of The Rose.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08- Sartre?- No, it's Jean Genet. 10 points for this starter question.
0:24:08 > 0:24:09Fingers on buzzers.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12What three-letter word results from expressing in Roman numerals
0:24:12 > 0:24:15the smallest prime number greater than 1,000?
0:24:21 > 0:24:24- Mix.- Mix, yes, of course.
0:24:24 > 0:24:2615 points for these bonuses.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28They're on animal histology.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32Lining most surfaces and cavities of the body, what simple tissue consists
0:24:32 > 0:24:37of closely packed cells in sheets with little inter-cellular material?
0:24:43 > 0:24:46- Cartilage.- No, it's the epithelium or epithelia.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48From the Latin for scale, what term describes
0:24:48 > 0:24:52the part of the epithelium that consists of flattened cells?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54It is sometimes known as pavement.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02- Pass.- It's squamous.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04What term describes an epithelium
0:25:04 > 0:25:08where the width and height of its cells are broadly similar?
0:25:10 > 0:25:11- Equal?- Equal.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14No, it's cubical or cuboidal.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Three minutes to go, 10 points for this. Answer promptly.
0:25:16 > 0:25:20Of the three US states whose names contain only four letters,
0:25:20 > 0:25:23which comes first alphabetically?
0:25:25 > 0:25:27- Ohio.- St John's.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29- Iowa?- Iowa is correct.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33APPLAUSE
0:25:33 > 0:25:35St John's, your bonuses are on Russian rivers.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39Which major river flows from its sources in the mountains
0:25:39 > 0:25:43near Lake Baikal to the mouth of its delta on the Laptev Sea?
0:25:45 > 0:25:48I think it's the Irtysh. Or the Ob.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51- Irtysh?- Yeah, it goes into Lake Baikal.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53- Irtysh?- No, it's the Lena.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Rising in the Republic of Tuva
0:25:55 > 0:25:58and flowing for more than 3,400 kilometres to the Kara Sea,
0:25:58 > 0:26:03which river has a name deriving from the words for "great river"
0:26:03 > 0:26:05in the Evenki language?
0:26:05 > 0:26:09INAUDIBLE CONFERRING
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Come on, let's have it, please.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17- Havaria?- No, that's the Yenisei River.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Finally, which river rises to the south-east of Moscow
0:26:20 > 0:26:24and flows for more than 1,800 kilometres into the Sea of Azov?
0:26:24 > 0:26:28INAUDIBLE CONFERRING
0:26:29 > 0:26:32- The Volga.- No, that's the Don. 10 points for this.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36FitzClarence was the surname given to the ten illegitimate children
0:26:36 > 0:26:41born between 1794 and 1807 to the actress...?
0:26:42 > 0:26:45- George IV. The Prince Regent. - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:26:45 > 0:26:50..to the actress Dorothea Jordan and which future king?
0:26:50 > 0:26:55- William IV.- William IV, or the Duke of Clarence as he was at the time.
0:26:57 > 0:27:02Your bonuses are on James Bond novels by authors other than Ian Fleming.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Firstly, who wrote the 2008 novel Devil May Care?
0:27:08 > 0:27:11- Sebastian Faulks. - Sebastian Faulks is right.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14Who was the author of the 1968 novel Colonel Sun?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16You may give the author's name
0:27:16 > 0:27:18or the pen name under which it was published.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27- I don't know.- Pass.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29That was Kingsley Amis writing as Robert Markham.
0:27:29 > 0:27:34Finally, who wrote the 2013 James Bond story, Solo?
0:27:38 > 0:27:43- I'm not sure.- Charlie Higson did the young Bond series.
0:27:43 > 0:27:44Charlie Higson.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46No, it was William Boyd. 10 points for this.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48In Book One of Paradise Lost,
0:27:48 > 0:27:52what name did Milton coin for Satan's capital?
0:27:52 > 0:27:55- Pandemonium.- Pandemonium is right.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58APPLAUSE
0:27:58 > 0:28:01Your bonuses are on the official nicknames of US states.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04In each case, listen to the description and give both... GONG
0:28:04 > 0:28:08And at the gong, Queen's, Belfast, have 100,
0:28:08 > 0:28:10St John's, Oxford, have 180.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16Well, you had some pretty impressive interventions, Queen's,
0:28:16 > 0:28:19but you weren't good enough. These guys were on pretty good form tonight.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21So we'll have to say goodbye to you,
0:28:21 > 0:28:23but thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25St John's, another terrific performance from you.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28We look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals. Do join us then.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31I hope you can join us for the first of the quarterfinals next time
0:28:31 > 0:28:34- but until then, it's goodbye from Queen's, Belfast.- Goodbye.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37- It's goodbye from St John's College, Oxford.- Goodbye.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.