0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Around 130 teams applied to take part in this contest.
0:00:32 > 0:00:3728 have done so and now, as we begin the quarterfinal round,
0:00:37 > 0:00:39only the best eight remain.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42They are Imperial College London, Newcastle University,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45Nuffield College - Oxford, Liverpool University,
0:00:45 > 0:00:48St Catherine's College - Cambridge, St John's College - Oxford
0:00:48 > 0:00:51and the two competing tonight, the University of York
0:00:51 > 0:00:53and Peterhouse - Cambridge.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55To progress to the semifinal stage,
0:00:55 > 0:01:00our Byzantine rules demand a team must win two quarterfinal matches.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04A team that loses two matches, therefore, leaves the contest
0:01:04 > 0:01:06and a team that wins one match but loses another
0:01:06 > 0:01:09must play and win again to go through.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11To add even further to the teams' happiness,
0:01:11 > 0:01:14from now on, the questions get harder.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Now, the team from the University of York
0:01:16 > 0:01:18got here by beating Manchester University in round one
0:01:18 > 0:01:21and Christ College - Cambridge in round two.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Their accumulated score is 490
0:01:23 > 0:01:26earned with an impressively broad range of knowledge
0:01:26 > 0:01:29and, of course, whatever intellectual comfort
0:01:29 > 0:01:31comes from their plastic duck.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35With an average age of 22, let's meet the York team again.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Hello, my name is Barto Joly de Lotbiniere.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40I'm from London and I'm studying history.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Hello, I'm Sam Smith.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44I'm from Guernsey and I study chemistry.
0:01:44 > 0:01:45And this is their captain.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Hello, my name's David Langdon Cole.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50I'm from Yeovil in Somerset and I'm studying politics.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Hi, I'm Joseph McLoughlin.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55I'm from Oldham in Lancashire and I'm studying chemistry.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58APPLAUSE
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Now, the team from Peterhouse - Cambridge
0:02:00 > 0:02:03beat the University of Glasgow in round one
0:02:03 > 0:02:06and the medics of St George's, London in round two
0:02:06 > 0:02:08with an accumulated score of 380.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11They've probably learned by now not the base their answers
0:02:11 > 0:02:14on snippets of information from High School Musical
0:02:14 > 0:02:17but, that aside, they too have impressed in both their matches
0:02:17 > 0:02:19with the breadth of their knowledge.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23With an average age of 20, let's meet the Peterhouse team again.
0:02:23 > 0:02:24Hello. I'm Thomas Langley.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28I'm from Newcastle upon Tyne and I'm reading history.
0:02:28 > 0:02:29Hello. I'm Oscar Powell.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32I'm from York and I'm reading geological sciences.
0:02:32 > 0:02:33And this is their captain.
0:02:33 > 0:02:34Hi, I'm Hannah Woods.
0:02:34 > 0:02:39I'm from Manchester and I'm studying for a PhD in history.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Hello. I'm Julian Sutcliffe.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43I'm from Reading in Berkshire and I'm also reading history.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46APPLAUSE
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Well, I'm sure you know I'm supposed to recite the rules at this point
0:02:51 > 0:02:53but let's not bother. Let's just get on with it.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55Ten points at stake for this. Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:02:55 > 0:03:00What term was used in the title of a book of 2014 by Owen Jones,
0:03:00 > 0:03:01subtitled...
0:03:02 > 0:03:03The Establishment.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05The Establishment is correct. Yes.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Right, you get the first set of bonuses, York. They're on a museum.
0:03:11 > 0:03:12Firstly, for five points,
0:03:12 > 0:03:13opened to the public in 1759,
0:03:13 > 0:03:17which museum was located in Montagu House in Bloomsbury
0:03:17 > 0:03:20until it was demolished in the 1840s
0:03:20 > 0:03:21to make way for the present-day building?
0:03:21 > 0:03:23- The British Museum?- I presume so.
0:03:23 > 0:03:24The British Museum.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Correct. The British Museum was established in 1753
0:03:27 > 0:03:30as a result of which physician and naturalist
0:03:30 > 0:03:32having bequeathed his collection to the nation
0:03:32 > 0:03:35in return for a payment of £20,000 to his heirs?
0:03:35 > 0:03:38- Sir Hans Sloane.- OK.
0:03:38 > 0:03:39Sir Hans Sloane.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43Correct. In 1972, an exhibition that proved to be the most popular
0:03:43 > 0:03:47in the museum's history, with over 1.5 million visitors,
0:03:47 > 0:03:50displayed artefacts from which country?
0:03:50 > 0:03:53- I'm guessing Egypt.- Yeah, it's Tutankhamen, isn't it?- Yeah?
0:03:53 > 0:03:54Egypt.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Egypt is correct. It was the Tutankhamen exhibition.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Ten points at stake for this. Fingers on the buzzers
0:04:00 > 0:04:03"Its five square miles have defined
0:04:03 > 0:04:07"what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West."
0:04:07 > 0:04:11These words of a film critic refer to which national park
0:04:11 > 0:04:13on the borders of Arizona and Utah?
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Monument Valley.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Monument Valley is correct. Yes.
0:04:20 > 0:04:25These bonuses are on excess in classical literature, York.
0:04:25 > 0:04:30A plate bearing 12 dishes, each based on a sign of the zodiac,
0:04:30 > 0:04:33and a wild boar stuffed with live blackbirds
0:04:33 > 0:04:36are among the dishes served during the feast given
0:04:36 > 0:04:40by which character in the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter?
0:04:40 > 0:04:45Is that the Roman emperor who...? Nero or...
0:04:45 > 0:04:49- Famously over-ate but... - Nominate Smith.
0:04:49 > 0:04:50Elagabalus.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52No, it's Trimalchio.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56And, secondly, the Emperor Vitellius enjoyed a dish of pike liver
0:04:56 > 0:05:00with the brains of pheasants and peacocks and the tongues of flamingos
0:05:00 > 0:05:03according to which Roman historian in The Twelve Caesars?
0:05:05 > 0:05:09Is that Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars?
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Maybe. No, no, it's...
0:05:12 > 0:05:13Suetonius.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Suetonius is correct.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17And, finally, having indulged to excess,
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Aristophanes suffers an attack of hiccups
0:05:19 > 0:05:22which causes him to miss his first turn to speak
0:05:22 > 0:05:24in which work of the 4th Century BC?
0:05:28 > 0:05:31So...Dialogues or something?
0:05:34 > 0:05:35Dialogues.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38No, it's The Symposium of Plato. Ten points for this.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41In topology, what five-letter term denotes the Cartesian product
0:05:41 > 0:05:45of two circles, while, in three-dimensional geometry,
0:05:45 > 0:05:48it describes the shape of the tokamak confinement vessel
0:05:48 > 0:05:51used in some experimental...
0:05:51 > 0:05:52Torus.
0:05:52 > 0:05:53Torus is right.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Your bonuses, York, this time are on planned astronomical instruments.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01In each case, I would like to have
0:06:01 > 0:06:04either the full name or the abbreviation.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07Firstly, on completion in around 2020,
0:06:07 > 0:06:10what will be the world's largest radio telescope by collecting area?
0:06:10 > 0:06:14Its headquarters are at Manchester University's Jodrell Bank Observatory
0:06:14 > 0:06:18with locations in both Australia and South Africa.
0:06:18 > 0:06:19The Square Kilometre Array.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Square Kilometre Array.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Correct. To be sited on Cerro Pachon in Chile,
0:06:24 > 0:06:27which optical telescope, with a wide field of view
0:06:27 > 0:06:30and a large primary mirror, is designed to provide
0:06:30 > 0:06:32a detailed 3-D map of the universe?
0:06:32 > 0:06:36That could be the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40We think this may be the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.
0:06:40 > 0:06:41It may well be overwhelmingly large
0:06:41 > 0:06:44but it's called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48And, finally, a successor to Hubble and named after a NASA official,
0:06:48 > 0:06:50which instrument is due for launch in 2018
0:06:50 > 0:06:53and will be largest infrared telescope in space?
0:06:53 > 0:06:54Is that Goddard?
0:06:56 > 0:06:58- OK.- Anyone? I don't know.
0:06:58 > 0:06:59Goddard.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02No, it's the James Webb Space Telescope. Ten points for this.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Leven were two of the commanders
0:07:06 > 0:07:11who were victorious over Prince Rupert at which battle...
0:07:11 > 0:07:12Marston Moor.
0:07:12 > 0:07:13Marston Moor is correct.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18Right, first set of bonuses, Peterhouse, are on a French thinker.
0:07:18 > 0:07:24Who wrote Les Provinciales in 1656-57 in defence of Antoine Arnaud,
0:07:24 > 0:07:28a Jansenist put on trial before the Faculty of Theology in Paris
0:07:28 > 0:07:32for his controversial religious works?
0:07:32 > 0:07:33Pascal.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36Correct. Including humorous attacks on casuistry,
0:07:36 > 0:07:41the Provinciales are a series of 18 letters that deal with divine grace
0:07:41 > 0:07:45and the ethical code of which religious order?
0:07:45 > 0:07:46Jesuits.
0:07:46 > 0:07:47Jesuits.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Correct.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52The necessity of the wager on whether to accept the Christian faith
0:07:52 > 0:07:54is perhaps the best known chapter
0:07:54 > 0:07:57of which collection of writings by Pascal?
0:07:57 > 0:07:59- Is it Pensees?- Yeah, it's Pensees.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00Er, can I nominate you?
0:08:00 > 0:08:02- Nominate Langley.- Pensees.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Pensees is correct, or Thoughts. Yes.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06We're going to take a picture round.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09For your picture starter, you're going to see a musical stave
0:08:09 > 0:08:12with two notes representing a harmonic interval.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14For ten points, I want the two-word name
0:08:14 > 0:08:17by which the interval between those notes is known.
0:08:20 > 0:08:21Dominant fifth.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24No. Anyone like to buzz from Peterhouse?
0:08:26 > 0:08:27Augmented fifth?
0:08:27 > 0:08:29No, it's a perfect fifth.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31We'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two
0:08:31 > 0:08:33and we get another starter question in the meantime.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37Nominated in 2011 for the Grammy record and song of the year,
0:08:37 > 0:08:41which song by the group Bon Iver is named after the epoch
0:08:41 > 0:08:44that's the latest interval of geological...
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Holocene.
0:08:46 > 0:08:47Holocene is correct, yes.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Right, so you get the picture bonuses, then, York.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56There are three more musical staves with harmonic intervals represented.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00Five points in each case if you can give me the name of the intervals.
0:09:00 > 0:09:01Firstly...
0:09:02 > 0:09:04That is a minor third.
0:09:04 > 0:09:05Minor third.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09Correct. Secondly, by what name are these two equivalent intervals known?
0:09:10 > 0:09:14They are augmented fourth or diminished fifth.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Augmented fourth or diminished fifth.
0:09:16 > 0:09:17Or a tritone, yes.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21And, finally, how is this interval commonly known?
0:09:21 > 0:09:23- That is an octave.- An octave.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Correct.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Ten points for this starter question.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29Fear no more the heat o' the sun
0:09:29 > 0:09:31Nor the furious winter's rages
0:09:31 > 0:09:34Thou thy worldly task hast done
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39These words appear in which play by Shakespeare,
0:09:39 > 0:09:42variously classified as both a tragedy and a romance?
0:09:45 > 0:09:47Romeo And Juliet.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49No.
0:09:49 > 0:09:50Antony And Cleopatra.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53No, it's Cymbeline. Ten points for this.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57Introduced by the US physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon,
0:09:57 > 0:10:00what phrase denotes a physical response that is mobilised
0:10:00 > 0:10:02by the secretion of adrenaline after an organism is confronted
0:10:02 > 0:10:05with a situation...
0:10:05 > 0:10:06Fight and flight.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Fight or flight is correct, yes.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13You get this set the bonuses on the plays of Richard Bean.
0:10:13 > 0:10:18Firstly, One Man, Two Guvnors was Richard Bean's 2011 adaptation
0:10:18 > 0:10:20of the Servant of Two Masters,
0:10:20 > 0:10:24a comedy of 1746 by which Italian playwright?
0:10:24 > 0:10:26I knew the play but not the author.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Do we know any Italian playwrights?
0:10:29 > 0:10:31I don't think we can...
0:10:31 > 0:10:32Pass.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34That was by Carlo Goldoni.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37Secondly, first performed at the Royal National Theatre in June 2014,
0:10:37 > 0:10:39which work concerns the press, the police
0:10:39 > 0:10:42and the political establishment and centres on the activities
0:10:42 > 0:10:45of a tabloid newspaper known as The Free Press?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- Shall I just guess something?- Yeah.
0:10:49 > 0:10:50Hacked.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52No, it's Great Britain.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Also first performed in 2014, which play is Bean's retelling
0:10:55 > 0:10:58of the colonisation of an eponymous island
0:10:58 > 0:11:00by Fletcher Christian and the Bounty mutineers?
0:11:00 > 0:11:02- Pitcairn.- Pitcairn?
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Pitcairn.
0:11:04 > 0:11:05Correct. Ten points for this.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08John F Kennedy is one of only two US presidents
0:11:08 > 0:11:11to be buried in Arlington Cemetery. Who's the other?
0:11:11 > 0:11:14He served as Secretary for War under Theodore Roosevelt
0:11:14 > 0:11:19and, following his presidency, became Chief Justice of the Supreme...
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Taft.
0:11:20 > 0:11:21Taft is right. William Howard Taft.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27These bonuses are on graph theory, Peterhouse.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Firstly, a simple graph is defined as a set of vertices
0:11:30 > 0:11:32interconnected by edges.
0:11:32 > 0:11:36What term is used for the number of edges incident to a given vertex?
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Something like degree or order.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43- Order!- Order.
0:11:43 > 0:11:44Order.
0:11:44 > 0:11:45No, it was degree.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47What name is given to a simple graph
0:11:47 > 0:11:49in which every vertex has the same degree?
0:11:51 > 0:11:55Maybe it's homogeneous. I don't know. I don't know but go for it.
0:11:55 > 0:11:56Homogeneous.
0:11:56 > 0:11:57No, it's regular.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01Often denoted by a capital letter K with a numerical subscript,
0:12:01 > 0:12:04what name is given to a graph in which every vertex
0:12:04 > 0:12:06shares an edge with every other vertex?
0:12:08 > 0:12:10So, is that...
0:12:11 > 0:12:13I really don't know.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18I mean, graphs couldn't count as polygons...
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Just try polygon. It's completely wrong but...
0:12:23 > 0:12:24Polygon.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26No, you're quite right. It is completely wrong.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29It's complete. Ten points for this.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31Created as an alternative to the Prix Goncourt,
0:12:31 > 0:12:34which literary prize has been awarded to a French novel
0:12:34 > 0:12:36every year since 1933?
0:12:36 > 0:12:41It takes its name from the Paris cafe noted for the patronage of...
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Le Deux Magots.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Prix des Deux Magots. That's correct.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49You get a set of bonuses this time on a novel, Peterhouse.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Published in 1818, which novel opens with a letter
0:12:52 > 0:12:57written in St Petersburg addressed to a Mrs Saville in England?
0:12:57 > 0:12:58Do we know? 1818?
0:12:58 > 0:13:00I can't even think.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02It's not going to be something like Crime and Punishment.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04It's English.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Oh. I don't know. St Petersburg.
0:13:06 > 0:13:081818.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11- When's Vanity Fair?- Yeah, go for it. I don't know.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Vanity Fair.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14No, it's Frankenstein.
0:13:14 > 0:13:18Frankenstein was conceived during the much-cited sojourn in 1816
0:13:18 > 0:13:21of Mary Shelley and four others at the Villa Diodati
0:13:21 > 0:13:23on the shores of which lake?
0:13:23 > 0:13:25Was it Como?
0:13:25 > 0:13:26Yeah.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Or was it Garda?
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- Como or Garda?- I don't know. - Shall we try Como?- Yeah.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Lake Como.
0:13:32 > 0:13:33No, it's Lake Geneva.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37Quote - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me, man?
0:13:37 > 0:13:41Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me? - Unquote.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44These words appear on the original title page of Frankenstein
0:13:44 > 0:13:47and are taken from which epic poem?
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- Paradise Lost?- Shall I try that? - Yeah.
0:13:51 > 0:13:52Paradise Lost.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Correct. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57The name of the university based at New Haven, Connecticut,
0:13:57 > 0:14:01the name of the unit of pressure of around one atmosphere
0:14:01 > 0:14:04and a word meaning sooner than expected...
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Bar. B-A-R.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12May all be made using letters of the name of which food grain?
0:14:15 > 0:14:16Wheat. No, it's not.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20No, it's barley, as in Yale, bar and early.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23- Oh, of course it is!- Ten points for this starter question.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25According to ancient tradition,
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Pyrrho of Elis was the first philosopher to take on the view
0:14:28 > 0:14:31that nothing can be known with certainty.
0:14:31 > 0:14:36From the Greek for enquiring, what term describes this?
0:14:36 > 0:14:38Solipsism.
0:14:38 > 0:14:39No. Peterhouse.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42One of you buzz, come on.
0:14:42 > 0:14:43Scepticism.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Scepticism. Sceptics is correct. Yes.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Just a slip of the tongue, I think, York,
0:14:48 > 0:14:51but it's cost you the points and the opportunity of these bonuses
0:14:51 > 0:14:54which are on Greek mythology and British opera, Peterhouse.
0:14:54 > 0:14:59Based largely on Homer's Iliad, King Priam premiered in 1962
0:14:59 > 0:15:02and was the second major opera by which British composer,
0:15:02 > 0:15:06also known for The Midsummer Marriage and The Knot Garden?
0:15:06 > 0:15:07I really don't know.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10- Is that too late for Britten?- Yes.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12I don't know any more composers.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Can we make a guess?
0:15:14 > 0:15:15We don't know.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17That was by Sir Michael Tippett.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20First performed in 1988, Greek is an opera
0:15:20 > 0:15:22based on Steven Burkoff's reworkings
0:15:22 > 0:15:25of Sophocles's tragedy Oedipus The King
0:15:25 > 0:15:28and is set by which British composer?
0:15:29 > 0:15:31- Do we have any idea? - I can't think of anyone.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33- We don't...- We could guess one.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36- It could be Vaughn Williams or Elgar...- It's too late.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40- It's too late for those. - Oh, I don't know then.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42We don't know, sorry.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Oh, dear! It's Mark-Anthony Turnage.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Which British composer's works include the operas
0:15:47 > 0:15:50The Mask Of Orpheus in 1986 and The Minotaur in 2008?
0:15:54 > 0:15:57I mean, some things... We just don't know.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59We don't know.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01It's getting a bit familiar, this lament. LAUGHTER
0:16:01 > 0:16:04It's Harrison Birtwistle. Ten points for this, answer promptly here.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07In the 200 years before the accession of Henry VII,
0:16:07 > 0:16:10six kings of England were deposed or killed in battle.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Name three of them.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18Richard, James IV...
0:16:18 > 0:16:21- Richard who?- Richard III.- Yes.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- James IV...- Nope.- Ah.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27Anyone like to buzz from Peterhouse?
0:16:27 > 0:16:31Richard III, Henry VI and Edward II.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33That's correct, yes, well done. APPLAUSE
0:16:35 > 0:16:39Right, you get a set of bonuses on biochemistry, Peterhouse.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41LAUGHTER
0:16:41 > 0:16:44Members of which major group of biological molecules contain
0:16:44 > 0:16:49an amine group - a hydrogen atom and a carboxylic acid group
0:16:49 > 0:16:51attached to a tetravalent carbon atom?
0:16:51 > 0:16:53They're amino acids.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55- Amino acids.- Correct.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Which amino acid contains two aromatic rings
0:16:57 > 0:17:00and is a precursor of the neurotransmitter serotonin?
0:17:00 > 0:17:02- Is a tryptophan?- Shall I try that?
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Oh, no, it is! It is tryptophan.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05- Tryptophan.- It is.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07What is the seven-letter name
0:17:07 > 0:17:12of the only cyclic proteinogenic imino acid - that is I-M-I-N-O -
0:17:12 > 0:17:14specified in the genetic code?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16- Only cyclic?- I don't know. - No, I do, I do.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20Proline, I think it's proline. I don't know, but... Try it.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22- Proline.- Proline is right.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26We're going to take a music round.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of classical music.
0:17:29 > 0:17:33Ten points if you can give me the name of the British composer.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:17:39 > 0:17:42- Vaughan Williams. - It is Vaughn Williams, yes.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45APPLAUSE Part of his Symphony Number Six.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48So that was from the first recording of Vaughan Williams'
0:17:48 > 0:17:52sixth symphony, conducted by Leopold Stokowski, renowned for his concert
0:17:52 > 0:17:54and recording premiers of many 20th-century works.
0:17:54 > 0:17:59For your bonuses, three more pieces of work conducted by Stokowski,
0:17:59 > 0:18:01each being the first recording made of that piece.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04For five points each, I want the name of the composer, please.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Firstly, this Russian composer.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:18:13 > 0:18:16- Prokofiev. - No, that's Shostakovich's sixth.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19And, secondly, this French composer.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:18:33 > 0:18:34Nominate McLoughlin.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36- Messiaen.- Correct.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39And finally, this Nordic composer:
0:18:39 > 0:18:41CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:18:48 > 0:18:50- Sibelius.- Correct, well done.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54OK, a starter question now.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57In degrees, at what angle off the axis of sunlight
0:18:57 > 0:18:58is a rainbow formed?
0:19:00 > 0:19:03- 42.- Correct.
0:19:03 > 0:19:04APPLAUSE
0:19:06 > 0:19:09You get three bonuses on language families, Peterhouse.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Firstly, Turkic and Mongolian are two branches of which
0:19:12 > 0:19:16broad language family, named after a range of mountains on the borders
0:19:16 > 0:19:18of China, Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan?
0:19:20 > 0:19:23No, no, they're in...
0:19:23 > 0:19:27Uralic? Would it? China, Russia...
0:19:27 > 0:19:30- I liked Altaic.- What...? Yes. - I'll try that.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32- Altaic.- Correct.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Extending north/south through Russia,
0:19:34 > 0:19:36which mountain range gives its name to a family whose languages
0:19:36 > 0:19:41include Hill Mari, Meadow Mari, Finnish and Hungarian?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43- Urals.- Correct.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46Georgian, Abkhaz and Chechen are languages belonging to
0:19:46 > 0:19:50families with names referring to which mountain range?
0:19:50 > 0:19:51Caucasus?
0:19:51 > 0:19:53- Caucasus.- Correct.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Ten points for this.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58In the title of a work first published in 1905,
0:19:58 > 0:20:00the German sociologist Max Weber related
0:20:00 > 0:20:03the Protestant ethic to the spirit of which...?
0:20:05 > 0:20:06- Capitalism.- Correct
0:20:06 > 0:20:08APPLAUSE
0:20:09 > 0:20:13So you get a set of bonuses now on World War II, Peterhouse.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17In August 1942, which country became the first in South America
0:20:17 > 0:20:18to declare war on the Axis?
0:20:18 > 0:20:22It later sent an expeditionary force to fight in Italy.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25- I really don't know. Can we make an educated guess?- Argentina?
0:20:25 > 0:20:28No, it won't be Argentina. Because they were a refuge for the Nazis.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30- Yeah, they were..- Erm...- Brazil?
0:20:30 > 0:20:33We've just offended a lot of Argentinians.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35I'll make a random guess, unless anyone can make an educated one.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38- Chile, Brazil?- Brazil.
0:20:40 > 0:20:41Brazil.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43Very educated guess, it's right.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46The Firestone plantation in which African country
0:20:46 > 0:20:48was a major supplier of rubber to the Allies?
0:20:48 > 0:20:54The country in question declared war on Germany and Japan in January 1944.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57- I'd assume the Congo if it's rubber.- Yeah.
0:20:57 > 0:20:58Congo?
0:20:58 > 0:21:00- The Congo.- No, it was Liberia.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03As a precondition for participation in the United Nations conference,
0:21:03 > 0:21:08which Mediterranean country declared war on Germany in February 1945?
0:21:08 > 0:21:11There was no military involvement.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13I don't know things about history, so...
0:21:13 > 0:21:16- Italy?- Italy?
0:21:17 > 0:21:19February 1945? No, that'd be too early.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22There was no military involvement with this country.
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Not Spain, not Greece...
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Possibly... Oh! Maybe Turkey?
0:21:25 > 0:21:26Turkey.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Turkey's correct.
0:21:28 > 0:21:29Right, another picture round.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32For your picture starter, you're going to see a portrait.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Ten points if you can name the subject depicted.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43- Cardinal Richelieu. - It is Cardinal Richelieu, yes.
0:21:43 > 0:21:44APPLAUSE
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Now, for your picture bonuses, York,
0:21:46 > 0:21:48you're going to see portraits of three more cardinals
0:21:48 > 0:21:51of the Roman Catholic Church, this time, all Englishmen.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Five points for each you can name. Firstly...
0:21:55 > 0:21:57That's John Henry Newman.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59- Newman.- That is Newman, yes.
0:21:59 > 0:22:00Secondly, who's this?
0:22:02 > 0:22:03That's De la Pole.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07I don't know his first name. Pole.
0:22:07 > 0:22:08Just say Pole?
0:22:08 > 0:22:10- Pole? Cardinal Pole? - Cardinal Pole is right.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12And finally, who's this?
0:22:12 > 0:22:13Wolsey.
0:22:13 > 0:22:18- That's Wolsey. - It is Cardinal Wolsey, yes. Right.
0:22:18 > 0:22:19Ten points for this.
0:22:19 > 0:22:24What common unit corresponds most closely to two microyears?
0:22:26 > 0:22:28- A minute.- Correct.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31APPLAUSE
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Your bonuses are on
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Areas Of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Peterhouse.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39In each case, name the AONB from the list of locations.
0:22:39 > 0:22:44All three answers have two-word names that include the name of a county.
0:22:44 > 0:22:49Firstly - Farway, Otterton, Budleigh Salterton and Newton Poppleford?
0:22:51 > 0:22:54- Do we have any...? - I think that's one of the moors.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Do we know the county that they're near?
0:22:56 > 0:22:58- The Yorkshire Moors... - Otterton rings a bell.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01- The North Yorkshire Moors are three-word names...- Yorkshire Dales?
0:23:01 > 0:23:05- Yorkshire Dales? I don't think those places sound...- I don't know.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Go for the Yorkshire Dales, but I should know it, really.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10- Go for it. - We're going to try Yorkshire Dales.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Nowhere near, it's East Devon.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17Secondly - Wormshill, Chevening, Blue Bell Hill and Sevenoaks Weald?
0:23:17 > 0:23:20- Kent?- That's Kent.
0:23:20 > 0:23:21- Downs?- Is there a Kent Downs?
0:23:21 > 0:23:24I don't know, marshes?
0:23:24 > 0:23:27Try it. No, it won't be marshes, I don't think.
0:23:27 > 0:23:28Say Kent Downs.
0:23:28 > 0:23:29The Kent Downs...
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Correct. RELIEVED LAUGHTER
0:23:31 > 0:23:35And finally, Craster, Beal, Seahouses, Alnmouth and Bamburgh?
0:23:35 > 0:23:38The Norfolk Broads hasn't come up yet.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40- They're there in the North, they're North East.- Yeah.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43- Northumberland what? Moors? - Norfolk Broads. Broads.
0:23:43 > 0:23:48- They're in Northumberland.- Oh. - Just say Northumberland.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51- It's a two-word thing. - Northumberland Dales.- Come on.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52- The Whitby Dales.- Hills.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- Northumberland Moors. - No, it's Northumberland Coast.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Ten points for this. Listen carefully -
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address of 1863
0:24:01 > 0:24:05could have opened with the words, "87 years ago."
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Instead, he chose specifically...?
0:24:08 > 0:24:10- Fourscore and seven. - Fourscore and seven, correct.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13APPLAUSE
0:24:13 > 0:24:16Your bonuses this time, Peterhouse, are on South Korea.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19What is the second-largest city of South Korea?
0:24:19 > 0:24:23It's situated on the south-eastern tip of the Korean peninsula,
0:24:23 > 0:24:26around 300km from Seoul.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29- Do you know any other cities apart from Incheon?- No.
0:24:29 > 0:24:30Nominate Sutcliffe.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33- Incheon?- No, it's Busan, or Pusan.
0:24:33 > 0:24:3580km north of Busan,
0:24:35 > 0:24:38which city was the capital of the Silla Kingdom
0:24:38 > 0:24:40for almost 1,000 years until 935?
0:24:40 > 0:24:44Its historic areas are inscribed as a Unesco World Heritage Site.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46That might be Incheon.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48I don't know, I don't know many cities in South Korea.
0:24:48 > 0:24:49Incheon.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51No, that's Gyeongju.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54And finally, which city at the mouth of the Han River
0:24:54 > 0:24:56is the main seaport of Seoul?
0:24:56 > 0:24:58In 1950, UN forces landed there
0:24:58 > 0:25:00in an attempt to turn back the Communist invasion.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03- We think that IS Incheon. - That was Incheon, yes.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05With three minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08What two-word English name is often given to Plattduetsch,
0:25:08 > 0:25:10a vernacular language spoken...?
0:25:10 > 0:25:12- Low German.- Low German is right. APPLAUSE
0:25:12 > 0:25:15Your bonuses this time are on botany, York.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Specifically the floral formula which records
0:25:18 > 0:25:22the structure of a plant by means of symbols, letters and numbers.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25Firstly, in a floral formula, what is represented by the letter A?
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Type of flower?
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Colour of flower?
0:25:31 > 0:25:34- Colour of flower.- No, it's the androecium, the stamens.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37What is represented by the letter K?
0:25:37 > 0:25:38So it begins with a K?
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Carpel?
0:25:42 > 0:25:44No, it's the calyx, or sepals.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46And what is represented by the letter C?
0:25:48 > 0:25:51- Carpel? - No, that's the corolla, or petals.
0:25:51 > 0:25:52Ten points for this.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55In astronomy and calendar studies, what five-letter word commonly
0:25:55 > 0:25:59follows Metonic, Callippic, Sothic and Saros?
0:25:59 > 0:26:02- Scale.- No, anyone want to buzz from Peterhouse?
0:26:02 > 0:26:03Quickly.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07- Orbit?- No, it's cycle. And I have to fine you five points, York,
0:26:07 > 0:26:10because that was an incorrect interruption.
0:26:10 > 0:26:11So, another starter question.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14How many years separate the start of the Seven Years' War
0:26:14 > 0:26:17from the beginning of the Suez Crisis?
0:26:17 > 0:26:18Six.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Oh, gosh, no!
0:26:20 > 0:26:22- 200.- 200 is correct!
0:26:22 > 0:26:25LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:26:26 > 0:26:30Right, you get a set of bonuses, York, on invertebrate physiology.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Firstly, found in the plasma of many molluscs and crustacea,
0:26:33 > 0:26:39hemocyanins are metalloproteins transporting what substance?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41- Oxygen?- Oxygen, yeah.
0:26:41 > 0:26:42- Oxygen.- Correct.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45What metal atom in hemocyanin binds to oxygen?
0:26:45 > 0:26:47- Copper.- Correct.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50What colour is hemocyanin when oxygenated?
0:26:50 > 0:26:52- Er, blue.- Blue.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:52 > 0:26:56Which US state is bordered by Washington and Oregon to the West,
0:26:56 > 0:26:58and Montana and Wyoming...?
0:26:58 > 0:27:02- Idaho.- Idaho is correct, you get a set of bonuses,
0:27:02 > 0:27:05this time on novels with narratives confined to a single day.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09Firstly, taking place on a single day in June 1923, which novel opens with
0:27:09 > 0:27:13its title character announcing that she would buy the flowers herself?
0:27:13 > 0:27:14- Mrs Dalloway.- Correct.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18Taking place on a single day in January 1951, which novel opens
0:27:18 > 0:27:23with reveille being sounded at 5am by a hammer hitting a length of rail?
0:27:23 > 0:27:25- No, just pass it.- Don't know.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27That was One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31And finally, taking place on February the 15, 2003,
0:27:31 > 0:27:36which novel opens with a neurosurgeon rising from bed at 3:40am?
0:27:36 > 0:27:39- Don't know.- That was Ian McEwan's Saturday. Ten points for this.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41In physics, what character in upper case can represent
0:27:41 > 0:27:44a constant energy density in empty space,
0:27:44 > 0:27:48while in lower case it can represent wavelength?
0:27:48 > 0:27:49F.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52Anyone like to buzz from York?
0:27:52 > 0:27:54- Nu.- No, it's lambda.
0:27:54 > 0:27:55Ten points for this:
0:27:55 > 0:27:59What anglicised form of the name of the city of his birth
0:27:59 > 0:28:03appeared in the title of John, Duke of Lancaster, the father of Henry IV?
0:28:03 > 0:28:05- Gaunt.- Gaunt is correct.
0:28:05 > 0:28:06APPLAUSE
0:28:06 > 0:28:08GONG
0:28:08 > 0:28:13And at the gong, York have 165, Peterhouse have 185.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15APPLAUSE
0:28:18 > 0:28:22I thought you were going to pull off a sensational recovery there, York.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25But 165, you'll be coming back anyway.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28But next time you come back, you will have to win.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31Peterhouse, congratulations to you, you've got to win one more to stay
0:28:31 > 0:28:34in the contest and go through to the semifinals, that's all.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match,
0:28:37 > 0:28:39- but until then, it is goodbye from York University.- Goodbye.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42- It's goodbye from Peterhouse - Cambridge.- Goodbye.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46APPLAUSE