0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:22University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Hello.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Last time, we saw Peterhouse - Cambridge win the first
0:00:32 > 0:00:36of the two quarterfinal victories our insufferable rules demand
0:00:36 > 0:00:39before a team can take a place in the semifinals.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Tonight's teams aim to do the same.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45St Catharine's College - Cambridge arrived here by beating
0:00:45 > 0:00:47the University of Southampton in Round One
0:00:47 > 0:00:49and Nottingham University in Round Two,
0:00:49 > 0:00:53with an accumulated score of 375.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Viewers baffled by their choice of mascot will remember that
0:00:56 > 0:01:00St Catharine of Alexandria, after whom the college is named,
0:01:00 > 0:01:01was martyred on a wheel.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05In the absence of a handy torture device or firework,
0:01:05 > 0:01:07they've brought a ship's steering wheel instead.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10Let's hope such impeccable logic helps them
0:01:10 > 0:01:11with the questions that lie ahead.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15With an average age of 19, let's meet the St Catz team again.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Hi, I'm Callum Watson, I'm from Stirlingshire
0:01:18 > 0:01:20and I'm studying maths.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Hi, I'm Ellie Chan.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25I'm from Brighton and I'm reading for a PhD in history of art.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28- This is their captain. - Hello, I'm Callum Bungey.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30I'm from London and I'm reading chemistry.
0:01:31 > 0:01:32Hi, I'm Alex Cranston.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35I'm from London and I'm reading for a degree in biological
0:01:35 > 0:01:36natural sciences.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38APPLAUSE
0:01:40 > 0:01:43Now, the team from St John's College - Oxford
0:01:43 > 0:01:44beat Bristol University
0:01:44 > 0:01:48in Round One and Queen's University - Belfast in Round Two.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51And their accumulated score is 435.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55Last time, their strengths included adaptations of Shakespeare's Macbeth,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58US panhandles and the kind of thing
0:01:58 > 0:02:00that Tilda Swinton's likely to get up to.
0:02:00 > 0:02:05Also with an average age of 19, let's meet the St John's team again.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Hi, my name is Alex Harries.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10I am from South Wales and I'm reading history.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Hello, my name is Charlie Clegg, I'm from Glasgow
0:02:13 > 0:02:15- and I'm reading theology. - And this is their captain.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Hi, my name is Angus Russell.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21I'm from Mill Hill in North London and I study history and Russian.
0:02:21 > 0:02:22Hi, I'm Dan Sowood.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25I'm from Uxbridge in Middlesex and I'm reading chemistry.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27APPLAUSE
0:02:29 > 0:02:31OK, let's crack on with it then.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Fingers on other buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Based on an old name for Sri Lanka,
0:02:36 > 0:02:39what word is thought to have been coined by...?
0:02:39 > 0:02:40- Serendipity.- Correct.
0:02:43 > 0:02:48Your bonuses are on clergymen in 19th-century literature, St John's.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52"My mission is to mortify in these girls the lusts of the flesh,
0:02:52 > 0:02:57"to teach them to clothe themselves with shamefacedness and sobriety."
0:02:57 > 0:03:00In which novel does the clergyman Mr Brocklehurst say this
0:03:00 > 0:03:02to the superintendent of a girls' school?
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Is this Jane Eyre? I've got a feeling.
0:03:04 > 0:03:05OK, yeah, yeah.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07- Jane Eyre.- Correct.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11The ambitious young clergyman Mark Robarts is the central character
0:03:11 > 0:03:13of which novel by Anthony Trollope?
0:03:13 > 0:03:17- Oh, is it Barchester Towers, maybe? - Shall we go...?
0:03:17 > 0:03:19- Chronicles of Barchester, is that...?- Um...
0:03:19 > 0:03:22- Barchester Towers? - OK. Barchester Towers.
0:03:22 > 0:03:23No, it's Framley Parsonage.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Described by the author as "not a sensible man,"
0:03:26 > 0:03:28the clergyman Mr Collins is a character
0:03:28 > 0:03:31in which of Jane Austen's novels?
0:03:31 > 0:03:33- OK?- Pride And Prejudice. - Pride And Prejudice.
0:03:33 > 0:03:34Correct. Ten points for this.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37In pure mathematics, what six-letter term denotes
0:03:37 > 0:03:41the set of elements that are mapped to the zero element under a given...?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44- Kernel.- Kernel is correct, yes.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50You get a set of bonuses on the composer Claude Debussy.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54Puck's Dance and Homage to S Pickwick are among the titles
0:03:54 > 0:03:58in two collections of impressionistic piano pieces by Debussy.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01These bear the name of what specific musical form,
0:04:01 > 0:04:04also associated with JS Bach and Chopin?
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Um, what music...canon? I'm not sure.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11- Canon, prelude.- A prelude!
0:04:11 > 0:04:14Prelude is more associated with Chopin as well.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18- Because... I wouldn't have thought a canon is associated with Chopin.- No.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20- Prelude.- Prelude is correct.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23What goat-like being of Greek myth appears in the title
0:04:23 > 0:04:28of Debussy's symphonic poem of 1894 inspired by a work by Mallarme?
0:04:29 > 0:04:31- Yeah.- Satyr.- No, it's a faun.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34And finally, a stylised interpretation
0:04:34 > 0:04:36of Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa
0:04:36 > 0:04:39appears on the cover of the 1905 first edition
0:04:39 > 0:04:42of which symphonic sketch by Debussy?
0:04:42 > 0:04:44You can give me the short title in French or English.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47BUNGEY SIGHS
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Oh...
0:04:51 > 0:04:54- Can you think of anything by Debussy?- What? Clair De Lune.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56It's Clair De Lune.
0:04:56 > 0:04:57No, it's La Mer, The Sea.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:05:00 > 0:05:05An internet meme begins, "If you ever feel bad about procrastinating..."
0:05:05 > 0:05:10It then refers to the story that the overture to an opera bouffe of 1787
0:05:10 > 0:05:13was composed on the morning of its first performance.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18- Don Giovanni.- By?
0:05:18 > 0:05:19- Mozart.- Correct.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Your bonuses this time, St Catharine's, are on philosophy.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31"The thoughts that I publish in what follows are the precipitate
0:05:31 > 0:05:33"of philosophical investigations that have occupied me
0:05:33 > 0:05:35"for the last 16 years."
0:05:35 > 0:05:38These words in translation appear in the preface to a work
0:05:38 > 0:05:41by which philosopher, published posthumously in 1953?
0:05:43 > 0:05:47- Wittgenstein.- Pardon?- What do you think?- Who are you saying?
0:05:47 > 0:05:50- She's saying Wittgenstein. - What did you say?- No, it's fine.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53- No, no.- What was your idea? - Camus cos he died about then.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55- Camus?- Cam-oo?- Sorry!- Um...
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Ugh, can't decide!
0:05:59 > 0:06:02- Wittgenstein. - It was Wittgenstein, yes.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Wittgenstein originally moved to England to study
0:06:04 > 0:06:06aeronautical engineering.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09During this time, he became profoundly influenced by which
0:06:09 > 0:06:12British philosopher's Principles Of Mathematics?
0:06:12 > 0:06:13Russell.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14Oh, yeah. Um, Russell.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15Correct.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18During his time in a POW camp, Wittgenstein completed
0:06:18 > 0:06:21and sent to Russell a draft of the work first published in English
0:06:21 > 0:06:25in 1922 under what three-word title?
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Is that the semanticy one?
0:06:29 > 0:06:32- Um...- Hmm... Like, Meaning Of Words...?
0:06:32 > 0:06:35- And...no.- No. Um...
0:06:36 > 0:06:40- Oh!- Something with logic. - Oh, um... Of logic?
0:06:42 > 0:06:45- Come on, let's have it, please. - Um, Meaning Of Words.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47No, it's the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Ten points for this.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51With Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt,
0:06:51 > 0:06:54which British biochemist jointly received the Nobel Prize in...?
0:06:56 > 0:06:58- Gordon.- No, you lose five points.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02..jointly received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2001
0:07:02 > 0:07:05for discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle?
0:07:05 > 0:07:08He was elected president of the Royal Society in 2010.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10One of you may buzz, St John's.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17- Martin Rees. - No, it was Sir Paul Nurse.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Martin Rees is an astronomer.
0:07:19 > 0:07:20Ten points for this.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24In Aristotle's Politics, what term denotes the oppressive rule
0:07:24 > 0:07:27of one person that's the degenerate form of monarchy?
0:07:27 > 0:07:30In Plato's Republic, it's described as arising naturally
0:07:30 > 0:07:33from tendencies inherent in democracy.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36- Tyranny.- Tyranny is correct, yes.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39That puts you on level pegging.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42Bonuses will give you the lead, if you get them. They're on astronomy.
0:07:42 > 0:07:46A diagram that plots the absolute magnitude of stars
0:07:46 > 0:07:49against their temperature or spectral type was independently
0:07:49 > 0:07:51developed in the early 20th century
0:07:51 > 0:07:55by the American Henry Norris Russell and which Danish astronomer?
0:07:55 > 0:07:58- That's...- Don't know.- Go. - Hertzsprung.
0:07:58 > 0:07:59Hertzsprung is correct.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03What two-word term denotes the diagonal band that runs from
0:08:03 > 0:08:07the upper left to the bottom right of a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
0:08:07 > 0:08:10The sun is an example of a star that lies in this region.
0:08:12 > 0:08:17- Was it the axis?- What's the axis called, what's it called?- Um, um...
0:08:17 > 0:08:20The ideal belt or something, I don't know.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23- Red zone.- Yeah, OK. Red zone.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25No, it's called a main sequence.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28In an advanced stage of stellar evolution,
0:08:28 > 0:08:33Sirius B is an example of what type of astronomical object
0:08:33 > 0:08:37which lies beneath the main sequence on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Sirius B? Sirius is...
0:08:41 > 0:08:44- It's going to do with a red giant or white dwarf or something.- OK.
0:08:44 > 0:08:49- Red giant?- Definitely red giant. - OK, all go for red giant.- I...
0:08:49 > 0:08:51- OK, if you want, yeah.- Red giant.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53- No, it's a white dwarf.- Oh.- Bad luck.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58For your picture starter, you're going to see an image
0:08:58 > 0:09:00of a £2 coin with some text removed.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02The coin commemorates a major anniversary.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06Given this, I want you to work out the year in which it was
0:09:06 > 0:09:07released in the UK.
0:09:11 > 0:09:132011.
0:09:13 > 0:09:14Correct, let's see the whole thing.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Yes, it's the anniversary
0:09:18 > 0:09:19of the King James Bible.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22So, you get a set of bonuses now on more £2 coins
0:09:22 > 0:09:24from the last ten years.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28Again, each was released to commemorate a major anniversary.
0:09:28 > 0:09:29Again, from this,
0:09:29 > 0:09:32I want you to work out the year of their release in the UK.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33Firstly, for five?
0:09:35 > 0:09:37- This is Darwin...- 18...
0:09:37 > 0:09:382009. Because it was 150 years
0:09:38 > 0:09:40since Origin Of Species.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42That's 1859 and 200 years
0:09:42 > 0:09:44- since his birth.- Yes. 2009.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46That is correct. We'll see
0:09:46 > 0:09:47the whole thing, there it is.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49And secondly...
0:09:50 > 0:09:52- That's the union.- 2007?
0:09:52 > 0:09:54- Yes, 2007.- 2007.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Indeed, commemorating
0:09:56 > 0:09:58the Act Of Union. And finally?
0:10:00 > 0:10:02That's Magna Carta.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04- 2015.- 2015.- Yes, 2015.
0:10:04 > 0:10:05It is, commemorating
0:10:05 > 0:10:07the Magna Carta in 2015, yes.
0:10:11 > 0:10:12Right. Another starter question.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Which year saw the return of Erik Eriksson as King of Sweden,
0:10:16 > 0:10:18the Mongol conquest of the Chinese Jin Dynasty
0:10:18 > 0:10:21and the start of the personal rule of King Henry III of England?
0:10:21 > 0:10:25It was also the last time the year number formed a consecutive
0:10:25 > 0:10:27and ascending sequence?
0:10:29 > 0:10:30- 1234.- Correct.
0:10:33 > 0:10:37Your bonuses, St Catharine's, are on recognition scenes in Shakespeare.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41In each case, name the play in which a parent says these words
0:10:41 > 0:10:44to a child thought dead or lost.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48First, "To deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50"Methinks I should know you."
0:10:54 > 0:10:57- I know that's not...- I think it could be The Winter's Tale.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00- The Winter's tale. - No, that's King Lear to Cordelia.
0:11:01 > 0:11:06"Thou that was born at sea, buried at Tarsus and found at sea again."
0:11:07 > 0:11:09- Pericles.- Pericles to Marina, yes.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12And, "If this prove a vision of the island,
0:11:12 > 0:11:15"one dear son shall I twice lose."
0:11:15 > 0:11:18- The Tempest.- Tempest.- It is,
0:11:18 > 0:11:21Alonso of Ferdinand. Another starter question now.
0:11:21 > 0:11:26Also called a spheroidal joint, what name is given in anatomy...?
0:11:26 > 0:11:27- Ball and socket.- Correct.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33These bonuses, which will give you the lead,
0:11:33 > 0:11:35are on pairs of names, if you get them.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37For each pair, the internet country code
0:11:37 > 0:11:40of the first name is the same as the UK postcode of the second.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43For example, Nepal and Newport,
0:11:43 > 0:11:47both share the abbreviation NP.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49I want you name both places from the descriptions.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53Firstly, a self-governing commonwealth in the Greater Antilles
0:11:53 > 0:11:55and a city in Lancashire -
0:11:55 > 0:11:57the birthplace of the cricketer Andrew Flintoff
0:11:57 > 0:11:59and the animator Nick Park.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05HE MUMBLES QUIETLY
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Um, I think that was Lesser Antilles.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10So it's not Montserrat.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Aren't those on different...?
0:12:12 > 0:12:13Turks and Caicos.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17Maybe, TC. And then town in Lancashire.
0:12:19 > 0:12:20Uh...
0:12:23 > 0:12:25- Morecambe and Montserrat. - Pardon, sorry?
0:12:25 > 0:12:26Morecambe and Montserrat.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29- I can't quite hear you... - Morecambe and Montserrat.
0:12:29 > 0:12:33- Morecambe and Montserrat. - No, it's Puerto Rico and Preston.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36And secondly, a small Pacific island country that grew wealthy
0:12:36 > 0:12:40from its phosphate deposits and a city on the River Wensum
0:12:40 > 0:12:44noted for a Norman cathedral with one of the tallest spires in England.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47- Um, Wensum.- Which would it be?
0:12:47 > 0:12:50- Seems pretty...- In England? - Oh, yeah.
0:12:50 > 0:12:55- What was the first one?- Nauru. - And Norwich?- Nauru and Norwich.
0:12:55 > 0:12:56Correct.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59And finally, an island state in the Gulf of Guinea
0:12:59 > 0:13:02and the urban area known as The Potteries.
0:13:02 > 0:13:07- Sao Tome and Principe is...- OK.
0:13:08 > 0:13:09Um... And then...
0:13:09 > 0:13:13Where are The Potteries? It's not Sheffield.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17- I don't know. - Is it in Nottinghamshire?
0:13:17 > 0:13:20- Maybe, but what town?- Yeah.
0:13:20 > 0:13:21Come on.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27Sao Tome and Principe and Sheffield.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30No, it's and Stoke-on-Trent, so you can't get that, I'm afraid.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Right, ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Now in the Louvre, Michelangelo's sculptures of
0:13:35 > 0:13:39The Dying and The Rebellious Slave were originally intended for the tomb
0:13:39 > 0:13:42of which Pope, who had earlier...?
0:13:42 > 0:13:44- Julius II.- Correct.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Uh, St John's, your bonuses are on US presidents
0:13:50 > 0:13:51in the words of Alistair Cooke's America.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55In each case, name the 20th-century president from the description.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58"Neither Britain nor France envisioned the peace settlement
0:13:58 > 0:14:01"quite as he'd led the American people to see it
0:14:01 > 0:14:03"as a kind of moral Olympiad
0:14:03 > 0:14:06"at which the United States would be the host nation."
0:14:06 > 0:14:08That seems to be Wilson.
0:14:08 > 0:14:09- Woodrow Wilson.- Correct.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13"But now he was simply the football coach whose players lost
0:14:13 > 0:14:16"the big game, and his bitter memorial was the shantytowns
0:14:16 > 0:14:20"of the unemployed down by the rivers of scores of cities."
0:14:20 > 0:14:22- That would be Hoover.- Yeah, Hoover?
0:14:22 > 0:14:24- Hoover.- It was Herbert Hoover.
0:14:24 > 0:14:28And finally, "He brought national relief to national employment.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30"He conserved the soil of the worn-out South,
0:14:30 > 0:14:33"he established once and for all the federal government's right
0:14:33 > 0:14:38"to plan economic and social welfare on a national scale."
0:14:38 > 0:14:40- It's FD?- FDR, yes.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43- Franklin Roosevelt. - Franklin D Roosevelt is correct, yes.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:14:48 > 0:14:49For your music starter,
0:14:49 > 0:14:51you'll hear an excerpt from an opera.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55Ten points if you can give me the name of the composer, please.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57ITALIAN OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:02 > 0:15:03Verdi?
0:15:03 > 0:15:05No. You can hear a little more, St Catharine's.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08MUSIC CONTINUES
0:15:26 > 0:15:29- Bizet.- No, it's Rossini.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31That was from Moses In Egypt.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33So, music bonuses in a moment or two
0:15:33 > 0:15:35when someone gets a starter question right.
0:15:35 > 0:15:36Ten points at stake for this.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40What two-word term was coined in a work of 1904 by O Henry
0:15:40 > 0:15:45to describe the small maritime fictional country of Anchuria?
0:15:45 > 0:15:48It has since come to refer generally...
0:15:48 > 0:15:50- Banana Republic.- Correct.
0:15:53 > 0:15:58So, we follow on from Rossini's Moses In Egypt's with music bonuses.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01Three more operatic pieces inspired by the Bible.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04This time, all first performed in the 20th century.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08In each case, I want the name of the composer for five points. Firstly...
0:16:08 > 0:16:11INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:13 > 0:16:15- It might be...- What's it?
0:16:17 > 0:16:20- Yeah, I think it's...- Berg? - I think Berg.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Shall we go with that? Berg.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26No, that's by Richard Strauss, it's from Salome. Secondly...
0:16:26 > 0:16:28GERMAN OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:32 > 0:16:34I think Berg fits this. I...
0:16:36 > 0:16:41- It's atonal, it's...- Yeah, shall we go with that?- Yeah.
0:16:41 > 0:16:42Berg again.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46No, that's Schoenberg from Moses And Aaron. And finally...
0:16:46 > 0:16:49ENGLISH OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:49 > 0:16:52- Steve Reich. I'm fairly sure it's him.- I'll nominate you, OK?
0:16:52 > 0:16:54- Nominate Clegg.- Steve Reich?
0:16:54 > 0:16:55Correct, yes. From The Cave.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Right, ten points at stake for this.
0:16:59 > 0:17:00In the 1956 novel Homecomings,
0:17:00 > 0:17:05CP Snow popularised which three-word expression to refer to the scene of
0:17:05 > 0:17:08high-level governmental decisions?
0:17:08 > 0:17:11He later used it for the title of a novel published in 1964.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14- Corridors of power.- Correct.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19St Catharine's, these bonuses are on physics.
0:17:19 > 0:17:20In each case, I want you to give me
0:17:20 > 0:17:23the broad band of the electromagnetic spectrum
0:17:23 > 0:17:27that would include radiation of the indicated wavelength.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29For example, the average height of a human being
0:17:29 > 0:17:32would fall in the radio wave band.
0:17:32 > 0:17:33Five points for this.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37First, where would you place the diameter of a typical human hair?
0:17:39 > 0:17:41Um, yeah. Infrared.
0:17:41 > 0:17:42Correct.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Secondly, the radius of a carbon atom?
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Um, that's a couple of angstroms.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49- So, X-ray.- Correct.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52And finally, what wave band encompasses the typical scale
0:17:52 > 0:17:54of a common cold virus?
0:17:54 > 0:17:58Virus is the... Hundreds and then...
0:17:58 > 0:17:59Are they nanometres or micrometres?
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Well, it's not going to be as large as infrared, so visible.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06- No, it's ultraviolet. - Oh!- Ten points for this.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10What given name links the authors of the 1802 work Dejection - An Ode,
0:18:10 > 0:18:14the diabetic romance Rasselas, Prince Of Abissinia,
0:18:14 > 0:18:16and the epistolary novels...
0:18:16 > 0:18:18- Samuel.- Samuel is correct, yes.
0:18:22 > 0:18:26Your bonuses, St John's, this time are on the films of David Cronenberg.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29In each case, name the film from the description.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Which film of 1991 had the tag line, "The book was banned,
0:18:32 > 0:18:35"the film should never have been made. Too late."
0:18:35 > 0:18:37The novel in question was by William Burroughs.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42- Naked Lunch.- Sex, Lies And Videotape. Oh?- Naked Lunch was...
0:18:42 > 0:18:44- Oh, is that the film? - Naked Lunch is the book, yeah.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46- I'm fairly certain, yes. - OK, go on. Go for it.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48- Naked Lunch is the name of the book and film.- Oh, OK.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50- Naked Lunch.- Correct.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53In 2005, a film based on a graphic novel of the same name
0:18:53 > 0:18:55by John Wagner and Vince Locke.
0:18:55 > 0:18:56It's tag line was,
0:18:56 > 0:19:01"Tom Stall had the perfect life...until he became a hero."
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Is that A History Of Violence?
0:19:03 > 0:19:04May very well be, I have no idea.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Yeah, let's go History Of Violence.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08- History Of Violence.- Correct.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11A 2011 film, thirdly, based on a play by Christopher Hampton.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15Its tag line is, "Based on the true story of the Jung, Freud
0:19:15 > 0:19:17"and the patient who came between them."
0:19:17 > 0:19:18- Dangerous Method.- Yeah.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20Dangerous Method.
0:19:20 > 0:19:21A Dangerous Method is correct.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24Ten points for this.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26In a poem first published in 1921,
0:19:26 > 0:19:29to what event is WB Yeats referring in the lines,
0:19:29 > 0:19:32"All changed, changed utterly, a terrible...?"
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Is it the Easter Rising of 1916?
0:19:34 > 0:19:36It is indeed the 1916 Easter Rising.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42These bonuses, St John's, are on African languages.
0:19:42 > 0:19:47Bambara is the lingua franca of which landlocked West African country?
0:19:47 > 0:19:49The official language is French
0:19:49 > 0:19:54and other languages include Tamasheq, Fula and Hassaniya Arabic.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Um, so it's going to be like Mali or Mauritania.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59- I think Mauritania might have... - Mauritania is not landlocked.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01- It's going to be Mali then.- Mali?
0:20:01 > 0:20:02Mali is correct.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05Bemba is the most spoken indigenous language
0:20:05 > 0:20:08of which landlocked African country?
0:20:08 > 0:20:10The official language is English.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14- Um... Um...- Could be Uganda? - No, that's...
0:20:14 > 0:20:19- It's going to be like Uganda or... - Chad is a French colony, so...
0:20:19 > 0:20:22- Tanzania?- Tanzania has got a coastline. It's probably...- Uganda.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25- Uganda, yeah.- Uganda.
0:20:25 > 0:20:26No, it's Zambia.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30Hausa is a major lingua franca of West and Central Africa
0:20:30 > 0:20:34with at least 30 million speakers, mainly in which country?
0:20:34 > 0:20:37- West and Central? - So, it's going to be like...
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Nigeria, then down to Cameroon.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42So it's going to be somewhere, like, in that sort of region.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44- Nigeria?- I'd go Nigeria, yeah.
0:20:44 > 0:20:45- Nigeria.- Correct.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49For your picture starter,
0:20:49 > 0:20:50you'll see a portrait.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53For ten points, I'd like you to identify both the artist
0:20:53 > 0:20:54and his subject.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59- Van Dyck, Charles I.- Correct.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Van Dyck spent almost ten years as court painter to Charles I.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Your picture bonuses are portraits of their royal patrons
0:21:08 > 0:21:11by three more artists who worked as court painters.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Again, in each case, I want you to identify both the artist
0:21:14 > 0:21:15and the subject.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Firstly, for five?
0:21:19 > 0:21:22- Is this Charles V? And... - Yeah, could be.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25- And did Charles...?- I don't know.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27He... Titian painted his portrait,
0:21:27 > 0:21:29but I don't think he was court painter.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31- We could go with Titian. - Charles V and Titian.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33- Charles V and Titian. - Correct. Secondly?
0:21:35 > 0:21:38- That's...- Marie Antoinette and...
0:21:38 > 0:21:42- Is that...?- No, I suppose it's...
0:21:42 > 0:21:45Marie Antoinette, Boucher was briefly court painter.
0:21:45 > 0:21:49- That was more Louis XV. - Boucher?- Boucher.- Boucher.
0:21:49 > 0:21:50Marie Antoinette and Boucher.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53No, it was Marie Antoinette, but the painter was Vigee Le Brun.
0:21:53 > 0:21:54And finally?
0:21:56 > 0:21:59- This was Velazquez. - I think Charles II of Spain?
0:21:59 > 0:22:00- OK, possibly.- Charles II?
0:22:00 > 0:22:02- Charles II and Velazquez. - It was Velazquez,
0:22:02 > 0:22:05- but it's Philip IV- Oh! - Ten points for this.
0:22:05 > 0:22:06If Jupiter and Saturn
0:22:06 > 0:22:10are hydrogen and Mars and Venus are carbon dioxide,
0:22:10 > 0:22:13what is Earth in terms...?
0:22:13 > 0:22:14- Nitrogen.- Correct.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Principal constituent of planetary atmospheres.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23And you get a set of bonuses on spectroscopic techniques.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26In each case, listen to be acronym and give me any word
0:22:26 > 0:22:29other than spectroscopy that's represented in it.
0:22:29 > 0:22:33For example, in the case of TOCSY, T-O-C-S-Y,
0:22:33 > 0:22:36standing for total control spectroscopy,
0:22:36 > 0:22:39I would accept total or control. OK?
0:22:39 > 0:22:43First, SECSY. S-E-C-S-Y.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52Well, something that's X? Or a Y?
0:22:52 > 0:22:55- Um, X is going to be X-ray. - It's S-E-C.
0:22:55 > 0:23:00- Oh, sorry.- So, based on... If T-O-C-S-Y is a T, total.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Could S be like semi or...?
0:23:02 > 0:23:04- Shall we go with that? - Could X not stand for X-ray?
0:23:04 > 0:23:07- There's no X in it, it's a C.- OK.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09So, it could be like semi or complete.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11- Go for complete.- Complete.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14No, it's spin echo correlated.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16And secondly, CARS. C-A-R-S.
0:23:18 > 0:23:19So, C-A-R...
0:23:21 > 0:23:25- That would be complete?- Complete. - R might be radio.- Radio?
0:23:25 > 0:23:28- Or A might be amplitude or something.- Go for radio?- Yeah.
0:23:28 > 0:23:33- Radio.- No, it's coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36And finally, REELS. R-E-E-L-S.
0:23:37 > 0:23:38Elect...?
0:23:40 > 0:23:43- Elongated, elevated... - I think the E...
0:23:45 > 0:23:48- E might be just elect... - Electro?- Electron because...
0:23:48 > 0:23:50OK, electron? Electron.
0:23:50 > 0:23:51You got it, yes.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55Well done, it was reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57So you get it, well done. Ten points for this.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Developed from a collection of villages when the East India Company
0:24:00 > 0:24:04established a trading post on an arm of the Ganges, which...?
0:24:05 > 0:24:07- Kolkata.- Kolkata is correct.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13You get a set of bonuses on geographical exclaves,
0:24:13 > 0:24:16that is territories that are not contiguous with the larger part
0:24:16 > 0:24:18of the country to which they belong.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Firstly, formed following the disintegration of East Prussia
0:24:20 > 0:24:24at the end of the Second World War, the Kaliningrad Oblast
0:24:24 > 0:24:27is an exclave of Russia that's bordered by Poland
0:24:27 > 0:24:29and which other country?
0:24:29 > 0:24:30- Yeah, Lithuania.- Correct.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Bordering Armenia, Iran and Turkey,
0:24:33 > 0:24:36the region of Nakhchivan is an exclave of
0:24:36 > 0:24:38which former Soviet republic?
0:24:38 > 0:24:40- Azerbaijan.- Azerbaijan.- Correct.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44The Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are entirely surrounded
0:24:44 > 0:24:45by which country?
0:24:45 > 0:24:47- Morocco.- Correct.
0:24:47 > 0:24:48Three minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Listen carefully,
0:24:50 > 0:24:52answer as soon as your name is called.
0:24:52 > 0:24:57What is 86 centimetres expressed as a percentage of four metres?
0:24:59 > 0:25:01- 21.5.- Well done!
0:25:05 > 0:25:08These bonuses are on a surname, St Catharine's.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Under the employment of George, Prince of Wales, Henry Holland
0:25:11 > 0:25:15was from 1786 the original designer of which building on the south coast?
0:25:15 > 0:25:19It was later substantially rebuilt by John Nash.
0:25:19 > 0:25:20Is that Brighton Pavilion?
0:25:22 > 0:25:24- No.- Wait, what...?- Come on, we need to crack on.
0:25:24 > 0:25:25No idea but George would...?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28- Go Brighton Pavilion. - Brighton Pavilion.- Correct.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Thomas Holland, the First Earl of Kent, was the first husband
0:25:30 > 0:25:33of which royal figure who later married Edward, the Black Prince,
0:25:33 > 0:25:35and was the mother of Richard II?
0:25:37 > 0:25:42- Just say, what is it?- I was thinking Margaret Beaufort or... No.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Give me an answer because we need to get on to the next question.
0:25:45 > 0:25:46- Margaret Beaufort. - Margaret Beaufort.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49No, it was Joan of Kent, the Fair Maid of Kent.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Cyril and Vyvyan Holland, born in the 1880s,
0:25:51 > 0:25:54were the two sons of which literary figure?
0:25:54 > 0:25:55- Oscar Wilde.- Correct.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Ten points for this starter question.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00Ralph Vaughan Williams's musical work The Lark Ascending
0:26:00 > 0:26:03took its name from a poem by which literary figure?
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Born 1828, his novels include
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Diana Of The Crossways and The Egoist.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13It's Meredith. Ten points for this.
0:26:13 > 0:26:18What term denotes the paraphyletic group of non-vascular land plants
0:26:18 > 0:26:21that includes mosses, liver warts and...?
0:26:21 > 0:26:23- Bryophytes.- Bryophytes is correct.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27You get a set of bonuses, this time on world rulers, St Catharine's.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29I will read a list of rulers who were on the throne
0:26:29 > 0:26:33or in power during the first year of a century of the Common Era.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35In each case, I simply want the century.
0:26:35 > 0:26:40Firstly, Tiridates III of Armenia and the Eastern Roman Emperor Diocletian?
0:26:42 > 0:26:44- Fourth century.- Fourth.- Correct.
0:26:44 > 0:26:49Kavadh I of Sassanid Persia and Clovis I of the Franks.
0:26:49 > 0:26:50- Sixth.- Sixth.
0:26:50 > 0:26:51Correct.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55And finally, the Emperor Ningzong of the Southern Song dynasty
0:26:55 > 0:26:57and Philip II of France?
0:26:57 > 0:27:00- Philip II?- Second of France?- Yeah.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05- 12th.- No, it's the 13th. Ten points for this.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Rarotonga, a mountainous volcanic island in the South Pacific
0:27:08 > 0:27:10is the chief island of which group?
0:27:11 > 0:27:13- The Cook Islands.- Correct.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16You get a set of bonuses on abstract algebra.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20What mathematical structure is defined as a commutative ring
0:27:20 > 0:27:23- in which every non-zero element is invertible?- Field.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24- Field.- Correct.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28What term is used for the additive order of the unit element of a ring?
0:27:28 > 0:27:31In arithmetic, the same word refers to the integer part
0:27:31 > 0:27:33of a logarithm in base ten.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40- Don't know.- Um, what was the first half of the question?- Tenth...
0:27:40 > 0:27:44- Come on, let's have it quickly. - Um, order...- Come on!
0:27:44 > 0:27:46- Generator.- No, it's characteristic.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48The characteristic of every finite field is equal to
0:27:48 > 0:27:50a member of which set of integers?
0:27:53 > 0:27:55- The prime numbers.- Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Littlewit, Grace Wellborn...
0:27:57 > 0:27:59GONG Morose and...
0:27:59 > 0:28:01At the gong, St Catharine's have 170,
0:28:01 > 0:28:04St John's - Oxford have 175.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08APPLAUSE
0:28:08 > 0:28:12Well, you gave them a run for their money, St Catharine's. Well done.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15You'll be coming back anyway to play another quarterfinal.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Which you will have to win to stay in the contest.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20St John's, congratulations. You have to win one more.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23But on today's form, that shouldn't be too difficult for you.
0:28:23 > 0:28:24Congratulations to you.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30Until then, it's goodbye from St Catharine's College - Cambridge.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33- TEAM:- Goodbye!- Goodbye from St John's College - Oxford.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35- TEAM:- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.