0:00:20 > 0:00:22University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Hello.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Two more teams enmeshed in the quarterfinal stage
0:00:32 > 0:00:35of this contest are playing for the first of the two wins
0:00:35 > 0:00:38they'll need to compete in the semifinals.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Whichever team loses will have one more chance
0:00:40 > 0:00:43to secure a victory to stay in contention.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Now, the team from the University of Newcastle
0:00:46 > 0:00:49defeated Kent University by 160 points
0:00:49 > 0:00:51to 115 in the first round,
0:00:51 > 0:00:55then won by a slightly closer margin in round two with 175
0:00:55 > 0:00:58against the 135 scored by Glasgow University.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02With an accumulated score of 335 points,
0:01:02 > 0:01:04let's meet the Newcastle team again.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Hello, I'm Alexander Kirkman, I'm from Guildford in Surrey
0:01:06 > 0:01:08and I'm studying biomedical sciences.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Hi, my name's Nick Smith,
0:01:10 > 0:01:11I'm originally from Chorley in Lancashire
0:01:11 > 0:01:13and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:13 > 0:01:14And this is their captain.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Hello, I'm Tony Richardson, originally from County Durham
0:01:16 > 0:01:19and I'm studying for a master's in international politics.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21Hi, I'm Kate Bennett, I'm from Chichester
0:01:21 > 0:01:24and I'm studying for an MA in film theory and practice.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26APPLAUSE
0:01:29 > 0:01:31The team from the University of Liverpool
0:01:31 > 0:01:33beat St Peter's College Oxford
0:01:33 > 0:01:37by 205 points to 130 in the first round.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39But they too had a closer run in the second round
0:01:39 > 0:01:41when they sent home the University of Southampton
0:01:41 > 0:01:44by a margin of 190 points to 155.
0:01:44 > 0:01:48With an accumulated score of 395,
0:01:48 > 0:01:51let's meet the Liverpool team for the third time.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Hi, I'm Jenny McLoughlin, I'm from Leeds
0:01:53 > 0:01:56and I'm studying biological and medical sciences.
0:01:56 > 0:01:57Hi, I'm Jack Bennett,
0:01:57 > 0:01:59I'm from Lancaster, I'm studying law.
0:01:59 > 0:02:00This is their captain.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02Hi, I'm Robin Wainwright, I'm from the Wirral
0:02:02 > 0:02:04and I'm studying biological sciences.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06Hi, I'm Ed Bretherton, I'm from Bampton in Devon
0:02:06 > 0:02:08and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10APPLAUSE
0:02:12 > 0:02:14OK, you know all the rules,
0:02:14 > 0:02:15so fingers on buzzers,
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20The two-word name of which town in Leicestershire
0:02:20 > 0:02:23derives from an early English word...
0:02:24 > 0:02:26- Melton Mowbray.- Correct.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33The first set of bonuses, Newcastle, are on Rene Descartes.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Firstly, consisting of three words in Latin
0:02:35 > 0:02:38and five in both the English and French versions,
0:02:38 > 0:02:41which fundamental dictum of Descartes has been called
0:02:41 > 0:02:44the indubitably true proposition.
0:02:44 > 0:02:45Cogito ergo sum.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47"I think, therefore I am." Yes.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50The name of which broad branch of mathematics
0:02:50 > 0:02:53forms the title of a work of 1637 by Descartes
0:02:53 > 0:02:57that appeared as an appendix to his Discourse On Method.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02THEY CONFER
0:03:02 > 0:03:05- WHISPERS:- Geometry. Geometry. - Try geometry.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07Geometry.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Correct. Descartes died in 1650 in which European capital,
0:03:11 > 0:03:15where he was employed as philosophy tutor to Queen Christina?
0:03:15 > 0:03:17THEY CONFER
0:03:24 > 0:03:25- WHISPERS:- You go if you're...
0:03:25 > 0:03:26Oslo.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27No, it's Stockholm.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Ten points for this.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Give the single-word term
0:03:31 > 0:03:33for the often devastating natural phenomenon
0:03:33 > 0:03:37characterised by low amplitude and long wavelength
0:03:37 > 0:03:40that is caused by a sudden subduction of tectonic plates...
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Earthquake.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44No, you lose five points.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48..by a sudden subduction of tectonic plates under the ocean.
0:03:50 > 0:03:51Tsunami.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53Correct.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Your bonuses are on anatomy, Newcastle.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02What name is given to the functional units of the kidney
0:04:02 > 0:04:03that form urine?
0:04:03 > 0:04:07Each consists of a renal corpuscle and a long, narrow tubule.
0:04:09 > 0:04:10- Nephron.- Nephron.
0:04:10 > 0:04:11Correct.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Also used in botany for a head of flowers,
0:04:13 > 0:04:16what term denotes the knot of capillaries
0:04:16 > 0:04:19found in the Bowman's capsule in the renal corpuscle?
0:04:22 > 0:04:26- Glomerulus. You have to nominate me. - Nominate Smith.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Glomerulus.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Glomerulus is correct.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31And finally, after a 19th-century German anatomist,
0:04:31 > 0:04:34what term denotes the long U-shaped portion
0:04:34 > 0:04:38of the tubule that conducts urine within each nephron?
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Loop of Henle.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42- I'll nominate Smith. - Loop of Henle.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Correct. Ten points for this.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46Einstein added
0:04:46 > 0:04:48a cosmological constant
0:04:48 > 0:04:50to his general theory of relativity
0:04:50 > 0:04:52in the mistaken belief that the universe
0:04:52 > 0:04:55was neither expanding nor contracting.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Which Greek letter was used to label this constant?
0:05:00 > 0:05:01Gamma.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04No. Liverpool, one of you buzz?
0:05:06 > 0:05:07Sigma.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09No, it was lambda. Ten points for this.
0:05:09 > 0:05:10Said by Vasari
0:05:10 > 0:05:14to have drawn a perfect circle for Pope Boniface VIII.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17- Giotto. - Giotto is correct, yes.
0:05:19 > 0:05:23These bonuses are on an event, Newcastle.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25A case of perityphlitis,
0:05:25 > 0:05:28or inflammation of the connective tissues around the caecum,
0:05:28 > 0:05:31was cited as the reason for the postponement of what event,
0:05:31 > 0:05:34originally scheduled for 26 June 1902?
0:05:38 > 0:05:41Is it coronation of Edward VII. Yeah?
0:05:41 > 0:05:42The coronation of Edward VII.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Correct. Which Archbishop of Canterbury
0:05:44 > 0:05:46conducted the ceremony?
0:05:46 > 0:05:49As a result of his age and frailty, he's said to have placed the crown
0:05:49 > 0:05:51back to front on the head of the king,
0:05:51 > 0:05:53who also had to help him back onto his feet
0:05:53 > 0:05:55after he knelt to pay homage.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59THEY CONFER
0:06:03 > 0:06:05- Shall we pass?- Pass on that.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07It was Archbishop Frederick Temple.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09And finally, the crown worn by Queen Alexandra
0:06:09 > 0:06:12during the ceremony was noted for the inclusion of which diamond,
0:06:12 > 0:06:14formerly in the possession of the Mughal emperors?
0:06:14 > 0:06:17- THEY CONFER - The Koh-i-Noor.
0:06:17 > 0:06:18Correct.
0:06:18 > 0:06:19Ten points for this.
0:06:19 > 0:06:20A new elucidation
0:06:20 > 0:06:23of the first principles of metaphysical cognition
0:06:23 > 0:06:26was a 1755 publication by which philosopher?
0:06:26 > 0:06:28It allowed him to begin giving lectures
0:06:28 > 0:06:30at the University of Konigsberg,
0:06:30 > 0:06:32the city where he spent most of his life.
0:06:34 > 0:06:35- Kant.- Kant is correct, yes.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41These bonuses are on birds, Liverpool.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45What is the common name of the corvid garrulus glandarius?
0:06:45 > 0:06:47It has a pinkish, fawn body and patches of white,
0:06:47 > 0:06:50blue and black on its wings and tail.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Jay.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55Correct. Used figuratively for a shallow or vain person,
0:06:55 > 0:06:58popinjay is a regional name for a green woodpecker
0:06:58 > 0:07:00and an archaic name for which bird,
0:07:00 > 0:07:02for example, in heraldry?
0:07:04 > 0:07:07- WHISPERS:- Any idea? - A sparrow or something.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Tell you the truth, I have no idea.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11- No, we don't know. - It's a parrot.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Which two titles precede Mockingjay
0:07:14 > 0:07:18in a trilogy by the US author Suzanne Collins?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20The Hunger Games and Catching Fire.
0:07:20 > 0:07:21You ashamed to know that?
0:07:21 > 0:07:22Little bit.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24You're a bit, aren't you?
0:07:24 > 0:07:25Right, we're going to take
0:07:25 > 0:07:26a picture round now.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28For your picture starter, you'll see a map
0:07:28 > 0:07:29of the Mediterranean Sea
0:07:29 > 0:07:32with one of its marginal seas highlighted.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34For ten points, I would like you to give me the name
0:07:34 > 0:07:36of that marginal sea.
0:07:41 > 0:07:42Tyrrhenian.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44It is the Tyrrhenian Sea, yes.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48So, following on from that,
0:07:48 > 0:07:50you're going to see three more maps of the Mediterranean Sea,
0:07:50 > 0:07:54each with one of its marginal seas or subdivisions indicated.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Five points for each you can identify.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Firstly, this strait.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01THEY CONFER
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Dalmatian Strait.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12No, that's the Strait of Otranto.
0:08:12 > 0:08:13Secondly, this sea.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17THEY CONFER
0:08:25 > 0:08:26We don't know.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29That's the Alboran Sea. And finally, this sea.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33THEY CONFER
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Sea of Marmara.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Correct.
0:08:41 > 0:08:42Another starter question.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Fingers on buzzers, please.
0:08:44 > 0:08:45Which fictional character is this?
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Her creator said she was,
0:08:47 > 0:08:50"A heroine whom no-one but myself will much like,"
0:08:50 > 0:08:53while the man who marries her says,
0:08:53 > 0:08:56"She is faultless, in spite of all her faults."
0:08:56 > 0:08:59The man in question being George Knightley.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03- Emma Woodhouse. - Correct, in Jane Austen.
0:09:06 > 0:09:11So, Newcastle, your bonuses are on an English scientist.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Firstly, The Genetical Theory Of Natural Selection
0:09:14 > 0:09:17is a work of 1930 by which geneticist
0:09:17 > 0:09:20and statistician born in 1890?
0:09:20 > 0:09:22It contains the result known as
0:09:22 > 0:09:25the fundamental theorem of natural selection.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29- WHISPERS:- Trying to think of what they're called.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32- WHISPERS:- The 20th century.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37- It would be too early for... - It is, yeah.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40I've got nothing.
0:09:40 > 0:09:41No idea.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43That's RA Fisher.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47Named after Fisher and usually denoted by a capital letter I,
0:09:47 > 0:09:49what quantity and statistical inference
0:09:49 > 0:09:52is equal to the second moment of the score function?
0:09:52 > 0:09:54It quantifies the amount of evidence
0:09:54 > 0:09:56that an observable random variable
0:09:56 > 0:09:58carries about an unknown parameter.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Frequency.
0:10:07 > 0:10:08No, it's Fisher information.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11And finally, Fisher was an early proponent
0:10:11 > 0:10:14of the method for estimating unknown parameters
0:10:14 > 0:10:17that is sometimes abbreviated to MLE.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19For what do those letters stand?
0:10:23 > 0:10:24- WHISPERS:- What do you think? - I don't know.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26- No.- No.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28That's maximum-likelihood estimate.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34What seven-letter French word is this?
0:10:34 > 0:10:38The object of the verb in a remark by a callous princess
0:10:38 > 0:10:41recounted in Rousseau's Confessions...
0:10:41 > 0:10:44- Brioche. - Brioche is correct, yes.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Right, so, Liverpool, you get a set of bonuses on Confucius.
0:10:50 > 0:10:55Confucius was born in 551 BCE and died in 479,
0:10:55 > 0:10:59one year after which much-celebrated battle in the Mediterranean world,
0:10:59 > 0:11:03the name of which refers to nearby hot sulphur springs?
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Thermopylae, is it?
0:11:07 > 0:11:09- Thermopylae. - Correct.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12Confucius' life came towards the end of which period
0:11:12 > 0:11:14of the Eastern Zhou dynasty?
0:11:14 > 0:11:17Named after a book of chronicles that incorporates
0:11:17 > 0:11:19the names of seasons of the year.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24Winter period?
0:11:24 > 0:11:25Just guess.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27The winter period.
0:11:27 > 0:11:28No, it's spring and autumn.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30And finally, the sayings of Confucius
0:11:30 > 0:11:34known in Chinese as the Lunyu are often given what English name,
0:11:34 > 0:11:37derived ultimately from the Greek for gather up?
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Analects.
0:11:40 > 0:11:41- Nominate Bennett.- Analects.
0:11:41 > 0:11:42Analects is correct.
0:11:44 > 0:11:45Ten points for this.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Listen carefully, give three answers promptly.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50The names of seven US states
0:11:50 > 0:11:53contain more than one letter S for Sierra?
0:11:53 > 0:11:57Of these, six share their names with rivers.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59Name any three that do so.
0:12:04 > 0:12:05Mississippi.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Three.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09My mistake, my mistake.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Right, anyone want to buzz from Newcastle?
0:12:11 > 0:12:13Mississippi, Missouri and Arkansas.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Correct, the other ones are Tennessee, Wisconsin and Kansas.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Right, these bonuses for you, Newcastle, are on acids.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24What is the common name of the carboxylic acid
0:12:24 > 0:12:26that is converted to glucose in the human body
0:12:26 > 0:12:28via the Cori cycle?
0:12:28 > 0:12:31It's found in foods such as sour milk and yoghurt.
0:12:34 > 0:12:35- WHISPERS:- Try lactic acid.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38- Yeah?- Yeah.- Lactic.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42Correct. What common name is given to the acid used in baking powder
0:12:42 > 0:12:46and carbonated drinks with a basic formula C4H606?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48It's compounds are often found as deposits
0:12:48 > 0:12:50during the fermentation of wine.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55THEY CONFER
0:13:01 > 0:13:03- WHISPERS:- Acetic. Like, vinegar.
0:13:03 > 0:13:04Acetic?
0:13:04 > 0:13:06No, it's tartaric acid.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09With a molecular formula C6H8O7,
0:13:09 > 0:13:12which carboxylic acid was isolated from lemon juice
0:13:12 > 0:13:15by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1784?
0:13:15 > 0:13:18It's used in soft drinks and cleaning products.
0:13:18 > 0:13:19Citric.
0:13:19 > 0:13:20Correct. Ten points for this.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:13:22 > 0:13:26Using Boyle's law, determine the final volume in litres of a gas
0:13:26 > 0:13:28if the pressure of a three-litre sample is increased,
0:13:28 > 0:13:31from three atmospheres to six atmospheres?
0:13:37 > 0:13:38Two.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40No. Anyone like to buzz from Liverpool?
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Six.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47No, it's 1.5. Ten points for this.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49The last four letters of the full name
0:13:49 > 0:13:51of which twin-island Caribbean country
0:13:51 > 0:13:54are the first four letters...
0:13:55 > 0:13:56I-O-L-A.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01..the first four letters of a capital on the River Danube
0:14:01 > 0:14:04around 200km southeast of Vienna?
0:14:08 > 0:14:09Barbuda.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12I asked for the full name and Barbuda is correct.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15But the full name, of course, is Antigua and Barbuda.
0:14:15 > 0:14:16So, ten points for this.
0:14:16 > 0:14:21Assuming SI units, light with a wave number of between 100,000
0:14:21 > 0:14:24and one million lies within which broad band
0:14:24 > 0:14:26of the electromagnetic spectrum?
0:14:28 > 0:14:29Radio waves.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Nope.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33Invisible spectrum.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35It's infrared. Ten points for this.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40Uncle Tungsten, Musicophilia and An Anthropologist On Mars
0:14:40 > 0:14:43are among the works of which London-born neurologist,
0:14:43 > 0:14:45perhaps best known for the 1980...?
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Sacks. Oliver Sacks.
0:14:47 > 0:14:48Oliver Sacks is correct, yes.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Newcastle, these bonuses are on the plays of Oscar Wilde.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55First performed in 1893,
0:14:55 > 0:14:58which play by Wilde has, as its title,
0:14:58 > 0:14:59a phrase that Lord Illingworth uses
0:14:59 > 0:15:02as an unflattering description of Mrs Arbuthnot.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10- A Woman Of No Importance.- Correct.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13The plot of which of Wilde's plays centres around an object
0:15:13 > 0:15:15that the title character tells Lord Darlington
0:15:15 > 0:15:18is a birthday present from her husband?
0:15:18 > 0:15:20- WHISPERS:- The Importance Of Being Earnest.
0:15:20 > 0:15:21The Importance Of Being Earnest.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23The Importance Of Being Earnest.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25No, it's Lady Windermere's Fan.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28And, finally, the three-word title of which play
0:15:28 > 0:15:31refers to Lady Chiltern's description
0:15:31 > 0:15:33of her husband, Sir Robert?
0:15:36 > 0:15:39THEY CONFER
0:15:42 > 0:15:44The Ill-Tempered Man.
0:15:44 > 0:15:45No, it's An Ideal Husband.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Right, we'll take a music round now.
0:15:48 > 0:15:49For your music starter,
0:15:49 > 0:15:51you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
0:15:51 > 0:15:55For ten points, I'd like you to identify the group performing.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57# Straight outta Compton... #
0:15:58 > 0:15:59NWA.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01NWA is correct, yes.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04APPLAUSE DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:16:04 > 0:16:07It's underpinned by a sample from Amen Brother,
0:16:07 > 0:16:10a 1969 track by The Winstons.
0:16:10 > 0:16:11Though the original song was never a hit,
0:16:11 > 0:16:15the four-bar drum solo now known as the Amen break
0:16:15 > 0:16:17has become one of the most frequently-used samples
0:16:17 > 0:16:19in pop music.
0:16:19 > 0:16:20For your music bonuses,
0:16:20 > 0:16:22you're going to hear three more songs that use it.
0:16:22 > 0:16:27In each case, I simply want the band or the artist you hear performing.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29SLOW ROCK MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:31 > 0:16:33- WHISPER:- It's Oasis or something? - Yeah.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35THEY CONFER
0:16:38 > 0:16:39Oasis.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Oasis is right. Secondly...
0:16:42 > 0:16:44ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:44 > 0:16:47- Prodigy.- Prodigy, yeah.- The Prodigy.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50- No, that's David Bowie.- Oh. - And finally...
0:16:50 > 0:16:54- SOUL MUSIC PLAYS - Amy Winehouse.
0:16:54 > 0:16:55Amy Winehouse.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Correct.
0:16:57 > 0:16:58Ten points for this.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Gediminas' Tower is a landmark in which European capital?
0:17:01 > 0:17:04It's named after an early 14th-century grand duke
0:17:04 > 0:17:07who defended his realm against the Teutonic Knights?
0:17:08 > 0:17:09Vienna.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Anyone like to buzz from Liverpool?
0:17:13 > 0:17:15- Prague.- No, it's Vilnius.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18And we have to fine you, I'm afraid, five points
0:17:18 > 0:17:20for an incorrect interruption, Newcastle.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21Right, another starter question.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Which final five letters link French words
0:17:24 > 0:17:29meaning shady or disreputable, fly, shower and mouth?
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Ouche. O-U-C-H-E.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Correct. Yes.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37APPLAUSE
0:17:39 > 0:17:42These bonuses, Liverpool, are on US presidents.
0:17:42 > 0:17:46Two future US presidents signed the Declaration of Independence.
0:17:46 > 0:17:47Can you name both?
0:17:47 > 0:17:49- Adams and Jefferson. - Adams and Jefferson.
0:17:49 > 0:17:50Correct.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53Two US presidents were shot in Washington DC.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56One died the following day, the other - 80 days later.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Again, please name both.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00- WHISPERS:- Kennedy...no.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Lincoln, then it's either Garfield or McKinley.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05- I'd go for Garfield. - I think it's McKinley.
0:18:06 > 0:18:07He was in Baltimore.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12- Lincoln...Lincoln.- Come on.
0:18:12 > 0:18:13Lincoln and McKinley.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15No, McKinley was shot in Buffalo.
0:18:15 > 0:18:16Garfield was the other one.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19The two US presidents who were impeached.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22- Can you name both of them? WHISPERS:- Nixon and Clinton.
0:18:22 > 0:18:23Nixon and Clinton.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25No, Nixon wasn't impeached, he resigned.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27The other one is Andrew Johnson.
0:18:27 > 0:18:28So you don't get any points there.
0:18:28 > 0:18:29and we're going to take
0:18:29 > 0:18:30a second picture round.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33For your picture starter, you're going to see
0:18:33 > 0:18:34a portrait of a British engineer.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Ten points if you can name him.
0:18:41 > 0:18:42James Watt.
0:18:42 > 0:18:43It is James Watt, yes.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48James Watt was one of the group of pioneering philosophers,
0:18:48 > 0:18:50scientists and manufacturers
0:18:50 > 0:18:53who met informally as the Lunar Society of Birmingham,
0:18:53 > 0:18:56and who have been called the fathers of the Industrial Revolution.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Your picture bonuses are portraits of three more members
0:18:58 > 0:19:00of the society.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Five points for each you can identify.
0:19:02 > 0:19:03Firstly, for five - this scientist.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06THEY CONFER
0:19:07 > 0:19:09When was Watt around?
0:19:09 > 0:19:11- Yeah, Hooke. - Was Davy around at that time?
0:19:11 > 0:19:13Davy was...
0:19:13 > 0:19:17- Was Dalton...- Hooke? - Go for Hooke, yeah.
0:19:17 > 0:19:18Hooke.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20No, that's Joseph Priestley.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Secondly, this industrialist.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Josiah. Josiah Wedgwood.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27Go for it.
0:19:27 > 0:19:28Josiah Wedgwood.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Correct. And finally, this manufacturer.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33THEY CONFER
0:19:36 > 0:19:37Abraham Darby.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39No, that's Matthew Boulton.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Right, ten points for this
0:19:41 > 0:19:42starter question.
0:19:42 > 0:19:43At nearly 2,000 metres,
0:19:43 > 0:19:47Mount Halla on the island of Jeju is the hi...
0:19:47 > 0:19:48South Korea.
0:19:48 > 0:19:49South Korea is correct.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Your bonuses, Liverpool,
0:19:53 > 0:19:56are on words that begin with the letters Z-Y.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:19:58 > 0:20:03Firstly, also known as a proenzyme, an inactive substance
0:20:03 > 0:20:05that could be converted into one enzyme
0:20:05 > 0:20:07when activated by another.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10An example is trypsinogen, secreted by the pancreas.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18- Zymogen or something. - Zymogen.
0:20:18 > 0:20:19Zymogen is correct.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22An arrangement, secondly, of digits in birds and chameleons
0:20:22 > 0:20:25with two toes facing forward and two back.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28It's common in arboreal species.
0:20:29 > 0:20:30Zygodactyl.
0:20:30 > 0:20:31Correct.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34Finally, the cell produced when a sperm fertilises an ovum.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35Zygote.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Correct. Ten points for this.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41Following a mission by Menasseh ben Israel
0:20:41 > 0:20:42of Amsterdam,
0:20:42 > 0:20:46which political figure rescinded an order of 1290,
0:20:46 > 0:20:48expelling Jews from England?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51- Oliver Cromwell.- Correct.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Your bonuses which could put you in the lead
0:20:55 > 0:20:57are on The Lord Of The Rings.
0:20:57 > 0:20:58- Yes!- Firstly, for five points.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01Chapter one of book three of The Lord Of The Rings,
0:21:01 > 0:21:04that is the first chapter of The Two Towers, is entitled
0:21:04 > 0:21:08The Departure Of... which member of the Fellowship Of The Ring?
0:21:08 > 0:21:10- Boromir.- Correct.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14Secondly, chapter one of book four is entitled The Taming Of...
0:21:14 > 0:21:16which figure also known as Gollum?
0:21:16 > 0:21:18- Smeagol.- Correct.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21Chapter one of book five, that is the first chapter
0:21:21 > 0:21:24of The Return Of The King shares its name with which city -
0:21:24 > 0:21:26the capital of the Kingdom of Gondor?
0:21:26 > 0:21:27Minas Tirith.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28Well done.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Ten points for this.
0:21:30 > 0:21:31What is the national
0:21:31 > 0:21:33fruit of India?
0:21:33 > 0:21:35A rich source of vitamins A, C and D,
0:21:35 > 0:21:40its flesh may be dried, eaten ripe or used in pickles and chutneys.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43- Mango.- Mango is correct.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48Your bonuses are on African wildlife.
0:21:48 > 0:21:49Established in 1951,
0:21:49 > 0:21:51which national park in northern Tanzania
0:21:51 > 0:21:53is the only location in Africa
0:21:53 > 0:21:57where large-scale migration of land animals still take place?
0:21:57 > 0:22:00THEY CONFER
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Maasai Mara.
0:22:02 > 0:22:03No, it's the Serengeti.
0:22:03 > 0:22:04Common in the Serengeti,
0:22:04 > 0:22:07which small antelope of the genus Eudorcas
0:22:07 > 0:22:11is named after a Scottish explorer born in 1858?
0:22:11 > 0:22:12Thomson's gazelle.
0:22:12 > 0:22:13Correct.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15What is the common name of large antelopes
0:22:15 > 0:22:16of the genus Connochaetes,
0:22:16 > 0:22:19particularly abundant in the Serengeti?
0:22:19 > 0:22:20Wildebeest.
0:22:20 > 0:22:21Wildebeest is correct.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Five minutes to go.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24Ten points at stake for this.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26That of a grandfather and his granddaughter,
0:22:26 > 0:22:31what surname links the writers who created the malignant Svengali
0:22:31 > 0:22:33and the troubled housekeeper Mrs Danvers?
0:22:35 > 0:22:36Robert Louis Stevenson.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38No, anyone want to buzz from Newcastle?
0:22:41 > 0:22:42Du Maurier.
0:22:42 > 0:22:43Du Maurier is correct.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47These bonuses are on the Domesday Book.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50William the Conqueror commissioned the Domesday Book
0:22:50 > 0:22:52while at Gloucester during Christmas of what year -
0:22:52 > 0:22:53two years before he died?
0:22:53 > 0:22:58- WHISPERS:- 85. He died in 1080...90, was it 97?
0:22:58 > 0:23:00So it would be 1085.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02- WHISPER:- You sure? - Come on.- Yeah, 85.
0:23:02 > 0:23:041085.
0:23:04 > 0:23:05Correct.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08The abbreviation TRE in the Domesday Book
0:23:08 > 0:23:11refers to the last day of the reign of which monarch?
0:23:13 > 0:23:15THEY CONFER
0:23:15 > 0:23:17- WHISPERS:- I would have gone for Edward the Confessor.
0:23:17 > 0:23:18Edward the Confessor.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Correct.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22Some major towns were omitted from the Domesday Book,
0:23:22 > 0:23:23London was one.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Which former capital of Wessex was another?
0:23:26 > 0:23:28- WHISPER:- Wessex...- Salisbury? - Yeah, go on, then.
0:23:28 > 0:23:29Salisbury.
0:23:29 > 0:23:30No, it was Winchester.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32Ten points at stake for this.
0:23:32 > 0:23:33The age of which animals
0:23:33 > 0:23:36can be estimated by Galvayne's groove,
0:23:36 > 0:23:38found on the upper corner incisor?
0:23:39 > 0:23:40Horse.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Horses is correct, yes.
0:23:43 > 0:23:44And donkeys.
0:23:44 > 0:23:45Level pegging, these are your bonuses.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47They're on cities of the Commonwealth.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50Beaverbrook, Britannia, Alta Vista and Avalon
0:23:50 > 0:23:53are among the suburbs of which national capital?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55THEY CONFER
0:23:55 > 0:23:57- WHISPERS:- Is it Canada? - Come on.
0:23:57 > 0:23:58Ottawa. Ottawa.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Correct. Gives you the lead.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04Clementi, Orchard Road, Bukit Timah and Changi
0:24:04 > 0:24:07are among the localities in which major Commonwealth city?
0:24:08 > 0:24:10- WHISPERS:- Kolkata?
0:24:10 > 0:24:11Kolkata.
0:24:11 > 0:24:12No, it's Singapore.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Which capital's suburbs include Mount Victoria, Brooklyn,
0:24:15 > 0:24:18Rongotai and Ngaio?
0:24:18 > 0:24:21- Sounds like New Zealand, Auckland. - Auckland.
0:24:21 > 0:24:22No, it's Wellington.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Ten points for this.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25Listen carefully, I need the names
0:24:25 > 0:24:26of three cities here.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Name the capitals of the US state of Oklahoma,
0:24:29 > 0:24:31the Republic of Guatemala,
0:24:31 > 0:24:34and the US state of New York.
0:24:36 > 0:24:41Oklahoma City, Guatemala City and Albany.
0:24:41 > 0:24:42Correct.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48These bonuses are on Tate Britain, Liverpool.
0:24:48 > 0:24:53Inspired by a boating expedition in 1885, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
0:24:53 > 0:24:57is a painting by which US artist noted for his society portraits?
0:24:59 > 0:25:01- WHISPERS:- Winslow Homer.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Winslow Homer.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05- Nominate Bennett.- Winslow Homer.
0:25:05 > 0:25:06No, it's John Singer Sargent.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Sargent's 1889 portrait of the actress Ellen Terry
0:25:09 > 0:25:11depicts her in a dramatic pose
0:25:11 > 0:25:14as which of Shakespeare's characters?
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- Ophelia?- Lady Macbeth.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18- Ophelia. - No, it's Lady Macbeth.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Which impressionist artist was depicted
0:25:20 > 0:25:22painting by the edge of a wood in a work by Sargent
0:25:22 > 0:25:26in the mid-1880s during his time in Giverny near Paris?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32- WHISPERS:- Cezanne?- Cezanne.
0:25:32 > 0:25:33No, it's Monet.
0:25:33 > 0:25:34There's less than two minutes to go,
0:25:34 > 0:25:36here's a starter question.
0:25:36 > 0:25:37In 2014, which historic county of England
0:25:37 > 0:25:40linked the winners of the LV County Cricket Championship
0:25:40 > 0:25:44with the initial stages of the Tour de France?
0:25:44 > 0:25:45Yorkshire.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48Yorkshire is correct. Your bonuses this time are on novels.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50In each case, the answer is the title of a novel
0:25:50 > 0:25:53first published in 1915.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Philip Carey is the protagonist of which novel by Somerset Maugham?
0:25:58 > 0:26:00THEY CONFER
0:26:02 > 0:26:05- The Sun And The Rainfall.- Nominate Bennett.- Come on, let's have it.
0:26:05 > 0:26:06The Sun And The Rainfall.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07No, it's Of Human Bondage.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10Edmond Ashburnham is the title character
0:26:10 > 0:26:12of which novel by Ford Madox Ford?
0:26:12 > 0:26:15- Howards End?- Howards End.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17No, it's The Good Soldier.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19EM Forster wrote Howards End.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21Richard Hannay is the protagonist of which novel of 1915
0:26:21 > 0:26:23by John Buchan?
0:26:23 > 0:26:25- The Thirty-Nine Steps. - The Thirty-Nine Steps.
0:26:25 > 0:26:26Correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:26 > 0:26:30The name of the post-war avant-garde artistic movement COBRA
0:26:30 > 0:26:33is an acronym denoting which three European capital cities?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Copenhagen, Oslo and Bratislava.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42No, anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Copenhagen, Bratislava and Amsterdam?
0:26:46 > 0:26:49No, it's Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam.
0:26:49 > 0:26:50Ten points for this.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Derived from the Greek to fall short,
0:26:52 > 0:26:54what term in grammar and rhetoric refers to the omission
0:26:54 > 0:26:57of part of a gramatically complete sentence?
0:26:57 > 0:26:59It's more generally used to denote...
0:26:59 > 0:27:00Elision?
0:27:00 > 0:27:01No, and you lose five points.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04It's more generally used to denote the three dots
0:27:04 > 0:27:06that symbolise such omission.
0:27:06 > 0:27:07Ellipsis.
0:27:07 > 0:27:12Ellipsis is correct, you get a set of bonuses on English forests now.
0:27:12 > 0:27:13Firstly, for five.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15In which English county is the majority
0:27:15 > 0:27:16of the Forest of Bowland?
0:27:16 > 0:27:18In 2014, it marked 50 years
0:27:18 > 0:27:21as a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Lancashire.
0:27:22 > 0:27:23Correct. GONG
0:27:23 > 0:27:26And at the gong, Newcastle University have 150,
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Liverpool have 190. APPLAUSE
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Well, bad luck, Newcastle, despite leading.
0:27:35 > 0:27:36You're going to have to come back again.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39We look forward to seeing you in a few weeks' time,
0:27:39 > 0:27:40on which occasion you must win
0:27:40 > 0:27:42if you're to stay in the competition.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44Well done, Liverpool.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46You lived a bit dangerously, I thought
0:27:46 > 0:27:48but you're one step closer to the semifinals.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51One more victory means you'll definitely go through to the semis.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match,
0:27:54 > 0:27:56but until then it's goodbye from Newcastle University.
0:27:56 > 0:27:57- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00- It's goodbye from Liverpool University. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.