0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:20 > 0:00:23University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Last time, Peterhouse, Cambridge became the first team
0:00:32 > 0:00:36to go through to the semifinal stage of this contest, having won
0:00:36 > 0:00:40the second of the two quarterfinals demanded by our Byzantine rules.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44Tonight's teams are both standing on a precipice with one foot
0:00:44 > 0:00:49resting on air, each having lost their first quarterfinal match.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52So, whichever of them loses tonight will leave the competition,
0:00:52 > 0:00:56while the victors will have one final chance to qualify.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58St Catharine's College, Cambridge beat
0:00:58 > 0:01:01the universities of Southampton and Nottingham in rounds one
0:01:01 > 0:01:05and two, but they lost their first quarterfinal by the narrowest
0:01:05 > 0:01:08margin, a mere five points, against St John's College, Oxford.
0:01:08 > 0:01:13They're here with an accumulated score of 545.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16So, let's meet them now for the fourth time.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20Hi, I'm Callum Watson, I'm from Stirlingshire and I study maths.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Hi, I'm Ellie Chan, I'm from Brighton
0:01:23 > 0:01:25and I'm reading for a PhD in history of art.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27And this is their captain.
0:01:27 > 0:01:32Hello, I'm Callum Bungey, I'm from London and I'm reading chemistry.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34Hi, I'm Alex Cranston, I'm from London
0:01:34 > 0:01:36and I'm reading biological natural sciences.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38APPLAUSE
0:01:40 > 0:01:43Now, in their first round, the University of York had
0:01:43 > 0:01:47something of a walkover against Manchester University.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49It was a closer affair in round two,
0:01:49 > 0:01:51when they defeated Christ's College, Cambridge,
0:01:51 > 0:01:54but they came a cropper in their first quarterfinal, albeit in
0:01:54 > 0:01:57a tight contest, against Peterhouse, Cambridge.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00With an accumulated score of 655 points,
0:02:00 > 0:02:03let's meet the York team for the fourth time.
0:02:03 > 0:02:07Hello, my name's Barto Joly de Lotbiniere, I'm from London
0:02:07 > 0:02:09and I'm studying history.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12Hi, I'm Sam Smith, I'm from Guernsey and I'm studying chemistry.
0:02:12 > 0:02:13And this is their captain.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Hello, my name's David Landon Cole, I'm from Yeovil in Somerset
0:02:16 > 0:02:18and I'm studying politics.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Hi, I'm Joseph McLoughlin, I'm from Oldham in Lancashire
0:02:21 > 0:02:22and I study chemistry.
0:02:22 > 0:02:23APPLAUSE
0:02:27 > 0:02:29OK, you all know the rules, the audience all know the rules,
0:02:29 > 0:02:31so let's get on with it.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Born in Dumfriesshire in 1812,
0:02:36 > 0:02:39Kirkpatrick Macmillan is generally credited
0:02:39 > 0:02:41as the inventor of what transportation device?
0:02:43 > 0:02:44The bike.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46The bicycle is correct, yes.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52The first set of bonuses, St Catharine's, are on a Roman emperor.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Born in what is now Lyon in 10BC,
0:02:55 > 0:02:58who was declared Emperor as the only surviving male adult member of the
0:02:58 > 0:03:04imperial family after his nephew, Caligula, was killed in AD41?
0:03:04 > 0:03:06- Claudius. - Claudius.
0:03:06 > 0:03:11Correct. Which province did Claudius add to the Roman Empire in AD46?
0:03:11 > 0:03:15It was bounded to the east by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22- Thrace? - Thrace? Yes, cos...
0:03:22 > 0:03:23Thrace?
0:03:23 > 0:03:27Correct. Which stepson of Claudius became Emperor in AD54?
0:03:27 > 0:03:31His mother, Agrippina, was suspected of poisoning Claudius to
0:03:31 > 0:03:32ensure her son's succession.
0:03:32 > 0:03:33Nero.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36Correct. Ten points for this -
0:03:36 > 0:03:41what seven-letter word links the plumage of some birds after
0:03:41 > 0:03:42the spring moult,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45the latent period in the multiplication of a bacterial virus
0:03:45 > 0:03:48and the disappearance from view of an astronomical object
0:03:48 > 0:03:51as it passes directly behind another object?
0:03:55 > 0:03:57Eclipse.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58Correct.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03Your bonuses are on a scientific award, York, to get you started.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Which US presidential award recognises lifetime
0:04:06 > 0:04:10achievement in the science and technology of energy?
0:04:10 > 0:04:14It's named after an Italian-born physicist who died in 1854.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16- Fermi. - Yeah, I think it is.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Fermi Prize, Fermi Award, Fermi Medal?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23- Just Fermi. - Fermi.
0:04:23 > 0:04:24Fermi is correct.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27What surname is shared by the brothers who both received
0:04:27 > 0:04:30the Fermi Award, the first in 1957 partly for his invention
0:04:30 > 0:04:32and development of the cyclotron,
0:04:32 > 0:04:37the second in 1983 for his pioneering work in nuclear medicine?
0:04:40 > 0:04:41I have no idea.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48Try Johnson? That's a common American name!
0:04:48 > 0:04:49Johnson?
0:04:49 > 0:04:52No, they're Ernest and John Lawrence.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Finally, which Austrian-born physicist shared
0:04:54 > 0:04:59the Fermi Award in 1966 for the discovery of uranium fission?
0:04:59 > 0:05:02Element number 109 was named in her honour.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04- 109...- Meitner. - Lise Meitner.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07- Sorry? - Just say Meitner.
0:05:07 > 0:05:08Meitner.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Meitner is correct. Ten points for this -
0:05:10 > 0:05:14in 1895, the Scottish-born scientist Andrew Lawson was the first
0:05:14 > 0:05:16to identify which geological feature,
0:05:16 > 0:05:19later found to be more than 800 miles long?
0:05:19 > 0:05:24In 1906, it was a factor in the earthquake that hit San Francisco.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27San Andreas Fault.
0:05:27 > 0:05:28Correct.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33These bonuses are on a noble family, York.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36What was the family name of the baron who,
0:05:36 > 0:05:37along with his brother William,
0:05:37 > 0:05:41intervened at a critical stage of the Battle of Bosworth in 1485?
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Henry VII made him the Earl of Derby shortly afterwards.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Stanley.
0:05:48 > 0:05:49Stanley.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52Correct. James Stanley, the seventh Earl of Derby,
0:05:52 > 0:05:55was a prominent Royalist in the north-west during the Civil War.
0:05:55 > 0:06:00He was imprisoned and executed after which decisive battle of 1651,
0:06:00 > 0:06:02fought near the River Severn?
0:06:03 > 0:06:05It's not Naseby, is it?
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Worcester, maybe, if that's near the Severn.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Worcester.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Correct. Edward Stanley, the 14th Earl of Derby,
0:06:14 > 0:06:17succeeded Peel as leader of the Conservative Party and became
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Prime Minister for the first time in which decade,
0:06:20 > 0:06:22when he succeeded Lord John Russell?
0:06:23 > 0:06:28Peel's the 1840s, so before then, so maybe try the 1830s.
0:06:28 > 0:06:32- No, 1800s or...- No, not the first time he's been Prime Minister.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35- Try 1830s, maybe. - Yeah?
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Are we happy with that one?
0:06:37 > 0:06:38The 1830s.
0:06:38 > 0:06:39No, it was the 1850s.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43Ten points for this - for what do the letters AH stand
0:06:43 > 0:06:46when denoting a subgenre of speculative fiction?
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Alternative History.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Correct.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56These bonuses are on a sea, York.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58The boundary between the United States
0:06:58 > 0:07:01and Russia passes through which sea, the northernmost
0:07:01 > 0:07:04part of the Pacific Ocean, lying between Alaska and Siberia?
0:07:04 > 0:07:07- Bering. - Bering?- Yeah.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08The Bering.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12Correct. The Fox Islands lie in which Alaskan archipelago?
0:07:12 > 0:07:14It forms the southern boundary of the Bering Sea,
0:07:14 > 0:07:17separating it from the main portion of the Pacific Ocean.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19- Aleutian? - Yeah.
0:07:19 > 0:07:20The Aleutians.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23Correct. And finally, more than 3,000 kilometres long,
0:07:23 > 0:07:26which river flows through the Canadian territory that shares
0:07:26 > 0:07:31its name and through Alaska before discharging into the Bering Sea?
0:07:31 > 0:07:32The Yukon.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34The Yukon River is correct.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39Time for a picture round, I think.
0:07:39 > 0:07:44Your picture starter is a heraldic ordinary on a field argent.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46For ten points, I want you to give me
0:07:46 > 0:07:49the blazon of this ordinary, that is, the two-word term that is
0:07:49 > 0:07:53the formal heraldic description of its shape and colour.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Saltire azure.
0:07:58 > 0:07:59Correct.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04For your picture bonuses, three more heraldic ordinaries.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07All will be shown on a field argent.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10And again, I would like the blazon of each. Firstly for five...
0:08:16 > 0:08:18- TO TEAMMATES:- It's not fess, is it?
0:08:19 > 0:08:22- It looks like sable. - Fess sable.
0:08:25 > 0:08:26Fess sable.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Correct. Secondly...
0:08:30 > 0:08:34- TO TEAMMATES:- That's a bend, isn't it?- Purple.- Purpure.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36- So bend pupure? - Yeah.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Bend purpure.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Correct! And finally...
0:08:42 > 0:08:45- TO TEAMMATES:- Chevron and... - Gules.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46Chevron gules.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Have you got your own coat of arms, or something?!
0:08:49 > 0:08:53- We actually do!- Well done! Only a question of time, I'm sure.
0:08:53 > 0:08:54Right, ten points for this.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Which year saw Britain's first woman doctor,
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, receive her licence to practise,
0:09:00 > 0:09:03the publication of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland,
0:09:03 > 0:09:05the first ascent of the Matterhorn
0:09:05 > 0:09:07and the first assassination of a US President?
0:09:09 > 0:09:101865.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Correct.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17A set of bonuses this time on a naturalist for you, York.
0:09:17 > 0:09:22The German-born physician Philipp von Siebold is noted for his studies
0:09:22 > 0:09:25of the flora and fauna of which Asian country,
0:09:25 > 0:09:29where he was stationed at a Dutch trading post from 1823?
0:09:29 > 0:09:35- Is it Japan?- I was going to go for Sri Lanka, possibly. Or Taiwan.
0:09:35 > 0:09:40Japan had the Dutch trading post on the island. But I don't know.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Is it as late as that?
0:09:44 > 0:09:49- It's up to you.- What do you...? - Formosa was lost in the 1700s.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51- So Japan? - Yeah, Japan.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52Japan.
0:09:52 > 0:09:53Japan is correct.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Siebold's collection of Japanese artefacts
0:09:56 > 0:09:58is housed in which Dutch city?
0:09:58 > 0:10:00Situated between Amsterdam and the Hague,
0:10:00 > 0:10:03it's home to a university founded in 1575.
0:10:03 > 0:10:04Leiden.
0:10:04 > 0:10:05Leiden.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Correct. Siebold's name appears in several binomials,
0:10:08 > 0:10:11for example Acer sieboldianum.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15What is the common name of the genus to which this tree belongs?
0:10:15 > 0:10:18Acer is, I think, oak.
0:10:18 > 0:10:19- But I'm not sure. - I don't know, so, yeah.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Oak.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23No, it's a maple. Ten points for this -
0:10:23 > 0:10:27narrated by a churchman called Wicks Cherrycoke,
0:10:27 > 0:10:30which novel of 1997 by Thomas Pynchon is loosely
0:10:30 > 0:10:33based on the lives of its two title characters?
0:10:35 > 0:10:36Mason Dixon?
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Mason & Dixon is right, yes.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43These bonuses are on a play, York.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46Quote - "Every management in London had turned the play down.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49"They said, 'People don't want war plays.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52"'How can you put on a play with no leading ladies?'"
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Which author encountered such objections before the premiere
0:10:55 > 0:10:58in 1928 of his play Journey's End?
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Journey's End is, erm...
0:11:01 > 0:11:02Did this at GCSE!
0:11:04 > 0:11:05Is he American or British?
0:11:05 > 0:11:07- British. - Howard something.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10Oh, yeah, erm... My English teacher's going to kill me!
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Not Eugene O'Neill or Tennessee Williams?
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Anthony Howard.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18- Come on, let's have it, please.- Somerset Maugham?
0:11:18 > 0:11:19Somerset Maugham.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22No, it was RC Sherriff.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25Secondly, who directed the first production of Journey's End?
0:11:25 > 0:11:27On moving to Hollywood, he became a noted director of horror films,
0:11:27 > 0:11:31such as Frankenstein and The Invisible Man.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35- Bela Lugosi? - No, he was the actor.
0:11:36 > 0:11:40- It's Hammer Films.- No, it's before Hammer.- Oh.- It's way before Hammer.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Boris Karloff's the main actor, but he might have directed as well.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45- But I don't know. - Should we go for Karloff?
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Boris Karloff.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Boris Karloff?! No, it was James Whale.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52And finally, which 21-year-old actor played the central
0:11:52 > 0:11:55role of Captain Stanhope in that first production?
0:11:55 > 0:11:57He achieved fame two years later in the premiere
0:11:57 > 0:11:59of Noel Coward's Private Lives.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02- Who did you think?- Christopher Lee. He was in a lot of horror films.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05What about Marlon Brando?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07- No, it was horror films, wasn't it? - It wasn't horror films.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10It was to do with the first one.
0:12:10 > 0:12:11Marlon Brando?
0:12:11 > 0:12:12Marlon Brando.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14No, it was Laurence Olivier.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Right, ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20As a fraction in its lowest terms,
0:12:20 > 0:12:24what is the probability that a randomly selected day of a non-leap
0:12:24 > 0:12:26year occurs in one of the winter months
0:12:26 > 0:12:29of December, January or February?
0:12:34 > 0:12:3618/73.
0:12:36 > 0:12:37Correct, yes!
0:12:40 > 0:12:44Right, Cat's, these are on the scattering of light, these bonuses.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47Firstly, named after a British physicist,
0:12:47 > 0:12:50what type of scattering is caused by particles that are much
0:12:50 > 0:12:53smaller than the wavelength of the radiation?
0:12:53 > 0:12:56It causes the daytime sky to appear blue.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Rayleigh?
0:12:58 > 0:12:59Rayleigh scattering?
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Correct. Named after a German scientist born in 1869,
0:13:02 > 0:13:06what type of scattering explains the phenomenon of the blue moon,
0:13:06 > 0:13:09caused by spherical particles of comparable size to
0:13:09 > 0:13:12the wavelength of the incident radiation?
0:13:14 > 0:13:17Oh, what other scatterings are there?
0:13:22 > 0:13:26- Have we got any ideas? Just throw physicists at me.- Planck.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Planck.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30No, that's Mie scattering. And finally,
0:13:30 > 0:13:34what type of scattering is caused by particles in a colloid, or fine
0:13:34 > 0:13:38suspension, and is named after a 19th-century Irish-born scientist?
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Hamilton?
0:13:44 > 0:13:46No, it's a Tyndall scattering.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49Right, we're about halfway through the contest.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52Still plenty of time to go. And time for a music round.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of music
0:13:54 > 0:13:56that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00For ten points, I want the name of the film for which it was
0:14:00 > 0:14:04written and the name of the composer of the music. Here it is.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06LIGHT ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:27 > 0:14:31Moon River, Frank Sinatra?
0:14:31 > 0:14:33No. Anyone like to buzz from St Catharine's?
0:14:36 > 0:14:38Moon River, Doris Day?
0:14:38 > 0:14:42No, the film I wanted... Indeed, the song is Moon River,
0:14:42 > 0:14:44but the film I wanted was Breakfast At Tiffany's.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47It was composed by Henry Mancini. So music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Here's another starter question.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53Who was on the English throne at the time of the death of Genghis Khan?
0:14:56 > 0:14:57Henry III.
0:14:57 > 0:14:58Correct.
0:15:01 > 0:15:05Right, we heard Moon River. You got that, but not the film.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07You're going to hear three more songs that won
0:15:07 > 0:15:09the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13In each case, I want the name of the film for which it won its Oscar
0:15:13 > 0:15:15and the name of the composer of the music.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Five points in each case. Firstly...
0:15:20 > 0:15:22STRUMMED GUITAR PLAYS
0:15:22 > 0:15:24# Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
0:15:26 > 0:15:32# And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
0:15:32 > 0:15:34# Nothin' seems to fit
0:15:34 > 0:15:40# Those raindrops are fallin' on my head, they keep fallin'
0:15:40 > 0:15:46# So I just did me some talkin' to the sun
0:15:46 > 0:15:50# And I said I didn't like the way he got things done... #
0:15:50 > 0:15:51Nominate Joly de Lotbiniere.
0:15:51 > 0:15:56Erm, the film would be Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid,
0:15:56 > 0:15:58and is it Burt Bacharach?
0:15:58 > 0:15:59Yes! Well done.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01- Well done! - Well done.
0:16:01 > 0:16:02Secondly...
0:16:02 > 0:16:06ATMOSPHERIC POP MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:12 > 0:16:16# I walked the avenue till my legs felt like stone
0:16:16 > 0:16:21# I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone
0:16:21 > 0:16:27# At night I could hear the blood in my vein
0:16:27 > 0:16:30# Black and whispering as the rain... #
0:16:32 > 0:16:33Let's have it, please.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35Philadelphia, Bruce Springsteen.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37Correct. And finally...
0:16:39 > 0:16:43# I'm dreaming
0:16:43 > 0:16:49# Of a white Christmas
0:16:50 > 0:16:57# Just like the ones I used to know
0:16:58 > 0:17:00# Where the treetops glisten... #
0:17:00 > 0:17:04Er, we think it's It's A Wonderful Life, and Bing Crosby.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07No, bad luck. It was Holiday Inn, was the film,
0:17:07 > 0:17:09and the music was composed -
0:17:09 > 0:17:12White Christmas, which you obviously got - was composed by Irving Berlin.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Right, ten points for this.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Named after a 19th-century US palaeontologist,
0:17:16 > 0:17:21Cope's rule postulates what general trend over evolutionary...
0:17:21 > 0:17:24The more evolved something is,
0:17:24 > 0:17:26the higher it will appear in the geological column.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29No. Five points off for that.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32..what general trend over evolutionary time?
0:17:32 > 0:17:35An example is seen in the evolution of horses
0:17:35 > 0:17:38from Hyracotherium to Equus.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Er, they grow larger?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Correct. Increase in body size, yes.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51Right, St Catharine's, your bonuses are on European capitals.
0:17:51 > 0:17:58Of the ten countries that joined the EU in 2004, seven have capitals
0:17:58 > 0:18:00whose historic centres or similar
0:18:00 > 0:18:04are designated as Unesco World Heritage Sites.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08Can you name all seven capitals to get 15 points?
0:18:08 > 0:18:11Five correct will give you ten points
0:18:11 > 0:18:12and four correct five points.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15So you'd better confer, and then, captain,
0:18:15 > 0:18:17give me your list of seven capitals.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20- Warsaw is one. - Tbilisi.
0:18:20 > 0:18:21Riga.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24What other countries joined then?
0:18:24 > 0:18:28- Budapest?- The Czech Republic joined then.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30I'm not sure if Budapest is a World Heritage Site.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33- Hungary joined...- What about Greece?- Yeah, so Prague...
0:18:35 > 0:18:36Greece was way before that.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40So, we have Warsaw, Tallinn and Riga, Prague, er...
0:18:40 > 0:18:43- Bucharest?- I'll put Bucharest in, just in case.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45What other countries joined?
0:18:45 > 0:18:49- Tallinn, Riga...- Bratislava. - Oh, Bratislava, yeah.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Do we lose all the marks if we say one wrong?
0:18:51 > 0:18:54- THEY LAUGH - No, no. Erm, OK...
0:18:54 > 0:18:55Tallinn...
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Vilnius...
0:18:57 > 0:18:58Riga...
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Prague...
0:19:00 > 0:19:01Warsaw...
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Bratislava...
0:19:03 > 0:19:04and...
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Bucharest.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10No. Five of those are right. You're wrong about Bucharest
0:19:10 > 0:19:12and you were wrong about the other one I've forgotten now.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16The two that you missed off were Budapest, and Valletta in Malta.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18So you get ten points for that. Well done.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Let's get on with another starter question.
0:19:22 > 0:19:23Fingers on the buzzers.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26Which French city is noted for the tombs of the dukes
0:19:26 > 0:19:28John the Fearless and Philip the Bold,
0:19:28 > 0:19:31both of whom died in the early 15th century?
0:19:31 > 0:19:34About 300km south...
0:19:34 > 0:19:35Dijon.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Dijon is correct, yes.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Your bonuses are on Christian devotional works.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Firstly for five points,
0:19:44 > 0:19:46dating from the first half of the 15th century,
0:19:46 > 0:19:50The Imitation Of Christ is a devotional work generally attributed
0:19:50 > 0:19:54to which Augustinian monk, born in north-west Germany in around 1380?
0:20:01 > 0:20:06Hieronymus Bosch? No, I don't know.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09- Come on, let's have it, please. - It's not Fra Angelico, is it?
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Theodore something, maybe.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Fra Angelico.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Fra Angelico? No! It's Thomas a Kempis.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20The Way Of Perfection and The Interior Castle are works by which
0:20:20 > 0:20:2516th-century Spanish Carmelite nun and religious reformer?
0:20:29 > 0:20:32- Teresa of Avila? - Yes.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Teresa of Avila.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36That's correct. Published in 1827,
0:20:36 > 0:20:39The Christian Year is a collection of devotional poems by which
0:20:39 > 0:20:43churchman, who was a prominent member of the Oxford Movement?
0:20:43 > 0:20:46- John Henry Newman? That's the only...- When was the year, sorry?
0:20:46 > 0:20:48- 1820s. - John Henry Newman?
0:20:48 > 0:20:50John Henry Newman.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52No, it's John Keble. Ten points for this -
0:20:52 > 0:20:55"In his blue gardens, men and girls
0:20:55 > 0:20:56"came and went like moths
0:20:56 > 0:21:00"among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Gatsby?
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Yes, Jay Gatsby.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10You get a set of bonuses on antelopes, St Catharine's.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12THEY LAUGH
0:21:12 > 0:21:16Aepyceros milampas has what common six-letter name?
0:21:16 > 0:21:18One of the commonest antelopes of southern Africa,
0:21:18 > 0:21:21it's noted for its speed and jumping ability.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24Duk-duk? Speaking of six-lettered antelopes...
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Duk-duk?
0:21:26 > 0:21:28No, it's an impala.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31What is the four-letter name of the genus of large antelopes
0:21:31 > 0:21:34whose species include the Arabian, scimitar and East African?
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Ibex.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38No, they're oryx.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Distinguished by its agility and striking markings,
0:21:40 > 0:21:43which antelope is the national symbol of South Africa?
0:21:43 > 0:21:44- Springbok? - Yeah.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Yes. Springbok.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Correct. Right, we're going to take another picture round.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51For your starter, you'll see a painting.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Ten points if you can identify the artist.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Vincent van Gogh?
0:21:59 > 0:22:00No. Anyone like to buzz from York?
0:22:00 > 0:22:03You may not confer. One of you may press your buzzer.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Monet?
0:22:07 > 0:22:11No, it's by Gustav Klimt. The Large Poplar In A Gathering Storm.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13So, we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Ten points for this starter question. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19Designed by the US psychologist Aaron Beck and first published
0:22:19 > 0:22:25in 1961, the questionnaire known as the BDI seeks to measure
0:22:25 > 0:22:27the severity of what disorder?
0:22:29 > 0:22:30Depression.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Depression is correct.
0:22:34 > 0:22:38So, we go back to the picture round, and you get the picture bonuses.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Following on from the painting by Klimt, the picture bonuses,
0:22:41 > 0:22:43three more paintings of stormy weather.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46In each case, simply identify the artist whose work you see.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Firstly for five...
0:22:50 > 0:22:52- TO TEAM-MATES: - Is that the Japanese guy?
0:22:52 > 0:22:55- Hokusai? - That's it.
0:22:55 > 0:22:56Hokusai.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59No, that's by Hiroshige. And secondly...
0:23:00 > 0:23:03- TO TEAM-MATES:- Could be Turner. - Do you want to go with that?- Yeah.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05I've no idea.
0:23:05 > 0:23:06Turner?
0:23:06 > 0:23:09No, that's Constable's Weymouth Bay With Approaching Storm.
0:23:09 > 0:23:10And finally...
0:23:12 > 0:23:15- TO TEAM-MATES:- Is it Munch?- I was going to say it looked like Munch.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17Munch.
0:23:17 > 0:23:18It is Edvard Munch's The Storm.
0:23:18 > 0:23:19Ten points for this -
0:23:19 > 0:23:23"a beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn" - those words
0:23:23 > 0:23:28of Claude Debussy refer to which composer, born in Leipzig in 1813?
0:23:28 > 0:23:31His first major success was the opera Rienzi.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35Handel.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36Nope.
0:23:38 > 0:23:39Wagner?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Yes, Richard Wagner is correct.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44You get a set of bonuses now on a name.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47The English name Sabrina comes from a figure in Celtic legend
0:23:47 > 0:23:50said by Geoffrey of Monmouth to have given her name to which
0:23:50 > 0:23:54geographical feature, known in Welsh as Hafren?
0:23:54 > 0:23:57A lake? A valley? A mountain?
0:23:57 > 0:23:58A river?
0:23:58 > 0:24:01I've no idea.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Come on, let's have it.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06A mountain.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08No, it's the River Severn.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11Sabrina Fair is a river nymph in Comus,
0:24:11 > 0:24:13an early work by which poet, born in 1608?
0:24:15 > 0:24:18- Could be Donne. - Could be.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21- Was he a poet? - I was thinking Pope, maybe.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Pope.
0:24:23 > 0:24:24No, it's by Milton.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28And finally, Billy Wilder's 1954 film Sabrina featured which
0:24:28 > 0:24:30actress in the title role?
0:24:30 > 0:24:34She also starred in Roman Holiday and Breakfast At Tiffany's.
0:24:34 > 0:24:35Audrey Hepburn.
0:24:35 > 0:24:36Audrey Hepburn.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Correct. Three minutes to go. Ten points for this -
0:24:38 > 0:24:41in an electric circuit with time-varying current,
0:24:41 > 0:24:44what term denotes the ratio of the voltage phaser to the
0:24:44 > 0:24:46electrical current phaser?
0:24:49 > 0:24:50Resistance?
0:24:50 > 0:24:53Anyone like to buzz from St Catharine's?
0:24:53 > 0:24:54Impedance?
0:24:54 > 0:24:55Correct.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Your bonuses, St Catharine's, are on German literature.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01In each case, listen to the two names
0:25:01 > 0:25:05and give the unique full decade during which they were both alive.
0:25:05 > 0:25:09Firstly, Friedrich Schiller and Jacob Grimm.
0:25:16 > 0:25:171850s?
0:25:17 > 0:25:191850s?
0:25:19 > 0:25:20No, it was the 1790s.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24Secondly, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Gottfried Keller.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28Any idea?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32End of Goethe's life...
0:25:33 > 0:25:37- Beginning of the 19th century? - Yeah.
0:25:37 > 0:25:381830s? I don't know!
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Yeah. 1830s?
0:25:40 > 0:25:42No, it was the 1820s.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45And finally, Hermann Hesse and Elfriede Jelinek.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52When were either of those alive? Don't recognise those names.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56- Hesse was 20th century. - OK. And Jelinek?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Come on!
0:25:58 > 0:26:01When was he writing in the 20th century? When was he writing?
0:26:01 > 0:26:03- Just say 1910s. - 1910s.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05No, it was the 1950s. Ten points for this -
0:26:05 > 0:26:07what is the smallest denomination of coin
0:26:07 > 0:26:10that's legal tender for any amount in the United Kingdom?
0:26:10 > 0:26:12The coin immediately...
0:26:12 > 0:26:1350 pence?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Nope. You lose five points.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17The coin immediately below it in value is legal
0:26:17 > 0:26:20tender for amounts not exceeding £10.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23One of you buzz, York.
0:26:23 > 0:26:2520 pence.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28No, it's £1. Another starter question now.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32For ten points, name two of the three largest islands of Canada.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Baffin Island and Ellesmere Island.
0:26:37 > 0:26:38Correct. The other one is Victoria.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41So you get a set of bonuses now, St Catharine's,
0:26:41 > 0:26:42on the Tropic of Cancer.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45The Tropic of Cancer passes through only one
0:26:45 > 0:26:47country of the mainland Americas. Which one?
0:26:47 > 0:26:49- Mexico. - Mexico.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Correct. The Tropic of Cancer passes through Taiwan,
0:26:51 > 0:26:53the Guangzhou autonomous area,
0:26:53 > 0:26:56and two provinces of China. Name either one.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58- Yunnan. - Yunnan.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Correct. The other one's Guangdong.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03And finally, in India, the Tropic of Cancer passes close to which
0:27:03 > 0:27:06major city, the capital of West Bengal?
0:27:06 > 0:27:07- Kolkata. - Kolkata.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Correct. Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Take a number and cube it twice.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16Which three real numbers return to themselves after this procedure?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Negative 1, 0 and 1.
0:27:20 > 0:27:21Correct. You get a set of bonuses... GONG
0:27:21 > 0:27:26And at the gong, St Catharine's have 115,
0:27:26 > 0:27:28the University of York have 180.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Well, you were on rather a bit of a roll there,
0:27:30 > 0:27:33but you just left it terribly late, St Catharine's, so I'm afraid,
0:27:33 > 0:27:37having lost two quarterfinals, we shall have to say goodbye to you.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39York, you have to play once more, don't you,
0:27:39 > 0:27:42to stay in the contest and go through to the semifinals?
0:27:42 > 0:27:45- But that's a very convincing win from you today.- Thank you.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Thank you very much for playing. We shall look forward to seeing you
0:27:48 > 0:27:49again, then, at least once.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55Until then, it's goodbye from St Catharine's College, Cambridge...
0:27:55 > 0:27:57- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59..and it's goodbye from York University...
0:27:59 > 0:28:01- ALL:- Goodbye. - ..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03APPLAUSE