0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello, we've already seen Peterhouse, Cambridge
0:00:31 > 0:00:34take the first of the four places in the semifinals
0:00:34 > 0:00:37and whichever team wins tonight will join them.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41They both have one quarterfinal win behind them.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45Whichever team loses will return for one last chance to qualify.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47Now, the team from Imperial College - London
0:00:47 > 0:00:49have had an impressive run so far with wins against
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Reading University, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
0:00:52 > 0:00:53and Nuffield College - Oxford,
0:00:53 > 0:00:57giving them an accumulated score of 780.
0:00:57 > 0:00:58Let's meet them again.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00Good evening, my name is Ben Fernando.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03I'm from Birmingham and I'm studying physics.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Hi, I'm Ashwin Braude I'm from North London
0:01:05 > 0:01:07and I'm also studying physics.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09- And this is their captain. - Hello, I'm James Bezer.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13I'm from Manchester and I study physics as well.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Hello, I'm Onur Teymur, I'm from North London
0:01:15 > 0:01:18and I'm working towards a PhD in mathematical statistics.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21APPLAUSE
0:01:23 > 0:01:25Now, the team from Liverpool University
0:01:25 > 0:01:26also have an unblemished record
0:01:26 > 0:01:29and got here by beating St Peters College - Oxford
0:01:29 > 0:01:30in round one,
0:01:30 > 0:01:32Southampton University in round two
0:01:32 > 0:01:36and the University of Newcastle in their first quarterfinal match.
0:01:36 > 0:01:42Those three victories had given them an accumulated score of 585 points.
0:01:42 > 0:01:47- Let's meet the Liverpool team again. - Hi, I'm Jenny McLoughlin.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50I'm from Leeds and I'm studying biological and medical sciences.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Hi, I'm Jack Bennett. I'm from Lancaster and I'm studying law.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56- And this is their captain. - Hi, I'm Robin Wainwright.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59I'm from the Wirral and I'm studying biological science.
0:01:59 > 0:02:00Hi, I'm Ed Bretherton.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03I'm from Bampton in Devon and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05APPLAUSE
0:02:08 > 0:02:11Right, it's too late in the contest to recite the rules again
0:02:11 > 0:02:14so fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16Which English cathedral is this?
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Owning one of the four extant copies of the Magna Carta,
0:02:19 > 0:02:21it's built on a limestone...?
0:02:23 > 0:02:24Lincoln.
0:02:24 > 0:02:25Correct.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32Right, the first set of bonuses, Imperial, are on an ancient city.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35Firstly, for five points, the modern Turkish port of Bodrum
0:02:35 > 0:02:39is built on the ruins of which ancient city generally regarded
0:02:39 > 0:02:42as the birthplace of the historian Herodotus?
0:02:42 > 0:02:43- Halicarnassus.- Correct.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45Built on the orders of Queen Artemisia
0:02:45 > 0:02:49in the Fourth Century BCE, the ruins of which of the Seven Wonders
0:02:49 > 0:02:52Of The Ancient World are located at Halicarnassus.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55- Mausoleum, yeah.- The Mausoleum.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Correct. The Tomb of Mausolus.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00And finally, Dionysius of Halicarnassus
0:03:00 > 0:03:02is noted for a history of Rome from its origins
0:03:02 > 0:03:08to the start of its wars with which Mediterranean power from 264 BCE?
0:03:08 > 0:03:10- Carthage, yeah.- Carthage.- Correct.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Fingers on the buzzers,
0:03:15 > 0:03:16ten points for this.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20Early in 2015, a statement made in 1986 by the author Roald Dahl
0:03:20 > 0:03:23circulated widely on the internet, referring to the death
0:03:23 > 0:03:25of his daughter 24 years earlier,
0:03:25 > 0:03:28it exhorts parents to have their children...?
0:03:29 > 0:03:30Vaccinated.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34To have their children immunised against which disease?
0:03:36 > 0:03:38- Meningitis.- No, it's measles.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Ten points for this starter question. Listen carefully.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45The International Temperature Scale adopted in 1990
0:03:45 > 0:03:51includes among its fixed points a temperature of 234.3 Kelvin
0:03:51 > 0:03:54defined by the triple point of what metallic...?
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Oh, no, sorry. Hydrogen, no.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02I'm afraid you're going to lose five points.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05Of what metallic element at one standard atmosphere?
0:04:07 > 0:04:09- Mercury.- Correct.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16Right, your bonuses, Liverpool, are on the films of Christian Bale.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19In each case, name the film from the description.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23Firstly, a 1987 film based on a semiautobiographical work
0:04:23 > 0:04:24by JG Ballard.
0:04:24 > 0:04:25Bale plays Jim,
0:04:25 > 0:04:29an English boy attempting to survive the Japanese occupation of Shanghai.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31- Empire Of The Sun.- Correct.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Secondly, a 1996 film adaptation of a novel by Joseph Conrad
0:04:34 > 0:04:36with Bale in the role of Stevie,
0:04:36 > 0:04:39the brother-in-law of the title character of Verloc
0:04:39 > 0:04:40played by Bob Hoskins.
0:04:44 > 0:04:45Hmm. I have no idea.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49- No, we don't know. - That's The Secret Agent.
0:04:49 > 0:04:54And finally, a 2006 film based on a novel by Christopher Priest.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58Bale plays Alfred Borden, a 19th-century stage magician.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00- Prestige.- The Prestige.- Correct.
0:05:00 > 0:05:01Ten points for this.
0:05:01 > 0:05:02Which year saw the publication
0:05:02 > 0:05:03of The Great Gatsby,
0:05:03 > 0:05:07the signing of the Treaties of Locarno...?
0:05:07 > 0:05:08- 1925.- Correct.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15That gives the lead, you get a set of bonuses on game theory.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Firstly, regarded as the founder of modern game theory,
0:05:18 > 0:05:22which Hungarian US mathematician wrote the 1944 book
0:05:22 > 0:05:26The Theory Of Games And Economic Behaviour with Oskar Morgenstern?
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Is it Erdos? Erdos?
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Paul Erdos.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32No, it was John von Neumann.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Secondly, what name is given to a game in which the total of
0:05:35 > 0:05:38the positive payoffs of all the participating players
0:05:38 > 0:05:41is equal to the total of the negative payoffs?
0:05:44 > 0:05:47- Equal benefit or something like that.- I don't know.
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Equal benefit.
0:05:48 > 0:05:49No, that's a zero sum game.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52And finally, after a US mathematician,
0:05:52 > 0:05:55what name is given to a collection of strategies in game theory
0:05:55 > 0:05:59such as that no one player can increase their payoff
0:05:59 > 0:06:02if only that player changes their strategy.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08- I don't know.- Who was the guy from A Beautiful Mind?
0:06:08 > 0:06:12- Try him, John Nash.- What's his name?- John Nash.- John Nash.
0:06:12 > 0:06:13Er, specifically?
0:06:13 > 0:06:15John Forbes Nash.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17It's the name of the strategy is what I'm looking for.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19- The Nash strategy. - I'm afraid that won't do.
0:06:19 > 0:06:20It's The Nash equilibrium
0:06:20 > 0:06:22or equilibrium generally.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24Right, ten points for this.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Listen carefully, your answer is a three-word term.
0:06:27 > 0:06:32Atira, Aten, Apollo and Amor are all groups of astronomical bodies
0:06:32 > 0:06:35known by the abbreviation NEA.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36For what do the letters...?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Near-Earth asteroids.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Correct.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Right, these bonuses are on Asian countries.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50In addition to China, the formal name of which Asian country
0:06:50 > 0:06:52begins with the words People's Republic.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55It became independent in 1971.
0:06:56 > 0:07:01- Uh... Laos, maybe?- It might be Laos.- Yeah, People's Republic.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04- When did it become independent?- '71. - Oh. No, that would not be Laos.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07That would be New Guinea, I think that was about 1971.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11- That wasn't People's Republic. - Um, um... Cambodia?
0:07:11 > 0:07:13No, that's not a republic.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16- Laos, Vietnam? Laos! - Come on.- Mongolia?
0:07:16 > 0:07:19- Um...- Go with Laos.- Mongolia.
0:07:19 > 0:07:20No, it's Bangladesh.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24Secondly, what is the only Asian country to describe itself
0:07:24 > 0:07:26as a Socialist Republic?
0:07:26 > 0:07:29It's flag is a yellow star on a red background.
0:07:29 > 0:07:30That's Vietnam.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32- Vietnam. - Correct.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36The formal name of which South Asian country begins with the words
0:07:36 > 0:07:37Democratic Socialist Republic?
0:07:37 > 0:07:40- North Kor... - It became independent in 1948.
0:07:40 > 0:07:41Yeah, no, it's Sri Lanka.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44- Democratic Socialist Republic. - Yeah, South Asian, it is, it is.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46- Sri Lanka.- Correct.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Right, you're going to take a picture around.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50For your picture starter, you're going to see
0:07:50 > 0:07:51a flag of a breakaway state,
0:07:51 > 0:07:53which although exercising de facto
0:07:53 > 0:07:56independence, is not officially
0:07:56 > 0:07:58recognised by any UN member state.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Ten points if you can identify it.
0:08:04 > 0:08:05South Ossetia.
0:08:05 > 0:08:06No.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Anyone like to buzz from Liverpool?
0:08:12 > 0:08:13Is it Chechnya?
0:08:13 > 0:08:15No, it's Transnistria.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18So, picture bonuses in a moment or two. Ten points for this.
0:08:18 > 0:08:22Fenella in Daniel Auber's La Muette De Portici,
0:08:22 > 0:08:25Strephon in Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage,
0:08:25 > 0:08:28and Tadzio in Benjamin Britten's Death In Venice
0:08:28 > 0:08:31all share what distinctive and unusual attribute
0:08:31 > 0:08:33among named characters in classical opera?
0:08:38 > 0:08:42Um, do they all not actually appear in the thing?
0:08:42 > 0:08:43No.
0:08:46 > 0:08:47Women with men's names.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51No, they are non-singing or non-speaking roles.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Right, ten points for this.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57Quote, "The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth
0:08:57 > 0:09:00"have probably the fullest poetical nature.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."
0:09:04 > 0:09:08Which poet wrote those words in the preface to his 1855 collection,
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Leaves Of Grass?
0:09:11 > 0:09:13- Walt Whitman.- Yes.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18So, Liverpool, you lucky people. You get the picture bonuses.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Three more flags of breakaway states
0:09:20 > 0:09:24with limited international recognition all from within
0:09:24 > 0:09:26the territory of the former Soviet Union
0:09:26 > 0:09:30and all having declared independence since its dissolution.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Five points for each you can name. Firstly...
0:09:33 > 0:09:35- Abkhazia.- Abkhazia.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37It is Abkhazia. Secondly...
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Oh, I recognise that.
0:09:41 > 0:09:45- Oh, it's a flag!- Nagorno-Karabakh. - What?- Nagorno-Karabakh.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47- Nominate Bennett. - Nagorno-Karabakh.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49Correct. And finally...
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Shall we go for South Ossetia? South Ossetia.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Well done, yes.
0:09:57 > 0:09:58Right, a starter question.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00Of the four fundamental forces,
0:10:00 > 0:10:05which three play a significant role in binding matter together?
0:10:06 > 0:10:10Um, gravity, the electromagnetic force and the strong nuclear force.
0:10:10 > 0:10:11Correct.
0:10:15 > 0:10:20Your bonuses are on scientists both real and fictional, Imperial.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22In the television series The Big Bang Theory,
0:10:22 > 0:10:25the theoretical physicist Sheldon Lee Cooper
0:10:25 > 0:10:27researches string theory.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29He shares both his given and middle name
0:10:29 > 0:10:34with which US particle physicist who is a noted opponent of the theory?
0:10:34 > 0:10:35Sheldon Glashow.
0:10:35 > 0:10:36Correct, yes.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40Secondly, what surname is shared by a character in The Big Bang Theory
0:10:40 > 0:10:44with the US academic whose work entitled Godel, Escher And Bach
0:10:44 > 0:10:47won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- Hofstadter.- Correct.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Playing a neuroscientist, which member of the cast
0:10:51 > 0:10:54of The Big Bang Theory earned a doctorate in 2007
0:10:54 > 0:10:57with a dissertation on hypothalamic activity in patients
0:10:57 > 0:10:59with Prader-Willi syndrome?
0:10:59 > 0:11:02It is pronounced that way, isn't it? Mayim Bialik.
0:11:02 > 0:11:03Mayim Bialik is correct.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Obviously, compulsory viewing in your house, isn't it?
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Right, ten points for this.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Which architect and scholar of the Egyptian Third Dynasty
0:11:11 > 0:11:13is usually credited with designing
0:11:13 > 0:11:16the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara?
0:11:16 > 0:11:20The same name was used for Boris Karloff's character...
0:11:20 > 0:11:21- Imhotep.- Correct.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28These bonuses are on European history, Liverpool.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31In the War of the League of Cambrai from 1508,
0:11:31 > 0:11:35which Italian state faced an alliance that included the Pope
0:11:35 > 0:11:39and the rulers of France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire?
0:11:40 > 0:11:42- Venice.- Correct.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46In 1718, attempting to alter the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht,
0:11:46 > 0:11:49which country oppose the quadruple alliance of Austria, Britain,
0:11:49 > 0:11:50the Dutch Republic and France?
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Spain.
0:11:54 > 0:11:55Correct, gives you the lead.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Wishing to increase its share of the spoils from a previous conflict,
0:11:58 > 0:12:02which country attacked its former allies, including Serbia and Greece,
0:12:02 > 0:12:05in the second Balkan War of 1913?
0:12:08 > 0:12:09Bulgaria.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Correct, ten points for this.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16What adjective links in literature a school of British poets
0:12:16 > 0:12:20that included Philip James Bailey and Sydney Dobell,
0:12:20 > 0:12:22in pathology, an entity characterised by
0:12:22 > 0:12:25twitches or convulsions, and in general use,
0:12:25 > 0:12:29anything that occurs irregularly or intermittently?
0:12:30 > 0:12:31Tick.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35No, and I'm afraid that is just an interruption, you lose five points.
0:12:35 > 0:12:36Liverpool?
0:12:38 > 0:12:41No, it's spasmodic. Ten points for this.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Born around AD 360,
0:12:43 > 0:12:46Saint Mesrop Mashtots is traditionally credited with
0:12:46 > 0:12:50devising the alphabet still in use of which Indo-European language?
0:12:50 > 0:12:53The language in question has around six million speakers,
0:12:53 > 0:12:55primarily in Western Asia.
0:12:57 > 0:12:58- Armenian.- Correct.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Your bonuses, which could re-give you the lead, are on poets
0:13:04 > 0:13:06born in Yorkshire in different centuries.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08In each case, identify the poet from their lines.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Firstly, from the 17th century,
0:13:10 > 0:13:15"How vainly men themselves amaze to win the palm, the oak or bays."
0:13:16 > 0:13:19- Never heard that before. - 16th or 17th.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21So, shall I just guess a poet?
0:13:21 > 0:13:24Um...John Donne.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26No, it's Andrew Marvell.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27Secondly, from the 19th century,
0:13:27 > 0:13:29"No coward's soul is mine,
0:13:29 > 0:13:32"no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.
0:13:32 > 0:13:36"I see heaven's glory shine and faith shines equal,
0:13:36 > 0:13:38"arming me from fear."
0:13:38 > 0:13:4019th century...
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Is this just another guess a poet? Um...
0:13:51 > 0:13:53- TS Eliot?- No! Tennyson.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55No, that's Emily Bronte.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57And from the 20th century,
0:13:57 > 0:14:01"It took the whole of creation to produce my foot, my each feather.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04"Now I hold creation in my foot."
0:14:04 > 0:14:08- Philip Larkin?- Hmm.- Try it.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10- I don't know.- He was from round there, wasn't he?
0:14:10 > 0:14:11Philip Larkin.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13No, it's Ted Hughes.
0:14:13 > 0:14:14Ten points for this.
0:14:14 > 0:14:15In medicine, what term
0:14:15 > 0:14:18denotes the administration of electric shocks to the chest
0:14:18 > 0:14:20in order to reset normal heart...?
0:14:22 > 0:14:23Cardioversion.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:14:25 > 0:14:26In order to reset normal heart rhythm
0:14:26 > 0:14:28in a person who's experienced...?
0:14:28 > 0:14:29Defibrillation.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Defibrillation is correct.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Your bonuses, Liverpool, are on physics.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38In an unconventional energy grid,
0:14:38 > 0:14:41power is transmitted by pumping a fluid along pipelines
0:14:41 > 0:14:45and using its kinetic energy to do work at the point of use.
0:14:45 > 0:14:49Neglecting viscosity and other losses, by what factor does
0:14:49 > 0:14:53the transmitted power increase if you double the speed of fluid flow?
0:14:55 > 0:14:58- Four.- Four.- No, it's eight.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Secondly, another unconventional grid
0:15:00 > 0:15:01connects homes using heavy ropes
0:15:01 > 0:15:04and the energy is transmitted by shaking the ropes
0:15:04 > 0:15:07to send transverse waves travelling along them.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10What factor increase in power would be gained by doubling
0:15:10 > 0:15:13both the amplitude and frequency of the waves,
0:15:13 > 0:15:15all other things being equal?
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Five?
0:15:17 > 0:15:19- It's going to be a multiple of two. - Shall we try four?
0:15:19 > 0:15:21- Four.- It's 16.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25And finally, a grid transmits energy by shooting marbles down
0:15:25 > 0:15:26an evacuated tube.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29What factor increase in power would result from doubling
0:15:29 > 0:15:32the radius of the marbles, again, all other things being equal?
0:15:35 > 0:15:38- I thought maybe decrease? - No, it's increase.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41- So just say...- It's going to be something high.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44- 12?- 12.
0:15:44 > 0:15:45No, it's eight.
0:15:45 > 0:15:46Time for a music round.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of classical music.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53For ten points, simply identify its English composer.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56SOLO HARPSICHORD PLAYS
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Purcell.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00It is Henry Purcell, well done.
0:16:04 > 0:16:05That was an allemande,
0:16:05 > 0:16:09the first of the four core dances of the baroque suite.
0:16:09 > 0:16:13For your bonuses, you'll hear excerpts from three more dances
0:16:13 > 0:16:16that, with the allemande, comprise such a suite.
0:16:16 > 0:16:17Each is from a different work,
0:16:17 > 0:16:19I want the composer's name in each case.
0:16:19 > 0:16:23Here then, a courante by which French composer?
0:16:23 > 0:16:27SOLO HARPSICHORD PLAYS
0:16:28 > 0:16:32THEY MUTTER
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Um, Satie?
0:16:39 > 0:16:40No, that's by Rameau.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43And next, a sarabande by which composer?
0:16:43 > 0:16:47SOLO HARPSICHORD PLAYS
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Handel.
0:16:52 > 0:16:53It is Handel, yes!
0:16:53 > 0:16:57And finally, a gigue by which German composer?
0:16:57 > 0:17:00SOLO CELLO PLAYS
0:17:05 > 0:17:06Bach.
0:17:06 > 0:17:07It is by Bach, yes.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Johann Sebastian. Ten points for this.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11The birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen,
0:17:11 > 0:17:14what is the third-largest city by...?
0:17:14 > 0:17:15- Odense.- Correct.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21These bonuses, Imperial, are on US history.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Enacted by the 18th Amendment of the Constitution
0:17:24 > 0:17:27and repealed by the 21st, what measure was often referred to
0:17:27 > 0:17:28as the Noble Experiment?
0:17:28 > 0:17:30- Prohibition.- Correct.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33The Act of Congress that enabled Prohibition is often named
0:17:33 > 0:17:36after which US representative for Minnesota?
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Um...
0:17:39 > 0:17:41I did this at school.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Um, don't know.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Don't know.
0:17:45 > 0:17:46It's named after Andrew Volstead.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48And finally, during Prohibition,
0:17:48 > 0:17:53serial beverages with an alcohol content of up to 0.5%
0:17:53 > 0:17:54were permitted.
0:17:54 > 0:17:58Such drinks were popularly known by what rhyming designation?
0:18:00 > 0:18:01Um, any idea?
0:18:03 > 0:18:06- Little...- Don't know.- Don't know.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08It's near beer.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Which letter of the alphabet is common to the surnames
0:18:15 > 0:18:18of the first three British prime ministers of the 21st-century?
0:18:21 > 0:18:23B.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25No.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28- R.- R is correct, yes.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Between Blair, Brown and Cameron.
0:18:30 > 0:18:35Right, Liverpool. These bonuses are on works of economics.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38In which work of 2014 does the French economist
0:18:38 > 0:18:42Thomas Piketty state that the main driver of inequality
0:18:42 > 0:18:45is the tendency of capital to exceed the rate of economic growth?
0:18:47 > 0:18:50- More money, more problems. - HE LAUGHS
0:18:50 > 0:18:52- Not a clue.- Terribly famous book.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54It's Capital In The Twenty-First Century.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56The name of which Austrian-born economist
0:18:56 > 0:18:58appears with that of Keynes in the title of a book
0:18:58 > 0:19:00by Nicholas Wapshott subtitled
0:19:00 > 0:19:03The Clash That Defined Modern Economics?
0:19:03 > 0:19:06- Hayek? Or Friedman?- Friedman.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08No, it's Hayek.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11With his philosopher son Edward, which emeritus professor
0:19:11 > 0:19:14of political economy co-authored the 2012 book
0:19:14 > 0:19:16How Much Is Enough?: Money And The Good Life.
0:19:19 > 0:19:20We don't know.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22It's Skidelsky, Robert Skidelsky.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Right, ten points for this.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26What term denotes a point on the celestial sphere
0:19:26 > 0:19:29with an astronomical latitude of minus 90 degrees?
0:19:29 > 0:19:32It derives from the Arabic meaning of opposite.
0:19:32 > 0:19:33Zenith.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Meaning opposite in terms of its relation to the zenith?
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- Nadir.- Nadir is correct.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48Right, these bonuses are on crystallography, Liverpool.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50In crystallography, what is the name of the lattice
0:19:50 > 0:19:52which is given by the Fourier transformer,
0:19:52 > 0:19:55the wave function of the original spatial lattice?
0:20:00 > 0:20:01- No.- We do not know.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03That's the reciprocal lattice.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07What two-word hyphenated term is used to describe a spatial lattice
0:20:07 > 0:20:10whose reciprocal has the same symmetry as the original lattice?
0:20:13 > 0:20:15I really just don't know.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18- Might be a mirror?- Mirror lattice.
0:20:18 > 0:20:19It's a self-dual.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23What is the reciprocal lattice of a face-centred cubic lattice?
0:20:27 > 0:20:29- I think it's off-centre.- No idea.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Body-centred.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32Right, ten points for this.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author
0:20:35 > 0:20:37"and I speak like a child."
0:20:37 > 0:20:42These words appear in the 1973 work Strong Opinions
0:20:42 > 0:20:44by which Russian-born novelist?
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Solzhenitsyn.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52No, anyone like to buzz from Imperial?
0:20:52 > 0:20:53- Nabokov.- Nabokov is correct, yes.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00These bonuses are on a culinary vegetable, Imperial.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03Noted for its antibacterial properties,
0:21:03 > 0:21:05allicin is the yellowish oily liquid
0:21:05 > 0:21:09that is the principal flavouring agent of which vegetable,
0:21:09 > 0:21:11used mainly as a seasoning or condiment?
0:21:12 > 0:21:14- Garlic.- Correct.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18The Garlic Ballads is a work by which Chinese novelist,
0:21:18 > 0:21:21also noticed for Frog and Red Sorghum Clan?
0:21:21 > 0:21:24He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2012.
0:21:24 > 0:21:25- Mo Yan.- Correct.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28The Portuguese for wine with garlic is thought to be
0:21:28 > 0:21:30the derivation of the name of which dish,
0:21:30 > 0:21:34versions of which often feature on the menus of British curry houses?
0:21:34 > 0:21:37- Any idea at all?- Portuguese? Vindaloo?
0:21:37 > 0:21:38Vindaloo.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Correct, well done.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43We're going to take another picture round.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46For your picture starter, you're going to see two images.
0:21:46 > 0:21:47One is a still from a film,
0:21:47 > 0:21:49the other is a painting by an artist
0:21:49 > 0:21:50whose works inspired
0:21:50 > 0:21:51the film's art direction.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54For ten points, I need both the title of the film
0:21:54 > 0:21:56and the name of the artist.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01The Exorcist, Grant Wood.
0:22:01 > 0:22:02No.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07No, you're not going to tell me.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09The Exorcist and Hopper.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11No, it's The Exorcist and Rene Magritte.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13So, picture bonuses shortly,
0:22:13 > 0:22:15ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Listen carefully, answer as soon as your name is called.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19Rayleigh scattering causes...
0:22:21 > 0:22:22Blue sky.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:22:23 > 0:22:28Rayleigh scattering causes the blueness of Earth's daytime sky.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31In this process, scattered intensity is proportional
0:22:31 > 0:22:32to frequency raised to what power?
0:22:34 > 0:22:35- Fourth.- Four is correct.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42So there's only ten points in it and you get the picture bonuses.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45You're going to see stills from films together with
0:22:45 > 0:22:48the works of artists who inspired their costume and set design.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51In each case, I need the title both of the film
0:22:51 > 0:22:53and the name of the artist.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Firstly, for five.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58- No idea.- Is that Psycho?
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Do we know the artist?
0:23:00 > 0:23:02If not, we shouldn't waste time on it.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06- Don't even know what period it is. - So, it's for Psycho and...
0:23:06 > 0:23:07It could be Dutch.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11I don't know.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Um, Psycho and Dali.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15No, it's Psycho and Edward Hopper.
0:23:16 > 0:23:17Secondly...
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Um, that looks... That's Hogarth on the right. So...
0:23:22 > 0:23:27Something about a seance. Some sort of horror film.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Isn't there something called The Draughtsman's Contract?
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Um, the Draughtsman's Contract and...
0:23:33 > 0:23:37No, it's Barry Lyndon and the artist was William Hogarth. Finally...
0:23:37 > 0:23:40That's Breugel on the right. I can't remember which film.
0:23:40 > 0:23:46- Is it Fritz Lang?- That looks like it's...- And...- Is it Metropolis?
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Yeah, Breugel and Metropolis.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50- Metropolis and Breugel.- Which one?
0:23:50 > 0:23:52- Pieter Breugel the Elder.- Correct!
0:23:56 > 0:23:57Right, ten points for this.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01In Greek morphology, which sea nymph was the wife of Peleus
0:24:01 > 0:24:03and the mother of...?
0:24:03 > 0:24:04Thetis.
0:24:04 > 0:24:05Correct.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12You take the lead and these bonuses are on sudden literary celebrity.
0:24:12 > 0:24:17Firstly, the 1774 publication of the Sorrows Of Young Werther
0:24:17 > 0:24:21turned which Frankfurt-born lawyer into a major literary figure
0:24:21 > 0:24:22almost overnight?
0:24:22 > 0:24:23- Goethe.- Correct.
0:24:23 > 0:24:27Which poet wrote that he woke up one morning and found himself famous
0:24:27 > 0:24:30after the publication of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage?
0:24:30 > 0:24:31- Byron.- Byron.
0:24:31 > 0:24:32Correct.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Which US author achieved sudden fame following the appearance
0:24:35 > 0:24:41in 1894 of the Red Badge Of Courage, published when he was 23 years old.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45Uh, it's... Is it...? Um, ah!
0:24:47 > 0:24:51- It wouldn't be...?- No, it's... No, it's not.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Let's have it, please.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Um, is it Frank McCourt?
0:24:55 > 0:24:56No, it's Stephen Crane.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59There's just over three minutes to go, another starter question.
0:24:59 > 0:25:00What is the largest country
0:25:00 > 0:25:04that does not lie wholly within the Northern Hemisphere?
0:25:04 > 0:25:07It is the world's fifth-largest country by...
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Australia.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13The world's fifth-largest country by land area?
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- Brazil.- Brazil is correct.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Get these bonuses, you'll retake the lead.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23They're on mammals in Japan, Liverpool.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26Cervus nippon, also known as the sika,
0:25:26 > 0:25:30is a member of a family of grazing animals known by what common name?
0:25:30 > 0:25:32- Deer.- Correct.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35What four-letter word follows Japanese and mountain
0:25:35 > 0:25:39in the common names of the two species of the genus lepus
0:25:39 > 0:25:40found in Japan.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42They belong to the order lagomorpha.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44- Hare.- Correct.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Snow-covered mountains of Japan provide a habitat for the most
0:25:47 > 0:25:51northerly species of which genus of old-world monkeys?
0:25:51 > 0:25:52- Macaque.- Macaque is correct.
0:25:54 > 0:25:55Starter question now.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Deriving ultimately from the Greek for flesh,
0:25:57 > 0:26:00what general term is used in medicine for cancers
0:26:00 > 0:26:03of connective tissue and muscle?
0:26:03 > 0:26:04Sarcoma.
0:26:04 > 0:26:05Sarcoma is right.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Your bonuses are on pairs of years with reordered digits.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14For example, 1066 and 1660.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17In each case, give the two years in which the following occurred.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21Firstly, the battles of Bosworth Field and Balaclava?
0:26:21 > 0:26:231854...
0:26:23 > 0:26:251485 and 1854.
0:26:25 > 0:26:26Correct.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28Secondly, the execution of Sir Thomas More
0:26:28 > 0:26:30and the accession of Mary I of England?
0:26:32 > 0:26:341547, 1574?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36- Later on.- 15...
0:26:38 > 0:26:41- Come on, please.- We don't know.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43It's 1535 and 1553.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46And finally, the deposition of James II of England
0:26:46 > 0:26:49and the defeat of Gladstone's first Irish Home Rule Bill.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54- '79? I don't.- No, we don't know.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56It's 1688 and 1886.
0:26:56 > 0:26:57Ten points for this.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Hoping to pay his emigration to Jamaica,
0:26:59 > 0:27:03who in 1786 published his first anthology,
0:27:03 > 0:27:06poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect?
0:27:07 > 0:27:08Burns.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Robert Burns is right.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14These bonuses are on the Booker Prize.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16In 1974, the author Elizabeth Jane Howard
0:27:16 > 0:27:19was a member of the Booker panel that shortlisted Ending Up,
0:27:19 > 0:27:22a novel by which writer who was also her husband?
0:27:23 > 0:27:25- Don't know.- That was Kingsley Amis.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28In 1992, the prize was awarded jointly to Michael Ondaatje
0:27:28 > 0:27:33for The English Patient and to which other author for Sacred Hunger?
0:27:35 > 0:27:37- No, we don't know again. - That was Barry Unsworth.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40And finally, with South African writer was the first author
0:27:40 > 0:27:44to win twice with The Life And Times Of Michael K in 1983
0:27:44 > 0:27:47and Disgrace in 1999?
0:27:47 > 0:27:50- Jack Coetzee. Coetzee?- Coetzee.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53JM Coetzee is correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:53 > 0:27:54Uninhabited, volcanic
0:27:54 > 0:27:56and almost entirely covered by glaciers,
0:27:56 > 0:27:59Bouvet Island is the most...?
0:27:59 > 0:28:00- Norway.- Norway is correct.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06These bonuses... GONG
0:28:06 > 0:28:09And at the gong, Imperial College have 130,
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Liverpool University have 185.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16Well, bad luck, Imperial.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19I'm afraid you're going to have to come back and win again.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22You're certainly quite good enough to be in the semifinals,
0:28:22 > 0:28:24so we shall wish you the best of luck next time.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26Congratulations to you, Liverpool.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29You take the second place in the semifinals, well done.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34But until then, it's goodbye from Imperial College, London.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38- It's goodbye from Liverpool University. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.