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University Challenge. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
Hello, we've already seen Peterhouse, Cambridge | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
take the first of the four places in the semifinals | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
and whichever team wins tonight will join them. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
They both have one quarterfinal win behind them. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
Whichever team loses will return for one last chance to qualify. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
Now, the team from Imperial College - London | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
have had an impressive run so far with wins against | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
Reading University, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
and Nuffield College - Oxford, | 0:00:52 | 0:00:53 | |
giving them an accumulated score of 780. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:57 | |
Let's meet them again. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:58 | |
Good evening, my name is Ben Fernando. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
I'm from Birmingham and I'm studying physics. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
Hi, I'm Ashwin Braude I'm from North London | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
and I'm also studying physics. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
-And this is their captain. -Hello, I'm James Bezer. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
I'm from Manchester and I study physics as well. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:13 | |
Hello, I'm Onur Teymur, I'm from North London | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
and I'm working towards a PhD in mathematical statistics. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
Now, the team from Liverpool University | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
also have an unblemished record | 0:01:25 | 0:01:26 | |
and got here by beating St Peters College - Oxford | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
in round one, | 0:01:29 | 0:01:30 | |
Southampton University in round two | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
and the University of Newcastle in their first quarterfinal match. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:36 | |
Those three victories had given them an accumulated score of 585 points. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:42 | |
-Let's meet the Liverpool team again. -Hi, I'm Jenny McLoughlin. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:47 | |
I'm from Leeds and I'm studying biological and medical sciences. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
Hi, I'm Jack Bennett. I'm from Lancaster and I'm studying law. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
-And this is their captain. -Hi, I'm Robin Wainwright. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
I'm from the Wirral and I'm studying biological science. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
Hi, I'm Ed Bretherton. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:00 | |
I'm from Bampton in Devon and I'm studying medicine. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
Right, it's too late in the contest to recite the rules again | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
so fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
Which English cathedral is this? | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
Owning one of the four extant copies of the Magna Carta, | 0:02:16 | 0:02:19 | |
it's built on a limestone...? | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
Lincoln. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:24 | |
Correct. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:25 | |
Right, the first set of bonuses, Imperial, are on an ancient city. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
Firstly, for five points, the modern Turkish port of Bodrum | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
is built on the ruins of which ancient city generally regarded | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
as the birthplace of the historian Herodotus? | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
-Halicarnassus. -Correct. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:43 | |
Built on the orders of Queen Artemisia | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
in the Fourth Century BCE, the ruins of which of the Seven Wonders | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
Of The Ancient World are located at Halicarnassus. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
-Mausoleum, yeah. -The Mausoleum. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
Correct. The Tomb of Mausolus. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
And finally, Dionysius of Halicarnassus | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
is noted for a history of Rome from its origins | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
to the start of its wars with which Mediterranean power from 264 BCE? | 0:03:02 | 0:03:08 | |
-Carthage, yeah. -Carthage. -Correct. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
Fingers on the buzzers, | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
ten points for this. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:16 | |
Early in 2015, a statement made in 1986 by the author Roald Dahl | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
circulated widely on the internet, referring to the death | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
of his daughter 24 years earlier, | 0:03:23 | 0:03:25 | |
it exhorts parents to have their children...? | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
Vaccinated. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:30 | |
I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
To have their children immunised against which disease? | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
-Meningitis. -No, it's measles. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
Ten points for this starter question. Listen carefully. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
The International Temperature Scale adopted in 1990 | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
includes among its fixed points a temperature of 234.3 Kelvin | 0:03:45 | 0:03:51 | |
defined by the triple point of what metallic...? | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
Oh, no, sorry. Hydrogen, no. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
I'm afraid you're going to lose five points. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
Of what metallic element at one standard atmosphere? | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
-Mercury. -Correct. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:09 | |
Right, your bonuses, Liverpool, are on the films of Christian Bale. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
In each case, name the film from the description. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
Firstly, a 1987 film based on a semiautobiographical work | 0:04:19 | 0:04:23 | |
by JG Ballard. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:24 | |
Bale plays Jim, | 0:04:24 | 0:04:25 | |
an English boy attempting to survive the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
-Empire Of The Sun. -Correct. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
Secondly, a 1996 film adaptation of a novel by Joseph Conrad | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
with Bale in the role of Stevie, | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
the brother-in-law of the title character of Verloc | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
played by Bob Hoskins. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:40 | |
Hmm. I have no idea. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:45 | |
-No, we don't know. -That's The Secret Agent. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
And finally, a 2006 film based on a novel by Christopher Priest. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:54 | |
Bale plays Alfred Borden, a 19th-century stage magician. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
-Prestige. -The Prestige. -Correct. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:01 | |
Which year saw the publication | 0:05:01 | 0:05:02 | |
of The Great Gatsby, | 0:05:02 | 0:05:03 | |
the signing of the Treaties of Locarno...? | 0:05:03 | 0:05:07 | |
-1925. -Correct. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:08 | |
That gives the lead, you get a set of bonuses on game theory. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
Firstly, regarded as the founder of modern game theory, | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
which Hungarian US mathematician wrote the 1944 book | 0:05:18 | 0:05:22 | |
The Theory Of Games And Economic Behaviour with Oskar Morgenstern? | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
Is it Erdos? Erdos? | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
Paul Erdos. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:30 | |
No, it was John von Neumann. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
Secondly, what name is given to a game in which the total of | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
the positive payoffs of all the participating players | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
is equal to the total of the negative payoffs? | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
-Equal benefit or something like that. -I don't know. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
Equal benefit. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:48 | |
No, that's a zero sum game. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:49 | |
And finally, after a US mathematician, | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
what name is given to a collection of strategies in game theory | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
such as that no one player can increase their payoff | 0:05:55 | 0:05:59 | |
if only that player changes their strategy. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
-I don't know. -Who was the guy from A Beautiful Mind? | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
-Try him, John Nash. -What's his name? -John Nash. -John Nash. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:12 | |
Er, specifically? | 0:06:12 | 0:06:13 | |
John Forbes Nash. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:15 | |
It's the name of the strategy is what I'm looking for. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
-The Nash strategy. -I'm afraid that won't do. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
It's The Nash equilibrium | 0:06:19 | 0:06:20 | |
or equilibrium generally. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
Right, ten points for this. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
Listen carefully, your answer is a three-word term. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
Atira, Aten, Apollo and Amor are all groups of astronomical bodies | 0:06:27 | 0:06:32 | |
known by the abbreviation NEA. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
For what do the letters...? | 0:06:35 | 0:06:36 | |
Near-Earth asteroids. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:39 | |
Correct. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:41 | |
Right, these bonuses are on Asian countries. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:46 | |
In addition to China, the formal name of which Asian country | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 | |
begins with the words People's Republic. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
It became independent in 1971. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
-Uh... Laos, maybe? -It might be Laos. -Yeah, People's Republic. | 0:06:56 | 0:07:01 | |
-When did it become independent? -'71. -Oh. No, that would not be Laos. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
That would be New Guinea, I think that was about 1971. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
-That wasn't People's Republic. -Um, um... Cambodia? | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
No, that's not a republic. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
-Laos, Vietnam? Laos! -Come on. -Mongolia? | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
-Um... -Go with Laos. -Mongolia. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
No, it's Bangladesh. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:20 | |
Secondly, what is the only Asian country to describe itself | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
as a Socialist Republic? | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
It's flag is a yellow star on a red background. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
That's Vietnam. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:30 | |
-Vietnam. -Correct. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:32 | |
The formal name of which South Asian country begins with the words | 0:07:32 | 0:07:36 | |
Democratic Socialist Republic? | 0:07:36 | 0:07:37 | |
-North Kor... -It became independent in 1948. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
Yeah, no, it's Sri Lanka. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:41 | |
-Democratic Socialist Republic. -Yeah, South Asian, it is, it is. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
-Sri Lanka. -Correct. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
Right, you're going to take a picture around. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
For your picture starter, you're going to see | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
a flag of a breakaway state, | 0:07:50 | 0:07:51 | |
which although exercising de facto | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
independence, is not officially | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
recognised by any UN member state. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:58 | |
Ten points if you can identify it. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:00 | |
South Ossetia. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:05 | |
No. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:06 | |
Anyone like to buzz from Liverpool? | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
Is it Chechnya? | 0:08:12 | 0:08:13 | |
No, it's Transnistria. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:15 | |
So, picture bonuses in a moment or two. Ten points for this. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:18 | |
Fenella in Daniel Auber's La Muette De Portici, | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
Strephon in Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage, | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
and Tadzio in Benjamin Britten's Death In Venice | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
all share what distinctive and unusual attribute | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
among named characters in classical opera? | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
Um, do they all not actually appear in the thing? | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
No. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:43 | |
Women with men's names. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:47 | |
No, they are non-singing or non-speaking roles. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:51 | |
Right, ten points for this. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
Quote, "The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
"have probably the fullest poetical nature. | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem." | 0:09:00 | 0:09:04 | |
Which poet wrote those words in the preface to his 1855 collection, | 0:09:04 | 0:09:08 | |
Leaves Of Grass? | 0:09:08 | 0:09:10 | |
-Walt Whitman. -Yes. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
So, Liverpool, you lucky people. You get the picture bonuses. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:18 | |
Three more flags of breakaway states | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
with limited international recognition all from within | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
the territory of the former Soviet Union | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
and all having declared independence since its dissolution. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
Five points for each you can name. Firstly... | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
-Abkhazia. -Abkhazia. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
It is Abkhazia. Secondly... | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
Oh, I recognise that. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
-Oh, it's a flag! -Nagorno-Karabakh. -What? -Nagorno-Karabakh. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
-Nominate Bennett. -Nagorno-Karabakh. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:47 | |
Correct. And finally... | 0:09:47 | 0:09:49 | |
Shall we go for South Ossetia? South Ossetia. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
Well done, yes. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
Right, a starter question. | 0:09:57 | 0:09:58 | |
Of the four fundamental forces, | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
which three play a significant role in binding matter together? | 0:10:00 | 0:10:05 | |
Um, gravity, the electromagnetic force and the strong nuclear force. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:10 | |
Correct. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:11 | |
Your bonuses are on scientists both real and fictional, Imperial. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:20 | |
In the television series The Big Bang Theory, | 0:10:20 | 0:10:22 | |
the theoretical physicist Sheldon Lee Cooper | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
researches string theory. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
He shares both his given and middle name | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
with which US particle physicist who is a noted opponent of the theory? | 0:10:29 | 0:10:34 | |
Sheldon Glashow. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:35 | |
Correct, yes. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:36 | |
Secondly, what surname is shared by a character in The Big Bang Theory | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
with the US academic whose work entitled Godel, Escher And Bach | 0:10:40 | 0:10:44 | |
won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979? | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
-Hofstadter. -Correct. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
Playing a neuroscientist, which member of the cast | 0:10:49 | 0:10:51 | |
of The Big Bang Theory earned a doctorate in 2007 | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
with a dissertation on hypothalamic activity in patients | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
with Prader-Willi syndrome? | 0:10:57 | 0:10:59 | |
It is pronounced that way, isn't it? Mayim Bialik. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
Mayim Bialik is correct. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:03 | |
Obviously, compulsory viewing in your house, isn't it? | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
Right, ten points for this. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:09 | |
Which architect and scholar of the Egyptian Third Dynasty | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
is usually credited with designing | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara? | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
The same name was used for Boris Karloff's character... | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
-Imhotep. -Correct. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:21 | |
These bonuses are on European history, Liverpool. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:28 | |
In the War of the League of Cambrai from 1508, | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
which Italian state faced an alliance that included the Pope | 0:11:31 | 0:11:35 | |
and the rulers of France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire? | 0:11:35 | 0:11:39 | |
-Venice. -Correct. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:42 | |
In 1718, attempting to alter the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht, | 0:11:42 | 0:11:46 | |
which country oppose the quadruple alliance of Austria, Britain, | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
the Dutch Republic and France? | 0:11:49 | 0:11:50 | |
Spain. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:54 | |
Correct, gives you the lead. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:55 | |
Wishing to increase its share of the spoils from a previous conflict, | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
which country attacked its former allies, including Serbia and Greece, | 0:11:58 | 0:12:02 | |
in the second Balkan War of 1913? | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
Bulgaria. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:09 | |
Correct, ten points for this. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
What adjective links in literature a school of British poets | 0:12:12 | 0:12:16 | |
that included Philip James Bailey and Sydney Dobell, | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
in pathology, an entity characterised by | 0:12:20 | 0:12:22 | |
twitches or convulsions, and in general use, | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
anything that occurs irregularly or intermittently? | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
Tick. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:31 | |
No, and I'm afraid that is just an interruption, you lose five points. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:35 | |
Liverpool? | 0:12:35 | 0:12:36 | |
No, it's spasmodic. Ten points for this. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
Born around AD 360, | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
Saint Mesrop Mashtots is traditionally credited with | 0:12:43 | 0:12:46 | |
devising the alphabet still in use of which Indo-European language? | 0:12:46 | 0:12:50 | |
The language in question has around six million speakers, | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
primarily in Western Asia. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:55 | |
-Armenian. -Correct. | 0:12:57 | 0:12:58 | |
Your bonuses, which could re-give you the lead, are on poets | 0:13:01 | 0:13:04 | |
born in Yorkshire in different centuries. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
In each case, identify the poet from their lines. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:08 | |
Firstly, from the 17th century, | 0:13:08 | 0:13:10 | |
"How vainly men themselves amaze to win the palm, the oak or bays." | 0:13:10 | 0:13:15 | |
-Never heard that before. -16th or 17th. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
So, shall I just guess a poet? | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
Um...John Donne. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
No, it's Andrew Marvell. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:26 | |
Secondly, from the 19th century, | 0:13:26 | 0:13:27 | |
"No coward's soul is mine, | 0:13:27 | 0:13:29 | |
"no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
"I see heaven's glory shine and faith shines equal, | 0:13:32 | 0:13:36 | |
"arming me from fear." | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
19th century... | 0:13:38 | 0:13:40 | |
Is this just another guess a poet? Um... | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
-TS Eliot? -No! Tennyson. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
No, that's Emily Bronte. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
And from the 20th century, | 0:13:55 | 0:13:57 | |
"It took the whole of creation to produce my foot, my each feather. | 0:13:57 | 0:14:01 | |
"Now I hold creation in my foot." | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
-Philip Larkin? -Hmm. -Try it. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:08 | |
-I don't know. -He was from round there, wasn't he? | 0:14:08 | 0:14:10 | |
Philip Larkin. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:11 | |
No, it's Ted Hughes. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:13 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:14 | |
In medicine, what term | 0:14:14 | 0:14:15 | |
denotes the administration of electric shocks to the chest | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
in order to reset normal heart...? | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
Cardioversion. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:23 | |
No, I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:25 | |
In order to reset normal heart rhythm | 0:14:25 | 0:14:26 | |
in a person who's experienced...? | 0:14:26 | 0:14:28 | |
Defibrillation. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:29 | |
Defibrillation is correct. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:31 | |
Your bonuses, Liverpool, are on physics. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:36 | |
In an unconventional energy grid, | 0:14:36 | 0:14:38 | |
power is transmitted by pumping a fluid along pipelines | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
and using its kinetic energy to do work at the point of use. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:45 | |
Neglecting viscosity and other losses, by what factor does | 0:14:45 | 0:14:49 | |
the transmitted power increase if you double the speed of fluid flow? | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
-Four. -Four. -No, it's eight. | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
Secondly, another unconventional grid | 0:14:58 | 0:15:00 | |
connects homes using heavy ropes | 0:15:00 | 0:15:01 | |
and the energy is transmitted by shaking the ropes | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
to send transverse waves travelling along them. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
What factor increase in power would be gained by doubling | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
both the amplitude and frequency of the waves, | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
all other things being equal? | 0:15:13 | 0:15:15 | |
Five? | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
-It's going to be a multiple of two. -Shall we try four? | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
-Four. -It's 16. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:21 | |
And finally, a grid transmits energy by shooting marbles down | 0:15:21 | 0:15:25 | |
an evacuated tube. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:26 | |
What factor increase in power would result from doubling | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
the radius of the marbles, again, all other things being equal? | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
-I thought maybe decrease? -No, it's increase. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
-So just say... -It's going to be something high. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:41 | |
-12? -12. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
No, it's eight. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:45 | |
Time for a music round. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:46 | |
For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of classical music. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
For ten points, simply identify its English composer. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:53 | |
SOLO HARPSICHORD PLAYS | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
Purcell. | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
It is Henry Purcell, well done. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:00 | |
That was an allemande, | 0:16:04 | 0:16:05 | |
the first of the four core dances of the baroque suite. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:09 | |
For your bonuses, you'll hear excerpts from three more dances | 0:16:09 | 0:16:13 | |
that, with the allemande, comprise such a suite. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
Each is from a different work, | 0:16:16 | 0:16:17 | |
I want the composer's name in each case. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:19 | |
Here then, a courante by which French composer? | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
SOLO HARPSICHORD PLAYS | 0:16:23 | 0:16:27 | |
THEY MUTTER | 0:16:28 | 0:16:32 | |
Um, Satie? | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
No, that's by Rameau. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:40 | |
And next, a sarabande by which composer? | 0:16:40 | 0:16:43 | |
SOLO HARPSICHORD PLAYS | 0:16:43 | 0:16:47 | |
Handel. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:52 | |
It is Handel, yes! | 0:16:52 | 0:16:53 | |
And finally, a gigue by which German composer? | 0:16:53 | 0:16:57 | |
SOLO CELLO PLAYS | 0:16:57 | 0:17:00 | |
Bach. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:06 | |
It is by Bach, yes. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:07 | |
Johann Sebastian. Ten points for this. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:09 | |
The birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen, | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
what is the third-largest city by...? | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
-Odense. -Correct. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:15 | |
These bonuses, Imperial, are on US history. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:21 | |
Enacted by the 18th Amendment of the Constitution | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
and repealed by the 21st, what measure was often referred to | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
as the Noble Experiment? | 0:17:27 | 0:17:28 | |
-Prohibition. -Correct. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
The Act of Congress that enabled Prohibition is often named | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
after which US representative for Minnesota? | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
Um... | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
I did this at school. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
Um, don't know. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
Don't know. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:45 | |
It's named after Andrew Volstead. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:46 | |
And finally, during Prohibition, | 0:17:46 | 0:17:48 | |
serial beverages with an alcohol content of up to 0.5% | 0:17:48 | 0:17:53 | |
were permitted. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:54 | |
Such drinks were popularly known by what rhyming designation? | 0:17:54 | 0:17:58 | |
Um, any idea? | 0:18:00 | 0:18:01 | |
-Little... -Don't know. -Don't know. | 0:18:03 | 0:18:06 | |
It's near beer. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
Right, ten points for this starter question. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
Answer as soon as your name is called. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:12 | |
Which letter of the alphabet is common to the surnames | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
of the first three British prime ministers of the 21st-century? | 0:18:15 | 0:18:18 | |
B. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
No. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
-R. -R is correct, yes. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
Between Blair, Brown and Cameron. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:30 | |
Right, Liverpool. These bonuses are on works of economics. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:35 | |
In which work of 2014 does the French economist | 0:18:35 | 0:18:38 | |
Thomas Piketty state that the main driver of inequality | 0:18:38 | 0:18:42 | |
is the tendency of capital to exceed the rate of economic growth? | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
-More money, more problems. -HE LAUGHS | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
-Not a clue. -Terribly famous book. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:52 | |
It's Capital In The Twenty-First Century. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
The name of which Austrian-born economist | 0:18:54 | 0:18:56 | |
appears with that of Keynes in the title of a book | 0:18:56 | 0:18:58 | |
by Nicholas Wapshott subtitled | 0:18:58 | 0:19:00 | |
The Clash That Defined Modern Economics? | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
-Hayek? Or Friedman? -Friedman. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:06 | |
No, it's Hayek. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
With his philosopher son Edward, which emeritus professor | 0:19:08 | 0:19:11 | |
of political economy co-authored the 2012 book | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
How Much Is Enough?: Money And The Good Life. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
We don't know. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:20 | |
It's Skidelsky, Robert Skidelsky. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
Right, ten points for this. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
What term denotes a point on the celestial sphere | 0:19:24 | 0:19:26 | |
with an astronomical latitude of minus 90 degrees? | 0:19:26 | 0:19:29 | |
It derives from the Arabic meaning of opposite. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:32 | |
Zenith. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:33 | |
No, I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:36 | |
Meaning opposite in terms of its relation to the zenith? | 0:19:36 | 0:19:39 | |
-Nadir. -Nadir is correct. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
Right, these bonuses are on crystallography, Liverpool. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:48 | |
In crystallography, what is the name of the lattice | 0:19:48 | 0:19:50 | |
which is given by the Fourier transformer, | 0:19:50 | 0:19:52 | |
the wave function of the original spatial lattice? | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
-No. -We do not know. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:01 | |
That's the reciprocal lattice. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
What two-word hyphenated term is used to describe a spatial lattice | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
whose reciprocal has the same symmetry as the original lattice? | 0:20:07 | 0:20:10 | |
I really just don't know. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:15 | |
-Might be a mirror? -Mirror lattice. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:18 | |
It's a self-dual. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:19 | |
What is the reciprocal lattice of a face-centred cubic lattice? | 0:20:19 | 0:20:23 | |
-I think it's off-centre. -No idea. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:29 | |
Body-centred. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
Right, ten points for this. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:32 | |
"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author | 0:20:32 | 0:20:35 | |
"and I speak like a child." | 0:20:35 | 0:20:37 | |
These words appear in the 1973 work Strong Opinions | 0:20:37 | 0:20:42 | |
by which Russian-born novelist? | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
Solzhenitsyn. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:49 | |
No, anyone like to buzz from Imperial? | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
-Nabokov. -Nabokov is correct, yes. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:53 | |
These bonuses are on a culinary vegetable, Imperial. | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
Noted for its antibacterial properties, | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
allicin is the yellowish oily liquid | 0:21:03 | 0:21:05 | |
that is the principal flavouring agent of which vegetable, | 0:21:05 | 0:21:09 | |
used mainly as a seasoning or condiment? | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
-Garlic. -Correct. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:14 | |
The Garlic Ballads is a work by which Chinese novelist, | 0:21:14 | 0:21:18 | |
also noticed for Frog and Red Sorghum Clan? | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2012. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
-Mo Yan. -Correct. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:25 | |
The Portuguese for wine with garlic is thought to be | 0:21:25 | 0:21:28 | |
the derivation of the name of which dish, | 0:21:28 | 0:21:30 | |
versions of which often feature on the menus of British curry houses? | 0:21:30 | 0:21:34 | |
-Any idea at all? -Portuguese? Vindaloo? | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
Vindaloo. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:38 | |
Correct, well done. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:40 | |
We're going to take another picture round. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
For your picture starter, you're going to see two images. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
One is a still from a film, | 0:21:46 | 0:21:47 | |
the other is a painting by an artist | 0:21:47 | 0:21:49 | |
whose works inspired | 0:21:49 | 0:21:50 | |
the film's art direction. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:51 | |
For ten points, I need both the title of the film | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
and the name of the artist. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
The Exorcist, Grant Wood. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:01 | |
No. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:02 | |
No, you're not going to tell me. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
The Exorcist and Hopper. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
No, it's The Exorcist and Rene Magritte. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
So, picture bonuses shortly, | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
ten points at stake for this starter question. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
Listen carefully, answer as soon as your name is called. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:17 | |
Rayleigh scattering causes... | 0:22:17 | 0:22:19 | |
Blue sky. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:22 | |
No, I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:23 | |
Rayleigh scattering causes the blueness of Earth's daytime sky. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:28 | |
In this process, scattered intensity is proportional | 0:22:28 | 0:22:31 | |
to frequency raised to what power? | 0:22:31 | 0:22:32 | |
-Fourth. -Four is correct. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:35 | |
So there's only ten points in it and you get the picture bonuses. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
You're going to see stills from films together with | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
the works of artists who inspired their costume and set design. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
In each case, I need the title both of the film | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
and the name of the artist. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
Firstly, for five. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
-No idea. -Is that Psycho? | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
Do we know the artist? | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
If not, we shouldn't waste time on it. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
-Don't even know what period it is. -So, it's for Psycho and... | 0:23:02 | 0:23:06 | |
It could be Dutch. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:07 | |
I don't know. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
Um, Psycho and Dali. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
No, it's Psycho and Edward Hopper. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
Secondly... | 0:23:16 | 0:23:17 | |
Um, that looks... That's Hogarth on the right. So... | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
Something about a seance. Some sort of horror film. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:27 | |
Isn't there something called The Draughtsman's Contract? | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
Um, the Draughtsman's Contract and... | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
No, it's Barry Lyndon and the artist was William Hogarth. Finally... | 0:23:33 | 0:23:37 | |
That's Breugel on the right. I can't remember which film. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:40 | |
-Is it Fritz Lang? -That looks like it's... -And... -Is it Metropolis? | 0:23:40 | 0:23:46 | |
Yeah, Breugel and Metropolis. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:48 | |
-Metropolis and Breugel. -Which one? | 0:23:48 | 0:23:50 | |
-Pieter Breugel the Elder. -Correct! | 0:23:50 | 0:23:52 | |
Right, ten points for this. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:57 | |
In Greek morphology, which sea nymph was the wife of Peleus | 0:23:57 | 0:24:01 | |
and the mother of...? | 0:24:01 | 0:24:03 | |
Thetis. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:04 | |
Correct. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:05 | |
You take the lead and these bonuses are on sudden literary celebrity. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:12 | |
Firstly, the 1774 publication of the Sorrows Of Young Werther | 0:24:12 | 0:24:17 | |
turned which Frankfurt-born lawyer into a major literary figure | 0:24:17 | 0:24:21 | |
almost overnight? | 0:24:21 | 0:24:22 | |
-Goethe. -Correct. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:23 | |
Which poet wrote that he woke up one morning and found himself famous | 0:24:23 | 0:24:27 | |
after the publication of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage? | 0:24:27 | 0:24:30 | |
-Byron. -Byron. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:31 | |
Correct. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:32 | |
Which US author achieved sudden fame following the appearance | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
in 1894 of the Red Badge Of Courage, published when he was 23 years old. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:41 | |
Uh, it's... Is it...? Um, ah! | 0:24:41 | 0:24:45 | |
-It wouldn't be...? -No, it's... No, it's not. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:51 | |
Let's have it, please. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:53 | |
Um, is it Frank McCourt? | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
No, it's Stephen Crane. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:56 | |
There's just over three minutes to go, another starter question. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
What is the largest country | 0:24:59 | 0:25:00 | |
that does not lie wholly within the Northern Hemisphere? | 0:25:00 | 0:25:04 | |
It is the world's fifth-largest country by... | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
Australia. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:09 | |
No, I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:11 | |
The world's fifth-largest country by land area? | 0:25:11 | 0:25:13 | |
-Brazil. -Brazil is correct. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
Get these bonuses, you'll retake the lead. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
They're on mammals in Japan, Liverpool. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:23 | |
Cervus nippon, also known as the sika, | 0:25:23 | 0:25:26 | |
is a member of a family of grazing animals known by what common name? | 0:25:26 | 0:25:30 | |
-Deer. -Correct. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:32 | |
What four-letter word follows Japanese and mountain | 0:25:32 | 0:25:35 | |
in the common names of the two species of the genus lepus | 0:25:35 | 0:25:39 | |
found in Japan. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:40 | |
They belong to the order lagomorpha. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:42 | |
-Hare. -Correct. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:44 | |
Snow-covered mountains of Japan provide a habitat for the most | 0:25:44 | 0:25:47 | |
northerly species of which genus of old-world monkeys? | 0:25:47 | 0:25:51 | |
-Macaque. -Macaque is correct. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:52 | |
Starter question now. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:55 | |
Deriving ultimately from the Greek for flesh, | 0:25:55 | 0:25:57 | |
what general term is used in medicine for cancers | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
of connective tissue and muscle? | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
Sarcoma. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:04 | |
Sarcoma is right. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:05 | |
Your bonuses are on pairs of years with reordered digits. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:11 | |
For example, 1066 and 1660. | 0:26:11 | 0:26:14 | |
In each case, give the two years in which the following occurred. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:17 | |
Firstly, the battles of Bosworth Field and Balaclava? | 0:26:17 | 0:26:21 | |
1854... | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
1485 and 1854. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:25 | |
Correct. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:26 | |
Secondly, the execution of Sir Thomas More | 0:26:26 | 0:26:28 | |
and the accession of Mary I of England? | 0:26:28 | 0:26:30 | |
1547, 1574? | 0:26:32 | 0:26:34 | |
-Later on. -15... | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
-Come on, please. -We don't know. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:41 | |
It's 1535 and 1553. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:43 | |
And finally, the deposition of James II of England | 0:26:43 | 0:26:46 | |
and the defeat of Gladstone's first Irish Home Rule Bill. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
-'79? I don't. -No, we don't know. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:54 | |
It's 1688 and 1886. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:26:56 | 0:26:57 | |
Hoping to pay his emigration to Jamaica, | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
who in 1786 published his first anthology, | 0:26:59 | 0:27:03 | |
poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect? | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
Burns. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:08 | |
Robert Burns is right. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:10 | |
These bonuses are on the Booker Prize. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:14 | |
In 1974, the author Elizabeth Jane Howard | 0:27:14 | 0:27:16 | |
was a member of the Booker panel that shortlisted Ending Up, | 0:27:16 | 0:27:19 | |
a novel by which writer who was also her husband? | 0:27:19 | 0:27:22 | |
-Don't know. -That was Kingsley Amis. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:25 | |
In 1992, the prize was awarded jointly to Michael Ondaatje | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
for The English Patient and to which other author for Sacred Hunger? | 0:27:28 | 0:27:33 | |
-No, we don't know again. -That was Barry Unsworth. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:37 | |
And finally, with South African writer was the first author | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
to win twice with The Life And Times Of Michael K in 1983 | 0:27:40 | 0:27:44 | |
and Disgrace in 1999? | 0:27:44 | 0:27:47 | |
-Jack Coetzee. Coetzee? -Coetzee. | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
JM Coetzee is correct. Ten points for this. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:53 | |
Uninhabited, volcanic | 0:27:53 | 0:27:54 | |
and almost entirely covered by glaciers, | 0:27:54 | 0:27:56 | |
Bouvet Island is the most...? | 0:27:56 | 0:27:59 | |
-Norway. -Norway is correct. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:00 | |
These bonuses... GONG | 0:28:04 | 0:28:06 | |
And at the gong, Imperial College have 130, | 0:28:06 | 0:28:09 | |
Liverpool University have 185. | 0:28:09 | 0:28:11 | |
Well, bad luck, Imperial. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:16 | |
I'm afraid you're going to have to come back and win again. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:19 | |
You're certainly quite good enough to be in the semifinals, | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
so we shall wish you the best of luck next time. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:24 | |
Congratulations to you, Liverpool. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:26 | |
You take the second place in the semifinals, well done. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:29 | |
I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:32 | |
But until then, it's goodbye from Imperial College, London. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:34 | |
-ALL: -Goodbye. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:36 | |
-It's goodbye from Liverpool University. ALL: -Goodbye. | 0:28:36 | 0:28:38 | |
And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye. | 0:28:38 | 0:28:40 |