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University Challenge.

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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

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Hello, we've already seen Peterhouse, Cambridge

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take the first of the four places in the semifinals

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and whichever team wins tonight will join them.

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They both have one quarterfinal win behind them.

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Whichever team loses will return for one last chance to qualify.

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Now, the team from Imperial College - London

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have had an impressive run so far with wins against

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Reading University, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

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and Nuffield College - Oxford,

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giving them an accumulated score of 780.

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Let's meet them again.

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Good evening, my name is Ben Fernando.

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I'm from Birmingham and I'm studying physics.

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Hi, I'm Ashwin Braude I'm from North London

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and I'm also studying physics.

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-And this is their captain.

-Hello, I'm James Bezer.

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I'm from Manchester and I study physics as well.

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Hello, I'm Onur Teymur, I'm from North London

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and I'm working towards a PhD in mathematical statistics.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, the team from Liverpool University

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also have an unblemished record

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and got here by beating St Peters College - Oxford

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in round one,

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Southampton University in round two

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and the University of Newcastle in their first quarterfinal match.

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Those three victories had given them an accumulated score of 585 points.

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-Let's meet the Liverpool team again.

-Hi, I'm Jenny McLoughlin.

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I'm from Leeds and I'm studying biological and medical sciences.

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Hi, I'm Jack Bennett. I'm from Lancaster and I'm studying law.

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-And this is their captain.

-Hi, I'm Robin Wainwright.

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I'm from the Wirral and I'm studying biological science.

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Hi, I'm Ed Bretherton.

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I'm from Bampton in Devon and I'm studying medicine.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, it's too late in the contest to recite the rules again

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so fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.

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Which English cathedral is this?

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Owning one of the four extant copies of the Magna Carta,

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it's built on a limestone...?

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Lincoln.

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Correct.

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Right, the first set of bonuses, Imperial, are on an ancient city.

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Firstly, for five points, the modern Turkish port of Bodrum

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is built on the ruins of which ancient city generally regarded

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as the birthplace of the historian Herodotus?

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-Halicarnassus.

-Correct.

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Built on the orders of Queen Artemisia

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in the Fourth Century BCE, the ruins of which of the Seven Wonders

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Of The Ancient World are located at Halicarnassus.

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-Mausoleum, yeah.

-The Mausoleum.

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Correct. The Tomb of Mausolus.

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And finally, Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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is noted for a history of Rome from its origins

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to the start of its wars with which Mediterranean power from 264 BCE?

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-Carthage, yeah.

-Carthage.

-Correct.

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Fingers on the buzzers,

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ten points for this.

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Early in 2015, a statement made in 1986 by the author Roald Dahl

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circulated widely on the internet, referring to the death

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of his daughter 24 years earlier,

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it exhorts parents to have their children...?

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Vaccinated.

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I'm afraid you lose five points.

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To have their children immunised against which disease?

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-Meningitis.

-No, it's measles.

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Ten points for this starter question. Listen carefully.

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The International Temperature Scale adopted in 1990

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includes among its fixed points a temperature of 234.3 Kelvin

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defined by the triple point of what metallic...?

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Oh, no, sorry. Hydrogen, no.

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I'm afraid you're going to lose five points.

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Of what metallic element at one standard atmosphere?

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-Mercury.

-Correct.

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Right, your bonuses, Liverpool, are on the films of Christian Bale.

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In each case, name the film from the description.

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Firstly, a 1987 film based on a semiautobiographical work

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by JG Ballard.

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Bale plays Jim,

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an English boy attempting to survive the Japanese occupation of Shanghai.

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-Empire Of The Sun.

-Correct.

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Secondly, a 1996 film adaptation of a novel by Joseph Conrad

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with Bale in the role of Stevie,

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the brother-in-law of the title character of Verloc

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played by Bob Hoskins.

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Hmm. I have no idea.

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-No, we don't know.

-That's The Secret Agent.

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And finally, a 2006 film based on a novel by Christopher Priest.

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Bale plays Alfred Borden, a 19th-century stage magician.

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-Prestige.

-The Prestige.

-Correct.

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Ten points for this.

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Which year saw the publication

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of The Great Gatsby,

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the signing of the Treaties of Locarno...?

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-1925.

-Correct.

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That gives the lead, you get a set of bonuses on game theory.

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Firstly, regarded as the founder of modern game theory,

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which Hungarian US mathematician wrote the 1944 book

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The Theory Of Games And Economic Behaviour with Oskar Morgenstern?

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Is it Erdos? Erdos?

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Paul Erdos.

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No, it was John von Neumann.

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Secondly, what name is given to a game in which the total of

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the positive payoffs of all the participating players

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is equal to the total of the negative payoffs?

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-Equal benefit or something like that.

-I don't know.

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Equal benefit.

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No, that's a zero sum game.

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And finally, after a US mathematician,

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what name is given to a collection of strategies in game theory

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such as that no one player can increase their payoff

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if only that player changes their strategy.

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-I don't know.

-Who was the guy from A Beautiful Mind?

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-Try him, John Nash.

-What's his name?

-John Nash.

-John Nash.

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Er, specifically?

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John Forbes Nash.

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It's the name of the strategy is what I'm looking for.

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-The Nash strategy.

-I'm afraid that won't do.

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It's The Nash equilibrium

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or equilibrium generally.

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Right, ten points for this.

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Listen carefully, your answer is a three-word term.

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Atira, Aten, Apollo and Amor are all groups of astronomical bodies

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known by the abbreviation NEA.

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For what do the letters...?

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Near-Earth asteroids.

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Correct.

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Right, these bonuses are on Asian countries.

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In addition to China, the formal name of which Asian country

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begins with the words People's Republic.

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It became independent in 1971.

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-Uh... Laos, maybe?

-It might be Laos.

-Yeah, People's Republic.

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-When did it become independent?

-'71.

-Oh. No, that would not be Laos.

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That would be New Guinea, I think that was about 1971.

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-That wasn't People's Republic.

-Um, um... Cambodia?

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No, that's not a republic.

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-Laos, Vietnam? Laos!

-Come on.

-Mongolia?

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-Um...

-Go with Laos.

-Mongolia.

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No, it's Bangladesh.

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Secondly, what is the only Asian country to describe itself

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as a Socialist Republic?

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It's flag is a yellow star on a red background.

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That's Vietnam.

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-Vietnam.

-Correct.

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The formal name of which South Asian country begins with the words

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Democratic Socialist Republic?

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-North Kor...

-It became independent in 1948.

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Yeah, no, it's Sri Lanka.

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-Democratic Socialist Republic.

-Yeah, South Asian, it is, it is.

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-Sri Lanka.

-Correct.

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Right, you're going to take a picture around.

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For your picture starter, you're going to see

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a flag of a breakaway state,

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which although exercising de facto

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independence, is not officially

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recognised by any UN member state.

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Ten points if you can identify it.

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South Ossetia.

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No.

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Anyone like to buzz from Liverpool?

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Is it Chechnya?

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No, it's Transnistria.

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So, picture bonuses in a moment or two. Ten points for this.

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Fenella in Daniel Auber's La Muette De Portici,

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Strephon in Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage,

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and Tadzio in Benjamin Britten's Death In Venice

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all share what distinctive and unusual attribute

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among named characters in classical opera?

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Um, do they all not actually appear in the thing?

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No.

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Women with men's names.

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No, they are non-singing or non-speaking roles.

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Right, ten points for this.

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Quote, "The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth

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"have probably the fullest poetical nature.

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"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."

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Which poet wrote those words in the preface to his 1855 collection,

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Leaves Of Grass?

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-Walt Whitman.

-Yes.

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So, Liverpool, you lucky people. You get the picture bonuses.

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Three more flags of breakaway states

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with limited international recognition all from within

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the territory of the former Soviet Union

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and all having declared independence since its dissolution.

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Five points for each you can name. Firstly...

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-Abkhazia.

-Abkhazia.

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It is Abkhazia. Secondly...

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Oh, I recognise that.

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-Oh, it's a flag!

-Nagorno-Karabakh.

-What?

-Nagorno-Karabakh.

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-Nominate Bennett.

-Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Correct. And finally...

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Shall we go for South Ossetia? South Ossetia.

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Well done, yes.

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Right, a starter question.

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Of the four fundamental forces,

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which three play a significant role in binding matter together?

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Um, gravity, the electromagnetic force and the strong nuclear force.

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Correct.

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Your bonuses are on scientists both real and fictional, Imperial.

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In the television series The Big Bang Theory,

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the theoretical physicist Sheldon Lee Cooper

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researches string theory.

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He shares both his given and middle name

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with which US particle physicist who is a noted opponent of the theory?

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Sheldon Glashow.

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Correct, yes.

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Secondly, what surname is shared by a character in The Big Bang Theory

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with the US academic whose work entitled Godel, Escher And Bach

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won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979?

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-Hofstadter.

-Correct.

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Playing a neuroscientist, which member of the cast

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of The Big Bang Theory earned a doctorate in 2007

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with a dissertation on hypothalamic activity in patients

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with Prader-Willi syndrome?

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It is pronounced that way, isn't it? Mayim Bialik.

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Mayim Bialik is correct.

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Obviously, compulsory viewing in your house, isn't it?

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Right, ten points for this.

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Which architect and scholar of the Egyptian Third Dynasty

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is usually credited with designing

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the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara?

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The same name was used for Boris Karloff's character...

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-Imhotep.

-Correct.

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These bonuses are on European history, Liverpool.

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In the War of the League of Cambrai from 1508,

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which Italian state faced an alliance that included the Pope

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and the rulers of France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire?

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-Venice.

-Correct.

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In 1718, attempting to alter the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht,

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which country oppose the quadruple alliance of Austria, Britain,

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the Dutch Republic and France?

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Spain.

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Correct, gives you the lead.

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Wishing to increase its share of the spoils from a previous conflict,

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which country attacked its former allies, including Serbia and Greece,

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in the second Balkan War of 1913?

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Bulgaria.

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Correct, ten points for this.

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What adjective links in literature a school of British poets

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that included Philip James Bailey and Sydney Dobell,

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in pathology, an entity characterised by

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twitches or convulsions, and in general use,

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anything that occurs irregularly or intermittently?

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Tick.

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No, and I'm afraid that is just an interruption, you lose five points.

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Liverpool?

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No, it's spasmodic. Ten points for this.

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Born around AD 360,

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Saint Mesrop Mashtots is traditionally credited with

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devising the alphabet still in use of which Indo-European language?

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The language in question has around six million speakers,

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primarily in Western Asia.

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-Armenian.

-Correct.

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Your bonuses, which could re-give you the lead, are on poets

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born in Yorkshire in different centuries.

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In each case, identify the poet from their lines.

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Firstly, from the 17th century,

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"How vainly men themselves amaze to win the palm, the oak or bays."

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-Never heard that before.

-16th or 17th.

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So, shall I just guess a poet?

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Um...John Donne.

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No, it's Andrew Marvell.

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Secondly, from the 19th century,

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"No coward's soul is mine,

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"no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.

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"I see heaven's glory shine and faith shines equal,

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"arming me from fear."

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19th century...

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Is this just another guess a poet? Um...

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-TS Eliot?

-No! Tennyson.

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No, that's Emily Bronte.

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And from the 20th century,

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"It took the whole of creation to produce my foot, my each feather.

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"Now I hold creation in my foot."

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-Philip Larkin?

-Hmm.

-Try it.

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-I don't know.

-He was from round there, wasn't he?

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Philip Larkin.

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No, it's Ted Hughes.

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Ten points for this.

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In medicine, what term

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denotes the administration of electric shocks to the chest

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in order to reset normal heart...?

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Cardioversion.

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No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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In order to reset normal heart rhythm

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in a person who's experienced...?

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Defibrillation.

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Defibrillation is correct.

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Your bonuses, Liverpool, are on physics.

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In an unconventional energy grid,

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power is transmitted by pumping a fluid along pipelines

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and using its kinetic energy to do work at the point of use.

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Neglecting viscosity and other losses, by what factor does

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the transmitted power increase if you double the speed of fluid flow?

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-Four.

-Four.

-No, it's eight.

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Secondly, another unconventional grid

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connects homes using heavy ropes

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and the energy is transmitted by shaking the ropes

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to send transverse waves travelling along them.

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What factor increase in power would be gained by doubling

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both the amplitude and frequency of the waves,

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all other things being equal?

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Five?

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-It's going to be a multiple of two.

-Shall we try four?

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-Four.

-It's 16.

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And finally, a grid transmits energy by shooting marbles down

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an evacuated tube.

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What factor increase in power would result from doubling

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the radius of the marbles, again, all other things being equal?

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-I thought maybe decrease?

-No, it's increase.

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-So just say...

-It's going to be something high.

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-12?

-12.

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No, it's eight.

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Time for a music round.

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For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of classical music.

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For ten points, simply identify its English composer.

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SOLO HARPSICHORD PLAYS

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Purcell.

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It is Henry Purcell, well done.

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That was an allemande,

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the first of the four core dances of the baroque suite.

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For your bonuses, you'll hear excerpts from three more dances

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that, with the allemande, comprise such a suite.

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Each is from a different work,

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I want the composer's name in each case.

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Here then, a courante by which French composer?

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SOLO HARPSICHORD PLAYS

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THEY MUTTER

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Um, Satie?

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No, that's by Rameau.

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And next, a sarabande by which composer?

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SOLO HARPSICHORD PLAYS

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Handel.

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It is Handel, yes!

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And finally, a gigue by which German composer?

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SOLO CELLO PLAYS

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Bach.

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It is by Bach, yes.

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Johann Sebastian. Ten points for this.

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The birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen,

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what is the third-largest city by...?

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-Odense.

-Correct.

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These bonuses, Imperial, are on US history.

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Enacted by the 18th Amendment of the Constitution

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and repealed by the 21st, what measure was often referred to

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as the Noble Experiment?

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-Prohibition.

-Correct.

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The Act of Congress that enabled Prohibition is often named

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after which US representative for Minnesota?

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Um...

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I did this at school.

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Um, don't know.

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Don't know.

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It's named after Andrew Volstead.

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And finally, during Prohibition,

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serial beverages with an alcohol content of up to 0.5%

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were permitted.

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Such drinks were popularly known by what rhyming designation?

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Um, any idea?

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-Little...

-Don't know.

-Don't know.

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It's near beer.

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Right, ten points for this starter question.

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Answer as soon as your name is called.

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Which letter of the alphabet is common to the surnames

0:18:120:18:15

of the first three British prime ministers of the 21st-century?

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B.

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No.

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-R.

-R is correct, yes.

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Between Blair, Brown and Cameron.

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Right, Liverpool. These bonuses are on works of economics.

0:18:300:18:35

In which work of 2014 does the French economist

0:18:350:18:38

Thomas Piketty state that the main driver of inequality

0:18:380:18:42

is the tendency of capital to exceed the rate of economic growth?

0:18:420:18:45

-More money, more problems.

-HE LAUGHS

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-Not a clue.

-Terribly famous book.

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It's Capital In The Twenty-First Century.

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The name of which Austrian-born economist

0:18:540:18:56

appears with that of Keynes in the title of a book

0:18:560:18:58

by Nicholas Wapshott subtitled

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The Clash That Defined Modern Economics?

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-Hayek? Or Friedman?

-Friedman.

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No, it's Hayek.

0:19:060:19:08

With his philosopher son Edward, which emeritus professor

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of political economy co-authored the 2012 book

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How Much Is Enough?: Money And The Good Life.

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We don't know.

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It's Skidelsky, Robert Skidelsky.

0:19:200:19:22

Right, ten points for this.

0:19:220:19:24

What term denotes a point on the celestial sphere

0:19:240:19:26

with an astronomical latitude of minus 90 degrees?

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It derives from the Arabic meaning of opposite.

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Zenith.

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No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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Meaning opposite in terms of its relation to the zenith?

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-Nadir.

-Nadir is correct.

0:19:400:19:42

Right, these bonuses are on crystallography, Liverpool.

0:19:460:19:48

In crystallography, what is the name of the lattice

0:19:480:19:50

which is given by the Fourier transformer,

0:19:500:19:52

the wave function of the original spatial lattice?

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-No.

-We do not know.

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That's the reciprocal lattice.

0:20:010:20:03

What two-word hyphenated term is used to describe a spatial lattice

0:20:030:20:07

whose reciprocal has the same symmetry as the original lattice?

0:20:070:20:10

I really just don't know.

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-Might be a mirror?

-Mirror lattice.

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It's a self-dual.

0:20:180:20:19

What is the reciprocal lattice of a face-centred cubic lattice?

0:20:190:20:23

-I think it's off-centre.

-No idea.

0:20:270:20:29

Body-centred.

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Right, ten points for this.

0:20:310:20:32

"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author

0:20:320:20:35

"and I speak like a child."

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These words appear in the 1973 work Strong Opinions

0:20:370:20:42

by which Russian-born novelist?

0:20:420:20:44

Solzhenitsyn.

0:20:480:20:49

No, anyone like to buzz from Imperial?

0:20:490:20:52

-Nabokov.

-Nabokov is correct, yes.

0:20:520:20:53

These bonuses are on a culinary vegetable, Imperial.

0:20:570:21:00

Noted for its antibacterial properties,

0:21:000:21:03

allicin is the yellowish oily liquid

0:21:030:21:05

that is the principal flavouring agent of which vegetable,

0:21:050:21:09

used mainly as a seasoning or condiment?

0:21:090:21:11

-Garlic.

-Correct.

0:21:120:21:14

The Garlic Ballads is a work by which Chinese novelist,

0:21:140:21:18

also noticed for Frog and Red Sorghum Clan?

0:21:180:21:21

He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2012.

0:21:210:21:24

-Mo Yan.

-Correct.

0:21:240:21:25

The Portuguese for wine with garlic is thought to be

0:21:250:21:28

the derivation of the name of which dish,

0:21:280:21:30

versions of which often feature on the menus of British curry houses?

0:21:300:21:34

-Any idea at all?

-Portuguese? Vindaloo?

0:21:340:21:37

Vindaloo.

0:21:370:21:38

Correct, well done.

0:21:380:21:40

We're going to take another picture round.

0:21:410:21:43

For your picture starter, you're going to see two images.

0:21:430:21:46

One is a still from a film,

0:21:460:21:47

the other is a painting by an artist

0:21:470:21:49

whose works inspired

0:21:490:21:50

the film's art direction.

0:21:500:21:51

For ten points, I need both the title of the film

0:21:510:21:54

and the name of the artist.

0:21:540:21:56

The Exorcist, Grant Wood.

0:21:590:22:01

No.

0:22:010:22:02

No, you're not going to tell me.

0:22:050:22:07

The Exorcist and Hopper.

0:22:070:22:09

No, it's The Exorcist and Rene Magritte.

0:22:090:22:11

So, picture bonuses shortly,

0:22:110:22:13

ten points at stake for this starter question.

0:22:130:22:15

Listen carefully, answer as soon as your name is called.

0:22:150:22:17

Rayleigh scattering causes...

0:22:170:22:19

Blue sky.

0:22:210:22:22

No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:22:220:22:23

Rayleigh scattering causes the blueness of Earth's daytime sky.

0:22:230:22:28

In this process, scattered intensity is proportional

0:22:280:22:31

to frequency raised to what power?

0:22:310:22:32

-Fourth.

-Four is correct.

0:22:340:22:35

So there's only ten points in it and you get the picture bonuses.

0:22:390:22:42

You're going to see stills from films together with

0:22:420:22:45

the works of artists who inspired their costume and set design.

0:22:450:22:48

In each case, I need the title both of the film

0:22:480:22:51

and the name of the artist.

0:22:510:22:53

Firstly, for five.

0:22:530:22:55

-No idea.

-Is that Psycho?

0:22:550:22:58

Do we know the artist?

0:22:580:23:00

If not, we shouldn't waste time on it.

0:23:000:23:02

-Don't even know what period it is.

-So, it's for Psycho and...

0:23:020:23:06

It could be Dutch.

0:23:060:23:07

I don't know.

0:23:090:23:11

Um, Psycho and Dali.

0:23:110:23:13

No, it's Psycho and Edward Hopper.

0:23:130:23:15

Secondly...

0:23:160:23:17

Um, that looks... That's Hogarth on the right. So...

0:23:190:23:22

Something about a seance. Some sort of horror film.

0:23:220:23:27

Isn't there something called The Draughtsman's Contract?

0:23:270:23:30

Um, the Draughtsman's Contract and...

0:23:300:23:33

No, it's Barry Lyndon and the artist was William Hogarth. Finally...

0:23:330:23:37

That's Breugel on the right. I can't remember which film.

0:23:370:23:40

-Is it Fritz Lang?

-That looks like it's...

-And...

-Is it Metropolis?

0:23:400:23:46

Yeah, Breugel and Metropolis.

0:23:460:23:48

-Metropolis and Breugel.

-Which one?

0:23:480:23:50

-Pieter Breugel the Elder.

-Correct!

0:23:500:23:52

Right, ten points for this.

0:23:560:23:57

In Greek morphology, which sea nymph was the wife of Peleus

0:23:570:24:01

and the mother of...?

0:24:010:24:03

Thetis.

0:24:030:24:04

Correct.

0:24:040:24:05

You take the lead and these bonuses are on sudden literary celebrity.

0:24:080:24:12

Firstly, the 1774 publication of the Sorrows Of Young Werther

0:24:120:24:17

turned which Frankfurt-born lawyer into a major literary figure

0:24:170:24:21

almost overnight?

0:24:210:24:22

-Goethe.

-Correct.

0:24:220:24:23

Which poet wrote that he woke up one morning and found himself famous

0:24:230:24:27

after the publication of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage?

0:24:270:24:30

-Byron.

-Byron.

0:24:300:24:31

Correct.

0:24:310:24:32

Which US author achieved sudden fame following the appearance

0:24:320:24:35

in 1894 of the Red Badge Of Courage, published when he was 23 years old.

0:24:350:24:41

Uh, it's... Is it...? Um, ah!

0:24:410:24:45

-It wouldn't be...?

-No, it's... No, it's not.

0:24:470:24:51

Let's have it, please.

0:24:510:24:53

Um, is it Frank McCourt?

0:24:530:24:55

No, it's Stephen Crane.

0:24:550:24:56

There's just over three minutes to go, another starter question.

0:24:560:24:59

What is the largest country

0:24:590:25:00

that does not lie wholly within the Northern Hemisphere?

0:25:000:25:04

It is the world's fifth-largest country by...

0:25:040:25:07

Australia.

0:25:070:25:09

No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:25:090:25:11

The world's fifth-largest country by land area?

0:25:110:25:13

-Brazil.

-Brazil is correct.

0:25:140:25:16

Get these bonuses, you'll retake the lead.

0:25:190:25:21

They're on mammals in Japan, Liverpool.

0:25:210:25:23

Cervus nippon, also known as the sika,

0:25:230:25:26

is a member of a family of grazing animals known by what common name?

0:25:260:25:30

-Deer.

-Correct.

0:25:300:25:32

What four-letter word follows Japanese and mountain

0:25:320:25:35

in the common names of the two species of the genus lepus

0:25:350:25:39

found in Japan.

0:25:390:25:40

They belong to the order lagomorpha.

0:25:400:25:42

-Hare.

-Correct.

0:25:420:25:44

Snow-covered mountains of Japan provide a habitat for the most

0:25:440:25:47

northerly species of which genus of old-world monkeys?

0:25:470:25:51

-Macaque.

-Macaque is correct.

0:25:510:25:52

Starter question now.

0:25:540:25:55

Deriving ultimately from the Greek for flesh,

0:25:550:25:57

what general term is used in medicine for cancers

0:25:570:26:00

of connective tissue and muscle?

0:26:000:26:03

Sarcoma.

0:26:030:26:04

Sarcoma is right.

0:26:040:26:05

Your bonuses are on pairs of years with reordered digits.

0:26:080:26:11

For example, 1066 and 1660.

0:26:110:26:14

In each case, give the two years in which the following occurred.

0:26:140:26:17

Firstly, the battles of Bosworth Field and Balaclava?

0:26:170:26:21

1854...

0:26:210:26:23

1485 and 1854.

0:26:230:26:25

Correct.

0:26:250:26:26

Secondly, the execution of Sir Thomas More

0:26:260:26:28

and the accession of Mary I of England?

0:26:280:26:30

1547, 1574?

0:26:320:26:34

-Later on.

-15...

0:26:340:26:36

-Come on, please.

-We don't know.

0:26:380:26:41

It's 1535 and 1553.

0:26:410:26:43

And finally, the deposition of James II of England

0:26:430:26:46

and the defeat of Gladstone's first Irish Home Rule Bill.

0:26:460:26:49

-'79? I don't.

-No, we don't know.

0:26:510:26:54

It's 1688 and 1886.

0:26:540:26:56

Ten points for this.

0:26:560:26:57

Hoping to pay his emigration to Jamaica,

0:26:570:26:59

who in 1786 published his first anthology,

0:26:590:27:03

poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect?

0:27:030:27:06

Burns.

0:27:070:27:08

Robert Burns is right.

0:27:080:27:10

These bonuses are on the Booker Prize.

0:27:120:27:14

In 1974, the author Elizabeth Jane Howard

0:27:140:27:16

was a member of the Booker panel that shortlisted Ending Up,

0:27:160:27:19

a novel by which writer who was also her husband?

0:27:190:27:22

-Don't know.

-That was Kingsley Amis.

0:27:230:27:25

In 1992, the prize was awarded jointly to Michael Ondaatje

0:27:250:27:28

for The English Patient and to which other author for Sacred Hunger?

0:27:280:27:33

-No, we don't know again.

-That was Barry Unsworth.

0:27:350:27:37

And finally, with South African writer was the first author

0:27:370:27:40

to win twice with The Life And Times Of Michael K in 1983

0:27:400:27:44

and Disgrace in 1999?

0:27:440:27:47

-Jack Coetzee. Coetzee?

-Coetzee.

0:27:470:27:50

JM Coetzee is correct. Ten points for this.

0:27:500:27:53

Uninhabited, volcanic

0:27:530:27:54

and almost entirely covered by glaciers,

0:27:540:27:56

Bouvet Island is the most...?

0:27:560:27:59

-Norway.

-Norway is correct.

0:27:590:28:00

These bonuses... GONG

0:28:040:28:06

And at the gong, Imperial College have 130,

0:28:060:28:09

Liverpool University have 185.

0:28:090:28:11

Well, bad luck, Imperial.

0:28:150:28:16

I'm afraid you're going to have to come back and win again.

0:28:160:28:19

You're certainly quite good enough to be in the semifinals,

0:28:190:28:22

so we shall wish you the best of luck next time.

0:28:220:28:24

Congratulations to you, Liverpool.

0:28:240:28:26

You take the second place in the semifinals, well done.

0:28:260:28:29

I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.

0:28:290:28:32

But until then, it's goodbye from Imperial College, London.

0:28:320:28:34

-ALL:

-Goodbye.

0:28:340:28:36

-It's goodbye from Liverpool University. ALL:

-Goodbye.

0:28:360:28:38

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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