0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. So far, Peterhouse Cambridge and Liverpool University have
0:00:32 > 0:00:37taken the first two places in the semifinal stage of this competition.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Both teams playing tonight still have some work to do to get there,
0:00:40 > 0:00:43because they both lost their first quarterfinal match.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47That means the winners will earn themselves one last chance to
0:00:47 > 0:00:51qualify, but for the losers tonight, it's curtains.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54The team from Nuffield College Oxford won their first-round
0:00:54 > 0:00:56match against Queen Mary London,
0:00:56 > 0:00:59and their second fixture against the University of Warwick.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Their first quarterfinal match, however,
0:01:01 > 0:01:04saw them trip up against Imperial College London,
0:01:04 > 0:01:07so tonight is an opportunity to redeem themselves.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10They're here with an accumulated score of 410.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Let's meet them again.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Hello, I'm Spencer Smith, I'm from Holland, Michigan,
0:01:15 > 0:01:17and I study economics.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Hello, my name is Alexander Gard-Murray,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22I'm from Los Angeles, California, and I study politics.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24And this is their captain.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27Hello, my name is Mathias Ormestad Frendem, I'm from Oslo in Norway,
0:01:27 > 0:01:29and I'm studying international relations.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm Daniel Kaliski, I'm from Cape Town, South Africa,
0:01:31 > 0:01:33and I'm studying economics.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35APPLAUSE
0:01:38 > 0:01:42The team from Newcastle University beat the universities of Kent
0:01:42 > 0:01:44and Glasgow in rounds one and two,
0:01:44 > 0:01:48but their first quarterfinal saw them lose to Liverpool University.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51So for them, too, this is an opportunity to pull their socks up
0:01:51 > 0:01:53and show us what they're made of.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Their accumulated score is 485.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Let's meet them again.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Hello, I'm Alexander Kirkman, I'm from Guildford in Surrey,
0:02:00 > 0:02:02and I'm studying biomedical sciences.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Hi, I'm Nick Smith, I'm originally from Chorley in Lancashire,
0:02:05 > 0:02:06and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:06 > 0:02:07And this is their captain.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10Hello, I'm Tony Richardson, originally from County Durham,
0:02:10 > 0:02:13studying for a Masters in international politics.
0:02:13 > 0:02:14Hi, I'm Kate Bennett, I'm from Chichester,
0:02:14 > 0:02:18and I'm studying for an MA in film theory and practice.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20APPLAUSE
0:02:23 > 0:02:24OK, on we go.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:27 > 0:02:31Spell the three-letter word whose meanings include, in French,
0:02:31 > 0:02:35a member of the crow family, known binomially as pica pica,
0:02:35 > 0:02:39in Spanish, the part of the leg below the ankle joint,
0:02:39 > 0:02:40and in English...
0:02:41 > 0:02:43- P-I-E.- Correct.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45APPLAUSE
0:02:47 > 0:02:50You get the first set of bonuses - they're on words that begin with the
0:02:50 > 0:02:53same Latin prefix. In each case give the word from the definition.
0:02:53 > 0:02:58Firstly, a term used by historians for the period of US history between
0:02:58 > 0:03:02the ratification of the constitution and the start of the Civil War.
0:03:02 > 0:03:03- Antebellum.- Correct.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07Specifically, anything before the events described in chapter six
0:03:07 > 0:03:09of the book of Genesis, and, more generally,
0:03:09 > 0:03:11and often in a derogatory sense,
0:03:11 > 0:03:14something hopelessly ancient or primitive.
0:03:14 > 0:03:15- Antediluvian.- Correct.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18What word might refer to the syllable
0:03:18 > 0:03:20"lu" in the word antediluvian?
0:03:20 > 0:03:23Or the 10th chapter of a 12-chapter book?
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Antepenultimate?
0:03:27 > 0:03:30- Antepenultimate?- Correct.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Ten points for this.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37In which Latin American country is Canaima National Park,
0:03:37 > 0:03:39around the size of Belgium?
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Brazil?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48The park contains many high, steep-sided plateaus, called tepuis,
0:03:48 > 0:03:52one of which is the site of the Angel Falls.
0:03:53 > 0:03:54- Venezuela.- Correct.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56APPLAUSE
0:03:56 > 0:04:00These bonuses are on the human body, Newcastle.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04Unguis is an alternate name for which keratinous, translucent
0:04:04 > 0:04:08structures that consist of highly specialised epithelial cells?
0:04:10 > 0:04:13Nails, is it? Fingernails and toenails.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15- Nails? Fingernails, toenails? - Correct.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18What six-letter name is given to the whitish crescent-moon shaped
0:04:18 > 0:04:22part of the nail which is not attached to the underlying nail bed?
0:04:24 > 0:04:27- Cuticle. - No, cuticle's seven letters.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35- Lunula?- Correct.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38And finally, a diminutive for the Latin for skin, what term is
0:04:38 > 0:04:42used for the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail?
0:04:43 > 0:04:44Cuticle.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46- Cuticle.- Correct.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Ten points for this.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52What letter of the Roman alphabet designates the coolest class
0:04:52 > 0:04:57of star, with photospheric temperatures below around 600 Kelvin,
0:04:57 > 0:05:01including some examples cooler than the temperature of the human body?
0:05:01 > 0:05:03The same letter stands for the SI prefix
0:05:03 > 0:05:06for a factor of ten to the 24.
0:05:11 > 0:05:12V?
0:05:12 > 0:05:14Newcastle?
0:05:14 > 0:05:15- M?- No, it's Y.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Ten points for this.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19What is the popular name of the Cathedral of the Virgin
0:05:19 > 0:05:22of the Intercession on the Moat, built on the chief
0:05:22 > 0:05:25marketplace of Moscow on the orders of Ivan the Terrible
0:05:25 > 0:05:27to commemorate the capture of...
0:05:27 > 0:05:29- St Basil's?- St Basil's is correct.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31APPLAUSE
0:05:32 > 0:05:35These bonuses are on place names, Newcastle.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Bringing an end to the 30 Years' War,
0:05:37 > 0:05:41the Peace of Westphalia was signed in 1648 in Osnabruck,
0:05:41 > 0:05:44and which other city in northwest Germany?
0:05:44 > 0:05:48It had been the site of the execution of John of Leiden in 1536.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Northwest Germany.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Northwest Germany, we've got Aachen, Cologne, Bremen...
0:05:55 > 0:05:56- Bremen?- Bremen.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59- Bremen?- No, it was Munster.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02The Irish province of Munster consists of six historic
0:06:02 > 0:06:06counties - Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford are three.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Please name two of the others.
0:06:08 > 0:06:09Cork and Kerry.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12- Cork and Kerry. - Correct, the other one is Clare.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16And finally, the town of Munster in the Alsace region of France
0:06:16 > 0:06:19is particular noted for the production of what foodstuff?
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Munster...
0:06:22 > 0:06:24- Could be quiche.- Cheese?
0:06:26 > 0:06:28- Yeah.- Go for it.
0:06:28 > 0:06:29Quiche?
0:06:29 > 0:06:32No, it's cheese. Ten points for this.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Give both answers promptly if you buzz for this.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37The names of which two forms of mathematical curve are
0:06:37 > 0:06:40etymologically related to two rhetorical terms
0:06:40 > 0:06:43for exaggeration and omission?
0:06:43 > 0:06:45The two curves...
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Hyperbole... Hyperbola and parabola.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51No. You lose five points.
0:06:51 > 0:06:52Exaggeration and omission.
0:06:52 > 0:06:57The two curves characterise orbital paths in Newtonian mechanics.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02I'll tell you, it's hyperbola and ellipse.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03Ten points for this.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05One of the most acclaimed sculptors working in Britain
0:07:05 > 0:07:07in the 16th century,
0:07:07 > 0:07:11Pietro Torrigiano was well-known in his native Italy for an incident
0:07:11 > 0:07:16at art school in which he broke the nose of which fellow student?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20- Michelangelo?- Yes!
0:07:20 > 0:07:23APPLAUSE
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Who knows where you could go after reaching zero? LAUGHTER
0:07:26 > 0:07:30Well done. Bonuses now on United States history for you, Nuffield.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Which president oversaw the ratification
0:07:32 > 0:07:35of the 15th Amendment in 1870?
0:07:35 > 0:07:37This said that the right to vote shall not be
0:07:37 > 0:07:43denied on account of race, colour or previous condition of servitude.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46- Ulysses Grant.- Correct.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48The acts passed under Grant to protect African American
0:07:48 > 0:07:51suffrage rights are often known by what name,
0:07:51 > 0:07:55after the organisation they helped to suppress?
0:07:55 > 0:07:57The Ku Klux Klan?
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Klan Acts?
0:07:59 > 0:08:01- It was the act he asked for, right? - Yeah.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04- The Ku Klux Klan Act?- Correct.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Which campaigner for so-called public morals gave his name
0:08:06 > 0:08:11to the 1873 act that criminalised the publication, distribution
0:08:11 > 0:08:15and possession of information about contraception or unlawful abortion?
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Do you know? Any guesses?
0:08:23 > 0:08:26It's not Volstead, because that's probation.
0:08:28 > 0:08:29Erm... No.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32- Sorry, we don't know. - It was Anthony Comstock.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34We're going to take a picture round.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36For your picture starter, you're going to see
0:08:36 > 0:08:37the opening line of a 20th-century novel.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41For ten points, I want the title of the novel and its author.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Albert Camus, The Stranger?
0:08:48 > 0:08:49Correct, L'Etranger, yes.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51APPLAUSE
0:08:51 > 0:08:53There it is, "Mother died today."
0:08:53 > 0:08:54So, for your picture bonuses,
0:08:54 > 0:08:58extracts from the openings of three more novels in the original French.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02Again, in each case, I want the name of the novel and its author.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04You may give the titles in French or in English.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08Firstly, for five, this 19th-century work and its author?
0:09:12 > 0:09:14Is it, maybe...
0:09:14 > 0:09:19Is it maybe Les Miserables by Victor Hugo?
0:09:19 > 0:09:20Do you agree?
0:09:20 > 0:09:23Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25No, you're nearly there, it's Notre-Dame De Paris,
0:09:25 > 0:09:28or The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31Secondly, this 20th-century work and its author?
0:09:33 > 0:09:35Whatever happens...
0:09:37 > 0:09:41- Is it The Nausea by Sartre, maybe? - OK, sure.
0:09:44 > 0:09:45That sounds fine.
0:09:45 > 0:09:46The Nausea by Sartre.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49La Nausee is correct, yes.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53And finally, another 20th-century work and its author, please.
0:09:53 > 0:09:5420th-century?
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Good hour?
0:09:56 > 0:09:58- So then, Proust?- Proust?
0:09:58 > 0:10:01- Remembrance Of Things Past?- OK.
0:10:01 > 0:10:02Proust, Remembrance Of Things Past.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Yes, A La Recherche de Temps Perdu. APPLAUSE
0:10:05 > 0:10:08About as far as most people get, the opening sentence.
0:10:08 > 0:10:09Right, ten points for this.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11What name is given to the series of more than 200 medieval
0:10:11 > 0:10:15poems discovered at the Bavarian monastery of Benediktbeuern
0:10:15 > 0:10:19and published in a collection of 1847 by JA Schmeller?
0:10:19 > 0:10:2424 of the poems were later set to music in a cantata by Carl Orff.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29- Tales From Hoffmann.- No.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33- Carmina Burana?- Yes.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35APPLAUSE
0:10:37 > 0:10:39You always look as if you're not really certain,
0:10:39 > 0:10:42but actually you can't believe the question's so easy!
0:10:42 > 0:10:44Right, 15 points for these bonuses.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46They're on winners of the Royal Society's Copley Medal.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49In each case, name the recipient of the medal from the words
0:10:49 > 0:10:51taken from the citation.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54Firstly, the German winner in 1929. Quote -
0:10:54 > 0:10:57"For his contributions to theoretical physics,
0:10:57 > 0:11:02"and especially as the originator of the quantum theory."
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Planck, must be?
0:11:04 > 0:11:07Einstein, but he was also...
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Heisenberg wasn't around?
0:11:09 > 0:11:12But he's not originator of quantum theory?
0:11:12 > 0:11:14- I would maybe say Planck.- OK, OK.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16- Max Planck.- Correct.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Secondly, the British winner in 1969 -
0:11:18 > 0:11:22"In recognition of his distinguished studies of tissue transplantation
0:11:22 > 0:11:24"and immunological tolerance."
0:11:26 > 0:11:28I don't know.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31- Oh, British?- Yes.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34Do you know who this is?
0:11:34 > 0:11:37- Do you have any guesses?- Johnson.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39- Johnson.- No, it was Sir Peter Medawar.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42And finally, the American winner in 1993. Quote -
0:11:42 > 0:11:45"In recognition of his tireless pursuit of DNA,
0:11:45 > 0:11:48"from the elucidation of its structure, to the social
0:11:48 > 0:11:52"and medical implications of the sequencing of the human genome."
0:11:52 > 0:11:55So it's Watson and Crick. Who was the American one?
0:11:55 > 0:11:57James Watson.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59- James Watson.- It was, yes.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Ten points for this.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04A few treatises on botany are the only extant
0:12:04 > 0:12:06works of the polymath Theophrastus.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10He succeeded which Greek philosopher of the fourth century BC
0:12:10 > 0:12:13as the head of the peripatetic school?
0:12:15 > 0:12:17- Aristotle.- Correct.
0:12:17 > 0:12:18APPLAUSE
0:12:20 > 0:12:2315 points if you can get them on glaciology now.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Meaning "mountain cleft," what German term denotes the type of
0:12:27 > 0:12:31crevasse that forms between the top of a glacier and the snowpack above?
0:12:43 > 0:12:45- No, don't know.- Don't know.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47It's a bergschrund.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Originally the name of a cheese,
0:12:48 > 0:12:51which French-derived term denotes towers of ice
0:12:51 > 0:12:54formed on glaciers at the intersection of crevasses?
0:12:55 > 0:12:56Towers of ice?
0:12:58 > 0:13:00French cheese?
0:13:00 > 0:13:02I'm at a bit of a loss on this one.
0:13:02 > 0:13:03Name a French cheese.
0:13:03 > 0:13:04Chaume?
0:13:04 > 0:13:05It's a serac.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08And finally, what French term is used to describe a natural
0:13:08 > 0:13:12amphitheatre at the head of a valley formed by glacial action?
0:13:16 > 0:13:17- Cirque?- Correct.
0:13:17 > 0:13:18Ten points for this.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22What word of Persian origin is given to a collection of quatrains,
0:13:22 > 0:13:26or verses of four lines, and appears in the title of a prominent
0:13:26 > 0:13:28work of translation by Edward FitzGerald?
0:13:30 > 0:13:31- Rubaiyat.- Rubaiyat is right.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33APPLAUSE
0:13:35 > 0:13:37These bonuses, Newcastle, are on physical chemistry.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39In physical chemistry,
0:13:39 > 0:13:42what single-word term denotes the state function equal to the sum
0:13:42 > 0:13:44of internal energy of a system,
0:13:44 > 0:13:46and the product of its pressure and volume?
0:13:54 > 0:13:56- Come on.- Don't know.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58- Density?- No, it's enthalpy.
0:13:58 > 0:14:03Named after a chemist born in Switzerland in 1802, what law states
0:14:03 > 0:14:07that enthalpy change of a process is the same regardless of whether
0:14:07 > 0:14:11the process occurs in a single step or in two or more sequential steps?
0:14:24 > 0:14:25Gay-Lussac?
0:14:25 > 0:14:26No, it is Hess' law.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29And finally, what adjective is applied to a process that
0:14:29 > 0:14:32occurs without heat entering or leaving the system?
0:14:32 > 0:14:35If such a process takes place at constant pressure,
0:14:35 > 0:14:37the enthalpy change is zero.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46It's just closed.
0:14:46 > 0:14:47He said adjective.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50- Closed.- No, it's adiabatic.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55For your music starter, you'll hear an excerpt from a film score.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58Ten points if you can give me both the title of the film for which it
0:14:58 > 0:15:02was originally composed, and the name of the composer, please.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04TENSE MUSIC
0:15:10 > 0:15:13- Psycho, Bernard Herrmann.- Correct.
0:15:13 > 0:15:14APPLAUSE
0:15:16 > 0:15:19Bernard Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations
0:15:19 > 0:15:22with Hitchcock, but for your music bonuses you're going to hear
0:15:22 > 0:15:25excerpts from three of his scores for other directors.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28In each case, I want the title of the film for which the music
0:15:28 > 0:15:31was originally composed. Firstly, for five -
0:15:31 > 0:15:32for a film released in 1941.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35DRAMATIC MUSIC
0:15:57 > 0:16:00- Henry V.- No, it was Citizen Kane.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Secondly, for a film of 1962.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05SINISTER MUSIC
0:16:31 > 0:16:33- No, we don't have an answer. - That's Cape Fear.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37And finally, a film released in 1976.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39SEEDY MUSIC
0:16:39 > 0:16:41- Taxi Driver.- Well done.
0:16:41 > 0:16:42Right, ten points for this.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46With mean radii of 11.2 and 6.2km,
0:16:46 > 0:16:49which two irregular rocky objects were discovered...
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Phobos and Deimos.
0:16:52 > 0:16:53Yes.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55APPLAUSE
0:16:56 > 0:16:59You get another set of bonuses now on minor
0:16:59 > 0:17:02characters in Shakespeare's plays, Newcastle.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05Set mainly in a forest, which play features the shepherds
0:17:05 > 0:17:10Corin and Silvius, the shepherdess Phoebe and the goatherd Audrey,
0:17:10 > 0:17:11who is betrothed to a jester?
0:17:13 > 0:17:14Midsummer Night's Dream?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16- Could be Midsummer Night's Dream, yeah.- No, no it's not.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18As You Like It, is it?
0:17:18 > 0:17:21- As You Like It.- Possibly.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24- As You Like It.- Correct.
0:17:24 > 0:17:28The clown Feste ends which play with a song which has the refrain,
0:17:28 > 0:17:31"For the rain, it raineth every day"?
0:17:35 > 0:17:37- No.- No, it wouldn't be.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40Twelfth Night? Something with a storm?
0:17:40 > 0:17:42- The Tempest?- No.
0:17:42 > 0:17:43- Twelfth Night.- Correct.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46And finally, a foolish gentleman called Froth,
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Mistress Overdone - described as a baud -
0:17:49 > 0:17:54and Pompey, her clownish servant, appear in which play set in Vienna?
0:17:54 > 0:17:57Measure For Measure. Go for it.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59- Measure For Measure.- Correct.
0:17:59 > 0:18:00Ten points for this.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04In Britain and Ireland, which decade saw the massacre of Glencoe,
0:18:04 > 0:18:06the foundation of the Bank of England, the appointment...?
0:18:08 > 0:18:10- 1690s?- Correct.
0:18:10 > 0:18:11APPLAUSE
0:18:13 > 0:18:16You get a set of bonuses, Nuffield, on Africa.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Firstly, named after the 19th-century German Chancellor
0:18:19 > 0:18:22who succeeded Bismarck, the Caprivi Strip is a long,
0:18:22 > 0:18:26narrow, eastward extension of which African country?
0:18:26 > 0:18:30- Is Congo Zaire?- Oh, he has.- DRC? - He said that.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32- Namibia.- Correct.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35Britain seceded the Caprivi Strip to Germany in 1890 to
0:18:35 > 0:18:41give the German colony access to which major river?
0:18:41 > 0:18:43The Zambezi is on the other side.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45Cos it's Zambia and Zimbabwe.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48- The Zambezi? - I think it is the most likely.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51- Zambezi.- It is the Zambezi, yes.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Britain agreed to secede the Caprivi Strip
0:18:53 > 0:18:56and the island of Heligoland in exchange for Germany giving
0:18:56 > 0:19:00up its interest in which island which is now part of Tanzania?
0:19:00 > 0:19:02- It must be Zanzibar.- Yes, Zanzibar.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04- Zanzibar.- Zanzibar is correct.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Ten points for this.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09Sea lice, water fleas, tadpole shrimps, barnacles, crayfish,
0:19:09 > 0:19:14lobsters and woodlice are all members of which subphylum
0:19:14 > 0:19:15of the arthropods?
0:19:16 > 0:19:18- Crustaceans.- Correct.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20APPLAUSE
0:19:22 > 0:19:26These bonuses are on continuity in mathematics, Nuffield.
0:19:26 > 0:19:27In mathematical analysis,
0:19:27 > 0:19:31a real function of a real variable is continuous at a point a
0:19:31 > 0:19:37if the limit f(x), as x tends to a, is equal to what?
0:19:37 > 0:19:39f(a).
0:19:39 > 0:19:41- f(a).- Correct.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45The Dirichlet Function is defined to equal one at rational
0:19:45 > 0:19:49values of x, and is equal to zero at irrational values of x.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53What is the set of x of which this function is continuous?
0:19:53 > 0:19:55That's the empty set.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57- The empty set. - The empty set is correct.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01And finally, in set theory, the word continuum refers to which
0:20:01 > 0:20:05familiar set of numbers, and is so used to denote their cardinality?
0:20:05 > 0:20:07The real numbers.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09- The real numbers. - The real numbers is right, yes.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11APPLAUSE
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Right, a picture round now.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16For your picture starter, you're going to see
0:20:16 > 0:20:17a photograph of a building in London.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19Ten points if you can identify it.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24The National Gallery.
0:20:24 > 0:20:25No.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden?
0:20:28 > 0:20:30It is the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, yes.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32APPLAUSE
0:20:32 > 0:20:34So for your picture bonuses, Newcastle, you're going to see
0:20:34 > 0:20:36three more world-renowned opera venues.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39In each case I want their names for five points each.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40Firstly.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46I'm thinking named ones, like La Scala.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48It's not that, though, is it?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54Let's have it, please.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57- No, we don't know. - That's the Bolshoi in Moscow.
0:20:57 > 0:20:58Secondly.
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Haven't got anything, sorry.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08No, we don't have anything, sorry.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10That's the Bayreuth Festival Theatre. And finally.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15- La Scala. - La Scala in Milan is correct.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Ten points for this.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20In medicine, imaginary planes are used to divide what
0:21:20 > 0:21:24part of the human body into nine regions, including the right...?
0:21:25 > 0:21:27- Abdomen.- Abdomen is right.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29APPLAUSE
0:21:31 > 0:21:34Your bonuses, Newcastle, are on a painter.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38In 1970, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art paid a then
0:21:38 > 0:21:42world record of 5.5 million at auction for a portrait
0:21:42 > 0:21:47of the painter Juan De Pareja, by which Spanish artist?
0:21:47 > 0:21:49- Goya.- Goya.
0:21:54 > 0:21:55Picasso.
0:21:55 > 0:21:56No, it's by Velazquez.
0:21:56 > 0:22:00In a work popularly known as The Lances, Velazquez depicted
0:22:00 > 0:22:05the Spanish takeover of which Dutch town on June the 5th, 1625?
0:22:07 > 0:22:09I've seen pictures of this.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17Utrecht.
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Utrecht.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20No, it was Breda. The Surrender Of Breda.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22In a work in the Scottish National Gallery
0:22:22 > 0:22:26painted by Velazquez at around the age of 19,
0:22:26 > 0:22:28an old woman is cooking what?
0:22:34 > 0:22:35I don't know, stew?
0:22:38 > 0:22:40- Paella. - LAUGHTER
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Good guess, but... Actually, it's not a good guess,
0:22:43 > 0:22:45it's a terrible guess. She's cooking eggs.
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Ten points for this.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50What five words complete these lines by the US poet Thomas McGrath?
0:22:50 > 0:22:55"Stars shine clearest in darkest night, I summon..."
0:22:55 > 0:22:58The words in question form the title of a prominent piece
0:22:58 > 0:22:59of British public art.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05- The Angel of the North?- Yes.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07APPLAUSE
0:23:09 > 0:23:12These bonuses are on Quakers, Newcastle.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Which state of the US is named after an English Quaker who
0:23:15 > 0:23:17founded a government there in the 1680s,
0:23:17 > 0:23:20based on principles of religious tolerance?
0:23:20 > 0:23:21- Pennsylvania.- Correct.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Born in Norwich in 1780,
0:23:23 > 0:23:26which Quaker was a minister in the Society Of Friends and became
0:23:26 > 0:23:29one of the chief promoters of prison reform in Europe?
0:23:36 > 0:23:37- Elizabeth Fry.- Correct.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Which engraver and printer was involved in organising Quaker
0:23:40 > 0:23:42peace congresses in Europe,
0:23:42 > 0:23:45although is better known for the series of railway guides
0:23:45 > 0:23:48he published in the 1840s?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50- Bradshaw.- Bradshaw is correct.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Four minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56To the nearest kilogram, how much water at boiling point
0:23:56 > 0:23:59could be converted into steam using the amount of heat that
0:23:59 > 0:24:03would warm one metric tonne of water by one Kelvin?
0:24:09 > 0:24:10One.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14- Ten.- No, it's two.
0:24:14 > 0:24:15Ten points for this.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19In immunology, which structure on the surface of an antigen
0:24:19 > 0:24:22is recognised by, and can bind to, a specific antibody?
0:24:25 > 0:24:27- Epitope.- Epitope is correct, yes.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29APPLAUSE
0:24:30 > 0:24:33These bonuses are on sonnets, Newcastle.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Which poet's sonnet number 18 begins with the lines,
0:24:36 > 0:24:40"I never gave a lock of hair away to a man, dearest
0:24:40 > 0:24:41"Except this to thee."
0:24:43 > 0:24:45They wouldn't start with Shakespeare?
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Which poets wrote sonnets? Can you think of any?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Did any of the romantics write any sonnets?
0:24:56 > 0:24:59- Shakespeare.- No, it was Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
0:24:59 > 0:25:03"With what sharp checks I, in myself, am shent
0:25:03 > 0:25:06"When into Reason's audit I did go."
0:25:06 > 0:25:08These lines begin sonnet number 18
0:25:08 > 0:25:11in the Astrophil and Stella sequence by which poet?
0:25:16 > 0:25:18- Coleridge.- No, it's by Sir Philip Sidney.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22And finally, Shakespeare's sonnet number 18 begins with what line?
0:25:22 > 0:25:23I need the precise words.
0:25:33 > 0:25:34Come on.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
0:25:37 > 0:25:39Correct!
0:25:39 > 0:25:41APPLAUSE
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Right, fewer than two minutes to go, and ten points at stake for this.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48Which poet wrote the lines, "Water, water everywhere...?"
0:25:49 > 0:25:51- Coleridge.- Coleridge is right, yes.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54APPLAUSE
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Your bonuses are on battles, Nuffield.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59The English victory over the Scots at Neville's Cross
0:25:59 > 0:26:01near Durham took place a few weeks after which victory
0:26:01 > 0:26:05over the French during the early part of the Hundred Years' War?
0:26:05 > 0:26:09- Agincourt?- No, that's the later part. So it's...
0:26:09 > 0:26:10- Crecy?- Yeah.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- Crecy.- Crecy is correct.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Which future King of England defeated a force under
0:26:15 > 0:26:17Jasper Tudor, the Earl of Pembroke,
0:26:17 > 0:26:19at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross in Herefordshire?
0:26:19 > 0:26:21- I think that's Henry V.- OK.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24- Henry V?- No, it was Edward IV.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27And finally, the Battle of Cross Keys took place during which war?
0:26:27 > 0:26:31It was part of a series of actions known as Jackson's Valley campaign.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34The French and Indian War?
0:26:36 > 0:26:38French and Indian Wars?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40No, it's the American Civil War, it was Stonewall Jackson.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Ten points for this.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Name any one of the kings who were on the English
0:26:44 > 0:26:48throne during the reign of William the Lion of Scotland.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Edward III.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56No, anyone like to buzz from Nuffield?
0:26:57 > 0:26:58Henry III.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01No, Henry II, Richard I would have done.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Or John, indeed.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Ten points for this.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06What short word denotes a topological
0:27:06 > 0:27:10entity of which the trefoil is this simplest nontrivial example?
0:27:10 > 0:27:12It also indicates a unit of speed.
0:27:16 > 0:27:17Fractal.
0:27:17 > 0:27:18No.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23- Knot.- Knot is correct, yes.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25APPLAUSE
0:27:26 > 0:27:27Your bonuses are on...
0:27:27 > 0:27:29GONG
0:27:29 > 0:27:34And at the gong, Nuffield College Oxford have 115, Newcastle have 205.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36APPLAUSE
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Well, Nuffield, I'm afraid we're going to be saying goodbye to you.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42It's been a pleasure having you with us.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45You have certainly been the most international team in this year's competition.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Thank you for playing with us.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50And, Newcastle, congratulations, you get to have one more try to see
0:27:50 > 0:27:53if you can get through to the semifinals, having won tonight.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55You need two victories. So good luck to you.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57And thank you for playing tonight.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match,
0:27:59 > 0:28:02- but, until then, it's goodbye from Nuffield College Oxford.- Goodbye.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05- And it's goodbye from Newcastle University.- Goodbye.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10APPLAUSE