0:00:20 > 0:00:22'University Challenge.'
0:00:23 > 0:00:26'Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.'
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello, two places remain in the semifinals
0:00:32 > 0:00:35so whoever wins tonight will join Peterhouse, Cambridge
0:00:35 > 0:00:39and Liverpool University in the penultimate stage of this contest
0:00:39 > 0:00:42and I'm afraid the losers will take
0:00:42 > 0:00:44the train of broken dreams back home.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Now, the team from York University beat Manchester University
0:00:47 > 0:00:50in Round One, Christ College, Cambridge in Round Two and
0:00:50 > 0:00:53St Catherine's College, Cambridge in their second quarterfinal.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57A victory which allowed them to stay in the competition,
0:00:57 > 0:01:00having previously lost to Peterhouse, Cambridge.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Let's meet the York team again.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Hello, my name is Barto Joly de Lotbiniere.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08I'm from London and I'm studying history.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Hello, I'm Sam Smith. I'm from Guernsey and I'm studying chemistry.
0:01:12 > 0:01:13And their captain.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Hello, I'm David Landon Cole.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18I'm from Yeovil in Somerset and I'm studying politics.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Hi, I'm Joseph McLoughlin.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22I'm from Oldham in Lancashire and I study chemistry.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25APPLAUSE
0:01:27 > 0:01:30The team from Imperial College London have a track record
0:01:30 > 0:01:33of victories against Reading University,
0:01:33 > 0:01:37Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and Nuffield College, Oxford.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40But their second quarterfinal was a defeat at the hands of
0:01:40 > 0:01:44Liverpool University, which is why we're saying hello to them again.
0:01:44 > 0:01:45Here they are.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48Good evening, my name's Ben Fernando.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51I'm from Birmingham and I'm studying physics.
0:01:51 > 0:01:52Hi, I'm Ashwin Braude.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54I'm from North London and I'm also studying physics.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56And this is their captain.
0:01:56 > 0:01:57Hello, I'm James Bezer.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01I'm from Manchester and I'm also studying physics.
0:02:01 > 0:02:02Hi, I'm Onur Teymur.
0:02:02 > 0:02:03I'm from North London and
0:02:03 > 0:02:06I'm working towards a PhD in mathematical statistics.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09APPLAUSE
0:02:11 > 0:02:13OK, you all know the rules so fingers on the buzzers,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19What regnal name links two holy Roman emperors of the
0:02:19 > 0:02:2112th and 13th centuries
0:02:21 > 0:02:24and two kings of Prussia in the 17th and 18th?
0:02:26 > 0:02:27Frederick.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Correct. APPLAUSE
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Your bonuses, York, are on George Orwell.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38The bookseller's assistant Gordon Comstock is the protagonist
0:02:38 > 0:02:41of which 1936 novel by Orwell?
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Its title includes the name of a house plant said to symbolise
0:02:44 > 0:02:45middle-class values.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Keep The Aspidistra Flying.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51Correct. Based on a journey Orwell made to northern England in 1936,
0:02:51 > 0:02:53which work of reportage
0:02:53 > 0:02:56was published the following year by the Left Book Club?
0:02:56 > 0:02:57The Road To Wigan Pier.
0:02:57 > 0:02:58Correct.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02Which non-fiction work of 1938 is based on Orwell's experiences
0:03:02 > 0:03:04in the Spanish Civil War?
0:03:04 > 0:03:05Homage To Catalonia.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07Correct. Ten points for this.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12Prince Albert, Abigail Adams and Gerard Manley Hopkins
0:03:12 > 0:03:17are among those who died of which acute infectious disease?
0:03:17 > 0:03:20Often spread by contaminated water, it's particularly associated...
0:03:21 > 0:03:23Cholera.
0:03:23 > 0:03:24No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28It's particularly associated with the New York cook, Mary Mallon.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Typho... Typhoid.
0:03:32 > 0:03:33Typhoid is correct, yes.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35APPLAUSE
0:03:35 > 0:03:37As in, Typhoid Mary.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40Right, your bonuses, York, are on astronomy.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43In 2006, what two-word designation was given by
0:03:43 > 0:03:49the International Astronomical Union to bodies including Pluto and Ceres?
0:03:50 > 0:03:52- Yes.- Dwarf planet.
0:03:52 > 0:03:53Correct.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56In the same year and another dwarf planet was given what name,
0:03:56 > 0:03:58after a Greek goddess of strife and discord?
0:03:58 > 0:04:02Its discoverer, the US astronomer Mike Brown, is said to have found
0:04:02 > 0:04:05the name fitting in the light of the academic commotion
0:04:05 > 0:04:07that followed it's discovery.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09- Eris.- Correct.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13Pluto and Eris are among objects known by the designation TNO,
0:04:13 > 0:04:16after their position in relation to one of the outer planets.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19For what do the letters TN stand?
0:04:19 > 0:04:21- Trans-Neptune.- Yeah.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24- Neptunian? - Neptunian. Trans-Neptunian.
0:04:24 > 0:04:25Trans-Neptunian.
0:04:25 > 0:04:26Correct.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Ten points for this.
0:04:28 > 0:04:33In ancient geography, what six-letter place name may precede
0:04:33 > 0:04:37Deserta, Petraea and Felix...
0:04:38 > 0:04:39Arabia.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43Arabia is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:04:43 > 0:04:46These bonuses, York, are on journeys.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49Tracks is a work that tells the story of Robyn Davidson's
0:04:49 > 0:04:541,700 mile trek with four camels and a dog across parts
0:04:54 > 0:04:56of which country in 1977?
0:04:58 > 0:05:02- It's likely to be somewhere from the Sahara.- Yeah.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- Or Australia?- Ah. - Yeah. Go with that.- Is...
0:05:05 > 0:05:06Australia.
0:05:06 > 0:05:07Correct.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Adapted for the cinema by Sean Penn, which book by Jon Krakauer
0:05:10 > 0:05:14recounts the last two years of the life of Christopher McCandless
0:05:14 > 0:05:19who died in 1992 after more than 100 days in the Alaskan wilderness?
0:05:20 > 0:05:24- Wild.- Into The Wild. - Into The Wild, yeah.- Into The Wild?
0:05:24 > 0:05:25Into The Wild.
0:05:25 > 0:05:26Correct.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29A Walk In The Woods - Rediscovering America On The Appalachian Trail
0:05:29 > 0:05:33is a work by which author born in Iowa in 1952?
0:05:33 > 0:05:35- Bill Bryson?- Sure.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Bill Bryson.
0:05:37 > 0:05:38Correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43In physics, what single letter is the symbol for a number that
0:05:43 > 0:05:46characterises the total angular momentum of an atom...
0:05:48 > 0:05:49L.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51I'm afraid, you lose five points.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53..atom, nucleus or particle.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57It also follows Alt in a keyboard short cut that forms the name
0:05:57 > 0:05:58of a Mercury prize-winning band.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03- BARTO SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY - 'Press the button.'
0:06:03 > 0:06:04Omega.
0:06:04 > 0:06:08No, it's J and I could hear Mr de Lotbiniere say that
0:06:08 > 0:06:11that was the right answer but you can't confer at this stage,
0:06:11 > 0:06:12and luckily you gave the wrong answer anyway.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16So we'll get on with the next one then. Ten points for this.
0:06:16 > 0:06:17In England and Wales,
0:06:17 > 0:06:19the county officials who are the holders of the oldest secular
0:06:19 > 0:06:24royal appointment in the UK have what two-word designation?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Deputy Lieutenant.
0:06:26 > 0:06:27No.
0:06:29 > 0:06:30Lord Lieutenant.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33No. I haven't finished reading the question
0:06:33 > 0:06:36but you lose five points, I'm afraid, Imperial.
0:06:36 > 0:06:37I can't fine you five points, York,
0:06:37 > 0:06:39for a completely pointless interruption.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41It's a High Sheriff.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Ten points for this starter question.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46The letters spelling the name of which number appear together
0:06:46 > 0:06:52at the end of words meaning foolish or obstinate, resembling a lion,
0:06:52 > 0:06:57a low story between two others in a building and an alkaloid found...
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Nine.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Nine is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:07:02 > 0:07:07Right, your bonuses are on scientists born on March 14 -
0:07:07 > 0:07:10a date now widely celebrated as Pi Day
0:07:10 > 0:07:12after the mathematical constant.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15In each case, name the person from the description.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Firstly, a medical scientist born in Prussia in 1854,
0:07:18 > 0:07:21he's generally credited with the discovery of Salvarsan -
0:07:21 > 0:07:24the first effective treatment for syphilis.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28INDISTINCT SPEECH
0:07:28 > 0:07:31- He was from Prussia.- Oh.- Koch.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33No, it's Paul Ehrlich.
0:07:33 > 0:07:38Secondly, a pioneer of set theory, born in Warsaw in 1882.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42His name precedes the words carpet and triangle
0:07:42 > 0:07:44in the names of well-known fractals.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48- Sierpinski?- Yeah. - Sierpinski?- Oh, yeah.
0:07:48 > 0:07:49- Sierpinski.- Sierpinski.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50Correct.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53And finally, a physicist born in South Germany in 1879.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55He won the Nobel Prize in 1921
0:07:55 > 0:07:58for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
0:07:58 > 0:07:59Einstein.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Correct. Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:02 > 0:08:03For your picture starter you'll see
0:08:03 > 0:08:05a map of Europe with a city highlighted.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09Ten points if you can give me both the name of the city
0:08:09 > 0:08:12and the German name by which it was known before 1946.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18Um... It's Kaliningrad and Konigsberg.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19That is correct.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22APPLAUSE
0:08:22 > 0:08:26So we follow on from the former Konigsberg with three more cities,
0:08:26 > 0:08:31each in a non-German-speaking country but which, like Kaliningrad,
0:08:31 > 0:08:35were once part of the German-speaking empire.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37In each case, I want the current name of the city
0:08:37 > 0:08:40and its historic German name. Firstly...
0:08:41 > 0:08:45- Bratislava and Pressburg. - Yes.- Nominate Smith.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46Bratislava and Pressburg.
0:08:46 > 0:08:47Correct. Secondly...
0:08:49 > 0:08:52- Ljubljana and Laibach. - Laibach, yeah.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55- Nominate McLoughlin. - Ljubljana and Laibach.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56Correct. And finally...
0:08:58 > 0:09:01Wroclaw... Wroclaw.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03- Nominate McLoughlin. - Wroclaw and Breslau.
0:09:03 > 0:09:04Correct.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06APPLAUSE
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Right, ten points for this.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13In the theory of relativity, what term denotes an observed
0:09:13 > 0:09:15slowing down of time owing to relative motion?
0:09:15 > 0:09:17The same term...
0:09:17 > 0:09:18Dilation.
0:09:18 > 0:09:19Dilation is correct, yes.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22APPLAUSE
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Imperial, these bonuses are on an US economist.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29Firstly for five. In 1970 in his seminal work, The Market For Lemons,
0:09:29 > 0:09:34which US economist demonstrated how private or asymmetric information
0:09:34 > 0:09:37prevents markets from functioning effectively?
0:09:37 > 0:09:40Friedman?
0:09:40 > 0:09:41Milton Friedman.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43No, it's George Akerlof.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46Secondly, showing how economic institutions protect themselves
0:09:46 > 0:09:49from the consequences of adverse selection, Akerlof cited
0:09:49 > 0:09:53the instance of dealers in what second-hand commodities
0:09:53 > 0:09:57offering guarantees to increase consumer confidence?
0:09:57 > 0:09:58Car. Cars.
0:09:58 > 0:09:59Cars is correct.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03Akerlof's theory is a modern version of an idea first suggested
0:10:03 > 0:10:07by which 16th-century financier noted for the axiom
0:10:07 > 0:10:09that bad money drives out good?
0:10:09 > 0:10:13- That's...- 16th century. - ..Gresham. Gresham.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Sir Thomas Gresham is correct. Ten points for this.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18A sequel to Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice
0:10:18 > 0:10:20called Death Comes To Pemberley,
0:10:20 > 0:10:24and a series of crime novels featuring...
0:10:24 > 0:10:25PD James.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27PD James is right. APPLAUSE
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Your bonuses are on acids.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Firstly, what name is given to organic compounds in which
0:10:33 > 0:10:36a carbon atom is bonded to an oxygen atom by a double bond and
0:10:36 > 0:10:39- a hydroxyl group by a single bond? - Carboxylic acid.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Correct.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44What five-letter term denotes the group of open chain
0:10:44 > 0:10:49carboxylic acids that includes oleic and linolenic acid?
0:10:49 > 0:10:52Its members may be saturated or unsaturated.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54- Um...stearic?- Yeah.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56Stearic.
0:10:56 > 0:10:57- No, they're fatty acids.- Oh.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00And finally, which organic compounds are commonly derived from
0:11:00 > 0:11:03carboxylic acids and are obtained by
0:11:03 > 0:11:07the exchange of the replaceable hydrogen for alkyl radicals?
0:11:07 > 0:11:09- They're, they're... - Esters.- Yes, esters.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Esters is correct. Ten points for this.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Which US state is this?
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Its capital lies on the site of a locality formally known as
0:11:16 > 0:11:21Last Chance Gulch, where gold was discovered in 1864?
0:11:21 > 0:11:24The fourth-largest state by area, its neighbours include
0:11:24 > 0:11:29North Dakota, Idaho and the Canadian province of...
0:11:29 > 0:11:30Montana.
0:11:30 > 0:11:31Montana is right.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34APPLAUSE
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Right, your bonuses are on South America, York.
0:11:36 > 0:11:40Under the presidency of Evo Morales, which South American country
0:11:40 > 0:11:42changed its official name in 2009,
0:11:42 > 0:11:47substituting Plurinational State of for Republic of?
0:11:47 > 0:11:49- Bolivia.- Correct.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Which country's formal name includes
0:11:51 > 0:11:54the words Oriental or Eastern Republic after its position
0:11:54 > 0:11:57on the bank of the river from which it takes its name?
0:11:57 > 0:11:59- Uruguay.- Uruguay.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00Uruguay is correct.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Which country formally describes itself as a co-operative republic?
0:12:03 > 0:12:06It gained independence from the UK in 1966?
0:12:06 > 0:12:08- Guyana.- Guyana.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Guyana is right. Ten points for this.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15In botany, what five-letter term denotes the woody tissue
0:12:15 > 0:12:17lying inside the phloem...
0:12:18 > 0:12:19Xylem.
0:12:19 > 0:12:20Xylem is correct.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23APPLAUSE
0:12:23 > 0:12:26You get a set of bonuses on birds, Imperial.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30The largest order of birds is the passeriformes or perching birds
0:12:30 > 0:12:33and takes its name from the Latin for what small bird
0:12:33 > 0:12:37whose British species include the tree and house?
0:12:37 > 0:12:40- Sparrow.- Brown martin.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45It's called a house sparrow.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49- Go with what Ben says. - I'd go sparrow.- Sparrow.
0:12:49 > 0:12:50Correct.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54The family Fringillidae is most often given what common name?
0:12:54 > 0:12:56British birds in this family include
0:12:56 > 0:12:58the brambling, the siskin and the linnet.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03- You don't know?- Linnet.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05- Woodpecker.- Woodpecker.
0:13:05 > 0:13:06No, they're finches.
0:13:06 > 0:13:10And finally, what four-letter name is given to the family Alaudidae
0:13:10 > 0:13:15and follows shore, wood and sky in the name of three British species?
0:13:15 > 0:13:16Lark.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Correct. Ten points for this.
0:13:18 > 0:13:23The South Caucasian language family includes Mingrelian, Laz...
0:13:23 > 0:13:24Georgian.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27Georgian is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:13:29 > 0:13:33Your bonuses are on churches in Herefordshire, York.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36Noted for its well-preserved vernacular carvings,
0:13:36 > 0:13:39the Church of St Mary and St David at Kilpeck is a fine example
0:13:39 > 0:13:42of which style of architecture
0:13:42 > 0:13:44prevalent in the 11th and 12th centuries?
0:13:44 > 0:13:49- 11th, 12th would be Norman. - Norman.- It's got to be.- Norman.
0:13:49 > 0:13:50Norman or Romanesque, yes.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53And secondly, for five, the Church of St Michael at Garway
0:13:53 > 0:13:57above the River Monnow, was closely associated with which military order
0:13:57 > 0:14:01suppressed by Pope Clement V in 1312?
0:14:01 > 0:14:03- Yeah.- Yeah? The Knights Templar.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Correct. Completed in 1902,
0:14:05 > 0:14:08All Saints' Church at Brockhampton near the River Wye
0:14:08 > 0:14:10was designed by WR Lethaby
0:14:10 > 0:14:13and is in the style of which aesthetic movement
0:14:13 > 0:14:15pioneered by William Morris?
0:14:15 > 0:14:18- BOTH:- Arts and Crafts. - The Arts and Crafts movement.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Correct. We're going to take a music round now.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of classical music
0:14:24 > 0:14:26by a French composer.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:35 > 0:14:36Berlioz.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38No. You can hear some more, Imperial.
0:14:45 > 0:14:46Poulenc.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50No. It's Bizet. So music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Ten points at stake. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Here's a starter question.
0:14:54 > 0:14:59In 1572, Tycho Brahe observed the supernova known as Tycho's star
0:14:59 > 0:15:03in which constellation? It's named after the Queen of Ethiopia.
0:15:03 > 0:15:04Cassiopeia.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Correct. APPLAUSE
0:15:06 > 0:15:09OK, Imperial, that means that you get the music bonuses.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13The music starter was from Bizet's Symphony in C.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Though performed with some frequency now,
0:15:15 > 0:15:18it was never performed or published in Bizet's lifetime
0:15:18 > 0:15:20and he made no acknowledgement of it.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Your music bonuses are three more works
0:15:22 > 0:15:26that their composers attempted to destroy or suppress.
0:15:26 > 0:15:30In each case, simply identify the composer of the work you hear.
0:15:30 > 0:15:31Firstly, this Russian composer.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:37 > 0:15:40INDISTINCT SPEECH
0:15:44 > 0:15:48- It won't be... - MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:15:48 > 0:15:50- Tchaikovsky.- It is Tchaikovsky, yes.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53He destroyed the score, apparently, a few years after its premiere.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56It was reconstructed from individual orchestral parts.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Secondly, this central European composer.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:02 > 0:16:04They're either going to be Czech or Hungarian. Right. So...
0:16:04 > 0:16:07MUSIC DROWNS OUT SPEECH
0:16:09 > 0:16:10Dvorak.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13It is Dvorak. He would have destroyed it
0:16:13 > 0:16:15but for the intervention of a friend, apparently.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18And finally, this Nordic composer.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:20 > 0:16:23INDISTINCT SPEECH
0:16:25 > 0:16:26Is that Sibelius?
0:16:29 > 0:16:30Sibelius.
0:16:30 > 0:16:31It is Sibelius, yes.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34APPLAUSE
0:16:34 > 0:16:35It's part of the Karelia Suite,
0:16:35 > 0:16:39and Sibelius apparently burned parts of that work later in life.
0:16:39 > 0:16:40Right, ten points for this.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Castillon on the Lower Dordogne
0:16:42 > 0:16:45was the last major engagement of which war?
0:16:45 > 0:16:49Soon afterwards England relinquished most of its possessions in France...
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Hundred Years' War.
0:16:52 > 0:16:53Hundred Years' War is correct.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56APPLAUSE
0:16:57 > 0:17:01These are bonuses, York, on lines spoken by Shakespeare's Hamlet.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Firstly, in Act I, Scene V,
0:17:03 > 0:17:06to whom does Hamlet address the line,
0:17:06 > 0:17:10"Whither wilt thou lead me? Speak, I'll go no further"?
0:17:10 > 0:17:13- That's the ghost, isn't it? - I have no idea.
0:17:13 > 0:17:14The ghost.
0:17:14 > 0:17:15Correct.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18Secondly, the words of which character in Act I, Scene II
0:17:18 > 0:17:24prompt Hamlet's aside, "A little more than kin, and less than kind"?
0:17:24 > 0:17:28- Erm, Polonius? - Horatio? Someone like that?
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Horatio.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32No, that's Claudius, the King of Denmark.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35And finally, again in Act I, Scene II,
0:17:35 > 0:17:37to whom does Hamlet address the lines,
0:17:37 > 0:17:39"What is your affair in Elsinore?
0:17:39 > 0:17:42"We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart"?
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Is that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern or am I being stupid?
0:17:46 > 0:17:49- Sure. Go for it. - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51No, that is Horatio. Ten points for this.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Native to many subtropical regions,
0:17:53 > 0:17:57plants of the genus Gossypium yield which fibre?
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Its mechanised spinning and weaving was a driver...
0:18:00 > 0:18:02- Cotton.- Cotton is correct.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04APPLAUSE
0:18:05 > 0:18:08Your bonuses this time, Imperial, are on geometry.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12What term denotes a line that joins the vertex of a triangle
0:18:12 > 0:18:15to the midpoint of the opposite side?
0:18:16 > 0:18:17- Bisector.- Yeah.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Bisector.
0:18:19 > 0:18:20No, it's a median.
0:18:20 > 0:18:21The centroid of a triangle
0:18:21 > 0:18:25is the point where its three medians intersect.
0:18:25 > 0:18:29What are the XY coordinates of the centroid of an isosceles triangle
0:18:29 > 0:18:36whose vertices have coordinates 0,0, 1,0 and 0.53?
0:18:36 > 0:18:38So that would be...
0:18:40 > 0:18:43- 0.5.- So, obviously...
0:18:43 > 0:18:47- It's a third of the way... - So 0.5 and .1.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53- No, 0.5 and- 1. Yeah, that sounds about right.- Try it.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55- 0.5 and- 1. Correct.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58And finally, what single-word term denotes the centre of the circle
0:18:58 > 0:19:01that passes through the three vertices of a triangle?
0:19:01 > 0:19:04The circumcircle is the one that goes around.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06So, what are the three...
0:19:06 > 0:19:09- Is that what the question was? - It was the centre of the circle.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12- Be quick.- Verticircle. - Nominate Fernando.
0:19:12 > 0:19:13Verticircle.
0:19:13 > 0:19:14No, it's the circumcentre.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Ten points for this.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Expressed as a six-letter Latin word,
0:19:18 > 0:19:21a five-letter Greek word or a four-letter English word,
0:19:21 > 0:19:24which principle of order, form and meaning
0:19:24 > 0:19:28is identified with God in the opening verse of St John's Gospel?
0:19:30 > 0:19:31Word.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33The Word is correct.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36APPLAUSE
0:19:36 > 0:19:40Your bonuses are on education legislation, Imperial.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42In each case, I want the decade
0:19:42 > 0:19:45in which the following acts were passed.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47Firstly, Fisher's Education Act.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50This raised the school leaving age to 14
0:19:50 > 0:19:53and abolished any remaining fees for elementary education.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56- 18...- It must have been the 19th century.- Yes. Erm...
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Probably fairly early on. 1840s or something.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01- Well, I don't know.... - I think 1810s, but I don't know why.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04- Maybe.- I don't know why. - Go with 1840s.
0:20:04 > 0:20:051840s.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07No, it was the 1910s.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Secondly, the Butler Education Act
0:20:09 > 0:20:12which raised the school leaving age to 15
0:20:12 > 0:20:15and provided for universal free secondary education.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17- Well, if it was Rab Butler, then... - I don't know if it is.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19OK. It was Rab...
0:20:19 > 0:20:21- Say- '50s? I guess so. '50s.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24No, that was the 1940s. It was 1944 to be precise.
0:20:24 > 0:20:25The Education Reform Act, finally,
0:20:25 > 0:20:28that introduced the national curriculum,
0:20:28 > 0:20:31grant-maintained schools and city technology colleges.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33- '80s? Sure. - That was Thatcher, wasn't it?
0:20:33 > 0:20:35- Or...?- Sounds like the '80s.
0:20:35 > 0:20:36'80s.
0:20:36 > 0:20:381980s, you mean. Yeah. APPLAUSE
0:20:38 > 0:20:40You're going to take a picture round now.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43For your picture starter, you'll see a portrait.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45For ten points, I want the name of the subject depicted.
0:20:47 > 0:20:48Martin Luther.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50It is Martin Luther, yes.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52APPLAUSE
0:20:52 > 0:20:54By Cranach the Elder.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57It was Luther, of course, who translated the Bible into German.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59For your bonuses, you'll see depictions of
0:20:59 > 0:21:01three more translators of the Bible.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Five points in each case if you can give me
0:21:03 > 0:21:06the name of the translator depicted
0:21:06 > 0:21:09and the language into which they made the translation.
0:21:09 > 0:21:10Firstly.
0:21:12 > 0:21:17Erm, that's Jerome. Jerome did the Vulgate, so...
0:21:17 > 0:21:19- So into Latin?- Into Latin, yeah. - Yeah, sure.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21So St Jerome, Latin?
0:21:21 > 0:21:22St Jerome into Latin.
0:21:22 > 0:21:26That's correct. That was Caravaggio's St Jerome Writing.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Secondly, both of these figures and the language.
0:21:29 > 0:21:30It's Cyril and Methodius.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33- I think it's Basil and... - Cyril.- ..Cyril.
0:21:33 > 0:21:34And they put it into...
0:21:34 > 0:21:38- JOLY DE LOTBINIERE:- Well, it's... He's changed his name...
0:21:38 > 0:21:40- One of them's got two names. - Was it Methodius?- Methodius.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Cyril and Methodius.
0:21:42 > 0:21:47- And would be Old...Old Church Slavonic.- Yes.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49- Can I nominate you?- Yeah. - Nominate Smith.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51St Cyril and Methodius and Old Church Slavonic.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Correct.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57And finally the figure in the centre of this painting and the language.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59The guy who translated it to English?
0:22:01 > 0:22:05- William Tyndale?- Sure. - What language?- English.- Yeah.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Tyndale, English.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09No, it's John Wycliffe and English. Bad luck.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Ten points for this.
0:22:11 > 0:22:12The ballet The Wooden Prince,
0:22:12 > 0:22:14the pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin
0:22:14 > 0:22:17and the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle
0:22:17 > 0:22:19are works by which Hungarian...?
0:22:19 > 0:22:20Bartok.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24Bartok is right. APPLAUSE
0:22:24 > 0:22:28These bonuses, York, are on a French author.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Firstly, which French novelist has been calculated
0:22:30 > 0:22:34to have created 2,472 named characters
0:22:34 > 0:22:37in his novel sequence La Comedie Humaine?
0:22:40 > 0:22:41I've literally no idea.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43- Did he give a time? - No, we don't know a time.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45- Proust?- Yeah, go Proust, maybe.
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Proust.
0:22:46 > 0:22:47No, it's Balzac.
0:22:47 > 0:22:52Balzac is especially associated with which two-word French term
0:22:52 > 0:22:56denoting an irrational obsession that dominates a person's life?
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Something tic?
0:23:01 > 0:23:04It's not cause celebre, is it? Or is that something else?
0:23:04 > 0:23:06My mind's blank.
0:23:06 > 0:23:07Cause celebre.
0:23:07 > 0:23:08No, it's idee fixe.
0:23:08 > 0:23:13And finally, "Balzac observed all the things that he did not."
0:23:13 > 0:23:16These words of the French thinker Regis Debray
0:23:16 > 0:23:20compare Balzac to which German philosopher born in 1818?
0:23:20 > 0:23:22- Karl Marx!- Yes!
0:23:22 > 0:23:23Karl Marx.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Correct. APPLAUSE
0:23:26 > 0:23:27Ten points for this.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Also called carpincho or water hog,
0:23:30 > 0:23:33which semiaquatic mammal of Central and South America...?
0:23:35 > 0:23:36Capybara.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37Capybara is right.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40APPLAUSE
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Your bonuses are on electronics.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45What electronic component was developed by
0:23:45 > 0:23:48the US physicists Brattain, Bardeen and Shockley at
0:23:48 > 0:23:50- the Bell Telephone Laboratories... - Transistor.- ..in 1947?
0:23:50 > 0:23:52- Transistor.- Correct.
0:23:52 > 0:23:53With the atomic number 32,
0:23:53 > 0:23:57what semiconductor was used in the first 1947 transistor?
0:23:57 > 0:23:58Germanium.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Correct. Labelled B, C and E,
0:24:00 > 0:24:04what are the three terminals of a bipolar transistor?
0:24:04 > 0:24:05Base, current...
0:24:05 > 0:24:07Nominate Fernando.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Base, current and element.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11No, it's base, collector and emitter.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Ten points for this.
0:24:13 > 0:24:14Which two final letters link
0:24:14 > 0:24:18a West African republic that borders Guinea and Senegal,
0:24:18 > 0:24:20the capital of Dominica and the German name...?
0:24:20 > 0:24:22- AU.- Correct.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25APPLAUSE
0:24:25 > 0:24:27These bonuses are on geology, York.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31What unit of geological time forms the first subdivision of an aeon?
0:24:31 > 0:24:34Examples include the Mesozoic and the Palaeozoic.
0:24:34 > 0:24:35- Is that an era? - Yeah, I think it's an era.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37- An era.- Correct.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39What unit of geological time
0:24:39 > 0:24:42is shorter than a period and longer than an age?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44- Is that an epoch? - Yeah, I'd go epoch.- Yeah.
0:24:44 > 0:24:45Epoch.
0:24:45 > 0:24:50Correct. In which epoch of the Quaternary Period are we now living?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52- Erm, Holocene.- I was going to say that.- Is it Holocene?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54- I think it might be. - Yeah. Try Holocene.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56We think it may be Holocene.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Holocene is correct. There's less than three minutes
0:24:58 > 0:25:00to go and ten points for this.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02The name of what trade or profession
0:25:02 > 0:25:04comes from the Latin name of the chemical element
0:25:04 > 0:25:05with the atomic number...?
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Plumber.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Plumber is correct, yes. The atomic number 82.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11APPLAUSE
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Inspired guess, if it was.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Your bonuses are on history and politics.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Knighted in 2002,
0:25:17 > 0:25:20which British historian's recent works include
0:25:20 > 0:25:24The End - Hitler's Germany 1944 to '45?
0:25:24 > 0:25:27Ian Kershaw? Or...? Ian Kershaw or...
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Erm...
0:25:29 > 0:25:32- Kershaw was...- Come on. Let's have it, please.- Kershaw.
0:25:32 > 0:25:33It is Sir Ian Kershaw.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Secondly, a landmark in American social thought,
0:25:36 > 0:25:37The End of Ideology -
0:25:37 > 0:25:40On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties
0:25:40 > 0:25:44is a work of 1960 by which US sociologist?
0:25:45 > 0:25:48- Is it Putnam? - I'm afraid it's all on you.
0:25:48 > 0:25:49Putnam.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50No, it's Daniel Bell.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Which US political scientist claimed to announce
0:25:53 > 0:25:54the triumph of liberal democracy
0:25:54 > 0:25:59in his influential 1989 essay The End of History.
0:25:59 > 0:26:00- Francis Fukuyama.- Yeah.- OK.
0:26:00 > 0:26:01Francis Fukuyama.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04Correct. Time for another starter question.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Answer clearly and audibly as soon as your name is called.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10What word is spelt by concatenating the silent letters
0:26:10 > 0:26:14in the words isosceles, baguette and aplomb?
0:26:16 > 0:26:17Cub.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Cub is correct, yes.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21APPLAUSE
0:26:21 > 0:26:24These bonuses are on cell biology, York.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Containing ribosomes,
0:26:26 > 0:26:29which two eukaryotic organelles are thought to have evolved
0:26:29 > 0:26:32from endosymbiotic bacteria?
0:26:32 > 0:26:36- INDISTINCT SPEECH - No, no.- Containing ribosomes...
0:26:36 > 0:26:39No, that's going to be the mitochondria and the chloroplast.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42Erm... I think, yeah, mitochondria developed from
0:26:42 > 0:26:43the endo...whatever it was.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Yeah, but...cos I think they evolved separately
0:26:46 > 0:26:48and were sort of taken in over time.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Come on. Let's have it, please.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53OK, we think it's the mitochondria and the chloroplast.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Well, you're correct. The Latin for plume,
0:26:55 > 0:26:59what term denotes the folds on the inner membrane of mitochondria?
0:27:00 > 0:27:03- Oh, is it matrix?- Maybe. - I think it's matrix.- No idea.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Matrix.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06No, it's crista or cristae.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09What term, finally, denotes the flattened sac-like structures
0:27:09 > 0:27:11containing chlorophylls?
0:27:11 > 0:27:14They're stacked to form the grana of chloroplasts.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19- I've literally no idea. - Chloroplasts... No idea?
0:27:19 > 0:27:22This is A-Level biology, and my teacher is shouting at me at home.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25- Let's have it, please. - We have no idea.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27They're thylakoids. Ten points for this.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Earth's atmosphere at sea level exerts
0:27:29 > 0:27:33a force of approximately 1kg weight over what metric unit of...?
0:27:34 > 0:27:36- Metres cubed.- No.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Square metre.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41It's a square centimetre.
0:27:41 > 0:27:42Ten points for this.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44Name either of the two men who died in office
0:27:44 > 0:27:47as President of France during the 20th century.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51Er, Mitterrand.
0:27:51 > 0:27:52Anyone like to buzz from York?
0:27:54 > 0:27:55Giscard d'Estaing.
0:27:55 > 0:27:56No, it was Pompidou and Doumer.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58Ten points for this.
0:27:58 > 0:27:59What first name links
0:27:59 > 0:28:02the US psychologist who wrote Obedience To Authority,
0:28:02 > 0:28:04the Prime Minister... GONG SOUNDS
0:28:04 > 0:28:07And at the gong, Imperial College London have 135,
0:28:07 > 0:28:09but York University have 260.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12APPLAUSE
0:28:12 > 0:28:15Well, it wasn't your greatest hour, Imperial,
0:28:15 > 0:28:19cos you've actually performed much more competently than you did today.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Sadly, we shall have to say goodbye to you.
0:28:21 > 0:28:22York, many congratulations.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24We look forward to seeing you in the semifinals.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26Well done. It's a terrific score.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29I hope you can join us next time for the last quarterfinal match.
0:28:29 > 0:28:34- But until then, it's goodbye from Imperial College London.- Bye.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36- It's goodbye from York University.- Goodbye.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40APPLAUSE