0:00:20 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. So far, we've seen Peterhouse, Cambridge
0:00:31 > 0:00:34and the Universities of Liverpool and York
0:00:34 > 0:00:36go through to the semifinals.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Whichever team wins tonight will join them.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41The losers will be left weeping into their beer.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Now, the team from St John's College, Oxford,
0:00:44 > 0:00:47arrived here by beating Bristol University in round one,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Queen's, Belfast in round two and St Catharine's College,
0:00:50 > 0:00:53Cambridge in their first quarterfinal,
0:00:53 > 0:00:56but then they lost to Peterhouse, Cambridge in their second.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Let's ask them now to introduce themselves again.
0:00:59 > 0:01:00Hi, my name is Alex Harries.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04I come from South Wales and I'm reading history.
0:01:04 > 0:01:05Hello, my name is Charlie Clegg.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08I'm from Glasgow and I'm reading theology.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10- This is their captain. - Hi, my name's Angus Russell.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14I'm from Mill Hill in North London and I study history and Russian.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Hi, I'm Dan Sowood.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18I'm from Uxbridge in Middlesex and I'm reading chemistry.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21APPLAUSE
0:01:23 > 0:01:26The team from Newcastle University have seen off
0:01:26 > 0:01:28the Universities of Kent and Glasgow.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32They beat Nuffield College, Oxford, which made up for their earlier
0:01:32 > 0:01:35quarterfinal defeat at the hands of Liverpool University.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Let's remind ourselves now of who they are.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Hello, I'm Alexander Kirkman.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43I'm from Guildford in Surrey and I'm studying biomedical sciences.
0:01:43 > 0:01:44Hi, my name's Nicholas Smith.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46I'm originally from Chorley in Lancashire
0:01:46 > 0:01:49- and I'm studying medicine. - And this is their captain.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Hello, I'm Tony Richardson, originally from County Durham,
0:01:51 > 0:01:54studying for a masters in international politics.
0:01:54 > 0:01:55Hi, I'm Kate Bennett.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58I'm from Chichester and I'm studying for an MA in film,
0:01:58 > 0:01:59theory and practice.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02APPLAUSE
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Right, fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11Based on a design said to have been modelled on Frances Stewart,
0:02:11 > 0:02:13later the Duchess of Richmond,
0:02:13 > 0:02:16which symbolic figure appeared on New English coinage...
0:02:17 > 0:02:18- Britannia.- Correct.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20APPLAUSE
0:02:22 > 0:02:26These bonuses are on kings and artists, St John's.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Which French king invited Leonardo da Vinci
0:02:29 > 0:02:33to live at the Chateau du Clos Luce in 1516?
0:02:33 > 0:02:37The artist remained in France until his death three years later.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Maybe Francis I.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40- OK.- Possibly.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41Francis I?
0:02:41 > 0:02:42Correct.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48which Italian artist began a series of large-scale mythological works
0:02:48 > 0:02:54known as the Poesie Paintings for Philip II of Spain in 1551?
0:02:54 > 0:02:57- Is he Italian?- Yeah.- Philip II...
0:02:59 > 0:03:02- It's not Raphael or anything like that.- Maybe Titian.- Titian, yeah.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04- Titian?- Titian is correct.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Arriving in London in the early 1630s,
0:03:06 > 0:03:09which painter supplanted his main rival at court,
0:03:09 > 0:03:12the Dutchman Daniel Mijtens,
0:03:12 > 0:03:15to become the court artist of Charles I?
0:03:15 > 0:03:16- Oh, van Dyck.- Yeah. Van Dyck.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18Anthony van Dyck is correct.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Ten points for this.
0:03:20 > 0:03:21The birthplace of Goethe
0:03:21 > 0:03:25and the home of the headquarters of the European Central Bank
0:03:25 > 0:03:27and the Staedel Museum, which German city...?
0:03:29 > 0:03:31- Frankfurt.- Frankfurt is correct.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33APPLAUSE
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Your bonuses this time, St John's, are on a constellation.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41The constellations now known as Carina, Puppis
0:03:41 > 0:03:45and Vela formerly comprised a single constellation
0:03:45 > 0:03:48known by the name of what ship in Greek mythology?
0:03:48 > 0:03:50- Argo.- It's the Argo, yeah.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52- Argo.- Argo is correct.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Which star in the southern constellation of Carina is
0:03:54 > 0:03:57the second brightest after Sirius in the night sky?
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Betelgeuse, isn't it?
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Nominate Harries.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06- Nominate Clegg.- Betelgeuse.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08No, it's Canopus.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12Born around 135 BC, the Syrian thinker Posidonius used
0:04:12 > 0:04:16sightings of Canopus to estimate the Earth's size.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19He was a leading figure of which philosophical school?
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Might be Empiricism.
0:04:21 > 0:04:22Shall we go for that?
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Isn't all the Empiricists not a lot later?
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Erm, there's the early school of Empiricism.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29- Yeah, OK, let's go with that. - Empiricists?
0:04:29 > 0:04:30No, it's the Stoics.
0:04:30 > 0:04:34Ten points for this - from the Greek for "hair on the head",
0:04:34 > 0:04:36what four-letter term denotes the cloud of gas
0:04:36 > 0:04:39and dust around the nucleus of a comet?
0:04:39 > 0:04:40A medical name...
0:04:41 > 0:04:43- Coma.- Coma is correct.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45APPLAUSE
0:04:45 > 0:04:48Your first set of bonuses, Newcastle, are on scientific terms.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51In each case, give the term from the description.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53All three begin with the same four letters.
0:04:53 > 0:04:58Firstly, a large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic period
0:04:58 > 0:05:01somewhat smaller than the later tyrannosaurus.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04An almost complete skeleton of one such animal was
0:05:04 > 0:05:07discovered in Shell, Wyoming, in 1991.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11I was going to say velociraptor but...
0:05:11 > 0:05:14- Allosaurus.- It's in America.
0:05:14 > 0:05:15- But go allosaurus.- Allosaurus.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Correct, yes. Big Al, that was, in Wyoming.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22Secondly, a two-word term denoting the accumulation of genetic
0:05:22 > 0:05:25differences in an isolated population leading to
0:05:25 > 0:05:27the evolution of a new species.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Allo-something variation. Allo...
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Oh, dammit.
0:05:34 > 0:05:35It's not allospecific, is it?
0:05:38 > 0:05:41- What is it? - It's allo-something variation.
0:05:41 > 0:05:42Allogenic?
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Allogenic.
0:05:45 > 0:05:46Allogenic variation.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49- No, it's allopatric speciation. - Speciation.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50And finally, in chemistry,
0:05:50 > 0:05:53a term describing two or more forms of a solid element.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57Examples are the graphite and diamond forms of carbon.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00- Allotrope. - Allotropes or allotropy is correct.
0:06:00 > 0:06:01Right, ten points for this.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05What single letter of the alphabet is repeated four times to
0:06:05 > 0:06:09give the title of Laurent Binet's 2010 debut novel?
0:06:09 > 0:06:12The resulting abbreviation denotes a remark in German about two
0:06:12 > 0:06:18high-ranking Nazi officials, one of whom was assassinated in 1942.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23- H?- H is correct, yes.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25APPLAUSE
0:06:26 > 0:06:29St John's, your bonuses are on groaning.
0:06:29 > 0:06:30Firstly, for five points,
0:06:30 > 0:06:33which century saw the Groans Of The Britons,
0:06:33 > 0:06:37the historian Gildas's description of a vain appeal for help
0:06:37 > 0:06:41to a Roman commander usually identified as Flavius Aetius?
0:06:41 > 0:06:42That's the fifth.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44THEY WHISPER
0:06:45 > 0:06:48- The fifth?- Correct.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51"How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying?"
0:06:51 > 0:06:54These words appear in Under The Volcano,
0:06:54 > 0:06:58a 1947 work by which British author?
0:06:58 > 0:07:00- Lowry.- Malcolm Lowry. - Lowry, Malcolm Lowry.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01Correct.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05"Oh, who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
0:07:05 > 0:07:09"And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?"
0:07:09 > 0:07:12These lines, from a poem by AE Housman,
0:07:12 > 0:07:17are a response to the trial of which literary figure in 1895?
0:07:17 > 0:07:19- Oscar Wilde.- Correct.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25For your picture starter, you'll see a map showing two locations.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29The first is the burial place of a historical figure while
0:07:29 > 0:07:33the second is where that person's heart is separately interred.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36Ten points if you can name the historical figure.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39Charlemagne.
0:07:39 > 0:07:40Nope.
0:07:43 > 0:07:44Chopin.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Chopin is correct, yes.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48APPLAUSE
0:07:48 > 0:07:52His body was buried in Paris and his heart in Warsaw.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55So, your bonuses now.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Chopin's heart had been removed at his request and sent back to Poland.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Three more maps, each illustrating the final resting place
0:08:01 > 0:08:02of a historical figure.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06The spot where their heart is separately interred is also marked.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Five points for each person you can name. Firstly...
0:08:13 > 0:08:14Is that Zambia?
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- Cecil Rhodes. - Yeah, could be, yeah. Go for it.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19Cecil Rhodes.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21No, that's David Livingston.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24His heart was cut out before his body was taken back to England
0:08:24 > 0:08:26and buried in Westminster Abbey.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Secondly...
0:08:29 > 0:08:30Is that Robert the Bruce?
0:08:31 > 0:08:33- Scotland.- Mm-hmm.
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Maybe.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Who else in Scottish history that...?
0:08:37 > 0:08:40- Robert the Bruce's heart is buried...- Yeah.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42- Yeah?- I'd go with that, yeah.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45- Robert the Bruce. - It is Robert the Bruce, yes.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46And finally...
0:08:48 > 0:08:51THEY CONFER
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Thomas Hardy.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00Thomas Hardy indeed. His heart was buried in Dorset.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Right, ten points for this -
0:09:02 > 0:09:07at an altitude of more that 3,500m, Leh, in the Indian state
0:09:07 > 0:09:12of Jammu and Kashmir, is the main town of which historical region?
0:09:12 > 0:09:13- Ladakh.- Ladakh is correct.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16APPLAUSE
0:09:16 > 0:09:20These bonuses are on the author Arthur Koestler.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24What two-word term did Koestler use in a work of 1964 to describe
0:09:24 > 0:09:27those who close their minds to science despite being
0:09:27 > 0:09:31entirely dependent on it for the conveniences of modern life?
0:09:31 > 0:09:35It includes a derogatory word for an uncultured person.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Philistine.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42- If you say uncultured person I would say Philistine.- Yeah, I know.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47THEY CONFER
0:09:47 > 0:09:48Pretentious Philistine.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50The pretentious Philistine.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53No, he called them urban barbarians.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Secondly, in the same work,
0:09:55 > 0:09:59Koestler refers to a catastrophe of modern philosophy which he says
0:09:59 > 0:10:01"consisted in the splitting up of the world
0:10:01 > 0:10:04"into the realms of matter and mind".
0:10:04 > 0:10:08After which French philosopher and mathematician did he name it?
0:10:08 > 0:10:09Descartes.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12- Descartes.- Descartes, the Cartesian catastrophe is correct.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16And finally, a 1967 work by Koestler has as its title what
0:10:16 > 0:10:19expression used derisively by the British philosopher
0:10:19 > 0:10:23Gilbert Ryle to refer to Cartesian dualism?
0:10:28 > 0:10:30- Don't know.- Body-mind duality.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34Body-mind duality.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36No, it's the ghost in the machine.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Ten points for this. I need a precise two-word term here.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43What measure of the effectiveness of a rocket engine can bear
0:10:43 > 0:10:47units of either seconds or metres per second depending on
0:10:47 > 0:10:50whether it's measured per unit weight or unit mass?
0:10:52 > 0:10:53Jet propulsion.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56No, anyone like to buzz from Newcastle?
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Jet momentum.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01No, it's specific impulse.
0:11:01 > 0:11:02Ten points for this.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Differing only in their initial letters,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07give the surnames of the Venetian Renaissance artist who
0:11:07 > 0:11:11painted the San Giobbe Altarpiece and the Florentine sculptor
0:11:11 > 0:11:15and goldsmith whose works include Perseus With The Head of Medusa.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22- Bellini and Cellini.- Correct.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24APPLAUSE
0:11:25 > 0:11:28Your bonuses are on infinite series, St John's.
0:11:28 > 0:11:33Give the limit as n tends to infinity of each of the following.
0:11:33 > 0:11:38Firstly, the limit of the sum from k = 0 to n
0:11:38 > 0:11:42of terms of the form 1/3 to the power of K.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46In other words, 1 + 1/3 + 1/9, and so on.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52THEY CONFER
0:11:55 > 0:11:58- Alex has the answer.- Do you...? - Wouldn't it be...
0:11:58 > 0:12:01I think it might be the sine function.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04- OK.- Nominate Sowood.
0:12:04 > 0:12:05The sine function.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07No, it's 3/2, or 1 1/2.
0:12:07 > 0:12:12The limit of the sum from k = 1 to n of the reciprocal
0:12:12 > 0:12:17of the kth triangular number beginning 1 + 1/3 + 1/6.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21So it's not squaring it, it's halving it.
0:12:21 > 0:12:25So it's whatever that other one was but with a half in it.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27- 3/2.- 3/2, yeah.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30No, that's what the last one was.
0:12:30 > 0:12:323/4, then.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Yeah. Erm...
0:12:34 > 0:12:35Yeah. Why not?
0:12:35 > 0:12:38- 3/4.- No, it's 2.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41And finally, the limit of the sum from k = 1
0:12:41 > 0:12:45to N of the reciprocal of the kth prime number.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49That is, 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/5, etc.
0:12:54 > 0:12:55Try one.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57One.
0:12:57 > 0:12:58No, that's infinity.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Ten points for this. After an area now in South London,
0:13:02 > 0:13:06what two-word term is used of the discussions
0:13:06 > 0:13:11of 1647 between the council of the New Model Army and their commanders?
0:13:11 > 0:13:13They included radical political proposals
0:13:13 > 0:13:16such as the argument for manhood suffrage.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21- Putney Debate.- Correct.- Oh!
0:13:21 > 0:13:23APPLAUSE
0:13:24 > 0:13:28Your bonuses are on the SOWPODS list of approved
0:13:28 > 0:13:30two-letter words in Scrabble. In each case,
0:13:30 > 0:13:35link the two words defined to form the name of a European river.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38For example, "18th letter of the alphabet"
0:13:38 > 0:13:40and "negative answer" give Arno,
0:13:40 > 0:13:43the river that flows through Florence.
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Firstly, then,
0:13:44 > 0:13:47the letter that begins the name of the longest river of France
0:13:47 > 0:13:52and the infinitive form that corresponds to etre in French
0:13:52 > 0:13:54and estar in Spanish.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56So it would be S... Seine?
0:13:56 > 0:13:58S, B?
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Yeah, S, B and then the L.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Elbe. Elbe.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Elbe is correct.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11Secondly, a hypothetical force proposed by Carl von Reichenbach
0:14:11 > 0:14:15and an interjection expressing uncertainty or hesitation.
0:14:15 > 0:14:16Oh.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19- What's the first one?- Erm...
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Oder.
0:14:21 > 0:14:22Yeah, it could be. "Er".
0:14:23 > 0:14:26- OK, Oder.- Cos I think the force might be... OD?..
0:14:27 > 0:14:30- Oh, like... - What's the force? Is it OD?
0:14:30 > 0:14:32I don't know what the force is.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33- Oh, OK. Oder.- Correct.- Oh!
0:14:33 > 0:14:37A contraction of a word for mother and a conjunction meaning
0:14:37 > 0:14:39because, since, while or when.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42As, so it's Maas?
0:14:42 > 0:14:46- Maas, is that a river?- Might be the city on which Maastricht sits.
0:14:46 > 0:14:47Maas.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50- Maas.- Correct. M-A-A-S.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52APPLAUSE
0:14:52 > 0:14:55Well worked out. Your music round now for all of you.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59Your music starter is a piece of classical music.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:07 > 0:15:09- Mendelssohn.- It is Mendelssohn, yes.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11APPLAUSE
0:15:11 > 0:15:13His Violin Concerto in E Minor.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17Right, he founded the Leipzig Conservatoire,
0:15:17 > 0:15:19the first institution of its kind in Germany.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22The Conservatoire became a school of some renown
0:15:22 > 0:15:24and for your music bonuses, you're going
0:15:24 > 0:15:28to hear three works by three of its notable pupils.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30Five points for each composer you can identify.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33Firstly, for five, this British composer.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:38 > 0:15:40I know Vaughan Williams went to Leipzig.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42That's what I was thinking.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46Doesn't sound like him.
0:15:46 > 0:15:47It could be Vaughan Williams.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50No, I think it's... If it's one of the two, it's Elgar.
0:15:50 > 0:15:51OK.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53- Let's try Elgar.- Elgar.
0:15:53 > 0:15:58No, that's Delius, a bit from A Village Romeo And Juliet.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Secondly, this Czech composer.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02SOLEMN BRASS MUSIC
0:16:02 > 0:16:03Janacek.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05Yeah? Janacek?
0:16:05 > 0:16:07- Janacek.- Correct.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10And finally, this Nordic composer.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12FAST PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:13 > 0:16:15It could be Grieg.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18It could be Nielsen - it's probably not Nielsen.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21- Sibelius...- Yeah, he said Nordic, which usually means...
0:16:21 > 0:16:23I think he was from Finland.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26I'd be inclined to say Grieg.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28- Yeah, it sounds like it could be Grieg, yeah.- Grieg?
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Grieg is right, yes.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38In snooker, what score would be made in a break consisting of
0:16:38 > 0:16:40six reds and six colours
0:16:40 > 0:16:44if each of the six coloured balls is potted exactly once?
0:16:52 > 0:16:5334.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Anyone like to buzz from St John's?
0:16:55 > 0:16:5635.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58No, it's 33.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Bad luck. Right, ten points for this.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04In material science, what term is used to denote the controlled
0:17:04 > 0:17:08heating and cooling of a substance in order to remove internal
0:17:08 > 0:17:12stresses and instabilities and to make it easier to work a machine?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16- Tempering.- Nope.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20- Soldering.- No, it's annealing.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21Ten points for this.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25The major part of the historical region of Bessarabia
0:17:25 > 0:17:28now forms most of which present-day country?
0:17:28 > 0:17:32The northern area and coastal plain of the historical region were
0:17:32 > 0:17:35added to the Ukrainian SSR in 1940.
0:17:37 > 0:17:38Moldova.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40- Moldova is right.- Well done.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42APPLAUSE
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Your bonuses, St John's,
0:17:44 > 0:17:48are on orthographic diacritics in languages of Europe and West Asia.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52All three languages have at least 20 million speakers.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Firstly, umlauts over letters O and U
0:17:55 > 0:17:59and cedillas under the letters S and C
0:17:59 > 0:18:02appear in which language of the Eastern Mediterranean?
0:18:02 > 0:18:05It's been written in Roman script since the 1920s.
0:18:05 > 0:18:06- Turkish.- Correct.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Secondly, breves on the letter A,
0:18:09 > 0:18:12circumflexes over the letters A and I
0:18:12 > 0:18:15and small commas under the letters S and T
0:18:15 > 0:18:19feature in the orthography of which Romance language?
0:18:19 > 0:18:21- Is that Romanian?- Romanian, yeah.
0:18:21 > 0:18:22- Romanian.- Correct.
0:18:22 > 0:18:26The kreska, similar in form to an acute accent, and the ogonek,
0:18:26 > 0:18:31or little tail, are diacritical marks used to write which language?
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Erm...
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Could be Bulgarian or something.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42It's maybe something, like, quasi-Slavic. Erm...
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Hungarian, maybe?
0:18:44 > 0:18:46- Yeah, OK, that's a good guess. - Yeah. Hungarian.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48No, it's Polish. Ten points for this.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52In text messages and other digital usage,
0:18:52 > 0:18:55ILD in German, TQ in Spanish...
0:18:56 > 0:18:59- I love you.- You're right.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01APPLAUSE
0:19:02 > 0:19:06Your bonuses are on modern artworks, Newcastle.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09Tracing the fortunes of the Hogarthian reincarnation
0:19:09 > 0:19:14Tim Rakewell, The Vanity Of Small Differences is a series of six
0:19:14 > 0:19:17tapestries by which Turner Prize-winning artist?
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Got no idea, actually.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24THEY CONFER
0:19:24 > 0:19:26- Try what you think is best. - Rachel Whiteread.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28No, it's by Grayson Perry.
0:19:28 > 0:19:33Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate is a large public sculpture covered in
0:19:33 > 0:19:36168 stainless steel plates
0:19:36 > 0:19:39on display in the Millennium Park of which US city?
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Millennium Park...
0:19:42 > 0:19:44THEY CONFER
0:19:46 > 0:19:47Might be Seattle.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52- Might be Seattle.- Seattle. - No, it's Chicago.
0:19:52 > 0:19:57Depicting a view in East Yorkshire, Bigger Trees Near Water is the title
0:19:57 > 0:20:01of the largest painting undertaken to date by which British artist?
0:20:01 > 0:20:03David Hockney.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06Correct. Ten points for this.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08What Norse-derived word for a small rocky island
0:20:08 > 0:20:13appears in numerous British place names, particularly...?
0:20:13 > 0:20:14- Skerry.- Skerry is correct, yes.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17APPLAUSE
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Your bonuses, St John's, are on biology.
0:20:20 > 0:20:24What Greek-derived term denotes asexual reproduction in which
0:20:24 > 0:20:27an ovum grows and develops without fertilisation?
0:20:27 > 0:20:30It's from the Greek for virgin, which is parthenogenic.
0:20:30 > 0:20:31Parthenogenic.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Parthenogenesis is correct, yes.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36From the Greek for male birth, what term denotes
0:20:36 > 0:20:41the form of parthenogenesis in which only males are produced?
0:20:41 > 0:20:43- Yeah, androgenesis.- Androgenesis?
0:20:43 > 0:20:45No, it's arrhenotoky.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48And finally, honey bees exhibit arrhenotoky.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50How many sets of chromosomes will be present
0:20:50 > 0:20:52in the nucleus of a drone bee?
0:20:52 > 0:20:55- I assume 23.- How many?
0:20:55 > 0:20:59- 46 because I assume they cancel each other out.- That's only for humans.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Oh.
0:21:01 > 0:21:02Shall we go...?
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Do we know the number of chromosomes in a bee?
0:21:04 > 0:21:08- I don't, but I doubt it'll be the same.- It differs animal to animal.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12It's probably the overall one if they're asking about it, so 40...
0:21:12 > 0:21:15- 46?- It's probably not going to be as many as that.- I'm going to go...
0:21:15 > 0:21:1730, 30, 30.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20- 23.- No, it's 1.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23LAUGHTER
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Nice to hear it bid up, though.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Right, let's have a picture round now. For your picture starter,
0:21:28 > 0:21:31you'll see a painting of an event described in a play by Shakespeare.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33For ten points, I want the name of the artist
0:21:33 > 0:21:36and the title of the play from which it comes.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40John Everett Millais and Hamlet.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44Correct, yes, it's the death of Ophelia, of course.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46OK, for your bonuses, you're going to see three more paintings
0:21:46 > 0:21:49by British artists inspired by the plays of Shakespeare.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53I want the artist and the play from which the depicted scene is taken.
0:21:53 > 0:21:54Firstly.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Midsummer Night's Dream.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00I'd go for Fuseli.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02- Fuseli.- Fuseli, yeah.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06Yeah? Fuseli, Midsummer Night's Dream?
0:22:06 > 0:22:09No, that's Landseer and Midsummer Night's Dream. Secondly.
0:22:12 > 0:22:17- Macbeth.- Macbeth. I think John Martin.- John Martin and Macbeth?
0:22:17 > 0:22:19Correct. Finally.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23- Romeo and Juliet.- Romeo and Juliet.
0:22:25 > 0:22:26Possibly Rossetti?
0:22:28 > 0:22:29Yeah, shall we...?
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Rossetti, Romeo and Juliet?
0:22:31 > 0:22:34No, it's Ford Madox Brown and Romeo and Juliet.
0:22:34 > 0:22:35Right, ten points for this.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Give the single word name of the visual pigment that enables
0:22:38 > 0:22:41vision in low-level lighting...
0:22:41 > 0:22:42- Rhodopsin.- Correct.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49Right, Newcastle, your bonuses are on words that end
0:22:49 > 0:22:52in the letters ERY.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55All three are commonly used in colourful or emotive speech.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58Firstly, from a Latin word thought to have
0:22:58 > 0:23:02the sense of unblushing or pushing forward the forehead,
0:23:02 > 0:23:06what word means barefaced cheek or shameless audacity?
0:23:13 > 0:23:15(Effrontery.)
0:23:15 > 0:23:17- Effrontery.- Effrontery is correct.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20From an obsolete generic name for a half-witted person,
0:23:20 > 0:23:24what word signifies silly trifling or absurd behaviour?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Buffoonery.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29- Buffoonery.- No, it's tomfoolery.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32And, finally, also ending in ERY
0:23:32 > 0:23:35and derived, in part, from the French for "small" or "little",
0:23:35 > 0:23:40what word means disreputable quarrelling over trivial points?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Pedantry.
0:23:43 > 0:23:44WHISPERING
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Petite? Small.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52- I don't know.- Come on.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56- No, not going to come. - It's pettifoggery.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59There are just over four minutes to go and ten points for this.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Passed in 1799 and 1800,
0:24:02 > 0:24:05the Combination Acts were oppressive legislation...
0:24:05 > 0:24:07- Against trade unions.- Correct.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Your bonuses, Newcastle, are on the Sapta Puri,
0:24:13 > 0:24:16or seven great pilgrimage sites of Hinduism.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20Firstly, Dwarka in Gujarat state was the legendary capital of which
0:24:20 > 0:24:24deity worshipped as the eighth incarnation of Vishnu?
0:24:26 > 0:24:30- Shiva?- Shiva?- No, it's Krishna.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh is generally identified as
0:24:33 > 0:24:35the birthplace of which deity,
0:24:35 > 0:24:38the title figure of a major Indian epic poem?
0:24:41 > 0:24:42Deity...
0:24:45 > 0:24:50- Ramayana.- Possibly.- I don't know. Did you have an idea?
0:24:50 > 0:24:53- Lakshmi, I think. - Lakshmi? Lakshmi.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54No, it's Rama.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57And finally, Ujjain, in Madhya Pradesh, is the site
0:24:57 > 0:25:01of the Mahakala Temple dedicated to which deity?
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Mahayanas...
0:25:04 > 0:25:07- Do you think it would be Ganesh? - It's Hinduism, though, isn't it?
0:25:07 > 0:25:09It's Hinduism.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12- Shiva?- Correct.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15Ten points for this. A major exponent of existentialism,
0:25:15 > 0:25:18which German philosopher wrote...
0:25:18 > 0:25:21No, sorry, I got that wrong. Sorry.
0:25:21 > 0:25:22Nietzsche.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25..wrote the 1927 work Being And Time?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28One of you buzz, St John's.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31- Heidegger?- Heidegger is correct, yes.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Your bonuses are on toxicology, St John's.
0:25:36 > 0:25:40- What broad group of organisms produces mycotoxins?- Mycotoxins.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44- Come on.- Fungi. - Fungi will do, or moulds.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48Aflatoxin can cause liver disease and liver cancer.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50What genus of fungus gives the toxin its name?
0:25:52 > 0:25:55- Affleum.- What, sorry? - Affleum.- Affleum.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57No, it's aspergillus.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59What is the short name of the species of grass most
0:25:59 > 0:26:01commonly infected by Claviceps purpurea,
0:26:01 > 0:26:03the cause of ergotism.
0:26:03 > 0:26:07- I would say rye-grass.- Rye-grass?
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13At a gentle walking pace of one metre per second, it would take just
0:26:13 > 0:26:15under one thousand million years
0:26:15 > 0:26:18to cover what astronomical unit of distance?
0:26:20 > 0:26:21A leap year.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23No. Anyone like to buzz from...?
0:26:23 > 0:26:26- One astronomical unit? - No, it's a parsec.
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Ten points for this.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29According to its dictionary definition,
0:26:29 > 0:26:33what Greek-derived term means the branch of theology concerned
0:26:33 > 0:26:36with the four last things - death, judgment, heaven and hell.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38- Eschatology.- Correct.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43Your bonuses now are on French cinema since 2001.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Starring Tahar Rahim and set largely in a prison,
0:26:46 > 0:26:50which 2009 film by the director Jacques Audiard
0:26:50 > 0:26:53won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55- A Prophet.- Correct.
0:26:55 > 0:27:00The 2010 film, Of Gods And Men, was based on the 1996 kidnapping
0:27:00 > 0:27:03and assassination of seven Trappist monks from the monastery
0:27:03 > 0:27:06of Tibhirine in which African country?
0:27:06 > 0:27:08Oh, Tunisia. I think it's Tunisia.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11- Tunisia.- No, it's Algeria.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14Marion Cotillard won the Best Actress Oscar for her
0:27:14 > 0:27:17portrayal of which singer in La Vie En Rose?
0:27:17 > 0:27:19- Edith Piaf. - Correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22Glandular fever is an infectious viral disease
0:27:22 > 0:27:25characterised by the swelling of which glands?
0:27:26 > 0:27:29- Lymph nodes. - Lymph glands is correct, yes.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31A set of bonuses for you now.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33They're on King David I of Scotland.
0:27:33 > 0:27:37The fifth son of Malcolm Canmore and St Margaret, David, spent
0:27:37 > 0:27:41his youth at the court of which English king, his brother-in-law?
0:27:41 > 0:27:43Which one was David...?
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Malcolm was, like, ten. Would it be Henry I?
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Because Malcolm was, like, ten.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50- OK. Henry I.- Correct.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53From 1136, David led several invasions of England
0:27:53 > 0:27:56in support of his niece's claim to the English throne.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58- What was her name?- Matilda.- Correct.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01David died in 1153 at which present-day English city
0:28:01 > 0:28:03on the River Eden? It had been his residence
0:28:03 > 0:28:06and military base for much of the latter part of his reign.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08- Carlisle.- Correct, ten points for this.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Which modern orchestral instrument typically has seven pedals
0:28:11 > 0:28:14of the form invented in the early 19th century by the Frenchman...
0:28:14 > 0:28:16GONG
0:28:16 > 0:28:19And at the gong, Newcastle University have 120...
0:28:19 > 0:28:20APPLAUSE
0:28:20 > 0:28:23..but St John's College, Oxford, have 210.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25APPLAUSE
0:28:27 > 0:28:29Well, you weren't really on song tonight, Newcastle, because
0:28:29 > 0:28:31you can do much, much better than that,
0:28:31 > 0:28:33as we've seen in previous matches.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35We're going to have to say goodbye to you
0:28:35 > 0:28:38but no shame in going out in the quarterfinal at all.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41St John's, storming performance from you.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43We shall look forward to seeing you in the semifinal.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45Thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48I hope you can join us for the first of those semifinals but,
0:28:48 > 0:28:51until then, it's goodbye from Newcastle University...
0:28:51 > 0:28:55- Goodbye.- ..it's goodbye from St John's College, Oxford...- Goodbye.
0:28:55 > 0:28:56..and it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58APPLAUSE