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