0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. After several months of fierce competition,
0:00:31 > 0:00:34the end is now in sight.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36Last time, we saw Peterhouse, Cambridge,
0:00:36 > 0:00:39take the first place in the final of this year's competition,
0:00:39 > 0:00:42and whichever team wins tonight will join them.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45The four from Liverpool University have won every match
0:00:45 > 0:00:46they have played.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49They saw off St Peter's College, Oxford, in round one
0:00:49 > 0:00:51and Southampton University in round two,
0:00:51 > 0:00:55and the two quarterfinal victories they needed were at the expense
0:00:55 > 0:00:58of Newcastle University and Imperial College, London.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00With an average age of 20,
0:01:00 > 0:01:03let's meet the Liverpool team for the fifth time.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Hi, I'm Jenny McLoughlin.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09I'm from Leeds and I'm studying biological and medical sciences.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12Hi, I'm Jack Bennett. I'm from Lancaster and I'm studying law.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15- And this is their captain. - Hi, I'm Robin Wainwright.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18I'm from the Wirral and I'm studying biological sciences.
0:01:18 > 0:01:19Hi, I'm Ed Bretherton.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21I'm from Bampton in Devon and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24APPLAUSE
0:01:26 > 0:01:28The team from St John's College, Oxford,
0:01:28 > 0:01:32have arrived here having beaten Bristol University in round one,
0:01:32 > 0:01:34Queen's University, Belfast, in round two and
0:01:34 > 0:01:37St Catherine's College, Cambridge, in their first quarterfinal.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39They lost their next match to Peterhouse, Cambridge,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42though, but dodged the bullet by sending home
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Newcastle University on the last occasion we met them.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Their average age is 19.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51So, let's refresh our memories and say hello to them again.
0:01:51 > 0:01:52Hi, my name is Alex Harries.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55I come from South Wales and I'm reading history.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Hello, my name is Charlie Clegg.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59I'm from Glasgow and I'm reading theology.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02- And this is their captain. - Hi, my name's Angus Russell.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05I'm from Mill Hill in North London and I study history and Russian.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Hi, I'm Dan Sowood.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10I'm from Uxbridge in Middlesex and I'm reading chemistry.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12APPLAUSE
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Time is too precious to spend it reciting the rules.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22Which future UK Prime Minister was news editor
0:02:22 > 0:02:25of the Church Times from 1948...?
0:02:25 > 0:02:27- Ted Heath.- Correct.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30APPLAUSE
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Your first bonuses are on achievements at the age of 25,
0:02:33 > 0:02:35St John's. Firstly, for five,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38born in 1865, which philosopher's major work,
0:02:38 > 0:02:41A Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge,
0:02:41 > 0:02:44appeared in 1710?
0:02:44 > 0:02:47He later became Bishop of Cloyne in County Cork.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48- Berkeley.- Berkeley?- Yeah.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50- Berkeley.- Correct.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54In 1872, the 25-year-old CP Scott became the editor of a newspaper
0:02:54 > 0:02:58known at that time by what name? He oversaw its development
0:02:58 > 0:03:01as a supporter of many progressive causes.
0:03:01 > 0:03:02- The Manchester Guardian.- Correct.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05What was the name of the aeroplane piloted by the 25-year-old
0:03:05 > 0:03:09Charles Lindbergh in the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight
0:03:09 > 0:03:10in 1927?
0:03:10 > 0:03:11Spirit Of St Louis.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Correct. 10 points for this.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Which African country's Coats of Arms includes a camel
0:03:18 > 0:03:21surrounded by laurel branches with the country's
0:03:21 > 0:03:24name in English, Arabic and Tigrinya?
0:03:24 > 0:03:27The camel is said to symbolise the country's movement to
0:03:27 > 0:03:30independence which was achieved in 1993.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33Mauritania.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35No, anyone like to buzz...?
0:03:35 > 0:03:37- Eritrea.- Eritrea is correct, yes.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40APPLAUSE
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Right, your bonuses - the first set for you, Liverpool -
0:03:42 > 0:03:45are on the official nicknames of US states.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47In each case, listen to the description
0:03:47 > 0:03:50and give both the nickname and the state to which it applies.
0:03:50 > 0:03:55Firstly, a precious metal appearing in the periodic table above gold
0:03:55 > 0:03:57and between palladium and cadmium.
0:03:58 > 0:03:59That's silver.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01THEY WHISPER
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Wyoming?
0:04:07 > 0:04:09I don't know. That'll do.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Silver and Wyoming.
0:04:11 > 0:04:15No, it's the Silver State, which is the nickname for Nevada.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Secondly, an enclosed structure created as a home for some
0:04:18 > 0:04:21species of the subgenus apis.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23- Beehive State and Utah.- Correct.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Poa pratensis, a perennial plant species
0:04:26 > 0:04:28with distinctively coloured flower heads.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36THEY WHISPER
0:04:36 > 0:04:39- No idea.- That is the Bluegrass State of Kentucky.
0:04:39 > 0:04:4010 points for this.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Give three answers as soon as your name is called.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Which three elements have the German names of
0:04:46 > 0:04:49Wasserstoff, Sauerstoff and Stickstoff,
0:04:49 > 0:04:51meaning water substance, acid substance
0:04:51 > 0:04:54and smothering substance respectively?
0:04:56 > 0:04:59Hydrogen, oxygen and carbon.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Anyone like to buzz from Liverpool?
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Hydrogen, oxygen and phosphorus.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07No, it is hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09So, 10 points for this.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Compared by one commentator to depictions of Christ being
0:05:12 > 0:05:15led to the cross by Roman soldiers,
0:05:15 > 0:05:19a photograph taken in 1974 by Ian Bradshaw showed
0:05:19 > 0:05:23the aftermath of the Australian spectator Michael O'Brien
0:05:23 > 0:05:28having become the first person to perform what act at a major...?
0:05:28 > 0:05:29A heart transplant.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33No. At a major sport... You lose five points.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35..at a major sporting event.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40- Streaking.- Correct.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43APPLAUSE
0:05:44 > 0:05:47Right, a set of bonuses for you this time, Liverpool,
0:05:47 > 0:05:49on a Greek-derived word.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53From Greek words meaning "all" and "assembly", what term describes
0:05:53 > 0:05:58a public speech or published texts in praise of a person or thing?
0:05:58 > 0:06:00THEY WHISPER
0:06:09 > 0:06:12- We don't know.- It is a panegyric.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15"If you want to raise a certain cheer in the House of Commons,
0:06:15 > 0:06:18"you make a general panegyric on economy.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21"If you want to invite a sure defeat,
0:06:21 > 0:06:23"propose a particular saving."
0:06:23 > 0:06:26These words appear in The English Constitution,
0:06:26 > 0:06:29an 1867 work by which author?
0:06:29 > 0:06:31- Bagehot.- Bagehot?
0:06:31 > 0:06:34- Bagehot.- Walter Bagehot is correct.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38"A full translation could only be an ideological translation,
0:06:38 > 0:06:42"whereby Jefferson's words would be changed into a panegyric
0:06:42 > 0:06:44"on absolute government."
0:06:44 > 0:06:50These words appear in an appendix to which mid-20th-century novel?
0:06:50 > 0:06:52THEY WHISPER
0:06:52 > 0:06:531984?
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Yeah.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58- 1984.- It is, talking about newspeak.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Right, 10 points for this.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04Which decade saw the discovery of Uranus by William Hershel...?
0:07:04 > 0:07:05- 1780s.- Correct.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08APPLAUSE
0:07:09 > 0:07:12Your bonuses are on classical mechanics, Liverpool.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16An object starts at rest and accelerates at a constant
0:07:16 > 0:07:18five metres per second squared for ten seconds.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21What distance in metres does it travel?
0:07:21 > 0:07:23THEY WHISPER
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Five metres per second...
0:07:25 > 0:07:28- Something like 500. - Yeah, it would have to be.
0:07:28 > 0:07:29Try 50.
0:07:29 > 0:07:3050 metres.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33No, it travels 250 metres.
0:07:33 > 0:07:38A second object has an initial velocity of three metres per second
0:07:38 > 0:07:41and accelerates at a constant two metres per second squared.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45How many metres does this object travel in ten seconds?
0:07:48 > 0:07:4943?
0:07:52 > 0:07:5343?
0:07:53 > 0:07:5543. No, it's 130.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58What, in meters per second, is the velocity of this second
0:07:58 > 0:08:00object after ten seconds?
0:08:01 > 0:08:03THEY WHISPER
0:08:03 > 0:08:05No, it's not going to be that.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Erm...
0:08:08 > 0:08:1050.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12No, it's 23 metres per second.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14We're going to take a picture round.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17You will see a map of the eastern Mediterranean with
0:08:17 > 0:08:20the location of a city of the classical world highlighted.
0:08:20 > 0:08:2210 points if you can identify it.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27Sparta.
0:08:27 > 0:08:28No.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Megara.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35No, it is Corinth. So, picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:08:38 > 0:08:43Oxbridge, cosplay and Labradoodle are examples of...?
0:08:43 > 0:08:46- Portmanteaus. - Portmanteau words is correct, yes.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48APPLAUSE
0:08:48 > 0:08:51You recall that we saw the position of Corinth
0:08:51 > 0:08:53depicted in the picture starter.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56The early Christian communities of Corinth were the eponymous
0:08:56 > 0:09:00addressees of two of the New Testament books of Pauline epistles.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03For your bonuses, three more cities of the early Christian world
0:09:03 > 0:09:07to whose church communities the epistles of St Paul were addressed.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Five points for each.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12I want the name of the city or the adjective derived from it
0:09:12 > 0:09:15by which their respective books of epistles are known.
0:09:15 > 0:09:16Firstly...
0:09:16 > 0:09:18- It could be Ephesus.- Yeah.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20- Ephesus.- Correct.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Secondly...
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Hm. Is Galatia...?
0:09:24 > 0:09:26- Galatia is this way. - Is that where Troy is?
0:09:26 > 0:09:29No, no, no. It's going to be Galatians, Corinthian...
0:09:29 > 0:09:30We've got Corinthian. Thessalonians.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32But Thessalia is in Greece.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34So it's going to be Galatia, then.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Unless it's Colossus, but, yeah, I think that's Galatia.
0:09:37 > 0:09:38Galatia.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41- No, it's Colossae.- Oh! - The epistle to the Colossians.
0:09:41 > 0:09:42And finally...
0:09:44 > 0:09:46- Thessalonia. - Yeah, that's Thessalonia.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49- Thessalonians. - Correct, Thessaloniki is correct.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Right, ten points for this.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54Which British economist gives his name to the equivalence
0:09:54 > 0:09:57discussed in his 1820 essay on the funding system,
0:09:57 > 0:10:01which suggests that the method of financing government spending...
0:10:01 > 0:10:02Adam Smith.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04No, you lose five points.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06..the method of financing government spending may make
0:10:06 > 0:10:08no difference to consumer demand?
0:10:11 > 0:10:13Malthus.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15No, it is David Ricardo. Ten points for this.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19In 1958, the work of Dr Rune Elmqvist
0:10:19 > 0:10:22and the surgeon Ake Senning
0:10:22 > 0:10:25led to the 43-year-old Swede Arne Larsson
0:10:25 > 0:10:29becoming the first person to be implanted with what device?
0:10:31 > 0:10:33- A pacemaker.- A pacemaker is right.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35APPLAUSE
0:10:36 > 0:10:41Your bonuses, Liverpool, are on English naturalists and sheep.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45All three breeds are named after English counties.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48Described as having an intelligent bright eye,
0:10:48 > 0:10:51which breed of sheep originated on downland in the county that is
0:10:51 > 0:10:54the setting of Gilbert White's 1789 work
0:10:54 > 0:10:59The Natural History And Antiquities Of Selborne?
0:10:59 > 0:11:01THEY WHISPER
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Somerset.
0:11:03 > 0:11:04It's Hampshire.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08Which black-faced breed of sheep originated from the mating
0:11:08 > 0:11:11of Norfolk Horn ewes with Southdown Rams?
0:11:11 > 0:11:14William Kirby, the author of the 1802 work
0:11:14 > 0:11:18A Monograph On The Bees Of England, was born in the same county.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Dorset.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23- Dorset.- No, it's Suffolk.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26Active and alert with a soft black face -
0:11:26 > 0:11:30these words describe a hornless breed of sheep named after
0:11:30 > 0:11:33which English county, the birthplace of Charles Darwin?
0:11:34 > 0:11:37- Shropshire.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:11:37 > 0:11:42Ailurus fulgens, meaning "shining cat", is the scientific...
0:11:42 > 0:11:44- Red panda.- Red panda is right.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46APPLAUSE
0:11:48 > 0:11:52Right, these bonuses, Liverpool, are on trade in the ancient world.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55Often identified with China, the home of the people known as
0:11:55 > 0:11:58the Seres was seen in ancient Rome as the original home
0:11:58 > 0:12:00of what commodity?
0:12:01 > 0:12:04THEY WHISPER
0:12:04 > 0:12:06- Silk?- Gold?- Silk.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09- Silk.- Correct.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13"India, Seres and the Arabian Peninsula take from our empire
0:12:13 > 0:12:17"100 millions of Sesterces every year.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20"That is how much our luxuries and women cost us."
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Which Roman author wrote this in his Natural History?
0:12:23 > 0:12:27He died during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.
0:12:27 > 0:12:28- Pliny the Elder.- Correct.
0:12:28 > 0:12:33At the time of Pliny the Elder, which Imperial dynasty ruled China?
0:12:33 > 0:12:36THEY WHISPER
0:12:36 > 0:12:38- Han.- Han is correct, yes.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40APPLAUSE
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Ten points for this. Writing in AD 350,
0:12:43 > 0:12:47the Roman poet Ausonius provided the earliest known reference to
0:12:47 > 0:12:50wine production in which French region,
0:12:50 > 0:12:53now the largest producer of AOC wines in the country?
0:12:54 > 0:12:56- Bordeaux.- Bordeaux is correct, yes.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00APPLAUSE
0:13:00 > 0:13:02These bonuses are on astronomy, St John's.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06The local group of galaxies is dominated by three spiral galaxies.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09These are the Triangulum, the Milky Way
0:13:09 > 0:13:12and which galaxy also known as M31?
0:13:12 > 0:13:14That's Andromeda.
0:13:14 > 0:13:15- Andromeda.- Correct.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Which constellation of the zodiac gives its name to
0:13:18 > 0:13:21the supercluster of galaxies which contains the local group?
0:13:24 > 0:13:28Taurus, because I think we're in Taurus, as well.
0:13:28 > 0:13:29- Taurus.- No, it's Virgo.
0:13:30 > 0:13:35M87 is a giant radio galaxy in the Virgo cluster that belongs to
0:13:35 > 0:13:37a broad morphological class of galaxies
0:13:37 > 0:13:40denoted by what single letter?
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Generally poor and young blue stars,
0:13:42 > 0:13:45they may be oblate or triaxial in shape.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Spiral galaxies.
0:13:51 > 0:13:56- No, it's a letter. - Might it be an M galaxy?
0:13:56 > 0:13:58- M.- No, it's E for elliptical.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Right, we are going to take a music round now.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03For your music starter, you will hear an excerpt from a suite
0:14:03 > 0:14:06of classical music that has been used as the basis for a ballet.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09For ten points, I want both the name of the composer
0:14:09 > 0:14:10and the title of the suite.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Delibes, Carmen.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34No. You can hear a little more, Liverpool.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36ORCHESTRAL MUSIC CONTINUES
0:14:38 > 0:14:39You may not confer.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46Sabre Dance, Khachaturian.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48No, it's Rimsky-Korsakov. It's part of Scheherazade.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52Ten points for this starter question - music bonuses shortly.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55Spell the two four-letter near homophones that mean respectively
0:14:55 > 0:15:01a person in a condition of servitude or modified slavery and the mass...?
0:15:02 > 0:15:05- S-E-R-F, S-U-R-F.- Correct.
0:15:05 > 0:15:09APPLAUSE
0:15:09 > 0:15:12So, we will pick up the music bonuses with you.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Scheherazade, which you heard a moment ago,
0:15:14 > 0:15:17was one of the ballets born from the creative relationship
0:15:17 > 0:15:19between the choreographer Michel Fokine
0:15:19 > 0:15:23and the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky while both were at the Ballet Russes.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Your bonuses are three more works that Fokine
0:15:25 > 0:15:29turned into ballets in which Nijinsky danced leading roles.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31I want the composer of each, please.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34Firstly, for five, this Russian composer.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Rachmaninov.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42No, it's Stravinsky. That's from Petrushka.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Secondly, this German composer.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47CELLO MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:52 > 0:15:53Schubert?
0:15:53 > 0:15:54Schubert.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57No, that's Weber, The Spectre Of The Rose.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00And finally, this French composer.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:06 > 0:16:07Delibes.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09No, that is Ravel. It's from Daphnis And Chloe.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15What physical quantity is the result of multiplying half
0:16:15 > 0:16:18of a rotating object's moment of inertia
0:16:18 > 0:16:20by its angular velocity squared?
0:16:24 > 0:16:26Rotational kinetic energy.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30Kinetic energy I'll accept, yes. That's fine. Good, well done.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32APPLAUSE
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Your bonuses are on Britain in the 19th century.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37In each case, listen to the series of events
0:16:37 > 0:16:41and name any one of the three consecutive years that they span.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45Firstly, the Rainhill Locomotive Trials and the subsequent
0:16:45 > 0:16:48opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,
0:16:48 > 0:16:49the death of King George IV
0:16:49 > 0:16:53and the start of Charles Darwin's voyage on HMS Beagle.
0:16:53 > 0:16:561829, 1830, 1831.
0:16:56 > 0:16:571830.
0:16:57 > 0:17:021830, 1831 or 1829 in those cases. Well done.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05The drafting of the People's Charter, secondly,
0:17:05 > 0:17:08the founding of the permanent Anti-Corn Law League
0:17:08 > 0:17:11and the introduction of the Uniform Penny Post.
0:17:11 > 0:17:141840, I think, is one of those.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17Yeah. Go 1840, yeah.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20- 1840.- That's correct, that was when the Penny Post came in.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23And finally, the establishment, successively,
0:17:23 > 0:17:25of Notts County Football Club,
0:17:25 > 0:17:28the English Football Association, and Yorkshire County Cricket Club,
0:17:28 > 0:17:31and the first publication of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36I've got somehow that 1868 is the date for the FA.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39- OK.- OK. 1868.
0:17:39 > 0:17:40No, you're too late there,
0:17:40 > 0:17:44it's 1862, 1863 and 1864. Ten points for this.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Asia's second predominantly Roman Catholic country
0:17:47 > 0:17:49after the Philippines...
0:17:49 > 0:17:51- East Timor.- Correct.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53APPLAUSE
0:17:54 > 0:17:58Your bonuses are on the 2004 book In Europe
0:17:58 > 0:18:00by the Dutch journalist Geert Mak. In each case,
0:18:00 > 0:18:05identify the city from the words taken from his description of it.
0:18:05 > 0:18:09"What strikes one about the city centre is the absence of Spain.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12"The city is French, Italian, Mediterranean
0:18:12 > 0:18:13"and above all its self.
0:18:13 > 0:18:17"The Spanish nation, there will be none of that here, thank you."
0:18:17 > 0:18:19- Barcelona.- Correct.
0:18:19 > 0:18:23"It was in this forest of churches and cranes that it all started,
0:18:23 > 0:18:26"the tiny fissures that ultimately brought about
0:18:26 > 0:18:28"the earthquake of 1989."
0:18:29 > 0:18:32- Prague.- Budapest or Prague.
0:18:32 > 0:18:33Prague...
0:18:33 > 0:18:36- Probably got more churches, I guess.- Yeah.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40- Prague?- No, it's Gdansk in the north of Poland.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43"How in the world could this friendly city,
0:18:43 > 0:18:46"this uncommonly pleasant town, this centre of the arts and good cheer,
0:18:46 > 0:18:50"have been the birthplace of such a fanatical and destructive movement?"
0:18:50 > 0:18:53- Is that Munich?- Yeah, yeah.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56- Munich.- Munich is right. That gives you the lead.
0:18:56 > 0:18:5910 points for this. Listen carefully.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02The large Zenith telescope in Vancouver, Canada,
0:19:02 > 0:19:07can only point directly upwards owing to the nature of its rotating
0:19:07 > 0:19:11mirror which has a reflective surface made of which element?
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Germanium.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20No, anyone like to buzz from Liverpool?
0:19:20 > 0:19:21Silicon.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24No, it is mercury. Ten points for this.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Which large anchorage is bounded by islands including
0:19:27 > 0:19:30South Ronaldsay, Hoy, and Mainland?
0:19:31 > 0:19:32Skye.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34No, you lose five points.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37It was a major naval base during both world wars,
0:19:37 > 0:19:41and saw the scuttling of the German fleet in 1919.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43- Scapa Flow.- Scapa Flow is correct.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45APPLAUSE
0:19:47 > 0:19:51Right, these bonuses are on a work of speculative fiction, St John's.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55Who was the author of the 1961 work Stranger In A Strange Land,
0:19:55 > 0:19:58which tells of a human raised on Mars
0:19:58 > 0:20:01and his interactions with terrestrial culture?
0:20:01 > 0:20:04- Could be Philip K Dick.- Yeah. - Nominate Clegg.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05Philip K Dick.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08No, it wasn't, it was Robert A Heinlein.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11Secondly, coined by Heinlein in Stranger In A Strange Land,
0:20:11 > 0:20:14which four-letter verb is defined in the OED
0:20:14 > 0:20:19as "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with"?
0:20:19 > 0:20:21- Feel?- Feel...
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Feel. I feel it.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26- Feel?- No, it's grok.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29The words "stranger in a strange land" appear in which book
0:20:29 > 0:20:34of the Old Testament, referring to Moses after he fled from Egypt?
0:20:34 > 0:20:36Probably Exodus.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38- Exodus.- Correct.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40We are going to take a picture round now.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43For your picture starter, you will see a photograph of a building.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46For ten points I want you to tell me the architect who designed it.
0:20:46 > 0:20:50The building is now a museum dedicated to his life and work.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53Sir John Soane.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Sir John Soane is right, yes.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58APPLAUSE
0:20:58 > 0:21:01That's 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields. It was also Soane's own home.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04Your picture bonuses are three more photographs
0:21:04 > 0:21:06of notable architects' own houses.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09In each case, I want you to identify the architect who designed
0:21:09 > 0:21:11and lived in the house you see.
0:21:11 > 0:21:15Firstly, the architect of this house which was built in the 1930s.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21THEY WHISPER
0:21:23 > 0:21:24Goldfinger.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27- Yeah.- It really, really looks like Goldfinger.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30He is basically the one Goldfinger is based on.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32- Yeah. Shall we try?- What's his name? - It's Erno Goldfinger.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34- He's just called Goldfinger. - OK, yeah.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38- Goldfinger.- No, it's Walter Gropius' house in Massachusetts.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42Secondly, the architect of this house which was built in the 1950s.
0:21:45 > 0:21:46Oh, I recognise that.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49- Used in a Bond movie, I think. - LAUGHTER
0:21:49 > 0:21:52- It might be Mies van der Rohe. - Van der Rohe?
0:21:52 > 0:21:56- Van der Rohe?- No, it is Oscar Niemeyer in Rio De Janeiro.
0:21:56 > 0:22:00And finally, the architect of this house which was begun in the 1930s.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05I'd say that looks like Frank Lloyd Wright.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07- Shall we try that?- Yeah.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10- Frank Lloyd Wright. - It is, in Arizona. Well done.
0:22:10 > 0:22:11Ten points for this.
0:22:11 > 0:22:16The Marprelate Tracts describing bishops as "profane, proud, paltry,
0:22:16 > 0:22:19"Popish, pestilent and pernicious"
0:22:19 > 0:22:23were clandestine publications during the reign of which monarch?
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Edward VI.
0:22:29 > 0:22:30Nope.
0:22:31 > 0:22:32Mary I.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35No, it was Elizabeth I. Ten points for this.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Augustus Snodgrass, George Nupkins,
0:22:38 > 0:22:42Samuel Slumkey and Dr Slammer are among characters
0:22:42 > 0:22:46in which novel first published in serial form from 1836?
0:22:48 > 0:22:50- The Pickwick Papers.- Correct.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53APPLAUSE
0:22:53 > 0:22:56Your bonuses are on a philosopher, St John's.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59In the 1923 essay Love And Knowledge,
0:22:59 > 0:23:02which German phenomenologist introduced the idea that love
0:23:02 > 0:23:05forms a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge?
0:23:05 > 0:23:08I think Husserl's a phenomenologist.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11The philosopher is not Heidegger, so...
0:23:11 > 0:23:12Yes.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14- Nominate Clegg.- Husserl.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16No, it was Scheler.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19Secondly, Scheler took as his starting point the idea that
0:23:19 > 0:23:22there is a specific logic to human emotions
0:23:22 > 0:23:25which is different from the logic of the intellect,
0:23:25 > 0:23:29a concept he took from which 17th-century French philosopher?
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Descartes?
0:23:31 > 0:23:32It might be Descartes.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36- That kind of plays into mind-body, sort of...- Yeah.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37Descartes.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40No, it is Pascal. In the early 1950s, which Polish philosopher
0:23:40 > 0:23:45and future Archbishop of Krakow wrote a PhD thesis on Scheler,
0:23:45 > 0:23:48acknowledging his influence on Roman Catholicism?
0:23:48 > 0:23:51- John Paul II.- John Paul II.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55It was, yes, Karol Wojtyla. Ten points for this starter question.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Which country is divided into seven geographical regions,
0:23:57 > 0:24:01including those known as the Mediterranean, Aegean,
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Black Sea...?
0:24:03 > 0:24:04Greece.
0:24:04 > 0:24:09No, I'm afraid you lose five points. ..and Southeast Anatolia.
0:24:09 > 0:24:10- Turkey.- Turkey is correct.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12APPLAUSE
0:24:13 > 0:24:15These bonuses are on calculus.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17Give the derivative with respect to x
0:24:17 > 0:24:20of each of the following mathematical functions.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22x.sin(x).
0:24:24 > 0:24:28That's, erm, sin(x) + x cos(x).
0:24:28 > 0:24:31- Nominate Sowood.- Sin(x) + x cos(x).
0:24:31 > 0:24:35Correct. Secondly, the hyperbolic cosine function, cosh(x).
0:24:36 > 0:24:39- Nominate Sowood.- Sinh(x).
0:24:39 > 0:24:41- That's S-I-N-H x.- Yes, well done.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44And finally, the natural logarithm of x.
0:24:44 > 0:24:45Nominate Sowood.
0:24:45 > 0:24:471/x.
0:24:47 > 0:24:48Well done.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50APPLAUSE
0:24:50 > 0:24:54Ten points for this. The work of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure
0:24:54 > 0:24:56laid the foundations of which discipline,
0:24:56 > 0:25:01defined by him as concerned with the life of signs within society?
0:25:01 > 0:25:04- Semiotics.- Semiotics is correct.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06APPLAUSE
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Your bonuses are on countries admitted to
0:25:08 > 0:25:10the United Nations in 1965.
0:25:10 > 0:25:14In each case, name the country from the description, St John's.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17Firstly, a country about half the size of Wales named after a river
0:25:17 > 0:25:20that rises in the Fouta Djallon Mountains.
0:25:20 > 0:25:21Its official language is English.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24THEY WHISPER
0:25:24 > 0:25:27- Butan, maybe.- Yeah.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29- Butan.- No, it is the Gambia.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33A country consisting of coral atolls, whose total area is
0:25:33 > 0:25:35less than half that of Anglesey.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39Its official language, Dhivehi, belongs to the Indo-European family.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42THEY WHISPER
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Oh, or it could be the Maldives.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48OK, yeah. Maldives.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Correct. An island state close in size to Anglesey,
0:25:51 > 0:25:56its official languages are English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59Sri Lanka, isn't it?
0:25:59 > 0:26:01- Oh, no, Singapore.- Singapore.
0:26:01 > 0:26:02Singapore is correct.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Ten points for this. Answer as soon as you buzz.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07How many metric teaspoons are there in one litre?
0:26:11 > 0:26:13- 200.- Correct.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15APPLAUSE
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Your bonuses are on the human face, St John's.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23In human anatomy, the mandible forms the lower jaw.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Which bone forms the upper jaw?
0:26:25 > 0:26:28THEY WHISPER
0:26:28 > 0:26:31I think it's just part of the skull.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33- The cranium, then. - Come on, let's have it, please.
0:26:33 > 0:26:34Cranium.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36No, it's the maxilla.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40The cheekbone, or malar bone, has what alternative name,
0:26:40 > 0:26:41taken from the Greek for yolk?
0:26:43 > 0:26:47- Yolk doesn't appear in the New Testament. - LAUGHTER
0:26:47 > 0:26:50Oh, it would be something ugas.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52- Jugular. - No, it is the zygomatic bone.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Which bone in the facial skeleton forms
0:26:55 > 0:27:00the roof of the mouth and the floor of the nasal cavity?
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Uvula possibly.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Uvula.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06No, it is the palatine bone.
0:27:06 > 0:27:07Right, ten points for this.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Obtained from the tree Hevea brasiliensis,
0:27:10 > 0:27:13which commercial product in its natural state
0:27:13 > 0:27:15consists mainly of isoprene polymers?
0:27:17 > 0:27:20- Rubber.- I'll accept that, yes. Latex, yes.
0:27:20 > 0:27:2215 points for these bonuses.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24They are on the locations of Shakespeare's plays.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Which play is set in Navarre, Liverpool?
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Henry V.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31- Quickly.- Henry V.- Henry V?!
0:27:31 > 0:27:32No, it's Love's Labour's Lost.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Settings of which play include Paris, Marseille,
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Florence and Rousillon?
0:27:37 > 0:27:40THEY WHISPER
0:27:40 > 0:27:42- Just go Henry V again.- Come on.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44- All's Well That Ends Well.- Correct.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Finally, which play is set in Ephesus?
0:27:49 > 0:27:50- Don't know.- Quickly.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52It is The Comedy Of Errors. Ten points for this.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54GONG And that's the gong.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56Liverpool University have 95,
0:27:56 > 0:27:58St John's College, Oxford, have 195.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00APPLAUSE
0:28:01 > 0:28:03You weren't on song today, Liverpool, were you?
0:28:03 > 0:28:05It all depends how the questions fall, too,
0:28:05 > 0:28:07but you have been a great team so far.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09Congratulations for getting this far.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11I mean, you could have only played one more match,
0:28:11 > 0:28:13so thank you very much for being with us.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15And, St John's, a terrific performance from you.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17We'll look forward to seeing you in the final.
0:28:17 > 0:28:18Many congratulations to you.
0:28:18 > 0:28:22I hope you can join us next time for the final match of this series.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25- But until then, it's goodbye from Liverpool University...- Goodbye.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28- It's goodbye from St John's College, Oxford...- Goodbye.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32APPLAUSE