0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello, the long and winding road ends tonight.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36There were 130 teams of students who wanted to be here
0:00:36 > 0:00:39and 28 of them qualified to appear on the series.
0:00:39 > 0:00:44After 2,835 questions, only the best two remain.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47In a little under half an hour, one of them will lift the trophy
0:00:47 > 0:00:52and it'll be like V-E Day all over again in either Cambridge or Oxford.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54Now, the team from Peterhouse - Cambridge have defeated
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Glasgow University, St George's London
0:00:57 > 0:00:59and the University of York twice.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01They also beat St John's College - Oxford,
0:01:01 > 0:01:04their opponents tonight, when they met in the quarterfinals
0:01:04 > 0:01:07but this is the match that counts, of course.
0:01:07 > 0:01:08With an average age of 20,
0:01:08 > 0:01:12let's meet the Peterhouse team for the last time.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14Hello, I'm Thomas Langley. I'm from Newcastle upon Tyne
0:01:14 > 0:01:16and I'm studying history.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Hello, I'm Oscar Powell. I'm from York
0:01:18 > 0:01:20and I'm reading geological sciences.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21And this is their captain.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Hello, I'm Hannah Woods. I'm originally from Manchester
0:01:24 > 0:01:26and I'm studying for a PhD in history.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Hello, my name's Julian Sutcliffe. I'm from Reading, in Berkshire,
0:01:30 > 0:01:34- and I'm also reading history. - APPLAUSE
0:01:37 > 0:01:40The team from St John's College - Oxford
0:01:40 > 0:01:43have beaten Bristol University, Queen's University Belfast,
0:01:43 > 0:01:45St Catharine's College - Cambridge
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and the universities of Newcastle and Liverpool.
0:01:48 > 0:01:52The only fly in their ointment was their last encounter with Peterhouse
0:01:52 > 0:01:54but who knows how it'll play out tonight.
0:01:54 > 0:01:55With an average age of 19,
0:01:55 > 0:01:59let's meet the St John's team for the final time.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Hi, my name is Alex Harries, I come from South Wales
0:02:02 > 0:02:04and I'm reading history.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Hello, my name is Charlie Clegg, I'm from Glasgow
0:02:07 > 0:02:08and I'm reading theology.
0:02:08 > 0:02:09And this is their captain.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12Hi, my name's Angus Russell, I'm from Mill Hill, in North London,
0:02:12 > 0:02:15and I study history and Russian.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Hi, I'm Dan Sowood. I'm from Uxbridge, in Middlesex,
0:02:17 > 0:02:19and I'm reading chemistry.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21APPLAUSE
0:02:24 > 0:02:28Right, fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31The author John le Carre, the conductor Daniel Barenboim
0:02:31 > 0:02:34and the director Billy Wilder have all been recipients of a medal
0:02:34 > 0:02:37for outstanding service for the German language
0:02:37 > 0:02:39and international cultural relations...
0:02:40 > 0:02:42The Brothers Grimm.
0:02:42 > 0:02:43No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:02:43 > 0:02:48It's named after which writer and statesman born 1749?
0:02:54 > 0:02:55Bismarck.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58No, it's Goethe. Ten points for this.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Meanings of what four-letter word include a tidal wave
0:03:01 > 0:03:03of unusual height...
0:03:04 > 0:03:07- Neap.- No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09..the diameter of a tube or cylinder,
0:03:09 > 0:03:13a deep vertical hole dug, for example, to obtain water
0:03:13 > 0:03:15and in the words of Ambrose Bierce,
0:03:15 > 0:03:17"A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
0:03:20 > 0:03:21Well.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23No, it's a bore. LAUGHTER
0:03:23 > 0:03:24Ten points for this.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27What did the Canadian science writer David Levy
0:03:27 > 0:03:29describe as being like cats -
0:03:29 > 0:03:32"They have tails and they do precisely what they want."
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Along with Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker,
0:03:35 > 0:03:37he discovered such an object in 1993.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40The following year...
0:03:40 > 0:03:41Comets.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Comet is correct, yes.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44APPLAUSE
0:03:45 > 0:03:49Right, you get a set of bonuses on Asia, Peterhouse.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53Straddling the border with Pakistan and about 7,500m high,
0:03:53 > 0:03:57Mount Noshaq, in the Hindu Kush, is the highest mountain
0:03:57 > 0:03:58in which country?
0:03:59 > 0:04:01So, it's not Nepal.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03It could be India. Hindu Kush sounds...
0:04:03 > 0:04:05- It's not Nepal.- Is it Bangladesh?
0:04:05 > 0:04:08- India or China.- Not Tibet? No, Tibet's not a country.- India.
0:04:08 > 0:04:09- Shall I try India?- Yeah.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12- India.- No, it's Afghanistan.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Almost 7,000m high,
0:04:14 > 0:04:18Khan Tengri, in the Tian Shan, is the highest mountain in Kazakhstan.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20It lies at the juncture of the borders of that country
0:04:20 > 0:04:23and which two others?
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Russia... Kyrgyzstan and China or Russia and China.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28I don't know.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30China and Kyrgyzstan.
0:04:30 > 0:04:31China and Kyrgyzstan.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Correct. More than 5,800m high,
0:04:34 > 0:04:38Mount Hkakabo is the highest mountain in which country?
0:04:38 > 0:04:39It lies close to the borders with China
0:04:39 > 0:04:42and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46- Is it Bangladesh?- Bangladesh is very flat.- Is it flat? Erm...
0:04:46 > 0:04:47Bhutan?
0:04:47 > 0:04:48No, out towards Everest.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50It could be Bhutan.
0:04:51 > 0:04:52I'll try it. Bhutan.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55No, it's Burma or Myanmar. Ten points for this.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Since independence from Britain in 1960,
0:04:57 > 0:05:01which countries' presidents and military rulers have included
0:05:01 > 0:05:05Yakubu Gowon, Sani Abacha and Goodluck Jonathan.
0:05:05 > 0:05:10- Nigeria.- Nigeria is right. APPLAUSE
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Your bonuses are on royal medical cases,
0:05:12 > 0:05:16according to Clifford Brewer's 2000 book The Death Of Kings.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19In each case, identify the king from his medical history.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21HE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY Firstly, Cushing's syndrome,
0:05:21 > 0:05:25uraemia, chronic nephritis, amyloid disease
0:05:25 > 0:05:27and a gravitational ulcer of the leg.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29- Henry VIII, I think.- Yeah.
0:05:29 > 0:05:30- Henry VIII.- Correct.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33Pulmonary embolism, deep venous thrombosis,
0:05:33 > 0:05:37bronchopneumonia and a fractured clavicle.
0:05:37 > 0:05:38Fractured clavicle.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40- So, they probably fell.- Could that be jousting?- Yeah.
0:05:40 > 0:05:41Who died from jousting?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43- Well, Henry VIII...- It's not...
0:05:43 > 0:05:46A medieval king - Henry the something?
0:05:46 > 0:05:47Do any of us have any other ideas?
0:05:47 > 0:05:49- Lung complaints and falling. - Edward IV.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Edward IV.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52No, it's William III.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56And finally, bronchopneumonia, terminal dementia and porphyria.
0:05:56 > 0:05:57- George III.- Yeah.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00- George III.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03Pleasure, punishment, thrill, liability and atonement
0:06:03 > 0:06:07are among nouns that commonly follow what Latin-derived adjective?
0:06:07 > 0:06:11Meaning "accomplished by the substitution of some other person,"
0:06:11 > 0:06:13its first five...
0:06:13 > 0:06:14Vicarious.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Vicarious is correct. APPLAUSE
0:06:18 > 0:06:23You get bonuses on Queen Victoria and English literature.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Peterhouse, first off,
0:06:25 > 0:06:28of which poet, who died in 1892, did Victoria say,
0:06:28 > 0:06:31"Such a man we may not see again for a century or,
0:06:31 > 0:06:34"in all his originality, ever again"?
0:06:34 > 0:06:36- Tennyson.- Correct.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38"Next to the Bible, it is my comfort."
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Of which work by Tennyson did the Queen say that?
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Usually known by a two-word Latin title,
0:06:43 > 0:06:46it's a Requiem for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Oh, what's it called? I can't think.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51- The one with all the quotable things.- It's not...
0:06:51 > 0:06:54It's not, no. It's Latin.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56I'm going to have to pass on this one.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57Pass.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59It's In Memoriam.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02"It is beautiful, it is mournful, it is monotonous."
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Referring to In Memoriam,
0:07:04 > 0:07:08which literary figure wrote that in a letter to Elizabeth Gaskell
0:07:08 > 0:07:09in 1850?
0:07:09 > 0:07:12Might it be Charlotte Bronte because Gaskell did a biography of her?
0:07:12 > 0:07:14- Do we have any better ideas? - Let's try that.
0:07:14 > 0:07:15Charlotte Bronte.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Correct.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Right, another starter question now. It's a picture starter.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22You're going to see the titles of selected publications
0:07:22 > 0:07:25of a scientist in their original language of publication.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Ten points if you can identify the scientist.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Erm, Kepler.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Yes, it is Johannes Kepler. Let's see the English translation.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39There it is.
0:07:39 > 0:07:40Now, for each of your picture bonuses,
0:07:40 > 0:07:43you are again going to see the titles of selected publications
0:07:43 > 0:07:47of a scientist in the original language of publication.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50In each case, all you have to do is to identify the scientist
0:07:50 > 0:07:52from their works. Firstly for five.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57So, they're French.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Let me try and translate it though.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01- Lavoisier, possibly.- No, no, no...
0:08:04 > 0:08:06So, that's Calculation Of The Mass Of The Air.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10The Arithmetic Triangle.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12New Experiences Touching Emptiness.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15- Descartes.- Maybe, or...
0:08:15 > 0:08:17- Didn't Lavoisier write stuff about...- Yeah.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19- Let's do that.- OK, Lavoisier. - Lavoisier.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23No, it's Pascal. Let's see the titles in English. There we are.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25And secondly.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28OK, erm...
0:08:28 > 0:08:31HE READS GERMAN TITLE ALOUD
0:08:31 > 0:08:33I'm not good at German. Over the...
0:08:35 > 0:08:37- Do we know any German scientists, Oscar?- Yeah, we do.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41No, no, no, just let me think. Erm, erm...
0:08:41 > 0:08:44OK, this is...just make one up.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46It's not Einstein. Who isn't Einstein?
0:08:46 > 0:08:47Planck.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51- Max Planck.- It is Max Planck. Let's see it. There it is.
0:08:51 > 0:08:52And finally...
0:08:53 > 0:08:56OK, so that's in Latin.
0:08:56 > 0:08:57No, or is it Italian?
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Is that Galileo?
0:08:59 > 0:09:01The Starry Messenger.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03- Yeah.- Go for it.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06- Galileo.- It is Galileo. APPLAUSE
0:09:09 > 0:09:11"Do you know any German scientists, Oscar?" Honestly.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14LAUGHTER Ten points for this.
0:09:14 > 0:09:18Hydrogen and helium are the two most abundant elements in the universe.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21What molecule would result from combining an atom
0:09:21 > 0:09:24of the third most abundant element with one of the fourth?
0:09:24 > 0:09:29The compound in question is a colourless, odourless, toxic gas.
0:09:31 > 0:09:32Carbon dioxide.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Anyone like to buzz from St John's?
0:09:35 > 0:09:36Is it nitrous oxide?
0:09:36 > 0:09:38No, it's carbon MONOXIDE.
0:09:38 > 0:09:39Ten points for this.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Often used to indicate a letter S
0:09:41 > 0:09:45that existed in earlier forms of the language but has now been lost,
0:09:45 > 0:09:49which diacritical mark appears on the second letter
0:09:49 > 0:09:52of the French words for head, beast and...
0:09:54 > 0:09:56- Oh, a...- I'm sorry...
0:09:56 > 0:09:57..a Chinese hat.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00I'm sorry, if you buzz, you must answer straightaway.
0:10:02 > 0:10:03A circumflex.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06Circumflex is correct and I'm afraid you're going to lose five points,
0:10:06 > 0:10:07St John's, for that.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Right, your bonuses, Peterhouse, are on Greek letters.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14Which Greek letter is used both for the Mobius function in number theory
0:10:14 > 0:10:16and for the coefficient of friction in mechanics?
0:10:18 > 0:10:19- Mu.- Correct.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22Which Greek letter is used in measure theory to denote an algebra
0:10:22 > 0:10:25on which the Borel measure is defined?
0:10:25 > 0:10:27It also represents the Pauli matrices
0:10:27 > 0:10:30in quantum mechanics.
0:10:30 > 0:10:31Erm, I don't know.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35Pauli exclusion principle. What...
0:10:35 > 0:10:36Kappa. Who knows?
0:10:36 > 0:10:37Kappa.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39No, it's sigma.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43Which Greek letter is used in lower case for a function of two variables
0:10:43 > 0:10:46named after Leopold Kronecker and in upper case
0:10:46 > 0:10:48for the difference between successive terms in a sequence?
0:10:48 > 0:10:51- It's delta, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53- Delta.- Delta is correct.
0:10:53 > 0:10:54Ten points for this.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57What optical phenomenon can result from movement
0:10:57 > 0:11:01out of a gravitational field or from the cosmic expansion of space,
0:11:01 > 0:11:03or from...
0:11:03 > 0:11:04Redshift.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Correct. APPLAUSE
0:11:08 > 0:11:11You get a set of bonuses, Peterhouse, on prime numbers.
0:11:11 > 0:11:142011 was the most recent year to be a prime number,
0:11:14 > 0:11:16what'll be the next one?
0:11:17 > 0:11:21So, erm... OK, find something that isn't a multiple of three,
0:11:21 > 0:11:23- that's a good bet.- 2035?
0:11:23 > 0:11:24That's...
0:11:24 > 0:11:27- No, that's a number from five. Just wait...- Oh, yeah, of course.
0:11:27 > 0:11:28So...
0:11:30 > 0:11:3217...isn't.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34- 19?- 2017.
0:11:34 > 0:11:372019 is...
0:11:37 > 0:11:39because 19... No, no.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43Yeah, yeah, 2019 is. Go for...go for 2017. I don't think we know.
0:11:43 > 0:11:442017.
0:11:44 > 0:11:472017 is correct, yes. LAUGHTER
0:11:47 > 0:11:51What was the final year of the 20th century to be a prime number?
0:11:52 > 0:11:54So, it's not 1999.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59It could be 1997.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04- What would that be?- Oh, I don't know.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07- Shall I try it? Or '93?- Not '95, that's a five.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09- What about '93?- I don't know.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14- I don't know.- Go for... Seven is just weird, go for 1997.
0:12:14 > 0:12:151997.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17No, it WAS 1999.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21- Oh.- What was the first year of the 21st century to be a prime number?
0:12:22 > 0:12:24- 2001?- 2001?
0:12:24 > 0:12:27If 1999 is prime, that one is a multiple of three.
0:12:27 > 0:12:28Go for it.
0:12:28 > 0:12:292001.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32No, it was 2003.
0:12:32 > 0:12:33Right, ten points for this.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36What common name is shared by the large rodents
0:12:36 > 0:12:39castor canadensis and castor...
0:12:39 > 0:12:42- Beaver.- Beaver is right. APPLAUSE
0:12:45 > 0:12:49These bonuses are linked by Mesopotamian architecture.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Thought to derive from an Assyrian word meaning pinnacle,
0:12:52 > 0:12:56what term denotes a stepped pyramid with terraces
0:12:56 > 0:13:01characteristic of Mesopotamian cities from around 2200 BC?
0:13:01 > 0:13:02- Ziggurat.- Correct.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06With a ziggurat-like tower said to be perhaps the most extraordinary
0:13:06 > 0:13:08in the county, if not the country,
0:13:08 > 0:13:10St Mary's church in Burgh St Peter
0:13:10 > 0:13:14stands close to the River Waveney and a protected wetland area
0:13:14 > 0:13:15in which county?
0:13:16 > 0:13:19Oh, sorry, I completely zoned out.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21- I don't know actually.- Wetlands.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Norfolk?
0:13:23 > 0:13:24- Norfolk.- Correct.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27A descendant of the rector who built the ziggurat tower
0:13:27 > 0:13:31is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's. What was his surname?
0:13:31 > 0:13:34It entered the English language after he was ostracised
0:13:34 > 0:13:38when working as a land agent in County Mayo in the 19th century.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41It's not hooligan. It's someone who's rejected a lot.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Pariah?
0:13:43 > 0:13:45- No, that's...- That's not the word.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47- I don't know.- Shall we try hooligan?
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Yeah, maybe.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51We're going to try hooligan.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53No, it was Boycott. Charles Boycott.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55We're going to take a music round now.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Ten points if you can identify the composer, please.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:13 > 0:14:14Ravel.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16No. You can hear a little more, Peterhouse.
0:14:22 > 0:14:23Elgar.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25No, it's Rachmaninoff.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28It's one of his variations on the Rhapsody On A Theme by Paganini.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30So, music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Ten points for this starter question.
0:14:32 > 0:14:36Ignoring the proportions of bands, stripes and crosses,
0:14:36 > 0:14:41the flags of France, Finland, Thailand, Poland and Indonesia
0:14:41 > 0:14:46all appear if smaller rectangles are drawn in specific positions
0:14:46 > 0:14:47on the flag of which...
0:14:49 > 0:14:52- Norway.- Norway is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:14:56 > 0:14:58Right, here we go, back to the music round now.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00That was one of Rachmaninoff's variations
0:15:00 > 0:15:02on Paganini's 24th caprice.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05For your music bonuses, you're going to hear three more works
0:15:05 > 0:15:08that are variations on themes by other composers.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11This time, however, you'll hear the original work as well.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14For the points, you'll need to give me both composers.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17In each case you'll hear the original work first
0:15:17 > 0:15:19followed by the variation.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21I'll need your two answers in that order, please.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:31 > 0:15:33THEY CONFER
0:15:34 > 0:15:37NEW SONG
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Beethoven and Haydn.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44No, it's Beethoven and Robert Schumann.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46Secondly.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:56 > 0:15:58NEW SONG
0:16:00 > 0:16:02THEY CONFER
0:16:09 > 0:16:12- Liszt and Mozart.- No, Mozart and Liszt.- Mozart and Liszt, sorry.
0:16:12 > 0:16:13No, it's Bellini and Liszt.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15And finally.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:23 > 0:16:24THEY CONFER
0:16:29 > 0:16:31NEW SONG
0:16:33 > 0:16:35THEY CONFER
0:16:38 > 0:16:39Mozart and Chopin.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Correct. APPLAUSE
0:16:41 > 0:16:44Right, we're going to take another starter question now.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48The addition of which two initial letters transforms words
0:16:48 > 0:16:50meaning a high mountain into one meaning
0:16:50 > 0:16:52the outer covering of the skull,
0:16:52 > 0:16:56a generic word for beer into a graduated series
0:16:56 > 0:16:58and a spirit distilled...
0:16:58 > 0:17:00- SC.- Correct.
0:17:05 > 0:17:10You get a set of bonuses on Scotland in the 1690s, Peterhouse.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13In 1696, the Parliament of Scotland passed an act
0:17:13 > 0:17:15that provided for a school in every parish.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18In what year did Forster's Education Act
0:17:18 > 0:17:20make similar provision for England and Wales?
0:17:20 > 0:17:22You can have ten years either way.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Was that 1870, Forster's?
0:17:24 > 0:17:26- Yeah.- Shall I try it?
0:17:26 > 0:17:271870.
0:17:27 > 0:17:28Correct.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32In 1697, the Edinburgh student Thomas Aikenhead
0:17:32 > 0:17:34became the last person to be executed in Britain
0:17:34 > 0:17:35for what offence?
0:17:35 > 0:17:38Its name comes from the Greek for speak profanely
0:17:38 > 0:17:42and until the Reformation, it was generally subsumed into heresy.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44- Blasphemy.- Correct.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46The late 1690s saw the failure of a scheme
0:17:46 > 0:17:50to establish a Scottish colony on the Isthmus of Darien
0:17:50 > 0:17:51close to the border of two present-day
0:17:51 > 0:17:54Latin American countries, please name either one.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56- Panama.- And...?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58- Either one.- Oh, either one?
0:17:58 > 0:17:59Panama.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02The other one's Colombia, of course. Right, ten points for this.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08This Changes Everything, Capitalism Versus The Climate
0:18:08 > 0:18:13is a 2014 work by which Canadian author and social activist?
0:18:13 > 0:18:17Her previous books include The Shock Doctrine and No Logo.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21- Naomi Klein.- Correct.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27Your bonuses are on terms that contain the name
0:18:27 > 0:18:30of the Old Testament figure Onan.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33For example, bonanza and mellisonant.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Don't go there! LAUGHTER
0:18:36 > 0:18:39In each case, give the term from the definition.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Firstly, for five points, a literary term indicating the repetition
0:18:42 > 0:18:47of similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of nearby words.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49It is distinct from full rhyme and alliteration
0:18:49 > 0:18:51in that the consonants differ.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53- Assonance.- Correct.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56In physics, a large amplitude oscillation of a system
0:18:56 > 0:18:58in response to a small driving force.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02In medicine, the same term denotes the intensified sound
0:19:02 > 0:19:05heard during auscultation or percussion of the lungs.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10Resonant.
0:19:10 > 0:19:11- Resonance.- Resonance.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13- Resonance.- Correct.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17Proposed by the US psychologist Leon Festinger in 1957,
0:19:17 > 0:19:20a two-word term denoting the discomfort or aversion
0:19:20 > 0:19:25created by holding inconsistent or conflicting ideas or beliefs.
0:19:25 > 0:19:26Cognitive dissonance.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Correct. Ten points for this starter question.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31Give your answer as soon as your name is called.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34In which European city is the Mother Teresa cathedral
0:19:34 > 0:19:36located on the...
0:19:36 > 0:19:37Tirana.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42..located on the Boulevard Bill Clinton.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44It's the capital of a country recognised by more than 100
0:19:44 > 0:19:47of the UN's 193 member states.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55I'll tell you, it's Pristina, in Kosovo. Ten points for this.
0:19:55 > 0:19:59In plane geometry, what six-letter term describes a polygon
0:19:59 > 0:20:02in which every line segment between two vertices
0:20:02 > 0:20:05remains inside or on the boundary of the polygon
0:20:05 > 0:20:09and in which no interior angle is greater than 180 degrees?
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Simplex.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Anyone like to buzz from St John's?
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Complex.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24- It's convex.- Ah.
0:20:24 > 0:20:25Right, ten points for this.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29The name of what religious concept may be spelt by concatenating words
0:20:29 > 0:20:33meaning a strap attached to the bridle of a horse
0:20:33 > 0:20:37and a commercial flower also know as the clove pink?
0:20:42 > 0:20:44It's reincarnation. Ten points for this.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48The pia mater, the arachnoid mater and...
0:20:48 > 0:20:49The meninges.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Correct. APPLAUSE
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Right, you get bonuses on complex analysis.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01Firstly, for five points, from Greek words meaning whole and form,
0:21:01 > 0:21:04what term denotes a complex function that is differentiable
0:21:04 > 0:21:06at every point of a given open set?
0:21:08 > 0:21:09Homogeneous.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12No, it's a holomorphic function or holomorphism.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16Secondly, what name is commonly given to the holomorphic function
0:21:16 > 0:21:20defined as the infinite sum over all non-negative integers N
0:21:20 > 0:21:23of terms of the form Z to the power of N,
0:21:23 > 0:21:28divided by N factorial where Z is a complex number?
0:21:28 > 0:21:30I've absolutely no idea.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32HE CHUCKLES
0:21:32 > 0:21:33Pass.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Exponential, that is.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38And finally, what is the radius of convergence
0:21:38 > 0:21:42of the exponential function defined on the complex plane?
0:21:42 > 0:21:44- I don't know what that means. - I don't know what that means.
0:21:44 > 0:21:45- Pi, pi. - LAUGHTER
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Pi.
0:21:47 > 0:21:48- No, it's infinity.- Oh, OK.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51Right, we're going to take another picture round now.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54For your picture starter, you're going to see a self-portrait
0:21:54 > 0:21:56by a prominent artistic figure
0:21:56 > 0:21:58and author of three artistic manifestos.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01For ten points, I want the name of the figure
0:22:01 > 0:22:04and the artistic movement that those manifestos define.
0:22:07 > 0:22:08Man Ray and Dadaism.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12No. Anyone want to buzz from Peterhouse?
0:22:16 > 0:22:18No? It's...
0:22:18 > 0:22:20- Man Ray and photo...- No, no.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22It's Andre Breton and surrealism.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23So, picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28"A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine."
0:22:28 > 0:22:31Of which poetical work is this the first line
0:22:31 > 0:22:34of the first stanza of the first canto?
0:22:34 > 0:22:37It was first published in 1590.
0:22:39 > 0:22:40The Faerie Queene.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Yes. APPLAUSE
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Now, you'll recall that we were referring to Andre Breton
0:22:48 > 0:22:50and surrealism earlier.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52He wrote three surrealist manifestos.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Your bonuses are three works of art
0:22:54 > 0:22:57whose creators also wrote manifestos
0:22:57 > 0:23:00that defined early 20th-century artistic movements.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Five points in each case if you can give me the name of the artist
0:23:03 > 0:23:05and the movement.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Firstly, this British artist and the movement.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11This is futurism. Erm...
0:23:11 > 0:23:13A British futurist artist, possibly Henry Moore
0:23:13 > 0:23:15might have dabbled with it.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20I'll try that.
0:23:20 > 0:23:21Henry Moore and futurism.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24No, that's Wyndham Lewis and it's vorticism,
0:23:24 > 0:23:27which while close to futurism, is different.
0:23:27 > 0:23:28Secondly, this Italian artist
0:23:28 > 0:23:32and the movement for which he wrote two technical manifestos.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34This is futurism and...
0:23:34 > 0:23:37- Oh, what's his name?- Is it Mazzini?
0:23:40 > 0:23:41It begins with a Z, doesn't it?
0:23:42 > 0:23:44- Shall we go for Mazzini?- Yeah.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Mazzini and futurism.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48No, it's Boccioni and futurism.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51And finally this French painter and the movement.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56- Georges Braque and cubism. - Nominate Clegg.
0:23:56 > 0:23:57Georges Braque and cubism.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59No, it's Metzinger and cubism.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Right, ten points for this.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Give the name of the member of the British Cabinet who,
0:24:03 > 0:24:07in July 1914, was the counterpart of the Russian, Sazonov,
0:24:07 > 0:24:11the German, von Jagow, and the Austrian, Berchtold?
0:24:13 > 0:24:16- Winston Churchill.- Anyone like to buzz from from Peterhouse?
0:24:16 > 0:24:17Sir Edward Grey.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Sir Edward Grey is correct. APPLAUSE
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Foreign Secretaries.
0:24:23 > 0:24:27OK, your bonuses now are on 1697,
0:24:27 > 0:24:29a good year for British art, apparently.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32Born in London in 1697,
0:24:32 > 0:24:34which artist lobbied parliament for legislation
0:24:34 > 0:24:36to safeguard artists' copyright
0:24:36 > 0:24:41following the many piracies of his series entitled A Harlot's Progress?
0:24:41 > 0:24:44The Engraver's Copyright Act of 1735 is often named after him.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46- Hogarth.- Correct.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50Born in 1697, the 1st Earl of Leicester, Thomas Coke,
0:24:50 > 0:24:54was a noted art collector who built which Palladian mansion in Norfolk?
0:24:54 > 0:24:57His collection is still housed there and it's largely intact.
0:24:57 > 0:24:58- I think it's Holkham Hall.- Yeah.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00- Holkham Hall.- Correct.
0:25:00 > 0:25:06Also born in 1697, which artist lived in England from 1746 to 1755
0:25:06 > 0:25:08and painted many views of the Thames
0:25:08 > 0:25:11although he's primarily associated with Venetian scenes?
0:25:11 > 0:25:12- Canaletto.- Yeah.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- Canaletto.- Canaletto is correct.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Ten points for this starter question.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19What physical quantity can be measured by units including
0:25:19 > 0:25:24the svedberg, shake, lustrum, gigaannus and aeon?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28- Time.- Time is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:25:29 > 0:25:33Your bonuses are on number theory in the 18th century, Peterhouse.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37In 1749, which Swiss mathematician published the first proof
0:25:37 > 0:25:40of Fermat's little theorem or primality test?
0:25:40 > 0:25:41- Gauss - I think it might be.- Yes.
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Gauss.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43No, it was Euler.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46First proposed in a letter to Euler in 1742,
0:25:46 > 0:25:49the unproved conjecture of which German mathematician
0:25:49 > 0:25:52is now usually stated as,
0:25:52 > 0:25:56"every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes"?
0:25:56 > 0:25:57Which one?
0:25:57 > 0:26:01- It's Poincare?- Is he German?- He sounds French though.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03- Well, it's not Riemann, I don't think.- OK.- I don't...
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Poincare.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07No, it's Goldbach's conjecture.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09In 1770, which Italian-French mathematician
0:26:09 > 0:26:12published the first proof of the four-square theorem
0:26:12 > 0:26:15examined by Fermat and others?
0:26:15 > 0:26:17- What nationality was this? - Italian-French.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19- French-Italian?- Poincare?
0:26:19 > 0:26:21- OK.- Let's try again.
0:26:21 > 0:26:22Poincare.
0:26:22 > 0:26:23No, it's Lagrange.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Ten points for this starter question.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28Which composer dedicated his 7th Symphony,
0:26:28 > 0:26:31"To our struggle against fascism, to our coming victory..."
0:26:33 > 0:26:34- Shostakovich.- Correct.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38You get a set of bonuses this time on snakes, St John's.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41An arboreal snake of sub-Saharan Africa,
0:26:41 > 0:26:45the dendroaspis polylepis species has what common name?
0:26:45 > 0:26:49It's noted for its large size, speed and potent venom.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Black mamba, I think.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54- Black mamba.- Correct.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56GONG What word... And at the gong,
0:26:56 > 0:27:00St John's College - Oxford have 30, but Peterhouse - Cambridge have 215.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03APPLAUSE
0:27:08 > 0:27:10You can do much better than that, St John's,
0:27:10 > 0:27:12as we've seen in many a previous match
0:27:12 > 0:27:14but someone's got to win and, Peterhouse,
0:27:14 > 0:27:17that was a storming performance, another storming performance
0:27:17 > 0:27:20from you. Now, to present the trophy, he plays football,
0:27:20 > 0:27:22he plays the trumpet and he knows all there is to be known
0:27:22 > 0:27:24about group theory and number theory.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26He's a bestselling author and professor
0:27:26 > 0:27:28for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford,
0:27:28 > 0:27:30he's Marcus du Sautoy.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39- Hello.- Lovely to see you, thanks for coming.
0:27:41 > 0:27:42Well, then, what do you think?
0:27:42 > 0:27:45I thought it was a phenomenal performance.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47But I'm really impressed by how many maths questions there were.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50- There were an awful lot of maths! - They're probably cursing the fact
0:27:50 > 0:27:53that there's a mathematician giving away the trophy, there were so many.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56- I suppose maths is part of knowledge, isn't it?- Absolutely.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58I was hopping up and down in the back there
0:27:58 > 0:28:00when you were asking all those questions about prime numbers.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03- What, you didn't know the answer? - No, I was bursting to come on
0:28:03 > 0:28:05and go, "2003!"
0:28:05 > 0:28:08Well, look, can I ask you to present the trophy please to our winners
0:28:08 > 0:28:11- Peterhouse - Cambridge? - Well deserved.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13APPLAUSE
0:28:16 > 0:28:18- Well done.- Thanks very much.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21- Thank you.- And we've got the trophy.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25- There you go.- Thanks.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:28:29 > 0:28:31THEY CHAT INDISTINCTLY
0:28:33 > 0:28:35Well, that's it.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37Thanks to all the teams who've entertained us
0:28:37 > 0:28:40over the last several months and thank you for watching.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42I hope you can join us for the next series,
0:28:42 > 0:28:45but until then, it's goodbye from us
0:28:45 > 0:28:48and from tonight's winners, Peterhouse - Cambridge. Goodbye.