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University Challenge. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:20 | |
Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
Hello. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:29 | |
The 2016-2017 University Challenge begins tonight as we meet | 0:00:29 | 0:00:34 | |
the first two of the 28 teams who will be entertaining us | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
over the coming months. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:39 | |
They will be drawn from all over the world, Salford to Sichuan, | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
studying everything from the Vikings to new ways of X-raying cheese. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:47 | |
They'll all be here to fight for the honour of their university or | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
university college | 0:00:50 | 0:00:51 | |
and for the right to call themselves series champions. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
Now, one of the original red bricks, Sheffield University was | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
founded by Edward VII and now has around 27,000 students. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:02 | |
Among those who studied there are the novelists Lee Child | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
and Hilary Mantel, the Olympian Jessica Ennis-Hill, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
the Nobel laureate Sir Harry Kroto | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
and the politician David Blunkett, who now holds a professorship there. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
Scarcely less distinguished than the four who took Sheffield to | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
the final match of our last Christmas series for alumni. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
Let's see if tonight's team of students, | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
with an average age of 23, can do as well or maybe even better. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:28 | |
Hi, I'm Amy Fedeski, I'm from Solihull, | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
and I'm studying history and politics. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
Hello, I'm Jack Lewis, I'm from Sheffield and I'm studying biology. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
-And here's their captain. -Hello, I'm Edward Pemberton, | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
I'm originally from Stroud in Gloucestershire | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
and I'm studying economics and politics. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
Hi, I'm Ben Cotton, and from Haworth, West Yorkshire, | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
and I'm studying physics and astrophysics. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
Playing them, the University of Bristol. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
It received its Royal Charter in 1909 after endowments | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
from the Wills and Fry families and now has around 21,000 students. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:02 | |
Alumni include the writer and creator of The Gruffalo, | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
Julia Donaldson, the performers Matt Lucas, David Walliams | 0:02:05 | 0:02:09 | |
and Simon Pegg and the novelist David Nicholls, | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
who fictionalised his experiences there in the catchily titled novel | 0:02:11 | 0:02:16 | |
Starter for Ten. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:17 | |
Bristol crashed out of the last series in the first round, | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
so hoping to improve on that and with an average age of 24, | 0:02:20 | 0:02:24 | |
let's meet the Bristol team. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
Hi, I'm Joe Rolleston, I'm from Tamworth in Staffordshire | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
and I'm training to teach history. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
Hi, I'm Claire Jackson, I'm from Carshalton in south-west London, | 0:02:31 | 0:02:35 | |
and I'm studying for an MSci in palaeontology and evolution. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
And their captain. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
Hi, I'm Alice Clarke, I'm from Oxford and I study medicine. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
Hi, I'm Michael Tomsett, I'm from Hinckley in Leicestershire | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
and I'm doing a PhD in organic chemistry. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
Well, you all know the rules. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:54 | |
I'll just remind you of the significant danger that | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
if you interrupt a starter question incorrectly, | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
you lose the five points automatically. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
So fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
Meanings of what four-letter word include the excrement | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
of an earthworm, a rigid casing immobilising a broken bone...? | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
-Cast. -Cast is correct, yes. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
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You get the first bonuses, Bristol, they're on novels. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
Dorothy Hare is the title character of which early | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
novel by George Orwell? | 0:03:25 | 0:03:27 | |
First published in 1935. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 | |
Is it The Clergyman's Daughter? | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
The Clergyman's Daughter? | 0:03:33 | 0:03:34 | |
A Clergyman's Daughter is correct. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
"What business had she, a renegade clergyman's daughter, | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 | |
"to turn up her nose at you?" | 0:03:40 | 0:03:42 | |
In which novel of 1855 does Mrs Thornton speak those words | 0:03:42 | 0:03:47 | |
referring to Margaret Hale? | 0:03:47 | 0:03:48 | |
Is it Hardy? | 0:03:56 | 0:03:57 | |
Hale... | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
-Mayor of Casterbridge something? -Mayor of Casterbridge? | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
No, it's North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
And finally, "What vile creatures her parsons are." | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
These words of the theologian John Henry Newman refer to | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
the novels of which clergyman's daughter who was born in 1775? | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
-Must be Austen. Jane Austen. -Jane Austen. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:19 | |
Correct. Right, ten points for this starter question. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
"but sacred scripture tells us | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
"that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still and..." | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
-Galileo. -I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
"..commanded the sun to stand still and not the earth." | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
These words of Martin Luther refer to which astronomer | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
born in Torun...? | 0:04:41 | 0:04:42 | |
-Copernicus. -Copernicus is correct, yes. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
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These bonuses are on life sciences, Sheffield. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
From the Greek for turning, what seven-letter term denotes the response or orientation | 0:04:53 | 0:04:57 | |
of a plant or lower animal to an environmental stimulus? | 0:04:57 | 0:05:01 | |
-Maybe something like trophism? -Trophism? | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
No, it's tro-pism. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
Secondly, the tap-root systems of carrots and beets grow vertically | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
downwards and are positive examples of what form of tropism? | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
Water, so would you say like | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
hydrophilic maybe? | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
Hydrophilic? Hydrophilic. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:31 | |
No, it's geotropism. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
And, finally, geotropism can mask another form of tropism, | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
that of directed growth in response to water or moisture gradients. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
What name is given to that form of tropism? | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
-Try it. -Yeah, I'd say hydro...tropism maybe. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
Hydrotropism? | 0:05:48 | 0:05:49 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
Demoiselle, wattled, whooping, red-crowned and white... | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
Turkey. | 0:05:58 | 0:05:59 | |
No, I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
..and white-naped are among the species of which long-legged | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
wading bird of the family gruidae? | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
It's a favourite subject of Japanese origami. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
Flamingo. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:13 | |
No, it's a crane. Ten points for this. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
From the title of a novel by Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain, | 0:06:16 | 0:06:20 | |
what term reflects a time of rapid corporate expansion, | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
urban growth and social...? | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
-The gilded age. -Correct. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
So you get a set of bonuses on the study of community. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
Firstly, for five points, in 1916, | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
the US social reformer LJ Hanifan popularised what two-word term | 0:06:39 | 0:06:44 | |
to describe intangibles such as good will, fellowship and sympathy? | 0:06:44 | 0:06:49 | |
-I think social capital. Do you think? -Yeah. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
-Social capital? -Correct. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:54 | |
The political scientist Robert D Putnam described | 0:06:54 | 0:06:58 | |
the decay of social capital in US society in an essay of 1995, | 0:06:58 | 0:07:03 | |
its title referring to what recreational activity being | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
conducted alone? | 0:07:06 | 0:07:08 | |
-Bowling. -Correct, tenpin bowling. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
In 1996, Putnam established a seminar initiative at Harvard | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
named after which cactus, native to Arizona, California | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
and north Mexico, on the basis that both, quote, | 0:07:17 | 0:07:21 | |
"Take a long time to develop and then serve lots of unexpected purposes"? | 0:07:21 | 0:07:27 | |
I don't know any cactuses. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
-The Joshua tree? Joshua tree? Joshua tree. -No, it's saguarp. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:34 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:35 | |
Often used colloquially as a term of affection or approbation, | 0:07:35 | 0:07:40 | |
what term is formed by concatenating to the chemical symbols of | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
the alkaline earth metals that appear in the periodic table | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
below strontium and above magnesium? | 0:07:46 | 0:07:49 | |
-Babe. -Babe is correct, yes, it's barium and beryllium, of course. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:01 | |
Well done. APPLAUSE | 0:08:01 | 0:08:03 | |
Took a while but you got there. Your bonuses are on icebergs, Bristol. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:08 | |
What name is given to the process by which large pieces of ice | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
-become detached from glaciers or ice shelves to form icebergs? -Carving. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:16 | |
-Carving. -Carving. -Carving is correct. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:20 | |
Often formed from larger icebergs, what two-word term denotes | 0:08:20 | 0:08:24 | |
smaller ice pieces still visible on the surface of the sea? | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
They are usually between one and five metres high. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:31 | |
Probably ice flow? Do you think? | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
Yeah, when they're little pieces floating through. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
-I would go with that. -Ice flow. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
No, they're called Bergy Bits, apparently. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
And, finally, what name is given to even smaller iceberg remnants | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
that are usually less than a metre high and are often almost | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
completely submerged below the surface of the sea? | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
They share their name with that of the village constable | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
in the Rupert the Bear stories. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
-What's he called? -No idea. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:58 | |
Pass. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:02 | |
They're Growlers. We're going to take a picture round. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:05 | |
For your picture starter, you'll see a map of London showing | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
the locations of the London Underground stations | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
of a particular line. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:12 | |
Ten points if you can identify the line. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:14 | |
-Jubilee line. -It is the Jubilee line, yes. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
So for your picture bonuses, you're going to see | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
the locations of the stations of three more London Underground lines. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
Five points for each you can identify. Firstly. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
-Victoria. -Victoria. -Victoria Line. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:39 | |
That's right. Secondly. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
-Is that Northern? -Central, isn't it? | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
It's not the Central cos the Central goes out of London. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:47 | |
-That's Hammersmith and City. -Hammersmith and City? | 0:09:47 | 0:09:51 | |
Correct. And, finally. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:52 | |
The Circle. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:56 | |
It is the Circle line, yes. A bit of a giveaway that. | 0:09:56 | 0:09:59 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
Right, you've taken the lead | 0:10:01 | 0:10:02 | |
and another starter question now for ten points. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
In humans, what is the largest of the three pairs of major | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
glands producing saliva? | 0:10:08 | 0:10:10 | |
Its serous secretions are transported to the oral cavity | 0:10:10 | 0:10:12 | |
by Stensen's duct... | 0:10:12 | 0:10:16 | |
Submandibular? | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
No, I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:19 | |
..which opens in the rear of the mouth cavity | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
near the second upper molar? | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
The parotid gland. Ten points for this. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
The Organisation of African Unity, now superseded by the African Union, | 0:10:33 | 0:10:37 | |
was founded in 1963 | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
in which capital? One of Africa's most popular cities, | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
its country has been landlocked since 1993. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
Kinshasa? | 0:10:50 | 0:10:52 | |
Anyone like to buzz from Bristol? | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
-Kampala? -No, it's Addis Ababa. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:58 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:00 | |
Probably alluding to a work by Thomas More, | 0:11:00 | 0:11:02 | |
what term did John Stuart Mill coin in 1868 in | 0:11:02 | 0:11:06 | |
a denunciation of the British government's Irish Land Policy? | 0:11:06 | 0:11:10 | |
It has come to be associated with fiction by writers including | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
Anthony Burgess, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
-Dystopia. -Dystopia is correct, yes. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:19 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
Your bonuses, Bristol, are on eclectic architecture. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:26 | |
Firstly, designed by Joseph Poelaert in the late 19th century | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
in a style variously described as eclectic and neoclassical | 0:11:29 | 0:11:33 | |
and Assyro-Babylonian, | 0:11:33 | 0:11:35 | |
the Palais de Justice is a noted landmark in which European capital? | 0:11:35 | 0:11:41 | |
French-speaking. Paris or Brussels. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
-Brussels? I was thinking Brussels. -No, it is in Brussels. I've seen it. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:47 | |
-Brussels. -Brussels is correct. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:50 | |
"Rococo/late Baroque in design with eclectic elements of Art Deco | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
"and Egyptian Revival, with ivory, jade | 0:11:53 | 0:11:56 | |
"and caramel-coloured marble throughout." | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
These words appear in the Wikipedia entry for which shopping centre? | 0:11:59 | 0:12:03 | |
The UK's second-largest by retail size. It opened in 1998. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:08 | |
Is that the Trafford Centre? | 0:12:08 | 0:12:09 | |
-Old Trafford centre. -Trafford Centre's got that style to it. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:12 | |
-Yeah, go with it. -The Trafford Centre? | 0:12:12 | 0:12:14 | |
It is the Trafford Centre. It's just outside there. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:16 | |
Often cited as an example of eclectic architecture, | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
which basilica in Barcelona has remained unfinished | 0:12:19 | 0:12:23 | |
since the death of its architect in 1926? | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
-The Sagrada Familia. -Correct. Ten points for this. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:12:29 | 0:12:31 | |
Fingers on the buzzers. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:33 | |
A mahogany tree and two woodcutters appear on the national | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
flag of which country of the mainland Americas? | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
A little larger than Wales... | 0:12:38 | 0:12:40 | |
-Belize. -Belize is correct. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:44 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
These bonuses are on John Dryden, Bristol. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
Dryden's 1667 poem Annus Mirabilis celebrates | 0:12:49 | 0:12:54 | |
the recovery from the Great Fire of London | 0:12:54 | 0:12:56 | |
and victories over the naval forces of which country? | 0:12:56 | 0:12:59 | |
-The Netherlands. -Yeah, it must be. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:01 | |
-Yeah. The Netherlands. -Correct. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:03 | |
Which 1672 comedy by Dryden shares its name with a series of pictures | 0:13:03 | 0:13:08 | |
by William Hogarth depicting a disastrous marital relationship? | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
-Is that not The Rake's Progress? -The Rake's Progress? | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
-No, it's Marriage a la Mode. -Oh, sorry. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
And, finally, Dryden's tragedy All For Love is based | 0:13:18 | 0:13:21 | |
on which of Shakespeare's plays, named after its hero and heroine? | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
Both are historical figures. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:26 | |
-Anthony and Cleopatra. -Correct. Another starter question. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:30 | |
"With the help of unremitting labour, | 0:13:30 | 0:13:31 | |
"you shall receive Mozart's spirit from Hayden's hands." | 0:13:31 | 0:13:35 | |
These words appear in an album of the early 1790s dedicated to | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
which composer born in Bonn in... | 0:13:38 | 0:13:40 | |
-Ludwig van Beethoven. -Correct. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:46 | |
So you've got a set of bonuses, Sheffield. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
They are on words made by adding a single letter to | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
the end of a scientific term. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:54 | |
For example, plane and planet. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
In each case, give both words from the definitions. | 0:13:57 | 0:14:00 | |
Firstly, an element obtained from magnetite or haematite | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
and a literary device that can be dramatic or situational. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:08 | |
-Iron and irony. -Correct. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:10 | |
Secondly, in the plural, geological subdivisions such as the Cenozoic | 0:14:10 | 0:14:14 | |
and the Mesozoic and to obliterate from the mind or memory. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:18 | |
-Eras and erase. -Correct. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:23 | |
And, finally, the SI unit of electrical potential | 0:14:23 | 0:14:26 | |
and a major river in West Africa. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:28 | |
Volt and...is it Volta? Would it be? | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
West Africa? Erm, yeah, go for that. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:34 | |
Volt and Volta. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:35 | |
Correct, well done. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:37 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:14:37 | 0:14:38 | |
Time for a music round. We're going to hear a music starter, | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
you'll hear an excerpt from a piece of popular music. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
Ten points if you can identify the band playing. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
# There's no point in asking...# | 0:14:51 | 0:14:53 | |
-The Sex Pistols. -It is the Sex Pistols, yes. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:14:56 | 0:14:57 | |
On 4th June 1976, the Sex Pistols played at | 0:14:59 | 0:15:03 | |
Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall, a performance | 0:15:03 | 0:15:05 | |
that has since taken on an almost mythical status as a catalyst | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
for Manchester's punk and post-punk music scene. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:12 | |
For your music bonuses, you're going to hear songs by three bands, | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
some of whose members say that they were at that gig. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:18 | |
Five points for each band you can identify. Firstly. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:21 | |
# You spurn my natural emotions | 0:15:21 | 0:15:24 | |
# You make me feel I'm dirt | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
# And I'm hurt... # | 0:15:26 | 0:15:27 | |
-The Buzzcocks? -Correct. Secondly... | 0:15:27 | 0:15:29 | |
# Hit the North! # | 0:15:37 | 0:15:38 | |
The Fall. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:39 | |
That's correct, and finally. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:42 | |
# Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to the radio | 0:15:42 | 0:15:47 | |
# Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance... # | 0:15:47 | 0:15:50 | |
-Joy Division. -That's right, well done. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
10 points for this. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
Calcareous and siliceous | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
are subtypes of what deep sea deposit, composed of soft mud | 0:15:58 | 0:16:02 | |
and fragments of microorganisms? | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
In everyday speech, the same word is used to denote | 0:16:04 | 0:16:08 | |
the slow gradual seeping of a fluid. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
Ooze. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:13 | |
Ooze is right, yes. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
Your bonuses, Bristol, are on rivers of France. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:21 | |
Which tributary of the Garonne shares its name | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
with a figure in the book of Genesis | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
whose wife is turned into a pillar of salt? | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
-Lot. -Correct. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:30 | |
Which tributary of the Seine has a name that is also the French | 0:16:30 | 0:16:34 | |
for dawn or daybreak? | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
-We don't know. -It's Aube. And finally, the city of Angers | 0:16:45 | 0:16:49 | |
is on watch tributary of the Loire? | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
It shares its name with the former region of Massachusetts | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
that attained statehood in 1820. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
-Rhode? -No, it's Maine. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
10 points for this. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:10 | |
Kangchenjunga's main peak is the highest point in which country? | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
More than 8,500 metres in height, | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
it is the world's third-highest mountain. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
-India. -Correct. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
Your bonuses are on essential amino acids. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
Found in almost all proteins and the simplest of the amino acids, | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
aminoethanoic acid is otherwise known by what name? | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
-Glycine. -Correct. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
Which hydroxylic essential amino acid differs from serine by having | 0:17:40 | 0:17:45 | |
a methyl substituent in place of one of the hydrogens on the beta carbon? | 0:17:45 | 0:17:49 | |
Threonine. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:50 | |
-Threonine. -Correct. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
Which aliphatic essential amino acid differs from threonine | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
by replacement of the hydroxyl group with a methyl substituent? | 0:17:56 | 0:18:01 | |
Valine. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:05 | |
Valine. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:07 | |
Correct. 10 points for this. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:10 | |
The Provisions of Oxford was a plan of reform | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
during the reign of which English King? | 0:18:13 | 0:18:17 | |
Henry III? | 0:18:17 | 0:18:18 | |
Henry III is right. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:20 | |
These bonuses are on the British screenwriters Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:25 | |
Launder and Gilliat wrote the screenplay for which 1938 film | 0:18:25 | 0:18:29 | |
directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starting Margaret Lockwood? | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
Psycho and Birds came later... | 0:18:44 | 0:18:46 | |
Birds. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:50 | |
No, it's The Lady Vanishes. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:52 | |
Secondly, Launder and Gilliat wrote the screenplay | 0:18:52 | 0:18:55 | |
for Night Train to Munich, also starring Margaret Lockwood, | 0:18:55 | 0:18:59 | |
and made by which director whose other films include | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
The Stars Look Down and The Third Man? | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
-That's Orson Welles. -Orson Welles. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:07 | |
No, it was Carol Reed. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:09 | |
He's in it, sorry! | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
From the early 1950s, Launder and Gilliat worked on a series of films | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
about which fictional girls' school created by Ronald Searle? | 0:19:14 | 0:19:18 | |
-St Trinian's. -St Trinian's. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
Yes. 10 points for this. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:22 | |
Which US sociologist gives his name to a 10 item scale... | 0:19:22 | 0:19:26 | |
-Maslow. -You lose five points. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:30 | |
..developed during the 1960s that acts as a self-report instrument | 0:19:30 | 0:19:35 | |
for evaluating self-esteem? | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
Any of you going to buzz from Sheffield? | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
It's Morris Rosenberg. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
10 points for this. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:47 | |
What Greek derived term is applied to diseases | 0:19:47 | 0:19:49 | |
that are habitually present in a certain locality? | 0:19:49 | 0:19:52 | |
-Endemic. -Endemic is right. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:56 | |
Get these bonuses, you go past 100, they're on Islamic history. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:03 | |
Firstly, ruled by the first four successors of the Prophet Muhammad, | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
the Rashidun Caliphate was established | 0:20:07 | 0:20:10 | |
during which century of the common era? | 0:20:10 | 0:20:12 | |
Ninth maybe? | 0:20:15 | 0:20:16 | |
-Ninth century. -It was the seventh century. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
Which dynasty overthrew the Rashidun Caliphate in 661? | 0:20:22 | 0:20:26 | |
Its armies later captured much of north-western Africa, Spain and central Asia. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:30 | |
Nominate Cotton. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:37 | |
-Umayyad. -Correct. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:39 | |
The Abbasid Dynasty overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate in 750 | 0:20:39 | 0:20:43 | |
and established its capital at which city in the Middle East? | 0:20:43 | 0:20:47 | |
Damascus. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:48 | |
No, it was Baghdad. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
We're going to take a picture round again now. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
For your picture starter, | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
you'll see a photograph of an English cathedral. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
10 points if you can tell me the city in which you would find this cathedral. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
Liverpool. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:03 | |
It is the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, you are right. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
The Gothic revival cathedral was one of the earliest designs | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
of the architect Giles Gilbert Scott, | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
commissioned in 1903 when he was just 22. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
Your picture bonuses show three more of Scott's notable works, | 0:21:16 | 0:21:19 | |
five points for each you can identify. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
Firstly, which of the Thames bridges is this? | 0:21:22 | 0:21:25 | |
-London Bridge. -Is that just London Bridge? | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
-A boring bridge. -I think it is London Bridge. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
-London Bridge. -It's Waterloo Bridge. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
Secondly, this building is part of which university? | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
-Cambridge. -Yes, the university library there, and finally... | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
Is that the Tate Modern? | 0:21:52 | 0:21:56 | |
-The Tate Modern. -You're quite right, it is Tate Modern. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
10 points for this, "the other side of appearance" | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
is a phrase associated with which artist and sculptor | 0:22:03 | 0:22:07 | |
born in London in 1950? | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
His works include Another Place and Event Horizon. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:13 | |
-Antony Gormley. -Correct. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
Your bonuses are on human anatomy, Sheffield. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
What is the Latin name for the shoulder blade? | 0:22:24 | 0:22:27 | |
Scapula? | 0:22:30 | 0:22:31 | |
-Scapula. -Correct. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:33 | |
Which bone articulates with the glenoid cavity of the scapula? | 0:22:33 | 0:22:37 | |
Tibia? | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
-Tibia? -No, it is the humerus. | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
Which bone articulates with the trochlea of the humerus? | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
-Ulna. -Ulna. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
-Ulna. -Correct, 10 points for this. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:04 | |
During the early Roman Empire, in which European peninsula | 0:23:04 | 0:23:08 | |
did Baetica, Tarraconensis and Lusitania become... | 0:23:08 | 0:23:12 | |
-Iberia. -Iberia is right. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
These bonuses are on an opera, | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
there's only just over four minutes to go. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:22 | |
In each case, name the French composer whose works include the following. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:26 | |
First, The Fair Maid Of Perth, Ivan IV and Don Procopio? | 0:23:26 | 0:23:30 | |
Pass. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
That's Bizet. Second, Christophe Colomb, | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
Bolivar and La Mere Coupable? | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
-French - Debussy? -Debussy? | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
That's Darius Milhaud. And finally, | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
Benvenuto Cellini, Beatrice And Benedict, | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
and Les Troyens? | 0:23:47 | 0:23:48 | |
-Debussy? -Say it again. -Debussy. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:51 | |
No, that's Berlioz. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:52 | |
10 points for this. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:54 | |
The chromoprotein rhodopsin | 0:23:54 | 0:23:56 | |
is found in which organ? | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
The eye. | 0:23:58 | 0:23:59 | |
The eye is correct. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:00 | |
You get a set of bonuses this time on an Australian cricket ground. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:04 | |
In which city is the test cricket ground known by the acronym WACA - | 0:24:04 | 0:24:08 | |
-W-A-C-A? -Perth. -Perth. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:10 | |
Perth is correct. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
Which Australian fast bowler has taken the most test wickets | 0:24:12 | 0:24:15 | |
at the WACA? He made his test debut there in 1993. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:18 | |
-I'd say Brett Lee or Glenn McGrath. -Glenn McGrath. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:21 | |
-Nominate Jackson. -Glenn McGrath. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:23 | |
Glenn McGrath is correct. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:25 | |
Which Australian captain has made the most test runs at the WACA? | 0:24:25 | 0:24:29 | |
He retired in 2012. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:30 | |
-Ponting. Is it? -Yeah. -Nominate Jackson. -Ricky Ponting. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:34 | |
Correct. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:36 | |
10 points for this. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:38 | |
Sir Thomas Browne is generally credited with coining what word | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
in 1646 to describe a fundamental form of energy | 0:24:41 | 0:24:45 | |
that results from the interaction of charged particles? | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
Force. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:52 | |
No. Anyone like to buzz from Sheffield? Quickly. | 0:24:52 | 0:24:54 | |
Potential. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:56 | |
No, it's electricity. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:58 | |
10 points for this. Slightly larger than Norfolk, Lake Vanern | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
is the largest freshwater lake in the European Union | 0:25:01 | 0:25:05 | |
and is located in the west of which country? | 0:25:05 | 0:25:08 | |
Norway. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
No... | 0:25:10 | 0:25:12 | |
Bristol? | 0:25:12 | 0:25:13 | |
Finland. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:15 | |
No, it's Sweden. 10 points for this starter question. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:18 | |
Variants of what five-letter name link a novel of 1845 | 0:25:18 | 0:25:22 | |
by Benjamin Disraeli, Aeneas's guide in the underworld, | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
and Dorian Gray's ill-fated lover in the novel... | 0:25:25 | 0:25:29 | |
Sybil. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:31 | |
Sybil is correct. But next time you buzz you must answer straight away. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
OK? Your bonuses are on philosophy in the early 20th century. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:38 | |
Positing a direct dialogue between the individual and God, | 0:25:38 | 0:25:41 | |
the 1923 essay I And Thou is a work by which German philosopher? | 0:25:41 | 0:25:47 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:25:52 | 0:25:54 | |
-I think we need an answer, please. -We don't know. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
It's Martin Buber. In the 1907 work Creative Evolution, | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
which French philosopher put forward the principle | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
of elan vital, or the vital impulse? | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:09 | |
-We need an answer. -We don't know. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
That's Bergson. And finally, Bertrand Russell | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
and Alfred North Whitehead sought to formalise mathematical logic | 0:26:19 | 0:26:22 | |
in which three-volume work completed in 1913? | 0:26:22 | 0:26:26 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
I think that one is... Is it Principia? Do you know that one? | 0:26:32 | 0:26:35 | |
I don't know which it is. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:37 | |
-Principia. -Specifically? | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
Mathematico Philosophicus... No, that's... | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
Nominate. Quick. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:43 | |
Nominate Rolleston. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:45 | |
Tartus...Mathematicus... | 0:26:45 | 0:26:46 | |
No, it's Principia Mathematica. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:48 | |
That's not precise enough. 10 points for this. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
The Medina of Sousse | 0:26:51 | 0:26:52 | |
and the archaeological site of Carthage | 0:26:52 | 0:26:54 | |
are among the World Heritage Sites in... | 0:26:54 | 0:26:57 | |
Tunisia. | 0:26:57 | 0:26:58 | |
Correct. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:00 | |
Your bonuses are on words from the Nahuatl, or Aztec language. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:04 | |
In each case, give the English word from the definition. Firstly, | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
an alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented sap | 0:27:07 | 0:27:11 | |
of an agave plant of Oaxaca region? | 0:27:11 | 0:27:13 | |
-Tequila. -Tequila. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:14 | |
-No, it's mescal. -Oh! | 0:27:14 | 0:27:16 | |
Secondly, Salvia hispanica, a food grain rich in omega 3 fatty acids? | 0:27:16 | 0:27:21 | |
That's avocado. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
No, a grain. Quinoa. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
No, it's chia. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
And lastly, Canis latrans, a New World carnivore, | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
also known as the prairie wolf? | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
Coyote. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:35 | |
Coyote is correct. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:36 | |
10 points for this. Who wrote the play Left-Handed Liberty, | 0:27:36 | 0:27:40 | |
commissioned in 1965 | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
to mark the 750th anniversary of the Magna Carta? | 0:27:42 | 0:27:44 | |
His other works include Armstrong's Last Goodnight | 0:27:44 | 0:27:48 | |
and Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:50 | |
Harold Pinter. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:53 | |
GONG No, it was John Arden. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:56 | |
At the gong, Sheffield have 130, | 0:27:56 | 0:27:58 | |
Bristol University have 210. | 0:27:58 | 0:28:00 | |
You never really seemed to get into your stride, Sheffield. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:03 | |
I don't know why. Maybe the questions just didn't fall right. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:07 | |
Sometimes it's like that. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:08 | |
Anyway, congratulations to you, Bristol. That's a terrific score, | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
210. We shall look forward to seeing you in round two. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
Thank you for joining us. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
I hope you can be with us next time for another first-round match, | 0:28:15 | 0:28:18 | |
but until then, | 0:28:18 | 0:28:19 | |
-it's goodbye from Sheffield University... ALL: -Goodbye. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
-..it's goodbye from Bristol University... ALL: -Goodbye. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:25 | |
..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:26 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:28:26 | 0:28:29 |