0:00:18 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:20 > 0:00:23University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:30 > 0:00:35Hello. We're hoping to see fireworks tonight rather than damp squibs
0:00:35 > 0:00:38as we ignite the student mind with some pretty tough questions
0:00:38 > 0:00:40about pretty much everything.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42At stake is a place in the second round.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45Queen's University Belfast traces its origins
0:00:45 > 0:00:48to the early 19th century and an initiative
0:00:48 > 0:00:52to provide higher education for Catholics and Presbyterians
0:00:52 > 0:00:54as a counterpart to Trinity College, Dublin,
0:00:54 > 0:00:57which was then an Anglican institution.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59Alumni include the actor Stephen Rea,
0:00:59 > 0:01:00the comedian Patrick Kielty,
0:01:00 > 0:01:03the poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney
0:01:03 > 0:01:06and the former Irish president Mary McAleese.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Queen's made it to the second round of the last series,
0:01:09 > 0:01:12so tonight's four will no doubt be hoping to replicate
0:01:12 > 0:01:14and improve upon that performance.
0:01:14 > 0:01:19Representing around 24,000 students and with an average age of 24,
0:01:19 > 0:01:21let's meet the Queen's Belfast team.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Hello, I'm Padraig Regan,
0:01:23 > 0:01:26I'm from Belfast and I'm studying a PhD in poetry.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm Caitlin Newby, I'm from Los Angeles, California,
0:01:31 > 0:01:33and I am also studying for a PhD in poetry.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35And this is their captain.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Hi, I'm Stuart Mathieson, I'm from Belfast
0:01:37 > 0:01:41and I'm studying a PhD in modern history.
0:01:41 > 0:01:42Hello, I'm Enda Doherty,
0:01:42 > 0:01:46I'm from Strabane in County Tyrone and I study finance.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49APPLAUSE
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Playing them, the team from the University of Birmingham,
0:01:52 > 0:01:56which was one of the first redbrick or civic universities.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59It received its royal charter in 1900
0:01:59 > 0:02:02and now has around 34,000 students.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06Alumni include the comedy performers Victoria Wood and Chris Addison,
0:02:06 > 0:02:09the broadcaster Chris Tarrant, the actress Tamsin Greig
0:02:09 > 0:02:12and the enigma that is Ann Widdecombe.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Birmingham has made numerous appearances
0:02:14 > 0:02:16in this competition in the past,
0:02:16 > 0:02:18but the trophy has always eluded them.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20With an average age of 29,
0:02:20 > 0:02:23let's meet the four hoping to change that.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25Hello, my name's Eliot Jan-Smith,
0:02:25 > 0:02:27I'm from Derby and I'm studying chemistry.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31Hello, my name's Fraser Sutherland, I come from Edinburgh
0:02:31 > 0:02:33and I study history. And this is their captain.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Hello, I'm George Greenlees, I'm originally from Plymouth
0:02:35 > 0:02:37and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40Hi, I'm Chris Rouse, I'm from Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire
0:02:40 > 0:02:42and I study history and politics.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45APPLAUSE
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Well, the rules are the same as ever.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Starter questions are worth ten points.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51They're solo efforts on the buzzer,
0:02:51 > 0:02:53and bonuses are team efforts - you can collaborate.
0:02:53 > 0:02:54They're worth 15.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Formed in 1934, which political party
0:03:00 > 0:03:04won its first parliamentary seat in a by-election of 1945,
0:03:04 > 0:03:08only to lose it three months later in the general election?
0:03:08 > 0:03:10It has had continuous...
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Is it the UK Communist Party?
0:03:12 > 0:03:14No, you lose five points.
0:03:14 > 0:03:19It has had continuous representation in Parliament since 1967,
0:03:19 > 0:03:21following the election of Winnie Ewing,
0:03:21 > 0:03:23who later became party president.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29The Scottish Nationalist Party.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Scottish National Party is correct, yes. The SNP.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33APPLAUSE
0:03:33 > 0:03:38Your bonuses are on vandalism and the arts, Queen's.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42After its toe was attacked by a hammer in 1991,
0:03:42 > 0:03:45scientists were able to determine the precise origin
0:03:45 > 0:03:49of the marble block used nearly 500 years earlier
0:03:49 > 0:03:53to create which statue in Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia?
0:03:53 > 0:03:55It's Michelangelo's David.
0:03:55 > 0:03:56Correct.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00Sculpted by Edvard Eriksen and first unveiled in 1913,
0:04:00 > 0:04:04which statue has, over the years, twice lost its head,
0:04:04 > 0:04:08had an arm sawn off and had paint thrown over it?
0:04:10 > 0:04:14Perhaps... What's the...? Oliver Cromwell? Maybe.
0:04:14 > 0:04:19Or what about the statue in Piccadilly Circus? Eros? Yeah.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23Or is that...? I don't...
0:04:23 > 0:04:24Cromwell? Eros? OK, we'll try...
0:04:24 > 0:04:25Eros.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28No, it's the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32And finally, a controversial work by which Indian-born British sculptor
0:04:32 > 0:04:35was vandalised during its display in 2015
0:04:35 > 0:04:38in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles?
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Anish Kapoor.
0:04:40 > 0:04:41Anish Kapoor?
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Correct. APPLAUSE
0:04:43 > 0:04:46We're going to take another starter question now.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50Abigail, Barney, Clodagh, Desmond and Eva...?
0:04:51 > 0:04:54They're all storms of 2015/16.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58That is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:04:58 > 0:05:01You get a set of bonuses on Wikipedia, Birmingham.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Ahead of German and Dutch,
0:05:03 > 0:05:06which language has the largest number
0:05:06 > 0:05:09of Wikipedia articles after English?
0:05:09 > 0:05:12It has around 8 million speakers, mainly in Northern Europe.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14French? French.
0:05:14 > 0:05:15French.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17No, it's Swedish.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Secondly, the large number of articles on Swedish Wikipedia
0:05:20 > 0:05:23is due to the use of an automated piece of software
0:05:23 > 0:05:26that compiles data from various sources into articles.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30What three-letter term denotes such an application?
0:05:35 > 0:05:37No idea. DCM.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39No, it's a bot.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42Cebuano and Waray-Waray are languages
0:05:42 > 0:05:46that use the same bot as Swedish to create articles.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50Both now appear in the top ten by number of Wikipedia articles.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54In which country do those languages have regional status?
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Papua New Guinea, maybe, or something like that?
0:05:56 > 0:05:58BOTH: I don't know.
0:05:58 > 0:05:59Papua New Guinea.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01No, it's the Philippines.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Ten points for this. Oriental and German
0:06:03 > 0:06:06are the two main British species
0:06:06 > 0:06:09of which insect known to contaminate food?
0:06:09 > 0:06:12They thrive in large, centrally heated buildings
0:06:12 > 0:06:15such as hospitals and bakeries
0:06:15 > 0:06:17and are characterised by whip-like antennae,
0:06:17 > 0:06:20a broad, flattened body and leathery forewings.
0:06:22 > 0:06:23Cockroaches.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25Yes. APPLAUSE
0:06:27 > 0:06:31These bonuses are on an international award, Queen's.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35Born in 1863, which professor at the University of Toronto
0:06:35 > 0:06:38gave his name to the award known officially as
0:06:38 > 0:06:42the international medal for outstanding discoveries in mathematics?
0:06:42 > 0:06:46Is that the Fields Medal? Somebody Fields?
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Fields? Any idea? No?
0:06:48 > 0:06:49Fields.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51It was Fields, yes. John Charles Fields.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani
0:06:54 > 0:06:57became the first female winner of the Fields Medal.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00The award cited her work on the geometry of which surfaces
0:07:00 > 0:07:04named after a 19th-century German mathematician?
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Is that maybe a Mobius strip? Could be.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08The Mobius strip.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10No, they're Riemann surfaces.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14And finally, the Fields Medal is awarded every four years
0:07:14 > 0:07:16to mathematicians under what age
0:07:16 > 0:07:18on January the 1st of the year of the award?
0:07:18 > 0:07:2040. 40.
0:07:20 > 0:07:2240 is correct, yes.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25APPLAUSE I'd be happy enough with 40.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Right, you get a set now of picture questions.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Your picture starter is a map of the Mediterranean.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33For ten points, I want you to identify
0:07:33 > 0:07:36the ancient port that's marked there.
0:07:40 > 0:07:41Tyre.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Tyre is right. APPLAUSE
0:07:43 > 0:07:45It was one of the chief cities
0:07:45 > 0:07:47of the ancient Phoenician civilisation,
0:07:47 > 0:07:50a confederation of maritime traders who founded port colonies
0:07:50 > 0:07:52on the coast of the Mediterranean,
0:07:52 > 0:07:55many of which survive as major cities today.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59Your bonuses are maps showing three such cities.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02I simply want the modern name of each. Firstly, for five...
0:08:04 > 0:08:07It's not Palermo, is it? Palermo?
0:08:07 > 0:08:11It's not Messina cos Messina's on the strait.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14I want to say Syracuse. Syracuse.
0:08:14 > 0:08:15Syracuse.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18No, that's Palermo. Secondly...
0:08:21 > 0:08:24Is that Cadiz? Yeah, Cadiz. Cadiz.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26That is Cadiz. And finally...
0:08:28 > 0:08:31Carthage. But it's not called that.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Carthage. It's not called Carthage.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35And Carthage is Tunisia, isn't it?
0:08:35 > 0:08:38I think it's Algiers. Is it Algiers?
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Algiers.
0:08:39 > 0:08:40Algiers is correct.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43APPLAUSE Ten points for this. Coined by
0:08:43 > 0:08:45the US political activist Michael Harrington
0:08:45 > 0:08:48to denote former liberals who have grown disaffected
0:08:48 > 0:08:50with government social welfare programmes,
0:08:50 > 0:08:53what term describes a right-wing political ideology
0:08:53 > 0:08:57that emphasises free-market capitalism and...
0:08:57 > 0:09:01Is it libertarianism? No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03..and an interventionist foreign policy?
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Neo-conservatism.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14That's correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:09:14 > 0:09:18You get a set of bonuses on Chinese history, Queen's.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Regarded as a national hero in China,
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Lin Zexu was an official who confiscated the stocks
0:09:24 > 0:09:28of British merchants in events that led to the outbreak,
0:09:28 > 0:09:33in 1839, of which conflict named after a commodity?
0:09:33 > 0:09:34The Opium War?
0:09:34 > 0:09:35The Opium War.
0:09:35 > 0:09:36Correct.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39In a memorial to Queen Victoria about the opium trade,
0:09:39 > 0:09:43Lin mentioned the perceived British dependence on tea
0:09:43 > 0:09:46and on what vegetable widely grown in Britain?
0:09:46 > 0:09:50It gives its name to the triangle of cultivation in West Yorkshire
0:09:50 > 0:09:54between Morley, Rothwell and Wakefield.
0:09:54 > 0:09:55Rhubarb.
0:09:55 > 0:09:56Rhubarb?
0:09:56 > 0:09:57Rhubarb is right.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Lin was dismissed when China suffered reverses
0:10:00 > 0:10:01in the war with Britain.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03He was later recalled to service
0:10:03 > 0:10:05and died in 1850 on the way to combat
0:10:05 > 0:10:07which major rebellion?
0:10:07 > 0:10:11Was there something called, like, the Boxer Rebellion?
0:10:11 > 0:10:13That was later than that. Was it? Sorry, I don't know.
0:10:13 > 0:10:17Was there one in Manchu or something? Um...
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Come on.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24Um, Manchu.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26It was the Taiping Rebellion.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name
0:10:28 > 0:10:29is called.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33Assuming that the speed of light is 300 million metres per second,
0:10:33 > 0:10:37what, in metres, is the wavelength of an electromagnetic wave
0:10:37 > 0:10:40with a frequency of 60 megahertz?
0:10:43 > 0:10:452m.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47No. Anyone want to buzz from Queen's?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Five. Five is correct.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54APPLAUSE
0:10:54 > 0:10:59Your bonuses are on the American poet Edna St Vincent Millay.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02"Death devours all lovely things
0:11:02 > 0:11:05"Lesbia with her sparrows shares the darkness
0:11:05 > 0:11:07"Presently, every bed is narrow."
0:11:07 > 0:11:11These words of Millay echo the poetry of which Roman poet
0:11:11 > 0:11:13of the 1st century BC?
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Um, I have no idea.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Horace?
0:11:18 > 0:11:19Yeah, try it.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Horace. Horace?
0:11:21 > 0:11:22Horace.
0:11:22 > 0:11:23No, it's Catullus.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26According to Millay, which ancient mathematician,
0:11:26 > 0:11:29"Alone has looked on beauty bare"?
0:11:29 > 0:11:32Born in Alexandria around 300 BC,
0:11:32 > 0:11:35he's best known for a treatise on geometry.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Is that Aristotle? Euclid. Is it? Yes.
0:11:38 > 0:11:39Euclid.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41It is Euclid.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43"I was following in the footsteps
0:11:43 > 0:11:47"of Edna St Vincent Millay unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.
0:11:47 > 0:11:51"She made poetry seem so easy, that we could all do it.
0:11:51 > 0:11:52"But, of course, we couldn't."
0:11:52 > 0:11:56Which US poet, screenwriter and New Yorker columnist said that?
0:11:57 > 0:11:59Um, name a poet and...
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Come on. Brenda Shaughnessy.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05Nominate Regan.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Brenda Shaughnessy. No.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09It was Dorothy Parker. Ten points for this.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12Meaning "senior male personal servant",
0:12:12 > 0:12:15what word is found in both the title of the senior officer
0:12:15 > 0:12:18of the royal household of the United Kingdom
0:12:18 > 0:12:21and in a hereditary title held by one of the great...
0:12:21 > 0:12:23Equerry.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25No, you lose five points
0:12:25 > 0:12:27and I'm going to offer it to you now, Queen's.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30..one of the great officers of state?
0:12:30 > 0:12:32The latter is responsible for royal affairs
0:12:32 > 0:12:33in the Palace of Westminster.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Valet. No, that's a servant.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41It's chamberlain. Lord Chamberlain and Lord Great Chamberlain.
0:12:41 > 0:12:42Ten points for this.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45In the religion of which ancient civilisation
0:12:45 > 0:12:47were souls in the underworld
0:12:47 > 0:12:50judged by weighing the heart of the deceased...?
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Ancient Egypt. Correct.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56APPLAUSE
0:12:56 > 0:13:00Right, your bonuses this time are on trees and shrubs.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04With around 500 species, which genus of the myrtle family
0:13:04 > 0:13:06is native to Australia
0:13:06 > 0:13:09where it's often known as the stringybark or gumtree?
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus.
0:13:11 > 0:13:12Correct.
0:13:12 > 0:13:17The Leptospermum genus of myrtles has what two-word common name
0:13:17 > 0:13:20thought to have come about because Australian settlers
0:13:20 > 0:13:23made a herbal infusion from its leaves?
0:13:23 > 0:13:24Redbush.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Redbush.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27No, it's tea tree.
0:13:27 > 0:13:32And finally, in Scotland, products containing bog myrtle
0:13:32 > 0:13:36are sold as a repellent for Culicoides impunctatus.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39(Midges.) How is this biting insect more commonly known?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Midges. The Highland midge is right, yes.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44APPLAUSE Right, we're going to take
0:13:44 > 0:13:46a music round now.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52For ten points, I want the name of the album
0:13:52 > 0:13:54on which it originally appeared.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59# But the film is a saddening bore... #
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Ziggy Stardust.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05No. You can hear a little more, Queen's.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08# For she's lived it ten times or more
0:14:08 > 0:14:12# She could spit in the eyes of fools
0:14:12 > 0:14:15# As they ask her to focus on
0:14:15 > 0:14:19# Sailors fighting in the dance hall... #
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Hunky Dory. Hunky Dory is correct, yes.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26APPLAUSE
0:14:26 > 0:14:27So, for your music bonuses,
0:14:27 > 0:14:30we follow on from David Bowie's Life On Mars
0:14:30 > 0:14:32with three more of his songs.
0:14:32 > 0:14:36For five points in each case, I simply want you to name the album
0:14:36 > 0:14:40on which each of the songs first appeared. Firstly...
0:14:40 > 0:14:43# Do you remember a guy that's been
0:14:44 > 0:14:47# In such an early song
0:14:48 > 0:14:51# I've heard a rumour from Ground Control
0:14:51 > 0:14:55# Oh, no, don't say it's true
0:14:55 > 0:14:59# They got a message from the Action Man
0:14:59 > 0:15:04# I'm happy Hope you're happy, too... #
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Ashes To Ashes. Ashes To Ashes.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12No, it's Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps).
0:15:12 > 0:15:15Ashes To Ashes was the track. Secondly...
0:15:18 > 0:15:23# Don't you wonder sometimes
0:15:23 > 0:15:26# 'Bout sound and vision
0:15:38 > 0:15:43# Blue, blue, electric blue That's the colour of my room... #
0:15:43 > 0:15:45The Man Who Fell To Earth.
0:15:45 > 0:15:46No, it's Low, that album.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50That was Sound And Vision, of course. And finally...
0:15:51 > 0:15:56# Look out your window I can see his light
0:15:56 > 0:15:57# If we can sparkle... #
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01That's correct, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
0:16:01 > 0:16:04And The Spiders From Mars. Right, ten points for this.
0:16:04 > 0:16:09"The greatest artist of linear design that Europe has ever had."
0:16:09 > 0:16:13These words of Bernard Berenson refer to which Florentine artist
0:16:13 > 0:16:16born around 1445?
0:16:16 > 0:16:19His works include drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy.
0:16:21 > 0:16:22Botticelli. Correct.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26APPLAUSE
0:16:26 > 0:16:30These bonuses are on the French film director Luc Besson.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33From the 1980s, Besson was a leading figure
0:16:33 > 0:16:37in which French film movement named by the critic Raphael Bassan?
0:16:37 > 0:16:40Its three-word name includes an English word
0:16:40 > 0:16:43that gives the idea of style over substance.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47Erm...
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Was it not the Nouvelle...?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52It wasn't the Nouvelle Vague? Could be.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54La Nouvelle Vague. The New Veuve?
0:16:54 > 0:16:57No, it's the Cinema du Look.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Secondly, Milla Jovovich played the title role
0:16:59 > 0:17:03in Besson's 1999 film The Messenger.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07Which historical figure is its subject?
0:17:07 > 0:17:08Joan of Arc, I think. Joan of Arc.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10Correct.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Starring Scarlett Johansson, which 2014 film by Besson
0:17:13 > 0:17:16took the highest overseas box office receipts
0:17:16 > 0:17:18of any French film for 20 years?
0:17:18 > 0:17:21HE WHISPERS
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Was that Luc Besson? That was earlier than 2014.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27I think it was the one with the... Lucy? Lucy, is it? I think so.
0:17:27 > 0:17:28Lucy?
0:17:28 > 0:17:29That's correct.
0:17:29 > 0:17:33Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:17:33 > 0:17:38Name any two of the four British monarchs since 1715
0:17:38 > 0:17:42who were succeeded by someone other than their son or daughter.
0:17:46 > 0:17:53Er, William IV and, um...
0:17:53 > 0:17:56I'm sorry, no, if you buzz, you must answer straight away.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59Otherwise, you're stopping others having a go.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02William IV and Edward VIII. Correct, yes. The others were
0:18:02 > 0:18:05George II and George IV. APPLAUSE
0:18:05 > 0:18:08So, you get a set of bonuses, then, Birmingham, on astronomy.
0:18:08 > 0:18:13Which non-zodiac constellation includes the red giant Betelgeuse?
0:18:15 > 0:18:18Is it Sirius? I'm not sure.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21It's Orion, I think. That's a star, though, isn't it?
0:18:21 > 0:18:24A non-zodiac? No, Orion's a constellation.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Is it Orion? I think it is Orion.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Orion. Orion is right.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Which constellation of the southern sky
0:18:30 > 0:18:35holds a luminous blue variable star about 7,500 light years away,
0:18:35 > 0:18:38which became the second-brightest star in the sky
0:18:38 > 0:18:40during an outburst in 1843?
0:18:40 > 0:18:43The Southern Cross - that's the big one, isn't it?
0:18:43 > 0:18:44The only other one I know is the Table.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46I don't think it's the Table.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Do you know any Southern Hemisphere constellations? No idea.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51The Southern Cross. No, it's Carina.
0:18:51 > 0:18:56Finally, which constellation holds a large nearby spiral galaxy
0:18:56 > 0:18:58roughly 2 million light years away?
0:19:01 > 0:19:02The Southern Cross?
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Spiral galaxy?
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Come on, let's have it, please. Cassiopeia.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Cassiopeia. That's northern, isn't it? Is it?
0:19:14 > 0:19:15The Southern Cross.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17No, it's Andromeda.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20Ten points for this. In the 20th century,
0:19:20 > 0:19:22the Chinese People's Volunteer Army
0:19:22 > 0:19:24played a major part in which conflict,
0:19:24 > 0:19:27suffering several hundred thousand casualties?
0:19:27 > 0:19:31The force intervened on the side of the KPA against...
0:19:32 > 0:19:34The Korean War. Correct.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37APPLAUSE
0:19:37 > 0:19:40These bonuses are on an economist, Birmingham.
0:19:40 > 0:19:41Get them, you'll take the lead.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44Which 20th-century Austro-American economist
0:19:44 > 0:19:47gives his name to a column on business and innovation
0:19:47 > 0:19:49in The Economist newspaper?
0:19:49 > 0:19:53Friedman, I think. Friedman? Friedman or Hayek. I don't know.
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Friedman.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56No, it's Schumpeter.
0:19:56 > 0:20:00In a work of 1942, what two-word paradoxical term
0:20:00 > 0:20:05did Schumpeter coin to describe the process of industrial mutation
0:20:05 > 0:20:09that incessantly revolutionises the economic structure from within?
0:20:14 > 0:20:15I don't know.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Boom and bust.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19No, it's creative destruction.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Of which economist, who died in 1946, did Schumpeter say,
0:20:22 > 0:20:25"He was childless and his philosophy of life
0:20:25 > 0:20:28"was essentially a short-run philosophy"?
0:20:28 > 0:20:29John Maynard Keynes.
0:20:29 > 0:20:30Correct.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Going to take another picture round. For your picture starter,
0:20:32 > 0:20:34you'll see a painting.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36Ten points if you can identify the artist.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42Monet.
0:20:42 > 0:20:43It is Monet.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45APPLAUSE Well done.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49That was one of Monet's many paintings
0:20:49 > 0:20:51of the Parisian suburb of Argenteuil,
0:20:51 > 0:20:55where he lived in the 1870s and which became, during this time,
0:20:55 > 0:20:59a creative hub for the developing Impressionism movement.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Your picture bonuses are three more Impressionist views
0:21:01 > 0:21:03of Argenteuil from that period.
0:21:03 > 0:21:07I want the name of the artist in each case, please. Firstly...
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Seurat? I'm thinking...
0:21:16 > 0:21:19I'm thinking possibly Renoir, but I'm not sure.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22It does look a bit like a Renoir. It doesn't look like a Seurat to me.
0:21:22 > 0:21:23Renoir?
0:21:23 > 0:21:25No, that's Manet. Secondly...
0:21:30 > 0:21:35Stick with Renoir, maybe? Or Seurat?
0:21:35 > 0:21:39No, I don't think it looks like a Seurat.
0:21:39 > 0:21:40Not Cezanne, is it?
0:21:40 > 0:21:43No, Cezanne was a Post-Impressionist.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Yeah, why don't you go for Renoir?
0:21:46 > 0:21:47Renoir.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49No, it's Sisley. And finally...
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Erm...
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Is that Pissarro?
0:21:58 > 0:21:59Nominate Sutherland.
0:21:59 > 0:22:00Pissarro?
0:22:00 > 0:22:02No, that is Renoir. Bad luck. LAUGHTER
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08The term presbyopia refers to the progressive deterioration
0:22:08 > 0:22:10of near vision with age.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13Which word, with the same prefix,
0:22:13 > 0:22:17refers to the progressive deterioration of hearing with age?
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Presbycusis.
0:22:18 > 0:22:23Presbycusis is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:22:23 > 0:22:26These bonuses are on airports, Birmingham.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28One of the few world airports
0:22:28 > 0:22:31named after a fictional or legendary figure,
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Robin Hood Airport has a logo
0:22:33 > 0:22:36that bears the names of which two locations?
0:22:36 > 0:22:37Sheffield and...
0:22:37 > 0:22:39No, no, it's... Is it Doncaster?
0:22:39 > 0:22:41No, it's Nottingham.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44It's South Yorkshire, isn't it, Robin Hood Airport?
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Yeah, Robin Hood is...
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Sorry, Nottingham is East Midlands.
0:22:48 > 0:22:49That's East Mids, yeah.
0:22:49 > 0:22:53Sheffield and... Sheffield and South Yorkshire.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56It's Sheffield and Doncaster, so I can't accept that.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58Named after the hero of a national epic,
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Manas is the main international airport
0:23:01 > 0:23:05of which mountainous Central Asian country?
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Bhutan? Nepal? Bhutan is...
0:23:08 > 0:23:12Nepal, maybe? I think it could be Bhutan.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14It's not a country, though, is it?
0:23:14 > 0:23:17Do you think Bhutan? I think Nepal. OK.
0:23:17 > 0:23:18Nepal.
0:23:18 > 0:23:19No, it's Kyrgyzstan.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Described as a white elephant project,
0:23:22 > 0:23:26the airport of Ciudad Real to the south of Madrid
0:23:26 > 0:23:29closed in 2012 after only three years of operation,
0:23:29 > 0:23:34and was named, perhaps aptly, after which fictional character?
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Don Quixote. Don Quixote?
0:23:36 > 0:23:37Correct.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Ten points for this. Which decade saw
0:23:40 > 0:23:42the publication of James Clerk Maxwell's treatise
0:23:42 > 0:23:44on electricity and magnetism?
0:23:44 > 0:23:46The same decade also saw the establishment
0:23:46 > 0:23:49of the Universal Postal Union in Berne,
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Bell's invention of the telephone
0:23:51 > 0:23:53and Edison's invention of the phonograph.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57The 1890s.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Anyone like to buzz from Birmingham?
0:24:00 > 0:24:021870s. 1870s is correct.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05APPLAUSE
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Birmingham, these bonuses are on English adjectives
0:24:08 > 0:24:10from French past participles.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16All three end with an E acute.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20Firstly, from a verb meaning "to push to excess",
0:24:20 > 0:24:22a five-letter word meaning peculiar, eccentric
0:24:22 > 0:24:25or beyond the bounds of what is considered correct and proper.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Outre. Is it outre? Outre. Outre? Outre.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30Outre.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Outre is right. From a verb meaning "take care of",
0:24:32 > 0:24:35a six-letter word that means well-groomed
0:24:35 > 0:24:38or dressed with great care and attention to detail.
0:24:46 > 0:24:47Well-groomed?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Come on, let's have it, please.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52Dresse. LAUGHTER
0:24:52 > 0:24:55Dresse? No, it's soigne!
0:24:55 > 0:24:57And finally, a five-letter word
0:24:57 > 0:25:00meaning indifferent to pleasure or enjoyment,
0:25:00 > 0:25:02especially due to overfamiliarity.
0:25:02 > 0:25:03Blase.
0:25:03 > 0:25:04Blase is right.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Three minutes to go. Ten points. Its name derived from
0:25:06 > 0:25:08the Cornish for court on a height
0:25:08 > 0:25:11rather than from the name of a reptile,
0:25:11 > 0:25:14which peninsula forms the southernmost...?
0:25:14 > 0:25:16The Lizard. The Lizard is correct.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18APPLAUSE
0:25:18 > 0:25:21These bonuses are on Tolkien's The Hobbit, Birmingham.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24In chapter one, entitled An Unexpected Party,
0:25:24 > 0:25:29Bilbo Baggins is visited by Gandalf and later by 13 dwarves.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Who is the dwarves' leader?
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Thorin Oakenshield. Correct.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36At the end of chapter two, Roast Mutton,
0:25:36 > 0:25:41the party find three notable edged weapons in the troll hoard.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45Orcrist and Sting are two of these. What's the third?
0:25:45 > 0:25:46Nominate Rouse.
0:25:46 > 0:25:47Is it Glamdring?
0:25:47 > 0:25:48It is indeed.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50In chapter three, A Short Rest,
0:25:50 > 0:25:55Gandalf, Bilbo and the dwarves stay for a fortnight at which location,
0:25:55 > 0:26:00also known as The Last Homely House East Of The Sea?
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Nominate Rouse. Is it Rivendell?
0:26:02 > 0:26:03It is Rivendell.
0:26:03 > 0:26:04I don't think we'll enquire too closely
0:26:04 > 0:26:07into what you get up to at night. LAUGHTER
0:26:07 > 0:26:08Right, ten points for this.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Following Kentucky and Tennessee in the 1790s,
0:26:11 > 0:26:15which state was admitted to the Union in 1803?
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Its first two capitals were Chillicothe and Zanesville,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21while the current capital is named after an explorer
0:26:21 > 0:26:23born in Italy in 1451.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Ohio. Correct.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30APPLAUSE
0:26:30 > 0:26:33You get a set of bonuses on the sciences.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Firstly, the blood of which animal
0:26:36 > 0:26:39contains a compound known as LAL, or L-A-L,
0:26:39 > 0:26:41which immediately binds and clots
0:26:41 > 0:26:46around fungi, viruses and bacterial endotoxins?
0:26:47 > 0:26:49It could be leech, but I don't know.
0:26:49 > 0:26:53THEY WHISPER
0:26:53 > 0:26:54Leech.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56No, it's the horseshoe crab.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58In mathematics, what animal-related term
0:26:58 > 0:27:01denotes a surface with three dips
0:27:01 > 0:27:06described by Z = X cubed - 3 XY squared?
0:27:08 > 0:27:11Something to do with a camel? I don't know.
0:27:11 > 0:27:12A camel?
0:27:12 > 0:27:14No, it's a monkey saddle.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17And finally, what is the scientific name
0:27:17 > 0:27:20of the stirrup-shaped ossicle in the middle ear?
0:27:21 > 0:27:24Stepes or stapes.
0:27:24 > 0:27:25Do you know? Stapes.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Stapes.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Correct. Ten points for this. Often cited as an example
0:27:29 > 0:27:31of metafiction,
0:27:31 > 0:27:34that is, a novel that makes the reader aware of its status
0:27:34 > 0:27:36as a fictional artefact,
0:27:36 > 0:27:40which novel by John Fowles begins in Lyme Bay in Dorset?
0:27:40 > 0:27:42The French Lieutenant's Woman. That's correct.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46APPLAUSE
0:27:46 > 0:27:47These bonuses are on South America.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49GONG And that's the gong.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52Queen's University Belfast have 105.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55Birmingham University have 165.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Well, I'm afraid, Queen's,
0:27:57 > 0:27:58we're going to have to say goodbye to you.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01You'll have to take your giant broccoli home with you.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03LAUGHTER Thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06Birmingham, 165 is a pretty convincing win
0:28:06 > 0:28:08and we shall look forward to seeing you in round two.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Thank you for joining us.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13I hope you can join us for another first-round match next time,
0:28:13 > 0:28:16but until then, it's goodbye from Queen's University Belfast.
0:28:16 > 0:28:17ALL: Bye.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19It's goodbye from Birmingham University.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22ALL: Goodbye. And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24APPLAUSE