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