Episode 15

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0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Out of the 28 teams which entered this contest,

0:00:32 > 0:00:3412 have already made their exits.

0:00:34 > 0:00:3714 have gone straight through to the second round,

0:00:37 > 0:00:39in which two places still remain,

0:00:39 > 0:00:43and fighting for them are four teams who lost their first round matches,

0:00:43 > 0:00:46but did so with scores that were equal to,

0:00:46 > 0:00:50or indeed better than, winning scores in some other matches.

0:00:50 > 0:00:51In the past, teams who've survived

0:00:51 > 0:00:54by this uncharacteristically charitable process

0:00:54 > 0:00:55LAUGHTER

0:00:55 > 0:00:57have gone on to win the series, so no-one needs reminding

0:00:57 > 0:00:59there's everything to play for.

0:00:59 > 0:01:01The team from Jesus College, Cambridge, lost

0:01:01 > 0:01:04their first round match against Corpus Christi College, Oxford,

0:01:04 > 0:01:05but it was a close-run thing.

0:01:05 > 0:01:08Having been in the lead at the halfway point,

0:01:08 > 0:01:11they were only 25 points adrift at the gong,

0:01:11 > 0:01:15and their score of 175 is the joint-highest of the teams

0:01:15 > 0:01:16in these playoffs.

0:01:16 > 0:01:20With an average age of 20, let's meet the Jesus four again.

0:01:22 > 0:01:24Hi. I'm Sam Fairbrother, I'm from Greater Manchester, and I'm

0:01:24 > 0:01:28currently studying for my finals in education with drama and English.

0:01:28 > 0:01:31Hi, I'm Rosa Price. I'm from London and I'm studying English.

0:01:31 > 0:01:32And this is their captain.

0:01:32 > 0:01:35Hi, I'm Theo Morris Clarke, I'm from London,

0:01:35 > 0:01:37and I'm reading for an MPhil in economics.

0:01:37 > 0:01:40Hello, I'm Daniel Petrides, I'm from Petts Wood in Kent, and I'm

0:01:40 > 0:01:43reading for an MPhil in political thought and intellectual history.

0:01:43 > 0:01:45APPLAUSE

0:01:48 > 0:01:51Now, their opponents from Queens' College lost one

0:01:51 > 0:01:54Cambridge derby only to find themselves in another tonight.

0:01:54 > 0:01:56Their defeat at the hands of Peterhouse

0:01:56 > 0:01:59was by a margin of only ten points,

0:01:59 > 0:02:02but their total of 150 was enough to bring them back,

0:02:02 > 0:02:04and they, too, have an average age of 20.

0:02:04 > 0:02:06Let's meet the Queens' team again.

0:02:06 > 0:02:07Hi, I'm Sam Booth,

0:02:07 > 0:02:10I'm from Greenford in West London, and I'm studying maths.

0:02:11 > 0:02:13Hi, I'm Lorenzo Venturini, I'm from Italy,

0:02:13 > 0:02:15and I'm reading engineering.

0:02:15 > 0:02:16And this is their captain.

0:02:16 > 0:02:18Hi, I'm Frank Syvret, I'm from Evesham,

0:02:18 > 0:02:20and I'm studying physics.

0:02:20 > 0:02:23Hello, my name's Daniel Adamson, I'm from Cambridge,

0:02:23 > 0:02:25and I'm reading history.

0:02:25 > 0:02:26APPLAUSE

0:02:29 > 0:02:32OK, the rules are unchanging in this contest,

0:02:32 > 0:02:33so let's just get on with it.

0:02:33 > 0:02:36Ten points at stake for this starter question, fingers on the buzzers.

0:02:36 > 0:02:39Foe by JM Coetzee

0:02:39 > 0:02:42and Friday, Or The Other Island by Michel Tournier,

0:02:42 > 0:02:45are retellings of which novel of 1719,

0:02:45 > 0:02:47concerning a mariner from York?

0:02:49 > 0:02:50Robinson Crusoe.

0:02:50 > 0:02:51Correct.

0:02:51 > 0:02:53APPLAUSE

0:02:54 > 0:02:58You get the first set of bonuses on republics, Queens'.

0:02:58 > 0:03:02The short-lived Republic of the Rif, that's R, I, F, was established

0:03:02 > 0:03:06in 1921 following an uprising against the Spanish and French

0:03:06 > 0:03:09in the territory of which present-day country?

0:03:10 > 0:03:14- Haiti?- Yeah, could be. - That's what I would have guessed.

0:03:14 > 0:03:15Haiti?

0:03:15 > 0:03:16No, it's Morocco.

0:03:16 > 0:03:20The Septinsular Republic existed from 1800 to 1807

0:03:20 > 0:03:24under nominal Russian and Ottoman suzerainty.

0:03:24 > 0:03:26It comprised which group of seven Greek islands,

0:03:26 > 0:03:30including Corfu and Paxos, and several smaller islets?

0:03:32 > 0:03:37- Seven...- Could be Ionian.- Yeah. I think...- Why not?

0:03:37 > 0:03:38We haven't got any other guess.

0:03:38 > 0:03:40Yeah. I don't know anything about it. OK.

0:03:40 > 0:03:42The Ionian islands?

0:03:42 > 0:03:43Correct.

0:03:43 > 0:03:47Which European country deposed its monarchy in 1910 and declared its

0:03:47 > 0:03:51First Republic under the presidency of the writer Teofilo Braga?

0:03:53 > 0:03:57- Sounds...- Maybe Portuguese, or... - Yeah.

0:03:57 > 0:03:59Maybe Portuguese, or is it Spanish?

0:03:59 > 0:04:01- Spain... Spain's got a monarchy now. - Yeah.

0:04:01 > 0:04:03- Sounds more Portuguese. - It could be, yeah.

0:04:03 > 0:04:04Portugal.

0:04:04 > 0:04:06Portugal is correct, yes.

0:04:06 > 0:04:07APPLAUSE

0:04:08 > 0:04:10Ten points for this.

0:04:10 > 0:04:13Of the Unesco World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom,

0:04:13 > 0:04:17which is the only one to be nominated both for its cultural

0:04:17 > 0:04:20and its natural significance?

0:04:20 > 0:04:23It consists of a remote archipelago at the extreme west

0:04:23 > 0:04:24of the Outer Hebrides.

0:04:28 > 0:04:29I'll tell you...

0:04:30 > 0:04:31St Kilda?

0:04:31 > 0:04:33Oh, well done.

0:04:33 > 0:04:36You've just got in before I gave you the answer, that's correct.

0:04:36 > 0:04:40So you get a set of bonuses on football clubs that played

0:04:40 > 0:04:43in the Premier League in the 2015-2016 season.

0:04:43 > 0:04:46In each case, I want the name of the club

0:04:46 > 0:04:48from the scientific clue to its nickname.

0:04:48 > 0:04:49THEY LAUGH

0:04:49 > 0:04:51Firstly, for five points,

0:04:51 > 0:04:55which club's nickname is a species of corvid reputed to be intelligent

0:04:55 > 0:04:58to the degree that they can recognise themselves in mirrors,

0:04:58 > 0:05:00with the binomial Pica pica?

0:05:01 > 0:05:04- Newcastle.- What's the nickname?

0:05:04 > 0:05:06- It's the Magpies, aren't they? - Yeah.- Yeah.

0:05:06 > 0:05:07Newcastle United.

0:05:07 > 0:05:10Correct. Species of the genus Serinus, secondly.

0:05:10 > 0:05:13They're small, distinctively coloured finches,

0:05:13 > 0:05:15noted for sustained vocal powers.

0:05:15 > 0:05:18- Norwich.- Norwich? OK. Norwich.

0:05:18 > 0:05:19Norwich, the Canaries, yes.

0:05:19 > 0:05:22Finally, waterfowls of the genus Cygnus.

0:05:22 > 0:05:24- That's swans.- Swans, yeah.

0:05:24 > 0:05:25Swansea.

0:05:25 > 0:05:27Correct. APPLAUSE

0:05:27 > 0:05:28Ten points for this.

0:05:29 > 0:05:31In biology, what single word may refer to

0:05:31 > 0:05:34part of the alimentary canal of nematodes,

0:05:34 > 0:05:37the surgical opening of a tube brought to the abdominal surface,

0:05:37 > 0:05:40or the pores on the underside of a leaf?

0:05:42 > 0:05:43Stomata?

0:05:43 > 0:05:46Stomata is correct, or stoma singular, yes.

0:05:46 > 0:05:47APPLAUSE

0:05:47 > 0:05:51These are your bonuses on the novels of George RR Martin.

0:05:51 > 0:05:54In each case, listen to the word or words described and name the

0:05:54 > 0:05:57title in which they occur, whether in the singular or plural.

0:05:57 > 0:06:00Firstly, for five, Epiphany, Assumption, And Advent,

0:06:00 > 0:06:03and a title character created by Ted Hughes.

0:06:06 > 0:06:07Iron?

0:06:07 > 0:06:09Wait, what are the names of the books?

0:06:11 > 0:06:14Might not be from A Song of Ice and Fire.

0:06:14 > 0:06:18- A song... It couldn't be...? - No. That's the series.

0:06:22 > 0:06:24- No.- No.- It's not any of the ones in...- No, it's not.- No.

0:06:24 > 0:06:26- I don't think it is. - We don't know, sorry.

0:06:26 > 0:06:28It's A Feast For Crows.

0:06:28 > 0:06:32Secondly, for five points, the final word of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29.

0:06:32 > 0:06:35Its penultimate line is,

0:06:35 > 0:06:38"For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings".

0:06:39 > 0:06:42- OK.- Do we know any...? - It has to rhyme with "brings".

0:06:42 > 0:06:43Yeah, um...

0:06:43 > 0:06:46- Kings?- Kings.- Yeah. A Game Of... A Clash Of Kings.

0:06:46 > 0:06:47A Clash Of Kings.

0:06:47 > 0:06:48Correct.

0:06:48 > 0:06:51Bon odori, carioca or sarabande,

0:06:51 > 0:06:54and Glaurung, Saphira or Fafnir.

0:06:54 > 0:06:56OK, so that's a dance, isn't it?

0:06:56 > 0:06:58- So that's...- OK. A Dance With Dragons?- Yeah.

0:06:58 > 0:06:59- A Dance With Dragons.- Well done.

0:06:59 > 0:07:01APPLAUSE

0:07:01 > 0:07:02Ten points for this.

0:07:03 > 0:07:05Said to have been founded in the sixth century BC

0:07:05 > 0:07:09and substantially rebuilt by Julius Caesar and Trajan,

0:07:09 > 0:07:12which area between the Palatine and the Aventine Hills

0:07:12 > 0:07:15was the largest entertainment and sports venue in Ancient Rome?

0:07:18 > 0:07:19The Circus Maximus.

0:07:19 > 0:07:20Correct.

0:07:23 > 0:07:27So your first set of bonuses, Jesus, are on chemical elements.

0:07:27 > 0:07:29What name is given to the series of 15 consecutive

0:07:29 > 0:07:32chemical elements that, along with scandium and yttrium,

0:07:32 > 0:07:35are sometimes called the rare-earth metals?

0:07:36 > 0:07:38It's got to be the lanthanides or the actinides,

0:07:38 > 0:07:39but I'm not 100% sure.

0:07:42 > 0:07:44No, I think it's the... OK, if you... No, it's not.

0:07:44 > 0:07:46If Uranium's a rare earth metal, which I think it is, then...

0:07:46 > 0:07:47Actinides.

0:07:47 > 0:07:49No, they're lanthanides.

0:07:49 > 0:07:51Secondly, its natural occurrence scarce,

0:07:51 > 0:07:54which of the lanthanides wasn't discovered until 1945?

0:07:54 > 0:07:57It's used in miniature batteries,

0:07:57 > 0:08:00and is named after a Titan in Greek mythology.

0:08:00 > 0:08:01- Promethium?- Promethium.

0:08:01 > 0:08:03- Promethium.- Correct.

0:08:03 > 0:08:07Which country was the birthplace in 1797 of the chemist Carl Massander?

0:08:07 > 0:08:10He discovered the lanthanides erbium and terbium,

0:08:10 > 0:08:13both of which are named after a town in that country.

0:08:13 > 0:08:15They're named after, I think, Ytterby, which is in...

0:08:15 > 0:08:16France.

0:08:16 > 0:08:19No, it's Sweden. Right, we're going to take a picture round now.

0:08:19 > 0:08:21For your picture starter, you're going to see a depiction

0:08:21 > 0:08:23of an Ancient Egyptian deity.

0:08:23 > 0:08:24Ten points if you can identify the deity.

0:08:28 > 0:08:29Osiris?

0:08:29 > 0:08:30Osiris is correct.

0:08:30 > 0:08:31APPLAUSE

0:08:33 > 0:08:35Following on from Osiris,

0:08:35 > 0:08:37three more depictions of Ancient Egyptian deities.

0:08:37 > 0:08:40Five points for each you can identify. Firstly...

0:08:40 > 0:08:42- That's...- I think that's Horus. No?

0:08:42 > 0:08:45Thoth? Thoth, I think?

0:08:45 > 0:08:47Thoth.

0:08:47 > 0:08:48- Thoth?- Thoth?

0:08:48 > 0:08:51- I think Horus is...- Thoth? Really? - Thoth.- Go for it, then.

0:08:51 > 0:08:53Thoth?

0:08:53 > 0:08:54Correct. LAUGHTER

0:08:54 > 0:08:55Secondly...

0:08:57 > 0:08:59Bastet. Bastet.

0:08:59 > 0:09:01Nominate Price.

0:09:01 > 0:09:02Bastet.

0:09:02 > 0:09:04Correct. And, finally...

0:09:06 > 0:09:07Is that Horus?

0:09:07 > 0:09:08Horus?

0:09:08 > 0:09:10Horus is correct. The head of a falcon.

0:09:10 > 0:09:11APPLAUSE

0:09:13 > 0:09:14Ten points for this.

0:09:14 > 0:09:17Premiered by the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1938,

0:09:17 > 0:09:20what orchestral piece was played at the funerals

0:09:20 > 0:09:22of Albert Einstein and John F Kennedy?

0:09:22 > 0:09:23It's an arrangement...

0:09:24 > 0:09:25Adagio For Strings?

0:09:25 > 0:09:26Correct.

0:09:26 > 0:09:27APPLAUSE

0:09:29 > 0:09:33You're going to see the bonuses on the Anglo-Saxon queen Aethelflaed,

0:09:33 > 0:09:35known as the Lady of the Mercians.

0:09:35 > 0:09:36Right.

0:09:36 > 0:09:39Firstly, married to Aethelred of Mercia in the 880s,

0:09:39 > 0:09:42Aethelflaed was the daughter of which King of Wessex?

0:09:43 > 0:09:45- Alfred? The only one I know.- OK.

0:09:45 > 0:09:46Alfred?

0:09:46 > 0:09:47Alfred The Great is correct.

0:09:47 > 0:09:50Aethelflaed became the effective ruler of Mercia,

0:09:50 > 0:09:52and led campaigns against the Danes.

0:09:52 > 0:09:57In 917 and 918, she captured two towns in the East Midlands.

0:09:57 > 0:09:59Please name either one.

0:09:59 > 0:10:01- Coventry?- Yeah, why not?

0:10:01 > 0:10:02Coventry?

0:10:02 > 0:10:04No, they were Derby and Leicester.

0:10:04 > 0:10:07And finally, a brother of Aethelflaed,

0:10:07 > 0:10:09which ruler of Wessex cooperated with her

0:10:09 > 0:10:10in the war against the Danes?

0:10:10 > 0:10:14After Aethelflaed's death, he took control of Mercia.

0:10:14 > 0:10:16I need his name and byname.

0:10:20 > 0:10:23- Aethelred the Unready.- Yeah. - It's the only one I know.- OK.

0:10:23 > 0:10:25- I don't know.- OK.

0:10:25 > 0:10:26- Go with it.- OK.

0:10:26 > 0:10:28Aethelred the Unready?

0:10:28 > 0:10:30No, it's Edward The Elder. Ten points for this.

0:10:30 > 0:10:32As seen relative to the fixed stars,

0:10:32 > 0:10:36which planet rotates on its axis exactly three times

0:10:36 > 0:10:39for every two orbits it makes around the sun?

0:10:39 > 0:10:42It transits the sun around 13 times a century,

0:10:42 > 0:10:46examples being in 2003, 2006 and 2016.

0:10:47 > 0:10:48Venus?

0:10:48 > 0:10:51Anyone like to buzz from Jesus?

0:10:51 > 0:10:52Neptune?

0:10:52 > 0:10:53No, it's Mercury.

0:10:53 > 0:10:55Ten points for this.

0:10:55 > 0:10:59Quote, "It probably works best as a thought experiment to test

0:10:59 > 0:11:03"concepts of social security rather than as a realistic welfare system."

0:11:03 > 0:11:07These words refer to a concept known as UBI.

0:11:09 > 0:11:10Universal Basic Income.

0:11:10 > 0:11:13Correct, or Unconditional Basic Income, yes.

0:11:13 > 0:11:15APPLAUSE

0:11:15 > 0:11:19Your bonuses, Jesus, are on English pubs.

0:11:19 > 0:11:20Firstly, for five points.

0:11:20 > 0:11:22The third highest inn in England,

0:11:22 > 0:11:25the Kirkstone Pass Inn,

0:11:25 > 0:11:29is on the road linking Ambleside with which lake to the north?

0:11:30 > 0:11:32Could it be Windermere? Is Ambleton...?

0:11:32 > 0:11:33Windermere?

0:11:33 > 0:11:34No, it's Ullswater.

0:11:34 > 0:11:39Secondly, the second highest inn is The Cat And Fiddle, situated on

0:11:39 > 0:11:43the A537 very close to the boundary of which two English counties?

0:11:43 > 0:11:46The Welsh hills are visible on a clear day.

0:11:47 > 0:11:51- Worcestershire and Herefordshire? - OK, yeah.

0:11:52 > 0:11:55- What about the Pennines?- He said you can see the Welsh hills from there.

0:11:55 > 0:11:58- Lancashire and Cumbria?- Really?

0:11:58 > 0:12:00- I dunno.- No, that's too far away.

0:12:00 > 0:12:02- Just stick with... - Worcestershire and Herefordshire.

0:12:02 > 0:12:04No, it's Cheshire and Derbyshire.

0:12:04 > 0:12:08And finally, the Tan Hill Inn is the highest in England.

0:12:08 > 0:12:11On a minor road between Keld and Kirkby Stephen, it lies

0:12:11 > 0:12:14close to the boundary of which National Park?

0:12:16 > 0:12:17Peak District?

0:12:20 > 0:12:22Or the Dales? The Yorkshire Dales?

0:12:25 > 0:12:26Peak District.

0:12:26 > 0:12:27- No, it's the Yorkshire Dales.- Oh.

0:12:27 > 0:12:29Ten points for this.

0:12:29 > 0:12:32Which two letters begin words meaning a unit of weight

0:12:32 > 0:12:36equal to one 480th of a Troy ounce,

0:12:36 > 0:12:39the SI unit of radiation dose,

0:12:39 > 0:12:41a unit of angle equal to...

0:12:42 > 0:12:43BE?

0:12:43 > 0:12:45No, you lose five points.

0:12:45 > 0:12:47..equal to one 400th of a circle,

0:12:47 > 0:12:50and a unit of quantity equal to 12 dozen?

0:12:54 > 0:12:55GR?

0:12:55 > 0:12:57Yes, GR is right, yes.

0:12:57 > 0:13:01Grain, gray, gradian and gross.

0:13:01 > 0:13:0315 points for these bonuses if you can get them.

0:13:03 > 0:13:05They're on SI prefixes.

0:13:05 > 0:13:07In each case, I want the numerical factor indicated

0:13:07 > 0:13:10by the SI prefix that's an anagram of the word given.

0:13:10 > 0:13:15For example, the word "game" is an anagram of the prefix "mega",

0:13:15 > 0:13:18so your answer would be ten to the six, or a million.

0:13:18 > 0:13:20OK? Right, first, then, tape.

0:13:21 > 0:13:27- It's peta. Do we have a clue? - No.- OK. Um...

0:13:27 > 0:13:28Peta's quite a lot, it's above giga,

0:13:28 > 0:13:31it's above tera. Tera's, like...

0:13:31 > 0:13:3215? 10 to the 15?

0:13:32 > 0:13:33- Yeah, go for it.- 10 to the 15.

0:13:33 > 0:13:35Correct.

0:13:35 > 0:13:36LAUGHTER

0:13:36 > 0:13:37Next, dice.

0:13:37 > 0:13:38Dice...

0:13:39 > 0:13:42- Dice?- C, E...D, I?

0:13:42 > 0:13:46Maybe. Shall we pick a number?

0:13:46 > 0:13:47It'll be really big.

0:13:47 > 0:13:4824.

0:13:48 > 0:13:50No, it's ten to the minus one.

0:13:50 > 0:13:51LAUGHTER

0:13:51 > 0:13:53And finally, rate.

0:13:53 > 0:13:54ALL: Tera.

0:13:54 > 0:13:56Tera. That's... Oh, yeah, cos I think that's...

0:13:56 > 0:13:58Tera is about...

0:13:58 > 0:13:5910 to the 12.

0:13:59 > 0:14:00Correct, yes. APPLAUSE

0:14:00 > 0:14:02Ten points for this.

0:14:02 > 0:14:04Since the mid-16th century,

0:14:04 > 0:14:07periods in the chronology of which country have included

0:14:07 > 0:14:11Spanish viceroyalty, independence, confederation with Bolivia,

0:14:11 > 0:14:15Guano Era, War of the Pacific, and war with Ecuador?

0:14:17 > 0:14:18Portugal.

0:14:18 > 0:14:21No, anyone like to buzz from Queens'?

0:14:23 > 0:14:24Chile?

0:14:24 > 0:14:26No, it's Peru.

0:14:26 > 0:14:27Ten points for this.

0:14:27 > 0:14:30In earth science, what angle is made with the horizontal

0:14:30 > 0:14:33by the direction of the earth's local magnetic field

0:14:33 > 0:14:34at the magnetic pole?

0:14:37 > 0:14:3990 degrees.

0:14:39 > 0:14:41Correct. APPLAUSE

0:14:43 > 0:14:45These bonuses will give you the lead,

0:14:45 > 0:14:47they are on education.

0:14:47 > 0:14:49Derived ultimately from the Ancient Greek

0:14:49 > 0:14:53for "child" and "leading", which word is used to refer to

0:14:53 > 0:14:56both the theory and practice of education?

0:14:56 > 0:14:57Pedagogy?

0:14:57 > 0:14:58Correct.

0:14:58 > 0:15:02In his 1970 work, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed,

0:15:02 > 0:15:06which Brazilian educator criticised overly-formal and prescribed

0:15:06 > 0:15:10styles of education, which he termed the "banking concept"?

0:15:10 > 0:15:11INAUDIBLE

0:15:11 > 0:15:13Nominate Fairbrother.

0:15:13 > 0:15:14Paulo Freire.

0:15:14 > 0:15:15Freire is correct.

0:15:15 > 0:15:18And finally, who developed a practical, child-centred

0:15:18 > 0:15:21pedagogical approach and opened her first school,

0:15:21 > 0:15:24the Casa De Bambini, in Rome in 1907?

0:15:24 > 0:15:26Maria Montessori?

0:15:26 > 0:15:27Correct.

0:15:27 > 0:15:28APPLAUSE

0:15:30 > 0:15:32We're going to take a music round, now.

0:15:32 > 0:15:35For your music starter, you're going to hear an excerpt from a musical.

0:15:35 > 0:15:38For ten points, I want you to identify the singer.

0:15:38 > 0:15:40SLOW STRINGS

0:15:41 > 0:15:44# Oh... #

0:15:45 > 0:15:46That's Paul Robeson.

0:15:46 > 0:15:47It is Paul Robeson.

0:15:47 > 0:15:49Ol' Man River from Show Boat.

0:15:49 > 0:15:51APPLAUSE

0:15:51 > 0:15:53So your bonuses are three more popular songs,

0:15:53 > 0:15:57also inspired by life on or around the Mississippi River.

0:15:57 > 0:16:00In each case, I want the name of the band or artist performing.

0:16:00 > 0:16:02Firstly, this singer.

0:16:03 > 0:16:04# The Mississippi delta

0:16:04 > 0:16:07# Was shining like a National guitar... #

0:16:09 > 0:16:10Paul Simon?

0:16:10 > 0:16:12It is Paul Simon, yes.

0:16:12 > 0:16:14Secondly, this singer, please.

0:16:16 > 0:16:17# In a little tent

0:16:19 > 0:16:21# Oh and just like a river

0:16:21 > 0:16:23# I've been running... #

0:16:24 > 0:16:26Sam Cooke?

0:16:26 > 0:16:27It is Sam Cooke, yes.

0:16:27 > 0:16:28Finally, this band.

0:16:29 > 0:16:31ROCK MUSIC

0:16:34 > 0:16:36That's, that's... Led Zeppelin. When The Levee Breaks.

0:16:36 > 0:16:37Led Zeppelin.

0:16:37 > 0:16:38Yes.

0:16:38 > 0:16:40APPLAUSE

0:16:42 > 0:16:44Ten points for this starter question.

0:16:44 > 0:16:47Which opera was inspired by George Crabbe's 1810 series of...

0:16:49 > 0:16:50Peter Grimes.

0:16:50 > 0:16:51Peter Grimes is correct, yes.

0:16:51 > 0:16:52APPLAUSE

0:16:54 > 0:16:58Your bonuses, Jesus, are on the playwright Arthur Miller.

0:16:58 > 0:17:02Firstly, the era of the McCarthy witch-hunts against alleged

0:17:02 > 0:17:05communist sympathisers in the US provided the inspiration in part

0:17:05 > 0:17:07for which of Miller's plays,

0:17:07 > 0:17:11first performed in 1953 and based on events of the 1690s?

0:17:11 > 0:17:13Crucible, yeah? The Crucible.

0:17:13 > 0:17:14Correct.

0:17:14 > 0:17:17Miler's play After The Fall is generally regarded as an

0:17:17 > 0:17:20account of his failed relationship with which notable figure?

0:17:20 > 0:17:22- Marilyn Monroe.- Marilyn Monroe.

0:17:22 > 0:17:23Marilyn Monroe.

0:17:23 > 0:17:24Correct.

0:17:24 > 0:17:28Miller wrote the screenplay for which film of 1961, featuring

0:17:28 > 0:17:31the final screen appearances of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable?

0:17:33 > 0:17:34Oh.

0:17:34 > 0:17:36Final screen appearance of Marilyn Monroe...

0:17:36 > 0:17:38INDISTINCT

0:17:38 > 0:17:41Was it directed by...?

0:17:41 > 0:17:44Try... How To Marry A Millionaire.

0:17:44 > 0:17:46- Sorry?- How To Marry A Millionaire.

0:17:46 > 0:17:48- How to what?- Marry a millionaire.

0:17:48 > 0:17:49How To Marry A Millionaire?

0:17:49 > 0:17:51No, it's The Misfits.

0:17:51 > 0:17:52Ten points for this.

0:17:52 > 0:17:55In the hundred of Underditch near Salisbury,

0:17:55 > 0:17:59which rotten borough had for many years no resident electors at all,

0:17:59 > 0:18:02but still returned two Members Of Parliament up to...

0:18:03 > 0:18:05It is Old Sarum?

0:18:05 > 0:18:06It is Old Sarum, yes.

0:18:06 > 0:18:07APPLAUSE

0:18:09 > 0:18:12Your bonuses are on art galleries this time, Jesus College.

0:18:12 > 0:18:15The Museum Of Fine Arts in which European capital

0:18:15 > 0:18:18has a large collection of works by Pieter Bruegel The Elder,

0:18:18 > 0:18:21including his Hunters In The Snow and The Tower Of Babel?

0:18:21 > 0:18:22Brussels.

0:18:22 > 0:18:23- No, it's Vienna.- Oh.

0:18:23 > 0:18:26Secondly, long attributed to Bruegel,

0:18:26 > 0:18:29Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus is in a gallery

0:18:29 > 0:18:30in which European capital?

0:18:30 > 0:18:34The gallery's name is the title of a poem by WH Auden,

0:18:34 > 0:18:35which reflects on the work.

0:18:35 > 0:18:36Brussels.

0:18:36 > 0:18:37That is Brussels, yes.

0:18:37 > 0:18:41Bruegel's The Land Of Cockaigne is in the Alte Pinakothek Gallery

0:18:41 > 0:18:43in which German city?

0:18:43 > 0:18:46- Munich.- Yeah. Unless we've got anything better?

0:18:46 > 0:18:47Munich.

0:18:47 > 0:18:48Munich is correct.

0:18:48 > 0:18:49APPLAUSE

0:18:49 > 0:18:51Right, we're going to take another starter question now.

0:18:51 > 0:18:53The rock forming the summit pyramid of Mount Everest

0:18:53 > 0:18:56dates to which period of the Palaeozoic era,

0:18:56 > 0:18:58between the Cambrian and the Silurian?

0:19:01 > 0:19:02The Ordovician.

0:19:02 > 0:19:03Correct.

0:19:03 > 0:19:04APPLAUSE

0:19:06 > 0:19:10Your bonuses are on a philosopher this time, Queens'.

0:19:10 > 0:19:13In 1788, which German philosopher wrote,

0:19:13 > 0:19:17"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe,

0:19:17 > 0:19:21"the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me"?

0:19:21 > 0:19:22INDISTINCT

0:19:22 > 0:19:24Kant.

0:19:24 > 0:19:25Correct.

0:19:25 > 0:19:30Between 1781 and 1790, Kant published three major works.

0:19:30 > 0:19:34The Critique Of Pure Reason, the Critique Of Practical Reason,

0:19:34 > 0:19:36and which third critique?

0:19:37 > 0:19:38Um...

0:19:40 > 0:19:44- I don't know.- OK.- I don't know. - Yeah, I don't know.

0:19:44 > 0:19:46The Critique Of Applied Reason.

0:19:46 > 0:19:47It was the Critique Of Judgment.

0:19:47 > 0:19:50And finally, generally used to mean

0:19:50 > 0:19:52the principles of artistic beauty or taste,

0:19:52 > 0:19:55what term did Kant apply to the science of perception by the senses?

0:19:55 > 0:19:57- Aesthetics?- Yeah, aesthetics makes sense.

0:19:57 > 0:19:58Aesthetics or aesthetic? OK.

0:19:58 > 0:20:00Aesthetics.

0:20:00 > 0:20:01Aesthetics is correct. APPLAUSE

0:20:01 > 0:20:02Ten points for this.

0:20:02 > 0:20:07Often hyphenated, what three-word term is often used to denote nacre,

0:20:07 > 0:20:11a microstructure that occurs as an inner layer in the shells

0:20:11 > 0:20:13of some gastropods and bivalves?

0:20:16 > 0:20:17Mother-of-pearl.

0:20:17 > 0:20:19Mother-of-pearl is correct, yes.

0:20:19 > 0:20:20APPLAUSE

0:20:22 > 0:20:24Your bonuses are on novels that employ the device of

0:20:24 > 0:20:25the unreliable narrator.

0:20:25 > 0:20:29In each case, I need the title of the work and the author.

0:20:29 > 0:20:32Firstly, often cited as an example of an unreliable narrator,

0:20:32 > 0:20:36Nelly Dean is a character in which novel of 1847?

0:20:38 > 0:20:41INDISTINCT

0:20:41 > 0:20:45OK, um... Might be Wuthering Heights, actually.

0:20:45 > 0:20:47- Wuthering Heights.- OK.

0:20:47 > 0:20:49It's Emily, isn't it?

0:20:49 > 0:20:50Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

0:20:50 > 0:20:52Correct.

0:20:52 > 0:20:55Secondly, Benjy, Quentin and Jason Compson are

0:20:55 > 0:20:58unreliable narrators in which novel of 1929,

0:20:58 > 0:21:00set in the state of Mississippi?

0:21:03 > 0:21:06Could be Steinbeck, something like that?

0:21:06 > 0:21:08OK.

0:21:08 > 0:21:10- Any ideas?- No idea.

0:21:10 > 0:21:11The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck?

0:21:11 > 0:21:14No, it's The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner.

0:21:14 > 0:21:18And finally, Patrick Bateman is the unreliable narrator of which novel,

0:21:18 > 0:21:20set during the Wall Street boom of the 1980s?

0:21:26 > 0:21:29- Is it American Psycho?- Yeah. - OK, do you know who it's written by?

0:21:30 > 0:21:34- Ellis?- Bret Ellis?- Bret Ellison? - Bret Ellison sounds right.- Yeah.

0:21:34 > 0:21:36American Psycho by Bret Ellison?

0:21:37 > 0:21:39No, you were thinking of the right...

0:21:39 > 0:21:41But you got his name wrong.

0:21:41 > 0:21:42You were thinking of the right person.

0:21:42 > 0:21:45It's Bret Easton Ellis, so I can't give you the points, I'm afraid.

0:21:45 > 0:21:47Right, we're going to take a picture round, now.

0:21:47 > 0:21:49For your picture starter, you'll see a painting.

0:21:49 > 0:21:52For ten points, I want you to identify the artist.

0:21:54 > 0:21:56Bruegel?

0:21:56 > 0:21:58That is Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

0:21:58 > 0:22:01APPLAUSE

0:22:01 > 0:22:05So following on from his Kinderspiele, or Children's Games,

0:22:05 > 0:22:08your picture bonuses are three more paintings of sport and games.

0:22:08 > 0:22:09Again, in each case,

0:22:09 > 0:22:12for the five points, I just want the name of the artist.

0:22:12 > 0:22:14Firstly, for five points.

0:22:15 > 0:22:17I think... OK.

0:22:17 > 0:22:19- Yeah, I've got an idea...- I think it might be Degas, but... OK.

0:22:19 > 0:22:21I'll say that.

0:22:21 > 0:22:22OK. Toulouse-Lautrec?

0:22:22 > 0:22:23No, it was Degas.

0:22:23 > 0:22:26The Parade, or Racehorses In Front Of The Tribune.

0:22:26 > 0:22:27Secondly...

0:22:30 > 0:22:33Maybe... I don't think it's Monet...

0:22:36 > 0:22:40- What about Sisley? That looks...- Yeah.- OK.

0:22:40 > 0:22:41Sisley?

0:22:41 > 0:22:43No, it's Pissarro, his Cricket Match At Bedford Park.

0:22:43 > 0:22:44And finally...

0:22:46 > 0:22:48- That's Rousseau.- Is it? OK.

0:22:48 > 0:22:49Rousseau.

0:22:49 > 0:22:51It is Henri Rousseau, The Football Players.

0:22:51 > 0:22:52APPLAUSE

0:22:52 > 0:22:54Right. Another starter question.

0:22:54 > 0:22:57The star and co-creator of the Netflix series Master Of None...

0:22:59 > 0:23:00Aziz Ansari.

0:23:00 > 0:23:01Correct.

0:23:01 > 0:23:02APPLAUSE

0:23:05 > 0:23:08Your bonuses now, Queens', are on English towns.

0:23:08 > 0:23:10In each case, name the place from the description.

0:23:10 > 0:23:13All three end with the same four-letter suffix.

0:23:13 > 0:23:16Firstly, a town between Leeds and Huddersfield,

0:23:16 > 0:23:20the birthplace of the politicians Betty Boothroyd and Sayeeda Warsi.

0:23:20 > 0:23:22- Dewsbury.- Yeah? OK.

0:23:22 > 0:23:23- Dewsbury.- Correct.

0:23:23 > 0:23:27Secondly, a port in Essex at which Elizabeth I addressed troops

0:23:27 > 0:23:29about to resist the Spanish Armada.

0:23:29 > 0:23:30- Til.- OK.

0:23:30 > 0:23:31- Tilbury.- Correct.

0:23:31 > 0:23:33The county town of Buckinghamshire, finally.

0:23:33 > 0:23:36It shares its name with a common breed of large white duck.

0:23:36 > 0:23:37- Aylesbury.- Correct. APPLAUSE

0:23:37 > 0:23:39Ten points for this.

0:23:40 > 0:23:43Hegel, Wordsworth and Beethoven

0:23:43 > 0:23:45were all born in which year?

0:23:45 > 0:23:48In April of the same year, Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay...

0:23:49 > 0:23:501750.

0:23:50 > 0:23:52No, you lose five points.

0:23:52 > 0:23:54..landed at Botany Bay, and five years later,

0:23:54 > 0:23:56the American Revolution began.

0:23:57 > 0:23:591771.

0:23:59 > 0:24:02No. It was 1770.

0:24:02 > 0:24:03Right, ten points for this.

0:24:03 > 0:24:06Esther Summerson in Bleak House,

0:24:06 > 0:24:08Elizabeth Darcy in Death Comes To Pemberley

0:24:08 > 0:24:13and N in Poppy Shakespeare are among the roles of which actress,

0:24:13 > 0:24:15born in Yorkshire in 1977?

0:24:17 > 0:24:19Keira Knightley?

0:24:19 > 0:24:21No. Anyone like to buzz from Queens'?

0:24:23 > 0:24:24OK. It's Anna Maxwell Martin.

0:24:24 > 0:24:25Ten points for this.

0:24:25 > 0:24:27Answer as soon as your name is called.

0:24:27 > 0:24:31The number 222 in ternary, or base three,

0:24:31 > 0:24:33corresponds to which decimal number?

0:24:34 > 0:24:3526?

0:24:35 > 0:24:36Correct.

0:24:36 > 0:24:38APPLAUSE

0:24:39 > 0:24:42These bonuses will give you the lead. They're on genetics.

0:24:42 > 0:24:45Upstream of the coding sequence of a gene,

0:24:45 > 0:24:48which region of DNA binds RNA polymerase

0:24:48 > 0:24:50to initiate transcription?

0:24:52 > 0:24:58- Ligase or something?- Sorry?- Ligase? - Ligase, that's...- Could be.

0:24:58 > 0:25:01Do you know anything else that would be a good guess?

0:25:02 > 0:25:05- No, I don't think I do. - OK. I'll say that, then.

0:25:05 > 0:25:07Ligase?

0:25:07 > 0:25:08No, it's promoter.

0:25:08 > 0:25:12What term denotes the binding site of a repressor in bacteria?

0:25:12 > 0:25:14It's adjacent to the promoter.

0:25:15 > 0:25:18- Any idea?- No.

0:25:18 > 0:25:20I... I just know its binding site... Sorry.

0:25:20 > 0:25:22OK. No, we don't know.

0:25:22 > 0:25:23It's operator.

0:25:23 > 0:25:25And finally, what is the physiological inducer

0:25:25 > 0:25:27of the lac operon?

0:25:28 > 0:25:30Oh... Physiological, that's...

0:25:32 > 0:25:34Beta-galactosidase?

0:25:34 > 0:25:36OK. Nominate Venturini.

0:25:36 > 0:25:38Beta-galactosidase.

0:25:38 > 0:25:39No, it's allolactose.

0:25:39 > 0:25:41Right, ten points for this.

0:25:41 > 0:25:43The Idea Of A University is an 1852 work

0:25:43 > 0:25:46by which religious figure?

0:25:46 > 0:25:49Associated with the Oxford Movement, he became a Roman Catholic in...

0:25:51 > 0:25:52John Henry Newman?

0:25:52 > 0:25:54Correct. APPLAUSE

0:25:57 > 0:26:00These bonuses are on a heraldic symbol, Jesus College.

0:26:00 > 0:26:03The bottony or trefly,

0:26:03 > 0:26:07the moline and the fitchy are heraldic forms of what symbol?

0:26:08 > 0:26:09Fleur-de-lis?

0:26:09 > 0:26:11Maybe. Fleur-de-lis?

0:26:11 > 0:26:13No, it's the cross.

0:26:13 > 0:26:16The cross fleury has limbs that extend in the shape of which

0:26:16 > 0:26:19heraldic emblem, long associated with the French crown?

0:26:19 > 0:26:20- Oh, that...- Fleur-de-lis.

0:26:20 > 0:26:22- The fleur-de-lis.- Correct.

0:26:22 > 0:26:26And finally, a patriarchal cross with two crossbars appears

0:26:26 > 0:26:28beneath the crown of St Stephen on the coat of arms of

0:26:28 > 0:26:30which country of Eastern Europe?

0:26:31 > 0:26:35INDISTINCT

0:26:35 > 0:26:38- Is it Czech Republic, because it's St Stephen...?- Yeah.

0:26:38 > 0:26:40The Czech Republic?

0:26:40 > 0:26:41- No, it's Hungary.- Oh.

0:26:41 > 0:26:42Ten points for this.

0:26:42 > 0:26:44When studying the British landscape,

0:26:44 > 0:26:48Hooper's hypothesis may be used to estimate the approximate age

0:26:48 > 0:26:49of which natural habitat?

0:26:52 > 0:26:54Moorland?

0:26:54 > 0:26:55No, anyone like to buzz from Queens'?

0:26:56 > 0:26:57Caves.

0:26:57 > 0:26:59No, it's hedges or hedgerows.

0:26:59 > 0:27:01Ten points for this.

0:27:01 > 0:27:03Which of Shakespeare's comedies ends with the words,

0:27:03 > 0:27:06"Give me your hands if we be friends and..."

0:27:06 > 0:27:08Midsummer Night's Dream.

0:27:08 > 0:27:09Correct.

0:27:09 > 0:27:12APPLAUSE

0:27:12 > 0:27:14Your bonuses are on similar surnames.

0:27:14 > 0:27:16In each case, I need the given name and surname

0:27:16 > 0:27:19of the two people described.

0:27:19 > 0:27:20Firstly, two authors.

0:27:20 > 0:27:24One wrote the 1987 novel, The Bonfire Of The Vanities.

0:27:24 > 0:27:28The other wrote the 1922 novel Jacob's Room.

0:27:28 > 0:27:29- Virginia Woolf.- Yeah, and Tom Wolfe.

0:27:29 > 0:27:30Tom Wolfe and Virginia Woolf.

0:27:30 > 0:27:32Correct.

0:27:32 > 0:27:35Secondly, a prominent English composer of church music from

0:27:35 > 0:27:38the late 16th century and a former international cricket umpire

0:27:38 > 0:27:41who was awarded the OBE in 2012.

0:27:41 > 0:27:44- Um, Dickie Bird, probably. - Dickie Bird and...- William Byrd.

0:27:44 > 0:27:45William Byrd.

0:27:45 > 0:27:46William Bird and Dickie Bird.

0:27:46 > 0:27:47Correct.

0:27:47 > 0:27:51And finally, the author of the 1563 work, Actes And Monuments,

0:27:51 > 0:27:53that became known as the Book Of Martyrs,

0:27:53 > 0:27:57and the founder of the group known as the Religious Society Of Friends.

0:27:57 > 0:27:58The first Quaker.

0:27:58 > 0:28:02- Somebody Fox... John Foxe, and... - Henry?

0:28:02 > 0:28:03- Henry?- OK.

0:28:03 > 0:28:05John Foxe and Henry Fox.

0:28:05 > 0:28:07No, it was John Foxe and George Fox.

0:28:07 > 0:28:09Right, ten points for this.

0:28:09 > 0:28:12"Everything great is just as difficult to realise

0:28:12 > 0:28:13"as it is rare to find."

0:28:13 > 0:28:17Which 17th century philosopher made this the last sentence of his...

0:28:17 > 0:28:18GONG

0:28:18 > 0:28:21And at the gong, Queens' College, Cambridge have 155,

0:28:21 > 0:28:23Jesus College, Cambridge have 195.

0:28:23 > 0:28:25APPLAUSE

0:28:30 > 0:28:31Well, bad luck, Queens'.

0:28:31 > 0:28:35You nearly did it, and 155 is a highly respectable score to

0:28:35 > 0:28:37take away, so you leave with your heads held high.

0:28:37 > 0:28:38Jesus College,

0:28:38 > 0:28:41we shall look forward to seeing you in the next stage of the contest.

0:28:41 > 0:28:43Thank you very much for joining us.

0:28:43 > 0:28:45I hope you can join us next time for the next

0:28:45 > 0:28:47highest-scoring losers match.

0:28:47 > 0:28:48But until then, though,

0:28:48 > 0:28:50it's goodbye from Queens' College, Cambridge.

0:28:50 > 0:28:51Goodbye.

0:28:51 > 0:28:53It's goodbye from Jesus College, Cambridge.

0:28:53 > 0:28:55Goodbye.

0:28:55 > 0:28:56And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.