0:00:16 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. The second round matches continue tonight.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34The winning team will join the universities of Edinburgh
0:00:34 > 0:00:37and Birmingham in the quarterfinal stage of this contest,
0:00:37 > 0:00:39and the losing team won't.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Now, making a rare appearance in this competition,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45the University of East London had a close-run thing of it
0:00:45 > 0:00:50in the first round, winning by 150 points to Glasgow University's 135.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53Music by Ozzy Osbourne and Philip Glass left them cold,
0:00:53 > 0:00:55but they were warmer on the religions of Iran,
0:00:55 > 0:01:00the Bronte sisters, Roman towns, Coco Chanel and Paddington Bear.
0:01:00 > 0:01:05With an average age of 41, let's meet the East London team again.
0:01:05 > 0:01:06Hello. I'm Christopher Ducklin.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09I'm originally from Eastbourne in East Sussex.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11I'm studying civil engineering.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Hello. My name is Kelly Travers.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16I'm from Westcliff in Essex and I'm doing a master's of research.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18And their captain.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Hi, my name is Jerushah Jardine.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22I'm originally from the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall,
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and I'm studying for a PhD in peatland ecology.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27Hello, my name is Rachel Evans.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30I'm from Grays in Essex and I'm studying English literature.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32APPLAUSE
0:01:35 > 0:01:36The team from the University of Warwick
0:01:36 > 0:01:39had a close first round match against Liverpool University
0:01:39 > 0:01:41only up until the halfway point,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43when they pulled their collective finger out
0:01:43 > 0:01:48and raced ahead to be on 235 points at the gong to Liverpool's 95.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51In doing so, they told us a lot about cooking rice,
0:01:51 > 0:01:55truth tables, the planet Mercury, and the films of Marilyn Monroe.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59With an average age of 20, let's meet the Warwick team again.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01Hello, I'm Sophie Hobbs.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04I'm from Birmingham and I'm studying French and history.
0:02:04 > 0:02:05Hi, I'm Sophie Rudd.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07I'm from out Grimsby way and I'm reading for
0:02:07 > 0:02:10a master's in computer science and its application.
0:02:10 > 0:02:11And their captain.
0:02:11 > 0:02:12Hello, I'm Giles Hutchings.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15I'm from Farnham in Surrey and I'm studying maths.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Hello, I'm Thomas Van.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20I'm from Geneva in Switzerland and I'm studying history.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23APPLAUSE
0:02:24 > 0:02:27Well, the rules never change in this contest,
0:02:27 > 0:02:29so let's just crack on rather than my reciting them.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36The mountain degu, the yellow-faced pocket gopher
0:02:36 > 0:02:40and the Siberian chipmunk are among more than 2,000 species
0:02:40 > 0:02:42belonging to which order?
0:02:42 > 0:02:45It comprises around 50% of extant mammal species.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50- Rodentia.- Correct.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Your bonuses are on a building, Warwick.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59Standing on the site of an ancient edifice of the same name,
0:02:59 > 0:03:02which ecclesiastical building in Rome had its foundation stone laid
0:03:02 > 0:03:05in 1506 by Pope Julius II?
0:03:05 > 0:03:09It took more than a century for it to be completed.
0:03:09 > 0:03:10St Peter's Basilica.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Do you know?
0:03:12 > 0:03:13Probably.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15It was Rome, wasn't it?
0:03:15 > 0:03:16Yes.
0:03:16 > 0:03:17St Peter's Basilica.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Correct.
0:03:19 > 0:03:24On the death of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger in 1546,
0:03:24 > 0:03:30whom did Pope Paul III appoint as chief architect of St Peter's?
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Would it be Brunelleschi or Michelangelo?
0:03:33 > 0:03:34I was thinking Michelangelo.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37There's something in, like, the catacombs.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40- I think the tomb of... - Shall I go with that?- Sure.
0:03:40 > 0:03:41- Michelangelo. - Correct.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44In the 17th century, who designed the piazza and the
0:03:44 > 0:03:47surrounding elliptical colonnade that lies
0:03:47 > 0:03:50in the approach to St Peter's?
0:03:50 > 0:03:52Bernini was a bit later, but I'm not sure if it was him.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Bernini, do you think?
0:03:54 > 0:03:55Do we have any other leads?
0:03:55 > 0:03:57- Bernini.- Bernini is correct.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00APPLAUSE
0:04:00 > 0:04:01Ten points for this.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Similar in form though not etymology to
0:04:03 > 0:04:07a portmanteau of words for feeling and image,
0:04:07 > 0:04:10what Japanese term means pictograph and indicates
0:04:10 > 0:04:15a small digital symbol used to express an idea...?
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Emoji.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Emoji is correct, yes.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24These bonuses, Warwick, are on scientific nomenclature.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27In each case, I need two answers.
0:04:27 > 0:04:31In 1801, the first asteroid was discovered,
0:04:31 > 0:04:35and two years later a rare Earth element was named after it.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Name both.
0:04:37 > 0:04:42- It'll be Ceres.- Caesium?- I think it might be Ceres and Cerium.
0:04:42 > 0:04:43- Oh.- Ceres and Cerium.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Correct.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48Another element first isolated in 1803 was named after the
0:04:48 > 0:04:50second asteroid to be discovered.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53Again, name both the asteroid and the element.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Sedna.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00I can't think of any others.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Something beginning with... Eros. Doesn't have an element.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Eros and Erbium?
0:05:04 > 0:05:06What element would it be?
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Iridium?
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Eros and Erbium?
0:05:10 > 0:05:12No, it's Pallas and Palladium.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15Finally, in 1940, the first transuranic element
0:05:15 > 0:05:19to be produced artificially was named after an astronomical body.
0:05:19 > 0:05:20Name both.
0:05:20 > 0:05:25Would it be Neptunium? Or the next one. It might be Pluto.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28It's either of those two, really. Neptune or Pluto?
0:05:28 > 0:05:30I'm going to go with Neptune.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32- Neptune and Neptunium.- Correct.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34APPLAUSE
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Ten points for this.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Which city was formerly known as Yuzovka
0:05:39 > 0:05:42after the Welshman John Hughes,
0:05:42 > 0:05:47who founded an ironworks there in 1872...?
0:05:47 > 0:05:48Donetsk.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Donetsk in Ukraine is correct, yes.
0:05:52 > 0:05:57These bonuses are on 19th century light verse, Warwick.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01In each case, identify the author of the following lines. First...
0:06:01 > 0:06:03They dined on mince, and slices of quince
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
0:06:05 > 0:06:07And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
0:06:07 > 0:06:09They danced by the light of the moon.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11- Edward Lear. - Correct, The Owl And The Pussycat.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13There was a little girl,
0:06:13 > 0:06:14Who had a little curl,
0:06:14 > 0:06:15Right in the middle of her forehead.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17When she was good,
0:06:17 > 0:06:18She was very, very good,
0:06:18 > 0:06:21But when she was bad she was horrid.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24- Do you know? - I don't. I know the line.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Could it...? It might be Kipling.
0:06:28 > 0:06:32- Do you want to go with Kipling? - It's not Kipling.
0:06:32 > 0:06:33- Go for...- Brooke?
0:06:33 > 0:06:34Brooke.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36No, it's Longfellow.
0:06:36 > 0:06:37Finally...
0:06:37 > 0:06:39"The time has come", the Walrus said,
0:06:39 > 0:06:40To talk of many things:
0:06:40 > 0:06:42Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax -
0:06:42 > 0:06:43Of cabbages and kings.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45- That's Lewis Carroll. - Correct.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Ten points for this.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51The sound system of which EU official language has a distinctive
0:06:51 > 0:06:57feature called "stod", also known as glottal catch or creaky voice?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59It's used to differentiate, for example,
0:06:59 > 0:07:02the words for "she" and "dog"
0:07:02 > 0:07:04spelled "hun" and "hund".
0:07:06 > 0:07:07German.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10No, I'm afraid you lose five points respectively.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14- Finnish.- No, it's Danish.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17Another starter question now. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Descended from a family of English cotton manufacturers,
0:07:19 > 0:07:23William Henry Waddington attended the Berlin congress
0:07:23 > 0:07:27in 1878 as the foreign minister of which country,
0:07:27 > 0:07:30becoming its prime minister the following year?
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Canada.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36No, anyone like to buzz from Warwick?
0:07:40 > 0:07:41New Zealand?
0:07:41 > 0:07:44No, it's France. Ten points for this.
0:07:44 > 0:07:49The Segre, Cinca and Gallego are tributaries of which river?
0:07:49 > 0:07:51More than 900km in length,
0:07:51 > 0:07:54it flows into the Mediterranean between Barcelona and Valencia.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01It's the Ebro. Ten points for this.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05Which three letters begin the names of the largest city
0:08:05 > 0:08:07of Jammu and Kashmir,
0:08:07 > 0:08:11the patronymic of the Indian mathematician Ramanujan,
0:08:11 > 0:08:12a Thai chilli sauce,
0:08:12 > 0:08:15and the country whose cities include Kandy and Jaffna?
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Sin?
0:08:22 > 0:08:24- Three letters, I'm afraid. - Oh, sorry.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Anyone like to buzz from East London?
0:08:28 > 0:08:29S-R-I.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31S-R-I is correct, yes.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Right, you get your first set of bonuses, East London,
0:08:37 > 0:08:40on the journalist and author Shiela Grant Duff.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44Firstly, for five points, as a journalist for the Observer in 1935,
0:08:44 > 0:08:48Grant Duff covered a plebiscite in which region that had been
0:08:48 > 0:08:51detached from Germany by the Versailles Treaty?
0:08:54 > 0:08:55Nominate Travers.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56Sudetenland?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58No, it's the Sauerland.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02In 1937, Grant Duff went to Malaga to investigate the condition of
0:09:02 > 0:09:05which journalist imprisoned by Franco's insurgents?
0:09:05 > 0:09:09His later works include The God That Failed
0:09:09 > 0:09:10and Darkness At Noon.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Was Hemingway a journalist?
0:09:15 > 0:09:17I may as well try it. Nominate Ducklin.
0:09:17 > 0:09:18Hemingway.
0:09:18 > 0:09:19No, it was Arthur Koestler.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23Finally, Grant Duff opposed appeasement and published
0:09:23 > 0:09:26a best-selling Penguin special defending which country
0:09:26 > 0:09:28when it was threatened by Hitler in 1938?
0:09:30 > 0:09:33It would need to be Austria.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Well, I don't know. Had they taken Austria by 1938 or was it...?
0:09:37 > 0:09:39No, they took Poland in '38.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41- Austria?- Yep.- Austria.
0:09:41 > 0:09:42No, it's Czechoslovakia.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44We're going to take a picture round now.
0:09:44 > 0:09:45Fingers on the buzzers.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48For your picture starter, you're going to see the title of an
0:09:48 > 0:09:51English language novel that's been translated into Latin.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54For ten points, I want you to give me the English title.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04One of you buzz, come on.
0:10:04 > 0:10:05Treasure Island.
0:10:05 > 0:10:09Treasure Island. We'll see the whole thing in English now.
0:10:09 > 0:10:10Wasn't very difficult.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13I don't know why you took so long.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Treasure Island was translated into Latin
0:10:15 > 0:10:17in the early 20th century
0:10:17 > 0:10:19by the proponent of Living Latin, Arcadius Avellanus.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23Your picture bonuses are three more titles of children's books that
0:10:23 > 0:10:27have been translated into Latin to promote new study of the language.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30I'd like the English title in each case.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34Firstly, for five, this translation of a 1963 book.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40I think Where The Wild Things Are. Where The Wild Things Are.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Yes, we'll see the whole thing in English. There we are.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45Secondly, a translation of a 2007 book.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52- Diary Of A Wimpy Kid.- Oh, is it? That's probably, yeah...
0:10:52 > 0:10:53Diary Of A Wimpy Kid.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Indeed it is, yes.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59Finally, this translation of a 1902 work.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03- The Story Of... - Is that Peter Rabbit?
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Probably.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07- Tale of Peter Rabbit? - The Tale Of Peter Rabbit?
0:11:07 > 0:11:08The Tale Of Peter Rabbit.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Yes, it is. Well done.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13APPLAUSE
0:11:13 > 0:11:14Ten points for this.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17In astronomy, what three-word term describes the radiation field
0:11:17 > 0:11:22emitted when the universe was about 380,000 years old?
0:11:22 > 0:11:24It's often known by the abbreviation...
0:11:24 > 0:11:26- Cosmic microwave background. - Correct.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32You get three bonuses on sewage.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37What archaic dialect word for a peat bog precedes "pit"
0:11:37 > 0:11:41and "pool" in terms for an underground sewage chamber?
0:11:41 > 0:11:46Figuratively, both terms describe a foul or squalid place.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49- Cess...- A cesspool.- Oh, yeah.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51- Cess.- Correct.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55"The sun too visits cesspools and is not defiled."
0:11:55 > 0:11:57To which Greek philosopher are those words attributed?
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Notorious for his unclean habits,
0:12:00 > 0:12:03he is credited with founding the Cynic school.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05- Diogenes.- I think it was.
0:12:05 > 0:12:06- Diogenes.- Correct.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08In a work of 1887,
0:12:08 > 0:12:11which fictional character describes London as,
0:12:11 > 0:12:14"That great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers
0:12:14 > 0:12:18"of the Empire are irresistibly drained"?
0:12:18 > 0:12:21Is it Johnson or Bacon?
0:12:21 > 0:12:23- 1887.- Oh...- Which character?
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Which character? Oh, is it a Dickens character?
0:12:27 > 0:12:28Or maybe it's Sherlock Holmes or something.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Oh, it could be. Sherlock Holmes.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33No, it was Dr Watson. Bad luck.
0:12:33 > 0:12:34Ten points for this.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36In its best-known formulation,
0:12:36 > 0:12:41which formal moral law in Kantian ethics states that the maxim
0:12:41 > 0:12:47implied by a proposed action must be such that one...?
0:12:47 > 0:12:48The categorical imperative.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49Correct, yes.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Your bonuses are on conformations of organic molecules.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00All three answers are the names of everyday objects.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03Firstly, the name of what item of furniture is used to describe
0:13:03 > 0:13:05a nonplanar six-membered ring
0:13:05 > 0:13:10in which the atoms are alternatively above and below their mean plane?
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Is that the chair? It's chair or boat. I think it's chair.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14- A chair.- Correct.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17What name is given to the less stable conformation
0:13:17 > 0:13:20in which atoms one, two, four and five are essentially coplanar,
0:13:20 > 0:13:24while atoms three and six extend on the same side of the plane?
0:13:24 > 0:13:26I think that's the boat one.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27- Boat.- Correct.
0:13:27 > 0:13:31The name of what item of stationery describes a five-membered ring
0:13:31 > 0:13:36in which four atoms are coplanar and one atom projects out of the plane?
0:13:38 > 0:13:40- I don't know. Compass. - Compass, maybe.
0:13:40 > 0:13:45- What other items of stationery are there?- Pen. Pencil sharpener.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Compass.
0:13:47 > 0:13:48No, it's an envelope.
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Ten points for this.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52From the Greek for "herald's staff," and associated with
0:13:52 > 0:13:56the Greco-Egyptian figure Hermes Trismegistus
0:13:56 > 0:14:01and the Greek god Hermes, what name denotes a staff entwined by two...?
0:14:02 > 0:14:03Caduceus.
0:14:03 > 0:14:04Correct.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Your bonuses this time are on medieval Europe, Warwick.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14Ivaylo the Cabbage was a peasant leader who seized the throne
0:14:14 > 0:14:17of which country after an uprising in 1277?
0:14:17 > 0:14:20He won victories over the Mongols and Byzantines,
0:14:20 > 0:14:21but was killed in 1280.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23- So, like, East Europe?- Bulgaria?
0:14:23 > 0:14:26- Could be.- Shall I say Bulgaria?
0:14:26 > 0:14:27Bulgaria?
0:14:27 > 0:14:28Bulgaria is right.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Coloman, known as the Possessor Of Books,
0:14:31 > 0:14:34became king of which country in 1095?
0:14:34 > 0:14:36He later also came to the throne of Croatia,
0:14:36 > 0:14:39thus securing for his kingdom an outlet to the sea.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42- It'll be bordering Croatia, then. - Yeah. Could be...
0:14:42 > 0:14:45- Does Serbia have a...?- I don't think Serbia borders the sea...
0:14:45 > 0:14:46Serbia?
0:14:46 > 0:14:48No, it's Hungary.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50And finally, Louis V of France,
0:14:50 > 0:14:53known as the Do-Nothing or the Sluggard,
0:14:53 > 0:14:55was the last ruler of which dynasty?
0:14:55 > 0:14:59He died in 987, and was succeeded by Hugh Capet.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01No, no, Merovingians were pre-Carolingian. So it'll...
0:15:01 > 0:15:02Will it be the Carolingians?
0:15:02 > 0:15:05Were Merovingians before or after Carolingians?
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Merovingians before Carolingians. I'm sure.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09- Merovingians?- No!
0:15:09 > 0:15:11No... No, I'm sorry, I've got to take your answer.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13It was the Carolingians. Bad luck.
0:15:13 > 0:15:14LAUGHTER
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19For your music starter, you'll hear part of the overture to an opera.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22For ten points, I want the title of the opera.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:15:45 > 0:15:46La Boheme?
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Nope.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50You can hear a little more, Warwick, if there's any left.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53MUSIC CONTINUES
0:15:57 > 0:15:58Carmen?
0:15:58 > 0:16:01No, it's part of the William Tell opera.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04So we're going to have another starter question,
0:16:04 > 0:16:06and take the music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:16:06 > 0:16:11Having hosted the Summer Olympics 14 years before, which city in 1938
0:16:11 > 0:16:14became the first to host both the Summer Olympic Games
0:16:14 > 0:16:17and the Fifa World Cup Final?
0:16:19 > 0:16:20Munich?
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Anyone like to buzz from Warwick?
0:16:22 > 0:16:23Berlin?
0:16:23 > 0:16:26No, it was Paris. Ten points for this.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Listen carefully, I need two answers here.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Four US states have a population
0:16:31 > 0:16:34smaller than that of the city of Leeds.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38Which two of these have an area larger than that of the UK?
0:16:40 > 0:16:41Wyoming and Alaska?
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Correct, yes.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50So you get the music bonuses, you'll be pleased to hear.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52You heard part of the William Tell Overture.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54For your music bonuses, three more classical works
0:16:54 > 0:16:57based on the exploits of folk heroes.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59This time, for the five points in each case,
0:16:59 > 0:17:01I just want the name of the composer.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04Firstly, for five, this northern European composer.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:17:06 > 0:17:09I feel like it's going to be Grieg or Sibelius...
0:17:09 > 0:17:11THEY CONFER
0:17:22 > 0:17:23Grieg?
0:17:23 > 0:17:25No, that was Sibelius. Bad luck.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27Secondly, this German composer.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Maybe Wagner?
0:17:38 > 0:17:41That is very... That is quite... That sounds like Wagner.
0:17:41 > 0:17:42Wagner?
0:17:42 > 0:17:44No, that was Richard Strauss.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47And finally, this American composer's depiction
0:17:47 > 0:17:49of a somewhat dubious folk hero.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Dubious folk heroes...?
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Kind of sounds a bit minimalist, maybe...?
0:18:01 > 0:18:03I mean...
0:18:03 > 0:18:05So, do you think Copland?
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Copland?
0:18:07 > 0:18:10It is Aaron Copland, his Billy The Kid Suite.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Plenty of time to get going, East London.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Ten points at stake for this, fingers on the buzzers.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19Meanings of what eight-letter word include a type of optical lens,
0:18:19 > 0:18:22a cartilaginous structure in the knee,
0:18:22 > 0:18:26and the shape of a liquid surface determined by surface tension?
0:18:26 > 0:18:27Meniscus?
0:18:27 > 0:18:28Meniscus is correct, yes.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34Your bonuses are on place names, Warwick.
0:18:34 > 0:18:39All three end with the same five-letter suffix.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Known as Cow Ford before it was renamed
0:18:41 > 0:18:43after a 19th century president,
0:18:43 > 0:18:47what is the largest city by population in the state of Florida?
0:18:48 > 0:18:51- Miami? Or Orlando...? - Jackson...?- Jacksonville.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53- Jacksonville.- Probably. - Because of the president.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56- Yeah, cos then "-ville" will be the suffix.- Yeah. Jacksonville?
0:18:56 > 0:18:57Correct. The first French explorer
0:18:57 > 0:19:00to lead a circumnavigation of the world
0:19:00 > 0:19:03gives his name to both a purple tropical flowering plant
0:19:03 > 0:19:08and to which island, located east of New Britain in the South Pacific?
0:19:08 > 0:19:11So is that, like, Bougainvillea?
0:19:11 > 0:19:13Oh, it might be, yeah.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15- Do they want the name of... Is it, like, Bougain?- Yes.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Bougain?
0:19:17 > 0:19:18- No, it's Bougainville.- Oh.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21You were in the right area, but not precise enough.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24Which coastal resort in Lower Normandy has held an
0:19:24 > 0:19:27American Film Festival annually since 1975?
0:19:31 > 0:19:34- This is in France?- Yeah.- Yeah, Normandy.- Somewhere "-ville".
0:19:34 > 0:19:37I don't know any...film festivals.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40I don't know any Norman towns apart from Rouen.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Rouenville?
0:19:42 > 0:19:43No, it's Deauville.
0:19:43 > 0:19:44Right, ten points for this.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47Born in Chicago in 1952,
0:19:47 > 0:19:50which director is noted for visual innovations in films such as
0:19:50 > 0:19:53Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Forrest Gump?
0:19:54 > 0:19:55Robert Zemeckis?
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Correct.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Right, your bonuses are on literary titles.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06In each case, name both the authors of the following novels.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09First, Agnes Grey and Charlotte Gray.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13- Sebastian Faulks.- Yeah, Agnes Grey.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16It's one of the Brontes, isn't it?
0:20:16 > 0:20:18- Yeah... Anne Bronte and Sebastian Faulks.- Come on.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21- Anne Bronte and Sebastian Faulks. - Correct.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Secondly, Carrie and Sister Carrie.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Stephen King...
0:20:26 > 0:20:28I don't know the other one.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30- Any guesses?- No, sorry.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Stephen King, and we don't know the other one, sorry.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35You're right on Stephen King, the other one was Theodore Dreiser.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37I can't give you the points, I'm afraid.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40Finally, Mary Barton and Mary Poppins.
0:20:40 > 0:20:44- PL Travers.- PL Travers, right? - We just need the second one.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Mary Barton, I don't know, I've never heard of that.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50I'd guess one of the...
0:20:52 > 0:20:54I don't know, one of the...
0:20:54 > 0:20:5618th century, 19th century...
0:20:56 > 0:20:57Mary Barton...
0:20:57 > 0:20:58Try...
0:21:00 > 0:21:03George Eliot or someone like that.
0:21:03 > 0:21:07So PL Travers and...what are we going for?
0:21:07 > 0:21:09- Let's just guess.- Let's guess. Yeah.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12PL Travers and George Eliot.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15- No, it's PL Travers and Mrs Gaskell. - Oh!
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Ten points at stake for this. Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Prominent in the late 15th and early 16th centuries,
0:21:20 > 0:21:24Jacob the Rich was a member of which German banking dynasty?
0:21:25 > 0:21:27Rothschild?
0:21:28 > 0:21:29No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33..German banking dynasty which provided financial support
0:21:33 > 0:21:36for the Holy Roman Emperors Maximilian I and Charles V?
0:21:41 > 0:21:44No-one's going to buzz from Warwick, by the look of it...
0:21:44 > 0:21:45The Lombards?
0:21:45 > 0:21:47No, it's the Fuggers, the Fugger family.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Right, ten points at stake for this.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53Born in Bavaria in 1898, which dramatist wrote
0:21:53 > 0:21:56Fear And Misery Of The Third Reich, a series of 24 sketches
0:21:56 > 0:22:00that portray the way in which the lives of ordinary Germans
0:22:00 > 0:22:02were affected by the events of the 1930s?
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Is it Brecht?
0:22:05 > 0:22:06It was Brecht, yes.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13Right, these bonuses are on scientific discoveries, East London.
0:22:13 > 0:22:18In 1894, Sir William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh announced
0:22:18 > 0:22:20the discovery of what atmospheric element?
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Atmospheric element...
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Nitrogen?
0:22:26 > 0:22:27- Nitrogen.- Nitrogen, you reckon?
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Nitrogen?
0:22:29 > 0:22:30No, it was argon.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Ramsay went on to discover the existence of helium
0:22:33 > 0:22:35in radioactive cleveite.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Where had Pierre Janssen discovered helium decades before?
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Janssen...
0:22:44 > 0:22:47- Put... Say the sun?- Seawater?
0:22:47 > 0:22:49- Shall we say seawater? - Yeah...
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Seawater.
0:22:51 > 0:22:52- No, it was the sun. ALL:- Aww!
0:22:52 > 0:22:55And finally, in addition to argon and helium,
0:22:55 > 0:22:59which three other noble gases did Ramsay systematically discover,
0:22:59 > 0:23:02guided by Mendeleev's period system?
0:23:02 > 0:23:06OK, there's boron...argon... Xenon...
0:23:06 > 0:23:07- We've already said argon. - Oh, did we?
0:23:07 > 0:23:09- Oh, we have.- No... Xenon...
0:23:09 > 0:23:11- Boron.- Neon.- Neon.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Xenon, boron, neon.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15No, it was neon, krypton and xenon.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18So we're going to take a second picture round, now.
0:23:18 > 0:23:19For your picture starter,
0:23:19 > 0:23:22you're going to see a self-portrait by a British artist.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Ten points if you can identify the artist.
0:23:31 > 0:23:32Joshua Reynolds?
0:23:32 > 0:23:33It is Josh Reynolds, yes.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38He was the first president of the Royal Academy,
0:23:38 > 0:23:40and became a founder of its collection
0:23:40 > 0:23:42by donating that self-portrait.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45Since then, academicians have been required
0:23:45 > 0:23:48to donate a diploma work on their election,
0:23:48 > 0:23:51and your picture bonuses are three such works.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Name the artist in each case.
0:23:53 > 0:23:54Firstly for five,
0:23:54 > 0:23:57the painter of this work donated it to the Academy in 1900.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04THEY CONFER
0:24:07 > 0:24:08Nominate Travers.
0:24:08 > 0:24:09Alfred Sisley?
0:24:09 > 0:24:11No, it isn't.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13It's John Singer Sargent, An Interior In Venice.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16Secondly, a work donated in 1868,
0:24:16 > 0:24:18five years after the artist's election.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23I reckon it could be one of...
0:24:23 > 0:24:26Yeah, I was going to say, one of the Pre-Raphaelites.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Who was the one who did the bubbles...?
0:24:29 > 0:24:31I don't know.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Somebody else... Millais?
0:24:35 > 0:24:38Does he have red hair? Yeah. That'll be Waterhouse.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Do we have a general consensus?
0:24:40 > 0:24:42- Yeah.- Waterhouse?- Yeah.
0:24:42 > 0:24:43Waterhouse?
0:24:43 > 0:24:44You're too reasonable.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46No, it was Millais, you were guessing right.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49Finally, this work, donated in 1829.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53- Constable.- Constable. - Constable, yeah.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54Constable?
0:24:54 > 0:24:56It is Constable, Boat Passing A Lock.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Right, ten points at stake if you can get your fingers
0:24:58 > 0:25:00on the buzzers quickly enough.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02"Science and letters are the nourishment of youth
0:25:02 > 0:25:05"and the diversion of old age."
0:25:05 > 0:25:07This is a translation of words
0:25:07 > 0:25:10by which Roman philosopher and orator...?
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Cicero?
0:25:12 > 0:25:13Correct.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18You get three bonuses, this time, East London,
0:25:18 > 0:25:20on Canterbury Cathedral.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23Which chapel of Canterbury Cathedral is named after
0:25:23 > 0:25:25an archbishop who died in 1109?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28He originated the ontological argument for the existence of God.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Thomas Becket.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31No, it wasn't.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33It was St Anselm.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Secondly, which composer was buried at Canterbury Cathedral
0:25:35 > 0:25:38on the day after his death in 1625?
0:25:38 > 0:25:41He's noted for keyboard works and madrigals,
0:25:41 > 0:25:43including The Silver Swan.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Any ideas?
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Um...
0:25:47 > 0:25:48Thomas Tallis.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Thomas Tallis, yeah. OK, yeah.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Nominate Evans.
0:25:52 > 0:25:53Thomas Tallis?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55No, it was Orlando Gibbons.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57And finally, who is the only king of England
0:25:57 > 0:25:59to be buried in Canterbury Cathedral?
0:25:59 > 0:26:01He lies alongside his Queen, Joan of Navarre,
0:26:01 > 0:26:03who died in 1437.
0:26:04 > 0:26:05Over to you.
0:26:10 > 0:26:11Henry IV?
0:26:11 > 0:26:12Henry IV.
0:26:12 > 0:26:13Correct.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Right, ten points for this.
0:26:15 > 0:26:16Answer promptly.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20Name any one of the three Caribbean island nations
0:26:20 > 0:26:24whose two letter internet codes consist solely of letters
0:26:24 > 0:26:26that are also Roman numerals.
0:26:33 > 0:26:34Virgin Islands?
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Nope.
0:26:37 > 0:26:38Dominica?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Dominica is one.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43St Lucia is another. St Vincent is the third.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45So you get a set of bonuses, Warwick,
0:26:45 > 0:26:47on Japanese fiction.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51Born in 1964, which novelist has been described as,
0:26:51 > 0:26:52"The voice of young Japan"?
0:26:52 > 0:26:56Her works include Kitchen, Amrita, Lizard and The Lake.
0:26:56 > 0:26:57It's like...Banana.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00It's... Tanizaki? Is that it?
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Or Banana or something.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04- There's a Japanese author that... - Oh, yeah.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06I think it could be...
0:27:06 > 0:27:09- Shall we say Banana? - I can't say that.
0:27:11 > 0:27:12Tanizaki?
0:27:12 > 0:27:15- No, it is Banana Yoshimoto. - Oh, it is. Sorry.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19And secondly, first published in book form in 1969,
0:27:19 > 0:27:23Spring Snow is the first novel in a tetralogy by which Japanese author?
0:27:23 > 0:27:26He completed the last novel in the series
0:27:26 > 0:27:29shortly before committing ritual seppuku in 1970.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31- Mishima.- Correct.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35Born in 1949, which Japanese novelist's works include
0:27:35 > 0:27:39After Dark, A Wild Sheep Chase and Norwegian Wood?
0:27:39 > 0:27:40Murakami.
0:27:40 > 0:27:41Correct.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43Ten points for this.
0:27:43 > 0:27:44Abundant in the Earth's crust,
0:27:44 > 0:27:46which element appears in the periodic table
0:27:46 > 0:27:48between aluminium and phosphorus?
0:27:48 > 0:27:50GONG
0:27:51 > 0:27:52And that's the gong.
0:27:54 > 0:27:55East London have 55,
0:27:55 > 0:27:58but the University of Warwick have 195.
0:27:58 > 0:27:59Well, East London,
0:27:59 > 0:28:03I'm afraid you didn't get a chance to get going, really, did you?
0:28:03 > 0:28:05But we're going to have to say goodbye to you, therefore,
0:28:05 > 0:28:07as a consequence.
0:28:07 > 0:28:08But thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Warwick, 195, very impressive score.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13We shall look forward to seeing you in the next stage of the contest.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16I hope you can join us next time for another second-round match.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19But until then, it's goodbye from the University of East London...
0:28:19 > 0:28:20- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22It's goodbye from Warwick University...
0:28:22 > 0:28:23- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.