0:00:18 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello. Oxford plays Cambridge tonight,
0:00:30 > 0:00:32with a place in the second round
0:00:32 > 0:00:34for whichever team is ahead at the gong.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36The losing team could get a chance to play again
0:00:36 > 0:00:40if their score happens to be among the four highest losing scores
0:00:40 > 0:00:41from these first-round matches.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45So our advice to both teams is to rattle through as many questions
0:00:45 > 0:00:48as possible, ideally getting them right, of course!
0:00:48 > 0:00:52Corpus Christi College Oxford has appeared three times since 1994
0:00:52 > 0:00:54on this programme, and won the championship
0:00:54 > 0:00:56with a formidable line-up in 2005.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Founded during the reign of Henry VIII,
0:00:58 > 0:01:02it has one of Oxford's smallest student bodies
0:01:02 > 0:01:05with around 375 undergraduates and graduates.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Former Corpuscles include one of the leading lights
0:01:08 > 0:01:12of the Oxford movement, John Keble, the philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin,
0:01:12 > 0:01:15the long-serving editor of the Guardian, CP Scott,
0:01:15 > 0:01:18and the politicians Ed and David Miliband.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21With an average age of 21, let's meet the Corpus Christi team.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25Hello, I'm Tom Fleet, I'm from Pendoggett in Cornwall,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28- and I study English. - Hi, I'm Emma Johnson,
0:01:28 > 0:01:30I'm from north London and I study medicine.
0:01:30 > 0:01:31And this is their captain.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35Hi, I'm Nikhil Venkatesh, I'm from Derby and I read philosophy,
0:01:35 > 0:01:37politics and economics.
0:01:37 > 0:01:38Hi, I'm Adam Wright.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42I'm from Winnersh in Berkshire and I'm studying for a DPhil in physics.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45APPLAUSE
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Now, playing them is the team representing
0:01:49 > 0:01:50Jesus College Cambridge,
0:01:50 > 0:01:54who last made an appearance on this programme in 2012.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58The college was founded in 1496 on the site of a 12th-century
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Benedictine nunnery, and now has around 760 students,
0:02:02 > 0:02:05so around twice the size of their opponents tonight.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Alumni include the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury,
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Thomas Cranmer, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
0:02:10 > 0:02:13the writer Laurence Sterne, and the novelist Nick Hornby.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17With an average age of 20, let's meet the Jesus team.
0:02:17 > 0:02:18Hiya. I'm Sam Fairbrother,
0:02:18 > 0:02:22I'm from Greater Manchester and I'm currently studying for my finals in
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Education, with Drama and English.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Hi, I'm Rosa Price.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28I'm from East London and I'm studying English.
0:02:28 > 0:02:29And this is their captain.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Hi, I'm Theo Morris Clarke, I'm from London,
0:02:32 > 0:02:35and I'm reading for an MPhil in Economics.
0:02:35 > 0:02:36Hello, I'm Daniel Petrides,
0:02:36 > 0:02:39I'm from Petts Wood in Kent and I'm reading for an MPhil
0:02:39 > 0:02:41in Political Thought and Intellectual History.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44APPLAUSE
0:02:46 > 0:02:47The rules are the same as ever.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Starter questions are worth ten points,
0:02:49 > 0:02:51must be answered individually,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54bonus sets are worth 15 points and on those you can confer.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56There is a five-point fine
0:02:56 > 0:02:58if you interrupt a starter question incorrectly.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05What literary concept did Aristotle describe as "The imitation of
0:03:05 > 0:03:09"an action with incidents arousing pity and fear...?
0:03:10 > 0:03:12- Tragedy.- Correct.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20Right, your bonuses are on drinking in Shakespeare, Jesus.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22In Twelfth Night, which two characters
0:03:22 > 0:03:26are berated for singing drunkenly late at night by Malvolio,
0:03:26 > 0:03:30who accuses them of "making an alehouse of my lady's house"?
0:03:31 > 0:03:35- Nominate Price.- Andrew Aguecheek and Toby Belch.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Correct. Which character says that the drinking habits of the English
0:03:38 > 0:03:41that they are "most potent in potting?
0:03:41 > 0:03:44"Your Dane, your German and swag-bellied Hollander
0:03:44 > 0:03:46"are nothing to your English"?
0:03:46 > 0:03:50He says this while attempting to get Cassio drunk.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53- Iago?- Iago.- Correct.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57In which play does a character known only as "Boy" provide a contrast to
0:03:57 > 0:04:00the eponymous king by declaring during a battle,
0:04:00 > 0:04:03"Would I were in an alehouse in London,
0:04:03 > 0:04:07"I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety"?
0:04:07 > 0:04:10- Henry V.- Correct.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15Which physicist made important contributions to the understanding
0:04:15 > 0:04:18of thermodynamics, telegraphy, magnetism and electricity?
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Born William Thompson in Belfast in 1824...
0:04:23 > 0:04:24Lord Kelvin. Lord Kelvin is correct.
0:04:28 > 0:04:33Your bonuses are on properties owned by the Landmark Trust charity,
0:04:33 > 0:04:35which aims to rescue important buildings
0:04:35 > 0:04:37that would otherwise be lost.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Firstly for five points, associated with Richard Arkwright,
0:04:40 > 0:04:43North Street in Cromford is described as
0:04:43 > 0:04:46the earliest piece of planned industrial housing in the world.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50It lies within the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site
0:04:50 > 0:04:52in which English county?
0:04:52 > 0:04:53- Derbyshire.- Correct.
0:04:53 > 0:04:58Described as a rare and noble survivor of a style that was
0:04:58 > 0:05:01in fashion after Napoleon's campaign in Egypt,
0:05:01 > 0:05:04and as making even Brighton Pavilion look delicate,
0:05:04 > 0:05:08the Egyptian House is in which town on Mount Bay,
0:05:08 > 0:05:12where the English Channel meets the Atlantic Ocean?
0:05:12 > 0:05:15- Penzance? - It has to be Cornwall, right?
0:05:15 > 0:05:16- Yeah...- Yeah?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18- Penzance?- Correct.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20A property in the Chateau of Hougoumont
0:05:20 > 0:05:24stands on which battlefield in the Low Countries?
0:05:28 > 0:05:29- Waterloo?- Waterloo.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31It is at the battlefield of Waterloo, yes.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Ten points for this... APPLAUSE
0:05:34 > 0:05:37Which Asian country's national holidays
0:05:37 > 0:05:40include Respect For The Aged Day...
0:05:40 > 0:05:43- Japan.- Japan is correct, yes.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Your bonuses are on life sciences, Corpus Christi, this time.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50In each case, give the term from the definition.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54All three answers include the word element "plasm",
0:05:54 > 0:05:56from the Greek for "to shape".
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Firstly, in biology, what term denotes the part of the cell
0:05:59 > 0:06:01that's external to the nuclear membrane
0:06:01 > 0:06:03and contains the organelles
0:06:03 > 0:06:06including the mitochondria and the lysosomes?
0:06:06 > 0:06:08- Cytoplasm.- Correct.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11Cytoplasm can be differentiated into endoplasm,
0:06:11 > 0:06:13which contains most of the cells' structures,
0:06:13 > 0:06:15and the more dense outer material,
0:06:15 > 0:06:17primarily concerned with cell movement.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19By what term is that known?
0:06:20 > 0:06:24THEY CONFER
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Yeah? OK.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29- Ectoplasm?- Ectoplasm is correct.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Found in the cytoplasm of many bacteria,
0:06:31 > 0:06:34what extra chromosome or genetic element
0:06:34 > 0:06:35plays a key role in procedures
0:06:35 > 0:06:38such as gene therapy and research?
0:06:38 > 0:06:40I need a seven-letter term here.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42- Plasmid.- Plasmid is correct, yes.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Bert and Ernie were the nicknames
0:06:49 > 0:06:51given to examples of what type of subatomic particle,
0:06:51 > 0:06:57detected by the IceCube instrument at the South Pole in 2011 and 2012?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Both had exceptionally high energies,
0:06:59 > 0:07:01around ten to the 15 electron volts,
0:07:01 > 0:07:04and were thought to have originated in deep space.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11- Neutrinos? - Neutrinos is correct, yes.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17Your bonuses this time, Corpus Christi, are on a shared surname.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Name the person from the description,
0:07:19 > 0:07:22giving the first name and the surname in each case.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Firstly, a diamond magnate who became Prime Minister
0:07:25 > 0:07:26of Cape Colony in 1890.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30He gave his name to the region that is now Zambia and Zimbabwe.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33- Cecil Rhodes. - Cecil Rhodes is correct.
0:07:33 > 0:07:34Secondly, a Yorkshire all-rounder
0:07:34 > 0:07:38who took more first-class wickets than any other bowler.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41He is also the oldest man ever to have played in a Test match,
0:07:41 > 0:07:43aged 52 on his last appearance in 1930.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45- Wilfred Rhodes?- Correct.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47And finally, the founder of
0:07:47 > 0:07:49the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52As a fashion designer, her clients included Freddie Mercury
0:07:52 > 0:07:55and Diana, Princess of Wales, and, in 2010,
0:07:55 > 0:07:57she was installed as Chancellor
0:07:57 > 0:08:01of the University For The Creative Arts.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04- Edwina Rhodes. - Edwina Rhodes?
0:08:04 > 0:08:05No, that is Zandra Rhodes.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07We are going to take a picture round now.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11For your picture starter, you'll see a graphic representation of two sets
0:08:11 > 0:08:17of integers, A and B, with a third set, C, formally defined below them.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19For ten points, I want you to identify
0:08:19 > 0:08:22the integers contained in set C.
0:08:28 > 0:08:29- 2 and 3?- Correct.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37So, for your picture bonuses, three more exercises in basic set theory.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40In each case, you'll see some more graphic representations
0:08:40 > 0:08:43of sets of integers. I want you to give me the integer or integers
0:08:43 > 0:08:46contained in the set formally defined below them.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Firstly, set C?
0:08:49 > 0:08:50What does the slash mean?
0:08:50 > 0:08:53I don't know. I don't know what the slash means.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56I'll just go for things in only one of them.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Yeah? Just roll with it.
0:08:58 > 0:09:001, 4 and 5.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02- No, it's just 1.- Oh!
0:09:02 > 0:09:03Secondly, set D.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09- What's the triangle?- No idea.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13- No idea.- So it's the ones which also have C in.
0:09:13 > 0:09:146? Try 6.
0:09:14 > 0:09:162 and 4. 4 is not in A.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Try 6.
0:09:18 > 0:09:19- 6.- No, it's 4!
0:09:21 > 0:09:22And finally, set C.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29All of them - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
0:09:29 > 0:09:30Correct, yes!
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Right, ten points for this.
0:09:34 > 0:09:39In internet usage, for what does the abbreviation TL;DR stand?
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Too Long; Didn't Read.
0:09:42 > 0:09:43Correct.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49Your bonuses are on chemical elements, Corpus Christi.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51With the atomic number 22,
0:09:51 > 0:09:53which element has a naturally occurring dioxide
0:09:53 > 0:09:56that is widely used in paint, sunscreen and toothpaste?
0:09:56 > 0:09:59This compound occurs in minerals, such as brookite and rutile.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02I know that it's a zinc, because it's on sunscreen.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05- Yeah? Zinc?- No, it's titanium.
0:10:05 > 0:10:06With the atomic number 30,
0:10:06 > 0:10:09which element forms an impervious coating of its oxide
0:10:09 > 0:10:10on exposure to the atmosphere,
0:10:10 > 0:10:14making it more resistant to corrosion than, for example, iron?
0:10:14 > 0:10:17THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:10:17 > 0:10:18Aluminium.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22No, that is zinc. And, finally, with the atomic number 82,
0:10:22 > 0:10:25which element has an oxide known as litharge
0:10:25 > 0:10:30which is extensively used in the production of glass?
0:10:30 > 0:10:34It's like silicon but silicon's atomic number isn't 82.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Cobalt?
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Anyone? Cobalt?
0:10:38 > 0:10:40No, it's lead. Ten points for this.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Which branch of mathematics takes its name
0:10:42 > 0:10:47from the title of a ninth-century book in Arabic by...?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- Algebra?- Algebra is correct,
0:10:49 > 0:10:51you get a set the bonuses now
0:10:51 > 0:10:53on business-related books, Corpus Christi.
0:10:53 > 0:10:58Which Canadian-born economist's book, The Great Crash 1929,
0:10:58 > 0:11:01has never been out of print since it was first published in 1955?
0:11:04 > 0:11:07I should know this, this is... Well, it's my degree!
0:11:07 > 0:11:09LAUGHTER
0:11:09 > 0:11:12- Galbraith?- It was JK Galbraith, yes.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16Which US journalist's 1972 work The Best And The Brightest
0:11:16 > 0:11:18recounts how some leaders of industry
0:11:18 > 0:11:21were employed by the presidential administration
0:11:21 > 0:11:24and attempted to apply what they had learned at the Ford Motor Company
0:11:24 > 0:11:26to the Vietnam War?
0:11:26 > 0:11:29I was reading about this the other day, and I have no idea.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32Is it going to be Woodward?
0:11:32 > 0:11:34- Yeah?- Yeah.- Woodward?
0:11:34 > 0:11:36No, it was David Halberstam.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39And finally, the author of The Black Swan,
0:11:39 > 0:11:40which former hedge-fund manager
0:11:40 > 0:11:43had earlier emphasised the role of chance
0:11:43 > 0:11:49in the financial markets in his 2001 book Fooled By Randomness?
0:11:49 > 0:11:52Oh, he's got, like, three names.
0:11:52 > 0:11:53Like Arabic...
0:11:54 > 0:11:55Persian.
0:11:58 > 0:11:59You're on your own!
0:11:59 > 0:12:01- Taleb?- Nicholas Taleb is correct, yes.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Ten points for this. In different spellings,
0:12:03 > 0:12:06what diminutive of a male given name
0:12:06 > 0:12:10appears on the titles of an 1892 farce by Brandon Thomas,
0:12:10 > 0:12:14a traditional Scots song about the Jacobite movement,
0:12:14 > 0:12:16two children's books by Roald Dahl...?
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Danny?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26- Charlie?- Charlie is correct, yes.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31You get a set of bonuses this time, Jesus College,
0:12:31 > 0:12:34on the author and campaigner Arundhati Roy.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Firstly, Arundhati Roy won the Booker prize in 1997
0:12:37 > 0:12:41for which novel, set largely in the Indian state of Kerala?
0:12:41 > 0:12:43The God Of Small Things.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45The God Of Small Things.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Correct. In 2002, Roy was briefly imprisoned
0:12:47 > 0:12:51during her campaign against the Narmada project,
0:12:51 > 0:12:53located in which state of north-west India?
0:12:53 > 0:12:55North-west?
0:12:55 > 0:12:58Uttar Pradesh? Uttar Pradesh?
0:12:58 > 0:12:59No, it's Gujarat.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03And, finally, before his election as Indian Prime Minister in 2014,
0:13:03 > 0:13:05whom did Roy describe as
0:13:05 > 0:13:08the most militaristic and aggressive candidate?
0:13:08 > 0:13:10- Narendra Modi.- Correct.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13Ten points for this. First published in 1791,
0:13:13 > 0:13:16which book was Thomas Paine's response to Edmund Burke...?
0:13:17 > 0:13:19- The Rights Of Man?- Correct.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24Your bonuses this time, Jesus College,
0:13:24 > 0:13:28are on island groups that comprise the biogeographical region known as
0:13:28 > 0:13:33Micronesia, a term coined from the Greek for "isles of the blessed".
0:13:33 > 0:13:36On a similar latitude to San Francisco,
0:13:36 > 0:13:38which archipelago includes
0:13:38 > 0:13:42the islands of Santa Maria, Pico and Flores?
0:13:42 > 0:13:47THEY CONFER INAUDIBLY
0:13:49 > 0:13:51- Indonesia?- No, it's the Azores.
0:13:51 > 0:13:56Secondly, Sercial and Malmsey are varieties of fortified wine
0:13:56 > 0:13:59produced in which island of Micronesia?
0:13:59 > 0:14:00- Madeira?- Correct.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Named after the westernmost promontory of Africa,
0:14:03 > 0:14:06which island group became independent of Portugal in 1975?
0:14:06 > 0:14:07(Canary Islands.)
0:14:10 > 0:14:11The Verde Islands?
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Oh, yeah. The Cape Verde Islands?
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Correct. Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18For your music starter, you'll hear
0:14:18 > 0:14:20part of the recording of a film score.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23For ten points, I want you to identify
0:14:23 > 0:14:26the film for which the score was written.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30MUSIC CLIP PLAYS
0:14:33 > 0:14:35Um... Up... Up.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Up is correct, yes.
0:14:41 > 0:14:45That score for Pixar's Up won the Academy Award in 2010.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Your music bonuses are three more Pixar film scores.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50I want you to identify the film in each case.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Firstly, for five...
0:14:52 > 0:14:55MUSIC CLIP PLAYS
0:14:58 > 0:15:00- The Incredibles?- Correct.
0:15:00 > 0:15:01Secondly...
0:15:01 > 0:15:03MUSIC CLIP PLAYS
0:15:05 > 0:15:09That is either... Is that Despicable Me or is it...?
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Ratatouille?
0:15:12 > 0:15:14It seems nefarious.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16OK.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Despicable Me?
0:15:20 > 0:15:23- Despicable Me. - No, it's Wall-E.
0:15:23 > 0:15:24And finally...
0:15:24 > 0:15:26MUSIC CLIP PLAYS
0:15:32 > 0:15:33It's Finding Nemo.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36- Finding Nemo.- Correct - that gives you the lead.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Ten points for this.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42Pearl and foxtail are common names of species of what food grain,
0:15:42 > 0:15:44a staple of much of Asia, Russia and...?
0:15:46 > 0:15:49- Barley?- No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53..staple of much of Russia, Asia and Western Africa?
0:15:53 > 0:15:55It is eaten as a flatbread or porridge,
0:15:55 > 0:15:57or in a similar way to rice.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00One of you may buzz, Jesus.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03- Is it polenta?- No, it's millet.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Ten points for this. Salamanders and newts
0:16:06 > 0:16:10both belong to which class of animals, named...?
0:16:10 > 0:16:12- Amphibians? - Amphibia is correct, yes.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Right, these bonuses are on United States history.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Firstly, for five points,
0:16:20 > 0:16:22formerly a commander in the Mexican-American War,
0:16:22 > 0:16:26which US president died in 1850, only 16 months after taking office?
0:16:26 > 0:16:281850.
0:16:28 > 0:16:33Is it going to be Grant?
0:16:33 > 0:16:34No. Taylor?
0:16:34 > 0:16:36- Taylor?- It was Zachary Taylor.
0:16:36 > 0:16:41In 1835, Taylor's daughter Sarah married which future head of state?
0:16:41 > 0:16:45He was accused of treason and imprisoned in 1865,
0:16:45 > 0:16:47although he never stood trial.
0:16:47 > 0:16:48(Don't know.)
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Future head of state?
0:16:57 > 0:16:59- Lee?- No, it was Jefferson Davis.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03And, finally, Taylor and his successor, Millard Fillmore,
0:17:03 > 0:17:05were both elected on the ticket of which political party,
0:17:05 > 0:17:09named after a British grouping opposed to royal prerogatives?
0:17:09 > 0:17:11- The Whigs?- Correct.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14Ten points for this. Thomas Hardy described which of his novels as
0:17:14 > 0:17:17a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit?
0:17:17 > 0:17:21It describes the title character's doomed relationships with a....
0:17:22 > 0:17:25- Tess Of The D'Urbervilles? - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29..with a barmaid, Arabella Don, and his cousin, Sue Brighthead?
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Jude The Obscure.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Correct.
0:17:35 > 0:17:40So you go back into the lead. Your bonuses are on physics, Jesus.
0:17:40 > 0:17:44When an atom of potassium 40 undergoes radioactive decay
0:17:44 > 0:17:47to form calcium 40, it most commonly emits
0:17:47 > 0:17:51an anti-neutrino and what other subatomic particle?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58- Proton?- No, it's an electron.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02Or a beta particle. This is one form of beta decay.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06What are the two other forms, both also displayed by potassium 40?
0:18:09 > 0:18:13- We have no idea.- They're positron emission and electron capture.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16And, finally, comprising about 1% of the Earth's atmosphere,
0:18:16 > 0:18:18what isotope is formed when potassium 40
0:18:18 > 0:18:22undergoes positron emission or electron capture?
0:18:22 > 0:18:27- Is it argon?- Isotope, so no.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30- Oh.- Guess something.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32No, Argon 17.
0:18:32 > 0:18:33No, it's Argon 40.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36Bad luck. Right, ten points for this.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40In a test match against Pakistan in October 2015,
0:18:40 > 0:18:42which batsman occupied the crease for a record...?
0:18:42 > 0:18:45- Alastair Cook. - Alastair Cook is correct.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50These bonuses are on sculptures.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53Bequeathed to the Royal Academy in the early 19th century,
0:18:53 > 0:18:55the Taddei Tondo of around 1504
0:18:55 > 0:18:59is the only marble sculpture in Great Britain by
0:18:59 > 0:19:02which Renaissance artist?
0:19:05 > 0:19:06- Bernini?- Bernini.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08- Bernini?- No, it's Michelangelo.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11Michelangelo's sculptures known as the Dying Slave
0:19:11 > 0:19:13and the Rebellious Slave, now in the Louvre,
0:19:13 > 0:19:16were originally intended for the tomb of which Pope,
0:19:16 > 0:19:18who died in 1513?
0:19:18 > 0:19:21Julius II.
0:19:21 > 0:19:22Julius II?
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Correct. In 1972,
0:19:24 > 0:19:28the Hungarian-born geologist Laszlo Toth achieved notoriety
0:19:28 > 0:19:31when he vandalised which sculpture by Michelangelo,
0:19:31 > 0:19:33now in St Peter's Basilica?
0:19:35 > 0:19:39- La Pieta.- Correct. Right, ten points for this.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41From the Latin for dissolve,
0:19:41 > 0:19:44which term denotes the property of the chemical to absorb moisture from
0:19:44 > 0:19:47the atmosphere until it forms a liquid solution?
0:19:49 > 0:19:51Hydrosoluble?
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Hydrosoluble?
0:19:53 > 0:19:55No.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Hydroscopic?
0:19:57 > 0:20:00No, it's deliquescence. Ten points for this. In computing,
0:20:00 > 0:20:06which logic gate has output zero only when all its inputs are zero,
0:20:06 > 0:20:08otherwise...
0:20:08 > 0:20:11- Not.- No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Otherwise its output is one.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20- Or.- Or is correct, yes.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27Your bonuses are on the early 19th-century politician George Eden.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31Which city in New Zealand is named after the title of nobility held by
0:20:31 > 0:20:36George Eden, who was first Lord of the Admiralty in the early 1830s?
0:20:36 > 0:20:40- Auckland?- Go Auckland.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42- Auckland?- Correct.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44Eden later became Governor General of India,
0:20:44 > 0:20:47but was recalled in 1842 after a catastrophic intervention
0:20:47 > 0:20:51into which country, in an attempt to forestall Russian influence?
0:20:51 > 0:20:54- Sounds like Afghanistan. - Afghanistan?
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Correct. Eden's unmarried sisters, Fanny and Emily,
0:20:57 > 0:21:01the latter a noted author, accompanied him to India.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04In which city is the park and major Test cricket ground
0:21:04 > 0:21:06that bears their surname?
0:21:06 > 0:21:08This is Calcutta, right?
0:21:08 > 0:21:10The Eden Gardens, yeah.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13- Calcutta?- Calcutta or Kolkata is correct.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Well, it's a very evenly matched game,
0:21:17 > 0:21:19we're taking a picture round now.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22For your picture starter, you will see a silhouette portrait
0:21:22 > 0:21:24of a composer, depicted at the mercy of a music critic.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27For ten points, I want you to identify the composer,
0:21:27 > 0:21:29who is the figure on the right.
0:21:33 > 0:21:34- Beethoven?- No.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Anyone like to buzz from Corpus?
0:21:39 > 0:21:42- Liszt.- No, it's Wagner.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44So picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48Ten points at stake if you put your fingers on the buzzer.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51Which Italian composer's opera Aureliano in Palmira
0:21:51 > 0:21:53premiered in 1813? Two years later,
0:21:53 > 0:21:57he reused the overture for Elizabeth, Queen of England,
0:21:57 > 0:21:59and the following year used it again for the Barber of Seville.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04- Rossini.- Rossini is correct, yes.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09You get the lead. You will recall we saw a picture of Wagner
0:22:09 > 0:22:11and the critic Eduard Hanslick.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14It was by an Austrian artist Otto Bohler.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16He specialised in silhouette portraits
0:22:16 > 0:22:18of notable musical figures of his day.
0:22:18 > 0:22:22Your picture bonuses are three more of his portraits of composers.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Five points for each can identify. Firstly, who is this?
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Bruckner?
0:22:32 > 0:22:35- Bruckner?- Debussy?
0:22:35 > 0:22:37- Debussy?- No, it's Brahms.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39Secondly, who's this?
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Is that Liszt? Did Liszt convert?
0:22:46 > 0:22:47- Liszt?- Liszt?
0:22:47 > 0:22:50Liszt is correct, yes, depicted there at the Abbe Liszt.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53And finally...
0:22:53 > 0:22:56- Is that...- Mahler. That would be Mahler, with the conducting.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58- Yeah. Mahler?- Mahler?
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Mahler is correct, yes.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Ten points for this. Used in his studies of efficiency
0:23:03 > 0:23:06and income distribution, which Italian economist gives his name...?
0:23:08 > 0:23:09Pareto.
0:23:09 > 0:23:10Pareto is right.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15Dangerous buzz, but effective.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19Your bonuses now are on federal public holidays in the USA.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Which US holiday was first observed nationally in 1986,
0:23:22 > 0:23:26and takes place annually on the third Monday of January?
0:23:26 > 0:23:27- Martin Luther King?- Labor Day?
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Oh, yeah, that sounds right. Martin Luther King day?
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Correct. The Columbus Day national holiday takes place each year
0:23:33 > 0:23:35on the second Monday of which month?
0:23:37 > 0:23:40- Somewhere like...?- I think it's May. - Yeah?
0:23:40 > 0:23:42- May?- No, it's October.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Falling on the first Monday in September,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47what name is given to the national holiday that honours workers
0:23:47 > 0:23:49and recognises their contribution to society?
0:23:49 > 0:23:51- Labor Day.- Correct.
0:23:51 > 0:23:534.5 minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55"To make the King absolute in his kingdom"
0:23:55 > 0:23:57in order to establish therein order.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01These words refer to the political programme of which cardinal?
0:24:03 > 0:24:04Richelieu.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Richelieu is correct, yes.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Your bonuses are on Homer's Odyssey, Corpus Christi.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15In each case, name the character from the description.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18Firstly, the sea nymph whose name means "she who conceals".
0:24:18 > 0:24:21At the start of the poem, Odysseus is her captive.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23- Calypso.- Correct.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26The daughter, secondly, of King Alcinous.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Her name means "burner of ships".
0:24:28 > 0:24:30In book six, she gives Odysseus clothes to wear
0:24:30 > 0:24:32when he is shipwrecked.
0:24:32 > 0:24:33Nominate Johnson.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36- Nausicaa.- Yes. And, finally,
0:24:36 > 0:24:39the one-eyed giant whose name means "abounding in songs and legends".
0:24:39 > 0:24:42In book nine, he imprisons Odysseus and his men.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45- It's the Cyclops, I think. - Just Cyclops?
0:24:45 > 0:24:46Cyclops is the only name I know.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- Cyclops?- No, it's Polyphemus.
0:24:49 > 0:24:50Ten points for this.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54Originally estimated at 500km per second per megaparsec,
0:24:54 > 0:24:56what eponymous two-word term
0:24:56 > 0:24:59is used for the expansion rate of the universe?
0:24:59 > 0:25:02- Hubble's constant. - The Hubble constant is right.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04You get a set of bonuses now
0:25:04 > 0:25:08on the 1975 film Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Firstly, a co-director of the film,
0:25:10 > 0:25:12which actor's on-screen roles include Sir Bedivere,
0:25:12 > 0:25:15Dennis's mother and Prince Herbert?
0:25:17 > 0:25:19Is it going to be Terry Jones?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- I don't know. - Yeah, he played a lot of them.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23- Terry Jones?- Correct.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27Which actor's roles in the film include First Swamp Castle Guard,
0:25:27 > 0:25:28Roger the Shrubber
0:25:28 > 0:25:31and Sir Robin Not Quite So Brave As Sir Lancelot?
0:25:33 > 0:25:34John Cleese.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Yeah? John Cleese?
0:25:36 > 0:25:38No, it's Eric Idle. And finally,
0:25:38 > 0:25:40which actor's roles include Sir Lancelot The Brave,
0:25:40 > 0:25:43The Black Knight and Taunting French Guard?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45- That's John Cleese. - That is John Cleese.
0:25:45 > 0:25:472.5 minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51In the periodic table, what letter denotes the block of elements
0:25:51 > 0:25:54that consists of the lanthanides and actinides?
0:25:59 > 0:26:02- T?- No, anyone like to buzz from Jesus?
0:26:03 > 0:26:06- U?- No, it's F.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09Ten points at stake for the starter question. Born 1943,
0:26:09 > 0:26:10which US economist's works
0:26:10 > 0:26:12include Globalisation And Its Discontents...
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Stiglitz.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17Stiglitz is correct. Joseph Stiglitz.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Your bonuses, Jesus, you will be pleased to know,
0:26:20 > 0:26:22are on inorganic chemistry.
0:26:22 > 0:26:23The identification of many metals
0:26:23 > 0:26:26often relies on distinctively coloured precipitates,
0:26:26 > 0:26:28formed with hydroxide. What colour is observed
0:26:28 > 0:26:32with the following metals? Firstly, copper.
0:26:32 > 0:26:33- Green?- Is that green?
0:26:33 > 0:26:35- OK. Green.- No, it's blue.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Secondly, iron 3, or ferric irons.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42It's red.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45Three and four are different. Once red and one is black.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47- Say one.- Red.- Correct.
0:26:47 > 0:26:48And, finally, calcium.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51- White?- Isn't it just white? - Yeah. White?
0:26:51 > 0:26:54Correct, well done.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Ten points at stake for this starter.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59The title of The Towers Of Silence in Paul Scott's Raj Quartet
0:26:59 > 0:27:03alludes to the funerary traditions of which religion,
0:27:03 > 0:27:05where vultures disposed of the dead?
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Zoroastrianism?
0:27:12 > 0:27:13Correct.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Good guess if it was. Your bonuses are on
0:27:17 > 0:27:20the darker recesses of the Oxford English Dictionary,
0:27:20 > 0:27:24specifically terms that refer to the eating habits of animals.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28Firstly, what word describes an animal that feeds mainly on fruit?
0:27:32 > 0:27:35- Pass.- It is frugivorous, or fructivorous.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Secondly, as indicated by the term's Latin origin,
0:27:37 > 0:27:41what chiefly constitutes the diet of a baccivore?
0:27:41 > 0:27:45A frequently cited example is the thrush.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Worm?
0:27:47 > 0:27:49- Worms?- No, it's berries.
0:27:49 > 0:27:54What insects are eaten by a formivore?
0:27:54 > 0:27:56- Spiders.- Worms.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58No, it's ants. Ten points for this.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02The Principles Of Psychology is a work of 1890
0:28:02 > 0:28:06by which US pragmatic philosopher, also noted for the variety...
0:28:07 > 0:28:10- William James? - William James is correct, yes.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Your bonuses are on literary figures... GONG!
0:28:14 > 0:28:17And, at the gong, Jesus College, Cambridge have 175.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20Corpus Christi College, Oxford have 200.
0:28:22 > 0:28:23Bad luck, Jesus College,
0:28:23 > 0:28:26but I would guess 175 might well be good enough
0:28:26 > 0:28:29to come back as one of the four highest-scoring losing teams
0:28:29 > 0:28:31from this first round. But we might see you again.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34I hope so. Corpus Christi, congratulations.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36You had the lead, you lost the lead, you regained it.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38Well done. We look forward to seeing you in Round Two.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40I hope you can join us next time.
0:28:40 > 0:28:43But until then, it's goodbye from Jesus College, Cambridge.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46- Goodbye!- It's goodbye from Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48- Goodbye!- And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.