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