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University Challenge.

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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

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Hello. Oxford plays Cambridge tonight,

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with a place in the second round

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for whichever team is ahead at the gong.

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The losing team could get a chance to play again

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if their score happens to be among the four highest losing scores

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from these first-round matches.

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So our advice to both teams is to rattle through as many questions

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as possible, ideally getting them right, of course!

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Corpus Christi College Oxford has appeared three times since 1994

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on this programme, and won the championship

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with a formidable line-up in 2005.

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Founded during the reign of Henry VIII,

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it has one of Oxford's smallest student bodies

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with around 375 undergraduates and graduates.

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Former Corpuscles include one of the leading lights

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of the Oxford movement, John Keble, the philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin,

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the long-serving editor of the Guardian, CP Scott,

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and the politicians Ed and David Miliband.

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With an average age of 21, let's meet the Corpus Christi team.

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Hello, I'm Tom Fleet, I'm from Pendoggett in Cornwall,

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-and I study English.

-Hi, I'm Emma Johnson,

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I'm from north London and I study medicine.

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And this is their captain.

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Hi, I'm Nikhil Venkatesh, I'm from Derby and I read philosophy,

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politics and economics.

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Hi, I'm Adam Wright.

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I'm from Winnersh in Berkshire and I'm studying for a DPhil in physics.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, playing them is the team representing

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Jesus College Cambridge,

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who last made an appearance on this programme in 2012.

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The college was founded in 1496 on the site of a 12th-century

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Benedictine nunnery, and now has around 760 students,

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so around twice the size of their opponents tonight.

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Alumni include the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury,

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Thomas Cranmer, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

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the writer Laurence Sterne, and the novelist Nick Hornby.

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With an average age of 20, let's meet the Jesus team.

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Hiya. I'm Sam Fairbrother,

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I'm from Greater Manchester and I'm currently studying for my finals in

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Education, with Drama and English.

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Hi, I'm Rosa Price.

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I'm from East London and I'm studying English.

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And this is their captain.

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Hi, I'm Theo Morris Clarke, I'm from London,

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and I'm reading for an MPhil in Economics.

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Hello, I'm Daniel Petrides,

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I'm from Petts Wood in Kent and I'm reading for an MPhil

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in Political Thought and Intellectual History.

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APPLAUSE

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The rules are the same as ever.

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Starter questions are worth ten points,

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must be answered individually,

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bonus sets are worth 15 points and on those you can confer.

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There is a five-point fine

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if you interrupt a starter question incorrectly.

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Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.

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What literary concept did Aristotle describe as "The imitation of

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"an action with incidents arousing pity and fear...?

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-Tragedy.

-Correct.

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Right, your bonuses are on drinking in Shakespeare, Jesus.

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In Twelfth Night, which two characters

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are berated for singing drunkenly late at night by Malvolio,

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who accuses them of "making an alehouse of my lady's house"?

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-Nominate Price.

-Andrew Aguecheek and Toby Belch.

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Correct. Which character says that the drinking habits of the English

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that they are "most potent in potting?

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"Your Dane, your German and swag-bellied Hollander

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"are nothing to your English"?

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He says this while attempting to get Cassio drunk.

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-Iago?

-Iago.

-Correct.

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In which play does a character known only as "Boy" provide a contrast to

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the eponymous king by declaring during a battle,

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"Would I were in an alehouse in London,

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"I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety"?

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-Henry V.

-Correct.

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Ten points at stake for this starter question.

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Which physicist made important contributions to the understanding

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of thermodynamics, telegraphy, magnetism and electricity?

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Born William Thompson in Belfast in 1824...

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Lord Kelvin. Lord Kelvin is correct.

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Your bonuses are on properties owned by the Landmark Trust charity,

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which aims to rescue important buildings

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that would otherwise be lost.

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Firstly for five points, associated with Richard Arkwright,

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North Street in Cromford is described as

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the earliest piece of planned industrial housing in the world.

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It lies within the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site

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in which English county?

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-Derbyshire.

-Correct.

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Described as a rare and noble survivor of a style that was

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in fashion after Napoleon's campaign in Egypt,

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and as making even Brighton Pavilion look delicate,

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the Egyptian House is in which town on Mount Bay,

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where the English Channel meets the Atlantic Ocean?

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-Penzance?

-It has to be Cornwall, right?

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-Yeah...

-Yeah?

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-Penzance?

-Correct.

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A property in the Chateau of Hougoumont

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stands on which battlefield in the Low Countries?

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-Waterloo?

-Waterloo.

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It is at the battlefield of Waterloo, yes.

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Ten points for this... APPLAUSE

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Which Asian country's national holidays

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include Respect For The Aged Day...

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-Japan.

-Japan is correct, yes.

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Your bonuses are on life sciences, Corpus Christi, this time.

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In each case, give the term from the definition.

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All three answers include the word element "plasm",

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from the Greek for "to shape".

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Firstly, in biology, what term denotes the part of the cell

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that's external to the nuclear membrane

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and contains the organelles

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including the mitochondria and the lysosomes?

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-Cytoplasm.

-Correct.

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Cytoplasm can be differentiated into endoplasm,

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which contains most of the cells' structures,

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and the more dense outer material,

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primarily concerned with cell movement.

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By what term is that known?

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THEY CONFER

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Yeah? OK.

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-Ectoplasm?

-Ectoplasm is correct.

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Found in the cytoplasm of many bacteria,

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what extra chromosome or genetic element

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plays a key role in procedures

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such as gene therapy and research?

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I need a seven-letter term here.

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-Plasmid.

-Plasmid is correct, yes.

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Ten points at stake for this starter question.

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Bert and Ernie were the nicknames

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given to examples of what type of subatomic particle,

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detected by the IceCube instrument at the South Pole in 2011 and 2012?

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Both had exceptionally high energies,

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around ten to the 15 electron volts,

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and were thought to have originated in deep space.

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-Neutrinos?

-Neutrinos is correct, yes.

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Your bonuses this time, Corpus Christi, are on a shared surname.

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Name the person from the description,

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giving the first name and the surname in each case.

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Firstly, a diamond magnate who became Prime Minister

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of Cape Colony in 1890.

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He gave his name to the region that is now Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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-Cecil Rhodes.

-Cecil Rhodes is correct.

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Secondly, a Yorkshire all-rounder

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who took more first-class wickets than any other bowler.

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He is also the oldest man ever to have played in a Test match,

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aged 52 on his last appearance in 1930.

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-Wilfred Rhodes?

-Correct.

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And finally, the founder of

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the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.

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As a fashion designer, her clients included Freddie Mercury

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and Diana, Princess of Wales, and, in 2010,

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she was installed as Chancellor

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of the University For The Creative Arts.

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-Edwina Rhodes.

-Edwina Rhodes?

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No, that is Zandra Rhodes.

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We are going to take a picture round now.

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For your picture starter, you'll see a graphic representation of two sets

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of integers, A and B, with a third set, C, formally defined below them.

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For ten points, I want you to identify

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the integers contained in set C.

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-2 and 3?

-Correct.

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So, for your picture bonuses, three more exercises in basic set theory.

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In each case, you'll see some more graphic representations

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of sets of integers. I want you to give me the integer or integers

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contained in the set formally defined below them.

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Firstly, set C?

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What does the slash mean?

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I don't know. I don't know what the slash means.

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I'll just go for things in only one of them.

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Yeah? Just roll with it.

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1, 4 and 5.

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-No, it's just 1.

-Oh!

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Secondly, set D.

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-What's the triangle?

-No idea.

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-No idea.

-So it's the ones which also have C in.

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6? Try 6.

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2 and 4. 4 is not in A.

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Try 6.

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-6.

-No, it's 4!

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And finally, set C.

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All of them - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

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Correct, yes!

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Right, ten points for this.

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In internet usage, for what does the abbreviation TL;DR stand?

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Too Long; Didn't Read.

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Correct.

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Your bonuses are on chemical elements, Corpus Christi.

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With the atomic number 22,

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which element has a naturally occurring dioxide

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that is widely used in paint, sunscreen and toothpaste?

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This compound occurs in minerals, such as brookite and rutile.

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I know that it's a zinc, because it's on sunscreen.

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-Yeah? Zinc?

-No, it's titanium.

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With the atomic number 30,

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which element forms an impervious coating of its oxide

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on exposure to the atmosphere,

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making it more resistant to corrosion than, for example, iron?

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THEY CONFER QUIETLY

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Aluminium.

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No, that is zinc. And, finally, with the atomic number 82,

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which element has an oxide known as litharge

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which is extensively used in the production of glass?

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It's like silicon but silicon's atomic number isn't 82.

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Cobalt?

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Anyone? Cobalt?

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No, it's lead. Ten points for this.

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Which branch of mathematics takes its name

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from the title of a ninth-century book in Arabic by...?

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-Algebra?

-Algebra is correct,

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you get a set the bonuses now

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on business-related books, Corpus Christi.

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Which Canadian-born economist's book, The Great Crash 1929,

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has never been out of print since it was first published in 1955?

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I should know this, this is... Well, it's my degree!

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LAUGHTER

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-Galbraith?

-It was JK Galbraith, yes.

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Which US journalist's 1972 work The Best And The Brightest

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recounts how some leaders of industry

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were employed by the presidential administration

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and attempted to apply what they had learned at the Ford Motor Company

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to the Vietnam War?

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I was reading about this the other day, and I have no idea.

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Is it going to be Woodward?

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-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-Woodward?

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No, it was David Halberstam.

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And finally, the author of The Black Swan,

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which former hedge-fund manager

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had earlier emphasised the role of chance

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in the financial markets in his 2001 book Fooled By Randomness?

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Oh, he's got, like, three names.

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Like Arabic...

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Persian.

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You're on your own!

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-Taleb?

-Nicholas Taleb is correct, yes.

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Ten points for this. In different spellings,

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what diminutive of a male given name

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appears on the titles of an 1892 farce by Brandon Thomas,

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a traditional Scots song about the Jacobite movement,

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two children's books by Roald Dahl...?

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Danny?

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No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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-Charlie?

-Charlie is correct, yes.

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You get a set of bonuses this time, Jesus College,

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on the author and campaigner Arundhati Roy.

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Firstly, Arundhati Roy won the Booker prize in 1997

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for which novel, set largely in the Indian state of Kerala?

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The God Of Small Things.

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The God Of Small Things.

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Correct. In 2002, Roy was briefly imprisoned

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during her campaign against the Narmada project,

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located in which state of north-west India?

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North-west?

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Uttar Pradesh? Uttar Pradesh?

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No, it's Gujarat.

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And, finally, before his election as Indian Prime Minister in 2014,

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whom did Roy describe as

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the most militaristic and aggressive candidate?

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-Narendra Modi.

-Correct.

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Ten points for this. First published in 1791,

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which book was Thomas Paine's response to Edmund Burke...?

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-The Rights Of Man?

-Correct.

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Your bonuses this time, Jesus College,

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are on island groups that comprise the biogeographical region known as

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Micronesia, a term coined from the Greek for "isles of the blessed".

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On a similar latitude to San Francisco,

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which archipelago includes

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the islands of Santa Maria, Pico and Flores?

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THEY CONFER INAUDIBLY

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-Indonesia?

-No, it's the Azores.

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Secondly, Sercial and Malmsey are varieties of fortified wine

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produced in which island of Micronesia?

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-Madeira?

-Correct.

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Named after the westernmost promontory of Africa,

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which island group became independent of Portugal in 1975?

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(Canary Islands.)

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The Verde Islands?

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Oh, yeah. The Cape Verde Islands?

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Correct. Right, we're going to take a music round now.

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For your music starter, you'll hear

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part of the recording of a film score.

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For ten points, I want you to identify

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the film for which the score was written.

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MUSIC CLIP PLAYS

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Um... Up... Up.

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Up is correct, yes.

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That score for Pixar's Up won the Academy Award in 2010.

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Your music bonuses are three more Pixar film scores.

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I want you to identify the film in each case.

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Firstly, for five...

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MUSIC CLIP PLAYS

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-The Incredibles?

-Correct.

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Secondly...

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MUSIC CLIP PLAYS

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That is either... Is that Despicable Me or is it...?

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Ratatouille?

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It seems nefarious.

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OK.

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Despicable Me?

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-Despicable Me.

-No, it's Wall-E.

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And finally...

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MUSIC CLIP PLAYS

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It's Finding Nemo.

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-Finding Nemo.

-Correct - that gives you the lead.

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Ten points for this.

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Pearl and foxtail are common names of species of what food grain,

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a staple of much of Asia, Russia and...?

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-Barley?

-No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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..staple of much of Russia, Asia and Western Africa?

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It is eaten as a flatbread or porridge,

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or in a similar way to rice.

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One of you may buzz, Jesus.

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-Is it polenta?

-No, it's millet.

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Ten points for this. Salamanders and newts

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both belong to which class of animals, named...?

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-Amphibians?

-Amphibia is correct, yes.

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Right, these bonuses are on United States history.

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Firstly, for five points,

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formerly a commander in the Mexican-American War,

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which US president died in 1850, only 16 months after taking office?

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1850.

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Is it going to be Grant?

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No. Taylor?

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-Taylor?

-It was Zachary Taylor.

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In 1835, Taylor's daughter Sarah married which future head of state?

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He was accused of treason and imprisoned in 1865,

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although he never stood trial.

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(Don't know.)

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Future head of state?

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-Lee?

-No, it was Jefferson Davis.

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And, finally, Taylor and his successor, Millard Fillmore,

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were both elected on the ticket of which political party,

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named after a British grouping opposed to royal prerogatives?

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-The Whigs?

-Correct.

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Ten points for this. Thomas Hardy described which of his novels as

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a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit?

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It describes the title character's doomed relationships with a....

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-Tess Of The D'Urbervilles?

-No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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..with a barmaid, Arabella Don, and his cousin, Sue Brighthead?

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Jude The Obscure.

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Correct.

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So you go back into the lead. Your bonuses are on physics, Jesus.

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When an atom of potassium 40 undergoes radioactive decay

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to form calcium 40, it most commonly emits

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an anti-neutrino and what other subatomic particle?

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-Proton?

-No, it's an electron.

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Or a beta particle. This is one form of beta decay.

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What are the two other forms, both also displayed by potassium 40?

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-We have no idea.

-They're positron emission and electron capture.

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And, finally, comprising about 1% of the Earth's atmosphere,

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what isotope is formed when potassium 40

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undergoes positron emission or electron capture?

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-Is it argon?

-Isotope, so no.

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-Oh.

-Guess something.

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No, Argon 17.

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No, it's Argon 40.

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Bad luck. Right, ten points for this.

0:18:330:18:36

In a test match against Pakistan in October 2015,

0:18:360:18:40

which batsman occupied the crease for a record...?

0:18:400:18:42

-Alastair Cook.

-Alastair Cook is correct.

0:18:420:18:45

These bonuses are on sculptures.

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Bequeathed to the Royal Academy in the early 19th century,

0:18:500:18:53

the Taddei Tondo of around 1504

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is the only marble sculpture in Great Britain by

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which Renaissance artist?

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-Bernini?

-Bernini.

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-Bernini?

-No, it's Michelangelo.

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Michelangelo's sculptures known as the Dying Slave

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and the Rebellious Slave, now in the Louvre,

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were originally intended for the tomb of which Pope,

0:19:130:19:16

who died in 1513?

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Julius II.

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Julius II?

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Correct. In 1972,

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the Hungarian-born geologist Laszlo Toth achieved notoriety

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when he vandalised which sculpture by Michelangelo,

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now in St Peter's Basilica?

0:19:310:19:33

-La Pieta.

-Correct. Right, ten points for this.

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From the Latin for dissolve,

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which term denotes the property of the chemical to absorb moisture from

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the atmosphere until it forms a liquid solution?

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Hydrosoluble?

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Hydrosoluble?

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No.

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Hydroscopic?

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No, it's deliquescence. Ten points for this. In computing,

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which logic gate has output zero only when all its inputs are zero,

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otherwise...

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-Not.

-No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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Otherwise its output is one.

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-Or.

-Or is correct, yes.

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Your bonuses are on the early 19th-century politician George Eden.

0:20:230:20:27

Which city in New Zealand is named after the title of nobility held by

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George Eden, who was first Lord of the Admiralty in the early 1830s?

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-Auckland?

-Go Auckland.

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-Auckland?

-Correct.

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Eden later became Governor General of India,

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but was recalled in 1842 after a catastrophic intervention

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into which country, in an attempt to forestall Russian influence?

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-Sounds like Afghanistan.

-Afghanistan?

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Correct. Eden's unmarried sisters, Fanny and Emily,

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the latter a noted author, accompanied him to India.

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In which city is the park and major Test cricket ground

0:21:010:21:04

that bears their surname?

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This is Calcutta, right?

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The Eden Gardens, yeah.

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-Calcutta?

-Calcutta or Kolkata is correct.

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Well, it's a very evenly matched game,

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we're taking a picture round now.

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For your picture starter, you will see a silhouette portrait

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of a composer, depicted at the mercy of a music critic.

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For ten points, I want you to identify the composer,

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who is the figure on the right.

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-Beethoven?

-No.

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Anyone like to buzz from Corpus?

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-Liszt.

-No, it's Wagner.

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So picture bonuses in a moment or two.

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Ten points at stake if you put your fingers on the buzzer.

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Which Italian composer's opera Aureliano in Palmira

0:21:480:21:51

premiered in 1813? Two years later,

0:21:510:21:53

he reused the overture for Elizabeth, Queen of England,

0:21:530:21:57

and the following year used it again for the Barber of Seville.

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-Rossini.

-Rossini is correct, yes.

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You get the lead. You will recall we saw a picture of Wagner

0:22:060:22:09

and the critic Eduard Hanslick.

0:22:090:22:11

It was by an Austrian artist Otto Bohler.

0:22:110:22:14

He specialised in silhouette portraits

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of notable musical figures of his day.

0:22:160:22:18

Your picture bonuses are three more of his portraits of composers.

0:22:180:22:22

Five points for each can identify. Firstly, who is this?

0:22:220:22:24

Bruckner?

0:22:300:22:32

-Bruckner?

-Debussy?

0:22:320:22:35

-Debussy?

-No, it's Brahms.

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Secondly, who's this?

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Is that Liszt? Did Liszt convert?

0:22:430:22:46

-Liszt?

-Liszt?

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Liszt is correct, yes, depicted there at the Abbe Liszt.

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And finally...

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-Is that...

-Mahler. That would be Mahler, with the conducting.

0:22:530:22:56

-Yeah. Mahler?

-Mahler?

0:22:560:22:58

Mahler is correct, yes.

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Ten points for this. Used in his studies of efficiency

0:23:000:23:03

and income distribution, which Italian economist gives his name...?

0:23:030:23:06

Pareto.

0:23:080:23:09

Pareto is right.

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Dangerous buzz, but effective.

0:23:130:23:15

Your bonuses now are on federal public holidays in the USA.

0:23:150:23:19

Which US holiday was first observed nationally in 1986,

0:23:190:23:22

and takes place annually on the third Monday of January?

0:23:220:23:26

-Martin Luther King?

-Labor Day?

0:23:260:23:27

Oh, yeah, that sounds right. Martin Luther King day?

0:23:270:23:30

Correct. The Columbus Day national holiday takes place each year

0:23:300:23:33

on the second Monday of which month?

0:23:330:23:35

-Somewhere like...?

-I think it's May.

-Yeah?

0:23:370:23:40

-May?

-No, it's October.

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Falling on the first Monday in September,

0:23:420:23:44

what name is given to the national holiday that honours workers

0:23:440:23:47

and recognises their contribution to society?

0:23:470:23:49

-Labor Day.

-Correct.

0:23:490:23:51

4.5 minutes to go, ten points for this.

0:23:510:23:53

"To make the King absolute in his kingdom"

0:23:530:23:55

in order to establish therein order.

0:23:550:23:57

These words refer to the political programme of which cardinal?

0:23:570:24:01

Richelieu.

0:24:030:24:04

Richelieu is correct, yes.

0:24:040:24:06

Your bonuses are on Homer's Odyssey, Corpus Christi.

0:24:090:24:12

In each case, name the character from the description.

0:24:120:24:15

Firstly, the sea nymph whose name means "she who conceals".

0:24:150:24:18

At the start of the poem, Odysseus is her captive.

0:24:180:24:21

-Calypso.

-Correct.

0:24:210:24:23

The daughter, secondly, of King Alcinous.

0:24:230:24:26

Her name means "burner of ships".

0:24:260:24:28

In book six, she gives Odysseus clothes to wear

0:24:280:24:30

when he is shipwrecked.

0:24:300:24:32

Nominate Johnson.

0:24:320:24:33

-Nausicaa.

-Yes. And, finally,

0:24:330:24:36

the one-eyed giant whose name means "abounding in songs and legends".

0:24:360:24:39

In book nine, he imprisons Odysseus and his men.

0:24:390:24:42

-It's the Cyclops, I think.

-Just Cyclops?

0:24:420:24:45

Cyclops is the only name I know.

0:24:450:24:46

-Cyclops?

-No, it's Polyphemus.

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Ten points for this.

0:24:490:24:50

Originally estimated at 500km per second per megaparsec,

0:24:500:24:54

what eponymous two-word term

0:24:540:24:56

is used for the expansion rate of the universe?

0:24:560:24:59

-Hubble's constant.

-The Hubble constant is right.

0:24:590:25:02

You get a set of bonuses now

0:25:020:25:04

on the 1975 film Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

0:25:040:25:08

Firstly, a co-director of the film,

0:25:080:25:10

which actor's on-screen roles include Sir Bedivere,

0:25:100:25:12

Dennis's mother and Prince Herbert?

0:25:120:25:15

Is it going to be Terry Jones?

0:25:170:25:19

-I don't know.

-Yeah, he played a lot of them.

0:25:190:25:21

-Terry Jones?

-Correct.

0:25:210:25:23

Which actor's roles in the film include First Swamp Castle Guard,

0:25:230:25:27

Roger the Shrubber

0:25:270:25:28

and Sir Robin Not Quite So Brave As Sir Lancelot?

0:25:280:25:31

John Cleese.

0:25:330:25:34

Yeah? John Cleese?

0:25:340:25:36

No, it's Eric Idle. And finally,

0:25:360:25:38

which actor's roles include Sir Lancelot The Brave,

0:25:380:25:40

The Black Knight and Taunting French Guard?

0:25:400:25:43

-That's John Cleese.

-That is John Cleese.

0:25:430:25:45

2.5 minutes to go. Ten points for this.

0:25:450:25:47

In the periodic table, what letter denotes the block of elements

0:25:470:25:51

that consists of the lanthanides and actinides?

0:25:510:25:54

-T?

-No, anyone like to buzz from Jesus?

0:25:590:26:02

-U?

-No, it's F.

0:26:030:26:06

Ten points at stake for the starter question. Born 1943,

0:26:060:26:09

which US economist's works

0:26:090:26:10

include Globalisation And Its Discontents...

0:26:100:26:12

Stiglitz.

0:26:130:26:15

Stiglitz is correct. Joseph Stiglitz.

0:26:150:26:17

Your bonuses, Jesus, you will be pleased to know,

0:26:170:26:20

are on inorganic chemistry.

0:26:200:26:22

The identification of many metals

0:26:220:26:23

often relies on distinctively coloured precipitates,

0:26:230:26:26

formed with hydroxide. What colour is observed

0:26:260:26:28

with the following metals? Firstly, copper.

0:26:280:26:32

-Green?

-Is that green?

0:26:320:26:33

-OK. Green.

-No, it's blue.

0:26:330:26:35

Secondly, iron 3, or ferric irons.

0:26:350:26:38

It's red.

0:26:390:26:42

Three and four are different. Once red and one is black.

0:26:420:26:45

-Say one.

-Red.

-Correct.

0:26:450:26:47

And, finally, calcium.

0:26:470:26:48

-White?

-Isn't it just white?

-Yeah. White?

0:26:490:26:51

Correct, well done.

0:26:510:26:54

Ten points at stake for this starter.

0:26:540:26:56

The title of The Towers Of Silence in Paul Scott's Raj Quartet

0:26:560:26:59

alludes to the funerary traditions of which religion,

0:26:590:27:03

where vultures disposed of the dead?

0:27:030:27:05

Zoroastrianism?

0:27:100:27:12

Correct.

0:27:120:27:13

Good guess if it was. Your bonuses are on

0:27:150:27:17

the darker recesses of the Oxford English Dictionary,

0:27:170:27:20

specifically terms that refer to the eating habits of animals.

0:27:200:27:24

Firstly, what word describes an animal that feeds mainly on fruit?

0:27:240:27:28

-Pass.

-It is frugivorous, or fructivorous.

0:27:320:27:35

Secondly, as indicated by the term's Latin origin,

0:27:350:27:37

what chiefly constitutes the diet of a baccivore?

0:27:370:27:41

A frequently cited example is the thrush.

0:27:410:27:45

Worm?

0:27:450:27:47

-Worms?

-No, it's berries.

0:27:470:27:49

What insects are eaten by a formivore?

0:27:490:27:54

-Spiders.

-Worms.

0:27:540:27:56

No, it's ants. Ten points for this.

0:27:560:27:58

The Principles Of Psychology is a work of 1890

0:27:580:28:02

by which US pragmatic philosopher, also noted for the variety...

0:28:020:28:06

-William James?

-William James is correct, yes.

0:28:070:28:10

Your bonuses are on literary figures... GONG!

0:28:120:28:14

And, at the gong, Jesus College, Cambridge have 175.

0:28:140:28:17

Corpus Christi College, Oxford have 200.

0:28:170:28:20

Bad luck, Jesus College,

0:28:220:28:23

but I would guess 175 might well be good enough

0:28:230:28:26

to come back as one of the four highest-scoring losing teams

0:28:260:28:29

from this first round. But we might see you again.

0:28:290:28:31

I hope so. Corpus Christi, congratulations.

0:28:310:28:34

You had the lead, you lost the lead, you regained it.

0:28:340:28:36

Well done. We look forward to seeing you in Round Two.

0:28:360:28:38

I hope you can join us next time.

0:28:380:28:40

But until then, it's goodbye from Jesus College, Cambridge.

0:28:400:28:43

-Goodbye!

-It's goodbye from Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

0:28:430:28:46

-Goodbye!

-And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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