0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29Hello. Two teams are preparing to
0:00:29 > 0:00:33shake their intellectual tail feathers again tonight.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36Whichever puts on the better display will end up in the
0:00:36 > 0:00:39quarterfinals while their rivals will fly off home.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42The School of Oriental and African Studies lost their
0:00:42 > 0:00:44first round match to Wolfson College, Cambridge,
0:00:44 > 0:00:48on a tie-break question, but then convincingly beat
0:00:48 > 0:00:53Durham University in the playoffs with a score of 270 to a mere 85.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55They knew about stereotypes,
0:00:55 > 0:00:59cyberspace and species of the loris, and in the bonuses had clean sweeps
0:00:59 > 0:01:04on Roman history, the novel Hard Times, and the poster as art.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08With an average age of 44, let's meet them again.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Hello, I'm David Bostock, I'm from Cheltenham,
0:01:10 > 0:01:14and I'm reading for a Masters in South-East Asian Studies.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Hello, I'm Magda Biran-Taylor, originally from Harrow,
0:01:17 > 0:01:20and I'm also reading for a Masters in South-East Asian Studies.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22And this is their captain...
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Hi, I'm Henry Edwards, I'm from London,
0:01:24 > 0:01:27and I'm reading for an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Hi, I'm Odette Chalaby, I'm from London,
0:01:29 > 0:01:32and I'm also reading for an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34APPLAUSE
0:01:37 > 0:01:40The team from Emmanuel College, Cambridge quickly dug themselves
0:01:40 > 0:01:43into the minuses in their first round match against the
0:01:43 > 0:01:45University of Nottingham,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and were trailing for much of the contest, but managed to
0:01:48 > 0:01:53pull away in the dying minutes and won by 175 points to 135.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55They struggled with The Forsyte Saga
0:01:55 > 0:01:58but they were better on Iris Murdoch and Ian McEwan,
0:01:58 > 0:02:02and much better again on the works of George RR Martin.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06With an average age of 22, let's meet the Emmanuel team again.
0:02:06 > 0:02:11Hi, I'm Tom Hill, I'm from London, and I'm reading History.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Hello, I'm Leah Ward, I'm from Oxfordshire, and I'm reading Maths.
0:02:14 > 0:02:15This is their captain...
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Hello, my name's Bobby Seagull,
0:02:17 > 0:02:19I'm from East Ham in the London borough of Newham,
0:02:19 > 0:02:21and I'm studying for a Masters in Education,
0:02:21 > 0:02:23specialising in Maths.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26Hi, I'm Bruno, I'm from Wandsworth in South West London,
0:02:26 > 0:02:28and I'm studying Physics.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30APPLAUSE
0:02:32 > 0:02:35Right, let's not waste any time with the rules.
0:02:35 > 0:02:36Let's just get on with it.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Arnold Smith, Don McKinnon and Sonny Ramphal,
0:02:42 > 0:02:46representing Canada, New Zealand and Guyana respectively,
0:02:46 > 0:02:48are among the former Secretaries-General of which...?
0:02:48 > 0:02:50BUZZ
0:02:50 > 0:02:51Erm, Nato.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Er, I'm afraid you lose five points. Of which organisation?
0:02:54 > 0:02:56BELL RINGS
0:02:56 > 0:02:57The Commonwealth.
0:02:57 > 0:02:58Correct.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00APPLAUSE
0:03:01 > 0:03:05Right, SOAS, your first set of bonuses are on two-word terms
0:03:05 > 0:03:09whose first citation in the OED dates to the First World War.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Identify each term from the description. Firstly...
0:03:12 > 0:03:16Now used primarily in a metaphorical sense, a term that appeared in
0:03:16 > 0:03:20a British Medical Journal article in 1915 noting that
0:03:20 > 0:03:22"a Belgian officer was the victim."
0:03:24 > 0:03:26- Shellshock?- Correct.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Secondly, the part of a mechanical dial corresponding to
0:03:29 > 0:03:31recommended or safe conditions.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35It's also used for an area that is safe for forces to occupy
0:03:35 > 0:03:36during a military conflict.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:03:42 > 0:03:43Green zone?
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Correct. Also used as a synonym for midnight,
0:03:46 > 0:03:49more generally the time when an important event such as
0:03:49 > 0:03:51a military operation is due to begin.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55Zero hour.
0:03:55 > 0:03:56Zero hour?
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Correct. Another starter question...
0:03:58 > 0:03:59APPLAUSE
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Answer promptly.
0:04:01 > 0:04:06From the 1890s to the 1960s, several British politicians served in
0:04:06 > 0:04:09three of the four great offices of state.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12Name the two who served in the three offices of
0:04:12 > 0:04:16Home Secretary, Chancellor and Prime Minister?
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Both were prominent figures in the Liberal landslide of 1906.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24BELL RINGS
0:04:24 > 0:04:25Churchill and Asquith?
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Correct. APPLAUSE
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Your bonuses are on novels.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33The title in each case is a short pronoun.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37Firstly, which Booker longlisted novel by David Nicholls
0:04:37 > 0:04:40centres on the marriage between the arts administrator Connie
0:04:40 > 0:04:44and the scientist Douglas as they embark on a grand tour of Europe?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48- Us?- Correct.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52Secondly, Yevgeny Zamyatin's works include
0:04:52 > 0:04:54which dystopian novel of 1924,
0:04:54 > 0:04:57which was itself an influence on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four?
0:04:57 > 0:04:59I need the English title.
0:04:59 > 0:05:00- We?- Correct.
0:05:00 > 0:05:04And, finally, which 1986 novel by Stephen King features
0:05:04 > 0:05:08a shape-shifting monster whose different forms include
0:05:08 > 0:05:10a clown called Pennywise?
0:05:10 > 0:05:12- It?- Correct.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14APPLAUSE
0:05:14 > 0:05:15Ten points for this.
0:05:15 > 0:05:20Which EU member state includes historical regions known in English
0:05:20 > 0:05:22as Courland and Semigallia?
0:05:22 > 0:05:26It's principal river is the Daugava, or Western Dvina,
0:05:26 > 0:05:28which flows into an inlet of the Baltic.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30BELL RINGS
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Finland?
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Anyone like to buzz from Emmanuel? BUZZ
0:05:33 > 0:05:36- Estonia?- No, it's Latvia.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40Another starter question. In physics, what is the significance of
0:05:40 > 0:05:43the number 299,792,000?
0:05:43 > 0:05:45BUZZ
0:05:45 > 0:05:46The speed of light?
0:05:46 > 0:05:48In a vacuum, yes, that's right.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50APPLAUSE
0:05:50 > 0:05:53You get a set of bonuses on physics, Emmanuel College.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Which Nordic physicist gives his name to a radius
0:05:56 > 0:06:00equal to about 5.3 x 10 to the minus-11 metres, related to
0:06:00 > 0:06:05the mean distance of an electron in its lowest energy state
0:06:05 > 0:06:07from the nucleus of a hydrogen atom?
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Bohr.
0:06:09 > 0:06:10Bohr is correct.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Also known as gyroradius,
0:06:12 > 0:06:15the radius of gyration of a charge particle in a magnetic field is
0:06:15 > 0:06:21sometimes known by the name of which British physicist, born in 1857?
0:06:21 > 0:06:24- Physicist...- I think, Dirac... I thought it was the...
0:06:24 > 0:06:27- Dirac's much later. Is it Max, Max, Maxwell?- No.- Rutherford?- Sorry?
0:06:27 > 0:06:31- Rutherford?- He was born in New Zealand.- Erm, British physicist...
0:06:31 > 0:06:34- Er...- Who else could there be?
0:06:34 > 0:06:38- Er, just say Dirac.- Ah! Dirac?
0:06:38 > 0:06:40No, it's not Paul Dirac, it's Joseph Larmor.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43And finally, which German physicist gives his name to the
0:06:43 > 0:06:46critical radius that must be exceeded if light is to be able
0:06:46 > 0:06:49to escape from a gravitating body?
0:06:49 > 0:06:53- Is it British?- German.- German? Oh, erm...- Einstein, could it be?
0:06:53 > 0:06:54No, er, it's...
0:06:55 > 0:06:59As in... In black holes, it's...
0:06:59 > 0:07:02- German...- No.- Einstein, do you have anything else?
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Er...
0:07:05 > 0:07:07- Sure, say Einstein.- Erm, Einstein?
0:07:07 > 0:07:09The answer's Schwarzschild radius.
0:07:09 > 0:07:10OK, ten points for this.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14In geography, what six-letter term identifies the lesser circle
0:07:14 > 0:07:15on which one would be standing
0:07:15 > 0:07:18if at the Summer Solstice the sun reaches...?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20BUZZ
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Cancer?
0:07:22 > 0:07:25No, you lose five points - the sun reaches the zenith.
0:07:29 > 0:07:30BELL RINGS
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Asimov?
0:07:32 > 0:07:34No, it's a tropic. Right, ten points for this.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Subtitled The History Of A Young Lady, which epistolary novel
0:07:37 > 0:07:40by Samuel Richardson is often cited as the longest...?
0:07:40 > 0:07:42BUZZ
0:07:42 > 0:07:44- Clarissa?- Correct.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47APPLAUSE
0:07:47 > 0:07:51Your bonuses are on people associated with the city of Leeds.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54In each case, identify the person from the wording on the
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Leeds Civic Trust blue plaque.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Firstly, a committed Christian.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02In 1953, she established the foundation that bears her name.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06The international charity devoted to the relief of suffering
0:08:06 > 0:08:11and giving affection to the unloved, regardless of age, race or creed.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Like, Sue Ryder?
0:08:14 > 0:08:17- Could be.- Any other names, no?
0:08:17 > 0:08:18Sue Ryder?
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Correct. Which Frenchman is this?
0:08:20 > 0:08:24Quote - "In 1888, he patented a one-lens camera with which
0:08:24 > 0:08:26"he filmed Leeds Bridge.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30"These were probably the world's first successful moving pictures."
0:08:30 > 0:08:34So, like, a guy called Daguerre, but he's French...
0:08:34 > 0:08:36- Just go for it.- Er, Daguerre?
0:08:36 > 0:08:39No, he was mainly associated with still photographs.
0:08:39 > 0:08:40No, it's Le Prince.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43And finally, the great propagandist of Victorian values
0:08:43 > 0:08:47through his books Self-Help, Character, Thrift and Duty,
0:08:47 > 0:08:52inspired by his lectures to Leeds working men in 1845.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55I don't know, Keir Hardie is the person...
0:08:55 > 0:08:56- Hardie, yeah, er...- I don't know.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Shall we go for that? Er, Hardie?
0:08:58 > 0:08:59No, it's Samuel Smiles.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01We're going to take a picture round now.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04For your picture starter, you're going to see the name of an
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Ancient Greek thinker, written in the modern Greek alphabet.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10Ten points if you can identify the thinker.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13BUZZ
0:09:13 > 0:09:15- Archimedes.- Correct.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17APPLAUSE
0:09:19 > 0:09:22Now, following on from Archimedes,
0:09:22 > 0:09:24you're going to see the names now for your bonuses of
0:09:24 > 0:09:27three more Ancient Greek thinkers and writers all written in the
0:09:27 > 0:09:28modern Greek alphabet.
0:09:28 > 0:09:32For five points each, I'd like you to identify them. Firstly...
0:09:33 > 0:09:35- Xenophon.- Xenophon.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37Correct. Secondly...
0:09:39 > 0:09:41- Erm, Heraclitus.- Heraclitus.
0:09:41 > 0:09:42Correct, and thirdly...
0:09:44 > 0:09:46- Pythagoras.- Yep. Pythagoras.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49Well done. APPLAUSE
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Ten points for this starter question.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Which French sociologist developed the concept
0:09:54 > 0:09:57of collective consciousness to describe how
0:09:57 > 0:10:00all members of society are united in a single system of values?
0:10:00 > 0:10:02BUZZ
0:10:02 > 0:10:03Er, Durkheim?
0:10:03 > 0:10:04Durkheim is correct.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07APPLAUSE
0:10:07 > 0:10:11Emmanuel, your bonuses are on Shakespeare's sonnets this time.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14In each case, give the words missing from these lines.
0:10:14 > 0:10:19In Sonnet 116, what two words complete the opening lines,
0:10:19 > 0:10:22"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments
0:10:22 > 0:10:25"Love is not love which alters when it..."
0:10:25 > 0:10:29- Alteration finds.- Yes. - Alteration finds.- Alteration finds.
0:10:29 > 0:10:30Correct.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34From Sonnet 130, what two words complete the first line,
0:10:34 > 0:10:37"My mistress' eyes are nothing like..."?
0:10:37 > 0:10:39- The sun.- The sun.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Yes, and finally, what two words complete
0:10:42 > 0:10:44the first lines of Sonnet 29 -
0:10:44 > 0:10:46"When in disgrace with fortune and..."?
0:10:48 > 0:10:50- Don't know this.- No.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53And despair.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55No, it's "men's eyes."
0:10:55 > 0:10:56Ten points for this.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59In physiology, what term denotes the propulsive movement of the
0:10:59 > 0:11:02gastrointestinal tract, consisting of coordinated waves of...?
0:11:02 > 0:11:04BUZZ
0:11:04 > 0:11:05Peristalsis?
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Yes.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09APPLAUSE
0:11:10 > 0:11:12These bonuses are on plant names, Emmanuel College.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Derived from the Latin meaning "to twist the nose",
0:11:15 > 0:11:17what name has been given to a form of edible cress
0:11:17 > 0:11:19with a pungent smell,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22and to the flowering plant Tropaeolum majus?
0:11:22 > 0:11:26Er, Tropaeolum is sunflower, erm, so is it just...?
0:11:26 > 0:11:28But wait, sunflowers aren't edible. Wait, wait, what's the...?
0:11:28 > 0:11:33- Heliotrope?- Related to cress, it said.- Related to cress. Dill?
0:11:33 > 0:11:39- Twist the nose, that's Latin.- So what should I say? What could it be?
0:11:39 > 0:11:43- Rhincus is nose, or no, Latin, it would be nasus.- Nasus, go for that?
0:11:43 > 0:11:47- Delphinium, I don't know. - Erm, delphinium.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50No, it's nasturtium, as in "nasus tortus".
0:11:50 > 0:11:53And secondly, originally grown for animal fodder and for seeds
0:11:53 > 0:11:55that were prepared as a vegetable dish,
0:11:55 > 0:11:59the name of which plant comes from the Latin for "wolf-like"?
0:11:59 > 0:12:00Wolf-like, ooh...
0:12:00 > 0:12:04- That's lupin, yeah. - Just lupin, yeah?- Just lupin, yeah.
0:12:04 > 0:12:05- Yeah?- Yeah.- Lupin.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09Correct. Which herb was used by the Ancient Greeks as a burnt offering
0:12:09 > 0:12:13and derives its name from the Greek for sacrificial incense?
0:12:13 > 0:12:15- Insects, like, is that...? - Incense.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18- Incense, yeah? - No, no.- No.- I was just...
0:12:18 > 0:12:21Is it like "otra", like, something otra...?
0:12:21 > 0:12:23THEY CONFER
0:12:23 > 0:12:24- Incense.- Incense, oh, not insect!
0:12:24 > 0:12:27We're all trying to explain to you.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30No, erm... Do you have anything sensible? Anything?
0:12:30 > 0:12:33- Rosemary.- Rosemary?- No...
0:12:33 > 0:12:35- OK, fine, just say rosemary. - Rosemary?
0:12:35 > 0:12:38No, it was thyme. Ten points for this.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42Carmen et error, meaning a poem and a mistake,
0:12:42 > 0:12:45is an enigmatic explanation given by which Roman...?
0:12:45 > 0:12:46BELL RINGS
0:12:46 > 0:12:49- Ovid.- Ovid is right.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51Degraded as the reason for his exile.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55These bonuses, SOAS, are on India.
0:12:55 > 0:13:00Slightly larger than England, the state of Chhattisgarh was
0:13:00 > 0:13:04formed in 2000 from south-eastern districts of which state?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09- Rajistan?- No, erm...
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Could it be...Uttar Pradesh?
0:13:14 > 0:13:16- Try it.- Uttar Pradesh?
0:13:16 > 0:13:18No, it's Madhya Pradesh.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Secondly, a little smaller than Scotland, Jharkhand borders
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Chhattisgarh to the north-east,
0:13:23 > 0:13:28and was formed in 2000 from southern districts of which state?
0:13:28 > 0:13:29- Try again.- Uttar Pradesh?
0:13:29 > 0:13:32- Uttar Pradesh?- No, that was Bihar.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35And finally, a little larger than Scotland and Wales combined,
0:13:35 > 0:13:37the inland state of Telangana was
0:13:37 > 0:13:41formed in 2014 from western districts of which state?
0:13:41 > 0:13:44The city of Hyderabad continues to be the capital of both states.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Andhra Pradesh.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Correct. Right, another starter question now.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52What animal appears in the title of the 2011 book by the Swedish
0:13:52 > 0:13:55behavioural scientist Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin?
0:13:55 > 0:13:59The book aims to help the parents of young children at bedtime.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01BUZZ
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Tiger?
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Er, no. Anyone like to buzz from SOAS?
0:14:05 > 0:14:07BELL RINGS
0:14:07 > 0:14:08Bear?
0:14:08 > 0:14:10It's a rabbit, Roger the Rabbit.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Ten points for this, listen carefully.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16Two non-continuous countries each share borders with five
0:14:16 > 0:14:20countries whose names end in "stan".
0:14:20 > 0:14:22For 10 points, name either.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24BELL RINGS
0:14:24 > 0:14:26Iran and Pak... India.
0:14:26 > 0:14:27No.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30Emmanuel, one of you buzz.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32BUZZ
0:14:32 > 0:14:33Er, China?
0:14:33 > 0:14:36China is one, the other one is Uzbekistan, well done.
0:14:36 > 0:14:38APPLAUSE
0:14:39 > 0:14:42Your bonuses are on dairy farming in the UK.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46Using figures from the RSPCA and the information website AHDB,
0:14:46 > 0:14:49or Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Firstly, the number of dairy cows in the UK
0:14:51 > 0:14:54has remained fairly constant over the past few years,
0:14:54 > 0:14:57and is close to the population of which of the constituent parts,
0:14:57 > 0:15:00or home nations, of the UK?
0:15:00 > 0:15:02So, 40 million's about England,
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Wales about, maybe, a couple of million, Northern...
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Scotland, maybe?
0:15:06 > 0:15:08- Scotland, five million? Five million?- It seems...
0:15:08 > 0:15:11- Yeah?- I don't know. - OK, why not?- Scotland.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13No, it's Northern Ireland.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17Secondly, what was the average milk yield per cow per annum in 2013-'14?
0:15:17 > 0:15:20- You can have 1,000 litres either way.- So, per cow.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23So, cow, 365 days, how many would it do in a day?
0:15:23 > 0:15:27- Like, one, two litres, three litres per day? 1,000?- Depends on the cow.
0:15:27 > 0:15:31- Yeah!- To the nearest 1,000, yeah? - Yeah.- So let's go for...
0:15:31 > 0:15:32- 2,000?- ..2,000!
0:15:32 > 0:15:38You know some very lazy cows! No, it's 7,717 litres.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42And finally, raw milk is milk that hasn't been pasteurised or
0:15:42 > 0:15:45homogenised and can only be sold directly to consumers
0:15:45 > 0:15:46rather than through shops.
0:15:46 > 0:15:51It's often known by what colour, that of its foil bottle tops?
0:15:51 > 0:15:53- There used to be blue milk and... - Yeah, I know, but...
0:15:53 > 0:15:55- What colour? Yellow milk? - Is it yellow?
0:15:55 > 0:15:58- I don't think yellow.- Red?
0:15:58 > 0:16:01- There used to be red bottle tops. - Gold, there's definitely gold.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04- Gold, there's gold tip. - OK, why not?- Gold?
0:16:04 > 0:16:06No, it's green.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11For your music starter, you'll hear an excerpt from a piece of music.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14For ten points, I'd like the name of the composer please.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:16 > 0:16:18BUZZ
0:16:18 > 0:16:19Gershwin.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21Gershwin, Rhapsody In Blue, well done.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24APPLAUSE
0:16:24 > 0:16:28That 1924 version of Rhapsody In Blue was one of the first recordings
0:16:28 > 0:16:30chosen to be preserved in the
0:16:30 > 0:16:34National Recordings Registry of the US Library Of Congress.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38Bonuses, excerpts from three more recordings from the registry.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40All were among the first inductees.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Five points for each you can identify.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Firstly the singer of this song...
0:16:44 > 0:16:46MUSIC: This Land Is Your Land
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Oh, this is Guthrie, yeah.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52- # This land is your land... # - This is Woody Guthrie.
0:16:52 > 0:16:53Er, Woody Guthrie?
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Yes.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58Secondly, the performer and writer of this piece.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00MUSIC: Koko
0:17:00 > 0:17:02- Duke Ellington?- Is it Charlie Parker?- Charlie Parker?
0:17:02 > 0:17:04I think it's Charlie Parker.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08- Yeah, Charlie Parker, yeah? Go for that?- Go for it.- Charlie Parker?
0:17:08 > 0:17:10It is Charlie Parker.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Finally, give me the name either of the lead performer
0:17:13 > 0:17:14or of the group as a whole.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16MUSIC: The Message
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Oh, this is...!
0:17:21 > 0:17:24- Grandma... Grandmaster and the Furious...?- Grandmaster Flash.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five!- Yeah.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Very good!
0:17:30 > 0:17:32APPLAUSE
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Ten points for this starter question.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Born in New Jersey in 1909,
0:17:38 > 0:17:43which physician gives her name to a score introduced in 1952 that
0:17:43 > 0:17:45provides a swift assessment of the health of
0:17:45 > 0:17:48a child immediately after birth? BELL RINGS
0:17:48 > 0:17:49Hapgar score.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51Apgar is correct, yes, Virginia Apgar.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54APPLAUSE
0:17:54 > 0:17:58Your bonuses are on works, SOAS, on the shortlist of academic books
0:17:58 > 0:18:02that changed the world compiled by UK publishers in 2015.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Name the author in each case.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08Firstly, the 1792 work A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Wollstonecraft, Mary...
0:18:10 > 0:18:12- Yes, Mary Wollstonecraft. - Mary Wollstonecraft.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16Correct. Secondly, the 1962 work, Silent Spring.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18- Rachel Carson.- Rachel Carson.
0:18:18 > 0:18:22That was correct. Finally, the 1949 work, The Second Sex.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24- Simone de Beauvoir. - Simone de Beauvoir.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26Yes. Right, ten points for this.
0:18:26 > 0:18:30Mirandese is an officially recognised minority language of
0:18:30 > 0:18:33which country of the European Union?
0:18:33 > 0:18:36It's spoken primarily in the north-east,
0:18:36 > 0:18:38in the region around the town of Miranda do Douro.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42BELL RINGS
0:18:42 > 0:18:43Spain?
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Anyone like to buzz from Emmanuel College?
0:18:46 > 0:18:47Er, Italy?
0:18:47 > 0:18:50No, it's Portugal. Ten points for this.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54What six-letter word links a drama series broadcast by BBC Four
0:18:54 > 0:18:58and described as "The Sweeney in the Bonlieu", with a plane curve
0:18:58 > 0:19:02that winds around a point while moving even farther from...?
0:19:02 > 0:19:03BUZZ
0:19:03 > 0:19:05- Spiral.- Spiral is right.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07APPLAUSE
0:19:08 > 0:19:11Right, your bonuses are on chromosomal proteins,
0:19:11 > 0:19:13Emmanuel College.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16Which protein complexes are required for the condensation of chromosomes
0:19:16 > 0:19:18to make them more compact?
0:19:18 > 0:19:20- Do we know?- I didn't understand any of those words.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23- Shall I say something? Rabisco? - Say rabisco!- Rabisco!
0:19:23 > 0:19:25No, it's condensins.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28Similar in shape and composition to condensins,
0:19:28 > 0:19:32which protein complexes hold sister chromatids together?
0:19:32 > 0:19:35Protein complex holds chromatids...
0:19:35 > 0:19:37- Protein complex...- Say transposons.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Yeah? Transposons?
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Transposons?! No, they're cohesins!
0:19:42 > 0:19:45Separase is a protease that helps to remove cohesin from
0:19:45 > 0:19:49sister chromatids at the onset of which mitotic phase,
0:19:49 > 0:19:51thus allowing chromatid segregation.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Oh, so this is, like, G1 or something, isn't it? I mean.
0:19:54 > 0:19:55There's everything...
0:19:55 > 0:19:57- Anaphase?- Anaphase, telephase?
0:19:57 > 0:19:59- Go for telephase, yeah. - Telephase? Telephase?
0:19:59 > 0:20:00No, it was anaphase.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02Ten points for this.
0:20:02 > 0:20:06Which tree links a fictional poet in AS Byatt's Possession,
0:20:06 > 0:20:09the most prominent family in Scott's The Bride Of Lammermoor,
0:20:09 > 0:20:13and the title character of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier?
0:20:17 > 0:20:18- The ash tree?- Yes.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25Right, bonuses this time on symphonic music for you,
0:20:25 > 0:20:26Emmanuel College.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Completed around 1858, Richard III is a symphonic poem
0:20:29 > 0:20:33by which composer, the founder of the Czech National School Of Music?
0:20:33 > 0:20:36- Smetana.- Smetana.
0:20:36 > 0:20:37Smetana is right.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41Premiered in 1888, what was the last of Tchaikovsky's symphonic poems
0:20:41 > 0:20:45based on Shakespeare and other literary sources?
0:20:45 > 0:20:51- So... Who?- Other literary sources, so it'll be somebody like...
0:20:51 > 0:20:54- Other literary, Hansel And Gretel... - Midsummer Night's Dream?
0:20:54 > 0:20:57Midsummer Night's Dream doesn't come from anything else, though, does it?
0:20:57 > 0:20:58Yeah, cos there's a Lope de Vega version.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01- OK.- Go for Midsummer Night's Dream? Midsummer Night's Dream?
0:21:01 > 0:21:02No, it's Hamlet.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Which German composer wrote Macbeth, an 1888 symphonic poem,
0:21:05 > 0:21:06after Shakespeare's play?
0:21:06 > 0:21:11His other works in the genre include Don Quixote and Don Juan.
0:21:11 > 0:21:15- German, so there's Wagner... - What was the date?- 1888.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19- Wagner's...- I mean, it could be Wagner or Strauss.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22- Wagner makes sense...- I haven't heard. I don't think it is Wagner.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25Strauss the... Which one?
0:21:25 > 0:21:26- Richard Strauss.- Richard Strauss?
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Richard Strauss is correct.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31We're going to take another picture round now.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33For your picture starter,
0:21:33 > 0:21:35you're going to sea photograph of a national capital.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37For ten points, I want you to identify the city.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Sofia.
0:21:43 > 0:21:44No.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46SOAS, one of you buzz.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53- Oslo.- No, it's Quito.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56So picture bonuses in a moment or two. Ten points for this.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59Answer promptly and give all three of the rhyming words that mean
0:21:59 > 0:22:03a young horse, the insectivore talpa europaea,
0:22:03 > 0:22:05and a rodent whose British species...
0:22:07 > 0:22:12- Foal, vole and stole... - No.- Sorry.
0:22:14 > 0:22:15Foal, mole and vole.
0:22:15 > 0:22:16Correct, yes.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21I'm afraid you have to lose five points, SOAS, for that.
0:22:21 > 0:22:26You get the set of bonuses, Emmanuel College, on Unesco cities.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28The city of Quito was named as one of the first
0:22:28 > 0:22:31World Heritage Sites in 1978.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Your bonuses are three more cities which appear
0:22:33 > 0:22:35on Unesco's World Heritage list.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37This time, all three are in Europe.
0:22:37 > 0:22:41Five points for each one you can identify. Firstly...
0:22:41 > 0:22:45- Bratislava?- Bratislav...- That looks a bit like the castle, but...
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Budapest?
0:22:46 > 0:22:49- What shall we go for, Bratislava? - Go for Bratislava.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Skopje, maybe?
0:22:51 > 0:22:52Try Bratislava.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Bratislava?
0:22:54 > 0:22:55No, that's Toledo. Secondly...
0:22:55 > 0:22:58Toledo. Oh, my God, it is Toledo.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01It's like Salzburg or Vienna. It looks quite Austrian.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Is it Austrian? Sound Of Music.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Salzburg?
0:23:09 > 0:23:11No, that's Luxembourg City.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Finally...
0:23:13 > 0:23:14Need to go there.
0:23:17 > 0:23:22- Is that Bath?- Bath?- Yeah, that is. I think it does look like Bath.
0:23:22 > 0:23:23Crescents.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25OK, we're going closer to home. We think it's Bath.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27It is Bath, yes.
0:23:28 > 0:23:29Ten points for this.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33What term did the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci adopt...?
0:23:34 > 0:23:35Cultural hegemony.
0:23:35 > 0:23:39Yes, that's correct. All we needed was hegemony, but you got it.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42You get a set of bonuses, this time on the 19th century.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45In each case, give the precise year in which the following occurred.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48All three questions have a six-word clue to
0:23:48 > 0:23:51a year that ends in the number 6.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Firstly, Democrat Van Buren beats Whig Harrison.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59- '56, '46?- No, no, no, it was much earlier.
0:23:59 > 0:24:00So '36?
0:24:01 > 0:24:05- I think '26.- Really? - I think '26, cos...
0:24:05 > 0:24:071826. Just '26, yeah, not '36?
0:24:10 > 0:24:11We'll go for '26. '26.
0:24:11 > 0:24:12No, it was 1836.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16Second Opium War, Britain bombards Canton.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18It's definitely '56.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20'56.
0:24:20 > 0:24:211856 is right.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24Germany and Britain partition East Africa.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25Ooh. It must be '86
0:24:25 > 0:24:27because the Conference of Berlin was around then.
0:24:27 > 0:24:28'86.
0:24:28 > 0:24:301886 is right.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Ten points for this.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Which pre-20th-century composer is associated with the
0:24:35 > 0:24:39soundtracks of the 1967 Swedish film Elvira Madigan...?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44- Mozart.- Mozart is correct, yes.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Your bonuses are on film directors of the silent era.
0:24:50 > 0:24:51Born in Vienna in 1885,
0:24:51 > 0:24:56which director is especially noted for the 1924 film Greed?
0:24:56 > 0:24:59In Jean Renoir's 1937 film, La Grande Illusion,
0:24:59 > 0:25:02he plays a German prison camp commandant.
0:25:02 > 0:25:03- Von Stroheim.- Correct.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06Which US director's films include Our Daily Bread and The Crowd?
0:25:06 > 0:25:10He's perhaps best known for the 1925 anti-war film The Big Parade.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- Pass.- It's King Vidor.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19Intolerance, Orphans Of The Storm, and Birth Of A Nation are
0:25:19 > 0:25:22works by which director born in Kentucky in 1875?
0:25:22 > 0:25:23- DW Griffith.- Correct.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26Ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30In Chemistry, what is the oxidation state of nitrogen in nitric acid?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Em...five.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37- Specifically?- Plus five.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39Plus five, of course, yes.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Right, your bonuses this time, Emmanuel College,
0:25:43 > 0:25:44are on French Literature.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46In each case, identify the Nobel Laureate
0:25:46 > 0:25:48from the list of their works.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Fruits Of The Earth, The Counterfeiters,
0:25:50 > 0:25:55and The Pastoral Symphony are works by the 1947 winner.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Name?
0:25:57 > 0:26:01- Like, Camus...- What are we talking about?- French Nobel winner, 1947.
0:26:01 > 0:26:02- Camus?- It's not Camus.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05- Roland?- Come on, let's have it, please.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08- Roland? - No, it's Andre Gide.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Secondly, The Stranger, The Plague and The Fall are works by...
0:26:11 > 0:26:12- Camus.- Correct.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Finally, The Interrogation, The Giants
0:26:14 > 0:26:18and Ritornello Of Hunger, works by the 2008 winner.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20The one you mentioned on the train.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23LAUGHTER
0:26:23 > 0:26:25- No, she was German, wasn't she? - Oh, of course.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28- Muller, Herta Muller. - No, that was 2009.
0:26:28 > 0:26:29Let's go for another German name.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31No, no, no, it wasn't.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33- Why are we...?- 2008.
0:26:33 > 0:26:352008, no.
0:26:35 > 0:26:36What nationality?
0:26:36 > 0:26:39It's entertaining seeing you try to recall what you said on the train...
0:26:39 > 0:26:42- Schmidt. - ..but it's not getting us anywhere.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43It's Le Clezio.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44Ten points for this.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47Name either of the two continuous inland US states admitted to
0:26:47 > 0:26:50the union in 1792 and 1796.
0:26:50 > 0:26:55They share a border of more than 400 miles along an almost straight line.
0:26:55 > 0:26:56Tennessee.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00Correct, yes. Kentucky is the other one. Well done.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03Right, your bonuses this time are on the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06By the Versailles Treaty, Germany ceded the districts of
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Malmedy and Eupen to which country?
0:27:09 > 0:27:10- (Belgium.)- Belgium.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14Correct. Germany also lost much of West Prussia and Upper Silesia.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16These territories came under the rule
0:27:16 > 0:27:17of which newly independent state?
0:27:17 > 0:27:18- (Poland.)- Poland.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Correct. Following a plebiscite,
0:27:20 > 0:27:22northern Schleswig rejoined which country?
0:27:22 > 0:27:23- (Denmark.)- Denmark.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24Correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29Her novels are the maxims of La Rochefoucauld set in motion.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31GONG
0:27:31 > 0:27:32APPLAUSE
0:27:32 > 0:27:36At the gong, SOAS have 130, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, have 195.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Well, you did pretty well, SOAS,
0:27:40 > 0:27:43so there's no shame in going out with 130 points.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46But we have to say goodbye to you. Emmanuel College, congratulations.
0:27:46 > 0:27:50We shall look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals of the contest.
0:27:50 > 0:27:51- Congratulations.- Thank you.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54I hope you can join us next time for another second round match,
0:27:54 > 0:27:55but until then,
0:27:55 > 0:27:58it's goodbye from the School Of Oriental And African Studies.
0:27:58 > 0:27:59- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01It's goodbye from Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
0:28:01 > 0:28:02- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:04 > 0:28:09APPLAUSE