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APPLAUSE

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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

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Hello. Two teams are preparing to

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shake their intellectual tail feathers again tonight.

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Whichever puts on the better display will end up in the

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quarterfinals while their rivals will fly off home.

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The School of Oriental and African Studies lost their

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first round match to Wolfson College, Cambridge,

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on a tie-break question, but then convincingly beat

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Durham University in the playoffs with a score of 270 to a mere 85.

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They knew about stereotypes,

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cyberspace and species of the loris, and in the bonuses had clean sweeps

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on Roman history, the novel Hard Times, and the poster as art.

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With an average age of 44, let's meet them again.

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Hello, I'm David Bostock, I'm from Cheltenham,

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and I'm reading for a Masters in South-East Asian Studies.

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Hello, I'm Magda Biran-Taylor, originally from Harrow,

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and I'm also reading for a Masters in South-East Asian Studies.

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And this is their captain...

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Hi, I'm Henry Edwards, I'm from London,

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and I'm reading for an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies.

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Hi, I'm Odette Chalaby, I'm from London,

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and I'm also reading for an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies.

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APPLAUSE

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The team from Emmanuel College, Cambridge quickly dug themselves

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into the minuses in their first round match against the

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University of Nottingham,

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and were trailing for much of the contest, but managed to

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pull away in the dying minutes and won by 175 points to 135.

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They struggled with The Forsyte Saga

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but they were better on Iris Murdoch and Ian McEwan,

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and much better again on the works of George RR Martin.

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With an average age of 22, let's meet the Emmanuel team again.

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Hi, I'm Tom Hill, I'm from London, and I'm reading History.

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Hello, I'm Leah Ward, I'm from Oxfordshire, and I'm reading Maths.

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This is their captain...

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Hello, my name's Bobby Seagull,

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I'm from East Ham in the London borough of Newham,

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and I'm studying for a Masters in Education,

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specialising in Maths.

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Hi, I'm Bruno, I'm from Wandsworth in South West London,

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and I'm studying Physics.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, let's not waste any time with the rules.

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Let's just get on with it.

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Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.

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Arnold Smith, Don McKinnon and Sonny Ramphal,

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representing Canada, New Zealand and Guyana respectively,

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are among the former Secretaries-General of which...?

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BUZZ

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Erm, Nato.

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Er, I'm afraid you lose five points. Of which organisation?

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BELL RINGS

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The Commonwealth.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, SOAS, your first set of bonuses are on two-word terms

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whose first citation in the OED dates to the First World War.

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Identify each term from the description. Firstly...

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Now used primarily in a metaphorical sense, a term that appeared in

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a British Medical Journal article in 1915 noting that

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"a Belgian officer was the victim."

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-Shellshock?

-Correct.

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Secondly, the part of a mechanical dial corresponding to

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recommended or safe conditions.

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It's also used for an area that is safe for forces to occupy

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during a military conflict.

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THEY CONFER QUIETLY

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Green zone?

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Correct. Also used as a synonym for midnight,

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more generally the time when an important event such as

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a military operation is due to begin.

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Zero hour.

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Zero hour?

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Correct. Another starter question...

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APPLAUSE

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Answer promptly.

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From the 1890s to the 1960s, several British politicians served in

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three of the four great offices of state.

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Name the two who served in the three offices of

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Home Secretary, Chancellor and Prime Minister?

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Both were prominent figures in the Liberal landslide of 1906.

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BELL RINGS

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Churchill and Asquith?

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Correct. APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on novels.

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The title in each case is a short pronoun.

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Firstly, which Booker longlisted novel by David Nicholls

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centres on the marriage between the arts administrator Connie

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and the scientist Douglas as they embark on a grand tour of Europe?

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-Us?

-Correct.

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Secondly, Yevgeny Zamyatin's works include

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which dystopian novel of 1924,

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which was itself an influence on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four?

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I need the English title.

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-We?

-Correct.

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And, finally, which 1986 novel by Stephen King features

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a shape-shifting monster whose different forms include

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a clown called Pennywise?

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-It?

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Ten points for this.

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Which EU member state includes historical regions known in English

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as Courland and Semigallia?

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It's principal river is the Daugava, or Western Dvina,

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which flows into an inlet of the Baltic.

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BELL RINGS

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Finland?

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Anyone like to buzz from Emmanuel? BUZZ

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-Estonia?

-No, it's Latvia.

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Another starter question. In physics, what is the significance of

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the number 299,792,000?

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BUZZ

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The speed of light?

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In a vacuum, yes, that's right.

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APPLAUSE

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You get a set of bonuses on physics, Emmanuel College.

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Which Nordic physicist gives his name to a radius

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equal to about 5.3 x 10 to the minus-11 metres, related to

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the mean distance of an electron in its lowest energy state

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from the nucleus of a hydrogen atom?

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Bohr.

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Bohr is correct.

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Also known as gyroradius,

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the radius of gyration of a charge particle in a magnetic field is

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sometimes known by the name of which British physicist, born in 1857?

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-Physicist...

-I think, Dirac... I thought it was the...

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-Dirac's much later. Is it Max, Max, Maxwell?

-No.

-Rutherford?

-Sorry?

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-Rutherford?

-He was born in New Zealand.

-Erm, British physicist...

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-Er...

-Who else could there be?

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-Er, just say Dirac.

-Ah! Dirac?

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No, it's not Paul Dirac, it's Joseph Larmor.

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And finally, which German physicist gives his name to the

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critical radius that must be exceeded if light is to be able

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to escape from a gravitating body?

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-Is it British?

-German.

-German? Oh, erm...

-Einstein, could it be?

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No, er, it's...

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As in... In black holes, it's...

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-German...

-No.

-Einstein, do you have anything else?

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Er...

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-Sure, say Einstein.

-Erm, Einstein?

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The answer's Schwarzschild radius.

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OK, ten points for this.

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In geography, what six-letter term identifies the lesser circle

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on which one would be standing

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if at the Summer Solstice the sun reaches...?

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BUZZ

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Cancer?

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No, you lose five points - the sun reaches the zenith.

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BELL RINGS

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Asimov?

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No, it's a tropic. Right, ten points for this.

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Subtitled The History Of A Young Lady, which epistolary novel

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by Samuel Richardson is often cited as the longest...?

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BUZZ

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-Clarissa?

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on people associated with the city of Leeds.

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In each case, identify the person from the wording on the

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Leeds Civic Trust blue plaque.

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Firstly, a committed Christian.

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In 1953, she established the foundation that bears her name.

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The international charity devoted to the relief of suffering

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and giving affection to the unloved, regardless of age, race or creed.

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Like, Sue Ryder?

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-Could be.

-Any other names, no?

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Sue Ryder?

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Correct. Which Frenchman is this?

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Quote - "In 1888, he patented a one-lens camera with which

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"he filmed Leeds Bridge.

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"These were probably the world's first successful moving pictures."

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So, like, a guy called Daguerre, but he's French...

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-Just go for it.

-Er, Daguerre?

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No, he was mainly associated with still photographs.

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No, it's Le Prince.

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And finally, the great propagandist of Victorian values

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through his books Self-Help, Character, Thrift and Duty,

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inspired by his lectures to Leeds working men in 1845.

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I don't know, Keir Hardie is the person...

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-Hardie, yeah, er...

-I don't know.

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Shall we go for that? Er, Hardie?

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No, it's Samuel Smiles.

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We're going to take a picture round now.

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For your picture starter, you're going to see the name of an

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Ancient Greek thinker, written in the modern Greek alphabet.

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Ten points if you can identify the thinker.

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BUZZ

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-Archimedes.

-Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, following on from Archimedes,

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you're going to see the names now for your bonuses of

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three more Ancient Greek thinkers and writers all written in the

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modern Greek alphabet.

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For five points each, I'd like you to identify them. Firstly...

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-Xenophon.

-Xenophon.

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Correct. Secondly...

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-Erm, Heraclitus.

-Heraclitus.

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Correct, and thirdly...

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-Pythagoras.

-Yep. Pythagoras.

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Well done. APPLAUSE

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Ten points for this starter question.

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Which French sociologist developed the concept

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of collective consciousness to describe how

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all members of society are united in a single system of values?

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BUZZ

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Er, Durkheim?

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Durkheim is correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Emmanuel, your bonuses are on Shakespeare's sonnets this time.

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In each case, give the words missing from these lines.

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In Sonnet 116, what two words complete the opening lines,

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"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments

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"Love is not love which alters when it..."

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-Alteration finds.

-Yes.

-Alteration finds.

-Alteration finds.

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Correct.

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From Sonnet 130, what two words complete the first line,

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"My mistress' eyes are nothing like..."?

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-The sun.

-The sun.

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Yes, and finally, what two words complete

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the first lines of Sonnet 29 -

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"When in disgrace with fortune and..."?

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-Don't know this.

-No.

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And despair.

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No, it's "men's eyes."

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Ten points for this.

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In physiology, what term denotes the propulsive movement of the

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gastrointestinal tract, consisting of coordinated waves of...?

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BUZZ

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Peristalsis?

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Yes.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on plant names, Emmanuel College.

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Derived from the Latin meaning "to twist the nose",

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what name has been given to a form of edible cress

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with a pungent smell,

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and to the flowering plant Tropaeolum majus?

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Er, Tropaeolum is sunflower, erm, so is it just...?

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But wait, sunflowers aren't edible. Wait, wait, what's the...?

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-Heliotrope?

-Related to cress, it said.

-Related to cress. Dill?

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-Twist the nose, that's Latin.

-So what should I say? What could it be?

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-Rhincus is nose, or no, Latin, it would be nasus.

-Nasus, go for that?

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-Delphinium, I don't know.

-Erm, delphinium.

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No, it's nasturtium, as in "nasus tortus".

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And secondly, originally grown for animal fodder and for seeds

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that were prepared as a vegetable dish,

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the name of which plant comes from the Latin for "wolf-like"?

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Wolf-like, ooh...

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-That's lupin, yeah.

-Just lupin, yeah?

-Just lupin, yeah.

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-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-Lupin.

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Correct. Which herb was used by the Ancient Greeks as a burnt offering

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and derives its name from the Greek for sacrificial incense?

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-Insects, like, is that...?

-Incense.

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-Incense, yeah?

-No, no.

-No.

-I was just...

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Is it like "otra", like, something otra...?

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THEY CONFER

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-Incense.

-Incense, oh, not insect!

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We're all trying to explain to you.

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No, erm... Do you have anything sensible? Anything?

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-Rosemary.

-Rosemary?

-No...

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-OK, fine, just say rosemary.

-Rosemary?

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No, it was thyme. Ten points for this.

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Carmen et error, meaning a poem and a mistake,

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is an enigmatic explanation given by which Roman...?

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BELL RINGS

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-Ovid.

-Ovid is right.

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Degraded as the reason for his exile.

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These bonuses, SOAS, are on India.

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Slightly larger than England, the state of Chhattisgarh was

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formed in 2000 from south-eastern districts of which state?

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-Rajistan?

-No, erm...

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Could it be...Uttar Pradesh?

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-Try it.

-Uttar Pradesh?

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No, it's Madhya Pradesh.

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Secondly, a little smaller than Scotland, Jharkhand borders

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Chhattisgarh to the north-east,

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and was formed in 2000 from southern districts of which state?

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-Try again.

-Uttar Pradesh?

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-Uttar Pradesh?

-No, that was Bihar.

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And finally, a little larger than Scotland and Wales combined,

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the inland state of Telangana was

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formed in 2014 from western districts of which state?

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The city of Hyderabad continues to be the capital of both states.

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Andhra Pradesh.

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Correct. Right, another starter question now.

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What animal appears in the title of the 2011 book by the Swedish

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behavioural scientist Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin?

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The book aims to help the parents of young children at bedtime.

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BUZZ

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Tiger?

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Er, no. Anyone like to buzz from SOAS?

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BELL RINGS

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Bear?

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It's a rabbit, Roger the Rabbit.

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Ten points for this, listen carefully.

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Two non-continuous countries each share borders with five

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countries whose names end in "stan".

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For 10 points, name either.

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BELL RINGS

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Iran and Pak... India.

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No.

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Emmanuel, one of you buzz.

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BUZZ

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Er, China?

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China is one, the other one is Uzbekistan, well done.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on dairy farming in the UK.

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Using figures from the RSPCA and the information website AHDB,

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or Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.

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Firstly, the number of dairy cows in the UK

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has remained fairly constant over the past few years,

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and is close to the population of which of the constituent parts,

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or home nations, of the UK?

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So, 40 million's about England,

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Wales about, maybe, a couple of million, Northern...

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Scotland, maybe?

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-Scotland, five million? Five million?

-It seems...

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-Yeah?

-I don't know.

-OK, why not?

-Scotland.

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No, it's Northern Ireland.

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Secondly, what was the average milk yield per cow per annum in 2013-'14?

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-You can have 1,000 litres either way.

-So, per cow.

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So, cow, 365 days, how many would it do in a day?

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-Like, one, two litres, three litres per day? 1,000?

-Depends on the cow.

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-Yeah!

-To the nearest 1,000, yeah?

-Yeah.

-So let's go for...

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-2,000?

-..2,000!

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You know some very lazy cows! No, it's 7,717 litres.

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And finally, raw milk is milk that hasn't been pasteurised or

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homogenised and can only be sold directly to consumers

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rather than through shops.

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It's often known by what colour, that of its foil bottle tops?

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-There used to be blue milk and...

-Yeah, I know, but...

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-What colour? Yellow milk?

-Is it yellow?

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-I don't think yellow.

-Red?

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-There used to be red bottle tops.

-Gold, there's definitely gold.

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-Gold, there's gold tip.

-OK, why not?

-Gold?

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No, it's green.

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

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For your music starter, you'll hear an excerpt from a piece of music.

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For ten points, I'd like the name of the composer please.

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MUSIC PLAYS

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BUZZ

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Gershwin.

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Gershwin, Rhapsody In Blue, well done.

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APPLAUSE

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That 1924 version of Rhapsody In Blue was one of the first recordings

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chosen to be preserved in the

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National Recordings Registry of the US Library Of Congress.

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Bonuses, excerpts from three more recordings from the registry.

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All were among the first inductees.

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Five points for each you can identify.

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Firstly the singer of this song...

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MUSIC: This Land Is Your Land

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Oh, this is Guthrie, yeah.

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-# This land is your land... #

-This is Woody Guthrie.

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Er, Woody Guthrie?

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Yes.

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Secondly, the performer and writer of this piece.

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MUSIC: Koko

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-Duke Ellington?

-Is it Charlie Parker?

-Charlie Parker?

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I think it's Charlie Parker.

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-Yeah, Charlie Parker, yeah? Go for that?

-Go for it.

-Charlie Parker?

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It is Charlie Parker.

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Finally, give me the name either of the lead performer

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or of the group as a whole.

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MUSIC: The Message

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Oh, this is...!

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-Grandma... Grandmaster and the Furious...?

-Grandmaster Flash.

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-Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five!

-Yeah.

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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

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Very good!

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APPLAUSE

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Ten points for this starter question.

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Born in New Jersey in 1909,

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which physician gives her name to a score introduced in 1952 that

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provides a swift assessment of the health of

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a child immediately after birth? BELL RINGS

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Hapgar score.

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Apgar is correct, yes, Virginia Apgar.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses are on works, SOAS, on the shortlist of academic books

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that changed the world compiled by UK publishers in 2015.

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Name the author in each case.

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Firstly, the 1792 work A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary...

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-Yes, Mary Wollstonecraft.

-Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Correct. Secondly, the 1962 work, Silent Spring.

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-Rachel Carson.

-Rachel Carson.

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That was correct. Finally, the 1949 work, The Second Sex.

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-Simone de Beauvoir.

-Simone de Beauvoir.

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Yes. Right, ten points for this.

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Mirandese is an officially recognised minority language of

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which country of the European Union?

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It's spoken primarily in the north-east,

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in the region around the town of Miranda do Douro.

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BELL RINGS

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Spain?

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Anyone like to buzz from Emmanuel College?

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Er, Italy?

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

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What six-letter word links a drama series broadcast by BBC Four

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and described as "The Sweeney in the Bonlieu", with a plane curve

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that winds around a point while moving even farther from...?

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BUZZ

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-Spiral.

-Spiral is right.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, your bonuses are on chromosomal proteins,

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Emmanuel College.

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Which protein complexes are required for the condensation of chromosomes

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to make them more compact?

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-Do we know?

-I didn't understand any of those words.

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-Shall I say something? Rabisco?

-Say rabisco!

-Rabisco!

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No, it's condensins.

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Similar in shape and composition to condensins,

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which protein complexes hold sister chromatids together?

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Protein complex holds chromatids...

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-Protein complex...

-Say transposons.

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Yeah? Transposons?

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Transposons?! No, they're cohesins!

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Separase is a protease that helps to remove cohesin from

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sister chromatids at the onset of which mitotic phase,

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thus allowing chromatid segregation.

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Oh, so this is, like, G1 or something, isn't it? I mean.

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There's everything...

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-Anaphase?

-Anaphase, telephase?

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-Go for telephase, yeah.

-Telephase? Telephase?

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No, it was anaphase.

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Ten points for this.

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Which tree links a fictional poet in AS Byatt's Possession,

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the most prominent family in Scott's The Bride Of Lammermoor,

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and the title character of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier?

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-The ash tree?

-Yes.

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Right, bonuses this time on symphonic music for you,

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Emmanuel College.

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Completed around 1858, Richard III is a symphonic poem

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by which composer, the founder of the Czech National School Of Music?

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-Smetana.

-Smetana.

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Smetana is right.

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Premiered in 1888, what was the last of Tchaikovsky's symphonic poems

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based on Shakespeare and other literary sources?

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-So... Who?

-Other literary sources, so it'll be somebody like...

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-Other literary, Hansel And Gretel...

-Midsummer Night's Dream?

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Midsummer Night's Dream doesn't come from anything else, though, does it?

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Yeah, cos there's a Lope de Vega version.

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-OK.

-Go for Midsummer Night's Dream? Midsummer Night's Dream?

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No, it's Hamlet.

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Which German composer wrote Macbeth, an 1888 symphonic poem,

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after Shakespeare's play?

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His other works in the genre include Don Quixote and Don Juan.

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-German, so there's Wagner...

-What was the date?

-1888.

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-Wagner's...

-I mean, it could be Wagner or Strauss.

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-Wagner makes sense...

-I haven't heard. I don't think it is Wagner.

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Strauss the... Which one?

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-Richard Strauss.

-Richard Strauss?

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Richard Strauss is correct.

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We're going to take another picture round now.

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For your picture starter,

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you're going to sea photograph of a national capital.

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For ten points, I want you to identify the city.

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Sofia.

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No.

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SOAS, one of you buzz.

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-Oslo.

-No, it's Quito.

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So picture bonuses in a moment or two. Ten points for this.

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Answer promptly and give all three of the rhyming words that mean

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a young horse, the insectivore talpa europaea,

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and a rodent whose British species...

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-Foal, vole and stole...

-No.

-Sorry.

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Foal, mole and vole.

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Correct, yes.

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I'm afraid you have to lose five points, SOAS, for that.

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You get the set of bonuses, Emmanuel College, on Unesco cities.

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The city of Quito was named as one of the first

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World Heritage Sites in 1978.

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Your bonuses are three more cities which appear

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on Unesco's World Heritage list.

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This time, all three are in Europe.

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Five points for each one you can identify. Firstly...

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-Bratislava?

-Bratislav...

-That looks a bit like the castle, but...

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Budapest?

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-What shall we go for, Bratislava?

-Go for Bratislava.

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Skopje, maybe?

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Try Bratislava.

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Bratislava?

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No, that's Toledo. Secondly...

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Toledo. Oh, my God, it is Toledo.

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It's like Salzburg or Vienna. It looks quite Austrian.

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Is it Austrian? Sound Of Music.

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Salzburg?

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No, that's Luxembourg City.

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Finally...

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Need to go there.

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-Is that Bath?

-Bath?

-Yeah, that is. I think it does look like Bath.

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Crescents.

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OK, we're going closer to home. We think it's Bath.

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It is Bath, yes.

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Ten points for this.

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What term did the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci adopt...?

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Cultural hegemony.

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Yes, that's correct. All we needed was hegemony, but you got it.

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You get a set of bonuses, this time on the 19th century.

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In each case, give the precise year in which the following occurred.

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All three questions have a six-word clue to

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a year that ends in the number 6.

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Firstly, Democrat Van Buren beats Whig Harrison.

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-'56, '46?

-No, no, no, it was much earlier.

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So '36?

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-I think '26.

-Really?

-I think '26, cos...

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1826. Just '26, yeah, not '36?

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We'll go for '26. '26.

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No, it was 1836.

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Second Opium War, Britain bombards Canton.

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It's definitely '56.

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'56.

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1856 is right.

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Germany and Britain partition East Africa.

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Ooh. It must be '86

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because the Conference of Berlin was around then.

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'86.

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1886 is right.

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Ten points for this.

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Which pre-20th-century composer is associated with the

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soundtracks of the 1967 Swedish film Elvira Madigan...?

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-Mozart.

-Mozart is correct, yes.

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Your bonuses are on film directors of the silent era.

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Born in Vienna in 1885,

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which director is especially noted for the 1924 film Greed?

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In Jean Renoir's 1937 film, La Grande Illusion,

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he plays a German prison camp commandant.

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-Von Stroheim.

-Correct.

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Which US director's films include Our Daily Bread and The Crowd?

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He's perhaps best known for the 1925 anti-war film The Big Parade.

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-Pass.

-It's King Vidor.

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Intolerance, Orphans Of The Storm, and Birth Of A Nation are

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works by which director born in Kentucky in 1875?

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-DW Griffith.

-Correct.

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Ten points for this. Answer as soon as your name is called.

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In Chemistry, what is the oxidation state of nitrogen in nitric acid?

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Em...five.

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-Specifically?

-Plus five.

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Plus five, of course, yes.

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Right, your bonuses this time, Emmanuel College,

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are on French Literature.

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In each case, identify the Nobel Laureate

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from the list of their works.

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Fruits Of The Earth, The Counterfeiters,

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and The Pastoral Symphony are works by the 1947 winner.

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Name?

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-Like, Camus...

-What are we talking about?

-French Nobel winner, 1947.

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-Camus?

-It's not Camus.

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-Roland?

-Come on, let's have it, please.

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-Roland?

-No, it's Andre Gide.

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Secondly, The Stranger, The Plague and The Fall are works by...

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-Camus.

-Correct.

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Finally, The Interrogation, The Giants

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and Ritornello Of Hunger, works by the 2008 winner.

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The one you mentioned on the train.

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LAUGHTER

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-No, she was German, wasn't she?

-Oh, of course.

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-Muller, Herta Muller.

-No, that was 2009.

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Let's go for another German name.

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No, no, no, it wasn't.

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-Why are we...?

-2008.

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2008, no.

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What nationality?

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It's entertaining seeing you try to recall what you said on the train...

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-Schmidt.

-..but it's not getting us anywhere.

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It's Le Clezio.

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Ten points for this.

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Name either of the two continuous inland US states admitted to

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the union in 1792 and 1796.

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They share a border of more than 400 miles along an almost straight line.

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Tennessee.

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Correct, yes. Kentucky is the other one. Well done.

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Right, your bonuses this time are on the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.

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By the Versailles Treaty, Germany ceded the districts of

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Malmedy and Eupen to which country?

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-(Belgium.)

-Belgium.

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Correct. Germany also lost much of West Prussia and Upper Silesia.

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These territories came under the rule

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of which newly independent state?

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-(Poland.)

-Poland.

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Correct. Following a plebiscite,

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northern Schleswig rejoined which country?

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-(Denmark.)

-Denmark.

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Correct. Ten points for this.

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Her novels are the maxims of La Rochefoucauld set in motion.

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GONG

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APPLAUSE

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At the gong, SOAS have 130, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, have 195.

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Well, you did pretty well, SOAS,

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so there's no shame in going out with 130 points.

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But we have to say goodbye to you. Emmanuel College, congratulations.

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We shall look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals of the contest.

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-Congratulations.

-Thank you.

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I hope you can join us next time for another second round match,

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but until then,

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it's goodbye from the School Of Oriental And African Studies.

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-ALL:

-Goodbye.

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It's goodbye from Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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-ALL:

-Goodbye.

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And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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