0:00:18 > 0:00:25University Challenge. Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. There are eight places in the quarterfinal stage of
0:00:31 > 0:00:34this competition, and five of them have already been taken.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38The sixth place will go to tonight's winners, while the losers
0:00:38 > 0:00:41will be able only to dream of what might have been.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Robinson College, Cambridge, dispatched Wadham College, Oxford,
0:00:44 > 0:00:48in round one, with a score of 155 points to a mere 95,
0:00:48 > 0:00:51despite it being a close-run match until the halfway point.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55After that, though, Wadham declined to dampen Robinson's
0:00:55 > 0:00:59enthusiasm for telling us about oil of vitriol, Blanche DuBois,
0:00:59 > 0:01:01and famous people buried in Venice.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04They were also surprisingly well-informed about the
0:01:04 > 0:01:081918 general election, for a team with an average age of only 20.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Let's meet the Robinson team again.
0:01:11 > 0:01:12Hello, I'm David Verghese.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15I'm from Hertfordshire, and I'm reading English.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Hi, I'm Catherine Hodge. I'm from Birmingham, and I'm studying
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Theology and Religious Studies.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21And here's their captain.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Hi, I'm James Pinder. I'm from Emsworth in Hampshire,
0:01:24 > 0:01:26and I'm reading Natural Sciences.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29Hey, I'm George Barton, I'm from Buckinghamshire,
0:01:29 > 0:01:30and I'm studying Physics.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33APPLAUSE
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Now, after a diffident start, the team from
0:01:37 > 0:01:41Balliol College, Oxford, managed a virtual walkover in their
0:01:41 > 0:01:45first round match, winning by 220 points, to Imperial College,
0:01:45 > 0:01:50London's uncharacteristically low score of 55. Their strengths
0:01:50 > 0:01:54included lonely 19th-century artists, historical relations
0:01:54 > 0:01:57between Britain and Japan, and much else,
0:01:57 > 0:02:01from Friedrich Engels to Taylor Swift. With an average age of 23,
0:02:01 > 0:02:03let's meet the Balliol team again.
0:02:03 > 0:02:08Hi, I'm Freddy Potts, I'm from Newcastle, and I'm reading History.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Hello, I'm Jacob Lloyd. I'm from London,
0:02:10 > 0:02:12and I'm reading for a D Phil in English.
0:02:12 > 0:02:13And this is their captain.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Hi, I'm Joey Goldman, and I'm from London, and I'm reading
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Philosophy and Theology.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Hi, I'm Ben Pope. I'm from Sydney, and I'm doing a D Phil
0:02:20 > 0:02:23- in Astrophysics. - APPLAUSE
0:02:27 > 0:02:30Now, you all know the rules, so let's just get on with it.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36Islands In The Stream is a posthumously-published novel
0:02:36 > 0:02:39by which writer? First appearing in 1970,
0:02:39 > 0:02:41it consists of three related stories.
0:02:42 > 0:02:46- Hemingway?- Hemingway is correct. APPLAUSE
0:02:47 > 0:02:50The first set of bonuses go to you, Balliol,
0:02:50 > 0:02:53and they are on political insults.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57"He can't see a belt without hitting below it."
0:02:57 > 0:03:00To which politician do those words of Margot Asquith refer?
0:03:00 > 0:03:04He succeeded her husband as Prime Minister in 1916.
0:03:04 > 0:03:05David Lloyd George.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07- Lloyd George.- Correct.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10"An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street,
0:03:10 > 0:03:13"and, when the door was opened, he got out."
0:03:13 > 0:03:15To which Prime Minister was Churchill referring
0:03:15 > 0:03:17with those words?
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Could be Chamberlain, could be Baldwin.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Could it be Attlee, a later one?
0:03:24 > 0:03:26- Let's go with Attlee.- OK. - Clement Attlee?
0:03:26 > 0:03:30Correct. In reference to Michael Foot's description of him,
0:03:30 > 0:03:33which Conservative politician included a polecat
0:03:33 > 0:03:36on his coat of arms when he entered the House of Lords?
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Tebbit? Was it Tebbit?
0:03:41 > 0:03:43- Tebbit?- Tebbit?
0:03:43 > 0:03:46It was, the famous semi-housetrained polecat, Norman Tebbit.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this -
0:03:49 > 0:03:51which greenhouse gas is often cited
0:03:51 > 0:03:54as an example of tetrahedral molecular...?
0:03:55 > 0:03:59- Methane.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:04:00 > 0:04:02You get a set of bonuses on Nobel Prizes.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06In 1903, Robinson, Marie Curie became the first woman to
0:04:06 > 0:04:08receive the Nobel Prize in Physics.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12In which decade did Maria Mayer become the second,
0:04:12 > 0:04:15for discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Nuclear shell was, like...
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Roughly in the '10s, wasn't it?
0:04:21 > 0:04:24- No, I'd have gone with...- With the war, it would be after 1914.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28- So would it be 1920s, then?- I'd have gone '20s.- OK, '20s, then, sure.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32- 1920s?- No, it was the 1960s. It was 1963, to be precise.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35Marie Curie was also the first female recipient of the
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Nobel Prize in chemistry, in 1911.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41What was the name of the second in 1935?
0:04:41 > 0:04:44She shared the prize with her husband, Frederic.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48- Name of the second? - The second, in '53.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52- I'm...- I can't... I can't think of it.
0:04:54 > 0:04:55- No.- No, sorry.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58- Unless it's Rosalind Franklin.- No. - It's not Lise Meitner either.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01- I don't know.- Erm, Dorothy Hodgkin.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03No, it was Irene Joliot-Curie.
0:05:03 > 0:05:08And, finally, in which decade did Gerty Theresa Cori become
0:05:08 > 0:05:11the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
0:05:13 > 0:05:15I've literally no idea.
0:05:16 > 0:05:17'70s?
0:05:19 > 0:05:20- '70s?- '70s?
0:05:20 > 0:05:23No, it was the 1940s. Right, a starter question now.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27What four-letter prefix links an artwork by Robert Rauschenberg,
0:05:27 > 0:05:30featuring a goat wearing a rubber tyre...
0:05:31 > 0:05:36- Mono.- Well done. APPLAUSE
0:05:36 > 0:05:38For your bonuses,
0:05:38 > 0:05:41Balliol, I want you to name the following authors cited by
0:05:41 > 0:05:45Mahatma Gandhi as major influences on his writing and thinking.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Firstly, described by Gandhi as
0:05:47 > 0:05:51"one of the three moderns who left a deep impress on me",
0:05:51 > 0:05:54who was the author of Unto This Last?
0:05:54 > 0:05:57He was a leading art critic during the Victorian era.
0:05:57 > 0:05:58- Ruskin?- Yeah, that was my thought.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00- John Ruskin?- Correct.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03Secondly, a Russian novelist with whom Gandhi corresponded
0:06:03 > 0:06:07and who advocated non-violent resistance in his book
0:06:07 > 0:06:09The Kingdom Of God Is Within You.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Gandhi named an idealistic community in South Africa after him.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14- Tolstoy.- Correct.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17And finally, the 19th-century American author and philosopher
0:06:17 > 0:06:21whose works include On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience and Walden.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24- Thoreau.- Thoreau is correct. APPLAUSE
0:06:24 > 0:06:25Ten points for this.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29In astronomy, what six-letter term denotes a roughly
0:06:29 > 0:06:34straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies...?
0:06:34 > 0:06:38- Syzygy.- Yes. APPLAUSE
0:06:38 > 0:06:41These bonuses are on religious iconography, Balliol.
0:06:41 > 0:06:46In the image known as Nataraja, or Lord Of The Dance, the uplifted
0:06:46 > 0:06:51foot of which Hindu deity is said to represent freedom from illusion?
0:06:51 > 0:06:52- Shiva.- Correct.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56Focus on, or the sole depiction of, the feet
0:06:56 > 0:07:00is a characteristic of images of which event of the life of Jesus,
0:07:00 > 0:07:02according to traditional Christian teaching?
0:07:02 > 0:07:07As, for example, in a 1958 painting by Salvador Dali.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09- Washing of the feet?- Yeah?
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Washing of the feet, by Mary Magdalene?
0:07:11 > 0:07:13No, it's the ascension.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16And, finally, the earliest phase of which religion is sometimes
0:07:16 > 0:07:20said to have been aniconic, with footprints, an empty throne,
0:07:20 > 0:07:23and a riderless horse symbolising its founder?
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Oh, it's Buddhism.
0:07:26 > 0:07:27Yeah. Buddhism?
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Buddhism is correct. We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:30 > 0:07:31APPLAUSE Answer as soon as
0:07:31 > 0:07:34your name is called. For your picture starter, you're going to see
0:07:34 > 0:07:38a hypothetical concert programme, made up of three well-known works,
0:07:38 > 0:07:42all roughly contemporary of each other. For the ten points,
0:07:42 > 0:07:46I'll need the names of the three composers whose works are listed.
0:07:55 > 0:07:56Schumann, Schubert, and Donizetti.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Nope.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00One of you want to buzz from Robinson?
0:08:00 > 0:08:03If you don't have an idea, we might as well just get on with it.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06- Verdi, Strauss and Schubert.- No.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08It's Mendelssohn, Schubert and Rossini,
0:08:08 > 0:08:10so picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12We'll get another starter question in first.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14"People obviously recognise him,
0:08:14 > 0:08:17"but they assume he is a comedian playing a role."
0:08:17 > 0:08:20These words refer to which figure, indicated in the title of
0:08:20 > 0:08:24a 2012 novel, written in German by Timur Vermes?
0:08:26 > 0:08:28- Adolf Hitler? - Adolf Hitler is correct, yes.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30APPLAUSE
0:08:32 > 0:08:35So, picture bonuses - three more hypothetical concert programmes,
0:08:35 > 0:08:38each made up of well-known works from three composers.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41In each case, the three works listed were composed with ten years
0:08:41 > 0:08:44of each other. Again, for the five points,
0:08:44 > 0:08:46I'll need the names of all three composers.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48Firstly, for five.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52- Liebestraum is Liszt. - Yeah.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55La Donna E Mobile.
0:08:55 > 0:09:00- Is THAT Verdi? - Well, Verdi had a long career.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02OK, so Les Troyens - any guess?
0:09:03 > 0:09:07- What's your suggestion?- Faure. - OK - Liszt, Verdi and Faure.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09- No, it's Liszt, Verdi and Berlioz. - Oh, sorry.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Les Troyens. And, secondly...
0:09:16 > 0:09:19- Pass.- That's Richard Strauss,
0:09:19 > 0:09:23Olivier Messiaen, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. And finally...
0:09:26 > 0:09:29OK. So, Gymnopedie is Satie, Suite Bergamasque is, erm...
0:09:30 > 0:09:33- Did we have Berlioz already? That's Berlioz, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36And Che Gelida Manina - someone Italian, 20th century.
0:09:38 > 0:09:42- Verdi, Puccini, erm... - OK, OK. Puccini, Berlioz, Satie.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46No, it's Puccini, Debussy, and Satie.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Right, ten points for this.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51What five-letter surname links a protest singer
0:09:51 > 0:09:54and campaigner for electoral reform, born in 1957,
0:09:54 > 0:09:57the author and broadcaster whose works include The Adventure...
0:09:57 > 0:10:00- Bragg.- Bragg is correct. APPLAUSE
0:10:03 > 0:10:06You get a set of bonuses on railways in Africa, Balliol.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09More than 1,800km in length,
0:10:09 > 0:10:13the TAZARA Railway was built with Chinese aid in the 1970s.
0:10:13 > 0:10:17It links Zambia with which East African port?
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Dar es Salaam, maybe?
0:10:19 > 0:10:21- Dar es Salaam.- Correct.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24A Chinese-backed project to restore the Benguela railway
0:10:24 > 0:10:27was completed in 2015.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30It runs from more than 13,000km through which country,
0:10:30 > 0:10:32from Lobito on the Atlantic coast?
0:10:32 > 0:10:34Angola?
0:10:34 > 0:10:35- Angola.- Correct.
0:10:35 > 0:10:40In 2011, Chinese companies began building a new 756km standard gauge
0:10:40 > 0:10:45railway connecting the Port of Djibouti and which inland capital?
0:10:45 > 0:10:47- Addis Ababa? - Yeah, that would make sense.
0:10:47 > 0:10:48- Addis Ababa.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Ten points for this. Answer promptly.
0:10:50 > 0:10:54An ultra-high energy cosmic ray has a momentum
0:10:54 > 0:10:58of ten to the minus eight kg metres per second.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02To the nearest whole number, what is its energy in joules?
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Seven.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19No. Anyone like to buzz...?
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Three.
0:11:20 > 0:11:21Three is correct, yes.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23APPLAUSE
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Right, you get three bonuses on a solvent.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33The cumene process is used in the commercial production
0:11:33 > 0:11:35of phenol and which solvent,
0:11:35 > 0:11:39an aromatic, flammable liquid that is the simplest saturated ketone?
0:11:42 > 0:11:43Aromatic...
0:11:44 > 0:11:49- Ketone.- Aromatic, unsaturated...
0:11:53 > 0:11:56Benzene?
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Benzaldehyde?
0:11:58 > 0:11:59No, it's acetone.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02Now, acetone is found in the blood and urine of patients
0:12:02 > 0:12:07suffering from starvation, and from which chronic metabolic disorder?
0:12:07 > 0:12:11- Ketosis?- Ketosis is when you stop digesting stuff, isn't it? So...
0:12:11 > 0:12:13- Could well be.- I think so.
0:12:13 > 0:12:14Ketosis?
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Yes, or diabetes mellitus, but I'll accept that.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Finally, for five points,
0:12:19 > 0:12:24acetone was named in 1833 by the French chemist Antoine Bussy.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28Five years earlier, he'd isolated which rare alkaline earth metal,
0:12:28 > 0:12:31found in the gemstones aquamarine and emerald?
0:12:33 > 0:12:36So, it's barium or beryllium, I think.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40- Barium's the green... - Barium's sort of green, yeah.
0:12:40 > 0:12:41Barium?
0:12:41 > 0:12:43No, it's beryllium, bad luck.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Right, ten points for this.
0:12:45 > 0:12:46One of the longest of Central Asia,
0:12:46 > 0:12:49which river flows northwest
0:12:49 > 0:12:52to join the remnants of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan?
0:12:52 > 0:12:54In ancient times...?
0:12:54 > 0:12:55The Lena.
0:12:55 > 0:12:56No, you lose five points.
0:12:56 > 0:13:01In ancient times, it was known by a Greek name meaning sharp or acid.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09- Oxus?- Oxus is correct, yes.
0:13:09 > 0:13:10APPLAUSE
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Right, your bonuses, Balliol, are on an actor.
0:13:16 > 0:13:17Which British actor
0:13:17 > 0:13:20was appointed manager of London's Haymarket Theatre in 1887?
0:13:20 > 0:13:24He also helped fund the nearby Her Majesty's Theatre
0:13:24 > 0:13:26and founded Rada in 1904.
0:13:28 > 0:13:29No idea.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32- I can't think of any 19th-century ones. Um...- It's not David Garrick?
0:13:32 > 0:13:35No, Garrick's 18th-century, you're way out.
0:13:38 > 0:13:39Laurence Olivier.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Laurence Olivier?! LAUGHTER
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Well, I might as well say something.
0:13:43 > 0:13:44He was old, but he wasn't that old.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48It was Sir Herbert Draper Beerbohm Tree.
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Terrific name.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52The first London production of which play by George Bernard Shaw
0:13:52 > 0:13:55opened at His Majesty's Theatre in 1914,
0:13:55 > 0:13:58with Beerbohm Tree playing opposite Mrs Patrick Campbell?
0:13:58 > 0:14:00It opens with a group of people
0:14:00 > 0:14:02sheltering from the rain in Covent Garden.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05- Could it be Pygmalion? - Yeah, that would make sense.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07- Pygmalion.- Correct.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10His works including Oliver and The Third Man,
0:14:10 > 0:14:13which film director was the illegitimate son of Beerbohm Tree
0:14:13 > 0:14:15and his mistress, May Pinney?
0:14:17 > 0:14:19- It wasn't Welles, cos Welles was in it.- Yeah.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Um...
0:14:21 > 0:14:25It's not Welles.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27This is embarrassing.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Oh, no, no, no... It's...
0:14:30 > 0:14:32- David Lean?- Lean?
0:14:32 > 0:14:33No, it's Carol Reed.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35- Oh!- OK, whatever.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37Time for a music round. For your music starter,
0:14:37 > 0:14:39you're going to hear a piece of popular music
0:14:39 > 0:14:40from a notable musical duo.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43Ten points if you can identify the band.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45ELECTRONIC MUSIC
0:14:47 > 0:14:49- Daft Punk.- Daft Punk is correct.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51APPLAUSE
0:14:54 > 0:14:58So, Balliol, your bonuses are three more pieces by musical duos.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02Five points for each you can identify. Firstly...
0:15:02 > 0:15:05# I can make you mine
0:15:05 > 0:15:07# Taste your lips of wine
0:15:07 > 0:15:10# Any time of night or day. #
0:15:10 > 0:15:11The Everly Brothers?
0:15:11 > 0:15:14It is The Everly Brothers, yes. 1958.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16Secondly, this band, please.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18GUITAR MUSIC
0:15:23 > 0:15:25# Flying, domestic flying
0:15:25 > 0:15:28# And when the stewardess is near
0:15:28 > 0:15:29# Do not show any fear... #
0:15:29 > 0:15:30Oh, this is...
0:15:30 > 0:15:32The Dresden Dolls.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34# Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat... #
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Nominate Pope.
0:15:36 > 0:15:37Dresden Dolls?
0:15:37 > 0:15:39- No, it was Sparks.- Oh!
0:15:39 > 0:15:40And finally...
0:15:40 > 0:15:42# Red hair with a curl
0:15:42 > 0:15:44# Mellow roll for the flavour and the eyes were peeping. #
0:15:44 > 0:15:45Oh, The White Stripes.
0:15:45 > 0:15:46The White Stripes.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48It is The White Stripes, yes.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Right, ten points for this starter question.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54What four-word phrase is the usual English translation
0:15:54 > 0:15:58of the surname of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII...?
0:15:59 > 0:16:01- "Born in the purple."- Correct.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03APPLAUSE
0:16:05 > 0:16:06Porphyrogenitus.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Your bonuses are on British ducks, Balliol.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12In each case, give the common name of the species from the description.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15Firstly, Anas platyrhynchos,
0:16:15 > 0:16:17sometimes known as the wild duck,
0:16:17 > 0:16:19a dabbling duck resident throughout the UK.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22The male has a green head and a yellow bill.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24- Mallard?- Yeah.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26- Mallard.- Correct.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30Secondly, Bucephala clangula, also known as the whistler.
0:16:30 > 0:16:31It is a diving duck,
0:16:31 > 0:16:34named after a particularly distinctive sensory organ.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38Hornbill?
0:16:38 > 0:16:40- Is that sensory?- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Hornbill?
0:16:42 > 0:16:43No, it's the goldeneye.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45Lastly, Somateria mollissima,
0:16:45 > 0:16:48a large sea duck resident in northern parts of Britain.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Its soft breast feathers are used to fill quilts and sleeping bags.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57- Eiderdown.- Yeah. - So eider is the duck.
0:16:57 > 0:16:58Eider?
0:16:58 > 0:17:00Correct. APPLAUSE
0:17:00 > 0:17:01Ten points for this.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05The names of the capitals of the Dominican republic
0:17:05 > 0:17:08and Tajikistan contain, in the local languages,
0:17:08 > 0:17:11the names of which two successive days of the week?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16- Sunday and Monday?- Correct.
0:17:16 > 0:17:17APPLAUSE
0:17:20 > 0:17:21Do you know Tajik?
0:17:21 > 0:17:23LAUGHTER
0:17:23 > 0:17:24Right, your bonuses are on
0:17:24 > 0:17:27the first millennium of the Christian or Common Era.
0:17:27 > 0:17:31In each case, identify the century during which the named people
0:17:31 > 0:17:33lived and died.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37Firstly, the Sassanid Persian ruler Khosrow the Just,
0:17:37 > 0:17:39the Chinese Buddhist reformer Tiantai,
0:17:39 > 0:17:42and the Frankish historian Gregory of Tours.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Third.
0:17:45 > 0:17:46Decade or century?
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Tiantai...
0:17:49 > 0:17:51Sassanids have to be before 600.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53I think it's... I think it's probably...
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Maybe the 500s? Because...
0:17:55 > 0:17:57The 500s?
0:17:57 > 0:18:00It is the 500s, or the sixth century, that's correct.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Secondly, St Ambrose, Bishop of Milan,
0:18:03 > 0:18:06the Greek theologian Gregory of Nazianzus,
0:18:06 > 0:18:08and the Roman Emperor Theodosius the great?
0:18:09 > 0:18:10He is...
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Is that the same as Theodosius? So definitely after the split.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Yeah. Quite late.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18So he was Byzantine.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Fifth century?
0:18:19 > 0:18:21I... Oh, I think it's...
0:18:21 > 0:18:22So fourth or fifth.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25I think Gregory was after...
0:18:25 > 0:18:26So, yeah, fourth or fifth.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28- Fifth, I think.- OK.
0:18:28 > 0:18:29Fifth century?
0:18:29 > 0:18:31No, it was fourth century, or the 300s.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34And finally, Emperor Taizu, founder of the Song Dynasty,
0:18:34 > 0:18:37the historian Liutprand of Cremona,
0:18:37 > 0:18:39and the Holy Roman Emperor Otto The Great?
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Song Dynasty?
0:18:44 > 0:18:47I think it's quite late. Otto...
0:18:47 > 0:18:48THEY CONFER
0:18:50 > 0:18:52Tenth century?
0:18:52 > 0:18:53Correct. The 900s. Well done.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55APPLAUSE
0:18:55 > 0:18:56Another starter question.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59From 1981 to 2010, the average annual rainfall
0:18:59 > 0:19:04at Greenwich Park in London was 557 millimetres.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06What was the comparable figure for Manchester? You can have...
0:19:08 > 0:19:101,000.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Nope.
0:19:12 > 0:19:13That was an interruption, too.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16You can have 50mm either way, I was going to say.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18One of you buzz?
0:19:20 > 0:19:21800?
0:19:21 > 0:19:23You're just outside.
0:19:23 > 0:19:24It's 867.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28I'd have accepted anything from 817 to 917.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31So, fingers on the buzzers, here's another starter question.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33In chemistry, what term describes a compound
0:19:33 > 0:19:36that contains only single bonds?
0:19:36 > 0:19:38It may...?
0:19:38 > 0:19:39- Saturated.- Yes.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40APPLAUSE
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Right, your bonuses are on
0:19:45 > 0:19:48the standard abbreviations of the titles of Shakespeare's plays,
0:19:48 > 0:19:51according to the handbook of the Modern Languages Association.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Firstly, the standard abbreviation of which play
0:19:53 > 0:19:58is also a letter ISO code for the Welsh language?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01- Cymbeline.- Yes.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03- CYM?- Cymbeline.- Oh, Cymbeline.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Cymbeline is correct, yes.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08One of Shakespeare's less frequently performed works,
0:20:08 > 0:20:11which play shares its standard abbreviation with that of a type
0:20:11 > 0:20:14of French high-speed passenger train?
0:20:14 > 0:20:16- Two Gentlemen Of Verona?- Yeah.
0:20:16 > 0:20:17Two Gentlemen Of Verona?
0:20:17 > 0:20:18Correct.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20And finally, which history play,
0:20:20 > 0:20:23attributed in part to Shakespeare, has an alphanumerical abbreviation
0:20:23 > 0:20:28used in text messaging for the word "hate"?
0:20:28 > 0:20:30- Henry VIII?- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:20:30 > 0:20:33We're going to take a second picture round.
0:20:33 > 0:20:34For your picture starter,
0:20:34 > 0:20:37you're going to see a photograph of a historical figure.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Ten points if you can identify her.
0:20:46 > 0:20:47Wallis Simpson?
0:20:47 > 0:20:49It is Wallis Simpson, yes.
0:20:49 > 0:20:50APPLAUSE
0:20:51 > 0:20:55She was wearing a notable design by Elsa Schiaparelli,
0:20:55 > 0:20:57a leading designer in the '20s and '30s
0:20:57 > 0:21:01known for her collaborations with Dali, Cocteau and Giacometti.
0:21:01 > 0:21:02Your picture bonuses are three more
0:21:02 > 0:21:04of her famous clients wearing her designs.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07Five points for each client you can identify.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08Firstly, for five...
0:21:13 > 0:21:14Marlene Dietrich?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16- I don't know who that is. - It could be...
0:21:16 > 0:21:19- Marlene Dietrich. - Yeah, I think it could be.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Marlene Dietrich?
0:21:21 > 0:21:23No, that's Joan Crawford. Secondly...
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Is that Marilyn Monroe?
0:21:28 > 0:21:30- No!- No! It's...
0:21:31 > 0:21:34It could be... Is it Greta Garbo?
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Greta Garbo?
0:21:37 > 0:21:39- No, that was Marlene Dietrich. - AUDIENCE: Oh!
0:21:39 > 0:21:40And finally...
0:21:44 > 0:21:47Could that be, like, Maureen O'Hara?
0:21:47 > 0:21:48Who?
0:21:48 > 0:21:51Maureen O'Hara. She was in this film I watched the other day.
0:21:51 > 0:21:52LAUGHTER
0:21:52 > 0:21:55- Yeah, seems reasonable. - No, clearly...
0:21:55 > 0:21:56Maureen O'Hara?
0:21:56 > 0:21:58- No, that's Mae West.- Oh.
0:21:58 > 0:21:59Ten points for this.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02What film was based on Clare Boothe Luce's
0:22:02 > 0:22:07play of the same name, and was directed in 1939 by George Cukor?
0:22:07 > 0:22:09It was remade by Diane English in 2008,
0:22:09 > 0:22:12with both film versions having an all-female cast.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17It was The Women. Ten points for this.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21After the sun and the three stars that form Alpha Centauri,
0:22:21 > 0:22:24what is the next nearest known star to Earth?
0:22:24 > 0:22:26A class M red dwarf about...
0:22:27 > 0:22:29- Barnard's Star. - Barnard's Star is correct.
0:22:29 > 0:22:30APPLAUSE
0:22:32 > 0:22:35You get a set of bonuses on protein degradation.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39Firstly, the primary function of what multi-catalytic enzyme complex
0:22:39 > 0:22:41is to degrade proteins?
0:22:41 > 0:22:45It's present in the nucleus and cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells.
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Protease.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Protease.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50No, it's proteasome.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52Secondly, which small polypeptide
0:22:52 > 0:22:56needs to be attached to a protein for recognition by the proteasome?
0:23:02 > 0:23:03- Pass.- It's ubiquitin.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06And finally, inhibition of the proteasome pathway
0:23:06 > 0:23:09can interfere with the ordered degradation of cell cycle proteins
0:23:09 > 0:23:12and lead to programmed cell death. By what term...?
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Apoptosis.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Apoptosis is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Four and a half minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22Mohenjo-daro and Harappa were cities of an ancient civilisation...?
0:23:22 > 0:23:23Indus Valley.
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Indus is correct, yes.
0:23:25 > 0:23:26APPLAUSE
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Your bonuses are on places that delimit areas
0:23:30 > 0:23:35of the BBC coastal weather forecast, for example, Whitby and Selsey Bill.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37In each case, I'd like you to identify the place
0:23:37 > 0:23:40from the description. Firstly, the most north-westerly point
0:23:40 > 0:23:42of the island of Great Britain.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45It takes its name from the Norse for "turning point".
0:23:46 > 0:23:50- John O'Groats? - It's not that, though, is it?
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Stornoway?
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Stornoway?
0:23:54 > 0:23:56No, it's Cape Wrath.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Secondly, an inlet of the Atlantic
0:23:58 > 0:24:00to the east of the Inishowen Peninsula.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04The city of Derry stands just to the south on a river of the same name.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09THEY CONFER
0:24:11 > 0:24:13Pass.
0:24:13 > 0:24:14Lough Foyle.
0:24:14 > 0:24:18And finally, a railway and ferry terminus on Anglesey divides
0:24:18 > 0:24:21the area between St David's Head and Morecambe Bay.
0:24:23 > 0:24:24Pass.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27It's Holyhead. Three minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30What short word links the second oldest university in Sweden,
0:24:30 > 0:24:35founded in 1666, with the surname of the leading female detective
0:24:35 > 0:24:37in the Danish police...?
0:24:37 > 0:24:38Lund?
0:24:38 > 0:24:39Lund is correct, yes.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41APPLAUSE
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Your bonuses, Robinson College,
0:24:43 > 0:24:46are on novels that won the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Which novel by Philip Roth
0:24:48 > 0:24:51won the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction in 1998?
0:24:51 > 0:24:53I think it might be The Human Stain.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54The Human Stain?
0:24:54 > 0:24:56No, it was American Pastoral.
0:24:56 > 0:25:00The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao won the prize in 2003.
0:25:00 > 0:25:01Who was the author?
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Oh, I know...
0:25:06 > 0:25:07I've got nothing.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Say something.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Jacob Hardman.
0:25:11 > 0:25:12No, it was Junot Diaz.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16And finally, which novel by Cormac McCarthy won the prize in 2007?
0:25:16 > 0:25:17- The Road.- The Road.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19- The Road.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Two minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25Inserting the letters I and A into the French word for "lover"
0:25:25 > 0:25:29gives the name of which genus of sometimes toxic fungi
0:25:29 > 0:25:32that includes fly, agaric and death cap?
0:25:36 > 0:25:38Amiata?
0:25:38 > 0:25:40No.
0:25:40 > 0:25:41Amanita?
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Yes, Amanita is correct. APPLAUSE
0:25:42 > 0:25:46So you get a set of bonuses, now, on Anglo-Saxon coinage.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50Firstly, for five points, an early major minting of the silver penny
0:25:50 > 0:25:54appeared during the reign of which King of Mercia, who died in 796?
0:25:54 > 0:25:56- Offa.- Correct.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00From 927, which grandson of Alfred The Great was styled
0:26:00 > 0:26:04Rex totius Britanniae, or King of All Britain, on his coins?
0:26:06 > 0:26:09- Athelstan, isn't it? - Athelstan, yes.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11- 927?- Yes.
0:26:11 > 0:26:12- Athelstan.- Correct.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14In 973, which King of the English
0:26:14 > 0:26:18established royal control over minting and regular recoinages
0:26:18 > 0:26:21that ensured consistent quality?
0:26:22 > 0:26:24973, was it?
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Ethelred...?
0:26:28 > 0:26:30- Could be.- Just say Ethelred.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Ethelred The Unready?
0:26:32 > 0:26:33No, it's Edgar. Ten points for this.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Which Austrian born Holocaust survivor,
0:26:36 > 0:26:38psychiatrist and founder of...?
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Viktor Frankl.
0:26:40 > 0:26:41Correct, yes.
0:26:41 > 0:26:42APPLAUSE
0:26:44 > 0:26:46These bonuses are on ecology, Balliol.
0:26:46 > 0:26:51The term edaphic factor refers to what precise habitat?
0:26:51 > 0:26:53THEY CONFER
0:26:57 > 0:26:59- Er, studio. - LAUGHTER
0:26:59 > 0:27:00No, it's the soil.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03What are the three mineral components of soil,
0:27:03 > 0:27:04based on particle size?
0:27:04 > 0:27:05I need all three.
0:27:05 > 0:27:06Clay...
0:27:10 > 0:27:13- Clay, sand...?- Stone? - What's the last one?
0:27:13 > 0:27:14Gravel? I don't know.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Clay, stone and gravel.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17No, it's clay, silt and sand.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Finally, what short term denotes a soil
0:27:20 > 0:27:24in which neither clay, silt, nor sand predominates?
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Aggregate? I don't know.
0:27:26 > 0:27:27Aggregate.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29No, it's loam. Ten points for this...
0:27:29 > 0:27:30GONG
0:27:30 > 0:27:32And at the gong, Robinson College Cambridge have 90,
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Balliol College Oxford have 210.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36APPLAUSE
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Well, you didn't really get a chance to get going, did you, Robinson?
0:27:41 > 0:27:43But thank you for joining us. We shall have to say goodbye to you.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Balliol, we shall look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals,
0:27:46 > 0:27:47a very impressive performance,
0:27:47 > 0:27:49we shall look forward to seeing more of you.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52I hope you can join us next time for another second-round match,
0:27:52 > 0:27:54but until then, it's goodbye from Robinson College, Cambridge...
0:27:54 > 0:27:57- Goodbye!- ..it's goodbye from Balliol College, Oxford...
0:27:57 > 0:27:59- Goodbye!- ..and it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:27:59 > 0:28:00APPLAUSE