0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. There are eight places in the quarterfinal stage of this
0:00:32 > 0:00:35competition, and six of them have already been claimed.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38The seventh will go to whichever team wins tonight,
0:00:38 > 0:00:40but it's sayonara to the losers.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44Now, the first round matches saw the team from the University of Bristol
0:00:44 > 0:00:47pull off a comfortable win against Sheffield University,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50winning by 210-130.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53Impressive areas of knowledge on that occasion included
0:00:53 > 0:00:55eclectic architecture, amino acids,
0:00:55 > 0:00:59Australian cricket and earthworm poo.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03With an average age of 24, let's meet the Bristol team again.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Hi, I'm Joe Rolleston, I'm from Tamworth in Staffordshire,
0:01:05 > 0:01:07and I'm training to teach history.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10Hi, I'm Claire Jackson, from Carshalton in south-west London,
0:01:10 > 0:01:13and I'm studying for an MSci in palaeontology and evolution.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15And this is their captain.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Hi, I'm Alice Clarke, I'm from Oxford, and I study medicine.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21Hi, I'm Michael Tomsett, from Hinckley in Leicestershire,
0:01:21 > 0:01:23and I'm doing a PhD in organic chemistry.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25APPLAUSE
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Now, Oriel College, Oxford won their first round match against
0:01:31 > 0:01:35a somewhat off-message team from Manchester University,
0:01:35 > 0:01:39and had 150 points at the gong against their opponents' mere 95.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41A kinder competition than this one
0:01:41 > 0:01:45would gloss over their confusing Bo Diddley with Cole Porter,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48and their startling ignorance of popular music, but they were
0:01:48 > 0:01:53on safer ground answering on Germanic tribes, Monet and Kurosawa.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57With an average age of 23, let's meet the Oriel team again.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00Hi, I'm Owen Monaghan, I'm from Banbridge in Northern Ireland,
0:02:00 > 0:02:02and I study philosophy, politics and economics.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Hello, I'm Alex Siantonas.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07I'm from Cambridge, and I study philosophy.
0:02:07 > 0:02:08Their captain.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Hi, I'm Nathan Helms, I'm from Dallas, Texas,
0:02:10 > 0:02:12and I also study philosophy.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Hello, I'm Tobias Thornes, I'm from Hadzor in Worcestershire,
0:02:15 > 0:02:18and I'm studying for a DPhil in atmospheric physics.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20APPLAUSE
0:02:23 > 0:02:25OK, the rules haven't changed
0:02:25 > 0:02:27since the last time you were on this contest,
0:02:27 > 0:02:29so let's just get on with it.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32The metallic portion of what object consists of
0:02:32 > 0:02:36a cross pattee of bronze, 3.8 centimetres in diameter,
0:02:36 > 0:02:39with the Royal Crown surmounted by a lion in the centre,
0:02:39 > 0:02:42above the inscription, "For valour"?
0:02:42 > 0:02:44BELL RINGS
0:02:44 > 0:02:45The Victoria Cross?
0:02:45 > 0:02:46Correct, yes.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49APPLAUSE
0:02:49 > 0:02:51You get the first set of bonuses, Bristol.
0:02:51 > 0:02:52They're on modern languages.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Of which modern European language
0:02:54 > 0:02:57did the Irish novelist Flann O'Brien say,
0:02:57 > 0:03:00"Waiting for the verb is surely the ultimate thrill"?
0:03:02 > 0:03:03German.
0:03:03 > 0:03:08Yes. JRR Tolkien likened his discovery of which language to, quote,
0:03:08 > 0:03:11"A wine cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine
0:03:11 > 0:03:13"of a kind and flavour never tasted before.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16"It quite intoxicated me"?
0:03:16 > 0:03:17Finnish.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20Correct. The name of which language completes this statement from
0:03:20 > 0:03:24a work of 1784, given here in translation?
0:03:24 > 0:03:28"What is not clear is not..." what?
0:03:29 > 0:03:31THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:03:33 > 0:03:35- They said in translation. - Maybe French?
0:03:35 > 0:03:38THEY CONFER
0:03:39 > 0:03:42- I don't know, I haven't got a clue. - What is a famous one?
0:03:42 > 0:03:43- French?- French?
0:03:43 > 0:03:44Is not French.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Correct. APPLAUSE
0:03:46 > 0:03:49Right, fingers on the buzzers. Another starter question.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53From 1850, the German physicist Rudolf Clausius formulated
0:03:53 > 0:03:54which concept in thermodynamics?
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Regarded as a measure of the disorder of a system...
0:03:57 > 0:03:59BELL RINGS
0:03:59 > 0:04:00Entropy.
0:04:00 > 0:04:01Entropy is correct.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03APPLAUSE
0:04:04 > 0:04:08These bonuses are on marine mammals, Bristol.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11The sea mammals classed as "cetaceans"
0:04:11 > 0:04:14include whales, dolphins and which other major group?
0:04:14 > 0:04:19Its species include harbour, finless and Burmeister's.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Porpoises?
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Correct. After a physical characteristic,
0:04:26 > 0:04:31what two-word name is given to the suborder Odontoceti?
0:04:31 > 0:04:35It includes river dolphins, porpoises and beaked whales.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37- That's toothed whale.- Toothed?- Yeah.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40- Too... - No, cos it's two words.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42- Yeah, toothed whale. - Oh, toothed, OK.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Toothed whale.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48Correct. Monodon monoceros is a small toothed whale
0:04:48 > 0:04:50with what common name?
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Males have a long, straight tusk
0:04:52 > 0:04:55that projects forward from above the mouth.
0:04:55 > 0:04:56Narwhal.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59Narwhal is correct, the so-called sea unicorn.
0:04:59 > 0:05:00APPLAUSE
0:05:02 > 0:05:03Right, 10 points for this.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07"Life is what happens when we're not checking facts".
0:05:07 > 0:05:10These words from The Huffington Post allude to which musician?
0:05:10 > 0:05:14He's often hailed erroneously to have originated the expression,
0:05:14 > 0:05:19"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans".
0:05:19 > 0:05:20BUZZ
0:05:20 > 0:05:22John Lennon?
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Yes. APPLAUSE
0:05:27 > 0:05:30So your first bonuses, Oriel, are on middle names.
0:05:30 > 0:05:35What was the middle name of the science fiction writer Philip Dick?
0:05:35 > 0:05:39It is a seven-letter word meaning "related by blood or descent",
0:05:39 > 0:05:41or "allied in nature or character".
0:05:41 > 0:05:44- Something like kin? - It could be kindred.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Kindred.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Correct. What was the middle name of Leslie Hartley,
0:05:49 > 0:05:50the author of The Go-Between?
0:05:50 > 0:05:53As a plural noun, it means the two points in the celestial sphere
0:05:53 > 0:05:56about which the stars appear to revolve.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:06:02 > 0:06:04What? What is it?
0:06:04 > 0:06:05The...
0:06:07 > 0:06:09..pole star?
0:06:09 > 0:06:11- Erm...- Zenith?
0:06:11 > 0:06:12Zenith.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15No, it's Poles. What was the middle name of
0:06:15 > 0:06:18the author of the Narnia books Clive Lewis?
0:06:18 > 0:06:21As a plural noun it can denote a form of fastening.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23- Staples. - Correct.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25APPLAUSE 10 points for this.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29Thanks to a large number of boroughs enfranchised during Tudor times,
0:06:29 > 0:06:32which English county had, in the early 19th century,
0:06:32 > 0:06:36almost as many parliamentary seats as the whole of Scotland?
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Among its boroughs... BELL RINGS
0:06:39 > 0:06:40Wiltshire?
0:06:40 > 0:06:42No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Among its boroughs disenfranchised in 1832 were
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Callington, Camelford and St Germans.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52BUZZ
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Oxfordshire?
0:06:54 > 0:06:56No, it's Cornwall. 10 points for this.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59From the Greek for "naked seeds", what term denotes plants
0:06:59 > 0:07:02such as conifers that reproduce by means of an...?
0:07:02 > 0:07:04BELL RINGS
0:07:04 > 0:07:05Gymnosperm.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Correct. APPLAUSE
0:07:10 > 0:07:13Right, Bristol, these bonuses are on words that differ by
0:07:13 > 0:07:16a single letter from those in the NATO spelling alphabet.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20That's the one where BBC is "Bravo Bravo Charlie".
0:07:20 > 0:07:24In each case, I want the word that is defined and the word it
0:07:24 > 0:07:26resembles in the spelling alphabet.
0:07:26 > 0:07:31For examples, "rodeo" and "Romeo" or "brave" and "bravo".
0:07:31 > 0:07:35First, a rude, miserable or squalid dwelling place.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Hovel and hotel.
0:07:37 > 0:07:38Hovel and hotel.
0:07:38 > 0:07:43Correct. Second, a simple sum in Spanish. Cinco plus tres.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46I don't know what the Spanish is.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Night? Is that one?
0:07:50 > 0:07:52It's 11, 12, but I don't know.
0:07:52 > 0:07:53I don't know.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58THEY WHISPER
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Come on, let's have it, please.
0:08:04 > 0:08:05Eight and night.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07No, it's ocho and echo.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10And finally, the chief helmsman of the Starship Enterprise
0:08:10 > 0:08:15played in the original 1960s television series by George Takei.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Sulu and Zulu.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Yeah, Sulu and Zulu.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21Correct. APPLAUSE
0:08:21 > 0:08:23We're going to have a look at a picture round now.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25For your picture starter you'll see a map of the Netherlands with
0:08:25 > 0:08:28one of the provinces highlighted.
0:08:28 > 0:08:3110 points if you can name the highlighted province.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33BELL RINGS
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Friesland?
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Friesland is right.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37APPLAUSE
0:08:40 > 0:08:43So you're going to see, for your picture bonuses,
0:08:43 > 0:08:45three more provinces of the Netherlands highlighted.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Five points for each you can identify.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Firstly, the province labelled A.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Is Gelderland a province?
0:08:53 > 0:08:54Do you know any more?
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Er, well, two of them are Holland
0:08:56 > 0:08:59but I don't think either of them are, any of them are, so...
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Well, one of them... There's Zeeland as well, isn't there?
0:09:02 > 0:09:05- There's Zeeland, yeah. - Go with that.- Zeeland.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09Correct. Secondly, the province labelled B.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11That's, like, where Maastricht is.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14I don't know if it's named after Maastricht, we could try.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16- No better guess?- Gelderland? - All right.- Go on.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Gelderland.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22No, it's Limburg. And finally, the province labelled C.
0:09:22 > 0:09:23Try one of the Hollands for that.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26- If we don't have anything else. - What's your preferred option?
0:09:26 > 0:09:28- Noord-Holland? - Noord-Holland?
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Correct, North Holland is right.
0:09:30 > 0:09:31APPLAUSE
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Right, 10 points for this.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36In which novel of 1815 do these words appear?
0:09:36 > 0:09:38"One has not great hopes from Birmingham.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41"I always say there's something direful in the south..."
0:09:41 > 0:09:43BUZZ
0:09:43 > 0:09:44Emma?
0:09:44 > 0:09:45Emma is correct, yes.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47APPLAUSE
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Oriel College, these bonuses are on a writer.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54In 1850, which writer became
0:09:54 > 0:09:58the first editor of the magazine Household Words?
0:09:58 > 0:10:01He used it to serialise his non-fiction work,
0:10:01 > 0:10:03A Child's History Of England.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06THEY WHISPER
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Dickens?
0:10:11 > 0:10:12Dickens?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Don't think so.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19- Thackeray?- What? - Thackeray?- Thackeray.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21No, it was Dickens! Charles Dickens.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25The periodical Master Humphrey's Clock, written and edited
0:10:25 > 0:10:29entirely by Dickens, saw the first publication of two of his novels.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31One was Barnaby Rudge.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34What was the other, concerning Nell Trent and her grandfather?
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Nell...
0:10:36 > 0:10:37- (The Old Curiosity Shop?) - Yeah.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39- What was it? - The Old Curiosity Shop.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41The Old Curiosity Shop.
0:10:41 > 0:10:42Correct.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45Which was the second of Dickens's novels to be published,
0:10:45 > 0:10:47appearing as monthly instalments in the periodical
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Bentley's Miscellany from 1837?
0:10:50 > 0:10:52- Pickwick Papers? - Oh, Pickwick Papers.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54- Pickwick Papers?- Yeah. - The Pickwick Papers.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56No, it was Oliver Twist.
0:10:56 > 0:10:5710 points for this.
0:10:57 > 0:11:03Born in 1839, Joaquim Machado de Assis gives his name to
0:11:03 > 0:11:07a prestigious literary prize in which South American country?
0:11:07 > 0:11:09BELL RINGS
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Argentina?
0:11:11 > 0:11:13No. BUZZ
0:11:13 > 0:11:14Brazil?
0:11:14 > 0:11:15Brazil is correct, yes.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18APPLAUSE
0:11:19 > 0:11:22Right, these bonuses are on physical principles.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25In each case, identify the scientist after whom the following are named.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28Firstly, after a Swiss mathematician,
0:11:28 > 0:11:31a principle in fluid dynamics that relates the pressure drop in
0:11:31 > 0:11:34a fluid to the increase in its flow speed.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36THEY CONFER
0:11:39 > 0:11:42- Fibonacci's Swiss too, right? - No.- I don't think so.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44- Bernoulli? - Bernoulli, right. Bernoulli.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46Correct.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49After a French physicist secondly, born 1794,
0:11:49 > 0:11:53the diffraction pattern created by an opaque object is identical to
0:11:53 > 0:11:57the diffraction pattern from a hole of the same shape and size.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01THEY WHISPER
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Couldn't be Pascal, it's too late.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Too late for Pascal, another French physicist from the period.
0:12:11 > 0:12:12Erm...
0:12:16 > 0:12:18Gay-Lussac.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22No, it's Jacques Babinet. Babinet principle.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25And finally, after an ancient mathematician, the weight of
0:12:25 > 0:12:28liquid displaced by a floating body is equal to the weight of the body.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30- Archimedes.- Archimedes.
0:12:30 > 0:12:31Yes. APPLAUSE
0:12:31 > 0:12:3210 points for this.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35A leading proponent of humanism and secularism,
0:12:35 > 0:12:39which British academic's works include What Is Chemistry?
0:12:39 > 0:12:43Molecules, and Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas Of Science?
0:12:43 > 0:12:45BELL RINGS
0:12:45 > 0:12:46Atkins?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48It is Peter Atkins, yes.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50APPLAUSE
0:12:52 > 0:12:55Your bonuses are on the Lake District, Bristol.
0:12:55 > 0:13:00One of the steepest roads in England, with a maximum gradient
0:13:00 > 0:13:03of 33%, which pass links Eskdale with the Duddon Valley?
0:13:03 > 0:13:06Near the summit are the remains of a Roman fort.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09THEY WHISPER
0:13:20 > 0:13:23- Let's have an answer, please. - We don't know.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24It's Hardknott Pass.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27Setting a new UK record for any 24-hour period,
0:13:27 > 0:13:31how many millimetres of rain fell at Honister Pass in the
0:13:31 > 0:13:37Lake District in the 24 hours up to 6pm GMT on the 5th of December 2015?
0:13:37 > 0:13:39You can have 10% either way.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43THEY CONFER
0:13:43 > 0:13:44160...?
0:13:46 > 0:13:47Doesn't seem... In 24 hours...
0:13:47 > 0:13:5016 centimetres, that's a lot of rain!
0:13:50 > 0:13:52- Yeah, it is! - I don't know. Yeah, go on.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55- 16 centimetres. - 160, it's a guess.- Yeah?
0:13:55 > 0:13:56160 millimetres?
0:13:56 > 0:14:00No, it's much wetter than that, it was 341.4 millimetres.
0:14:00 > 0:14:04Newlands Pass links Buttermere with which town to the north-east
0:14:04 > 0:14:06on the shores of Derwentwater?
0:14:06 > 0:14:09THEY WHISPER
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Come on, let's have it, please.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17- I don't know. - Coniston.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20No, it's Keswick. Right, we're about halfway through the contest,
0:14:20 > 0:14:23we're going to take a music round. For your music starter,
0:14:23 > 0:14:26you'll hear a piece of classical music by a German composer.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29For 10 points, simply identify the composer.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31MUSIC: Violin Concerto in D Major
0:14:36 > 0:14:38BELL RINGS
0:14:38 > 0:14:39Beethoven?
0:14:39 > 0:14:42It is Beethoven, yes. His Violin Concerto in D Major.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44APPLAUSE
0:14:44 > 0:14:46It was his only violin concerto,
0:14:46 > 0:14:49which was identified by the 19th century violinist
0:14:49 > 0:14:53Joseph Joachim as one of the four great German violin concerti.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56For your music bonuses you'll hear the other three,
0:14:56 > 0:14:59and I want you to identify the composer of each.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Firstly, for five, according to Joachim,
0:15:01 > 0:15:04"the richest and most seductive" of the four.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08VIOLIN CONCERTO PLAYS
0:15:23 > 0:15:25No objections? Haydn?
0:15:25 > 0:15:26No, that's Bruch.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28Secondly, this one,
0:15:28 > 0:15:31which "vies in seriousness" with the Beethoven, he says.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35VIOLIN CONCERTO PLAYS
0:15:53 > 0:15:56THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:15:56 > 0:15:58- Come on.- Pass.
0:15:58 > 0:15:59That was by Brahms.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02And finally what Joachim named "the heart's jewel".
0:16:04 > 0:16:06VIOLIN CONCERTO PLAYS
0:16:06 > 0:16:07This is Haydn, isn't it?
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Oh, no, this is definitely Mendelssohn.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12- This is definitely Mendelssohn? - It is, yeah.
0:16:12 > 0:16:13Mendelssohn.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16Correct. APPLAUSE
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Right, 10 points for this.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21Popularised by George Orwell in 1984,
0:16:21 > 0:16:24what two-word term denotes a mechanism for the disposal
0:16:24 > 0:16:27of inconvenient or embarrassing information?
0:16:29 > 0:16:31- Memory hole.- Memory hole is correct.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33APPLAUSE
0:16:35 > 0:16:39Bristol, these bonuses are on the novels of Virginia Woolf.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41In each case, identify the novel from its characters.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44Firstly, Minta Doyle, Charles Tansley,
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Lily Briscoe and James Ramsay.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50- To The Lighthouse. - To The Lighthouse is correct, yes.
0:16:50 > 0:16:55Secondly, Bernard, Percival, Rhoda, Susan and Dr Crane.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58(Percival - would that be Orlando?)
0:16:58 > 0:17:02THEY CONFER
0:17:03 > 0:17:05(Yes, could be.)
0:17:05 > 0:17:06Orlando.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09No, that's The Waves.
0:17:09 > 0:17:15Lastly, Sasha, Shel, Archduke Harry, Mr Pope and Queen Elizabeth I.
0:17:15 > 0:17:16(Yeah.)
0:17:16 > 0:17:18- Orlando.- That is Orlando. Yes.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Right. 10 points for this.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24In which novel of 1988 do three publishing editors invent
0:17:24 > 0:17:27a conspiracy theory that moves beyond their control?
0:17:27 > 0:17:29It shares its name with a device
0:17:29 > 0:17:33designed by a 19th-century French physicist...
0:17:33 > 0:17:36- Foucault's Pen...Pendulum.- Correct.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40APPLAUSE
0:17:42 > 0:17:46Right, these bonuses, Bristol, are on chemistry.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50Born in Massachusetts in 1875, which physical chemist gives his name
0:17:50 > 0:17:55to the dot diagrams that show the electronic structures of molecules?
0:17:55 > 0:17:59THEY CONFER
0:18:03 > 0:18:07THEY WHISPER
0:18:08 > 0:18:10- Newman.- No, it's Lewis.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13Lewis is noted for his work on which chemical bond,
0:18:13 > 0:18:17formed by the sharing of pairs of electrons between atoms?
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Covalent.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21- Covalent bonding.- Correct.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24Which US Nobel Laureate developed Lewis's work
0:18:24 > 0:18:28on electron-paired bonding, making it the subject of his 1939 work,
0:18:28 > 0:18:31The Nature Of The Chemical Bond?
0:18:31 > 0:18:34I think that might be...
0:18:34 > 0:18:36No...
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Who's the orange juice obsessive, what's his name?
0:18:39 > 0:18:40THEY LAUGH
0:18:40 > 0:18:42It begins with P.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46THEY CONFER
0:18:46 > 0:18:48Pauling, yes, that's the one.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52- Linus Pauling. - Linus Pauling is correct.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54APPLAUSE 10 points for this.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58"Words are the tokens current and accepted for conceits,
0:18:58 > 0:19:00"as monies are for values."
0:19:00 > 0:19:04Who wrote this in the 1605 work The Advancement Of Learning?
0:19:05 > 0:19:08The... Francis Bacon.
0:19:08 > 0:19:09Correct.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11APPLAUSE
0:19:13 > 0:19:17These bonuses, Oriel College, are on 20th-century China.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21During World War II, which Chinese leader was nicknamed Cash-My-Cheque,
0:19:21 > 0:19:24because of his constant demands for Western aid?
0:19:24 > 0:19:27- Chiang Kai-shek maybe?- Yeah.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29- Chiang Kai-shek.- Correct.
0:19:29 > 0:19:34Chiang reportedly said that the Japanese were a disease of the skin.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37Which grouping did he describe as a disease of the heart?
0:19:40 > 0:19:43THEY CONFER
0:19:43 > 0:19:44I suppose the Americans.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46It wouldn't be the Americans, would it?
0:19:46 > 0:19:48No, it's the Communists.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50LAUGHTER
0:19:50 > 0:19:52From 1979 to 2006, the airport
0:19:52 > 0:19:56of which major city was named after Chiang Kai-shek?
0:19:56 > 0:19:58- Taipei?- Sure.
0:19:58 > 0:19:59- Taipei.- Correct.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03You get to take a second picture around. For your picture starter,
0:20:03 > 0:20:05you'll see an actor in a Shakespearean role.
0:20:05 > 0:20:0910 points if you can identify both the actor and the role.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16- Kim Cattrall as Cleopatra?- Correct.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18APPLAUSE
0:20:21 > 0:20:24So, for your picture bonuses, three more actors in the same role,
0:20:24 > 0:20:26five points for each you can identify.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Firstly for five.
0:20:33 > 0:20:38THEY CONFER
0:20:38 > 0:20:41I think we'd better have an answer, please.
0:20:44 > 0:20:45- Judi Dench. - SHE GIGGLES
0:20:45 > 0:20:48No, it's Glenda Jackson in 1978.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55She looks really cool, but I don't know who she is.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01THEY WHISPER
0:21:01 > 0:21:02Maggie Smith?
0:21:02 > 0:21:04No.
0:21:05 > 0:21:06Come on.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Pass.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11That's Vanessa Redgrave in a 1995 production.
0:21:11 > 0:21:12And finally.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15- That's Helen Mirren.- Yeah.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19- Helen Mirren. - That is Helen Mirren in 1982.
0:21:19 > 0:21:20APPLAUSE
0:21:20 > 0:21:24Right, 10 points for this starter question. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Used as an electrolyte in dry cells
0:21:26 > 0:21:28and as a flavouring in salty liquorice,
0:21:28 > 0:21:32what chemical compound has the formula NH4Cl?
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Ammonium chloride.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Correct. APPLAUSE
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Bristol, these bonuses are on Northern Ireland.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47The first five letters of the name of which Northern Irish County
0:21:47 > 0:21:50spell an Italian word meaning "stop"?
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Antrim...
0:21:53 > 0:21:56(Is it "ferma"? Ferma?)
0:21:56 > 0:21:59THEY WHISPER
0:22:00 > 0:22:02- Fermanagh.- Correct.
0:22:02 > 0:22:07The first four letters of which county's name spell the first word
0:22:07 > 0:22:10of Virgil's Aeneid in the original Latin?
0:22:10 > 0:22:14THEY WHISPER
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Come on!
0:22:18 > 0:22:20(Go with Antrim.)
0:22:20 > 0:22:23- Antrim.- No, it's Armagh.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24"I sing of arms and the man."
0:22:24 > 0:22:28And finally, the first three letters of the name of which Northern Irish
0:22:28 > 0:22:33County spell a short word, whose Italian translation is "formica"?
0:22:35 > 0:22:39(Formica is ants, termites.)
0:22:39 > 0:22:40- Antrim.- Correct.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Five minutes to go. 10 points for this.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46The northernmost province of South Africa is named after...
0:22:46 > 0:22:48- Limpopo.- Correct.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50APPLAUSE
0:22:50 > 0:22:54Bristol, these bonuses are on British national parks.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Firstly, the closest National Park to Glasgow
0:22:57 > 0:23:00is named in part after which body of water?
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Loch Lomond?
0:23:02 > 0:23:05Loch Lomond and the Trossachs.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08- Both?- Yes.- Nominate Tomsett.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs. - That's correct.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12I just needed Loch Lomond.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Secondly, which English National Park lies less than 40 miles
0:23:15 > 0:23:18south-west of Cardiff, across the Bristol Channel?
0:23:18 > 0:23:20By road, it's around 100 miles.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24THEY CONFER
0:23:24 > 0:23:26- Ex...? - < Yeah.
0:23:26 > 0:23:27- Exmoor?- Correct.
0:23:27 > 0:23:33Established in 2011, what is the nearest National Park to London?
0:23:33 > 0:23:34South Downs?
0:23:34 > 0:23:37- Yeah.- South Downs.- Correct.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39There's four minutes ago. 10 points for this.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42Comprising 44 volumes and taking more than half a century
0:23:42 > 0:23:46to be completed, the work known as the Histoire Naturelle was written
0:23:46 > 0:23:49primarily by which French naturalist...?
0:23:50 > 0:23:51Diderot, but it's not.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54It's not, I'm afraid. You lose five points.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56..Which French naturalist, born 1707?
0:23:56 > 0:23:59One of you may buzz from Bristol.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Lamarck.
0:24:01 > 0:24:02No, it's Buffon.
0:24:02 > 0:24:0610 points for this. Of the six flavours of quarks
0:24:06 > 0:24:09in the standard model of particle physics,
0:24:09 > 0:24:13which comes last in the dictionary?
0:24:13 > 0:24:14Strange?
0:24:17 > 0:24:18Up.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19Up is correct.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21APPLAUSE
0:24:23 > 0:24:26These bonuses are on astronomy, Bristol.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28What precise seven-letter term
0:24:28 > 0:24:33denotes the passage of Mercury or Venus across the disc of the Sun,
0:24:33 > 0:24:36a phenomenon similar to a lunar eclipse?
0:24:36 > 0:24:39- Transit.- Transit.- Correct.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Transits of Venus occurred in 2004 and 2012.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44In which year will the next one occur?
0:24:44 > 0:24:46You can have ten years either way.
0:24:46 > 0:24:47It's a long way off.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50THEY CONFER
0:24:55 > 0:24:562090?
0:24:56 > 0:24:59Ten years either way.
0:25:00 > 0:25:012090?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03No, it's 2117.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07And finally, which navigator commanded the British expedition
0:25:07 > 0:25:11that observed the transit of Venus from Tahiti in 1769?
0:25:11 > 0:25:12THEY CONFER
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- Cook.- Captain Cook is correct.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17APPLAUSE Two and half minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21World Heritage sites in which country include
0:25:21 > 0:25:25the historic centre of Evora, the cultural landscape of Sintra,
0:25:25 > 0:25:27and the Alto Douro wine region.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29- Portugal.- Portugal is correct.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33APPLAUSE
0:25:33 > 0:25:37These bonuses are on an Italian republic, Bristol.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40Between 1256 and 1381, four wars took place
0:25:40 > 0:25:43between the Republic of Venice and which other
0:25:43 > 0:25:48Italian republic for supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea?
0:25:48 > 0:25:49- Genoa?- Oh, yeah.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52In terms of the other...
0:25:52 > 0:25:55- Come on.- They're in the wrong side.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Yeah, but, the Mediterranean.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59What are you thinking of?
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Dalmatia. But go with Genoa.
0:26:01 > 0:26:02Come on.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Genoa.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06It's Genoa, that's correct.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Which mountainous island to the west of the Italian mainland
0:26:08 > 0:26:11was annexed to the state of Genoa in 1284
0:26:11 > 0:26:15and ceded to France by the Treaty of Versailles in 1768?
0:26:15 > 0:26:17- Corsica.- Correct.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21Genoa was occupied by Napoleon and then annexed by France,
0:26:21 > 0:26:24but the Congress of Vienna gave it to which dynastic family,
0:26:24 > 0:26:27the kings of Sardinia and later of Italy?
0:26:29 > 0:26:34THEY CONFER
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Let's have it, please.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38- Come on.- Pass.
0:26:38 > 0:26:39The House of Savoy.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42Right. 10 points for this. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Its name derived from the Greek for visible light,
0:26:44 > 0:26:47what is the current geological aeon?
0:26:49 > 0:26:51- Phanerozoic.- That's correct.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53APPLAUSE
0:26:53 > 0:26:57You get a set of bonuses this time on art and music, Bristol.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00Inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya,
0:27:00 > 0:27:04the opera and piano suite known as the Goyescas,
0:27:04 > 0:27:08are works by which composer, born in Catalonia in 1867?
0:27:08 > 0:27:11Any Spanish composer...?
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Let's have an answer, please.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16- We don't know. - It's Granados.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20Which Russian composer wrote the 1909 tone poem Isle Of The Dead,
0:27:20 > 0:27:25based on a work of the same title by the Swiss artist Arnold Bocklin?
0:27:25 > 0:27:27- It's Rachmaninov.- Rachmaninov. - Correct.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31Which opera by Igor Stravinsky, with a libretto by WH Auden,
0:27:31 > 0:27:34is based on a series of paintings by William Hogarth?
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Did he...
0:27:36 > 0:27:37GONG
0:27:37 > 0:27:40And at the gong, Oriel College, Oxford have 70,
0:27:40 > 0:27:42Bristol University have 265.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45APPLAUSE
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Well, I don't know what happened to you chaps from Oxford,
0:27:49 > 0:27:52but you seemed to be asleep most of the time.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55You were certainly beaten by a very strong team, though,
0:27:55 > 0:27:56they're pretty good.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59That's a very, very impressive score, 265, Bristol.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01Many congratulations to you.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03We look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals. Congratulations.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05I hope you can join us next time
0:28:05 > 0:28:08for the last of the second-round matches, but until then,
0:28:08 > 0:28:11- it's goodbye from Oriel College, Oxford...- Goodbye.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14- ..it's goodbye from Bristol University...- Goodbye.
0:28:14 > 0:28:15And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.