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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
Hello. There are eight places in the quarterfinal stage of this | 0:00:28 | 0:00:32 | |
competition, and six of them have already been claimed. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
The seventh will go to whichever team wins tonight, | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
but it's sayonara to the losers. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
Now, the first round matches saw the team from the University of Bristol | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
pull off a comfortable win against Sheffield University, | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
winning by 210-130. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
Impressive areas of knowledge on that occasion included | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
eclectic architecture, amino acids, | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
Australian cricket and earthworm poo. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:59 | |
With an average age of 24, let's meet the Bristol team again. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:03 | |
Hi, I'm Joe Rolleston, I'm from Tamworth in Staffordshire, | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
and I'm training to teach history. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
Hi, I'm Claire Jackson, from Carshalton in south-west London, | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
and I'm studying for an MSci in palaeontology and evolution. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
And this is their captain. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
Hi, I'm Alice Clarke, I'm from Oxford, and I study medicine. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
Hi, I'm Michael Tomsett, from Hinckley in Leicestershire, | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
and I'm doing a PhD in organic chemistry. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
Now, Oriel College, Oxford won their first round match against | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
a somewhat off-message team from Manchester University, | 0:01:31 | 0:01:35 | |
and had 150 points at the gong against their opponents' mere 95. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
A kinder competition than this one | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
would gloss over their confusing Bo Diddley with Cole Porter, | 0:01:41 | 0:01:45 | |
and their startling ignorance of popular music, but they were | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
on safer ground answering on Germanic tribes, Monet and Kurosawa. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:53 | |
With an average age of 23, let's meet the Oriel team again. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
Hi, I'm Owen Monaghan, I'm from Banbridge in Northern Ireland, | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
and I study philosophy, politics and economics. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
Hello, I'm Alex Siantonas. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
I'm from Cambridge, and I study philosophy. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
Their captain. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:08 | |
Hi, I'm Nathan Helms, I'm from Dallas, Texas, | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
and I also study philosophy. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
Hello, I'm Tobias Thornes, I'm from Hadzor in Worcestershire, | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
and I'm studying for a DPhil in atmospheric physics. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
OK, the rules haven't changed | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
since the last time you were on this contest, | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
so let's just get on with it. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
The metallic portion of what object consists of | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
a cross pattee of bronze, 3.8 centimetres in diameter, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
with the Royal Crown surmounted by a lion in the centre, | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
above the inscription, "For valour"? | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
BELL RINGS | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
The Victoria Cross? | 0:02:44 | 0:02:45 | |
Correct, yes. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:46 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
You get the first set of bonuses, Bristol. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
They're on modern languages. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:52 | |
Of which modern European language | 0:02:52 | 0:02:54 | |
did the Irish novelist Flann O'Brien say, | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
"Waiting for the verb is surely the ultimate thrill"? | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
German. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:03 | |
Yes. JRR Tolkien likened his discovery of which language to, quote, | 0:03:03 | 0:03:08 | |
"A wine cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
"of a kind and flavour never tasted before. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
"It quite intoxicated me"? | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
Finnish. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:17 | |
Correct. The name of which language completes this statement from | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
a work of 1784, given here in translation? | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
"What is not clear is not..." what? | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
THEY CONFER QUIETLY | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
-They said in translation. -Maybe French? | 0:03:33 | 0:03:35 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
-I don't know, I haven't got a clue. -What is a famous one? | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
-French? -French? | 0:03:42 | 0:03:43 | |
Is not French. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:44 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:03:44 | 0:03:46 | |
Right, fingers on the buzzers. Another starter question. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
From 1850, the German physicist Rudolf Clausius formulated | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
which concept in thermodynamics? | 0:03:53 | 0:03:54 | |
Regarded as a measure of the disorder of a system... | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
BELL RINGS | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
Entropy. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:00 | |
Entropy is correct. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:01 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
These bonuses are on marine mammals, Bristol. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
The sea mammals classed as "cetaceans" | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
include whales, dolphins and which other major group? | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
Its species include harbour, finless and Burmeister's. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:19 | |
THEY CONFER QUIETLY | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
Porpoises? | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
Correct. After a physical characteristic, | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
what two-word name is given to the suborder Odontoceti? | 0:04:26 | 0:04:31 | |
It includes river dolphins, porpoises and beaked whales. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
-That's toothed whale. -Toothed? -Yeah. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
-Too... -No, cos it's two words. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
-Yeah, toothed whale. -Oh, toothed, OK. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:42 | |
Toothed whale. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
Correct. Monodon monoceros is a small toothed whale | 0:04:44 | 0:04:48 | |
with what common name? | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
Males have a long, straight tusk | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
that projects forward from above the mouth. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
Narwhal. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:56 | |
Narwhal is correct, the so-called sea unicorn. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:04:59 | 0:05:00 | |
Right, 10 points for this. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:03 | |
"Life is what happens when we're not checking facts". | 0:05:03 | 0:05:07 | |
These words from The Huffington Post allude to which musician? | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
He's often hailed erroneously to have originated the expression, | 0:05:10 | 0:05:14 | |
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans". | 0:05:14 | 0:05:19 | |
BUZZ | 0:05:19 | 0:05:20 | |
John Lennon? | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
Yes. APPLAUSE | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
So your first bonuses, Oriel, are on middle names. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
What was the middle name of the science fiction writer Philip Dick? | 0:05:30 | 0:05:35 | |
It is a seven-letter word meaning "related by blood or descent", | 0:05:35 | 0:05:39 | |
or "allied in nature or character". | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
-Something like kin? -It could be kindred. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
Kindred. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
Correct. What was the middle name of Leslie Hartley, | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
the author of The Go-Between? | 0:05:49 | 0:05:50 | |
As a plural noun, it means the two points in the celestial sphere | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
about which the stars appear to revolve. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
THEY CONFER QUIETLY | 0:06:00 | 0:06:02 | |
What? What is it? | 0:06:02 | 0:06:04 | |
The... | 0:06:04 | 0:06:05 | |
..pole star? | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
-Erm... -Zenith? | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
Zenith. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:12 | |
No, it's Poles. What was the middle name of | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
the author of the Narnia books Clive Lewis? | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
As a plural noun it can denote a form of fastening. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
-Staples. -Correct. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:23 | |
APPLAUSE 10 points for this. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
Thanks to a large number of boroughs enfranchised during Tudor times, | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
which English county had, in the early 19th century, | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
almost as many parliamentary seats as the whole of Scotland? | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
Among its boroughs... BELL RINGS | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
Wiltshire? | 0:06:39 | 0:06:40 | |
No, I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:42 | |
Among its boroughs disenfranchised in 1832 were | 0:06:42 | 0:06:45 | |
Callington, Camelford and St Germans. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
BUZZ | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
Oxfordshire? | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
No, it's Cornwall. 10 points for this. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
From the Greek for "naked seeds", what term denotes plants | 0:06:56 | 0:06:59 | |
such as conifers that reproduce by means of an...? | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
BELL RINGS | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
Gymnosperm. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:05 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
Right, Bristol, these bonuses are on words that differ by | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
a single letter from those in the NATO spelling alphabet. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
That's the one where BBC is "Bravo Bravo Charlie". | 0:07:16 | 0:07:20 | |
In each case, I want the word that is defined and the word it | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
resembles in the spelling alphabet. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
For examples, "rodeo" and "Romeo" or "brave" and "bravo". | 0:07:26 | 0:07:31 | |
First, a rude, miserable or squalid dwelling place. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:35 | |
Hovel and hotel. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:37 | |
Hovel and hotel. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:38 | |
Correct. Second, a simple sum in Spanish. Cinco plus tres. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:43 | |
I don't know what the Spanish is. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
Night? Is that one? | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
It's 11, 12, but I don't know. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
I don't know. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:53 | |
THEY WHISPER | 0:07:56 | 0:07:58 | |
Come on, let's have it, please. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:04 | |
Eight and night. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:05 | |
No, it's ocho and echo. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:07 | |
And finally, the chief helmsman of the Starship Enterprise | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
played in the original 1960s television series by George Takei. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:15 | |
Sulu and Zulu. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
Yeah, Sulu and Zulu. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:08:19 | 0:08:21 | |
We're going to have a look at a picture round now. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
For your picture starter you'll see a map of the Netherlands with | 0:08:23 | 0:08:25 | |
one of the provinces highlighted. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
10 points if you can name the highlighted province. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
BELL RINGS | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
Friesland? | 0:08:33 | 0:08:34 | |
Friesland is right. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:35 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:08:35 | 0:08:37 | |
So you're going to see, for your picture bonuses, | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
three more provinces of the Netherlands highlighted. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
Five points for each you can identify. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
Firstly, the province labelled A. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
Is Gelderland a province? | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
Do you know any more? | 0:08:53 | 0:08:54 | |
Er, well, two of them are Holland | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
but I don't think either of them are, any of them are, so... | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
Well, one of them... There's Zeeland as well, isn't there? | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
-There's Zeeland, yeah. -Go with that. -Zeeland. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:05 | |
Correct. Secondly, the province labelled B. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:09 | |
That's, like, where Maastricht is. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
I don't know if it's named after Maastricht, we could try. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
-No better guess? -Gelderland? -All right. -Go on. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:16 | |
Gelderland. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:18 | |
No, it's Limburg. And finally, the province labelled C. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:22 | |
Try one of the Hollands for that. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:23 | |
-If we don't have anything else. -What's your preferred option? | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
-Noord-Holland? -Noord-Holland? | 0:09:26 | 0:09:28 | |
Correct, North Holland is right. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:30 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:09:30 | 0:09:31 | |
Right, 10 points for this. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
In which novel of 1815 do these words appear? | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
"One has not great hopes from Birmingham. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:38 | |
"I always say there's something direful in the south..." | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
BUZZ | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
Emma? | 0:09:43 | 0:09:44 | |
Emma is correct, yes. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:45 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:09:45 | 0:09:47 | |
Oriel College, these bonuses are on a writer. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
In 1850, which writer became | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
the first editor of the magazine Household Words? | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
He used it to serialise his non-fiction work, | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
A Child's History Of England. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:03 | |
THEY WHISPER | 0:10:04 | 0:10:06 | |
Dickens? | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
Dickens? | 0:10:11 | 0:10:12 | |
Don't think so. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:15 | |
-Thackeray? -What? -Thackeray? -Thackeray. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
No, it was Dickens! Charles Dickens. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
The periodical Master Humphrey's Clock, written and edited | 0:10:21 | 0:10:25 | |
entirely by Dickens, saw the first publication of two of his novels. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:29 | |
One was Barnaby Rudge. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:31 | |
What was the other, concerning Nell Trent and her grandfather? | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
Nell... | 0:10:34 | 0:10:36 | |
-(The Old Curiosity Shop?) -Yeah. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:37 | |
-What was it? -The Old Curiosity Shop. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
The Old Curiosity Shop. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:41 | |
Correct. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:42 | |
Which was the second of Dickens's novels to be published, | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
appearing as monthly instalments in the periodical | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
Bentley's Miscellany from 1837? | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
-Pickwick Papers? -Oh, Pickwick Papers. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:52 | |
-Pickwick Papers? -Yeah. -The Pickwick Papers. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
No, it was Oliver Twist. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:56 | |
10 points for this. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:57 | |
Born in 1839, Joaquim Machado de Assis gives his name to | 0:10:57 | 0:11:03 | |
a prestigious literary prize in which South American country? | 0:11:03 | 0:11:07 | |
BELL RINGS | 0:11:07 | 0:11:09 | |
Argentina? | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
No. BUZZ | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
Brazil? | 0:11:13 | 0:11:14 | |
Brazil is correct, yes. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:15 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:11:15 | 0:11:18 | |
Right, these bonuses are on physical principles. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
In each case, identify the scientist after whom the following are named. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
Firstly, after a Swiss mathematician, | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
a principle in fluid dynamics that relates the pressure drop in | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
a fluid to the increase in its flow speed. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:11:34 | 0:11:36 | |
-Fibonacci's Swiss too, right? -No. -I don't think so. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
-Bernoulli? -Bernoulli, right. Bernoulli. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
Correct. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
After a French physicist secondly, born 1794, | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
the diffraction pattern created by an opaque object is identical to | 0:11:49 | 0:11:53 | |
the diffraction pattern from a hole of the same shape and size. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:57 | |
THEY WHISPER | 0:11:59 | 0:12:01 | |
Couldn't be Pascal, it's too late. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:08 | |
Too late for Pascal, another French physicist from the period. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
Erm... | 0:12:11 | 0:12:12 | |
Gay-Lussac. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
No, it's Jacques Babinet. Babinet principle. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
And finally, after an ancient mathematician, the weight of | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
liquid displaced by a floating body is equal to the weight of the body. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
-Archimedes. -Archimedes. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
Yes. APPLAUSE | 0:12:30 | 0:12:31 | |
10 points for this. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:32 | |
A leading proponent of humanism and secularism, | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
which British academic's works include What Is Chemistry? | 0:12:35 | 0:12:39 | |
Molecules, and Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas Of Science? | 0:12:39 | 0:12:43 | |
BELL RINGS | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
Atkins? | 0:12:45 | 0:12:46 | |
It is Peter Atkins, yes. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:48 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:12:48 | 0:12:50 | |
Your bonuses are on the Lake District, Bristol. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
One of the steepest roads in England, with a maximum gradient | 0:12:55 | 0:13:00 | |
of 33%, which pass links Eskdale with the Duddon Valley? | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
Near the summit are the remains of a Roman fort. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
THEY WHISPER | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
-Let's have an answer, please. -We don't know. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
It's Hardknott Pass. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:24 | |
Setting a new UK record for any 24-hour period, | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
how many millimetres of rain fell at Honister Pass in the | 0:13:27 | 0:13:31 | |
Lake District in the 24 hours up to 6pm GMT on the 5th of December 2015? | 0:13:31 | 0:13:37 | |
You can have 10% either way. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:39 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
160...? | 0:13:43 | 0:13:44 | |
Doesn't seem... In 24 hours... | 0:13:46 | 0:13:47 | |
16 centimetres, that's a lot of rain! | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
-Yeah, it is! -I don't know. Yeah, go on. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
-16 centimetres. -160, it's a guess. -Yeah? | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
160 millimetres? | 0:13:55 | 0:13:56 | |
No, it's much wetter than that, it was 341.4 millimetres. | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
Newlands Pass links Buttermere with which town to the north-east | 0:14:00 | 0:14:04 | |
on the shores of Derwentwater? | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
THEY WHISPER | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
Come on, let's have it, please. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:15 | |
-I don't know. -Coniston. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:17 | |
No, it's Keswick. Right, we're about halfway through the contest, | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
we're going to take a music round. For your music starter, | 0:14:20 | 0:14:23 | |
you'll hear a piece of classical music by a German composer. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:26 | |
For 10 points, simply identify the composer. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:29 | |
MUSIC: Violin Concerto in D Major | 0:14:29 | 0:14:31 | |
BELL RINGS | 0:14:36 | 0:14:38 | |
Beethoven? | 0:14:38 | 0:14:39 | |
It is Beethoven, yes. His Violin Concerto in D Major. | 0:14:39 | 0:14:42 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
It was his only violin concerto, | 0:14:44 | 0:14:46 | |
which was identified by the 19th century violinist | 0:14:46 | 0:14:49 | |
Joseph Joachim as one of the four great German violin concerti. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
For your music bonuses you'll hear the other three, | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
and I want you to identify the composer of each. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:59 | |
Firstly, for five, according to Joachim, | 0:14:59 | 0:15:01 | |
"the richest and most seductive" of the four. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
VIOLIN CONCERTO PLAYS | 0:15:06 | 0:15:08 | |
No objections? Haydn? | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
No, that's Bruch. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:26 | |
Secondly, this one, | 0:15:26 | 0:15:28 | |
which "vies in seriousness" with the Beethoven, he says. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
VIOLIN CONCERTO PLAYS | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
THEY CONFER QUIETLY | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
-Come on. -Pass. | 0:15:56 | 0:15:58 | |
That was by Brahms. | 0:15:58 | 0:15:59 | |
And finally what Joachim named "the heart's jewel". | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
VIOLIN CONCERTO PLAYS | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
This is Haydn, isn't it? | 0:16:06 | 0:16:07 | |
Oh, no, this is definitely Mendelssohn. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
-This is definitely Mendelssohn? -It is, yeah. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
Mendelssohn. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:13 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:16:13 | 0:16:16 | |
Right, 10 points for this. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
Popularised by George Orwell in 1984, | 0:16:18 | 0:16:21 | |
what two-word term denotes a mechanism for the disposal | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
of inconvenient or embarrassing information? | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
-Memory hole. -Memory hole is correct. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:31 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
Bristol, these bonuses are on the novels of Virginia Woolf. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:39 | |
In each case, identify the novel from its characters. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:41 | |
Firstly, Minta Doyle, Charles Tansley, | 0:16:41 | 0:16:44 | |
Lily Briscoe and James Ramsay. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
-To The Lighthouse. -To The Lighthouse is correct, yes. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
Secondly, Bernard, Percival, Rhoda, Susan and Dr Crane. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:55 | |
(Percival - would that be Orlando?) | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:16:58 | 0:17:02 | |
(Yes, could be.) | 0:17:03 | 0:17:05 | |
Orlando. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:06 | |
No, that's The Waves. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
Lastly, Sasha, Shel, Archduke Harry, Mr Pope and Queen Elizabeth I. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:15 | |
(Yeah.) | 0:17:15 | 0:17:16 | |
-Orlando. -That is Orlando. Yes. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:18 | |
Right. 10 points for this. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
In which novel of 1988 do three publishing editors invent | 0:17:20 | 0:17:24 | |
a conspiracy theory that moves beyond their control? | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
It shares its name with a device | 0:17:27 | 0:17:29 | |
designed by a 19th-century French physicist... | 0:17:29 | 0:17:33 | |
-Foucault's Pen...Pendulum. -Correct. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:17:36 | 0:17:40 | |
Right, these bonuses, Bristol, are on chemistry. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
Born in Massachusetts in 1875, which physical chemist gives his name | 0:17:46 | 0:17:50 | |
to the dot diagrams that show the electronic structures of molecules? | 0:17:50 | 0:17:55 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:17:55 | 0:17:59 | |
THEY WHISPER | 0:18:03 | 0:18:07 | |
-Newman. -No, it's Lewis. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
Lewis is noted for his work on which chemical bond, | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
formed by the sharing of pairs of electrons between atoms? | 0:18:13 | 0:18:17 | |
Covalent. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:18 | |
-Covalent bonding. -Correct. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:21 | |
Which US Nobel Laureate developed Lewis's work | 0:18:21 | 0:18:24 | |
on electron-paired bonding, making it the subject of his 1939 work, | 0:18:24 | 0:18:28 | |
The Nature Of The Chemical Bond? | 0:18:28 | 0:18:31 | |
I think that might be... | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
No... | 0:18:34 | 0:18:36 | |
Who's the orange juice obsessive, what's his name? | 0:18:36 | 0:18:39 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:18:39 | 0:18:40 | |
It begins with P. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:18:42 | 0:18:46 | |
Pauling, yes, that's the one. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:48 | |
-Linus Pauling. -Linus Pauling is correct. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
APPLAUSE 10 points for this. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
"Words are the tokens current and accepted for conceits, | 0:18:54 | 0:18:58 | |
"as monies are for values." | 0:18:58 | 0:19:00 | |
Who wrote this in the 1605 work The Advancement Of Learning? | 0:19:00 | 0:19:04 | |
The... Francis Bacon. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
Correct. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:09 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
These bonuses, Oriel College, are on 20th-century China. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:17 | |
During World War II, which Chinese leader was nicknamed Cash-My-Cheque, | 0:19:17 | 0:19:21 | |
because of his constant demands for Western aid? | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
-Chiang Kai-shek maybe? -Yeah. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
-Chiang Kai-shek. -Correct. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:29 | |
Chiang reportedly said that the Japanese were a disease of the skin. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:34 | |
Which grouping did he describe as a disease of the heart? | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
I suppose the Americans. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:44 | |
It wouldn't be the Americans, would it? | 0:19:44 | 0:19:46 | |
No, it's the Communists. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:48 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:19:48 | 0:19:50 | |
From 1979 to 2006, the airport | 0:19:50 | 0:19:52 | |
of which major city was named after Chiang Kai-shek? | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
-Taipei? -Sure. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
-Taipei. -Correct. | 0:19:58 | 0:19:59 | |
You get to take a second picture around. For your picture starter, | 0:19:59 | 0:20:03 | |
you'll see an actor in a Shakespearean role. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:05 | |
10 points if you can identify both the actor and the role. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:09 | |
-Kim Cattrall as Cleopatra? -Correct. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:20:16 | 0:20:18 | |
So, for your picture bonuses, three more actors in the same role, | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
five points for each you can identify. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:26 | |
Firstly for five. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:20:33 | 0:20:38 | |
I think we'd better have an answer, please. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
-Judi Dench. -SHE GIGGLES | 0:20:44 | 0:20:45 | |
No, it's Glenda Jackson in 1978. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
She looks really cool, but I don't know who she is. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:55 | |
THEY WHISPER | 0:20:59 | 0:21:01 | |
Maggie Smith? | 0:21:01 | 0:21:02 | |
No. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:04 | |
Come on. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:06 | |
Pass. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
That's Vanessa Redgrave in a 1995 production. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
And finally. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:12 | |
-That's Helen Mirren. -Yeah. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:15 | |
-Helen Mirren. -That is Helen Mirren in 1982. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:19 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:21:19 | 0:21:20 | |
Right, 10 points for this starter question. Fingers on the buzzers. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:24 | |
Used as an electrolyte in dry cells | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
and as a flavouring in salty liquorice, | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
what chemical compound has the formula NH4Cl? | 0:21:28 | 0:21:32 | |
Ammonium chloride. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:35 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
Bristol, these bonuses are on Northern Ireland. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
The first five letters of the name of which Northern Irish County | 0:21:43 | 0:21:47 | |
spell an Italian word meaning "stop"? | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
Antrim... | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
(Is it "ferma"? Ferma?) | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
THEY WHISPER | 0:21:56 | 0:21:59 | |
-Fermanagh. -Correct. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:02 | |
The first four letters of which county's name spell the first word | 0:22:02 | 0:22:07 | |
of Virgil's Aeneid in the original Latin? | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
THEY WHISPER | 0:22:10 | 0:22:14 | |
Come on! | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
(Go with Antrim.) | 0:22:18 | 0:22:20 | |
-Antrim. -No, it's Armagh. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:23 | |
"I sing of arms and the man." | 0:22:23 | 0:22:24 | |
And finally, the first three letters of the name of which Northern Irish | 0:22:24 | 0:22:28 | |
County spell a short word, whose Italian translation is "formica"? | 0:22:28 | 0:22:33 | |
(Formica is ants, termites.) | 0:22:35 | 0:22:39 | |
-Antrim. -Correct. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:40 | |
Five minutes to go. 10 points for this. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
The northernmost province of South Africa is named after... | 0:22:42 | 0:22:46 | |
-Limpopo. -Correct. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
Bristol, these bonuses are on British national parks. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:54 | |
Firstly, the closest National Park to Glasgow | 0:22:54 | 0:22:57 | |
is named in part after which body of water? | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
Loch Lomond? | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
-Both? -Yes. -Nominate Tomsett. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
-Loch Lomond and the Trossachs. -That's correct. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:10 | |
I just needed Loch Lomond. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:12 | |
Secondly, which English National Park lies less than 40 miles | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
south-west of Cardiff, across the Bristol Channel? | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
By road, it's around 100 miles. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:23:20 | 0:23:24 | |
-Ex...? -< Yeah. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:26 | |
-Exmoor? -Correct. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:27 | |
Established in 2011, what is the nearest National Park to London? | 0:23:27 | 0:23:33 | |
South Downs? | 0:23:33 | 0:23:34 | |
-Yeah. -South Downs. -Correct. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
There's four minutes ago. 10 points for this. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:39 | |
Comprising 44 volumes and taking more than half a century | 0:23:39 | 0:23:42 | |
to be completed, the work known as the Histoire Naturelle was written | 0:23:42 | 0:23:46 | |
primarily by which French naturalist...? | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
Diderot, but it's not. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:51 | |
It's not, I'm afraid. You lose five points. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
..Which French naturalist, born 1707? | 0:23:54 | 0:23:56 | |
One of you may buzz from Bristol. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
Lamarck. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
No, it's Buffon. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:02 | |
10 points for this. Of the six flavours of quarks | 0:24:02 | 0:24:06 | |
in the standard model of particle physics, | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
which comes last in the dictionary? | 0:24:09 | 0:24:13 | |
Strange? | 0:24:13 | 0:24:14 | |
Up. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:18 | |
Up is correct. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:19 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
These bonuses are on astronomy, Bristol. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
What precise seven-letter term | 0:24:26 | 0:24:28 | |
denotes the passage of Mercury or Venus across the disc of the Sun, | 0:24:28 | 0:24:33 | |
a phenomenon similar to a lunar eclipse? | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
-Transit. -Transit. -Correct. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
Transits of Venus occurred in 2004 and 2012. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:41 | |
In which year will the next one occur? | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
You can have ten years either way. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:46 | |
It's a long way off. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:47 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
2090? | 0:24:55 | 0:24:56 | |
Ten years either way. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
2090? | 0:25:00 | 0:25:01 | |
No, it's 2117. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
And finally, which navigator commanded the British expedition | 0:25:03 | 0:25:07 | |
that observed the transit of Venus from Tahiti in 1769? | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:25:11 | 0:25:12 | |
-Cook. -Captain Cook is correct. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:14 | |
APPLAUSE Two and half minutes to go, 10 points for this. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:17 | |
World Heritage sites in which country include | 0:25:17 | 0:25:21 | |
the historic centre of Evora, the cultural landscape of Sintra, | 0:25:21 | 0:25:25 | |
and the Alto Douro wine region. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
-Portugal. -Portugal is correct. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:25:29 | 0:25:33 | |
These bonuses are on an Italian republic, Bristol. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:37 | |
Between 1256 and 1381, four wars took place | 0:25:37 | 0:25:40 | |
between the Republic of Venice and which other | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
Italian republic for supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea? | 0:25:43 | 0:25:48 | |
-Genoa? -Oh, yeah. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:49 | |
In terms of the other... | 0:25:49 | 0:25:52 | |
-Come on. -They're in the wrong side. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:55 | |
Yeah, but, the Mediterranean. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:57 | |
What are you thinking of? | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
Dalmatia. But go with Genoa. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
Come on. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:02 | |
Genoa. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:04 | |
It's Genoa, that's correct. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:06 | |
Which mountainous island to the west of the Italian mainland | 0:26:06 | 0:26:08 | |
was annexed to the state of Genoa in 1284 | 0:26:08 | 0:26:11 | |
and ceded to France by the Treaty of Versailles in 1768? | 0:26:11 | 0:26:15 | |
-Corsica. -Correct. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:17 | |
Genoa was occupied by Napoleon and then annexed by France, | 0:26:17 | 0:26:21 | |
but the Congress of Vienna gave it to which dynastic family, | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
the kings of Sardinia and later of Italy? | 0:26:24 | 0:26:27 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:26:29 | 0:26:34 | |
Let's have it, please. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
-Come on. -Pass. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:38 | |
The House of Savoy. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:39 | |
Right. 10 points for this. Fingers on the buzzers. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
Its name derived from the Greek for visible light, | 0:26:42 | 0:26:44 | |
what is the current geological aeon? | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
-Phanerozoic. -That's correct. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
You get a set of bonuses this time on art and music, Bristol. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:57 | |
Inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, | 0:26:57 | 0:27:00 | |
the opera and piano suite known as the Goyescas, | 0:27:00 | 0:27:04 | |
are works by which composer, born in Catalonia in 1867? | 0:27:04 | 0:27:08 | |
Any Spanish composer...? | 0:27:08 | 0:27:11 | |
Let's have an answer, please. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:13 | |
-We don't know. -It's Granados. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
Which Russian composer wrote the 1909 tone poem Isle Of The Dead, | 0:27:16 | 0:27:20 | |
based on a work of the same title by the Swiss artist Arnold Bocklin? | 0:27:20 | 0:27:25 | |
-It's Rachmaninov. -Rachmaninov. -Correct. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
Which opera by Igor Stravinsky, with a libretto by WH Auden, | 0:27:27 | 0:27:31 | |
is based on a series of paintings by William Hogarth? | 0:27:31 | 0:27:34 | |
Did he... | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
GONG | 0:27:36 | 0:27:37 | |
And at the gong, Oriel College, Oxford have 70, | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
Bristol University have 265. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
Well, I don't know what happened to you chaps from Oxford, | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
but you seemed to be asleep most of the time. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
You were certainly beaten by a very strong team, though, | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
they're pretty good. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:56 | |
That's a very, very impressive score, 265, Bristol. | 0:27:56 | 0:27:59 | |
Many congratulations to you. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:01 | |
We look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals. Congratulations. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:03 | |
I hope you can join us next time | 0:28:03 | 0:28:05 | |
for the last of the second-round matches, but until then, | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
-it's goodbye from Oriel College, Oxford... -Goodbye. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
-..it's goodbye from Bristol University... -Goodbye. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:14 | |
And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:15 |