0:00:16 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. 28 teams qualified to appear in this series,
0:00:32 > 0:00:3612 left with prudent haste after the first round, and so far,
0:00:36 > 0:00:41seven have fallen by the wayside in round two, which ends tonight.
0:00:41 > 0:00:42Whichever team wins this match
0:00:42 > 0:00:45will take the last of the quarterfinal places.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49The team from Peterhouse, Cambridge beat Queens' College, Cambridge
0:00:49 > 0:00:52in the first round, but only by the skin of their teeth.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54They had a comfortable lead for most of the match,
0:00:54 > 0:00:57but then fell strangely silent for the final third,
0:00:57 > 0:01:00allowing Queens' to come within ten points of them,
0:01:00 > 0:01:02and they were doubtless relieved to hear the gong
0:01:02 > 0:01:06silence their opponents during a bonus set on recent fiction.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08With an average age of 19
0:01:08 > 0:01:11and representing the reigning University Challenge champions,
0:01:11 > 0:01:14let's meet the Peterhouse team again.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Hello, my name's Ephraim Jacob Jacobus Levinson.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21I'm from North London and I'm reading English.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Hello, my name's Oliver Sweetenham.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26I'm from Hinksey in Oxfordshire and I'm also reading English Literature.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29- And this is their captain. - Hello, I'm Natasha Voake.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32I'm originally from New York and I'm reading Linguistics.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35And I'm Xiao Lin. I grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne and Belfast,
0:01:35 > 0:01:37and I'm reading Chemical Engineering.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41APPLAUSE
0:01:41 > 0:01:45Now, the team representing Corpus Christi College, Oxford,
0:01:45 > 0:01:49had a close first-round match against Jesus College, Cambridge,
0:01:49 > 0:01:51and were neck and neck until the final minutes
0:01:51 > 0:01:53when they finally managed to pull into the lead
0:01:53 > 0:01:57and keep it until the gong, winning by 200 points to 175.
0:01:57 > 0:02:02With an average age of 21, let's meet the Corpus Christi team again.
0:02:02 > 0:02:03Hello, I'm Tom Fleet.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06I'm from Pendoggett in Cornwall and I study English.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09Hi, I'm Emma Johnson. I'm from North London and I study Medicine.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12- And this is their captain. - Hi, I'm Nikhil Venkatesh.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16I'm from Derby and I study Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Hi, I'm Adam Wright from Winnersh in Berkshire
0:02:19 > 0:02:21and I'm studying for a DPhil in Physics.
0:02:21 > 0:02:26APPLAUSE
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Shall we skip the recitation of the rules? Fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37"The unreasonable one persists
0:02:37 > 0:02:40"in trying to adapt the world to himself.
0:02:40 > 0:02:44"Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
0:02:44 > 0:02:49Those words appear in a work of 1903 by which literary figure?
0:02:52 > 0:02:54- George Bernard Shaw.- Correct.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56APPLAUSE
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Maxims For Revolutionists.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00You get the first set of bonuses, then, Corpus Christi.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02They're on an animal.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06In the monologue by Marriott Edgar recorded by Stanley Holloway,
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Albert Ramsbottom falls foul of Wallace
0:03:09 > 0:03:13after pushing his stick with its "'orse's 'ead 'andle"
0:03:13 > 0:03:17into Wallace's ear. What species of animal is Wallace?
0:03:17 > 0:03:18This is the lion, isn't it?
0:03:18 > 0:03:21- Albert and the lion?- I have... - Go for it.- Yeah, sounds plausible.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23- A lion.- Correct.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25"If all evil were prevented,
0:03:25 > 0:03:27"much good would be absent from the universe.
0:03:27 > 0:03:32"A lion would cease to live if there were no slaying of animals."
0:03:32 > 0:03:36Who wrote that in the 13th-century work Summa Theologica?
0:03:37 > 0:03:40- Is that Aquinas? - Aquinas sounds possible.- Yeah?- Yeah.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42- Aquinas.- Correct.
0:03:42 > 0:03:47In a work of 1513, who wrote that a ruler must be a fox
0:03:47 > 0:03:50"to recognise the traps, and a lion to frighten the wolves"?
0:03:50 > 0:03:51- Machiavelli.- Yeah?
0:03:51 > 0:03:53- Machiavelli.- Correct.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58After Russia and Iran,
0:03:58 > 0:04:03which country has the third largest natural gas reserves in the world?
0:04:03 > 0:04:08In 2015, Swiss federal prosecutors implicated it in an investigation
0:04:08 > 0:04:11relating to irregularities in the allocation of the 20...
0:04:13 > 0:04:15- Qatar.- Qatar is correct.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18APPLAUSE
0:04:18 > 0:04:22These bonuses are on ancient Greek scientists.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26Firstly, for five points, born around 310 BC,
0:04:26 > 0:04:29Aristarchus of Samos was an early proponent
0:04:29 > 0:04:30of what astronomical theory
0:04:30 > 0:04:35later upheld by the models of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo?
0:04:35 > 0:04:39- Heliocentrism.- Correct - the earth orbiting the sun.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42Secondly, using correct geometry but inaccurate data,
0:04:42 > 0:04:46Aristarchus said that the sun was about 18 to 20 times
0:04:46 > 0:04:48further away from earth than the moon.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52What is the actual multiple? You can have 10% either way.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54The sun's 93 million miles away,
0:04:54 > 0:04:56but I don't how far away the moon is.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59- Cheers, mate.- I'd guess, like, ten. Something like ten.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02- Ten? I thought it would be more. - Oh.- OK? No?
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Try it. Try it.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06OK, ten.
0:05:07 > 0:05:08What a very odd world you live in.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11LAUGHTER No, it's 390.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15The main source for Aristarchus's heliocentric theory
0:05:15 > 0:05:16is The Sand Reckoner,
0:05:16 > 0:05:21a work by which Greek mathematician born in Sicily around 290 BC?
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Who was born in Sicily? Was that...?
0:05:23 > 0:05:26- Was Archimedes?- Yeah. I think so, yeah.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28- Archimedes.- It was Archimedes, yes.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Which three letters begin the names of an island
0:05:34 > 0:05:37lying between North and South Uist,
0:05:37 > 0:05:39a city in the Australian state of Victoria
0:05:39 > 0:05:42that grew rapidly during the 1850s gold rush,
0:05:42 > 0:05:46a region in the north-east of the Indian subcontinent,
0:05:46 > 0:05:48and a tourist resort on the Costa Blanca?
0:05:53 > 0:05:55- B-E-N.- Correct.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59APPLAUSE
0:05:59 > 0:06:03These bonuses are on World War II propaganda posters.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Firstly, for five, what three words appear on a poster
0:06:06 > 0:06:10depicting a booted foot pushing a spade into the earth?
0:06:10 > 0:06:11- Dig for Victory?- Dig for Victory.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13- Dig for Victory.- Correct.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15According to numerous posters,
0:06:15 > 0:06:17the influence of which maligned creature
0:06:17 > 0:06:20could be averted by buying war savings?
0:06:20 > 0:06:23He's often depicted as an imp-like being covered with swastikas.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26- HE SIGHS - Is it like...?
0:06:26 > 0:06:28- It's the something bug. - I don't know.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31- Squander Bug - have I made that up? - Try it.- Oh, yes!
0:06:31 > 0:06:33- Yeah? Is that a thing? - I think that sounds right.
0:06:33 > 0:06:34Is that from Dad's Army or...?
0:06:34 > 0:06:36- The Squander Bug.- That's correct. LAUGHTER
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Give the two words that complete this inscription
0:06:39 > 0:06:41on a public information poster.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45"Hitler will send no warning, so always carry your..."
0:06:45 > 0:06:46- Gas mask.- Gas mask.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48- Gas mask.- Correct.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this
0:06:52 > 0:06:53starter question.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57"Only boys accepting feminism get kissed meaningfully",
0:06:57 > 0:06:59is a mnemonic representing the seven letters
0:06:59 > 0:07:04in the so-called Harvard system used in the classification of what?
0:07:06 > 0:07:08- Stars.- Stars is correct, yes.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12APPLAUSE
0:07:12 > 0:07:14Your first bonuses, Peterhouse,
0:07:14 > 0:07:16are on the French Revolutionary Wars.
0:07:16 > 0:07:21Firstly, for five, following the Treaty of Tolentino in 1796,
0:07:21 > 0:07:25a work known as The Transfiguration by which Renaissance artist
0:07:25 > 0:07:29was taken from Pope Pius VI and exhibited in the Louvre?
0:07:29 > 0:07:32It was returned after 1815.
0:07:32 > 0:07:33I have no idea.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37Oh, maybe della Francesca might have done The Transfiguration.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39- Do you think? - Piero della Francesca, maybe.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42- Piero della Francesca. - No, it was by Raphael.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Removed to Paris during the French occupation of Venice
0:07:45 > 0:07:47and now displayed in the Louvre,
0:07:47 > 0:07:50The Wedding Feast At Cana is a painting by which artist?
0:07:50 > 0:07:51- Veronese.- Correct.
0:07:51 > 0:07:55Four bronze horses taken from St Mark's Basilica
0:07:55 > 0:07:58were used in the design of a triumphal arch in Paris.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00The Venetians had earlier stolen them
0:08:00 > 0:08:03during a sack of which city in 1204?
0:08:03 > 0:08:05- Constantinople.- Correct.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07APPLAUSE We're going to take a picture round.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09For your picture starter, you're going to see a word cloud
0:08:09 > 0:08:12with a selection of the most common words
0:08:12 > 0:08:14in the speech of one of Shakespeare's characters,
0:08:14 > 0:08:18with all proper nouns and their adjectival forms removed.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21For ten points, I want you to identify the character.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27- Shylock.- Shylock is right, yes.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30APPLAUSE
0:08:30 > 0:08:33So, for your picture bonuses, I want you to identify
0:08:33 > 0:08:35three more Shakespearean characters
0:08:35 > 0:08:38from some of their most commonly used words.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41All are title characters, and again,
0:08:41 > 0:08:43names and place names have been largely omitted.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Firstly, for five...
0:08:45 > 0:08:48THEY WHISPER
0:08:48 > 0:08:52- Cheek...- Eyes would make it Romeo, not Juliet.- No...
0:08:52 > 0:08:55Who talks about poisoning? Who's the one who does the poisoning?
0:08:55 > 0:08:58- Isn't that Juliet?- Um, yeah. - You may be right.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02- Actually, is there a female...? - And "man". I think Juliet, maybe.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06- I think...- OK, yes, go for Juliet. - Romeo or Juliet, but I'm not sure.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07OK. Juliet.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11No, it was Romeo. Bad luck. Secondly...
0:09:14 > 0:09:17- Oh, it's Othello. - Oh, yes, of course.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19- Othello.- Othello is right.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21The handkerchief's the giveaway, of course. And finally...
0:09:25 > 0:09:27- Could be Hamlet.- It could probably.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30Actually, "mother", so it's definitely Hamlet.
0:09:30 > 0:09:31- Hamlet.- Correct.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37What intense form of self-regard
0:09:37 > 0:09:40derives its name from that of a Greek youth?
0:09:42 > 0:09:44- Narcissism.- Correct.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47APPLAUSE
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Your bonuses, Corpus Christi, this time are on scientific units.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53In each case, identify the unit from the description.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56All three begin with the same letter.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59Firstly, a unit of distance defined as the average distance
0:09:59 > 0:10:03between the centre of the earth and the centre of the sun.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06- Is that an astronomical unit?- OK.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08- An astronomical unit. - That's correct.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12Secondly, a unit of length equal to 0.1 nanometres
0:10:12 > 0:10:14or ten to the minus 10m.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17It's named after a 19th-century Swedish physicist.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19- Angstrom.- Correct.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23Finally, give the two-word term for the unit of angular measurement
0:10:23 > 0:10:25equivalent to 1/60th of a degree.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29- Arcsecond.- Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah, arcminute.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Yeah, say arcminute.
0:10:31 > 0:10:32- Arcminute.- Correct.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40Truth as subjectivity and the knight of faith
0:10:40 > 0:10:45are among concepts associated with which Northern European philosopher
0:10:45 > 0:10:47born in 1813? His works...
0:10:48 > 0:10:50- Kierkegaard.- Kierkegaard is correct.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53APPLAUSE
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Your bonuses, Peterhouse,
0:10:55 > 0:10:58this time are on people buried in Highgate Cemetery.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00In each case, name the person from the description.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04Firstly, a Marxist historian who died in 2012.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07His works include Industry And Empire
0:11:07 > 0:11:12and The Age Of Extremes - The Short 20th Century, 1914-1991.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14- Eric Hobsbawm.- Correct.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Secondly, a novelist who died in 1882.
0:11:16 > 0:11:20Her works include Daniel Deronda and Felix Holt, the Radical.
0:11:20 > 0:11:21- George Eliot.- Correct.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25And finally, an English scientist who died in 1867.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29He invented the first electric motor and discovered diamagnetism.
0:11:32 > 0:11:33- Faraday?- Maybe Faraday.- OK.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35- Faraday.- Faraday is right.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42The French marquis Marie-Joseph Gilbert du Motier
0:11:42 > 0:11:45is commonly known by what single-word name?
0:11:45 > 0:11:48He fought in the American War of Independence,
0:11:48 > 0:11:49commanded the national...
0:11:50 > 0:11:52- Is it Lafayette? - It is Lafayette, yes.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55APPLAUSE
0:11:55 > 0:11:59Your bonuses are on ships in literature, Peterhouse.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02The experiences of the crew of HMS Compass Rose
0:12:02 > 0:12:05and HMS Saltash during the Second World War
0:12:05 > 0:12:09are the subject of which novel by Nicholas Monsarrat?
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Um...
0:12:11 > 0:12:13- Do we even know who Nicholas Monsarrat is?- I've no idea.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15- I don't know who he is, no. Just pass.- Pass.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19That's The Cruel Sea, first published in 1951.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22And secondly, in a poem of 1841 by Longfellow,
0:12:22 > 0:12:26which schooner is wrecked in a storm with the captain's daughter
0:12:26 > 0:12:29tied to the mast to prevent her from being swept overboard?
0:12:29 > 0:12:33- The Hesperus?- I think so. - I think the Hesperus, isn't it?
0:12:33 > 0:12:35- The Hesperus.- Correct.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39HMS Bellipotent, Rights of Man, the Jeroboam and the Pequod
0:12:39 > 0:12:42are ships in the fiction of which American novelist?
0:12:42 > 0:12:44- Herman Melville. - Herman Melville.- Correct.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46APPLAUSE Ten points for this. In physics,
0:12:46 > 0:12:48which curve forms the solution
0:12:48 > 0:12:50to the so-called brachistochrone problem
0:12:50 > 0:12:52as the trajectory of a point of mass
0:12:52 > 0:12:56moving between two fixed points under the influence of gravity?
0:12:56 > 0:12:57It's also the curve...
0:12:58 > 0:13:01- Parabola. - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03It's also the curve traced out
0:13:03 > 0:13:06by a point on a wheel rolling on a flat surface.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14- A circle.- A cycloid. Ten points for this.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16On January the 1st, 1876,
0:13:16 > 0:13:20the registration of trademarks began at the UK Patent Office.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24Which company's trademark was the first to be registered?
0:13:24 > 0:13:27It appears on Edouard Manet's A Bar At The Folies-Bergere
0:13:27 > 0:13:30on a beer bottle in the bottom right-hand corner.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40- Is it Guinness?- No.
0:13:43 > 0:13:44One of you can have a punt.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Stella Artois.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50No, it's the Bass red triangle from the Bass Brewery.
0:13:50 > 0:13:51Ten points for this.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54"If she had nothing more than her voice,
0:13:54 > 0:13:56"she could break your heart with it."
0:13:56 > 0:14:00Those words of Ernest Hemingway refer to which actress born in 1901?
0:14:00 > 0:14:04She said of herself, "America took me into her bosom
0:14:04 > 0:14:06"when I no longer had a native country worthy of the name."
0:14:08 > 0:14:10- Marlene Dietrich.- Correct.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13APPLAUSE
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Your bonuses are on matriarchs, Corpus Christi.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19The Dictionary Of National Biography gives the designation
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Yorkist matriarch to two women.
0:14:21 > 0:14:25One is Cecily Neville, the mother of which two kings?
0:14:28 > 0:14:33Yorkists? It's Edward IV and V?
0:14:33 > 0:14:36- Yeah, go for it.- Yeah? - I don't know, so...
0:14:36 > 0:14:38Edward IV and V.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41No, it's Edward IV and Richard III.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44The second Yorkist matriarch is Margaret Tudor,
0:14:44 > 0:14:46the daughter of Cecily Neville.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48She's also known as Margaret of Burgundy,
0:14:48 > 0:14:52after her marriage in 1468 to which duke?
0:14:53 > 0:14:58The Duke of Burgundy, but I think he wants more than that. Er...
0:14:58 > 0:15:01- I don't know.- I've got no clue. - I have absolutely nothing.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03You're on your own. Say anything.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Henri of Burgundy.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07No, it's Charles the Bold.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10And finally, the DNB describes Margaret Beaufort
0:15:10 > 0:15:12as a royal matriarch.
0:15:12 > 0:15:16Born in 1443, she was the mother of which king of England?
0:15:16 > 0:15:20- Henry the...- Henry VII?- Could be, yeah.- Yeah?- Yeah, go for it.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22- Yeah, possible.- Yeah?- Yeah.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24- Henry VII.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:15:24 > 0:15:26Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28For your music starter, you'll hear a piece
0:15:28 > 0:15:30of orchestral music by an American composer.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:36 > 0:15:37Philip Glass.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39No. You can hear a little more, Peterhouse.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41MUSIC CONTINUES
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Adams. John Adams.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46No, it's not. It's Steve Reich,
0:15:46 > 0:15:48so we'll get the music bonuses in a moment or two,
0:15:48 > 0:15:50when someone's got a starter question right.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Fingers on the buzzers. Ten points for this.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56Give the three precise words that complete this quotation
0:15:56 > 0:15:59from St Matthew's Gospel in the King James Bible.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
0:16:03 > 0:16:05"than for a rich man to enter into the..."
0:16:06 > 0:16:08- Kingdom of God.- Correct.
0:16:08 > 0:16:12APPLAUSE
0:16:12 > 0:16:15OK, you'll recall, a moment ago, that we heard a piece
0:16:15 > 0:16:18from Steve Reich's Different Trains,
0:16:18 > 0:16:22a reflection on his travels across the US during World War II,
0:16:22 > 0:16:24and on very different and enforced train journeys
0:16:24 > 0:16:26being made in Europe at the same time.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30Your music bonuses are three more classical pieces
0:16:30 > 0:16:32inspired by railway travel.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Five points for each composer you can identify.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38Firstly, for five, this French composer.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42# C'est le grand jour, le jour de fete
0:16:42 > 0:16:46# Jour du triomphe et des lauriers
0:16:46 > 0:16:49# Pour vous ouvriers La couronne est prete
0:16:49 > 0:16:53# La couronne est prete Soldats de la paix
0:16:53 > 0:16:56# C'est votre victoire C'est a vous la gloire... #
0:16:56 > 0:16:58- Bizet.- No, that's Berlioz.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01That was written for the opening of the line
0:17:01 > 0:17:03from Paris to Lille and Brussels.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06Secondly, this American composer.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10DISCORDANT CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:14 > 0:17:20THEY WHISPER
0:17:24 > 0:17:26Copland.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28It is Aaron Copland, his celebration of John Henry,
0:17:28 > 0:17:30the Steel Drivin' Man.
0:17:30 > 0:17:32And finally, this Austrian composer...
0:17:32 > 0:17:36ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:36 > 0:17:39THEY WHISPER
0:17:48 > 0:17:50- Mozart.- No.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53That's Strauss the Elder. That was his Railway Delight Waltz.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Right, ten points for this. Which decade saw the start
0:17:56 > 0:18:00of the shipment of the Elgin Marbles from Greece to the UK,
0:18:00 > 0:18:03the failure of Robert Emmet's rebellion in Ireland,
0:18:03 > 0:18:06and the Louisiana Purchase in the United States?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09- The 1800s.- Correct.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12APPLAUSE
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Your bonuses are on flowering plants, Peterhouse.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19In each case, give me the common or the scientific name
0:18:19 > 0:18:21of the family described.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25Firstly, which family of shrubs and trees includes the poplars?
0:18:25 > 0:18:29It's named after a tree whose British species include crack,
0:18:29 > 0:18:32white, goat, grey and osier.
0:18:32 > 0:18:37- Could it be...?- Poplars? - No, poplars are, like, bigger.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39- Could it be hawthorn? No. - Obviously not.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Could be. Shall we just go with that?
0:18:41 > 0:18:44- Hawthorn.- No, it's willow.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47Secondly, which family includes the ashes and lilacs?
0:18:47 > 0:18:49It's named after an important commercial tree
0:18:49 > 0:18:51of the Mediterranean region.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54- Olive trees?- The cedar?
0:18:55 > 0:18:59- Is that commercial? - Oh, I've no idea.- Palm?
0:18:59 > 0:19:00It could be something that...
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Cedar's more likely.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04- Cedar.- No, it's olive.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07And finally, which family includes the alders and hazels?
0:19:07 > 0:19:09It's named after a common tree
0:19:09 > 0:19:12with light-coloured bark that sheds tissue-like layers.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14- Birch. Silver birch.- OK.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16- Birch.- Birch is correct, yes.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this.
0:19:18 > 0:19:19What title was given to the work
0:19:19 > 0:19:21first published in 1927
0:19:21 > 0:19:25and compiled from a series of literary lectures by E M Forster?
0:19:25 > 0:19:26The lectures covered seven...
0:19:28 > 0:19:29- Aspects Of The Novel.- Correct.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31APPLAUSE
0:19:31 > 0:19:34These bonuses could give you the lead if you get them.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37They're on films depicting artists.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Firstly, for five, the title of the 2008 film Little Ashes
0:19:40 > 0:19:43is a translation of the title Cenicitas,
0:19:43 > 0:19:46a painting by which Spanish artist
0:19:46 > 0:19:48played in the film by Robert Pattinson?
0:19:48 > 0:19:50- Oh, it's, um...- It's not Goya?
0:19:50 > 0:19:52I don't know who it is, so it could be...
0:19:52 > 0:19:56- Maybe Goya. He's not going to be Velazquez, so it may be Goya.- OK.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58- Goya.- No, it's Dali.- Oh.
0:19:58 > 0:20:03In the 1956 film Lust For Life based on the novel by Irving Stone,
0:20:03 > 0:20:07Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn play which two artists?
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Lust For Life. What would that be?
0:20:09 > 0:20:13HE WHISPERS
0:20:13 > 0:20:16God! A pair of artists? That might be...
0:20:16 > 0:20:18Maybe Gauguin and van Gogh or something.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20- Go for it. - Maybe Gauguin and van Gogh.
0:20:20 > 0:20:21- Gauguin and van Gogh.- Correct.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24And finally, the role of which artist
0:20:24 > 0:20:27is played by Jose Ferrer and John Leguizamo respectively
0:20:27 > 0:20:32in the 1952 and 2001 film versions of Moulin Rouge?
0:20:32 > 0:20:34- Oh, God, Toulouse... - Yeah, it's Toulouse-Lautrec.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35- Toulouse-Lautrec.- Correct.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38APPLAUSE Ten points for this. In physics,
0:20:38 > 0:20:41what six-letter term denotes a rotating vector
0:20:41 > 0:20:45that represents a sinusoidally varying quantity, such as...
0:20:46 > 0:20:49- Cork.- No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52..such as the electric field of a photon?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54The term is a homophone of a device used
0:20:54 > 0:20:56on the television series Star Trek.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00- Phaser.- Phaser is right, yes.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04APPLAUSE
0:21:04 > 0:21:07So, you've retaken the lead and your bonuses
0:21:07 > 0:21:10are on German prepositions, Corpus Christi.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14Adding the letter O to the end of the German word for after
0:21:14 > 0:21:18gives the name of which Mexican food item?
0:21:18 > 0:21:20- Nacho.- Correct.
0:21:20 > 0:21:25Adding the letter T to the end of the German word for at or to
0:21:25 > 0:21:29gives which mild French expletive?
0:21:29 > 0:21:32- It's zu, so zut - is that a French...?- Zut, yeah.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Zut, definitely.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38- Zut.- Zut is right. And finally, adding the letter O
0:21:38 > 0:21:41to the beginning of the German word for with
0:21:41 > 0:21:43gives what English verb?
0:21:43 > 0:21:45- Omit.- Correct.
0:21:45 > 0:21:49APPLAUSE We're going to take another
0:21:49 > 0:21:51picture round. For your picture starter,
0:21:51 > 0:21:53you'll see a portrait of a painter and writer.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Ten points if you can identify him.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01- John Ruskin.- It is John Ruskin, painted by Millais.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03APPLAUSE He was involved
0:22:03 > 0:22:06in the foundation of the Working Men's College,
0:22:06 > 0:22:08still in operation today in Camden.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10It's one of Britain's earliest adult
0:22:10 > 0:22:12or continuing education institutions.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14For your picture bonuses,
0:22:14 > 0:22:17works by three artists who gave classes there.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20I want the artist's name in each case. Firstly, for five...
0:22:22 > 0:22:26- Is it one of the Pre-Raphaelites? - This is Pre-Raphaelite, so...
0:22:26 > 0:22:29- Holman Hunt?- Ford Madox Brown?
0:22:29 > 0:22:32We're just guessing Pre-Raphaelites.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Ford Madox Brown.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36No, that is... You were in the right area.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39It's Rossetti. It's Dante's Dream. Secondly...
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Oh, this is another one. OK.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Yeah, that's not... No, it's not Waterhouse.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47I thought it was, but I don't think so.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50- Shall we try Brown? - Do you want to go Brown?
0:22:50 > 0:22:51- Really? Again?- Yeah.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54It might be a Waterhouse, but I don't think so.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56- Ford Madox Brown. - No, it's Burne-Jones,
0:22:56 > 0:22:58The Beguiling Of Merlin. And finally...
0:23:00 > 0:23:03- That looks like William Morris.- Yeah.
0:23:03 > 0:23:04- William Morris.- It is.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07His Acanthus design. Ten points for this.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10Differing only in that the latter has a three-letter prefix,
0:23:10 > 0:23:15which two words mean knowledge of spiritual mystery
0:23:15 > 0:23:18and the likely course of a medical condition? Both can...
0:23:20 > 0:23:22- Noesis and prognosis.- Correct.
0:23:22 > 0:23:26APPLAUSE
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Right, these bonuses, Corpus Christi,
0:23:28 > 0:23:30are on ancient Mexico.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34Located around 40 miles outside Mexico City,
0:23:34 > 0:23:37the city of Tula was built by which civilisation
0:23:37 > 0:23:40which flourished from around 900AD?
0:23:41 > 0:23:44- It's not the Aztecs.- Olmecs? - Olmec? Olmec? Olmec?
0:23:44 > 0:23:46All I know is it's not the Aztecs.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48- The Olmec.- No, it's the Toltec.- Oh.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Thought to have been occupied by settlers from Tula,
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Chichen Itza was originally constructed
0:23:53 > 0:23:57by a subgroup of which pre-Columbian civilisation?
0:23:59 > 0:24:01- Do you want to go Olmec? - That could be it.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03- I don't know.- Yeah?- Don't know.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05- Olmec.- No, it was the Mayas.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Toltec buildings at both Tula and Chichen Itza
0:24:08 > 0:24:11were dedicated to the deity Quetzalcoatl,
0:24:11 > 0:24:15usually depicted as a feathered manifestation of which animal?
0:24:15 > 0:24:18- Oh, it's a bird.- Was he a crocodile? - I thought he was a bird.- Oh.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19- But it was feathered.- Feathered.
0:24:19 > 0:24:24- Like, a feathered crocodile? - Feathered boa?- Or snake?
0:24:24 > 0:24:27- A feathered boa - is that a thing? - A feather boa is a different thing.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Come on. LAUGHTER
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Yeah, that's a different thing. That's a... Yeah.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33- Is it a crocodile? - No, it was a snake.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35LAUGHTER Right, ten points for this.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Recalled To Life, The Golden Thread
0:24:37 > 0:24:39and The Track Of A Storm...?
0:24:39 > 0:24:42- A Tale Of Two Cities.- Correct.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45APPLAUSE
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Your bonuses are on zoology, Peterhouse.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52Squids, octopuses and cuttlefish belong to which class of molluscs?
0:24:52 > 0:24:56- Is it bivalves maybe? - No, no, it's further up.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58It's the other one. Begins with a C, I think.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00- It's a class of mollusc? - Cephalopods.- Cephalopods.- OK.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02- Cephalopods.- Correct.
0:25:02 > 0:25:07In cephalopods, the structure known as the hectocotylised arm
0:25:07 > 0:25:09is used for the transfer of what?
0:25:10 > 0:25:14- Um...- It could be sperm or something.- Hectocotylised?
0:25:14 > 0:25:17- I just don't know.- Hectocotylised? Yeah, well, cotyl, yeah...
0:25:17 > 0:25:21- The transfer of sperm, I suppose. - OK. Do you think?- Let's use it.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23- Sperm.- Correct.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27In cephalopods, a statocyst is an organ that detects what force?
0:25:27 > 0:25:31- Um...- Thrust or something? Water pressure? Water pressure?
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Well, stato could be electricity. Electric charge?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36- Come on.- What's the thing...? - Water pressure.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- Water pressure. - No, it's gravity. Ten points
0:25:38 > 0:25:40for this. For what do the letters
0:25:40 > 0:25:43LBJ stand when used...
0:25:44 > 0:25:48- Lyndon Baines Johnson. - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50..LBJ stand when used by bird-watchers
0:25:50 > 0:25:55to refer to small, non-descript, usually passerine species?
0:25:57 > 0:26:02- Come on.- Lark before June. - No, they're little brown jobs.
0:26:02 > 0:26:03Ten points for this.
0:26:03 > 0:26:07Which Germanic people migrated to Northern Italy in the late...?
0:26:07 > 0:26:09- The Lombards.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:26:09 > 0:26:12So, you get a set of bonuses now on Burns Night.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14The centrepiece of a Burns supper is the haggis,
0:26:14 > 0:26:19or as Robert Burns described it, the great chieftain of what?
0:26:19 > 0:26:21The pudding race. The pudding race.
0:26:21 > 0:26:22- The pudding race.- Correct.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25Which town in the Scottish Borders gives its name to the grace
0:26:25 > 0:26:27traditionally recited at a Burns supper,
0:26:27 > 0:26:31as well as to a variety of bannock or fruitcake?
0:26:31 > 0:26:33- No idea.- Oh, Eccles.- Eccles.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36- No, Eccles isn't in Scotland. - Just go for it.- Come on.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39- Eccles.- No, it's Selkirk. Eccles is in Lancashire.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Taking its name from the cloth in which it is boiled,
0:26:41 > 0:26:43according to the traditional recipe,
0:26:43 > 0:26:47which dried fruit pudding often concludes a Burns Night supper?
0:26:47 > 0:26:49I think we should pass.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51- What's it called? - Just pass. I don't know.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53- Come on.- Pass.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55It's a clootie dumpling. Ten points for this.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Listen carefully. Which two distinct
0:26:57 > 0:27:00square numbers between 100 and 500
0:27:00 > 0:27:03have the property that the digits of one,
0:27:03 > 0:27:06when read backwards, form the digits of the other?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16- 343.- No.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21169 and 196.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24No, it's 144 and 441. Ten points for this.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29What structure within some churches is often placed on top of a predella
0:27:29 > 0:27:33in front of a reredos and beneath a baldachin?
0:27:34 > 0:27:36- Tabernacle.- No.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Anyone want to buzz from Corpus Christi?
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- Pulpit.- No, it's the altar. Ten points for this.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46Answer promptly.
0:27:46 > 0:27:51Give the two seven-letter anagrams that mean regard or consideration
0:27:51 > 0:27:54and a ceremonial staff carried by a monarch.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59- Respect and sceptre.- Correct.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01APPLAUSE
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Your bonuses now are on science, Corpus Christi.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06What is the predominant geometric...?
0:28:06 > 0:28:08GONG
0:28:08 > 0:28:11APPLAUSE And at the gong,
0:28:11 > 0:28:14Peterhouse have 150, Corpus Christi have 175.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18Well, it was pretty close.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20We shall have to say goodbye to you, Peterhouse,
0:28:20 > 0:28:22but thank you very much for being with us
0:28:22 > 0:28:25and you certainly leave with a very respectable score.
0:28:25 > 0:28:29Corpus Christi, we'll look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals. Congratulations.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32I hope you can join us next time for the first of the quarterfinals.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Until then, though, it's goodbye from Peterhouse, Cambridge.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38It's goodbye from Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40- ALL:- Goodbye. - And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42APPLAUSE