0:00:17 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello. Tonight, we begin
0:00:30 > 0:00:34the infernal cancan of the quarterfinals.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38The 130 or so teams who apply to compete in this contest were
0:00:38 > 0:00:41whittled down to 28 who actually appeared on screen,
0:00:41 > 0:00:43and, after two rounds of competition,
0:00:43 > 0:00:46only the best eight of those remain.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Now, to get to the semifinal stage,
0:01:01 > 0:01:05the rules demand that a team must win two quarterfinal matches,
0:01:05 > 0:01:08so a team winning two matches goes straight through,
0:01:08 > 0:01:11a team that loses two matches goes straight home
0:01:11 > 0:01:15and a team that wins one match but loses another must play again
0:01:15 > 0:01:18and win in order to stay in the competition.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21And from now on, the questions also get a little harder.
0:01:21 > 0:01:22Now, in their first-round match,
0:01:22 > 0:01:26Wolfson College, Cambridge beat the School of Oriental and African
0:01:26 > 0:01:31Studies on a tie-break question and a final score of 185 to 175.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34Their second-round match was a Cambridge derby against
0:01:34 > 0:01:40Jesus College, which they won by a wider margin - 225 points to 140.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43Let's meet the Wolfson team for the third time.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47Hi. My name is Justin Yang, I'm from Vancouver, Canada and I'm
0:01:47 > 0:01:50studying for a PhD in public health and primary care.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Hi. I'm Ben Chaudhri, I'm from near Cockermouth in Cumbria and
0:01:53 > 0:01:55I'm studying natural sciences.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57- And this is their captain. - Hi. My name is Eric Monkman,
0:01:57 > 0:01:59I'm from Oakville, Canada,
0:01:59 > 0:02:02and I'm studying for an MPhil in economics.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06Hi. I'm Paul Cosgrove from Cookstown in Northern Ireland,
0:02:06 > 0:02:09and I'm studying for a master's in nuclear energy.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11APPLAUSE
0:02:13 > 0:02:17The team from Balliol College, Oxford, arrived here by
0:02:17 > 0:02:20steam-rollering Imperial College, London,
0:02:20 > 0:02:23by 220 points to 55 in round one
0:02:23 > 0:02:26and by beating Robinson College, Cambridge with another
0:02:26 > 0:02:30convincing margin - 210 to 90 points - in round two.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Let's meet the Balliol team again.
0:02:33 > 0:02:38Hi. I'm Freddy Potts, I'm from Newcastle and I'm reading history.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Hello. I'm Jacob Lloyd, I'm from London
0:02:40 > 0:02:42and I'm reading for a DPhil in English.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44- And this is their captain.- Hi. I'm Joey Goldman, I'm from London
0:02:44 > 0:02:47and I'm reading philosophy and theology.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48Hi. I'm Ben Pope, I'm from Sydney
0:02:48 > 0:02:51and I'm doing a DPhil in astrophysics.
0:02:51 > 0:02:52APPLAUSE
0:02:55 > 0:02:57OK, you all know the rules, so let's get on with it.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:00 > 0:03:05"It is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07"It is not the expression of personality..."
0:03:07 > 0:03:09John Keats.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12No. You lose five points. "..but an escape from personality."
0:03:12 > 0:03:16Those words from TS Eliot's The Sacred Wood describe
0:03:16 > 0:03:18what form of literature?
0:03:21 > 0:03:22Poetry?
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Correct. APPLAUSE
0:03:26 > 0:03:30You get a set of bonuses on boys' names, Wolfson.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33The surname of the Elizabethan author of the sonnet sequence
0:03:33 > 0:03:38Astrophil And Stella, what given name did Charles Dickens popularise
0:03:38 > 0:03:42by using it for one of the principal characters in A Tale Of Two Cities?
0:03:42 > 0:03:43- Sidney?- Sidney.
0:03:43 > 0:03:44Sidney.
0:03:44 > 0:03:45Correct.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48Which name grew in popularity as a given name in recognition of
0:03:48 > 0:03:51the admiral who led the victorious British fleet
0:03:51 > 0:03:55at the Battle of the Saintes in the West Indies in 1782?
0:03:55 > 0:03:57- Nelson?- Yeah, Nelson?
0:03:57 > 0:03:59- Nelson or Horatio.- Nelson.
0:03:59 > 0:04:00Nelson?
0:04:00 > 0:04:01No, it was Rodney.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04And finally, which given name is believed to have come into
0:04:04 > 0:04:07fashion in recognition of the military leader who became
0:04:07 > 0:04:11Baron of Plassey in 1762?
0:04:11 > 0:04:13- Clive?- Don't know.
0:04:13 > 0:04:14Clive?
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Correct, yes. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Which decade saw the birth in Northampton of Anne Bradstreet,
0:04:20 > 0:04:23who became one of the first women settlers to write poetry in
0:04:23 > 0:04:25the American colonies?
0:04:25 > 0:04:28The same decade also saw the death of Shakespeare
0:04:28 > 0:04:31and the publication of the King James Bible.
0:04:31 > 0:04:3516...00s.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38No. I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:04:38 > 0:04:391610s.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42Correct. APPLAUSE
0:04:43 > 0:04:49Right, Balliol College, your bonuses this time are on a shared term.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53Coined in 1930 for an indefinable element that sets something
0:04:53 > 0:04:57or someone apart, what term is also a colloquial expression referring
0:04:57 > 0:05:02to those aspects of military life that have no civilian equivalent?
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Something that sets someone apart...
0:05:07 > 0:05:09- Corps d'esprit?- Esprit de corps.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Esprit de corps?
0:05:11 > 0:05:12No, it's X factor.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15What letter precedes "factor" when meaning
0:05:15 > 0:05:17a measure of the quality of performance of
0:05:17 > 0:05:20a resonant system, indicating its ability to produce
0:05:20 > 0:05:22a large output at the resonant frequency?
0:05:22 > 0:05:23Q.
0:05:23 > 0:05:24Correct.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28What letter precedes "factor" in the quantity used in the calculation of
0:05:28 > 0:05:31the ratio of the angular momentum of a subatomic particle to its
0:05:31 > 0:05:35magnetic moment in the presence of spin-orbit coupling?
0:05:37 > 0:05:39- I'm not sure.- Should we go J?
0:05:43 > 0:05:44We'll go for the J factor.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47No, it's G. Ten points for this.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Give two terms as soon as your name is called.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54When describing points on an orbit around a celestial body, the
0:05:54 > 0:05:58terms "perihelion" and "aphelion" are used when the body is the sun.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01What two terms are used when the body is the...?
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Periapsis and apoapsis.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07No. I'm afraid you lose five points. ..when the body is the earth?
0:06:09 > 0:06:10Perigee and apogee.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Correct. Here are your bonuses. APPLAUSE
0:06:12 > 0:06:14They're on artistic depictions of hell.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17What modern name is given to the triptych by Hieronymus Bosch
0:06:17 > 0:06:19depicting the Garden of Eden,
0:06:19 > 0:06:24scenes of orgiastic fantasy and the torment of the damned in hell?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26It's Garden Of Earthly Delights.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28Garden Of Earthly Delights?
0:06:28 > 0:06:31Correct. Inspired by Dante, which French sculptor created
0:06:31 > 0:06:33The Gates Of Hell,
0:06:33 > 0:06:37a monumental work he failed to complete before his death in 1917?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39- It is Rodin.- It is.
0:06:39 > 0:06:40Rodin.
0:06:40 > 0:06:41Correct.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Which French printmaker's works include wood-engraved
0:06:44 > 0:06:48illustrations for an 1861 edition of Dante's Inferno?
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Dore. Was that Dore? Dore.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Correct. APPLAUSE
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Ten points for this.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56A quasi-Latinism based on the Latin for "when"
0:06:56 > 0:07:01and an Anglicisation of the French for "what shall I say of it?" are
0:07:01 > 0:07:04suggestions for the derivation of what word,
0:07:04 > 0:07:06meaning "a perplexing situation or dilemma"?
0:07:07 > 0:07:08Quandary.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11Quandary is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Your bonuses this time, Wolfson, are on geography.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20In each case, name the parallel of latitude that passes through
0:07:20 > 0:07:25or close to the following locations. All three parallels end with a zero.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Firstly, Houston, Texas, Cairo, Egypt,
0:07:28 > 0:07:32Multan in Pakistan and Lhasa in Tibet.
0:07:32 > 0:07:37- Is it 30?- 30 or 40.- I would say 30.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40- 30?- North or south? - Degrees north.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Correct, yes.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Secondly, the Great Sandy Desert, the Great Barrier Reef,
0:07:45 > 0:07:49the Atacama Desert and the northern part of the Namib Desert.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53- 10 degrees south?- Do you think it's further than that?- I don't know.
0:07:55 > 0:07:5620 or 10?
0:07:56 > 0:07:57- 20?- 20?
0:07:57 > 0:07:5920 south?
0:07:59 > 0:08:00Correct.
0:08:00 > 0:08:05And finally, Guadalajara in Mexico, Santiago de Cuba,
0:08:05 > 0:08:09Puri in eastern India and Chiang Rai in Thailand.
0:08:09 > 0:08:10- 10 north, maybe?- Are you sure?
0:08:10 > 0:08:13- No, I think it's 10 north.- OK.
0:08:13 > 0:08:1410 north?
0:08:14 > 0:08:16No, it's 20 degrees north.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18We're going to take a picture round. For your picture starter,
0:08:18 > 0:08:20you'll see a map of Europe.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22For ten points, I simply want you to identify
0:08:22 > 0:08:24the major city that's marked on it.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Geneva?
0:08:30 > 0:08:31Nope.
0:08:32 > 0:08:33Basel.
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Basel is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:08:37 > 0:08:40Basel's position on the River Rhine, as you know, makes it the
0:08:40 > 0:08:44so-called "Port of Switzerland", the country's only cargo port.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47For your picture bonuses, you're going to see the locations
0:08:47 > 0:08:49of three more inland commercial ports.
0:08:49 > 0:08:53Five points for each city you can identify. Firstly for five...
0:08:58 > 0:09:01- That's Belgium, isn't it? - Yeah, that's Belgium.- OK.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Inland ports? Liege?
0:09:06 > 0:09:07Liege?
0:09:07 > 0:09:08Liege is correct.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Secondly, this city, the world's largest inland port.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19That's Lubeck.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21That's on the coast.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Hamburg? Dortmund...
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Hannover, Stuttgart...
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Hannover.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29No, it's Duisburg. And finally...
0:09:30 > 0:09:31Seville.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Seville.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:09:36 > 0:09:37The Meursault Investigation
0:09:37 > 0:09:40by the Algerian author Kamel Daoud
0:09:40 > 0:09:43won the Goncourt First Novel Prize in 2015.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47It imagines the story of the murder victim on the beach...
0:09:47 > 0:09:48The Stranger by Albert Camus.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Correct. APPLAUSE
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Right, your bonuses this time are on the film director
0:09:56 > 0:09:58Jane Campion, Balliol.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Jane Campion won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
0:10:01 > 0:10:06for which 1993 film, set mainly in New Zealand?
0:10:06 > 0:10:07Could be Heavenly Creatures.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Heavenly Creatures.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11No, it was The Piano.
0:10:11 > 0:10:16Starring Nicole Kidman as Isabel Archer, which 1996 film, directed
0:10:16 > 0:10:19by Campion, is an adaptation of a novel by Henry James?
0:10:19 > 0:10:21The Portrait Of A Lady.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Correct. The romance between John Keats and Fanny Brawne
0:10:24 > 0:10:27is the subject of which 2009 film directed by Campion?
0:10:27 > 0:10:29Bright Star.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Name two of the three domains in the classification of living
0:10:35 > 0:10:37things proposed in 19...
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Archea and...eukaryote.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43Very good. Well done, yes. APPLAUSE
0:10:45 > 0:10:49..proposed by the US microbiologist Carl Woese, based on RNA analysis.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51So you get the set of bonuses.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55They are on Europe in the early 11th century, Wolfson.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59The Byzantine emperor Basil II is noted for his conquest of
0:10:59 > 0:11:01which Balkan empire?
0:11:01 > 0:11:06It shares its name with a present- day country of south-eastern Europe.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Is it the Croatian Empire?
0:11:08 > 0:11:12- Croatian?- Or Transylvania. - Transylvania's not a country.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14I'd say maybe Croatia, maybe.
0:11:14 > 0:11:15Croatia.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Bulgaria.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20Secondly, in the early 11th century, Sancho the Great established
0:11:20 > 0:11:25hegemony over most of Christian Spain. Which kingdom did he rule?
0:11:25 > 0:11:28It shares its name with the present-day capital of Navarre.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31- Navarre? Erm... Aragon.- Yeah?
0:11:31 > 0:11:32Aragon.
0:11:32 > 0:11:33No, it's Pamplona.
0:11:33 > 0:11:38Along with Malcolm of Scotland, Owen the Bald defeated the English
0:11:38 > 0:11:41at Carham in 1016. Which kingdom did he rule?
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Its name refers to a Scottish river.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46- The...Clyde?- Clyde?- Clyde?
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Clyde?
0:11:48 > 0:11:49No, it's Strathclyde.
0:11:49 > 0:11:50Ten points for this.
0:11:50 > 0:11:55The name of what generic type of songbird results if the past
0:11:55 > 0:11:59tense of the verb "do" is pronounced with its consonants unvoiced?
0:12:03 > 0:12:04Tit.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06Tit is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:12:06 > 0:12:09You get a set of bonuses on the collection of the Museum of
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Modern Art in New York, Balliol.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15Man With A Guitar and Landscape At La Ciotat
0:12:15 > 0:12:19are early-20th-century works by which French artist?
0:12:21 > 0:12:25- Could be Monet.- Cezanne? - Cezanne sounds better to me.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Cezanne.
0:12:27 > 0:12:28No, they're by Braque.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32The Dream and The Sleeping Gypsy are works by which French artist,
0:12:32 > 0:12:34born in 1844?
0:12:34 > 0:12:35Henri Rousseau.
0:12:35 > 0:12:36Correct.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40The Dance and Landscape At Collioure are works by which artist,
0:12:40 > 0:12:42who died at Nice in 1954?
0:12:42 > 0:12:43Matisse.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:12:45 > 0:12:47In which novel of 1903
0:12:47 > 0:12:49does the widowed Mrs Newsome hear
0:12:49 > 0:12:52troubling rumours of her son Chadwick's love...?
0:12:52 > 0:12:54The Age Of Innocence?
0:12:54 > 0:12:55No. You lose five points.
0:12:55 > 0:12:59..her son Chadwick's love life in Paris and sends her fiance,
0:12:59 > 0:13:03Lambert Strether, to persuade him to return to America?
0:13:03 > 0:13:05It shares its title with a double portrait
0:13:05 > 0:13:07by Hans Holbein the Younger.
0:13:09 > 0:13:10The Ambassadors?
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Correct. APPLAUSE
0:13:15 > 0:13:17These bonuses, Wolfson, are on medicine.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20What is the six-letter medical term for
0:13:20 > 0:13:23a network of nerves or blood vessels?
0:13:23 > 0:13:27- Ganglia?- Erm...- Six letters?
0:13:31 > 0:13:33- Bundle?- Bundle, yeah.
0:13:33 > 0:13:34Bundle?
0:13:34 > 0:13:35No, it's plexus.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39Secondly, what name is given to the plexus of nerves that runs
0:13:39 > 0:13:43from the spine through the axillas? It innervates the arms and hands.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Solar?
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Solar?
0:13:48 > 0:13:50No, it's the brachial plexus.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Located in the ventricles of the brain,
0:13:52 > 0:13:56which plexuses of blood vessels secrete cerebrospinal fluid?
0:13:59 > 0:14:02Is it, like, the interior plexus?
0:14:02 > 0:14:04- Ulterior?- Yeah, go for it.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Ulterior plexus?
0:14:06 > 0:14:07No, they're choroid plexuses.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Ten points if you can identify the Austrian composer.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:22 > 0:14:23# ..Kummerling... #
0:14:23 > 0:14:24Schubert?
0:14:24 > 0:14:26Schubert is right. His Prometheus. APPLAUSE
0:14:28 > 0:14:33That was one of many musical settings of poems by Goethe.
0:14:33 > 0:14:38Your music bonuses are three more classical pieces inspired by Goethe.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41In each case, for the five points, I want you to identify the composer.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44Firstly for five, this German composer.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:56 > 0:14:57Beethoven?
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Beethoven?
0:15:00 > 0:15:01No, that was Mendelssohn,
0:15:01 > 0:15:05inspired by Goethe's poem Calm Sea And Prosperous Voyage.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08Secondly, the French composer of this opera.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:13 > 0:15:14I would say Bizet.
0:15:15 > 0:15:21Who knows? Is it, er... Goethe was Faust, right? So Gounod?
0:15:21 > 0:15:22Gounod?
0:15:22 > 0:15:24No, it's Massenet,
0:15:24 > 0:15:28his Werther from Goethe's The Sorrows Of Young Werther.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31And finally, another French composer.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:33 > 0:15:37This is, erm... The Sorcerer's Apprentice,
0:15:37 > 0:15:39which is by whom? It's by, er...
0:15:46 > 0:15:47Saint-Saens?
0:15:51 > 0:15:54- Canet or something. I don't know. - Go for that.
0:15:54 > 0:15:55Canet.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57No, it was Dukas. You did get the right piece, though,
0:15:57 > 0:15:59it was The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Right, ten points for this. "An extraordinary affair.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06"I gave them their orders, and they wanted to stay and discuss them."
0:16:06 > 0:16:08Who said that after his first...?
0:16:08 > 0:16:09George Orwell?
0:16:09 > 0:16:11No. You lose five points.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14Who said that after his first Cabinet meeting as Prime Minister?
0:16:14 > 0:16:18His time in office saw Catholic emancipation in 1829.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21The Duke of Wellington?
0:16:21 > 0:16:23Correct. APPLAUSE
0:16:25 > 0:16:29Wolfson, these bonuses are on sorrow in Shakespeare.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33In each case, name the stage work in which the following appear.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
0:16:36 > 0:16:40"Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break."
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Is that Ophelia?
0:16:44 > 0:16:46The character who says it, or the work?
0:16:46 > 0:16:48- We have to say the play... - Hamlet, maybe?
0:16:48 > 0:16:49Hamlet?
0:16:49 > 0:16:51No, it's Malcolm in Macbeth.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54I'm just looking for the name of the work.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56"This grief is crown'd with consolation.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59"Your old smock brings forth a new petticoat:
0:16:59 > 0:17:02"and, indeed, the tears live in an onion
0:17:02 > 0:17:04"that should water this sorrow."
0:17:06 > 0:17:08- Richard II, maybe? - I was going to say King Lear.
0:17:08 > 0:17:09OK, we'll say King Lear, then.
0:17:09 > 0:17:10King Lear?
0:17:10 > 0:17:13No, it's Antony And Cleopatra. Enobarbus.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17And finally, "A countenance more in sorrow than in anger."
0:17:20 > 0:17:22- Is that Hamlet?- Maybe Hamlet.
0:17:22 > 0:17:23Hamlet?
0:17:23 > 0:17:25It is Hamlet. Horatio's description of the ghost.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this.
0:17:27 > 0:17:28"A perennial gale
0:17:28 > 0:17:30"of creative destruction..."
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Schumpeter?
0:17:33 > 0:17:37No. You lose five points.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39You get the rest of it, Balliol.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42"A perennial gale of creative destruction" - these words by the
0:17:42 > 0:17:46Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter refer to what broad economic system?
0:17:50 > 0:17:51Capitalism.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53Correct. APPLAUSE
0:17:54 > 0:17:58Your bonuses are on a shared surname, Balliol.
0:17:58 > 0:18:03Taking On The World, Race Against Time and Full Circle are accounts
0:18:03 > 0:18:07by which record-breaking English sailor of her voyages and races?
0:18:08 > 0:18:10- Ellen MacArthur?- Yeah.
0:18:10 > 0:18:11MacArthur.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Ellen MacArthur is correct.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16Widely used to extract gold from ores,
0:18:16 > 0:18:20the MacArthur-Forrest process uses which extremely poisonous
0:18:20 > 0:18:23compound, after which it's more commonly named?
0:18:24 > 0:18:27- Mercury something?- Cyanide?
0:18:29 > 0:18:31- Cyanide.- Correct.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35From 1945, the US general Douglas MacArthur headed the Allied
0:18:35 > 0:18:38occupation administration of which country, introducing...?
0:18:38 > 0:18:39Japan.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42That's correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:18:43 > 0:18:47What short word links a heraldic beast with horns and tusks,
0:18:47 > 0:18:50an Ivy League university and the inventor of the compact
0:18:50 > 0:18:52cylinder pin-tumbler lock?
0:18:54 > 0:18:55Yale?
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Yale is right. APPLAUSE
0:18:59 > 0:19:02Get these bonuses, you'll take the lead. They're on civil wars.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05Firstly, in which Mediterranean country did US-backed
0:19:05 > 0:19:09government forces defeat communist insurgents in 1949?
0:19:09 > 0:19:10Greece.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13The war had begun shortly after the Axis occupation ended in 1944.
0:19:13 > 0:19:14Greece.
0:19:14 > 0:19:15Correct.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18La Violencia is the name given to the years of civil war in
0:19:18 > 0:19:19which South American country,
0:19:19 > 0:19:24sparked by the assassination of the liberal leader Gaitan in 1948?
0:19:24 > 0:19:25That's a very Colombian name.
0:19:25 > 0:19:26Colombia.
0:19:26 > 0:19:27Correct.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31In which African country did civil war break out in 1967,
0:19:31 > 0:19:35shortly after the secession of the eastern region states under
0:19:35 > 0:19:36the name of the Republic of Biafra?
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Nigeria.
0:19:38 > 0:19:39Correct. APPLAUSE
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Ten points for this.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Dating to the early 20th century,
0:19:45 > 0:19:50the Aarne-Thompson system classifies what general category of narrative?
0:19:50 > 0:19:53The Austrian-born psychologist Bruno Bettel...
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Myths?
0:19:55 > 0:19:56No, I don't think so.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59The Austrian-born psychologist Bruno Bettelheim explored its
0:19:59 > 0:20:04meaning and significance in the 1976 work The Uses of Enchantment.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05Fairy tales.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07Fairy tales or folk tales is correct, yes.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09APPLAUSE
0:20:10 > 0:20:12And you've lost five points, of course, Balliol.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15So you're no longer in the lead.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19OK, Wolfson, football in the 19th century for your bonuses.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23The Football League was formed in 1888 with 12 clubs.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27Which Lancashire club were champions in the first two seasons?
0:20:28 > 0:20:31- I don't know this.- Burnley?
0:20:31 > 0:20:33I don't even know the geography.
0:20:33 > 0:20:34I don't know.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35- Burnley? I don't know.- OK.
0:20:35 > 0:20:36Nominate Chaudhri.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38Burnley?
0:20:38 > 0:20:39No, it's Preston North End.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Secondly, during the Football League's first decade,
0:20:42 > 0:20:46two clubs won the championship three times. Name either one.
0:20:46 > 0:20:51In the 2015/2016 season, both played in the Premier League.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00- No idea.- Newcastle and...
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Arsenal?
0:21:02 > 0:21:04- Nominate Cosgrove. - Are you serious?
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Newcastle and Arsenal?
0:21:06 > 0:21:09No, it was Sunderland and Aston Villa. I only needed one of them.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11- Oh!- But you didn't get either.
0:21:11 > 0:21:15In 1893, Small Heath became the first champions of the
0:21:15 > 0:21:18Second Division. By what name is the club now known?
0:21:21 > 0:21:22It doesn't...
0:21:24 > 0:21:26I don't know.
0:21:26 > 0:21:27Pick a random club.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28Arsenal.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30No, it's Birmingham City.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32We're going to take a second picture round.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34For your picture starter, you're going to see a painting.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37Ten points if you can identify the artist.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Er, Turner?
0:21:41 > 0:21:43No.
0:21:43 > 0:21:44Caspar David Friedrich.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Correct. APPLAUSE
0:21:48 > 0:21:52That painting uses the compositional device of the Ruckenfigur,
0:21:52 > 0:21:55a foregrounded figure seen from behind contemplating
0:21:55 > 0:21:57the view in front of them.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01Your picture bonuses are three more works that use that device.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04In each case, I simply want you to identify the artist.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Firstly for five...
0:22:07 > 0:22:08Munch.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10That is Edvard Munch, Young Girl On A Jetty.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12Secondly, this Italian artist.
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Boccioni, maybe?
0:22:18 > 0:22:19Boccioni?
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Correct. And finally...
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Magritte.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Correct. APPLAUSE
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Right, you've retaken the lead.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33So, we get another starter question now. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35In the human genetic code,
0:22:35 > 0:22:38how many distinct codon combinations is it possible to form,
0:22:38 > 0:22:42each one consisting of a triplet of the four nucleotide bases?
0:22:45 > 0:22:4624.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48Anyone like to buzz from Wolfson?
0:22:51 > 0:22:5361.
0:22:53 > 0:22:54No, it's 64.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Ten points for this.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59What name denotes the form of theatre influenced by symbolism
0:22:59 > 0:23:04and surrealism that was developed in the 1930s by the French dramatist,
0:23:04 > 0:23:06poet and actor Anton...?
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Absurd.
0:23:08 > 0:23:09No. You lose five points.
0:23:09 > 0:23:13..dramatist, poet and actor Antonin Artaud?
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Theatre of the Absurd?
0:23:19 > 0:23:21No, it's Theatre of Cruelty. Ten points for this.
0:23:21 > 0:23:27Which of Snow White's seven dwarfs is known in Latin as Sternuens,
0:23:27 > 0:23:29in Spanish as Mucoso
0:23:29 > 0:23:31and in French as Atchoum?
0:23:33 > 0:23:34Sneezy?
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Yes! APPLAUSE
0:23:39 > 0:23:42You could retake the lead if you get these bonuses, Wolfson.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44They're on inorganic chemistry.
0:23:44 > 0:23:49Which non-metal has more allotropic forms than any other element?
0:23:49 > 0:23:52- Probably carbon.- Sulphur. - Carbon.- I would say sulphur.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54- Sulphur?- Or phosphorus.
0:23:54 > 0:24:00- Well, chemists, tell me. What do you want?- Go sulphur.- OK, sulphur.
0:24:00 > 0:24:01Sulphur?
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Sulphur is correct.
0:24:03 > 0:24:10What precise term is given to salts that contain the S2O32 minus ion?
0:24:10 > 0:24:14- Sulphite?- It's a di-, it's two sulphurs, though.
0:24:14 > 0:24:15Disulphite?
0:24:16 > 0:24:19- Two sulphurs.- OK.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Nominate Cosgrove. Er, nominate Chaudhri.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Disulphite?
0:24:23 > 0:24:25No, they're thiosulphates.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29And finally, in photographic processing, sodium thiosulphate
0:24:29 > 0:24:33is used to remove unreduced silver from negatives and prints.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35What is that process called?
0:24:37 > 0:24:40It's reducing... I don't know. Finishing?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- It might be reducing. - Is it the iodine process?
0:24:43 > 0:24:46- I don't think it involves iodine. - I would say finishing.
0:24:46 > 0:24:47Finishing?
0:24:47 > 0:24:49No, fixing. Three minutes to go.
0:24:49 > 0:24:50Another starter question.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53In which book of the New Testament do these words appear?
0:24:53 > 0:24:57"He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good
0:24:57 > 0:25:00"and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Revelation?
0:25:05 > 0:25:07No. Anyone want to buzz from Balliol?
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Romans.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11No, it's Matthew. Ten points for this.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15Born in Vienna in 1900, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for
0:25:15 > 0:25:19Physics in 1945 for his discovery of the exclusion principle?
0:25:21 > 0:25:22Wolfgang Pauli.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Correct. APPLAUSE
0:25:26 > 0:25:31Your bonuses are on Unesco World Heritage Sites in China.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34In which province are both the temple and cemetery of
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Confucius and Mount Tai,
0:25:36 > 0:25:39one of the five sacred mountains in traditional China?
0:25:39 > 0:25:43- I think that's, like...- Zhejiang?
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- Zhejiang? I think it's, like, Henan or something.- I have no idea.
0:25:46 > 0:25:47Henan?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49No, it's Shandong.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51In which autonomous region, secondly,
0:25:51 > 0:25:55is the site of Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan from 1274?
0:25:56 > 0:25:59- Is it Tibet?- Shanghai or something?
0:25:59 > 0:26:01- Name an autonomous region. - Oh, a Mongolian autonomous region?
0:26:01 > 0:26:04- Inner Mongolia?- Yeah...
0:26:04 > 0:26:05Inner Mongolia?
0:26:05 > 0:26:06Correct.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09In which province are the giant-panda sanctuaries
0:26:09 > 0:26:11and the giant Buddha of Leshan?
0:26:11 > 0:26:12Sichuan.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:26:15 > 0:26:18"I do not want people to be very agreeable,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21"as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
0:26:21 > 0:26:25Which author wrote those words in a letter of December 1798 to
0:26:25 > 0:26:27her sister Cassandra?
0:26:28 > 0:26:29Austen?
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Jane Austen is right. APPLAUSE
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Your bonuses this time, Wolfson, are on insects.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39Insects such as mayflies and grasshoppers differ from beetles
0:26:39 > 0:26:43and ants in that their metamorphosis does not include which stage?
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Larva? Do they not have larvae?
0:26:45 > 0:26:49- They have nymphs. - Do they have pupae?
0:26:49 > 0:26:51- I don't think they have larvae. - No larvae. OK.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53- Come on.- Larvae?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55No, it's the pupal stage.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57From the Latin meaning "form" or "likeness",
0:26:57 > 0:26:59what general term is used to indicate
0:26:59 > 0:27:02a stage in the development of an insect between two moults?
0:27:02 > 0:27:05An example is the nymph or larval stage.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07- Instar, I think. - OK. Nominate Chaudhri.
0:27:07 > 0:27:08Instar?
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Correct.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12What term is commonly applied to the nymph stage in aquatic
0:27:12 > 0:27:14species such as dragonflies?
0:27:14 > 0:27:17It's also used for a water nymph in Greek mythology.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Is it hydra?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21- Naiad?- Yeah, I think that's it.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Nominate Yang.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Er, naiad?
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Naiad is correct. APPLAUSE
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Ten points for this starter question.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Written while its author was studying in London,
0:27:30 > 0:27:34the 1938 anthropological work Facing Mount Kenya...
0:27:34 > 0:27:35Jomo Kenyatta.
0:27:35 > 0:27:36Correct. APPLAUSE
0:27:36 > 0:27:39You get a set of bonuses this time on place names, Balliol.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Which republic consists of half of one of the Lesser Sunda
0:27:42 > 0:27:45Islands and has a name that literally means "east east"?
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Timor-Leste. East Timor.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50Correct. Which country is sometimes said to derive its name from
0:27:50 > 0:27:51a word meaning "west"?
0:27:51 > 0:27:55It formally became a republic on Easter Monday in 1949.
0:27:57 > 0:27:58Kiribas.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00No, it's Ireland or Eire.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02The Arabic name of which North African country...?
0:28:02 > 0:28:04GONG And at the gong...
0:28:04 > 0:28:07APPLAUSE ..Balliol College, Oxford have 135,
0:28:07 > 0:28:09but Wolfson College, Cambridge have 165.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15So you're going to have to come back and win twice now to go through,
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Balliol, but, you know, you're a pretty strong team and you
0:28:18 > 0:28:20were in the lead for much of that match.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22Wolfson, many congratulations.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25Imagine knowing Sneezy! How terribly useful!
0:28:26 > 0:28:29I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32But until then, it is goodbye from Balliol College, Oxford...
0:28:32 > 0:28:33- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35..from Wolfson College, Cambridge...
0:28:35 > 0:28:36- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40APPLAUSE