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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
Hello. Tonight, we begin | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
the infernal cancan of the quarterfinals. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:34 | |
The 130 or so teams who apply to compete in this contest were | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
whittled down to 28 who actually appeared on screen, | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
and, after two rounds of competition, | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
only the best eight of those remain. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
Now, to get to the semifinal stage, | 0:00:59 | 0:01:01 | |
the rules demand that a team must win two quarterfinal matches, | 0:01:01 | 0:01:05 | |
so a team winning two matches goes straight through, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
a team that loses two matches goes straight home | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
and a team that wins one match but loses another must play again | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
and win in order to stay in the competition. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
And from now on, the questions also get a little harder. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
Now, in their first-round match, | 0:01:21 | 0:01:22 | |
Wolfson College, Cambridge beat the School of Oriental and African | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
Studies on a tie-break question and a final score of 185 to 175. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:31 | |
Their second-round match was a Cambridge derby against | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
Jesus College, which they won by a wider margin - 225 points to 140. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:40 | |
Let's meet the Wolfson team for the third time. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
Hi. My name is Justin Yang, I'm from Vancouver, Canada and I'm | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
studying for a PhD in public health and primary care. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
Hi. I'm Ben Chaudhri, I'm from near Cockermouth in Cumbria and | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
I'm studying natural sciences. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:55 | |
-And this is their captain. -Hi. My name is Eric Monkman, | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
I'm from Oakville, Canada, | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
and I'm studying for an MPhil in economics. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:02 | |
Hi. I'm Paul Cosgrove from Cookstown in Northern Ireland, | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
and I'm studying for a master's in nuclear energy. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
The team from Balliol College, Oxford, arrived here by | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
steam-rollering Imperial College, London, | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
by 220 points to 55 in round one | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
and by beating Robinson College, Cambridge with another | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
convincing margin - 210 to 90 points - in round two. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:30 | |
Let's meet the Balliol team again. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
Hi. I'm Freddy Potts, I'm from Newcastle and I'm reading history. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:38 | |
Hello. I'm Jacob Lloyd, I'm from London | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
and I'm reading for a DPhil in English. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
-And this is their captain. -Hi. I'm Joey Goldman, I'm from London | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
and I'm reading philosophy and theology. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
Hi. I'm Ben Pope, I'm from Sydney | 0:02:47 | 0:02:48 | |
and I'm doing a DPhil in astrophysics. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:02:51 | 0:02:52 | |
OK, you all know the rules, so let's get on with it. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
"It is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:05 | |
"It is not the expression of personality..." | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 | |
John Keats. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
No. You lose five points. "..but an escape from personality." | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
Those words from TS Eliot's The Sacred Wood describe | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
what form of literature? | 0:03:16 | 0:03:18 | |
Poetry? | 0:03:21 | 0:03:22 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
You get a set of bonuses on boys' names, Wolfson. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
The surname of the Elizabethan author of the sonnet sequence | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
Astrophil And Stella, what given name did Charles Dickens popularise | 0:03:33 | 0:03:38 | |
by using it for one of the principal characters in A Tale Of Two Cities? | 0:03:38 | 0:03:42 | |
-Sidney? -Sidney. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:43 | |
Sidney. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:44 | |
Correct. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:45 | |
Which name grew in popularity as a given name in recognition of | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
the admiral who led the victorious British fleet | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
at the Battle of the Saintes in the West Indies in 1782? | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
-Nelson? -Yeah, Nelson? | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
-Nelson or Horatio. -Nelson. | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
Nelson? | 0:03:59 | 0:04:00 | |
No, it was Rodney. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:01 | |
And finally, which given name is believed to have come into | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
fashion in recognition of the military leader who became | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
Baron of Plassey in 1762? | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
-Clive? -Don't know. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
Clive? | 0:04:13 | 0:04:14 | |
Correct, yes. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
Which decade saw the birth in Northampton of Anne Bradstreet, | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
who became one of the first women settlers to write poetry in | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
the American colonies? | 0:04:23 | 0:04:25 | |
The same decade also saw the death of Shakespeare | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
and the publication of the King James Bible. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
16...00s. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
No. I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
1610s. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:39 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
Right, Balliol College, your bonuses this time are on a shared term. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:49 | |
Coined in 1930 for an indefinable element that sets something | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
or someone apart, what term is also a colloquial expression referring | 0:04:53 | 0:04:57 | |
to those aspects of military life that have no civilian equivalent? | 0:04:57 | 0:05:02 | |
Something that sets someone apart... | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
-Corps d'esprit? -Esprit de corps. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
Esprit de corps? | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
No, it's X factor. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:12 | |
What letter precedes "factor" when meaning | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
a measure of the quality of performance of | 0:05:15 | 0:05:17 | |
a resonant system, indicating its ability to produce | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
a large output at the resonant frequency? | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
Q. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:23 | |
Correct. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:24 | |
What letter precedes "factor" in the quantity used in the calculation of | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
the ratio of the angular momentum of a subatomic particle to its | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
magnetic moment in the presence of spin-orbit coupling? | 0:05:31 | 0:05:35 | |
-I'm not sure. -Should we go J? | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
We'll go for the J factor. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:44 | |
No, it's G. Ten points for this. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
Give two terms as soon as your name is called. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
When describing points on an orbit around a celestial body, the | 0:05:50 | 0:05:54 | |
terms "perihelion" and "aphelion" are used when the body is the sun. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:58 | |
What two terms are used when the body is the...? | 0:05:58 | 0:06:01 | |
Periapsis and apoapsis. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:03 | |
No. I'm afraid you lose five points. ..when the body is the earth? | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
Perigee and apogee. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:10 | |
Correct. Here are your bonuses. APPLAUSE | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
They're on artistic depictions of hell. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:14 | |
What modern name is given to the triptych by Hieronymus Bosch | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
depicting the Garden of Eden, | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
scenes of orgiastic fantasy and the torment of the damned in hell? | 0:06:19 | 0:06:24 | |
It's Garden Of Earthly Delights. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
Garden Of Earthly Delights? | 0:06:26 | 0:06:28 | |
Correct. Inspired by Dante, which French sculptor created | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
The Gates Of Hell, | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
a monumental work he failed to complete before his death in 1917? | 0:06:33 | 0:06:37 | |
-It is Rodin. -It is. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:39 | |
Rodin. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:40 | |
Correct. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:41 | |
Which French printmaker's works include wood-engraved | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
illustrations for an 1861 edition of Dante's Inferno? | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
Dore. Was that Dore? Dore. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:06:50 | 0:06:51 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
A quasi-Latinism based on the Latin for "when" | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
and an Anglicisation of the French for "what shall I say of it?" are | 0:06:56 | 0:07:01 | |
suggestions for the derivation of what word, | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
meaning "a perplexing situation or dilemma"? | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
Quandary. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:08 | |
Quandary is correct, yes. APPLAUSE | 0:07:08 | 0:07:11 | |
Your bonuses this time, Wolfson, are on geography. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
In each case, name the parallel of latitude that passes through | 0:07:16 | 0:07:20 | |
or close to the following locations. All three parallels end with a zero. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:25 | |
Firstly, Houston, Texas, Cairo, Egypt, | 0:07:25 | 0:07:28 | |
Multan in Pakistan and Lhasa in Tibet. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:32 | |
-Is it 30? -30 or 40. -I would say 30. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:37 | |
-30? -North or south? -Degrees north. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
Correct, yes. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
Secondly, the Great Sandy Desert, the Great Barrier Reef, | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
the Atacama Desert and the northern part of the Namib Desert. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:49 | |
-10 degrees south? -Do you think it's further than that? -I don't know. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:53 | |
20 or 10? | 0:07:55 | 0:07:56 | |
-20? -20? | 0:07:56 | 0:07:57 | |
20 south? | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
Correct. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:00 | |
And finally, Guadalajara in Mexico, Santiago de Cuba, | 0:08:00 | 0:08:05 | |
Puri in eastern India and Chiang Rai in Thailand. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:09 | |
-10 north, maybe? -Are you sure? | 0:08:09 | 0:08:10 | |
-No, I think it's 10 north. -OK. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
10 north? | 0:08:13 | 0:08:14 | |
No, it's 20 degrees north. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
We're going to take a picture round. For your picture starter, | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
you'll see a map of Europe. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
For ten points, I simply want you to identify | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
the major city that's marked on it. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
Geneva? | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
Nope. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:31 | |
Basel. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:33 | |
Basel is correct, yes. APPLAUSE | 0:08:33 | 0:08:34 | |
Basel's position on the River Rhine, as you know, makes it the | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
so-called "Port of Switzerland", the country's only cargo port. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
For your picture bonuses, you're going to see the locations | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
of three more inland commercial ports. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
Five points for each city you can identify. Firstly for five... | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
-That's Belgium, isn't it? -Yeah, that's Belgium. -OK. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
Inland ports? Liege? | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
Liege? | 0:09:06 | 0:09:07 | |
Liege is correct. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:08 | |
Secondly, this city, the world's largest inland port. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
That's Lubeck. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:19 | |
That's on the coast. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
Hamburg? Dortmund... | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
Hannover, Stuttgart... | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
Hannover. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
No, it's Duisburg. And finally... | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
Seville. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:31 | |
Seville. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
The Meursault Investigation | 0:09:36 | 0:09:37 | |
by the Algerian author Kamel Daoud | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
won the Goncourt First Novel Prize in 2015. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
It imagines the story of the murder victim on the beach... | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
The Stranger by Albert Camus. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:48 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
Right, your bonuses this time are on the film director | 0:09:53 | 0:09:56 | |
Jane Campion, Balliol. | 0:09:56 | 0:09:58 | |
Jane Campion won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
for which 1993 film, set mainly in New Zealand? | 0:10:01 | 0:10:06 | |
Could be Heavenly Creatures. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:07 | |
Heavenly Creatures. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:09 | |
No, it was The Piano. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
Starring Nicole Kidman as Isabel Archer, which 1996 film, directed | 0:10:11 | 0:10:16 | |
by Campion, is an adaptation of a novel by Henry James? | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
The Portrait Of A Lady. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
Correct. The romance between John Keats and Fanny Brawne | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
is the subject of which 2009 film directed by Campion? | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
Bright Star. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
Name two of the three domains in the classification of living | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
things proposed in 19... | 0:10:35 | 0:10:37 | |
Archea and...eukaryote. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
Very good. Well done, yes. APPLAUSE | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
..proposed by the US microbiologist Carl Woese, based on RNA analysis. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:49 | |
So you get the set of bonuses. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:51 | |
They are on Europe in the early 11th century, Wolfson. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:55 | |
The Byzantine emperor Basil II is noted for his conquest of | 0:10:55 | 0:10:59 | |
which Balkan empire? | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
It shares its name with a present- day country of south-eastern Europe. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:06 | |
Is it the Croatian Empire? | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
-Croatian? -Or Transylvania. -Transylvania's not a country. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:12 | |
I'd say maybe Croatia, maybe. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
Croatia. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:15 | |
Bulgaria. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:17 | |
Secondly, in the early 11th century, Sancho the Great established | 0:11:17 | 0:11:20 | |
hegemony over most of Christian Spain. Which kingdom did he rule? | 0:11:20 | 0:11:25 | |
It shares its name with the present-day capital of Navarre. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
-Navarre? Erm... Aragon. -Yeah? | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
Aragon. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:32 | |
No, it's Pamplona. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:33 | |
Along with Malcolm of Scotland, Owen the Bald defeated the English | 0:11:33 | 0:11:38 | |
at Carham in 1016. Which kingdom did he rule? | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
Its name refers to a Scottish river. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
-The...Clyde? -Clyde? -Clyde? | 0:11:43 | 0:11:46 | |
Clyde? | 0:11:46 | 0:11:48 | |
No, it's Strathclyde. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:49 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:50 | |
The name of what generic type of songbird results if the past | 0:11:50 | 0:11:55 | |
tense of the verb "do" is pronounced with its consonants unvoiced? | 0:11:55 | 0:11:59 | |
Tit. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:04 | |
Tit is correct, yes. APPLAUSE | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
You get a set of bonuses on the collection of the Museum of | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
Modern Art in New York, Balliol. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
Man With A Guitar and Landscape At La Ciotat | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
are early-20th-century works by which French artist? | 0:12:15 | 0:12:19 | |
-Could be Monet. -Cezanne? -Cezanne sounds better to me. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:25 | |
Cezanne. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
No, they're by Braque. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:28 | |
The Dream and The Sleeping Gypsy are works by which French artist, | 0:12:28 | 0:12:32 | |
born in 1844? | 0:12:32 | 0:12:34 | |
Henri Rousseau. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:35 | |
Correct. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:36 | |
The Dance and Landscape At Collioure are works by which artist, | 0:12:36 | 0:12:40 | |
who died at Nice in 1954? | 0:12:40 | 0:12:42 | |
Matisse. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:43 | |
Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
In which novel of 1903 | 0:12:45 | 0:12:47 | |
does the widowed Mrs Newsome hear | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
troubling rumours of her son Chadwick's love...? | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
The Age Of Innocence? | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
No. You lose five points. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:55 | |
..her son Chadwick's love life in Paris and sends her fiance, | 0:12:55 | 0:12:59 | |
Lambert Strether, to persuade him to return to America? | 0:12:59 | 0:13:03 | |
It shares its title with a double portrait | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
by Hans Holbein the Younger. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:07 | |
The Ambassadors? | 0:13:09 | 0:13:10 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:13:10 | 0:13:12 | |
These bonuses, Wolfson, are on medicine. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
What is the six-letter medical term for | 0:13:17 | 0:13:20 | |
a network of nerves or blood vessels? | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
-Ganglia? -Erm... -Six letters? | 0:13:23 | 0:13:27 | |
-Bundle? -Bundle, yeah. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
Bundle? | 0:13:33 | 0:13:34 | |
No, it's plexus. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:35 | |
Secondly, what name is given to the plexus of nerves that runs | 0:13:35 | 0:13:39 | |
from the spine through the axillas? It innervates the arms and hands. | 0:13:39 | 0:13:43 | |
Solar? | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
Solar? | 0:13:46 | 0:13:48 | |
No, it's the brachial plexus. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:50 | |
Located in the ventricles of the brain, | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
which plexuses of blood vessels secrete cerebrospinal fluid? | 0:13:52 | 0:13:56 | |
Is it, like, the interior plexus? | 0:13:59 | 0:14:02 | |
-Ulterior? -Yeah, go for it. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
Ulterior plexus? | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
No, they're choroid plexuses. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:07 | |
Right, we're going to take a music round now. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:13 | |
Ten points if you can identify the Austrian composer. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
MUSIC PLAYS | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
# ..Kummerling... # | 0:14:22 | 0:14:23 | |
Schubert? | 0:14:23 | 0:14:24 | |
Schubert is right. His Prometheus. APPLAUSE | 0:14:24 | 0:14:26 | |
That was one of many musical settings of poems by Goethe. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:33 | |
Your music bonuses are three more classical pieces inspired by Goethe. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:38 | |
In each case, for the five points, I want you to identify the composer. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
Firstly for five, this German composer. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
MUSIC PLAYS | 0:14:44 | 0:14:46 | |
Beethoven? | 0:14:56 | 0:14:57 | |
Beethoven? | 0:14:58 | 0:15:00 | |
No, that was Mendelssohn, | 0:15:00 | 0:15:01 | |
inspired by Goethe's poem Calm Sea And Prosperous Voyage. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:05 | |
Secondly, the French composer of this opera. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
MUSIC PLAYS | 0:15:08 | 0:15:11 | |
I would say Bizet. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:14 | |
Who knows? Is it, er... Goethe was Faust, right? So Gounod? | 0:15:15 | 0:15:21 | |
Gounod? | 0:15:21 | 0:15:22 | |
No, it's Massenet, | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
his Werther from Goethe's The Sorrows Of Young Werther. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
And finally, another French composer. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
MUSIC PLAYS | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
This is, erm... The Sorcerer's Apprentice, | 0:15:33 | 0:15:37 | |
which is by whom? It's by, er... | 0:15:37 | 0:15:39 | |
Saint-Saens? | 0:15:46 | 0:15:47 | |
-Canet or something. I don't know. -Go for that. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
Canet. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:55 | |
No, it was Dukas. You did get the right piece, though, | 0:15:55 | 0:15:57 | |
it was The Sorcerer's Apprentice. | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
Right, ten points for this. "An extraordinary affair. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
"I gave them their orders, and they wanted to stay and discuss them." | 0:16:02 | 0:16:06 | |
Who said that after his first...? | 0:16:06 | 0:16:08 | |
George Orwell? | 0:16:08 | 0:16:09 | |
No. You lose five points. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:11 | |
Who said that after his first Cabinet meeting as Prime Minister? | 0:16:11 | 0:16:14 | |
His time in office saw Catholic emancipation in 1829. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:18 | |
The Duke of Wellington? | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:16:21 | 0:16:23 | |
Wolfson, these bonuses are on sorrow in Shakespeare. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:29 | |
In each case, name the stage work in which the following appear. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:33 | |
"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
"Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break." | 0:16:36 | 0:16:40 | |
Is that Ophelia? | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
The character who says it, or the work? | 0:16:44 | 0:16:46 | |
-We have to say the play... -Hamlet, maybe? | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
Hamlet? | 0:16:48 | 0:16:49 | |
No, it's Malcolm in Macbeth. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
I'm just looking for the name of the work. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
"This grief is crown'd with consolation. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
"Your old smock brings forth a new petticoat: | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
"and, indeed, the tears live in an onion | 0:16:59 | 0:17:02 | |
"that should water this sorrow." | 0:17:02 | 0:17:04 | |
-Richard II, maybe? -I was going to say King Lear. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
OK, we'll say King Lear, then. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:09 | |
King Lear? | 0:17:09 | 0:17:10 | |
No, it's Antony And Cleopatra. Enobarbus. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
And finally, "A countenance more in sorrow than in anger." | 0:17:13 | 0:17:17 | |
-Is that Hamlet? -Maybe Hamlet. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
Hamlet? | 0:17:22 | 0:17:23 | |
It is Hamlet. Horatio's description of the ghost. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:25 | |
APPLAUSE Right, ten points for this. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
"A perennial gale | 0:17:27 | 0:17:28 | |
"of creative destruction..." | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
Schumpeter? | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
No. You lose five points. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
You get the rest of it, Balliol. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:39 | |
"A perennial gale of creative destruction" - these words by the | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter refer to what broad economic system? | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
Capitalism. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:51 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
Your bonuses are on a shared surname, Balliol. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:58 | |
Taking On The World, Race Against Time and Full Circle are accounts | 0:17:58 | 0:18:03 | |
by which record-breaking English sailor of her voyages and races? | 0:18:03 | 0:18:07 | |
-Ellen MacArthur? -Yeah. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
MacArthur. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:11 | |
Ellen MacArthur is correct. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:13 | |
Widely used to extract gold from ores, | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
the MacArthur-Forrest process uses which extremely poisonous | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
compound, after which it's more commonly named? | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
-Mercury something? -Cyanide? | 0:18:24 | 0:18:27 | |
-Cyanide. -Correct. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:31 | |
From 1945, the US general Douglas MacArthur headed the Allied | 0:18:31 | 0:18:35 | |
occupation administration of which country, introducing...? | 0:18:35 | 0:18:38 | |
Japan. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:39 | |
That's correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
What short word links a heraldic beast with horns and tusks, | 0:18:43 | 0:18:47 | |
an Ivy League university and the inventor of the compact | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
cylinder pin-tumbler lock? | 0:18:50 | 0:18:52 | |
Yale? | 0:18:54 | 0:18:55 | |
Yale is right. APPLAUSE | 0:18:55 | 0:18:57 | |
Get these bonuses, you'll take the lead. They're on civil wars. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
Firstly, in which Mediterranean country did US-backed | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
government forces defeat communist insurgents in 1949? | 0:19:05 | 0:19:09 | |
Greece. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:10 | |
The war had begun shortly after the Axis occupation ended in 1944. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
Greece. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:14 | |
Correct. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:15 | |
La Violencia is the name given to the years of civil war in | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
which South American country, | 0:19:18 | 0:19:19 | |
sparked by the assassination of the liberal leader Gaitan in 1948? | 0:19:19 | 0:19:24 | |
That's a very Colombian name. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:25 | |
Colombia. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:26 | |
Correct. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:27 | |
In which African country did civil war break out in 1967, | 0:19:27 | 0:19:31 | |
shortly after the secession of the eastern region states under | 0:19:31 | 0:19:35 | |
the name of the Republic of Biafra? | 0:19:35 | 0:19:36 | |
Nigeria. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:38 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:19:38 | 0:19:39 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
Dating to the early 20th century, | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
the Aarne-Thompson system classifies what general category of narrative? | 0:19:45 | 0:19:50 | |
The Austrian-born psychologist Bruno Bettel... | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
Myths? | 0:19:53 | 0:19:54 | |
No, I don't think so. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:56 | |
The Austrian-born psychologist Bruno Bettelheim explored its | 0:19:56 | 0:19:59 | |
meaning and significance in the 1976 work The Uses of Enchantment. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:04 | |
Fairy tales. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:05 | |
Fairy tales or folk tales is correct, yes. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:07 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:20:07 | 0:20:09 | |
And you've lost five points, of course, Balliol. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:12 | |
So you're no longer in the lead. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
OK, Wolfson, football in the 19th century for your bonuses. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:19 | |
The Football League was formed in 1888 with 12 clubs. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:23 | |
Which Lancashire club were champions in the first two seasons? | 0:20:23 | 0:20:27 | |
-I don't know this. -Burnley? | 0:20:28 | 0:20:31 | |
I don't even know the geography. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
I don't know. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:34 | |
-Burnley? I don't know. -OK. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:35 | |
Nominate Chaudhri. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:36 | |
Burnley? | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
No, it's Preston North End. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:39 | |
Secondly, during the Football League's first decade, | 0:20:39 | 0:20:42 | |
two clubs won the championship three times. Name either one. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:46 | |
In the 2015/2016 season, both played in the Premier League. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:51 | |
-No idea. -Newcastle and... | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
Arsenal? | 0:21:00 | 0:21:02 | |
-Nominate Cosgrove. -Are you serious? | 0:21:02 | 0:21:04 | |
Newcastle and Arsenal? | 0:21:04 | 0:21:06 | |
No, it was Sunderland and Aston Villa. I only needed one of them. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
-Oh! -But you didn't get either. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
In 1893, Small Heath became the first champions of the | 0:21:11 | 0:21:15 | |
Second Division. By what name is the club now known? | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
It doesn't... | 0:21:21 | 0:21:22 | |
I don't know. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
Pick a random club. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:27 | |
Arsenal. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:28 | |
No, it's Birmingham City. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:30 | |
We're going to take a second picture round. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:32 | |
For your picture starter, you're going to see a painting. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:34 | |
Ten points if you can identify the artist. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
Er, Turner? | 0:21:39 | 0:21:41 | |
No. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
Caspar David Friedrich. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:44 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:21:44 | 0:21:46 | |
That painting uses the compositional device of the Ruckenfigur, | 0:21:48 | 0:21:52 | |
a foregrounded figure seen from behind contemplating | 0:21:52 | 0:21:55 | |
the view in front of them. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
Your picture bonuses are three more works that use that device. | 0:21:57 | 0:22:01 | |
In each case, I simply want you to identify the artist. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:04 | |
Firstly for five... | 0:22:04 | 0:22:06 | |
Munch. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:08 | |
That is Edvard Munch, Young Girl On A Jetty. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:10 | |
Secondly, this Italian artist. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:12 | |
Boccioni, maybe? | 0:22:17 | 0:22:18 | |
Boccioni? | 0:22:18 | 0:22:19 | |
Correct. And finally... | 0:22:19 | 0:22:21 | |
Magritte. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:24 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
Right, you've retaken the lead. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
So, we get another starter question now. Fingers on the buzzers. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
In the human genetic code, | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
how many distinct codon combinations is it possible to form, | 0:22:35 | 0:22:38 | |
each one consisting of a triplet of the four nucleotide bases? | 0:22:38 | 0:22:42 | |
24. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:46 | |
Anyone like to buzz from Wolfson? | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
61. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
No, it's 64. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:54 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:56 | |
What name denotes the form of theatre influenced by symbolism | 0:22:56 | 0:22:59 | |
and surrealism that was developed in the 1930s by the French dramatist, | 0:22:59 | 0:23:04 | |
poet and actor Anton...? | 0:23:04 | 0:23:06 | |
Absurd. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
No. You lose five points. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:09 | |
..dramatist, poet and actor Antonin Artaud? | 0:23:09 | 0:23:13 | |
Theatre of the Absurd? | 0:23:17 | 0:23:19 | |
No, it's Theatre of Cruelty. Ten points for this. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
Which of Snow White's seven dwarfs is known in Latin as Sternuens, | 0:23:21 | 0:23:27 | |
in Spanish as Mucoso | 0:23:27 | 0:23:29 | |
and in French as Atchoum? | 0:23:29 | 0:23:31 | |
Sneezy? | 0:23:33 | 0:23:34 | |
Yes! APPLAUSE | 0:23:34 | 0:23:36 | |
You could retake the lead if you get these bonuses, Wolfson. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:42 | |
They're on inorganic chemistry. | 0:23:42 | 0:23:44 | |
Which non-metal has more allotropic forms than any other element? | 0:23:44 | 0:23:49 | |
-Probably carbon. -Sulphur. -Carbon. -I would say sulphur. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
-Sulphur? -Or phosphorus. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:54 | |
-Well, chemists, tell me. What do you want? -Go sulphur. -OK, sulphur. | 0:23:54 | 0:24:00 | |
Sulphur? | 0:24:00 | 0:24:01 | |
Sulphur is correct. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:03 | |
What precise term is given to salts that contain the S2O32 minus ion? | 0:24:03 | 0:24:10 | |
-Sulphite? -It's a di-, it's two sulphurs, though. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:14 | |
Disulphite? | 0:24:14 | 0:24:15 | |
-Two sulphurs. -OK. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:19 | |
Nominate Cosgrove. Er, nominate Chaudhri. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
Disulphite? | 0:24:21 | 0:24:23 | |
No, they're thiosulphates. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:25 | |
And finally, in photographic processing, sodium thiosulphate | 0:24:25 | 0:24:29 | |
is used to remove unreduced silver from negatives and prints. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:33 | |
What is that process called? | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
It's reducing... I don't know. Finishing? | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
-It might be reducing. -Is it the iodine process? | 0:24:40 | 0:24:43 | |
-I don't think it involves iodine. -I would say finishing. | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
Finishing? | 0:24:46 | 0:24:47 | |
No, fixing. Three minutes to go. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:49 | |
Another starter question. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:50 | |
In which book of the New Testament do these words appear? | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
"He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
"and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
Revelation? | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
No. Anyone want to buzz from Balliol? | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
Romans. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:09 | |
No, it's Matthew. Ten points for this. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:11 | |
Born in Vienna in 1900, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
Physics in 1945 for his discovery of the exclusion principle? | 0:25:15 | 0:25:19 | |
Wolfgang Pauli. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:22 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:25:22 | 0:25:24 | |
Your bonuses are on Unesco World Heritage Sites in China. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:31 | |
In which province are both the temple and cemetery of | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
Confucius and Mount Tai, | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
one of the five sacred mountains in traditional China? | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
-I think that's, like... -Zhejiang? | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
-Zhejiang? I think it's, like, Henan or something. -I have no idea. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
Henan? | 0:25:46 | 0:25:47 | |
No, it's Shandong. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:49 | |
In which autonomous region, secondly, | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
is the site of Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan from 1274? | 0:25:51 | 0:25:55 | |
-Is it Tibet? -Shanghai or something? | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
-Name an autonomous region. -Oh, a Mongolian autonomous region? | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
-Inner Mongolia? -Yeah... | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
Inner Mongolia? | 0:26:04 | 0:26:05 | |
Correct. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:06 | |
In which province are the giant-panda sanctuaries | 0:26:06 | 0:26:09 | |
and the giant Buddha of Leshan? | 0:26:09 | 0:26:11 | |
Sichuan. | 0:26:11 | 0:26:12 | |
Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE | 0:26:12 | 0:26:15 | |
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
"as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal." | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
Which author wrote those words in a letter of December 1798 to | 0:26:21 | 0:26:25 | |
her sister Cassandra? | 0:26:25 | 0:26:27 | |
Austen? | 0:26:28 | 0:26:29 | |
Jane Austen is right. APPLAUSE | 0:26:29 | 0:26:31 | |
Your bonuses this time, Wolfson, are on insects. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:36 | |
Insects such as mayflies and grasshoppers differ from beetles | 0:26:36 | 0:26:39 | |
and ants in that their metamorphosis does not include which stage? | 0:26:39 | 0:26:43 | |
Larva? Do they not have larvae? | 0:26:43 | 0:26:45 | |
-They have nymphs. -Do they have pupae? | 0:26:45 | 0:26:49 | |
-I don't think they have larvae. -No larvae. OK. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
-Come on. -Larvae? | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
No, it's the pupal stage. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:55 | |
From the Latin meaning "form" or "likeness", | 0:26:55 | 0:26:57 | |
what general term is used to indicate | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
a stage in the development of an insect between two moults? | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
An example is the nymph or larval stage. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:05 | |
-Instar, I think. -OK. Nominate Chaudhri. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:07 | |
Instar? | 0:27:07 | 0:27:08 | |
Correct. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:10 | |
What term is commonly applied to the nymph stage in aquatic | 0:27:10 | 0:27:12 | |
species such as dragonflies? | 0:27:12 | 0:27:14 | |
It's also used for a water nymph in Greek mythology. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
Is it hydra? | 0:27:17 | 0:27:19 | |
-Naiad? -Yeah, I think that's it. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:21 | |
Nominate Yang. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:22 | |
Er, naiad? | 0:27:22 | 0:27:24 | |
Naiad is correct. APPLAUSE | 0:27:24 | 0:27:26 | |
Ten points for this starter question. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:28 | |
Written while its author was studying in London, | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
the 1938 anthropological work Facing Mount Kenya... | 0:27:30 | 0:27:34 | |
Jomo Kenyatta. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:35 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:27:35 | 0:27:36 | |
You get a set of bonuses this time on place names, Balliol. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
Which republic consists of half of one of the Lesser Sunda | 0:27:39 | 0:27:42 | |
Islands and has a name that literally means "east east"? | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
Timor-Leste. East Timor. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:47 | |
Correct. Which country is sometimes said to derive its name from | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
a word meaning "west"? | 0:27:50 | 0:27:51 | |
It formally became a republic on Easter Monday in 1949. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:55 | |
Kiribas. | 0:27:57 | 0:27:58 | |
No, it's Ireland or Eire. | 0:27:58 | 0:28:00 | |
The Arabic name of which North African country...? | 0:28:00 | 0:28:02 | |
GONG And at the gong... | 0:28:02 | 0:28:04 | |
APPLAUSE ..Balliol College, Oxford have 135, | 0:28:04 | 0:28:07 | |
but Wolfson College, Cambridge have 165. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:09 | |
So you're going to have to come back and win twice now to go through, | 0:28:11 | 0:28:15 | |
Balliol, but, you know, you're a pretty strong team and you | 0:28:15 | 0:28:18 | |
were in the lead for much of that match. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:20 | |
Wolfson, many congratulations. | 0:28:20 | 0:28:22 | |
Imagine knowing Sneezy! How terribly useful! | 0:28:22 | 0:28:25 | |
I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:29 | |
But until then, it is goodbye from Balliol College, Oxford... | 0:28:29 | 0:28:32 | |
-ALL: -Goodbye. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:33 | |
..from Wolfson College, Cambridge... | 0:28:33 | 0:28:35 | |
-ALL: -Goodbye. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:36 | |
..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye. | 0:28:36 | 0:28:38 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:28:38 | 0:28:40 |