0:00:16 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:25University Challenge. Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:26 > 0:00:31Hello. Last time, we saw Wolfson College, Cambridge
0:00:31 > 0:00:33win the first of the two quarterfinal victories
0:00:33 > 0:00:37our disobliging rules demand if a team is to take
0:00:37 > 0:00:40one of the four places in the semifinal stage
0:00:40 > 0:00:41of this competition.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Tonight's teams both aim to do the same.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46Now, the team from the University of Bristol arrived here
0:00:46 > 0:00:51by beating Sheffield University in round one by 210 points to 130
0:00:51 > 0:00:54and followed it with an even more convincing performance
0:00:54 > 0:00:58in round two, defeating Oriel College, Oxford
0:00:58 > 0:01:00by 265 points to 70.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Making their third appearance, let's meet the Bristol team again.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Hi, I'm Joe Rolleston.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10I'm from Tamworth in Staffordshire and I'm training to teach history.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Hi, I'm Claire Jackson, I'm from Carshalton in south-west London
0:01:12 > 0:01:15and I'm studying for an MSci in palaeontology and evolution.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17And this is their captain.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Hi, I'm Alice Clarke, I'm from Oxford and I study medicine.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23Hi, I'm Michael Tomsett. I'm from Hinckley in Leicestershire
0:01:23 > 0:01:25and I'm doing a PhD in organic chemistry.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28APPLAUSE
0:01:28 > 0:01:32The team from Corpus Christi College, Oxford
0:01:32 > 0:01:36beat the reigning series champions, Peterhouse, Cambridge
0:01:36 > 0:01:39by 175 points to 150 in their second round match
0:01:39 > 0:01:44and that was after having defeated another Cambridge college, Jesus,
0:01:44 > 0:01:48in their first-round match with the score of 200 to 175.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Let's meet the Corpus team making their third appearance.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54Hello, I'm Tom Fleet. I'm from Pendoggett in Cornwall
0:01:54 > 0:01:56and I study English.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Hi, I'm Emma Johnson, I'm from north London and I study medicine.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01- And this is their captain. - Hi, I'm Nikhil Venkatesh.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05I'm from Derby and I study philosophy, politics and economics.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Hi, I'm Adam Wright from Winnersh in Berkshire
0:02:07 > 0:02:10and I'm studying for a DPhil in physics.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12APPLAUSE
0:02:14 > 0:02:17OK, let's just crack on with it. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22Which system of Hindu philosophy teaches the suppression
0:02:22 > 0:02:27of all activity of body, mind and will in order that the self
0:02:27 > 0:02:31may realise its distinction from them and attain liberation?
0:02:31 > 0:02:34It's name comes from the Sanskrit for yoking.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38- Yoga.- Yoga's correct, yes.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42APPLAUSE
0:02:42 > 0:02:44You looked astonished the answer could be so easy.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48Your bonuses are on Shakespeare and World War I.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Firstly, which capital city links the setting
0:02:51 > 0:02:53of Shakespeare's Measure For Measure
0:02:53 > 0:02:57with the first declaration of war on July the 28th 1914?
0:02:57 > 0:02:59- Vienna.- Correct.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Which French city links a battle of April 1917
0:03:02 > 0:03:06with Polonius' hiding place in Act III of Hamlet?
0:03:07 > 0:03:11- Can't remember.- He was hiding in, like, the cupboard, right,
0:03:11 > 0:03:13the closet or something, no?
0:03:13 > 0:03:16So, it's...
0:03:16 > 0:03:20We don't know. Battles, any First World War battles?
0:03:20 > 0:03:22Erm... Verdun?
0:03:22 > 0:03:24No, he was hiding behind the arras.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28And, finally, which city links a character in As You Like It
0:03:28 > 0:03:34with a battle of August 1918, known as the Black Day of the German Army?
0:03:34 > 0:03:36- Battle of the Bulge?- As You Like It.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39No, that's the Second World War, isn't it?
0:03:39 > 0:03:41As You Like It, who's in As You Like It? Come on.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Rosalind - that's not a city.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Rosalind.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Rosalind? Have you been there?!
0:03:48 > 0:03:50No, it's Amiens. Ten points for this.
0:03:50 > 0:03:55During which century were Conrad II, Henry III and Henry IV
0:03:55 > 0:03:58successive rulers of the Holy Roman Empire?
0:03:58 > 0:04:00The latter's reign was marked
0:04:00 > 0:04:02by the Investiture Controversy with the papacy.
0:04:06 > 0:04:0715th century?
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Nope.
0:04:09 > 0:04:1112th century.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14No, it's the 11th century.
0:04:14 > 0:04:15Right, ten points for this.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18What gigantic mythical creature gives its name
0:04:18 > 0:04:21to the largest methane sea on Saturn's moon Titan?
0:04:21 > 0:04:25Of Norwegian origin, its name also appears...
0:04:25 > 0:04:27- Kraken.- Correct.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30APPLAUSE
0:04:30 > 0:04:33These bonuses, Bristol, are on pirates.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Firstly for five points,
0:04:35 > 0:04:38in the titles of recent non-fiction works by Susan Ronald,
0:04:38 > 0:04:43which monarch is the Pirate Queen and the Heretic Queen?
0:04:43 > 0:04:47The words "Dawn of Empire" appear in one subtitle.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51- Elizabeth I, it must be.- Right.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53- Elizabeth I?- Correct.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57Treated favourably by Elizabeth during a visit to London in 1593,
0:04:57 > 0:05:01Grainne O'Malley was the head of a powerful family in County Mayo.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04She's sometimes described as "the pirate queen"
0:05:04 > 0:05:07of which historical province of Ireland?
0:05:07 > 0:05:11THEY CONFER
0:05:14 > 0:05:18THEY CONFER
0:05:18 > 0:05:21I've not heard of it, take a guess.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23- Ulster?- No, it's Connaught.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26And Elizabeth is said to have pardoned Lady Killigrew
0:05:26 > 0:05:31after she was implicated in acts of piracy in around 1580.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35Lady Killigrew was a resident of Pendennis Castle in which county?
0:05:36 > 0:05:38That sounds Cornish.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41- Yeah.- Cornwall?- Correct.
0:05:41 > 0:05:42APPLAUSE
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Ten points for this.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47What adjective derives from the name of a popular Italian foodstuff
0:05:47 > 0:05:51and denotes the verse form popularised in the 16th century...
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Macaroni.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56No, I can't accept that.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59..verse form popularised in the 16th century
0:05:59 > 0:06:02by the dissolute Benedictine monk Teofilo Folengo,
0:06:02 > 0:06:06which combined Italian vernacular with absurd Latin endings?
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Pasta?
0:06:12 > 0:06:15No, it's macaronic. That's the name of the verse form.
0:06:15 > 0:06:16Right, ten points for this.
0:06:16 > 0:06:21For several decades, Porfirio Diaz was the president of which country?
0:06:21 > 0:06:23- Mexico.- Mexico is correct.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26APPLAUSE
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Your bonuses are on pairs of words that are anagrams of each other.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Give both words in each case, please.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Firstly, a piece of timber or stone supporting the masonry
0:06:35 > 0:06:39above a fireplace and an adjective meaning "relating to the mind"?
0:06:39 > 0:06:43- Mantel and mental?- Mantel and mental. Mantel and mental.- Correct.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Secondly, a grievance submitted to a court of law
0:06:45 > 0:06:47for the purpose of obtaining redress
0:06:47 > 0:06:50and an adjective meaning flexible or supple.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55- Pliant and plaint?- Oh, I like that.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57- Pliant and plaint.- Correct.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00And, finally, a person responsible for leading the singing
0:07:00 > 0:07:04in a church and a container made of light cardboard or plastic?
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Crate and...
0:07:09 > 0:07:11I don't know the singing one.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14- Erm...- Case.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Crate and...
0:07:16 > 0:07:18Creat?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20Crate and creat?
0:07:20 > 0:07:22No, it's cantor and carton.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Right, we're going to take a picture round.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28For your picture starter, I simply want you
0:07:28 > 0:07:31to name the form given to this cross.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37- Maltese.- It is Maltese, that's right.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39APPLAUSE
0:07:41 > 0:07:44For your picture bonuses, three more symbols,
0:07:44 > 0:07:46each of them a specific variant of the cross.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48I want the name in each case. Firstly...
0:07:50 > 0:07:53- Is it just orthodox?- Has it got a special name?- I don't know.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55I wouldn't know anything else for it.
0:07:55 > 0:08:00- Orthodox.- It is orthodox, yes, or Byzantine. Secondly...
0:08:02 > 0:08:05THEY CONFER
0:08:10 > 0:08:13- St John? - Yeah, it's Order of St John.
0:08:13 > 0:08:18- Order of St John?- No, it's the Jerusalem or Crusader's cross.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20And, finally, this one.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23THEY CONFER
0:08:23 > 0:08:28- Is that a Russian one?- It looks faintly Russian. I don't know.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31I was guessing Gnostic.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34- Gnostic.- That's a papal cross.
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Ten points for this.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37What three-word expression did Jonathan Swift
0:08:37 > 0:08:41coin in his satire The Battle of the Books to describe
0:08:41 > 0:08:44what he called the two noblest things
0:08:44 > 0:08:47that honey and beeswax were said to provide for mankind?
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Today, it's often used in an ironic sense...
0:08:52 > 0:08:53Sweetness and light?
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Yes. APPLAUSE
0:08:57 > 0:09:00These bonuses are on the League of Nations, Corpus Christi.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03In the 1920s, the League of Nations intervened
0:09:03 > 0:09:06in a dispute over the self-determination
0:09:06 > 0:09:09of the Aland Islands, decreeing they should remain
0:09:09 > 0:09:11an autonomous territory of which country?
0:09:11 > 0:09:13- Finland.- Yeah?- Finland.
0:09:13 > 0:09:14- Finland.- Correct.
0:09:14 > 0:09:18In 1923, the Council of the League of Nations recommended fixing
0:09:18 > 0:09:22the north-eastern border of Poland near a demarcation line
0:09:22 > 0:09:25known as the Foch Line in a dispute
0:09:25 > 0:09:29over the control of which modern-day capital city?
0:09:29 > 0:09:31- Vilnius.- Yeah?
0:09:31 > 0:09:32- Vilnius.- Correct.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35With the support of Brazil in the early 1930s,
0:09:35 > 0:09:38the League of Nations resolved a dispute with the result
0:09:38 > 0:09:42that the Amazon port of Leticia was restored to which country?
0:09:46 > 0:09:49- Uruguay? I don't know, just shoot. - Uruguay?
0:09:49 > 0:09:50No, it's Colombia.
0:09:50 > 0:09:51Another starter question.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54In physiology, which chamber of the heart receives blood
0:09:54 > 0:09:58from the inferior and superior venae cavae?
0:09:59 > 0:10:01- Right atrium.- Correct.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03APPLAUSE Right, your bonuses
0:10:03 > 0:10:04are on rain in the Bible.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07In each case, identify the book of the Old Testament
0:10:07 > 0:10:09in which the following words appear.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12"I will cause it to rain upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights
0:10:12 > 0:10:14"and every living substance that I have made
0:10:14 > 0:10:17"will I destroy off the face of the earth."
0:10:17 > 0:10:19If it's Noah, it's Genesis.
0:10:19 > 0:10:20It's Noah so, yeah, yes.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22- Genesis.- Correct.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25"Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away,
0:10:25 > 0:10:29"for, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone."
0:10:29 > 0:10:34- Song of Solomon, that kind of thing? The Song of Solomon.- Yeah? Anything?
0:10:34 > 0:10:36- The Song of Solomon?- Correct.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39"Hath the rain a father or who hath begotten the drops of dew?"
0:10:39 > 0:10:43- Is it Job?- Yeah, it could be. Yeah?
0:10:43 > 0:10:45- Yeah, go for it.- Job?- Job is right.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48APPLAUSE
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Ten points for this starter question.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52"Our sympathy for her is like our sympathy for a bird
0:10:52 > 0:10:55"the cat has brought in - it flutters and it will die."
0:10:55 > 0:10:58These words of AS Byatt refer to the title character
0:10:58 > 0:11:01of which novel of 1857?
0:11:01 > 0:11:05It tells of the love affairs and suicide of a doctor's wife...
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10Nope, you lose five points.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12..doctor's wife in Normandy?
0:11:13 > 0:11:16- Madame Bovary? - It is Madame Bovary, yes.
0:11:16 > 0:11:20APPLAUSE
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Your bonuses are on infectious diseases, Corpus Christi.
0:11:23 > 0:11:28Lymphatic filariasis causes abnormal enlargement of the limbs.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30What is its common single word name?
0:11:31 > 0:11:37- Is it elephantitis?- Could be. I don't know this, yeah.- Elephantitis?
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Yes, I'll accept. Elephantiasis, it's more commonly known as.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44Secondly, for five points, what is the common name
0:11:44 > 0:11:47of the inflammatory infection caused by tinea species?
0:11:49 > 0:11:54- Tinea, erm... - Inflammatory, mumps... No.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Er, I've got no idea. I don't know.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58Bronchitis?
0:11:58 > 0:12:00No, it's ringworm of the scalp.
0:12:00 > 0:12:05And, finally, which virus causes human chickenpox?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07That's varicella.
0:12:07 > 0:12:08Varicella.
0:12:08 > 0:12:09Varicella is correct.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:12:11 > 0:12:12"If it formed the one landscape
0:12:12 > 0:12:17"that we, the inconstant ones, are consistently homesick for,
0:12:17 > 0:12:20"this is chiefly because it dissolves in water."
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Taken from a poem by WH Auden,
0:12:23 > 0:12:26those words describe which sedimentary rock?
0:12:27 > 0:12:30- Limestone.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:12:31 > 0:12:37These bonuses are on unnamed characters in literature.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40In which novella of 1937 by John Steinbeck
0:12:40 > 0:12:44is one of the central characters known only as Curley's Wife?
0:12:45 > 0:12:47- Of Mice And Men.- Of Mice And Men.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Of Mice And Men is correct.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53In which short story by Franz Kafka are the four main characters
0:12:53 > 0:12:55known only as the Officer, the Condemned,
0:12:55 > 0:12:57the Soldier and the Explorer?
0:12:57 > 0:13:02It's not The Trial because Josef K is in the Trial, so it's The Castle.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06The Trial has Josef K in it.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Yeah, but it's not The Castle cos that's K as well.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Is it?
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Erm, and it's not Amerika.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13It's not The Trial.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18- Well, go with The Trial.- Yeah.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20- The Trial.- No, it's not.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22It's In The Penal Colony.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25And, finally, the two main characters
0:13:25 > 0:13:28are referred to simply as the Man and the Boy
0:13:28 > 0:13:32in which post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy?
0:13:32 > 0:13:33- The Road.- Correct.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35APPLAUSE We're going to take a music round.
0:13:35 > 0:13:36For your music starter,
0:13:36 > 0:13:39you'll hear an excerpt from an opera by a German composer.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46OPERATIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:13:57 > 0:14:03- Richard Strauss?- No. You can hear a little more, Corpus.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06OPERATIC MUSIC CONTINUES
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Beethoven?
0:14:18 > 0:14:20No, it's Engelbert Humperdinck.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22It's the Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26So, music bonuses in a moment or two. Ten points for this.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30Dresden is the capital of which German federal state?
0:14:31 > 0:14:33- Saxony.- Saxony is correct.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35APPLAUSE
0:14:36 > 0:14:40So, you get the music bonuses.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44You'll recall that we heard Hansel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48It is a trouser role or breeches role.
0:14:48 > 0:14:53That is a male character written to be played by a woman en travesti.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Your music bonuses are three more trouser roles in opera.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59Five points if you can give me the composer of the work.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Firstly for five, this German composer.
0:15:01 > 0:15:05OPERATIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:11 > 0:15:13THEY CONFER
0:15:16 > 0:15:19It sounds Beethoven-y.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26THEY CONFER
0:15:27 > 0:15:28Beethoven.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30No, that was Richard Strauss.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33- Oh!- From Der Rosenkavalier.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Secondly, this Italian.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38OPERATIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:42 > 0:15:45THEY CONFER
0:15:50 > 0:15:53THEY CONFER
0:15:55 > 0:15:56Verdi?
0:15:56 > 0:15:59No, that's Bellini from I Capuleti e i Montecchi.
0:15:59 > 0:16:04And, finally, this German-born composer.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08OPERATIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:15 > 0:16:18THEY CONFER
0:16:20 > 0:16:22THEY CONFER
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Handel?
0:16:27 > 0:16:29It is Handel, yes. APPLAUSE
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Right, ten points for this.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35Published in 1980, Housekeeping was the first novel...
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Marilynne Robinson?
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Yes. APPLAUSE
0:16:44 > 0:16:48Three questions on European royalty for your bonuses, Corpus Christi.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Who became the King of the Netherlands in 2013
0:16:50 > 0:16:53on the abdication of his mother Queen Beatrix?
0:16:53 > 0:16:55THEY CONFER
0:16:57 > 0:16:59- Willem?- It's Willem-Alexander.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01I can't accept that.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04Secondly for five points, give the name and regnal number
0:17:04 > 0:17:07of the king of the Belgians who abdicated in 2013,
0:17:07 > 0:17:11passing the throne to his son Crown Prince Philippe?
0:17:13 > 0:17:16I don't know, no idea.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18There could have been a previous Philippe.
0:17:18 > 0:17:19Leopold IV?
0:17:19 > 0:17:21No, it was Albert II.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25And, finally, who acceded to the Spanish throne
0:17:25 > 0:17:27on the abdication of his father Juan Carlos in 2014?
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Again, I need both the name and the regnal number.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33I thought it was still Juan Carlos. Is it another Juan Carlos?
0:17:33 > 0:17:35- Is it Philip? - I don't know which one.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38- Philip the...- There's definitely been a second.
0:17:38 > 0:17:39We're definitely up to at least two.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41LAUGHTER
0:17:41 > 0:17:44- Philip III?- No, it's Felipe VI. LAUGHTER
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Ten points for this.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48Named after a type of particle accelerator,
0:17:48 > 0:17:52what term denotes the radiation emitted by a charged particle...
0:17:52 > 0:17:53Synchrotron radiation.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Correct. APPLAUSE
0:17:58 > 0:18:01Your bonuses are on geometry this time, Corpus Christi.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04Algebraic, transcendental, open, closed
0:18:04 > 0:18:07and plane are among the classifications
0:18:07 > 0:18:11of what line, either straight or continuously bending without angles?
0:18:13 > 0:18:14I don't know.
0:18:18 > 0:18:23- A curve? Is that...- No, they can't be straight.- Oh, right.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25A curve can be straight, yeah.
0:18:25 > 0:18:26- A curve?- Correct. LAUGHTER
0:18:26 > 0:18:29What four-letter term denotes the point
0:18:29 > 0:18:31at which two branches of a curve meet
0:18:31 > 0:18:35or at which the moving point describing the curve
0:18:35 > 0:18:37has its motion exactly reversed?
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Is it the apex?
0:18:41 > 0:18:43- That's just a random guess, but it could be.- I like that.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45- Apex?- No, it's the cusp.
0:18:45 > 0:18:50What type of curve is defined as a symmetrical open plane curve
0:18:50 > 0:18:54formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side?
0:18:57 > 0:18:58I think it's a parabola, maybe.
0:18:58 > 0:18:59- Yeah?- Yeah.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01- Parabola?- Correct.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06Lorentz National Park, the largest protected area of south-east Asia,
0:19:06 > 0:19:10is located in which country on the island of New Guinea?
0:19:13 > 0:19:15- Indonesia?- Correct.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17APPLAUSE
0:19:19 > 0:19:23These bonuses are on a plant family, Corpus Christi.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26What is the common name of Anacardium occidentale?
0:19:26 > 0:19:29It yields a distinctively flavoured nut
0:19:29 > 0:19:33that is a common ingredient in Indian and south-east Asian cuisine.
0:19:33 > 0:19:34Almonds, maybe?
0:19:34 > 0:19:36There's certainly a lot of almonds
0:19:36 > 0:19:38in Indian and south-east Asian cuisine.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42- Hmm, could be, could be. - Could be peanuts, also.- Almond?
0:19:42 > 0:19:44No, it's cashews.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47The cashew family is sometimes named after a shrub
0:19:47 > 0:19:50that yields which reddish purple spice,
0:19:50 > 0:19:53widely used in Middle Eastern cuisine?
0:19:53 > 0:19:56- Erm, reddish... - Reddish purple... Sumac?
0:19:56 > 0:19:59- Erm, I think that's a combination of spices.- Is it?- Yeah.- Are you sure?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01I wouldn't swear to it.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04- Sumac?- Correct.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08And, finally, which member of the sumac or cashew family
0:20:08 > 0:20:10is the national fruit of India?
0:20:11 > 0:20:13- I should know this. - LAUGHTER
0:20:13 > 0:20:16The national... The national FRUIT?
0:20:16 > 0:20:17Mango? No?
0:20:17 > 0:20:19I feel like it's mangoes.
0:20:19 > 0:20:20Mango.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23You're right! APPLAUSE
0:20:25 > 0:20:28We're going to take another picture round now.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30For your picture starter, you're going to see a photograph
0:20:30 > 0:20:33of a poet. Ten points if you can identify him.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39- Tennyson? - It is Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41APPLAUSE
0:20:41 > 0:20:45The picture was taken by the pioneering photographer
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Julia Margaret Cameron in the 1860s.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51Your picture bonuses are three more of her portraits
0:20:51 > 0:20:53of 19th century artists and intellectuals.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56I want you to identify the sitter in each case.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Firstly for five, this artist.
0:20:59 > 0:21:04- Some Impressionist kind of character?- Yeah.- Degas?- Maybe...
0:21:04 > 0:21:06It could be Degas. There's no reason why it couldn't.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08I feel like he had a beard.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12THEY CONFER
0:21:12 > 0:21:14- Yeah, OK.- Pissarro.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16- No, it's Holman Hunt.- Oh, OK.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Secondly, this scientist.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24THEY CONFER
0:21:24 > 0:21:25No, isn't it, erm...
0:21:25 > 0:21:27I don't know.
0:21:29 > 0:21:30Rutherford?
0:21:30 > 0:21:32No, it's Herschel.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35And, finally, this novelist.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38- That's Trollope.- Yeah?
0:21:38 > 0:21:39Trollope.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41It is Trollope, yes. APPLAUSE
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Ten points for this. The de facto mascot
0:21:43 > 0:21:44of which film studio
0:21:44 > 0:21:47is the character Totoro from an eponymous...
0:21:49 > 0:21:50Studio Ghibli.
0:21:50 > 0:21:51Studio Ghibli is correct.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54APPLAUSE
0:21:54 > 0:21:59Your bonuses are on literary titles, Corpus Christi.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01In each case, I need the names of two authors.
0:22:01 > 0:22:06Name the authors of Roxana, published in 1724,
0:22:06 > 0:22:09and Romola, which appeared in the early 1860s?
0:22:10 > 0:22:12THEY CONFER
0:22:12 > 0:22:14If it's literary titles,
0:22:14 > 0:22:15are they both going to be like Comte Something?
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Yeah, the Duke of Something or the Comte de Something.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Give me titled writers.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23- I don't know any. - You just don't know?
0:22:23 > 0:22:24- Got anything?- No, I don't.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26No, we've...
0:22:26 > 0:22:29- Daniel Defoe and George Eliot. - Oh, OK.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32Give the two authors of the 1955 novel Lolita
0:22:32 > 0:22:35and the ancient stage work Lysistrata?
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Nabokov and who wrote Lysistrata?
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Is that Sopho... Aeschylus, yeah, I think.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Aeschylus and Nabokov?
0:22:43 > 0:22:44No, it's Nabokov and Aristophanes.
0:22:44 > 0:22:50And, finally, who were the two authors of Shirley and Sybil,
0:22:50 > 0:22:52both novels published in the 1840s?
0:22:52 > 0:22:55- Shirley is, I think, Anne Bronte. - Anne Bronte? OK.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Or maybe Charlotte Bronte.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59- It's a Bronte!- Say Bronte.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02- Well, he's not going to give me Bronte, is he?- No.
0:23:02 > 0:23:03LAUGHTER
0:23:03 > 0:23:04OK, go with Anne.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06Anne Bronte and...
0:23:06 > 0:23:07No, it was Charlotte Bronte
0:23:07 > 0:23:09and Benjamin Disraeli.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12Very entertaining, though. Ten points for this.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Which of Shakespeare's tragedies concludes with these words -
0:23:15 > 0:23:18"The oldest hath borne most.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20"We that are young..."
0:23:21 > 0:23:23- King Lear?- King Lear is right.
0:23:23 > 0:23:24APPLAUSE
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Albany's words.
0:23:26 > 0:23:31Your bonuses this time, Corpus Christi, are on Argentina.
0:23:31 > 0:23:35After Tierra del Fuego, what is the southernmost province of Argentina?
0:23:35 > 0:23:37It shares its name with major cities
0:23:37 > 0:23:40in the Canary Islands and in Bolivia.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Is it Las Malvinas?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45No, it's not going to be a province, is it?
0:23:45 > 0:23:48- La Paz?- La Paz is certainly...
0:23:48 > 0:23:51- La Paz?- No, it's Santa Cruz.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55Which province of western Argentina shares its name
0:23:55 > 0:23:57with the autonomous community of northern Spain
0:23:57 > 0:23:59whose capital is Logrono?
0:24:00 > 0:24:03- Galicia?- Galicia.
0:24:03 > 0:24:04No, it's La Rioja.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07And, finally, which province bordering Paraguay
0:24:07 > 0:24:11shares its name with the historical Portuguese name for Taiwan?
0:24:11 > 0:24:14- Formosa.- Ah, yeah, I know that.
0:24:14 > 0:24:15- Formosa.- Formosa is right. APPLAUSE
0:24:15 > 0:24:18Three and a half minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22Natasha Romanoff, Thor, Clint Barton...
0:24:22 > 0:24:23The Avengers.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26Indeed they are! APPLAUSE
0:24:27 > 0:24:30In Marvel Comics.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Bonuses this time for you, Corpus Christi, on a field of law.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37The Latin terms jus gentium and jus inter gentes
0:24:37 > 0:24:42refer to two major aspects of what broad field of law?
0:24:45 > 0:24:47THEY CONFER
0:24:47 > 0:24:48It could be family law.
0:24:48 > 0:24:49Family law?
0:24:49 > 0:24:51No, it's international law.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55Adopted by the UN General Assembly in Paris in 1948,
0:24:55 > 0:25:00which declaration is also known by the abbreviation UDHR?
0:25:02 > 0:25:05- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.- Correct.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Which east Asian city gives its name
0:25:07 > 0:25:11to a 1997 treaty committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions?
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Kyoto?
0:25:13 > 0:25:15- Kyoto.- Kyoto is right,
0:25:15 > 0:25:17two and a half minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20In a plant cell, the membrane known as the tonoplast
0:25:20 > 0:25:22surrounds which organelle?
0:25:24 > 0:25:25- The vacuole?- Correct.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27You get a set of bonuses this time
0:25:27 > 0:25:30on the international system of units.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32In the 18th century,
0:25:32 > 0:25:35there were two main competing definitions of the metre.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37One was one ten-millionth of the length
0:25:37 > 0:25:41of the Earth's meridian from pole to Equator through which city?
0:25:43 > 0:25:45Paris or London?
0:25:45 > 0:25:50- I feel like it's...- Paris? They keep the kilometre in Paris.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52- Paris?- Paris is right.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55The second definition was the length of a pendulum
0:25:55 > 0:25:58having a period of what duration?
0:25:58 > 0:26:02Is it going to be, like, one second or so? It's some other unit, yeah?
0:26:02 > 0:26:04- Call it a second.- One second?
0:26:04 > 0:26:05No, it's two seconds.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07The current definition of a metre is measured
0:26:07 > 0:26:10as a length travelled by what?
0:26:10 > 0:26:13- Light.- It's light, yeah. Light.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Light in a vacuum is correct, yes. Ten points for this.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17Which five-letter word is composed
0:26:17 > 0:26:19of two personal pronouns -
0:26:19 > 0:26:21the first-person plural objective
0:26:21 > 0:26:24followed by the third-person singular feminine objective?
0:26:29 > 0:26:31- Usher.- Correct.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33APPLAUSE
0:26:35 > 0:26:39Your bonuses are on men born in 1916.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42In each case, name the person or people from the description.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Firstly, two British prime ministers -
0:26:44 > 0:26:47both were in office in 1970 and again in 1974.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50Wilson and Heath.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52- Harold Wilson and Ted Heath. - Correct.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Which New Zealand-born biophysicist
0:26:54 > 0:26:57shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
0:26:57 > 0:26:59with Crick and Watson?
0:27:01 > 0:27:04- Franklin? Rosalind Franklin? - Franklin?- No, it was...- No, the men.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07No, no, she was a woman.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Maurice Wilkins.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Finally, which US actor won an Academy Award for his part
0:27:12 > 0:27:16in the 1962 film version of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird?
0:27:16 > 0:27:19- Oh, Gregory Peck.- Gregory Peck. - Correct.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21Ten points for this. In genetics, what term defines a gene
0:27:21 > 0:27:25whose phenotype is expressed in the homozygous state...
0:27:27 > 0:27:30- Recessive.- Recessive is correct.
0:27:30 > 0:27:31APPLAUSE
0:27:31 > 0:27:35These bonuses are on an artist, Bristol. As a deputy of...
0:27:35 > 0:27:37GONG And at the gong,
0:27:37 > 0:27:38Bristol have 70,
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Corpus Christi, Oxford have 250.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44APPLAUSE
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Well, Bristol, you're going to have to come back
0:27:48 > 0:27:51and win two more matches to stay in the competition
0:27:51 > 0:27:53and go through to the semifinals.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Corpus, you're going to have to come back
0:27:55 > 0:27:57and win one match to go through to the semifinals.
0:27:57 > 0:27:58Congratulations to you,
0:27:58 > 0:28:01it was a storming performance, a well-balanced team.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03Thank you all very much for playing, though.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match,
0:28:05 > 0:28:09- but, until then, it is goodbye from Bristol University.- Goodbye.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12- It's goodbye from Corpus Christi College, Oxford.- Goodbye.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17APPLAUSE