0:00:18 > 0:00:20University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. The Kafkaesque quarterfinal stage of this competition
0:00:32 > 0:00:36demands that teams must win not once but twice
0:00:36 > 0:00:38if they're to get to the semifinals.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41Wolfson College Cambridge and Corpus Christi College Oxford
0:00:41 > 0:00:44already have one quarterfinal victory behind them
0:00:44 > 0:00:47and whichever team wins tonight will match them.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51Now, we wouldn't want to tempt fate by suggesting that the team
0:00:51 > 0:00:54from Warwick University have breezed through the competition so far,
0:00:54 > 0:00:59but they beat the University of Liverpool in round one
0:00:59 > 0:01:00by 235 points to 95
0:01:00 > 0:01:05and East London University by 195 to 55 in round two.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08So, with an accumulated score of 430 points
0:01:08 > 0:01:12and an average age of 20, let's meet the Warwick team again.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Hello. I'm Sophie Hobbs.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18I'm from Birmingham and I'm studying French and history.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Hi. I'm Sophie Rudd. I'm from Lincolnshire
0:01:20 > 0:01:23and I'm studying computer science and its applications.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25- This is their captain. - Hello, I'm Giles Hutchings.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28I'm from Farnham, in Surrey, and I'm studying maths.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Hello, I'm Thomas Van.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32I'm from Geneva, in Switzerland, and I'm studying history.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35APPLAUSE
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Now, the team from Emmanuel College, Cambridge
0:01:40 > 0:01:43have had closer matches so far but still managed to beat
0:01:43 > 0:01:49Nottingham University by 175 points to 135 in round one
0:01:49 > 0:01:51and their round two victory was at the expense of
0:01:51 > 0:01:53the School of Oriental and African Studies
0:01:53 > 0:01:57by a margin of 195 to 130.
0:01:57 > 0:02:02On an accumulated total of 370 and with an average age of 22,
0:02:02 > 0:02:05let's meet the Emmanuel team again.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Hello. I'm Tom Hill, I'm from London and I'm reading history.
0:02:09 > 0:02:10Hello, I'm Leah Ward.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13I'm originally from Oxfordshire and I'm studying maths.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16- And this is their captain. - Hello. My name's Bobby Seagull.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18I'm from East Ham, in the London Borough of Newham.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20I'm studying for a masters in education, specialising in maths.
0:02:22 > 0:02:23Hi, I'm Bruno.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26I'm from Wandsworth, in south-west London, and I'm studying physics.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28APPLAUSE
0:02:30 > 0:02:34OK, you all know the rules by now so let's just get on with it.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Fingers on buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40Weighing 3.25g with a diameter of 18mm
0:02:40 > 0:02:42and now made from nickel-plated steel,
0:02:42 > 0:02:44what coin replaced an older version
0:02:44 > 0:02:48that ceased to be legal tender in the UK at the end of 1990?
0:02:48 > 0:02:51The denomination was introduced in 1968
0:02:51 > 0:02:53as a replacement for the shilling.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58- Five pence.- Five pence is correct, yes.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01APPLAUSE
0:03:01 > 0:03:04OK, so you get the first set of bonuses, Warwick.
0:03:04 > 0:03:08They're on tall structures that appear on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
0:03:09 > 0:03:10Firstly for 5.
0:03:10 > 0:03:15In 2005, Italy returned the 24m-high Obelisk of Axum
0:03:15 > 0:03:17to which African country,
0:03:17 > 0:03:2168 years after it had been seized by Mussolini's troops?
0:03:21 > 0:03:24- Probably Ethiopia. - THEY CONFER
0:03:24 > 0:03:25Shall I go with that? Ethiopia.
0:03:25 > 0:03:26Correct.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30In which country is the Gonbad-e Kavus tower?
0:03:30 > 0:03:3353m in height and more than 1,000 years old,
0:03:33 > 0:03:35it is in the historical region of Hyrcania,
0:03:35 > 0:03:39not far from the border with present-day Turkmenistan.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41- Is it going to be another one of the Stans?- Probably.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44OK, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47So, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49- Iran, Afghanistan. - Shall we go with Iran?
0:03:49 > 0:03:50Iran.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52Iran is correct.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55And finally, in which city of north-western Spain
0:03:55 > 0:03:56is the Tower of Hercules?
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Located at the entrance to the harbour,
0:03:58 > 0:04:01it was built in the late first century AD.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Galicia's in the north-west, isn't it?
0:04:03 > 0:04:05- Somewhere in Galicia.- That's the region.- Oh, is that the region?
0:04:05 > 0:04:08- Yeah.- And what's the name of... - Santiago de Compostela.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Santiago de Compostela.
0:04:11 > 0:04:12No, it's La Coruna.
0:04:12 > 0:04:1310 points for this.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16"He enjoys perhaps a wider celebrity
0:04:16 > 0:04:18"than any political writer of modern Europe."
0:04:18 > 0:04:20These words, of the historian Macaulay,
0:04:20 > 0:04:23refer to which French political philosopher?
0:04:23 > 0:04:27His 1748 work on The Spirit Of The Laws
0:04:27 > 0:04:28was a major influence...
0:04:29 > 0:04:31- Montesquieu.- Montesquieu is correct, yes.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33APPLAUSE
0:04:33 > 0:04:37Bonuses this time on trees and shrubs, Warwick.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Native to much of tropical Africa and parts of Asia,
0:04:40 > 0:04:44Salvadora persica is a tree often known by the name of what object
0:04:44 > 0:04:47used in personal hygiene?
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Its twigs contain various antimicrobial compounds.
0:04:50 > 0:04:51- Soap?- Toothbrush...
0:04:53 > 0:04:56- Something tree. A soap tree. Does that make sense?- A soap bush.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Soap bush. Is that a thing?
0:04:58 > 0:04:59A soap tree.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01No, it was the toothbrush tree.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04Widely grown as ornamental shrubs,
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Syringa vulgaris and Syringa persica
0:05:07 > 0:05:11have what short, common name also denoting a colour
0:05:11 > 0:05:14and deriving ultimately from the Persian for blue?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Azure, cyan...
0:05:18 > 0:05:22- It isn't Persian, though, so it's a bit strange.- I don't know.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24- Do we have any idea?- Rhododendron?
0:05:24 > 0:05:26It's a short word, isn't it?
0:05:26 > 0:05:28- When he says it, I'll know it. - No idea, sorry.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30It's lilac.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33And finally, name either of the two major commercial fruits
0:05:33 > 0:05:36obtained from cultivars of Prunus persica.
0:05:38 > 0:05:39Prune.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42- Prunes.- Raisin.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44- Sultana.- Grapes and plums.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47- Plums and grapes? Plums and prunes? - We only need one.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49- We only need one?- Plums. - OK, plums.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51No, they come from a different subgenus.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53It's the peach and the nectarine. 10 points for this.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55The French composer Jules Massenet
0:05:55 > 0:05:59said that Johann Strauss the younger was "the perfume of Vienna".
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Which composer did he say was its soul?
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Born in Hamburg in 1833,
0:06:05 > 0:06:08his works include The Hungarian Dances and...
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Brahms.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13It is Brahms. Well done. APPLAUSE
0:06:13 > 0:06:16These bonuses are on mountains in Hinduism, Warwick.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19Often depicted as a meditating aesthetic,
0:06:19 > 0:06:22which god, according to traditional Hindu belief,
0:06:22 > 0:06:25lives on the Himalayan Mount Kailash with his wife, Parvati?
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Parvati. I think, is it Shiva?
0:06:27 > 0:06:29- Yeah.- I think it's Shiva.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31- I think he's often seen as an aesthetic.- Shiva.
0:06:31 > 0:06:32Shiva is correct.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Secondly, which incarnation of Vishnu
0:06:34 > 0:06:37is believed to have balanced Mount Govardhana
0:06:37 > 0:06:40on his little finger to shelter the people of Vrindavana
0:06:40 > 0:06:44from rain and floods brought on by the rain God Indra?
0:06:44 > 0:06:47That does sound like Krishna.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49- I think it's Krishna.- Yeah.- Krishna.
0:06:49 > 0:06:50Krishna is correct.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54And finally, built by the Khmer king Suryavarman II,
0:06:54 > 0:06:57which temple complex represents Mount Meru -
0:06:57 > 0:07:00a golden mountain which is the axis of the world,
0:07:00 > 0:07:02according to Hindu mythology?
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Well, I think it sounds like a...name.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07- I could be wrong, though. - I think he said Khmer.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08Angkor Wat.
0:07:08 > 0:07:09Correct. APPLAUSE
0:07:09 > 0:07:12Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14For your picture starter, you're going to see the name of
0:07:14 > 0:07:16a member state of the European Union
0:07:16 > 0:07:20written in an official language of the EU
0:07:20 > 0:07:23but not one predominantly spoken in that country.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26For 10 points, I want you to identify the country
0:07:26 > 0:07:29and the language in which it's written.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34It's Finland and Hungarian.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37No. Anyone like to buzz from Warwick?
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Finland and Estonia.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Finland and Estonian is correct, yes.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46APPLAUSE
0:07:48 > 0:07:50So your bonuses, Warwick,
0:07:50 > 0:07:53are three more names of EU member states
0:07:53 > 0:07:56each written in an official language of the EU
0:07:56 > 0:07:58not predominantly spoken in that country.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02I need the country and the language to get the 5 points. Firstly...
0:08:05 > 0:08:09I have no... What has accents on As? Is that Hungarian?
0:08:09 > 0:08:12THEY CONFER
0:08:12 > 0:08:15- Something near.- Garger. Gauze.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19- Gregory.- Where would that be?
0:08:19 > 0:08:22- Czech...- Czech Republic and Hungarian.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Czech Republic and Hungarian.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27No, it's Greece in Hungarian. And secondly...
0:08:29 > 0:08:31- I have no idea.- I have no idea.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33- I've seen it, I've seen that word. - You've seen it?
0:08:33 > 0:08:34It could be French.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Malta in French?
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Malta in French.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42No, it's Germany in Polish. And finally...
0:08:44 > 0:08:46- So this is Irish.- Yeah.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51The Czech Republic in Irish?
0:08:51 > 0:08:55- Something that's got more than one word.- Riocht, is that like Reich?
0:08:55 > 0:08:58- But it's not Germanic.- It's going to be a double-named country, isn't it?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00- Yeah.- Czech Republic in Irish.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02No, it's the United Kingdom in Irish.
0:09:02 > 0:09:0410 points at stake for this. Fingers on the buzzers.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08Concatenating the chemical symbols of elements 18 and 19
0:09:08 > 0:09:12in the periodic table spells the name of what object?
0:09:12 > 0:09:16Its construction is described in chapter six of the book of Genesis.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Babel.
0:09:21 > 0:09:22No.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25- Ark.- Ark is correct, yes.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Argon and potassium. APPLAUSE
0:09:29 > 0:09:32So you're off the mark and you get a set of bonuses on science
0:09:32 > 0:09:35in the 17th century, Emmanuel College.
0:09:35 > 0:09:39Born in 1588, which French natural philosopher
0:09:39 > 0:09:41gives his name to a prime number that has the form
0:09:41 > 0:09:44two to the power N-1, for example...?
0:09:44 > 0:09:46- Mersenne.- Mersenne is correct.
0:09:46 > 0:09:50Mersenne disseminated the ideas of numerous contemporary scientists,
0:09:50 > 0:09:52including the experiments of which Italian,
0:09:52 > 0:09:54who was the inventor of the barometer?
0:09:54 > 0:09:56- Torricelli, I think. - Yeah? That sounds right.
0:09:56 > 0:09:57Torricelli.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Torricelli is right.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03A 1639 work by Mersenne is a summary of the discourse
0:10:03 > 0:10:07of which physicist and astronomer, born in Pisa in 1564?
0:10:07 > 0:10:09- Galileo.- Correct.
0:10:09 > 0:10:1210 points for this. APPLAUSE
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Which Prime Minister's term of office
0:10:14 > 0:10:16saw the publication of Robert Tressell's
0:10:16 > 0:10:19The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist,
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Arnold Bennett's Clayhanger,
0:10:21 > 0:10:25EM Forster's Howards End and DH Lawrence's Sons and Lovers?
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Asquith.
0:10:26 > 0:10:30HH Asquith is right, yes. APPLAUSE
0:10:31 > 0:10:35So your bonuses this time are on the 1922 general election, Emmanuel.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39Firstly, a Parsi born in Bombay,
0:10:39 > 0:10:43Shapurji Saklatvala was elected for Battersea North,
0:10:43 > 0:10:45endorsed by the Labour Party,
0:10:45 > 0:10:48despite having joined which party the year before?
0:10:48 > 0:10:50- I think it was the Liberals. - Liberal?
0:10:52 > 0:10:54- I can't think what else it would be. - Liberal? Liberal party.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56No, he was a Communist.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Unseating Winston Churchill, Edwin Scrymgeour
0:10:59 > 0:11:01and the Labour candidate ED Morel
0:11:01 > 0:11:03were elected for the two member seats of Dundee.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07Which Scottish party did Scrymgeour represent?
0:11:07 > 0:11:08Its initials were SPP.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12- Scottish Progressive Party? - Parliamentary?
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Parliamentary? Or Progressive?
0:11:14 > 0:11:17- Parliamentary?- Go for Parliamentary.
0:11:17 > 0:11:18Scottish Parliamentary Party.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20No, it's the Scottish Prohibition Party.
0:11:20 > 0:11:24And finally, who was elected as an independent for Harrow in 1922
0:11:24 > 0:11:27having previously held the seat as a Conservative?
0:11:27 > 0:11:32He later joined the Labour Party and in 1931 formed the New Party.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36- 1931. Do you know anything?- No.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41- I think we should just... - Just pass, yes. Smith.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43No, it was Oswald Mosley.
0:11:43 > 0:11:4410 points for this.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47The ancient Greek historian Megasthenes
0:11:47 > 0:11:50is noted for a four-volume account of land situated largely
0:11:50 > 0:11:52in which present-day country?
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Born around 350 BC,
0:11:54 > 0:11:56he was sent by King Seleucus the first
0:11:56 > 0:12:00on embassies to the Mauryan Emperor Chandragupta.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03- India.- Correct.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05APPLAUSE
0:12:06 > 0:12:10These bonuses are on the solar system, Emmanuel.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14In each case, name the planet whose data corresponds to the following.
0:12:14 > 0:12:15Firstly, for 5.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18Approximate diameter - 143,000km.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22Mean distance from the sun - 5.2 astronomical units.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25Orbital period - 11.86 years.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28So Earth is one. Is it Mars or Jupiter?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30- I think it's Jupiter.- Jupiter?
0:12:30 > 0:12:33- Is it Mars?- It could be a lot longer. I'd go for Mars.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35- Mars.- No, it was Jupiter.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Secondly, approximate diameter - 49,500km.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41Mean distance from the sun - 30 astronomical units.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45Orbital period - 164.8 years.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47- Is that Neptune? - Neptune, yeah. Yeah, Neptune 30.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48- Neptune.- Correct.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Approximate diameter - 6,800km.
0:12:51 > 0:12:55Mean distance from the sun - 1.5 astronomical units.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58- Orbital period - 687 Earth days. - That's Mars. That's Mars.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00That is Mars, yes. 10 points for this.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02APPLAUSE
0:13:02 > 0:13:06Which lower case Greek letter represents, in biology -
0:13:06 > 0:13:11a eukaryotic DNA polymerase implicated in translesion synthesis,
0:13:11 > 0:13:13in particle physics -
0:13:13 > 0:13:17a neutral meson with a mass of 548 mega electron volts
0:13:17 > 0:13:20and in physics generally - the coefficient of viscosity?
0:13:23 > 0:13:24- Eta.- Correct.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26APPLAUSE
0:13:27 > 0:13:31Right, these bonuses are on the Greek dramatist Aeschylus.
0:13:31 > 0:13:36Firstly for 5, Aeschylus is believed to have been born in around 525 BC
0:13:36 > 0:13:39because chroniclers say that he was 35 when he fought
0:13:39 > 0:13:43the invading Persians at which major battle?
0:13:43 > 0:13:45THEY CONFER
0:13:47 > 0:13:48Is that when Marathon is?
0:13:50 > 0:13:51Marathon 580, isn't it?
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Marathon. Yeah, go for that?
0:13:53 > 0:13:54- Marathon.- Correct.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56After the son of Agamemnon,
0:13:56 > 0:13:59what collective name is given to the trilogy by Aeschylus that...
0:13:59 > 0:14:01- Oresteia.- ..includes The Libation Bearers
0:14:01 > 0:14:03- and The Eumenides?- The Oresteia.
0:14:03 > 0:14:04Correct.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07Often seen as a symbol of defiance against tyrannical power,
0:14:07 > 0:14:09which Titan is described as Bound
0:14:09 > 0:14:12- in a drama traditionally attributed to...?- Prometheus.
0:14:12 > 0:14:13Correct.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:14:17 > 0:14:18For your music starter,
0:14:18 > 0:14:20you're going to hear music composed for a ballet.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24For 10 points, please give me the name of the composer.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:28 > 0:14:29Tchaikovsky.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32No. You can hear a little more, Warwick.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34MUSIC CONTINUES
0:14:46 > 0:14:48- Delibes.- It is Delibes, yes.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50APPLAUSE
0:14:50 > 0:14:52The pizzicato interlude from his Sylvia.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56So, for your music bonuses, three more pizzicato sections
0:14:56 > 0:14:57in classical works.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59I simply want the composer in each case.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Firstly for 5, this French composer.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04PIZZICATO PLAYS
0:15:05 > 0:15:07It sounds baroque.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10It's funky.
0:15:12 > 0:15:14THEY DISCUSS QUIETLY
0:15:15 > 0:15:17- I can't think of any... Bizet, Berlioz.- Saint-Saens, maybe?
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Saint-Saens, yeah.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22Oh, it might be Saint-Saens. Yeah.
0:15:22 > 0:15:23Saint-Saens.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25No, it's Maurice Ravel.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Secondly, this Russian composer.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31NEW PIZZICATO PLAYS
0:15:31 > 0:15:33If it was a ballet, I'd say Tchaikovsky...
0:15:33 > 0:15:36- No, it's a pizzicato. - It's a pizzicato. Prokofiev?
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Or Tchaikovsky. Oh, I don't know.
0:15:38 > 0:15:39Prokofiev.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41No, that was Tchaikovsky.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43And finally, this Italian composer.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47NEW PIZZICATO PLAYS
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Verdi, Puccini...
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Erm, who else is there? I have no idea.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55- Shall I just guess one? - Guess this one.
0:15:55 > 0:15:56Verdi.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58No, it's Paganini's 24th Caprice.
0:15:58 > 0:16:0010 points for this -
0:16:00 > 0:16:03the subject of extensive excavation in the later 19th century,
0:16:03 > 0:16:06which archaeological site to the south east of Salzburg
0:16:06 > 0:16:09gives its name to the predominant culture in Central Europe
0:16:09 > 0:16:11during the late Bronze...?
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Neanderthal.
0:16:13 > 0:16:14No, I'm afraid you lose 5 points.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16..late Bronze and early Iron Ages?
0:16:18 > 0:16:19- Hallstatt.- Correct.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22APPLAUSE
0:16:23 > 0:16:26Right, your bonuses are on pairs of place names
0:16:26 > 0:16:31in which the final letters of the first name begin the second.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34For example, Oldham and Hammersmith.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36Give both names from the descriptions.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38Firstly, for 5 points,
0:16:38 > 0:16:40the two-word name of the Indian state
0:16:40 > 0:16:42whose capital is Kolkata
0:16:42 > 0:16:44and the military campaign of the First World War
0:16:44 > 0:16:47directed against the Ottoman Empire.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49- So, Gallipoli will be the second. - Gallipoli.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52- What does it...?- "Gal". - It would end "gal" or "ga".
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Is there a "Gupita"? Or "gal" - "Mugal"?
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Well, he said it's two words, wasn't it, for the Indian state?
0:16:59 > 0:17:00Yeah, it was.
0:17:00 > 0:17:01Like upper or lower or something.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Something Pradesh.
0:17:03 > 0:17:04But no, but it has to have Gallipoli,
0:17:04 > 0:17:06- it has to have, like, "gal" at the end.- Oh.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08But I can't think of...
0:17:08 > 0:17:10- I don't know.- Like...
0:17:10 > 0:17:11I don't know.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Upper Mugal and Gallipoli.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15No, you were thinking along the right lines,
0:17:15 > 0:17:18but it was West Bengal and Gallipoli.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21And secondly, the Indian state whose capital is Patna,
0:17:21 > 0:17:24and a French port who's captured by Henry V
0:17:24 > 0:17:27features in Act 3 of the play by Shakespeare.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29- What's that?- Harfleur. - And how do...?
0:17:29 > 0:17:32- No, Honfleur, so, H-O-N.- No, H-A-R.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35- Is it H-A-R?- Yeah, it's Harfleur. - Harfleur?- So, what's a...?
0:17:35 > 0:17:37Something "Radhar".
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Oh, it's terrible, I can't think.
0:17:39 > 0:17:40What are the Indian states?
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Chandigarh?
0:17:42 > 0:17:44- Is that a...? - Is that something, Chandigarh?
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Chandigarh and Harfleur.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49No, it's Bihar and Harfleur.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52And finally, the Indian state whose capital is Mumbai
0:17:52 > 0:17:57and a decisive naval battle off the south-western coast of Spain.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59- So, Trafalgar.- Trafalgar.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Traf... Trafal... Wait, is it Trafalgar?
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Mahabra...no.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08There's something that sounds like Mahabra, but isn't Mahabra.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10- Something that ends in "tra".- Yeah.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13- Oh.- Great. Where did they say was compared to Spain?- South-west Spain.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16- South-west of Spain.- It's probably Trafalgar. I don't know.
0:18:16 > 0:18:17I can't think of what it is.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Pass. Sorry, nothing.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21The place you were searching for was Maharashtra and Trafalgar.
0:18:21 > 0:18:2310 points for this -
0:18:23 > 0:18:25which two letters appear at the end of short names
0:18:25 > 0:18:28given in alchemy to the element mercury,
0:18:28 > 0:18:31and in the book of Genesis to the third son of Adam and Eve?
0:18:31 > 0:18:33The same...
0:18:33 > 0:18:35Um, ETH.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38No. You'll hear a little more actually.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40You'll hear the rest of the question,
0:18:40 > 0:18:42but you want to answer now?
0:18:42 > 0:18:43TH.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45TH, is correct, yes. I only asked for two letters.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48APPLAUSE
0:18:48 > 0:18:52OK, you get a set of bonuses this time, Emmanuel,
0:18:52 > 0:18:53on a French thinker.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Who combined psychoanalysis with semiotics
0:18:56 > 0:19:00into a highly influential and powerful theoretical synthesis?
0:19:00 > 0:19:03He founded the Freudian School of Paris in 1964.
0:19:03 > 0:19:04S-saus...
0:19:04 > 0:19:06- Saussure.- Ooh, Saussure. - Saussure, yeah.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07Saussure.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09No, it's Lacan.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12And secondly, an essay entitled The Rotten Donkey
0:19:12 > 0:19:15first suggested to Lacan a new way of thinking
0:19:15 > 0:19:18about the connection between mind and language.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20Which Spanish surrealist was the author?
0:19:20 > 0:19:22- Dali?- I think it is.
0:19:22 > 0:19:23- Dali.- Correct.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25In Lacan's psychoanalysis,
0:19:25 > 0:19:28what French term refers to something that is desired
0:19:28 > 0:19:31but can never be obtained?
0:19:31 > 0:19:33- Something that you want but you can never...- Like an idee fixe.
0:19:33 > 0:19:34And idee fixe is a thing, but...
0:19:34 > 0:19:36- No, I don't know. Do you want to say that?- Erm.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39- I can't think of anything. - Idee fixe?- Yeah.- Why not?
0:19:39 > 0:19:40Idee fixe.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- No, no, that's a set view.- Oh. Yeah.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44It's an objet petite a.
0:19:44 > 0:19:4610 points for this -
0:19:46 > 0:19:49consumption plus investment plus government spending
0:19:49 > 0:19:53plus net exports is a formula for calculating what...?
0:19:53 > 0:19:54GDP.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Correct. Gross domestic product.
0:19:58 > 0:19:59You get a set of bonuses,
0:19:59 > 0:20:03this time on medical adjectives, Emmanuel College.
0:20:03 > 0:20:04From a Greek word meaning wait,
0:20:04 > 0:20:08what term means relating to the causes and treatment of obesity?
0:20:08 > 0:20:11- So it's going to be bari, right? - Yeah, bari.- Bariometry?
0:20:11 > 0:20:14- Bari...- Barimetry.
0:20:14 > 0:20:17Why are we measuring bari...?
0:20:17 > 0:20:20- Yeah.- You think it's Barimetry? - Bariology.- Bariology.
0:20:20 > 0:20:21Bariology?
0:20:21 > 0:20:24No, you got the right derivation, but it's bariatric.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27Secondly, from the Greek word for a halter,
0:20:27 > 0:20:29what term means preventing blood flow
0:20:29 > 0:20:32through a part of the body by constriction?
0:20:32 > 0:20:35- So, it's like a... No, no, it's not a stent, it's a...- Constriction.
0:20:35 > 0:20:36Like a, you know, a thing that you...
0:20:36 > 0:20:39- A tourniquet. No, it's a tourniquet, it's not Greek.- I don't know.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40Say stent.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Stent.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44No, it's strangulated.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47And finally, what six-letter term from the Latin
0:20:47 > 0:20:50means relating to or caused by disease?
0:20:50 > 0:20:53- Is it something like epi...? - No, that's Greek.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56- It's from the Latin.- Pathol... - So it's going to end in L?
0:20:56 > 0:20:58- No, that's also Greek. - Oh, I don't know. I'm out.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00LAUGHTER
0:21:00 > 0:21:03What's disease in Latin?
0:21:03 > 0:21:05- I can't...- Mind blanking. - OK, never mind.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07It's not the right one,
0:21:07 > 0:21:09pathology.
0:21:09 > 0:21:10- It's morbid.- Morbid.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12Right, we're going to take a second picture round.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14For your picture starter, you're going to see a still
0:21:14 > 0:21:16from a television series.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19For 10 points, I want the name of the creator of the series.
0:21:24 > 0:21:25Aaron Sorkin.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29Correct. Aaron Sorkin is right. APPLAUSE
0:21:29 > 0:21:32Aaron Sorkin is regarded as a show runner and auteur figure
0:21:32 > 0:21:35with the overall responsibility for the tone and direction
0:21:35 > 0:21:36of a long-form drama.
0:21:36 > 0:21:41Your picture bonuses are stills from three more television series
0:21:41 > 0:21:43of the last 20 years and, again,
0:21:43 > 0:21:47in each case I want the name of the series creator and show runner.
0:21:47 > 0:21:48Firstly, for five.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52- Oh. Is it The Wire? - So, that's The Wire.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54- Yeah, who's that by?- Um...
0:21:54 > 0:21:58- Is he American? - He's called David...- Fincher?
0:21:58 > 0:22:00- No, no, no.- I don't know.
0:22:02 > 0:22:03I can picture him.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07- Smith, Smith, Johnson, Jones, Adams...- No, no, it's not.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10- OK, never mind.- Do you just want a surname?- Just pass.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12David Jones.
0:22:12 > 0:22:13- No, it was David Simon.- Oh!
0:22:13 > 0:22:16It was The Wire. Secondly...
0:22:17 > 0:22:19- So, that's Orange Is The New Black. - Any idea who...?
0:22:19 > 0:22:21No, nothing. Pass?
0:22:21 > 0:22:24- Jones.- That's Jenji Kohan, Orange Is The New Black.
0:22:24 > 0:22:25And finally...
0:22:27 > 0:22:28Oh, is this Buffy The Vampire Slayer?
0:22:28 > 0:22:30But who's that by?
0:22:30 > 0:22:32- Joss Whedon.- Joss Whedon, yeah. - Joss Whedon?
0:22:32 > 0:22:35- I think it's Joss Whedon.- Yeah, it is Joss Whedon.- Josh Whedon.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Correct. APPLAUSE
0:22:38 > 0:22:3910 points for this.
0:22:39 > 0:22:44The 1865 work, A Dynamical Theory Of The Electromagnetic Field,
0:22:44 > 0:22:48set forth the basis of the four equations...
0:22:48 > 0:22:49James Clerk Maxwell.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Correct. APPLAUSE
0:22:53 > 0:22:54OK, Emmanuel College,
0:22:54 > 0:22:59these bonuses are on FA Cup final venues before 1914.
0:22:59 > 0:23:05In 1872, the first FA Cup final was played at which London venue?
0:23:05 > 0:23:07It later became the first ground in England to host
0:23:07 > 0:23:10- international test cricket. - Lords.- Lords, yeah?
0:23:10 > 0:23:12I'm pretty sure. Lords.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15- No, it was the Oval or the Kennington Oval.- Ah.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19Which ground in north-west England hosted the final in 1894?
0:23:19 > 0:23:21It's home to a club that has played in the top flight
0:23:21 > 0:23:23of English football since 1954.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Top flight, so...
0:23:26 > 0:23:28It's not Manchester United, then, because they got relegated...
0:23:28 > 0:23:31- Man City has been relegated, Aston Villa...- Yes, yes. It's...
0:23:31 > 0:23:33North-west.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35- Liverpool, Everton...- Everton?
0:23:35 > 0:23:37- So, they want the name of club or the ground?- I think Everton.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39- Goodison?- Goodison Park. - North-west?
0:23:39 > 0:23:40- Yeah.- Yeah, they're still there.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42- I think Goodison Park. - Goodison Park.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44- Correct.- Yeah! - APPLAUSE
0:23:44 > 0:23:47And finally, which former ground in south-east London
0:23:47 > 0:23:50was the venue of finals from 1895 to 1914?
0:23:50 > 0:23:53The site is now a national sports centre.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Crystal Palace...that's south-east. So has...?
0:23:56 > 0:23:59- What's the Crystal Palace stadium? - That's not a sports centre.
0:23:59 > 0:24:00Really? A sports centre.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Olympia sports centre, but that's in the west, so I don't know.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04I don't know.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06- Say Crystal Palace, even though that's not the answer.- Come on.
0:24:06 > 0:24:07Crystal Palace.
0:24:07 > 0:24:08- Correct.- Hey!
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Right, 10 points for this.
0:24:10 > 0:24:11There are about four minutes to go.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14Published in 1989,
0:24:14 > 0:24:18what was the third novel of the Japanese-born writer Kazuo Ishiguro?
0:24:18 > 0:24:22It followed A Pale View Of Hills and An Artist Of The Floating World.
0:24:25 > 0:24:26Remains of the Day.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Correct. APPLAUSE
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Your bonuses are on seven-letter terms in the sciences.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36In each case, give the term from the definition.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38All three begin with the same letter.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Firstly, in physics, a term describing fluids
0:24:41 > 0:24:44that have a high degree of resistance to shear
0:24:44 > 0:24:46or, more generally, change in shape.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50So, well, viscous would be, but did he say six letters or seven?
0:24:50 > 0:24:52- He said seven.- Isn't it...?
0:24:52 > 0:24:53- OK.- No, it is viscous, yeah. - Viscous, yeah?
0:24:53 > 0:24:55- What were you thinking?- No, go.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57- Viscous.- Correct.- Good.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00In biology, from the Latin meaning empty,
0:25:00 > 0:25:03what term denotes one of a number of different types of
0:25:03 > 0:25:05membrane-bound organelles in cells?
0:25:05 > 0:25:08- It's vacuole, isn't it?- Vacuole. V-A-C-U-O-L-E, yeah.- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Vacuole.
0:25:10 > 0:25:11Correct.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13In chemistry, the number of atoms of hydrogen
0:25:13 > 0:25:17with which one atom of a given element can combine or can displace?
0:25:17 > 0:25:19- Valency.- Valency, yeah?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- Yeah.- V-A-L-E...- Yes, yes, it is.
0:25:21 > 0:25:22- Valency.- Correct.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25APPLAUSE 10 points for this -
0:25:25 > 0:25:30the US physicist Martin Perl won the 1995 Nobel Prize
0:25:30 > 0:25:33for his discovery of which charge lepton?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35He named it after the Greek letter
0:25:35 > 0:25:38that begins the word for third in that language.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Uh, tau.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42Tau or "toe" is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:25:42 > 0:25:44So, you get a set of bonuses,
0:25:44 > 0:25:46this time, Emmanuel College, on artistic depictions
0:25:46 > 0:25:48of Saint Sebastien.
0:25:48 > 0:25:52Born near Padua in 1431, which artist is noted for paintings
0:25:52 > 0:25:55of Saint Sebastien that are now in collections in Paris,
0:25:55 > 0:25:56Venice, and Vienna?
0:25:56 > 0:26:00- Oh, 1431. What city did he say? - Padua.- Giotto is around there.
0:26:00 > 0:26:01Giotto, maybe.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03- Giotto?- I don't know. I've got no idea.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Giotto?
0:26:05 > 0:26:07- No, it was Mantegna.- Ah.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10Saint Sebastien Bound to the Column is one of a series of engravings
0:26:10 > 0:26:14by which artist born in Nuremberg in 1471?
0:26:14 > 0:26:15- It must be Albrecht Durer. - Durer, yeah.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17- Durer.- Correct.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21Which artist moved to Spain in 1577 and shortly after produced
0:26:21 > 0:26:24a depiction of Saint Sebastien kneeling and bound to a tree?
0:26:24 > 0:26:26- It's El Greco.- El Greco, yeah.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28- El Greco.- Correct.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31APPLAUSE 10 points for this -
0:26:31 > 0:26:34what distinctive architectural form is incorporated into
0:26:34 > 0:26:38the Great Stupa at Sanchi in India,
0:26:38 > 0:26:40the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul,
0:26:40 > 0:26:42and the Reichstag in Berlin?
0:26:42 > 0:26:43Its name derives...
0:26:43 > 0:26:45A dome.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47A dome is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:26:49 > 0:26:52Right, a set of bonuses, this time on the holy Roman Empire.
0:26:52 > 0:26:57Firstly, the Golden Bull of 1356 confirmed the status
0:26:57 > 0:26:59of the seven Imperial electors.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01These included the king of which country?
0:27:01 > 0:27:04The region in question now forms the larger part of the Czech Republic.
0:27:04 > 0:27:05- Bohemia.- Bohemia.
0:27:05 > 0:27:06Correct.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09The Imperial Electors included the archbishops of three cities -
0:27:09 > 0:27:10name any two of them.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Mainz and Magdeburg.
0:27:12 > 0:27:13Mainz and Magdeburg.
0:27:13 > 0:27:17- No, it was Mainz, Trier and Cologne. - Oh, sorry.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20And finally, which Maregrave was an Imperial Elector?
0:27:20 > 0:27:23The Margrave shares its name with the present-day German state
0:27:23 > 0:27:26whose capital is Potsdam.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28- Oh, that would be... - Um, that's, um...
0:27:28 > 0:27:30- Brandenburg.- Yeah, it's Brandenburg.
0:27:30 > 0:27:31- Brandenburg.- Correct.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33APPLAUSE 10 points with this -
0:27:33 > 0:27:38dividing in the thigh into the tibial and common fibula nerves,
0:27:38 > 0:27:41which nerve of the lower limb is the largest...?
0:27:41 > 0:27:43- Sciatic. - Correct, sciatic is right.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45APPLAUSE
0:27:45 > 0:27:48These bonuses are on sisters in 20th-century literature.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51In each case, name the title and the author of the work
0:27:51 > 0:27:53in which the following characters appear.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56Firstly, Julia and Cordelia are the sisters of Sebastien
0:27:56 > 0:27:58in which novel published...? GONG
0:27:58 > 0:28:00And at the gong, Warwick University have 90,
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Emmanuel College, Cambridge, have 200.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06APPLAUSE
0:28:06 > 0:28:07Well, bad luck, Warwick.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10You're going to have to come back and play again anyway,
0:28:10 > 0:28:12but you will have to win then,
0:28:12 > 0:28:15and then win again in order to go through to the semifinals.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Emmanuel, you have to win one more time to go through
0:28:17 > 0:28:20to the semifinals - congratulations to you.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match,
0:28:23 > 0:28:26- but until then, it's goodbye from Warwick University... ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28..it's goodbye from Emmanuel College, Cambridge...
0:28:28 > 0:28:29- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34APPLAUSE