0:00:19 > 0:00:25University Challenge. Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Hello.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Two more teams enter the quarterfinal fray tonight,
0:00:32 > 0:00:35chasing the first of the two victories they need in this
0:00:35 > 0:00:39stage of the competition if they're to qualify for the semifinals.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42The losing team will play again but on that occasion they must win
0:00:42 > 0:00:44if they are to stay in contention.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46The team from the University of Edinburgh
0:00:46 > 0:00:48won their first-round match
0:00:48 > 0:00:52with 190 points to Durham University's 155.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55They returned in round two to play the Open University in
0:00:55 > 0:00:59a match that saw both teams on 185 at the gong,
0:00:59 > 0:01:02with a tie-break question going their way to give them victory.
0:01:02 > 0:01:08On an accumulated score of 385 and with an average age of 23,
0:01:08 > 0:01:10let's meet the Edinburgh team again.
0:01:10 > 0:01:11Hello, my name is Luke.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15I am from York originally and I am taking late antique, Islamic
0:01:15 > 0:01:16and Byzantine studies.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Hi, I'm Ewan, I'm from Aberdeen, and I study classics.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20This is their captain.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Hi, I'm Joe, I'm from Brighton
0:01:23 > 0:01:25and I study ecological and environmental science.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Hello, I'm Emily, I'm from Wilmslow, Cheshire,
0:01:28 > 0:01:30and I'm studying chemistry.
0:01:30 > 0:01:31APPLAUSE
0:01:34 > 0:01:36The team from the University of Birmingham have had
0:01:36 > 0:01:39comfortable wins in both their matches so far.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42The first was against Queen's University, Belfast,
0:01:42 > 0:01:45with 165 points to 105. The second
0:01:45 > 0:01:47was at the expense of St Andrews,
0:01:47 > 0:01:49with 195 to 115,
0:01:49 > 0:01:53giving them an accumulated score of 360.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57With an average age of 29, let's meet them again.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01Hello, my name is Elliott, I'm from Derby and I'm studying chemistry.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03Hello, my name's Fraser,
0:02:03 > 0:02:05I'm from Edinburgh and I study history.
0:02:05 > 0:02:06And this is their captain.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Hello, my name is George Greenlees, I'm from Plymouth
0:02:08 > 0:02:10and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Hi, I'm Chris Rouse, I'm from Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15and I study history and politics.
0:02:15 > 0:02:16APPLAUSE
0:02:18 > 0:02:21We won't waste any time reciting the rules.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Fingers on the buzzers, and here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28Which capital city was previously named Bytown,
0:02:28 > 0:02:31after a Royal Engineers officer who supervised the building of
0:02:31 > 0:02:33a strategic canal in the vicinity?
0:02:33 > 0:02:36It shares its present name with a major tributary of the
0:02:36 > 0:02:38St Lawrence River.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Ottawa.
0:02:41 > 0:02:42Correct.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46You get the first set of bonuses.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49They're on British history, Birmingham.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51As Lord Chancellor, William Jowitt
0:02:51 > 0:02:53introduced the Legal Aid and Advice Bill
0:02:53 > 0:02:57and made an unsuccessful attempt to suspend the death penalty.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Under which Labour Prime Minister did he hold that post?
0:03:00 > 0:03:02THEY CONFER
0:03:02 > 0:03:06- It's Ramsay MacDonald? - Ramsay MacDonald.- Yeah?- I think so.
0:03:06 > 0:03:07Ramsay MacDonald.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09No, it was Clement Attlee.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12As Lord Chancellor, FE Smith helped to negotiate the treaty that
0:03:12 > 0:03:14led to the creation of the Irish Free State.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17Under which Prime Minister did he serve?
0:03:18 > 0:03:21THEY CONFER
0:03:21 > 0:03:24- MacDonald?- Lloyd George.
0:03:25 > 0:03:26Lloyd George.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Correct.
0:03:27 > 0:03:32Which Prime Minister first appointed Henry Brougham as Lord Chancellor?
0:03:32 > 0:03:35In this office, he played a large part in forcing the
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Reform Act through the House of Lords.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41THEY CONFER
0:03:41 > 0:03:43What, the Prime Minister?
0:03:43 > 0:03:44Earl Grey.
0:03:44 > 0:03:45It was Grey. Yeah.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47- Earl Grey.- Correct.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Ten points for this.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53In a work published in 1789, which English philosopher proposed
0:03:53 > 0:03:57a felicific or hedonistic calculus as a means of...?
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Jeremy Bentham.
0:04:00 > 0:04:01Correct.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04So you get the second set of bonuses.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07They're on the footballer Johan Cruyff,
0:04:07 > 0:04:09who died in March 2016.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13From 1971 to '73 Cruyff led which club to three
0:04:13 > 0:04:15consecutive European Cups?
0:04:15 > 0:04:17THEY CONFER
0:04:17 > 0:04:18Ajax.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Correct. Cruyff led the Dutch national side
0:04:20 > 0:04:24from relative obscurity to the final of the 1974 World Cup.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Which two South American sides did they beat
0:04:27 > 0:04:30in the second group stage of the competition?
0:04:30 > 0:04:33Argentina would probably be one.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Then Uruguay or Brazil?
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Was it 1970s, Brazil?
0:04:37 > 0:04:39- Was this 1974?- Yeah.
0:04:40 > 0:04:41Argentina.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44And Uruguay or Brazil, I would've thought.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47Try it. Yeah.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Argentina and Uruguay.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51No, it's Argentina and Brazil.
0:04:51 > 0:04:55And finally, Cruyff was a leading exponent of what tactical theory
0:04:55 > 0:04:59in which any outfield player can take over the role of
0:04:59 > 0:05:01any other player in a team?
0:05:01 > 0:05:02Total football.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06What cause of death linked Little Eva in
0:05:06 > 0:05:09Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin,
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme,
0:05:11 > 0:05:14Smike in Dickens's Nicolas Nickleby, and...?
0:05:16 > 0:05:17Polio.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19No, you lose five points.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21..And Fantine in Hugo's Les Miserables?
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Tuberculosis.
0:05:23 > 0:05:24Correct.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Right, your first bonuses,
0:05:29 > 0:05:33Edinburgh, are on defining minerals in the Mohs scale of hardness.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36In each case identify the mineral from the description.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40Firstly, a common sulphate mineral that can be scratched with
0:05:40 > 0:05:43a fingernail, its hemihydrate form is used in mouldings
0:05:43 > 0:05:45and orthopaedic surgery.
0:05:45 > 0:05:46Gypsum.
0:05:46 > 0:05:47Correct.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51Harder than gypsum and softer than fluorite, this mineral is the
0:05:51 > 0:05:55stable form of calcium carbonate at most temperatures and pressures.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59- Limescale?- Calcium, it's calcium.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02THEY CONFER
0:06:04 > 0:06:08Calcium carbonate's chalk, isn't it?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10I think it's calcium.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11I don't know.
0:06:11 > 0:06:12Chalk.
0:06:12 > 0:06:13No, it's calcite.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17And finally, this mineral scratches glass easily.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Composed mainly of silica, it's abundant in the Earth's crust
0:06:20 > 0:06:24and has numerous varieties, including amethyst, agate and onyx.
0:06:24 > 0:06:25Quartz.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26Quartz.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Correct. Ten points for this.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Using the mineral rutile as a raw material, the Kroll process is
0:06:32 > 0:06:36primarily used in industry for the production of which metal?
0:06:36 > 0:06:40A group 4 transition element with high tensile strength,
0:06:40 > 0:06:43it is used in the manufacture of aircraft and sports...
0:06:43 > 0:06:44Aluminium.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47No, you lose five points. ..And sports equipment.
0:06:48 > 0:06:49Titanium.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Correct.
0:06:53 > 0:06:54These bonuses could give you the lead.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57They are on countries and their relative sizes.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00In each case the answer is a combination of two of
0:07:00 > 0:07:05the four countries of the UK. For example, England and Wales.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Firstly, Switzerland is somewhat larger than the total areas
0:07:08 > 0:07:11of which two countries in the UK?
0:07:13 > 0:07:15THEY CONFER
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Switzerland. Switzerland is quite big.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20THEY CONFER
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Wales and England?
0:07:25 > 0:07:29Yeah. I think it's bigger than Northern Ireland.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Scotland and something.
0:07:31 > 0:07:32I don't know.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34England and Wales.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36No, it's Wales and Northern Ireland.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40Secondly, Guyana is about the size of the combined area of which
0:07:40 > 0:07:41two countries?
0:07:43 > 0:07:45THEY CONFER
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Scotland and Wales.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50No, it's England and Scotland.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53And finally, the combined total area of which two countries is
0:07:53 > 0:07:55closest to that of South Korea?
0:07:58 > 0:07:59THEY CONFER
0:08:00 > 0:08:03We've already had England and Scotland, haven't we?
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Yeah. England and Wales?
0:08:05 > 0:08:07England and Wales.
0:08:07 > 0:08:08No, it's Scotland and Wales.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10LAUGHTER
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15For your picture starter, you're going to see the flag of an
0:08:15 > 0:08:19autonomous community of Spain. You must identify it to get ten points.
0:08:21 > 0:08:22The Basque Country.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23Correct.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30So you retake the lead, and we follow on from the flag of the
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Basque Country with three more flags of autonomous communities of Spain,
0:08:33 > 0:08:36with any helpful wording removed.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Five points for each autonomous community you can name. Firstly...
0:08:44 > 0:08:46THEY CONFER
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Andalusia, maybe.
0:08:49 > 0:08:53THEY CONFER
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Andalusia's got the snow-covered mountains.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56Andalusia.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58No, it's the Canary Islands.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01It's the seven islands that are the clue, and then these two dogs.
0:09:01 > 0:09:02Secondly...
0:09:07 > 0:09:08THEY CONFER
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Is that Galicia?
0:09:11 > 0:09:13THEY CONFER
0:09:18 > 0:09:23- What's it called? What's southern Spain called? Is it Andalusia?- Yes.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Andalusia.
0:09:25 > 0:09:26That's correct, yes.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28The Pillars of Hercules are the clue there.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31It's the entrance to the Mediterranean, of course.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33And finally...
0:09:34 > 0:09:35Castile.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38I think it's Castile.
0:09:38 > 0:09:39Castile.
0:09:39 > 0:09:45No, it's Castile and Leon, rather obviously, from the symbols there.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47Right, ten points for this.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50Born in Leicester in 1971,
0:09:50 > 0:09:54the television roles of which actor include Mr Thornton in
0:09:54 > 0:09:56North And South in 2004,
0:09:56 > 0:09:59and Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood in 2006?
0:09:59 > 0:10:04His cinema credits include, in 2012, the role of Thorin...
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Richard Armitage.
0:10:07 > 0:10:08Correct.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Right, these bonuses are on Chinese banknotes. Banknotes of the
0:10:14 > 0:10:18People's Republic of China bear inscriptions in five languages.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Which of these is written in Arabic script?
0:10:21 > 0:10:24It's a Turkic language spoken in the far west of China.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29THEY CONFER
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Kyrgyz.
0:10:37 > 0:10:38No, it's Uyghur.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41Secondly, which of the five languages is written in
0:10:41 > 0:10:44a vertical script derived from old Uyghur?
0:10:44 > 0:10:48In a republic bordering China, the same language is written in
0:10:48 > 0:10:50a modified Cyrillic script.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53THEY CONFER
0:10:53 > 0:10:54Kazakh.
0:10:54 > 0:10:55No, it's Mongolian.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59Finally, which language is written in a script descended from Brahmi?
0:10:59 > 0:11:03The same script is used to write Dzongkha, the language of Bhutan.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07THEY CONFER
0:11:13 > 0:11:14Bengali?
0:11:15 > 0:11:16Bengali.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18No, it's Tibetan.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Ten points for this. In international law,
0:11:20 > 0:11:22which city gives its name to
0:11:22 > 0:11:25a defence often known by the German expression
0:11:25 > 0:11:27"Befehl ist Befehl"
0:11:27 > 0:11:29or "orders are orders" after...?
0:11:29 > 0:11:30Is it Nuremberg?
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Nuremberg is correct.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36"Orders are orders."
0:11:36 > 0:11:39Your bonuses now are on methods in statistics, Birmingham.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42In each case name the method from the description.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45Firstly, a method that tests the null hypothesis that
0:11:45 > 0:11:48treatment means are equal to determine if a factor
0:11:48 > 0:11:53has a statistically significant effect on the response variable.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Is that the chi-square test?
0:11:55 > 0:11:57I think so.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59The chi-square test.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01No, it's the analysis of variance.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05Secondly, a method involving the building and testing of a model
0:12:05 > 0:12:08that can be used to predict the value of a dependant variable
0:12:08 > 0:12:10from the values of one or more independent variables.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14Regression. I think it's regression analysis.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16I think it's regression.
0:12:16 > 0:12:17Regression.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Correct.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22Thirdly, a method that explores the linear relationship
0:12:22 > 0:12:25between two variables, wherein the coefficient is between
0:12:25 > 0:12:29minus 1 and 1, indicating either a negative or positive relationship.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33THEY CONFER
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Any ideas?
0:12:40 > 0:12:41No.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43- Linear analysis. - No, it's correlation.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Ten points for this starter question.
0:12:45 > 0:12:49"Prairie style" is a term associated with which US architect,
0:12:49 > 0:12:52born in 1867?
0:12:52 > 0:12:55His later designs include the Johnson Wax Headquarters
0:12:55 > 0:12:58in Wisconsin, and Fallingwater, a weekend retreat...
0:12:59 > 0:13:00Frank Lloyd Wright.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02Correct.
0:13:04 > 0:13:10These bonuses are on the Canadian-American author Ruth Ozeki.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Ozeki is particularly associated
0:13:12 > 0:13:14firstly with which Canadian province?
0:13:14 > 0:13:19Her 2013 novel, A Tale For The Time Being, begins there, with the
0:13:19 > 0:13:25discovery of a Japanese diary washed up on shore after the 2011 tsunami.
0:13:25 > 0:13:26THEY CONFER
0:13:28 > 0:13:29British Columbia.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Correct.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34Environmental activism is a major theme of Ozeki's
0:13:34 > 0:13:372003 novel, All Over Creation.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41The novel is largely set in which north-western US state,
0:13:41 > 0:13:43noted for potato growing?
0:13:43 > 0:13:45THEY CONFER
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Idaho.
0:13:49 > 0:13:54Correct. In 2010, Ozeki was ordained as a priest in the Soto sect,
0:13:54 > 0:13:57a major school of which broad tradition of Buddhism
0:13:57 > 0:13:59known in Chinese as Chan?
0:14:01 > 0:14:04THEY CONFER
0:14:04 > 0:14:05Zen.
0:14:05 > 0:14:06Zen.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Zen is correct. That gives you the lead.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12We're about halfway through. We're going to take a music round.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Ten points if you can identify the singer-songwriter you'll hear.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23# They're closing down... #
0:14:24 > 0:14:26Bruce Springsteen.
0:14:26 > 0:14:27Correct.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31That was his track, My Hometown.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34Your bonuses are three more pieces of popular music that take
0:14:34 > 0:14:38inspiration from life in their writers' own hometowns.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40In each case, I simply want the name of the band or the artist
0:14:40 > 0:14:42that you hear. Firstly, this band.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48# You see, he feels like Ivan born under the Brixton sun
0:14:48 > 0:14:51# His game is called survivin' At the end of the harder they come
0:14:52 > 0:14:55# You know it means no mercy... #
0:14:55 > 0:14:57The Specials.
0:14:57 > 0:14:59No, that's the Clash, Guns Of Brixton.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Secondly, I want the singer of this track, please.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08# You go to fields on week days
0:15:08 > 0:15:10# And have a picnic on Labor Day
0:15:10 > 0:15:13# You go to town on Saturday... #
0:15:13 > 0:15:14THEY CONFER
0:15:14 > 0:15:15Bon Scott.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17No, it's Tina Turner.
0:15:17 > 0:15:18LAUGHTER
0:15:18 > 0:15:20And finally, this duo.
0:15:20 > 0:15:21GUITAR PLAYS
0:15:21 > 0:15:23THEY CONFER
0:15:23 > 0:15:24Simon And Garfunkel.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26It is indeed The Boxer.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28Ten points for this.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker
0:15:31 > 0:15:33"that we can expect our dinner,
0:15:33 > 0:15:36"but their regard for their own interest."
0:15:36 > 0:15:40Which Scottish thinker wrote those words in a work of 17...?
0:15:41 > 0:15:42Hume.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44No, you lose five points. ..1776?
0:15:44 > 0:15:45Adam Smith.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48Adam Smith, in The Wealth Of Nations, of course.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54These bonuses are on a diacritical mark, Edinburgh.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Its name derived from the Greek for division,
0:15:57 > 0:16:00which diacritical mark indicates that two adjacent vowels should be
0:16:00 > 0:16:04pronounced separately, as, for example, in the word "naive".
0:16:04 > 0:16:06It is similar in form to an umlaut.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08THEY CONFER
0:16:21 > 0:16:22Pass.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24It's a diaeresis.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26And secondly, its name,
0:16:26 > 0:16:30usually spelt with a diaeresis on the second O, which constellation
0:16:30 > 0:16:34is known as the Herdsman and contains the star Arcturus?
0:16:34 > 0:16:35THEY CONFER
0:16:35 > 0:16:36Bootes.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38Bootes is correct.
0:16:38 > 0:16:43First performed in the 1740s, the pastoral heroique operas,
0:16:43 > 0:16:48entitled Zais and Nais are works by which French composer?
0:16:51 > 0:16:55THEY CONFER
0:16:59 > 0:17:01Nominate Smith.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03- Berlioz. - No, it was Jean-Philippe Rameau.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Ten points for this.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Referring to the periodic table,
0:17:07 > 0:17:11which everyday chemical compound is composed of the element at
0:17:11 > 0:17:12Group 1, Period 3,
0:17:12 > 0:17:15and the element at Group 17, Period 3?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17Sodium chloride, table salt.
0:17:17 > 0:17:18Correct.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Common salt.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25Right, you get a set of bonuses, this time, Edinburgh,
0:17:25 > 0:17:28on the muscular system in humans.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32Firstly, the vastus medialis and the rectus femoris form part of
0:17:32 > 0:17:37a muscle group known by what name from the Latin for "four-headed"?
0:17:37 > 0:17:38Quadriceps.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Correct.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43The supraspinatus spiritus, infraspinatus and teres minor
0:17:43 > 0:17:47are among muscles located around which joints of the human body?
0:17:48 > 0:17:51THEY CONFER
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Wrist?
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Wrist.
0:17:56 > 0:17:57No, they are in the shoulders.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01And finally, movement of which organ is governed by muscles
0:18:01 > 0:18:05including the superior rectus, lateral rectus and inferior oblique?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Lungs.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11No, it's the eye. Ten points for this.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16In standard orthography, what accent links the Scottish Gaelic
0:18:16 > 0:18:20name of Edinburgh, the Italian words for "more" and "Monday",
0:18:20 > 0:18:24and the two French ordinal numbers following "first"?
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- Grave.- Grave's correct.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31APPLAUSE
0:18:32 > 0:18:35Your bonuses, Birmingham,
0:18:35 > 0:18:38are on words derived from the Nahuatl or Aztec language.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42In each case, give the English word from the definition.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Firstly, the edible fruit of Persea americana,
0:18:45 > 0:18:48its name derives from a Nahuatl word recalling,
0:18:48 > 0:18:52although unrelated to, the Spanish word for "lawyer".
0:18:52 > 0:18:54- Avocado.- Yeah.
0:18:54 > 0:18:55- Avocado.- Correct.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59Secondly, a psychoactive drug containing mescaline and
0:18:59 > 0:19:01obtained from a species of cactus?
0:19:01 > 0:19:03- Peyote.- Correct.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06Finally, Felis pardalis, a spotted cat,
0:19:06 > 0:19:10larger than a margay and smaller than a jaguar?
0:19:11 > 0:19:13Ocelot? Ocelot, yeah?
0:19:13 > 0:19:15- Ocelot.- Correct. APPLAUSE
0:19:15 > 0:19:18We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21For your picture starter, you're going to see a painting.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23For 10 points, I want the name of the artist
0:19:23 > 0:19:25and the mythological figure depicted.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Caravaggio and Bacchus.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32Correct.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34APPLAUSE
0:19:35 > 0:19:39So, we follow on from Caravaggio's picture of the young Bacchus
0:19:39 > 0:19:41with three paintings of bacchanalia.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45In each case, I want the artist who painted them. Firstly...
0:19:48 > 0:19:49Rubens?
0:19:49 > 0:19:52Looks like a Titian or a Raphael.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58Titian's a good shout.
0:19:58 > 0:19:59You think Titian?
0:19:59 > 0:20:01Titian, I think.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04- Titian?- It is Titian, yes.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05Secondly...
0:20:07 > 0:20:09- Poussin or someone? - Could be Poussin.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13- French?- Yeah.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16- Poussin.- That is Poussin.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18And, finally...
0:20:23 > 0:20:26- Velazquez?- Yeah.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Velazquez.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30Correct, well done. APPLAUSE
0:20:32 > 0:20:33Right, ten points for this.
0:20:33 > 0:20:38The surnames of which two artists spell Latin words meaning
0:20:38 > 0:20:41"he remains" and "he advises"?
0:20:43 > 0:20:45- Manet and Monet.- Correct.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47APPLAUSE
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Edinburgh, your bonuses are on works with titles that contain
0:20:52 > 0:20:55a member of the family corvidae.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57In each case, give the title from the description.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01Firstly, a novel of 1992 by Iain Banks that begins with the words...
0:21:01 > 0:21:02The Crow Road.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04The Crow Road is correct.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08Secondly, an opera of 1817 by Rossini in which...
0:21:08 > 0:21:09The Thieving Magpie.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11The Thieving Magpie is correct.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14And finally, a poem of 1845 by Edgar Allan Poe...?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16- The Raven.- The Raven is correct.
0:21:16 > 0:21:17APPLAUSE
0:21:17 > 0:21:19You could have let me finish!
0:21:19 > 0:21:23Ten points for this - what general type of sedimentary rock is
0:21:23 > 0:21:28a distinguishing feature of cliffs on Skokholm Island in Pembrokeshire,
0:21:28 > 0:21:33St Bees Head in Cumbria, and Orcombe Point in east Devon?
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Limestone.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38No, anyone like to buzz from...?
0:21:38 > 0:21:41- Sandstone? - Sandstone is correct, yes.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43APPLAUSE
0:21:43 > 0:21:44These bonuses are on mountains.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46At more than 3,400m,
0:21:46 > 0:21:52Aneto Peak is the highest point in which European mountain range?
0:21:52 > 0:21:53The Pyrenees?
0:21:55 > 0:21:57- It's...- It's not the Alps, is it?
0:21:57 > 0:22:00- It's not the Dolomites. - No, it's not the Dolomites.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Pyrenees?
0:22:02 > 0:22:04- Something ending in a O. - Let's have an answer, please.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05- The Pyrenees.- Correct.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09The Brocken, the scene of the Witches' Sabbath in Goethe's Faust,
0:22:09 > 0:22:13is the highest point in which mountain range in central Germany?
0:22:16 > 0:22:18What's it called?
0:22:23 > 0:22:25- Pass, no, sorry. - They're the Harz Mountains.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27And, finally, Mount Corno,
0:22:27 > 0:22:32located in Italy's Abruzzo region, is the highest point of which range?
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Is that the Dolomites?
0:22:35 > 0:22:38No, it's the Apennines.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40- Apennines? - The Apennines is correct.
0:22:40 > 0:22:41APPLAUSE There's about five minutes to go,
0:22:41 > 0:22:43and there's ten points at stake for this.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47Described as a relentlessly effective satire on masculine
0:22:47 > 0:22:52self-regard, a novel of 1943 by Robert Graves concerns the
0:22:52 > 0:22:56story of Marie Powell, the wife of which English poet?
0:22:56 > 0:23:00Marie died in 1652 after giving birth to their fourth child.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04- John Milton.- Correct.
0:23:04 > 0:23:05APPLAUSE
0:23:07 > 0:23:10These bonuses are on electronics, Edinburgh.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13In the International Electrotechnical Commission
0:23:13 > 0:23:15colour-coding system for fixed resistors,
0:23:15 > 0:23:16what colour represents zero?
0:23:19 > 0:23:20White?
0:23:20 > 0:23:22- Shall we go white?- Yeah.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24- White.- No, it's black.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27The colour of the third band represents what specific
0:23:27 > 0:23:29property of a resistor?
0:23:32 > 0:23:34I'm not sure I know what a resistor is.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35LAUGHTER
0:23:38 > 0:23:40- Come on, let's have it, please. - Maximum current?
0:23:40 > 0:23:43- Maximum current. - No, it's tolerance.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Which two colours are used for the multiplier and tolerance bands,
0:23:46 > 0:23:49but not the first two-digit bands?
0:23:52 > 0:23:55- Common colours, blue and red. - Yeah. Red?
0:23:55 > 0:23:58- Red.- No, it's gold and silver.
0:23:58 > 0:23:59Ten points for this.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01The son of Mary de Bohun,
0:24:01 > 0:24:04which King of England was married to Catherine de Valois?
0:24:04 > 0:24:06He died of fever...
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Henry V.
0:24:08 > 0:24:09Henry V is right, yes.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11APPLAUSE
0:24:12 > 0:24:16Edinburgh, these bonuses are on the Venetian Republic.
0:24:16 > 0:24:21Under Venetian rule until 1797, the peninsula of Istria is now
0:24:21 > 0:24:25divided between Italy and which two countries?
0:24:25 > 0:24:27- Croatia?- Slovenia?- Yeah.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30- Croatia and Slovenia.- Correct.
0:24:30 > 0:24:35Under Venetian rule from 1392 until 1501, the city known in
0:24:35 > 0:24:39Italian as Durazzo is in which present-day country?
0:24:42 > 0:24:45On the Serbian coast?
0:24:45 > 0:24:46Could be Greece?
0:24:48 > 0:24:51- Greece?- No, it's in Albania.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Also known as the Morea, which peninsula of southern Greece
0:24:54 > 0:24:57was under Venetian rule in the early 18th century?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Imagine it's the Peloponnese.
0:25:03 > 0:25:04Nominate Smith.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06- The Peloponnese?- Correct.
0:25:06 > 0:25:07APPLAUSE
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Ten points for this, with about three minutes to go.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11In zoological classification,
0:25:11 > 0:25:14the infraclass eutheria is often known by what two-word common name
0:25:14 > 0:25:17after an organ that links the foetus to the mother?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- They're placental mammals.- Correct.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24APPLAUSE
0:25:24 > 0:25:27Your bonuses are on animals whose names consist of
0:25:27 > 0:25:31a repeated series of letters, such as the dodo or the dik-dik.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Identify the animal in each case.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Firstly, a nocturnal Madagascan lemur...
0:25:36 > 0:25:37- Aye-aye.- Correct.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40Secondly, a South American freshwater turtle
0:25:40 > 0:25:42of the genus Chelidae,
0:25:42 > 0:25:46characterised by its long, distinctively ridged head and neck?
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Think of something funny.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53- Oodle-oodle? - LAUGHTER
0:25:53 > 0:25:55No, it's a mata mata.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58And finally, a long-legged bird of the falcon family,
0:25:58 > 0:26:00also native to South America,
0:26:00 > 0:26:03which has species known as the crested and red-throated?
0:26:05 > 0:26:07I don't know.
0:26:08 > 0:26:09I think I know it.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13Got long legs.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Come on, let's have it, please.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17Oh...
0:26:20 > 0:26:21The...lit-lit.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23No, it's the caracara.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Ten points for this -
0:26:25 > 0:26:28simulacra and hyperreality are concepts
0:26:28 > 0:26:32associated with which cultural theorist, born in 1929?
0:26:32 > 0:26:36His works include Forget Foucault and The Gulf War Did Not...?
0:26:36 > 0:26:38- Baudrillard.- Baudrillard is correct.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40APPLAUSE
0:26:42 > 0:26:45You get a set of bonuses, Edinburgh, on pastry.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48Consisting of layers of filo pastry and chopped nuts,
0:26:48 > 0:26:50which Middle Eastern dessert is covered in honey...
0:26:50 > 0:26:52- Baklava.- Baklava is correct.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55From a thin sheet of dough rolled around a filling,
0:26:55 > 0:26:59the name of which pastry is the German for "whirlpool"?
0:26:59 > 0:27:00- Strudel.- Correct.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Also called a Napoleon,
0:27:02 > 0:27:07which pastry dessert takes its name from the French for 1,000 leaves?
0:27:07 > 0:27:08Mille...feuille.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Mille-feuille?
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Mille-feuille is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:27:12 > 0:27:13Ten points for this -
0:27:13 > 0:27:16which stage work of 1913 has a protagonist whose surname rhymes
0:27:16 > 0:27:19with that of the 2012 winner of the Tour de France?
0:27:22 > 0:27:24- Pygmalion.- Correct, yes.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27APPLAUSE Henry Higgins and Bradley Wiggins.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29These bonuses, Edinburgh, are on history.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Which British monarch issued the Declaration of Breda,
0:27:32 > 0:27:35described as Hyde's masterpiece?
0:27:35 > 0:27:38It promised a general amnesty and liberty of conscience.
0:27:41 > 0:27:42Come on.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44George II? Charles II.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46- George II.- No, it was Charles II.
0:27:46 > 0:27:50In which decade did the French social reformer Olympe de Gouges
0:27:50 > 0:27:51publish the manifesto known as
0:27:51 > 0:27:55the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen?
0:27:57 > 0:27:58- I don't know.- Come on.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00- 1790s.- 1790s.
0:28:01 > 0:28:02- I don't know.- What? Who?
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Let's have it, please.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06- 1790s.- Correct, 1791. GONG
0:28:06 > 0:28:09And at the gong, Birmingham University have 135,
0:28:09 > 0:28:11but Edinburgh have 220.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13APPLAUSE
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Well, Birmingham, you took an early lead, didn't you,
0:28:17 > 0:28:19but the questions didn't fall right for you.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22You're going to have to come back again and win next time to
0:28:22 > 0:28:24stay in the competition.
0:28:24 > 0:28:28Edinburgh, you only have to win one more match and go through to
0:28:28 > 0:28:30the semifinals, congratulations to you.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36- Until then, it is goodbye from Birmingham University...- Goodbye.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38- It's goodbye from Edinburgh University.- Goodbye.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42APPLAUSE