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University Challenge.

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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

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Hello. Like something out of Edgar Allen Poe,

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the remorseless quarterfinal round continues.

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But at least by the end of tonight's match, we will know the first of the

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four teams through to the semifinal matches in a few weeks' time.

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Both teams will know that not all hope is lost for the losers,

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though, who will get one final chance to qualify.

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Now, the team from Emmanuel College - Cambridge

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are here having seen off the University of Nottingham

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in round one

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and the School of Oriental and African studies in round two.

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Then with another characteristic combination

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of strong general knowledge and inspired guesswork,

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their first quarterfinal victory was at the expense of

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Warwick University.

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With an accumulated score of 570 thus far, let's meet them again.

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Hello, I'm Tom Hill. I'm from London and I'm reading history.

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Hello, my name is Leah Ward.

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I'm originally from Oxfordshire and I'm studying maths.

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This is their captain.

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Hello, my name is Bobby Seagull.

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I'm from East Ham, in the London Borough of Newham.

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I'm studying for a master's in education, specialising in maths.

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Hello, I'm Bruno. I'm from Wandsworth, in Southwest London

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and I'm studying physics.

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APPLAUSE

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The team from Corpus Christi College - Oxford had

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a close match in the first round, winning by 200 points to 175,

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notched up by Jesus College - Cambridge.

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The second round was a similar story when they won by 175 to 150 against

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the reigning champions Peterhouse - Cambridge,

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but they pulled off a very convincing win in their first

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quarterfinal with 250 points to Bristol University's mere 70.

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Within accumulated total of 625 points,

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let's meet the Corpus team again.

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Hello, I'm Tom Fleet. I'm from Pendoggett, in Cornwall

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and I study English.

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Hi, I'm Emma Johnson. I'm from North London and I study medicine.

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And their captain.

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Hi, I'm Nikhil Venkatesh.

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I'm from Derby and I study philosophy, politics and economics.

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Hi, I'm Adam Wright. I'm from Winnersh, in Berkshire

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and I'm studying for a DPhil in physics.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.

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Which British Imperial possession included more

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than 500 princely states over which the crown held paramount see

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paramountcy in a form of indirect rule?

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These states included Kochin, Baroda...

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India.

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India is correct, yes.

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So, you got the first set of bonuses, Corpus Christi.

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They are on Homer's Odyssey.

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Firstly, for five points, in book 12 of the Odyssey,

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Odysseus navigates the channel between which two mythical figures?

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Their names appear in a metaphor meaning to be caught between

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two equally unpleasant alternatives.

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Nominate Johnson.

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Scylla and Charybdis.

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Correct, yes.

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Odysseus later lands on the island of Thrinacia

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where, against orders, his men eat the cattle of which deity?

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As they sail away, Zeus sends a storm

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in which all but Odysseus perish.

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Cyclops, is that a deity?

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No, Cyclops had sheep, not cows.

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I don't know. Who would have cows?

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-Athena.

-Poseidon... Everyone...

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Poseidon is really angry in the Odyssey.

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-But he's the sea, right?

-Yeah.

-Yeah...

-Hephaestus?

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He could have cows. I don't know. Take a shot.

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Hephaestus?

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No, it's Helios, the Sun God.

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The shipwrecked Odysseus is washed up on the island of Ogygia

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where he is confined for seven years as the lover of which nymph?

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-Calypso.

-Calypso.

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Correct.

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Ten points for this.

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"Man produces

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"evil as a bee produces honey."

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These are the words of which Nobel laureate?

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Born in Cornwall, in 1911,

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his novels include Pincher Martin,

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The Inheritors and Rites Of Passage...

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William Golding.

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Correct.

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Your first bonuses,

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Emmanuel, are on films by British director for Gurinder Chadha.

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In each case, name the film from the description.

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I need the precise title in each case.

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Firstly, a road movie from 1993 about three generations of

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Asian women from Birmingham on a day trip to Blackpool.

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-East...

-It's not East Is East?

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-Do we have anything else? It's not really...

-East is East.

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East Is East.

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No, it's Bhaji On The Beach.

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Secondly, a 2008 film based on Louise Rennison's novels

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for young adults.

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It starred Georgia Groome as a teenager from Eastbourne.

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It's the... Isn't it the...Angus, Thongs one?

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Oh, Angus... Angus, Thongs and Perfect... Yeah.

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-Try it.

-That sounds like... Georgia somebody.

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-What's it called?

-Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.

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You just... Nominate Barton-Singer.

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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.

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Correct.

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And finally, 2004 film described as a Bollywood-style, updated

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Jane Austen in which Mrs Bakshi is eager to find suitable husbands

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for her four unmarried daughters.

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-Bride.

-Yeah.

-Bride And Prejudice.

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Bride And Prejudice is correct.

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Ten points for this.

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Listen carefully. With reference to the book of Exodus,

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if locusts is eight,

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hail is seven and flies is four,

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what is two?

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Frogs.

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Frogs is correct, yes. They are the plagues...

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visited upon Egypt, so you get a set of bonuses, this time, having

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taken the lead, Emmanuel College, on the number 12.

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If the function sigma of X is defined

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as the sum of the positive factors of X,

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including X itself,

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what is sigma of 12?

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12 + 6 + 4 + 3...

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-+ 2 + 1.

-Yeah.

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-So, what is it?

-So, that's...

-1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10

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16... 28.

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28, isn't it?

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-28.

-Plus six, yeah? 28.

-28.

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-28.

-Correct.

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12 is the first abundant number,

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in other words, the smallest positive integer X

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for which the sum of its factors, excluding X itself,

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is greater than X.

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What is the second abundant number?

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Could it be 60 or...?

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-16 would be...

-No, 60. 60,6-0.

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Is it that high?

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I don't know. Or there could be one below. I feel like 60 is abundant.

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There could be one before it.

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Should we just go for 60?

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-Try 16.

-What were you going to say?

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28 is a perfect number, so surely it's...

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It can't be 28.

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It could be 24.

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-No, it isn't 24.

-60.

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60.

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-No, it's 18.

-Oh!

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And finally, the totient function phi of X is defined

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as the number of positive integers not exceeding X that are

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co-primed to X.

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What is phi of 12?

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Five, seven, nine, ten, 11.

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-Five.

-Five, yeah? Five.

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No, it's four.

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Right, we're going to take a picture round now.

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For your picture starter,

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you are going to see an illustration of a type of roulette curve.

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That is a path traced by a point on one curve rolling along another.

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For ten points, I want the name of this specific form of curve

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shown in red.

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A cycloid.

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Correct.

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It was named by Galileo and sometimes called

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"The Helen of Geometers"

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because of the arguments it caused between 17th-century mathematicians.

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Your picture bonuses are three more significant

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types of roulette curve.

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I want the specific name of each.

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Again, you are looking for the red curve. Firstly, for five.

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-Cycloids...

-I don't know.

-Ellipsoids.

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-No, no. Do you know what this is?

-No.

-No.

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-Do we know?

-Triangloid.

-Triangloid.

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That the deltoid or tricuspoid.

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Secondly.

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-Ooh, um...

-What is that?

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It's a...

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THEY CONFER QUIETLY

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This is coming off

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an X-squared type curve.

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-Wonder if it could be...

-Cuspide.

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-Cuspide.

-No, I just made it up.

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-No, it's a tractrix.

-Tractrix.

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And finally.

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-Is that a...

-It's a cardioid.

-Cardioid. Cardioid.

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-Cardioid.

-Correct.

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Ten points for this.

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Give both the regnal name and number that link the following.

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The early 12th-century king of Scotland,

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nicknamed The Fierce,

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the king of Yugoslavia, assassinated in France in 1934

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and the Russian tsar who was an adversary of Napoleon I.

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Alexander I.

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Correct.

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These bonuses are on the Syrian queen Zenobia.

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Following the death of her husband Odaenathus in about 267,

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Zenobia declared herself queen of which Roman colony

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and modern-day Syrian city?

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-Aleppo?

-Or Tripoli.

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-Tripoli's not...

-Oh, sorry. Syria.

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Aleppo, Damascus, Homs.

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I don't know. Try Aleppo.

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Aleppo.

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No, it's Palmyra.

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Secondly, after declaring her independence from Rome,

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Zenobia seized Egypt and much of Asia Minor before her armies

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were defeated in Antioch by which Roman emperor?

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Hm...

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-I mean, if it's...

-What period?

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Late...

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-Diocletian maybe?

-Diocletian. 300. It was around 300.

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-It's the right period.

-Diocletian was 380.

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Diocletian.

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No, it was Aurelian.

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And finally, concerning the rivalry between the Emperor Aurelian

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and the Persian Prince Arsace for the love of Zenobia,

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Aurelian In Palmira is an opera

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of 1813 by which Italian composer?

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-It can't be Verdi, 1813.

-Donizetti.

-Donizetti, probably is.

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-That's the right period.

-Yeah?

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Donizetti.

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No, it's Rossini Ten points for this.

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In legislation, what ten-letter term describes the group of

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diseases such as anthrax, botulism and malaria that must be

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reported to local public health authorities

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if suspected or diagnosed?

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Contagious.

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Infectious.

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No, it's notifiable.

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Ten points for this.

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With different spellings, what bird links a gender equality

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charter for British higher education institutions...

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Swan.

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Swan is correct, yes.

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OK, Corpus, these bonuses are on psychology.

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For what do the letters ND stand when denoting the concept that

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a person's name may influence their choice of job or other path in life?

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A cited example is that men called Raymond are more likely to be

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radiologists than dermatologists.

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Nominative determinism.

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Correct.

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Which British magazine coined that term, nominative determinism,

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in 1994, citing a book on polar exploration by Daniel Snowman

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and a scholarly article on incontinence

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by the urologist JW Splat and D Weedon?

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-The New Scientist.

-Is that British?

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-Yeah.

-Yeah. New Scientist.

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Correct. In the 2015 article, which novelist noted that his surname was

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a contraction of Seawolf and, quote,

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"Nothing to do with egotism at all,

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"yet the name has still made its mark on me

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"such that I find similar ones endlessly amusing."

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Will Self.

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Correct.

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Ten points for this.

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Which two US biologists give their surnames to an experiment

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of 1957 that's been called the most beautiful experiment in biology?

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It showed that DNA is replicated semi-conservatively.

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Urey/Miller.

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No.

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Anyone like to buzz from Corpus Christi?

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Thompson and Smith.

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No, it's Meselson and Stahl.

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So, ten points at stake for this.

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Which town came second to Cardiff in a 1954 poll to decide

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the capital of Wales?

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It was once represented in Parliament by David Lloyd George

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and in 1969,

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its castle was the scene of the investiture of the Prince of Wales.

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Pembroke.

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No.

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-Caernarvon.

-Caernarvon is right, yes.

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You get a set of bonuses this time, Emmanuel College,

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on international organisations.

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Firstly, for five points,

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what year saw the establishment

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of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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with 12 founding members?

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You can have a year either way.

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I think it's '49, '48.

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-'49.

-Yeah. 1949.

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Correct.

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In addition to Malta and Cyprus,

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four countries are members of the European Union

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but are not members of NATO.

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Name three of them.

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European Union but not NATO.

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Czech Republic and Yugoslavia...

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Maybe southern countries.

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-Maybe like Croatia.

-Greece?

-Croatia, I imagine.

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-Croatia and...?

-Greece, maybe.

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Croatia and Greece.

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No, I wanted you to name three of them.

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They are Austria, Ireland, Finland and Sweden.

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And finally, in addition to the USA, Canada and Turkey,

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three countries are members of NATO, but not of the European Union.

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Name two of the three.

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NATO, but not European Union. So, who else is a part of NATO?

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-Is India part of NATO?

-No, I don't think so.

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They're all around the North Atlantic.

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-Yeah, of course.

-I don't... I can't think of any countries.

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-Iceland.

-Iceland.

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Iceland and...?

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-Norway.

-Norway?

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-Iceland and Norway?

-Was it just two, though?

-Yeah, I think so.

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Iceland and Norway.

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Yes, the third one is Albania.

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Right, it's time now to take the music round.

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For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of music

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by an Austrian composer.

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Ten points if you can identify that composer.

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OPERATIC MUSIC PLAYS

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Schonberg.

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No, you can hear little more, Corpus Christi.

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OPERATIC SONG RESUMES

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Johann Strauss.

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No, it's Mahler. That's The Farewell from The Song Of The Earth.

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So, music bonuses in a moment or two.

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Ten points for this starter question. Fingers on the buzzers.

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First published in 1917,

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soon after the author's death at the Battle of Arras,

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which 16-line poem was inspired by the poet's own diary entry

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describing a train journey on a...

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In Flanders Fields.

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No. You lose five points.

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..describing a train journey on a summer's day?

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It takes its name from a village and former railway station in

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Gloucestershire.

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Adlestrop.

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Adlestrop is correct. Yes.

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Now, for your music starter, which nobody got.

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We heard Kathleen Ferrier,

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the famous contralto a year before her death in 1953.

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Your music bonuses are three more of her notable recordings.

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Five points in each case if you can give me the composer of the work.

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Firstly for five, the German composer of this work.

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OPERATIC SONG PLAYS

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THEY CONFER QUIETLY

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-Bach.

-It doesn't feel Bach-y. It's got that...

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Doesn't it?

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THEY CONFER QUIETLY

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-Gluck.

-Did they say German?

-Yeah, German.

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-Bach sounds plausible. Yeah?

-Did they say German?

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-They said German, yeah?

-Yeah.

-Bach.

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That's correct. It was Bach.

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It was the Agnus Dei from the Mass in B minor.

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Secondly.

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NEW OPERATIC SONG PLAYS

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-This is Orfeo ed Euridice.

-This is Gluck. This is Gluck.

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-This is Gluck.

-THEY CONFER QUIETLY

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Oh, so does he just want the name of the...?

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-No.

-The original...

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-Monteverdi.

-Monteverdi.

-Yeah.

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-Yeah?

-Yeah, yeah.

-OK. Monteverdi.

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No, it was Gluck. It was Orpheus ed Euridice.

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-Oh, sorry.

-I wasn't 100%.

-And finally.

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NEW OPERATIC SONG PLAYS

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THEY CONFER QUIETLY

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-I was thinking Haydn.

-Haydn. Maybe.

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Mozart's Austrian. This is German they want again.

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What do they...?

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-What was your suggestion?

-Haydn.

-Haydn.

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-But it could equally be Mozart.

-Mozart?

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I wouldn't...

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Haydn? We'll go for Haydn.

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No, that was Purcell. That was from the Fairy Queen.

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Ten points for this.

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Answer as soon as your name is called.

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The sum of the fractions 1/2 + 1/6 + 1/21

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is equivalent to how many sevenths?

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5/7.

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Correct.

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Right, these bonuses are on fiction.

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Who wrote the 1976 novel The Alteration?

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It assumes that the Reformation did not take place

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and opens with Himmler and Beria hearing the voice of the choirboy

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Hubert Anvil at the laying to rest of King Stephen III of England.

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-I don't know.

-No earthly clue.

-No.

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Robert Harris.

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-It's alternative history.

-Harris.

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No, it was Kingsley Amis.

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Secondly, the eccentric English writer Frederick Rolfe was the

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author in 1904 of which novel?

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Its protagonist, a thinly veiled self-portrait,

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unexpectedly becomes pope.

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THEY CONFER QUIETLY

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I feel like they wouldn't give us the word pope if...

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-The Bishop of Rome.

-No, it's Hadrian The Seventh.

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And finally, in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy,

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the centre of the church's authority lies not in Rome but in Geneva,

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the result of the election as pope

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of which historical figure of the Reformation who died there in 1564?

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THEY CONFER QUIETLY

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-Could go with Zwingli.

-What were you going to go for?

-I don't know.

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-Go Zwingli.

-Zwingli.

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No, it was Calvin. Ten points for this.

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In Edward II,

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which historical figure did Christopher Marlowe

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describe as "that sly, inveigling..."

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-Piers Gaveston.

-Correct.

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Right, these bonuses, Emmanuel, are on political history.

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Who became Chancellor the Exchequer in 1964

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and was later Home Secretary,

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Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister,

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the only politician to have held the four great offices of state?

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-Is it Heath?

-I think it's Heath.

-Yeah? Heath, yeah?

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-Not Macmillan?

-No.

-OK. Heath.

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-No, it was Jim Callaghan.

-Oh!

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Which liberal politician was Home Secretary from 1915 to 1916?

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He was later Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer

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becoming Lord Chancellor in 1940.

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I don't have any names.

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-Um...

-Does... Say again.

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Is it too early for...? Yeah, it's too early.

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Could be a little bit early, but I don't know.

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-Yeah, no,. It is too early.

-Beveridge? Beveridge.

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No, it was Sir John Simon.

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And finally, name either of the two 20th-century conservative

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politicians who before becoming Prime Minister served

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successively as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor.

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-Served consecutively...

-So now it could be Ted Heath.

-Ted Heath?

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Maybe, yeah. I'll go for that. We need two.

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-Ted Heath and...?

-No, he said either.

-Either.

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-Oh, OK.

-Yeah? Ted Heath.

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No it wasn't. It was Macmillan and Major.

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Ten points for this. Fingers on the buzzers.

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Postulated in 1951 by Ludwig Biermann

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and named in 1959 by Eugene Parker,

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what phenomenon consists of magnetized plasma that moves

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past the Earth at a mean velocity of roughly 400 kilometres per second?

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Solar wind.

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Correct.

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Your bonuses this time, Emmanuel, are on geography.

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In each case, name the largest country in terms of land area

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whose short, English name begins with the following letters.

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For example, A is Australia.

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Firstly, 1.5 times the size of the UK, what is the

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largest country whose names begins with the letter G for golf?

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-G. Georgia, Germany...

-George is pretty small.

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-Germany.

-Germany is a bit bigger than the UK.

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No, should we just...?

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Let's just think for a second.

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Germany, Georgia... There's a lot of African countries...

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-Guinea.

-Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ghana. Ghana.

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I think it is going to Germany.

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Yeah, let's go for that? Germany.

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It is Germany, yes.

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Second, slightly larger than Germany,

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what is the largest country that begins with a J for Juliet?

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There's Japan.

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J, let's have a look. ..in Africa, nor in South America.

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Is it Japan?

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No, Japan's not bigger than Germany.

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-I would have thought Japan is smaller than Germany.

-Yeah.

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I can't think of any...

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There might be some African countries with J.

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There's 54 of them, can't think of any of them right now.

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-No...

-I think we'd better have it, please.

-Japan.

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It is Japan.

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Finally, more than three times the size of Japan,

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what is the largest country whose name begins with the P for papa?

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-P.

-Peru is quite big.

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-Peru.

-Pakistan is quite large.

-Poland.

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-Pakistan.

-Pakistan.

-Pakistan is quite big.

-Pakistan is big?

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-Is that really big?

-Yeah, yeah. I think it's going to be Pakistan.

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Yeah? There's nowhere else? Anywhere else?

0:22:380:22:40

-Yeah, Pakistan makes sense.

-You sure?

-No!

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Pakistan.

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No, Peru is bigger than Pakistan. ALL GROAN

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Right, we are going to take a picture round now.

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For your picture starter, you are going to see a painting.

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For ten points, I simply want

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the name of the artist, please.

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Vermeer.

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It is Vermeer, yes.

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That was his The Art Of Painting, depicting an artist in his studio.

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Your bonuses are three more paintings of atelier scenes,

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which include the artist's self-portrait.

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Five points for each artist you can identify. Firstly.

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Ooh this could be American.

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Is it that Singer Sargent?

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Like he was sort of...

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It looks like a sort of variation

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of his like...

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You're the one that knows about art.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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Whistler, if it's American.

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Oh, Whistler sounds good, actually.

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Whistler sounds a bit better.

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Yeah, that's a good shout. Whistler.

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-Whistler is correct.

-That was a good shout.

-Secondly.

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-Oh, this is Courbet.

-OK.

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Courbet. Any other answers?

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-No. Just say it.

-OK. Gustave Courbet.

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Correct. And finally.

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Ooh, this looks like Lucian Freud.

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Yeah. And it actually looks like him as well.

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It does look like him as well.

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It's Lucian Freud.

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It is Lucian Freud, yes.

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Right, fingers on the buzzers.

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Ten points for this. Of Persons One Would Have Wished To Have Seen

0:24:020:24:06

and On The Pleasure Of Hating...

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Montaigne.

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No, you lose five points.

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..are essays by which English writer?

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His most famous books, The Plain Speaker and Table-Talk,

0:24:160:24:19

were both published in the 1820s?

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You may not confer. One of you may buzz.

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Disraeli.

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No, it was William Hazlitt.

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Ten points for this, then.

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Bill Woodfull and Douglas Jardine were the opposing captains

0:24:340:24:38

in an Ashes series...

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The Bodyline series.

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Correct.

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Your bonuses this time, Corpus Christi,

0:24:460:24:48

are on contemporary and African-American literature.

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Firstly, which journalist for the Atlantic magazine wrote the

0:24:520:24:55

award-winning memoir Between The World And Me,

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first published in 2015,

0:24:570:24:59

in the form of a series of letters to his teenage son?

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-I don't know.

-No.

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No. Gary Young.

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No, it's Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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Secondly, which Jamaican-born US poet won the 2015 Forward Prize

0:25:130:25:18

for best collection for Citizen: An American Lyric?

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-I have no clue.

-No, we don't know.

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That was Claudia Rankine.

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And finally, God Help The Child is a novel of 2015

0:25:290:25:33

by which Nobel Laureate who was born Chloe Anthony Wofford?

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I don't know. Walker?

0:25:420:25:45

Come on, let's have it.

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Walker.

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No, that was Toni Morrison.

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About three minutes to go and ten points for this.

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What four letters begin words meaning a genus of moths

0:25:510:25:54

of the Crambidae family,

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the family of RNA viruses that includes that Ebola virus

0:25:560:25:59

and a paper-thin, translucent form of pastry?

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Filo.

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That's correct. F-I-L-O.

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Right, these bonuses are on the solar system, Emmanuel.

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Born in Hanover, in 1738, which astronomer is commemorated in

0:26:140:26:18

the names of prominent craters on Saturn's moon Mimas

0:26:180:26:21

and Earth's moon?

0:26:210:26:23

Astronomers.

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Yeah, it's a bit late for Copernicus. Herschel. It could be...

0:26:270:26:30

-Herschel was British.

-What nationality did he say?

-German.

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-Born in Hanover.

-But he could be German.

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LAUGHTER

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-OK.

-Is there anything...? Anyone else?

-No, OK.

-Herschel.

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-Herschel is correct, yes.

-OK.

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Discovered in the 1990s by the use of radar from orbit,

0:26:430:26:47

Mead is an impact crater, named after the anthropologist

0:26:470:26:50

Margaret Mead, on which planet of the solar system?

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This is just a guess, isn't it?

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A rocky bit of crater.

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It's got to have, like, a rocky surface, like...Pluto.

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-Mercury.

-Mercury. Mercury?

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-Yeah.

-Mars, Mercury?

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I'll just guess. Mercury.

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No, it's on Venus.

0:27:090:27:10

About 90km in diameter and containing striking bright

0:27:100:27:14

spots, the Occator crater was discovered in 2015

0:27:140:27:18

on which body of the solar system?

0:27:180:27:20

-Body, so it might not be a planet. Could it be...?

-Ceres.

-Ceres.

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-Ceres.

-In 2015. I think they found it last year.

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It couldn't be the sun, could it?

0:27:270:27:29

-Is that...?

-An impact crater on the sun, that'd be a bit crazy.

0:27:290:27:32

-No, no, that would be... No.

-LAUGHTER

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Ceres. Ceres.

0:27:340:27:35

Ceres is right. Ten points for this.

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The name Khorasan appears in the names of three provinces

0:27:380:27:41

of which present-day country?

0:27:410:27:43

It's other provinces include Golestan, Kerman and Zanjan.

0:27:430:27:47

Uzbekistan.

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No. Anyone like to buzz from Corpus? Quickly.

0:27:510:27:54

China.

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No, it's a Iran. GONG

0:27:550:27:57

And that, the gong. Corpus Christi - Oxford

0:27:570:27:59

have 55, but Emmanuel College - Cambridge

0:27:590:28:02

have 170.

0:28:020:28:03

Well, bad luck, Corpus. You are going to have to play again,

0:28:060:28:09

I think, if you want to get through to the semifinals.

0:28:090:28:11

Congratulations to you, Emmanuel.

0:28:110:28:12

You will go through to the semifinals, for sure,

0:28:120:28:15

and we will be seeing you again in a few weeks' time.

0:28:150:28:17

We'll look forward to that.

0:28:170:28:19

Thank you very much for joining us and well done.

0:28:190:28:21

I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match,

0:28:210:28:24

but until then, it's goodbye from Corpus Christi College - Oxford...

0:28:240:28:27

-ALL:

-Bye.

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..it's goodbye from Emmanuel College - Cambridge...

0:28:290:28:31

-ALL:

-Goodbye.

-..and it's goodbye for me. Goodbye.

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