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University Challenge. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
Hello. Like something out of Edgar Allen Poe, | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
the remorseless quarterfinal round continues. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
But at least by the end of tonight's match, we will know the first of the | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
four teams through to the semifinal matches in a few weeks' time. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:42 | |
Both teams will know that not all hope is lost for the losers, | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
though, who will get one final chance to qualify. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
Now, the team from Emmanuel College - Cambridge | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
are here having seen off the University of Nottingham | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
in round one | 0:00:53 | 0:00:54 | |
and the School of Oriental and African studies in round two. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
Then with another characteristic combination | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
of strong general knowledge and inspired guesswork, | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
their first quarterfinal victory was at the expense of | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
Warwick University. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:08 | |
With an accumulated score of 570 thus far, let's meet them again. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:13 | |
Hello, I'm Tom Hill. I'm from London and I'm reading history. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:17 | |
Hello, my name is Leah Ward. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
I'm originally from Oxfordshire and I'm studying maths. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
This is their captain. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
Hello, my name is Bobby Seagull. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
I'm from East Ham, in the London Borough of Newham. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
I'm studying for a master's in education, specialising in maths. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
Hello, I'm Bruno. I'm from Wandsworth, in Southwest London | 0:01:31 | 0:01:33 | |
and I'm studying physics. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
The team from Corpus Christi College - Oxford had | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
a close match in the first round, winning by 200 points to 175, | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
notched up by Jesus College - Cambridge. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
The second round was a similar story when they won by 175 to 150 against | 0:01:49 | 0:01:54 | |
the reigning champions Peterhouse - Cambridge, | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
but they pulled off a very convincing win in their first | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
quarterfinal with 250 points to Bristol University's mere 70. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:04 | |
Within accumulated total of 625 points, | 0:02:04 | 0:02:08 | |
let's meet the Corpus team again. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
Hello, I'm Tom Fleet. I'm from Pendoggett, in Cornwall | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
and I study English. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
Hi, I'm Emma Johnson. I'm from North London and I study medicine. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
And their captain. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:19 | |
Hi, I'm Nikhil Venkatesh. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
I'm from Derby and I study philosophy, politics and economics. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
Hi, I'm Adam Wright. I'm from Winnersh, in Berkshire | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
and I'm studying for a DPhil in physics. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
Right, fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:37 | |
Which British Imperial possession included more | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
than 500 princely states over which the crown held paramount see | 0:02:40 | 0:02:44 | |
paramountcy in a form of indirect rule? | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
These states included Kochin, Baroda... | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
India. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:53 | |
India is correct, yes. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:54 | |
So, you got the first set of bonuses, Corpus Christi. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
They are on Homer's Odyssey. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
Firstly, for five points, in book 12 of the Odyssey, | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
Odysseus navigates the channel between which two mythical figures? | 0:03:04 | 0:03:09 | |
Their names appear in a metaphor meaning to be caught between | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
two equally unpleasant alternatives. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
Nominate Johnson. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:16 | |
Scylla and Charybdis. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:17 | |
Correct, yes. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:18 | |
Odysseus later lands on the island of Thrinacia | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
where, against orders, his men eat the cattle of which deity? | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
As they sail away, Zeus sends a storm | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
in which all but Odysseus perish. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
Cyclops, is that a deity? | 0:03:31 | 0:03:32 | |
No, Cyclops had sheep, not cows. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
I don't know. Who would have cows? | 0:03:35 | 0:03:37 | |
-Athena. -Poseidon... Everyone... | 0:03:37 | 0:03:38 | |
Poseidon is really angry in the Odyssey. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
-But he's the sea, right? -Yeah. -Yeah... -Hephaestus? | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
He could have cows. I don't know. Take a shot. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:46 | |
Hephaestus? | 0:03:46 | 0:03:47 | |
No, it's Helios, the Sun God. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
The shipwrecked Odysseus is washed up on the island of Ogygia | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
where he is confined for seven years as the lover of which nymph? | 0:03:53 | 0:03:58 | |
-Calypso. -Calypso. | 0:03:58 | 0:03:59 | |
Correct. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:02 | |
"Man produces | 0:04:02 | 0:04:03 | |
"evil as a bee produces honey." | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
These are the words of which Nobel laureate? | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
Born in Cornwall, in 1911, | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
his novels include Pincher Martin, | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
The Inheritors and Rites Of Passage... | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
William Golding. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:17 | |
Correct. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:18 | |
Your first bonuses, | 0:04:21 | 0:04:22 | |
Emmanuel, are on films by British director for Gurinder Chadha. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
In each case, name the film from the description. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
I need the precise title in each case. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
Firstly, a road movie from 1993 about three generations of | 0:04:32 | 0:04:37 | |
Asian women from Birmingham on a day trip to Blackpool. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
-East... -It's not East Is East? | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
-Do we have anything else? It's not really... -East is East. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
East Is East. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
No, it's Bhaji On The Beach. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
Secondly, a 2008 film based on Louise Rennison's novels | 0:04:50 | 0:04:54 | |
for young adults. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:55 | |
It starred Georgia Groome as a teenager from Eastbourne. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:59 | |
It's the... Isn't it the...Angus, Thongs one? | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
Oh, Angus... Angus, Thongs and Perfect... Yeah. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
-Try it. -That sounds like... Georgia somebody. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
-What's it called? -Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:11 | |
You just... Nominate Barton-Singer. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:14 | |
Correct. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:16 | |
And finally, 2004 film described as a Bollywood-style, updated | 0:05:18 | 0:05:23 | |
Jane Austen in which Mrs Bakshi is eager to find suitable husbands | 0:05:23 | 0:05:28 | |
for her four unmarried daughters. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:30 | |
-Bride. -Yeah. -Bride And Prejudice. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:31 | |
Bride And Prejudice is correct. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:36 | |
Listen carefully. With reference to the book of Exodus, | 0:05:36 | 0:05:39 | |
if locusts is eight, | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
hail is seven and flies is four, | 0:05:41 | 0:05:46 | |
what is two? | 0:05:46 | 0:05:47 | |
Frogs. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:52 | |
Frogs is correct, yes. They are the plagues... | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
visited upon Egypt, so you get a set of bonuses, this time, having | 0:05:55 | 0:05:59 | |
taken the lead, Emmanuel College, on the number 12. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
If the function sigma of X is defined | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
as the sum of the positive factors of X, | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
including X itself, | 0:06:08 | 0:06:09 | |
what is sigma of 12? | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
12 + 6 + 4 + 3... | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
-+ 2 + 1. -Yeah. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
-So, what is it? -So, that's... -1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
16... 28. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:21 | |
28, isn't it? | 0:06:21 | 0:06:22 | |
-28. -Plus six, yeah? 28. -28. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
-28. -Correct. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
12 is the first abundant number, | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
in other words, the smallest positive integer X | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
for which the sum of its factors, excluding X itself, | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
is greater than X. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:36 | |
What is the second abundant number? | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
Could it be 60 or...? | 0:06:39 | 0:06:40 | |
-16 would be... -No, 60. 60,6-0. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
Is it that high? | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
I don't know. Or there could be one below. I feel like 60 is abundant. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
There could be one before it. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:49 | |
Should we just go for 60? | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
-Try 16. -What were you going to say? | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
28 is a perfect number, so surely it's... | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
It can't be 28. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
It could be 24. | 0:06:57 | 0:06:59 | |
-No, it isn't 24. -60. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:00 | |
60. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:02 | |
-No, it's 18. -Oh! | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
And finally, the totient function phi of X is defined | 0:07:04 | 0:07:08 | |
as the number of positive integers not exceeding X that are | 0:07:08 | 0:07:11 | |
co-primed to X. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
What is phi of 12? | 0:07:13 | 0:07:15 | |
Five, seven, nine, ten, 11. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
-Five. -Five, yeah? Five. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
No, it's four. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
Right, we're going to take a picture round now. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
For your picture starter, | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
you are going to see an illustration of a type of roulette curve. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
That is a path traced by a point on one curve rolling along another. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:33 | |
For ten points, I want the name of this specific form of curve | 0:07:33 | 0:07:37 | |
shown in red. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
A cycloid. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:42 | |
Correct. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
It was named by Galileo and sometimes called | 0:07:46 | 0:07:49 | |
"The Helen of Geometers" | 0:07:49 | 0:07:50 | |
because of the arguments it caused between 17th-century mathematicians. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:55 | |
Your picture bonuses are three more significant | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
types of roulette curve. | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
I want the specific name of each. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
Again, you are looking for the red curve. Firstly, for five. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:05 | |
-Cycloids... -I don't know. -Ellipsoids. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:11 | |
-No, no. Do you know what this is? -No. -No. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
-Do we know? -Triangloid. -Triangloid. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
That the deltoid or tricuspoid. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
Secondly. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:21 | |
-Ooh, um... -What is that? | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
It's a... | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
THEY CONFER QUIETLY | 0:08:26 | 0:08:29 | |
This is coming off | 0:08:29 | 0:08:31 | |
an X-squared type curve. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:32 | |
-Wonder if it could be... -Cuspide. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
-Cuspide. -No, I just made it up. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:36 | |
-No, it's a tractrix. -Tractrix. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
And finally. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
-Is that a... -It's a cardioid. -Cardioid. Cardioid. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:44 | |
-Cardioid. -Correct. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
Give both the regnal name and number that link the following. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
The early 12th-century king of Scotland, | 0:08:53 | 0:08:55 | |
nicknamed The Fierce, | 0:08:55 | 0:08:57 | |
the king of Yugoslavia, assassinated in France in 1934 | 0:08:57 | 0:09:01 | |
and the Russian tsar who was an adversary of Napoleon I. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:05 | |
Alexander I. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:09 | |
Correct. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
These bonuses are on the Syrian queen Zenobia. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
Following the death of her husband Odaenathus in about 267, | 0:09:18 | 0:09:23 | |
Zenobia declared herself queen of which Roman colony | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
and modern-day Syrian city? | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
-Aleppo? -Or Tripoli. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:31 | |
-Tripoli's not... -Oh, sorry. Syria. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:34 | |
Aleppo, Damascus, Homs. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
I don't know. Try Aleppo. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:38 | |
Aleppo. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:39 | |
No, it's Palmyra. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
Secondly, after declaring her independence from Rome, | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
Zenobia seized Egypt and much of Asia Minor before her armies | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
were defeated in Antioch by which Roman emperor? | 0:09:47 | 0:09:51 | |
Hm... | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
-I mean, if it's... -What period? | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
Late... | 0:09:55 | 0:09:56 | |
-Diocletian maybe? -Diocletian. 300. It was around 300. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
-It's the right period. -Diocletian was 380. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
Diocletian. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:04 | |
No, it was Aurelian. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:05 | |
And finally, concerning the rivalry between the Emperor Aurelian | 0:10:05 | 0:10:09 | |
and the Persian Prince Arsace for the love of Zenobia, | 0:10:09 | 0:10:13 | |
Aurelian In Palmira is an opera | 0:10:13 | 0:10:15 | |
of 1813 by which Italian composer? | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
-It can't be Verdi, 1813. -Donizetti. -Donizetti, probably is. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
-That's the right period. -Yeah? | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
Donizetti. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:25 | |
No, it's Rossini Ten points for this. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
In legislation, what ten-letter term describes the group of | 0:10:27 | 0:10:31 | |
diseases such as anthrax, botulism and malaria that must be | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
reported to local public health authorities | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
if suspected or diagnosed? | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
Contagious. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:44 | |
Infectious. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:48 | |
No, it's notifiable. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:51 | |
With different spellings, what bird links a gender equality | 0:10:51 | 0:10:55 | |
charter for British higher education institutions... | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
Swan. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:01 | |
Swan is correct, yes. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:02 | |
OK, Corpus, these bonuses are on psychology. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:10 | |
For what do the letters ND stand when denoting the concept that | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
a person's name may influence their choice of job or other path in life? | 0:11:13 | 0:11:18 | |
A cited example is that men called Raymond are more likely to be | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
radiologists than dermatologists. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:24 | |
Nominative determinism. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:26 | |
Correct. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:28 | |
Which British magazine coined that term, nominative determinism, | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
in 1994, citing a book on polar exploration by Daniel Snowman | 0:11:31 | 0:11:36 | |
and a scholarly article on incontinence | 0:11:36 | 0:11:39 | |
by the urologist JW Splat and D Weedon? | 0:11:39 | 0:11:44 | |
-The New Scientist. -Is that British? | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
-Yeah. -Yeah. New Scientist. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:48 | |
Correct. In the 2015 article, which novelist noted that his surname was | 0:11:48 | 0:11:53 | |
a contraction of Seawolf and, quote, | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
"Nothing to do with egotism at all, | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
"yet the name has still made its mark on me | 0:11:58 | 0:12:00 | |
"such that I find similar ones endlessly amusing." | 0:12:00 | 0:12:03 | |
Will Self. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:04 | |
Correct. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:05 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
Which two US biologists give their surnames to an experiment | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
of 1957 that's been called the most beautiful experiment in biology? | 0:12:11 | 0:12:16 | |
It showed that DNA is replicated semi-conservatively. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
Urey/Miller. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:23 | |
No. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:24 | |
Anyone like to buzz from Corpus Christi? | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
Thompson and Smith. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:32 | |
No, it's Meselson and Stahl. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:33 | |
So, ten points at stake for this. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
Which town came second to Cardiff in a 1954 poll to decide | 0:12:35 | 0:12:39 | |
the capital of Wales? | 0:12:39 | 0:12:41 | |
It was once represented in Parliament by David Lloyd George | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
and in 1969, | 0:12:44 | 0:12:45 | |
its castle was the scene of the investiture of the Prince of Wales. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
Pembroke. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:52 | |
No. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
-Caernarvon. -Caernarvon is right, yes. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
You get a set of bonuses this time, Emmanuel College, | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
on international organisations. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:05 | |
Firstly, for five points, | 0:13:05 | 0:13:06 | |
what year saw the establishment | 0:13:06 | 0:13:08 | |
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization | 0:13:08 | 0:13:10 | |
with 12 founding members? | 0:13:10 | 0:13:12 | |
You can have a year either way. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:13 | |
I think it's '49, '48. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
-'49. -Yeah. 1949. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:19 | |
Correct. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:20 | |
In addition to Malta and Cyprus, | 0:13:20 | 0:13:22 | |
four countries are members of the European Union | 0:13:22 | 0:13:25 | |
but are not members of NATO. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:28 | |
Name three of them. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:29 | |
European Union but not NATO. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
Czech Republic and Yugoslavia... | 0:13:32 | 0:13:34 | |
Maybe southern countries. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:37 | |
-Maybe like Croatia. -Greece? -Croatia, I imagine. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
-Croatia and...? -Greece, maybe. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
Croatia and Greece. | 0:13:43 | 0:13:44 | |
No, I wanted you to name three of them. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
They are Austria, Ireland, Finland and Sweden. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:51 | |
And finally, in addition to the USA, Canada and Turkey, | 0:13:51 | 0:13:54 | |
three countries are members of NATO, but not of the European Union. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:58 | |
Name two of the three. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:00 | |
NATO, but not European Union. So, who else is a part of NATO? | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
-Is India part of NATO? -No, I don't think so. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
They're all around the North Atlantic. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
-Yeah, of course. -I don't... I can't think of any countries. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:09 | |
-Iceland. -Iceland. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
Iceland and...? | 0:14:11 | 0:14:12 | |
-Norway. -Norway? | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
-Iceland and Norway? -Was it just two, though? -Yeah, I think so. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:17 | |
Iceland and Norway. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:19 | |
Yes, the third one is Albania. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
Right, it's time now to take the music round. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:23 | |
For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of music | 0:14:23 | 0:14:25 | |
by an Austrian composer. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:26 | |
Ten points if you can identify that composer. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:30 | |
OPERATIC MUSIC PLAYS | 0:14:30 | 0:14:32 | |
Schonberg. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
No, you can hear little more, Corpus Christi. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:37 | |
OPERATIC SONG RESUMES | 0:14:37 | 0:14:44 | |
Johann Strauss. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:58 | |
No, it's Mahler. That's The Farewell from The Song Of The Earth. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:00 | |
So, music bonuses in a moment or two. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:02 | |
Ten points for this starter question. Fingers on the buzzers. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
First published in 1917, | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
soon after the author's death at the Battle of Arras, | 0:15:07 | 0:15:11 | |
which 16-line poem was inspired by the poet's own diary entry | 0:15:11 | 0:15:16 | |
describing a train journey on a... | 0:15:16 | 0:15:17 | |
In Flanders Fields. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:21 | |
No. You lose five points. | 0:15:21 | 0:15:23 | |
..describing a train journey on a summer's day? | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
It takes its name from a village and former railway station in | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
Gloucestershire. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:31 | |
Adlestrop. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:34 | |
Adlestrop is correct. Yes. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:35 | |
Now, for your music starter, which nobody got. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:42 | |
We heard Kathleen Ferrier, | 0:15:42 | 0:15:44 | |
the famous contralto a year before her death in 1953. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:48 | |
Your music bonuses are three more of her notable recordings. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:51 | |
Five points in each case if you can give me the composer of the work. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:55 | |
Firstly for five, the German composer of this work. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
OPERATIC SONG PLAYS | 0:15:58 | 0:16:04 | |
THEY CONFER QUIETLY | 0:16:06 | 0:16:11 | |
-Bach. -It doesn't feel Bach-y. It's got that... | 0:16:14 | 0:16:16 | |
Doesn't it? | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
THEY CONFER QUIETLY | 0:16:19 | 0:16:22 | |
-Gluck. -Did they say German? -Yeah, German. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:25 | |
-Bach sounds plausible. Yeah? -Did they say German? | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
-They said German, yeah? -Yeah. -Bach. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
That's correct. It was Bach. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
It was the Agnus Dei from the Mass in B minor. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
Secondly. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:37 | |
NEW OPERATIC SONG PLAYS | 0:16:37 | 0:16:39 | |
-This is Orfeo ed Euridice. -This is Gluck. This is Gluck. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:42 | |
-This is Gluck. -THEY CONFER QUIETLY | 0:16:42 | 0:16:46 | |
Oh, so does he just want the name of the...? | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
-No. -The original... | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
-Monteverdi. -Monteverdi. -Yeah. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:51 | |
-Yeah? -Yeah, yeah. -OK. Monteverdi. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
No, it was Gluck. It was Orpheus ed Euridice. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
-Oh, sorry. -I wasn't 100%. -And finally. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
NEW OPERATIC SONG PLAYS | 0:16:59 | 0:17:02 | |
THEY CONFER QUIETLY | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
-I was thinking Haydn. -Haydn. Maybe. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
Mozart's Austrian. This is German they want again. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
What do they...? | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
-What was your suggestion? -Haydn. -Haydn. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:22 | |
-But it could equally be Mozart. -Mozart? | 0:17:22 | 0:17:24 | |
I wouldn't... | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
Haydn? We'll go for Haydn. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
No, that was Purcell. That was from the Fairy Queen. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
Answer as soon as your name is called. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:35 | |
The sum of the fractions 1/2 + 1/6 + 1/21 | 0:17:35 | 0:17:41 | |
is equivalent to how many sevenths? | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
5/7. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:54 | |
Correct. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
Right, these bonuses are on fiction. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
Who wrote the 1976 novel The Alteration? | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
It assumes that the Reformation did not take place | 0:18:05 | 0:18:07 | |
and opens with Himmler and Beria hearing the voice of the choirboy | 0:18:07 | 0:18:12 | |
Hubert Anvil at the laying to rest of King Stephen III of England. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:16 | |
-I don't know. -No earthly clue. -No. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:21 | |
Robert Harris. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
-It's alternative history. -Harris. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:26 | |
No, it was Kingsley Amis. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:28 | |
Secondly, the eccentric English writer Frederick Rolfe was the | 0:18:28 | 0:18:32 | |
author in 1904 of which novel? | 0:18:32 | 0:18:34 | |
Its protagonist, a thinly veiled self-portrait, | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
unexpectedly becomes pope. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:39 | |
THEY CONFER QUIETLY | 0:18:40 | 0:18:45 | |
I feel like they wouldn't give us the word pope if... | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
-The Bishop of Rome. -No, it's Hadrian The Seventh. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
And finally, in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
the centre of the church's authority lies not in Rome but in Geneva, | 0:18:56 | 0:19:01 | |
the result of the election as pope | 0:19:01 | 0:19:03 | |
of which historical figure of the Reformation who died there in 1564? | 0:19:03 | 0:19:08 | |
THEY CONFER QUIETLY | 0:19:08 | 0:19:11 | |
-Could go with Zwingli. -What were you going to go for? -I don't know. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
-Go Zwingli. -Zwingli. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
No, it was Calvin. Ten points for this. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:19 | |
In Edward II, | 0:19:19 | 0:19:21 | |
which historical figure did Christopher Marlowe | 0:19:21 | 0:19:23 | |
describe as "that sly, inveigling..." | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
-Piers Gaveston. -Correct. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:29 | |
Right, these bonuses, Emmanuel, are on political history. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:36 | |
Who became Chancellor the Exchequer in 1964 | 0:19:36 | 0:19:39 | |
and was later Home Secretary, | 0:19:39 | 0:19:41 | |
Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
the only politician to have held the four great offices of state? | 0:19:44 | 0:19:47 | |
-Is it Heath? -I think it's Heath. -Yeah? Heath, yeah? | 0:19:47 | 0:19:50 | |
-Not Macmillan? -No. -OK. Heath. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
-No, it was Jim Callaghan. -Oh! | 0:19:53 | 0:19:55 | |
Which liberal politician was Home Secretary from 1915 to 1916? | 0:19:55 | 0:19:59 | |
He was later Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer | 0:19:59 | 0:20:02 | |
becoming Lord Chancellor in 1940. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
I don't have any names. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
-Um... -Does... Say again. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
Is it too early for...? Yeah, it's too early. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:12 | |
Could be a little bit early, but I don't know. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:14 | |
-Yeah, no,. It is too early. -Beveridge? Beveridge. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:17 | |
No, it was Sir John Simon. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:19 | |
And finally, name either of the two 20th-century conservative | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
politicians who before becoming Prime Minister served | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
successively as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
-Served consecutively... -So now it could be Ted Heath. -Ted Heath? | 0:20:29 | 0:20:33 | |
Maybe, yeah. I'll go for that. We need two. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:35 | |
-Ted Heath and...? -No, he said either. -Either. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:37 | |
-Oh, OK. -Yeah? Ted Heath. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:39 | |
No it wasn't. It was Macmillan and Major. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:42 | |
Ten points for this. Fingers on the buzzers. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
Postulated in 1951 by Ludwig Biermann | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
and named in 1959 by Eugene Parker, | 0:20:47 | 0:20:51 | |
what phenomenon consists of magnetized plasma that moves | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
past the Earth at a mean velocity of roughly 400 kilometres per second? | 0:20:54 | 0:20:59 | |
Solar wind. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:00 | |
Correct. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:02 | |
Your bonuses this time, Emmanuel, are on geography. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
In each case, name the largest country in terms of land area | 0:21:08 | 0:21:12 | |
whose short, English name begins with the following letters. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:14 | |
For example, A is Australia. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:18 | |
Firstly, 1.5 times the size of the UK, what is the | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
largest country whose names begins with the letter G for golf? | 0:21:21 | 0:21:26 | |
-G. Georgia, Germany... -George is pretty small. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
-Germany. -Germany is a bit bigger than the UK. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:31 | |
No, should we just...? | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
Let's just think for a second. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:34 | |
Germany, Georgia... There's a lot of African countries... | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
-Guinea. -Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ghana. Ghana. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:42 | |
I think it is going to Germany. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
Yeah, let's go for that? Germany. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:46 | |
It is Germany, yes. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:48 | |
Second, slightly larger than Germany, | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
what is the largest country that begins with a J for Juliet? | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
There's Japan. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
J, let's have a look. ..in Africa, nor in South America. | 0:21:56 | 0:22:00 | |
Is it Japan? | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
No, Japan's not bigger than Germany. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:07 | |
-I would have thought Japan is smaller than Germany. -Yeah. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
I can't think of any... | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
There might be some African countries with J. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
There's 54 of them, can't think of any of them right now. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
-No... -I think we'd better have it, please. -Japan. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:20 | |
It is Japan. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:21 | |
Finally, more than three times the size of Japan, | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
what is the largest country whose name begins with the P for papa? | 0:22:24 | 0:22:28 | |
-P. -Peru is quite big. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
-Peru. -Pakistan is quite large. -Poland. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:32 | |
-Pakistan. -Pakistan. -Pakistan is quite big. -Pakistan is big? | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
-Is that really big? -Yeah, yeah. I think it's going to be Pakistan. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:38 | |
Yeah? There's nowhere else? Anywhere else? | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
-Yeah, Pakistan makes sense. -You sure? -No! | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
Pakistan. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
No, Peru is bigger than Pakistan. ALL GROAN | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
Right, we are going to take a picture round now. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
For your picture starter, you are going to see a painting. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:51 | |
For ten points, I simply want | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
the name of the artist, please. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
Vermeer. | 0:22:57 | 0:22:58 | |
It is Vermeer, yes. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
That was his The Art Of Painting, depicting an artist in his studio. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:07 | |
Your bonuses are three more paintings of atelier scenes, | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
which include the artist's self-portrait. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:12 | |
Five points for each artist you can identify. Firstly. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
Ooh this could be American. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:19 | |
Is it that Singer Sargent? | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
Like he was sort of... | 0:23:21 | 0:23:22 | |
It looks like a sort of variation | 0:23:22 | 0:23:24 | |
of his like... | 0:23:24 | 0:23:25 | |
You're the one that knows about art. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
Yeah, I don't know. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:29 | |
Whistler, if it's American. | 0:23:29 | 0:23:30 | |
Oh, Whistler sounds good, actually. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
Whistler sounds a bit better. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:34 | |
Yeah, that's a good shout. Whistler. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:36 | |
-Whistler is correct. -That was a good shout. -Secondly. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:40 | |
-Oh, this is Courbet. -OK. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:42 | |
Courbet. Any other answers? | 0:23:42 | 0:23:44 | |
-No. Just say it. -OK. Gustave Courbet. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:46 | |
Correct. And finally. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:48 | |
Ooh, this looks like Lucian Freud. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:52 | |
Yeah. And it actually looks like him as well. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:54 | |
It does look like him as well. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:56 | |
It's Lucian Freud. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:57 | |
It is Lucian Freud, yes. | 0:23:57 | 0:23:58 | |
Right, fingers on the buzzers. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:02 | |
Ten points for this. Of Persons One Would Have Wished To Have Seen | 0:24:02 | 0:24:06 | |
and On The Pleasure Of Hating... | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
Montaigne. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
No, you lose five points. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:13 | |
..are essays by which English writer? | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
His most famous books, The Plain Speaker and Table-Talk, | 0:24:16 | 0:24:19 | |
were both published in the 1820s? | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
You may not confer. One of you may buzz. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
Disraeli. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
No, it was William Hazlitt. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
Ten points for this, then. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:34 | |
Bill Woodfull and Douglas Jardine were the opposing captains | 0:24:34 | 0:24:38 | |
in an Ashes series... | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
The Bodyline series. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:42 | |
Correct. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:43 | |
Your bonuses this time, Corpus Christi, | 0:24:46 | 0:24:48 | |
are on contemporary and African-American literature. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:52 | |
Firstly, which journalist for the Atlantic magazine wrote the | 0:24:52 | 0:24:55 | |
award-winning memoir Between The World And Me, | 0:24:55 | 0:24:57 | |
first published in 2015, | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
in the form of a series of letters to his teenage son? | 0:24:59 | 0:25:03 | |
-I don't know. -No. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:08 | |
No. Gary Young. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
No, it's Ta-Nehisi Coates. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
Secondly, which Jamaican-born US poet won the 2015 Forward Prize | 0:25:13 | 0:25:18 | |
for best collection for Citizen: An American Lyric? | 0:25:18 | 0:25:21 | |
-I have no clue. -No, we don't know. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
That was Claudia Rankine. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:29 | |
And finally, God Help The Child is a novel of 2015 | 0:25:29 | 0:25:33 | |
by which Nobel Laureate who was born Chloe Anthony Wofford? | 0:25:33 | 0:25:38 | |
I don't know. Walker? | 0:25:42 | 0:25:45 | |
Come on, let's have it. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:46 | |
Walker. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
No, that was Toni Morrison. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:49 | |
About three minutes to go and ten points for this. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
What four letters begin words meaning a genus of moths | 0:25:51 | 0:25:54 | |
of the Crambidae family, | 0:25:54 | 0:25:56 | |
the family of RNA viruses that includes that Ebola virus | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
and a paper-thin, translucent form of pastry? | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
Filo. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:06 | |
That's correct. F-I-L-O. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:08 | |
Right, these bonuses are on the solar system, Emmanuel. | 0:26:11 | 0:26:14 | |
Born in Hanover, in 1738, which astronomer is commemorated in | 0:26:14 | 0:26:18 | |
the names of prominent craters on Saturn's moon Mimas | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
and Earth's moon? | 0:26:21 | 0:26:23 | |
Astronomers. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:27 | |
Yeah, it's a bit late for Copernicus. Herschel. It could be... | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
-Herschel was British. -What nationality did he say? -German. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:33 | |
-Born in Hanover. -But he could be German. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:35 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:26:35 | 0:26:37 | |
-OK. -Is there anything...? Anyone else? -No, OK. -Herschel. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:41 | |
-Herschel is correct, yes. -OK. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:43 | |
Discovered in the 1990s by the use of radar from orbit, | 0:26:43 | 0:26:47 | |
Mead is an impact crater, named after the anthropologist | 0:26:47 | 0:26:50 | |
Margaret Mead, on which planet of the solar system? | 0:26:50 | 0:26:54 | |
This is just a guess, isn't it? | 0:26:55 | 0:26:57 | |
A rocky bit of crater. | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
It's got to have, like, a rocky surface, like...Pluto. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:01 | |
-Mercury. -Mercury. Mercury? | 0:27:01 | 0:27:04 | |
-Yeah. -Mars, Mercury? | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
I'll just guess. Mercury. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:09 | |
No, it's on Venus. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:10 | |
About 90km in diameter and containing striking bright | 0:27:10 | 0:27:14 | |
spots, the Occator crater was discovered in 2015 | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
on which body of the solar system? | 0:27:18 | 0:27:20 | |
-Body, so it might not be a planet. Could it be...? -Ceres. -Ceres. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:24 | |
-Ceres. -In 2015. I think they found it last year. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
It couldn't be the sun, could it? | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
-Is that...? -An impact crater on the sun, that'd be a bit crazy. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
-No, no, that would be... No. -LAUGHTER | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
Ceres. Ceres. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:35 | |
Ceres is right. Ten points for this. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
The name Khorasan appears in the names of three provinces | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
of which present-day country? | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
It's other provinces include Golestan, Kerman and Zanjan. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:47 | |
Uzbekistan. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:51 | |
No. Anyone like to buzz from Corpus? Quickly. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
China. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:55 | |
No, it's a Iran. GONG | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
And that, the gong. Corpus Christi - Oxford | 0:27:57 | 0:27:59 | |
have 55, but Emmanuel College - Cambridge | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
have 170. | 0:28:02 | 0:28:03 | |
Well, bad luck, Corpus. You are going to have to play again, | 0:28:06 | 0:28:09 | |
I think, if you want to get through to the semifinals. | 0:28:09 | 0:28:11 | |
Congratulations to you, Emmanuel. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:12 | |
You will go through to the semifinals, for sure, | 0:28:12 | 0:28:15 | |
and we will be seeing you again in a few weeks' time. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:17 | |
We'll look forward to that. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:19 | |
Thank you very much for joining us and well done. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
I hope you can join us next time for another quarterfinal match, | 0:28:21 | 0:28:24 | |
but until then, it's goodbye from Corpus Christi College - Oxford... | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 | |
-ALL: -Bye. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:29 | |
..it's goodbye from Emmanuel College - Cambridge... | 0:28:29 | 0:28:31 | |
-ALL: -Goodbye. -..and it's goodbye for me. Goodbye. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:34 |