0:00:18 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:22University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. You win some, you lose some
0:00:30 > 0:00:33is an aphorism which applies pretty well
0:00:33 > 0:00:35to the two teams playing tonight,
0:00:35 > 0:00:38each of whom have won their first- and second-round matches
0:00:38 > 0:00:40and one of their quarterfinals,
0:00:40 > 0:00:43but they've each lost a quarterfinal as well.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46That means that whichever of them wins tonight
0:00:46 > 0:00:49will join Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Edinburgh University
0:00:49 > 0:00:50in the semifinals,
0:00:50 > 0:00:53and we'll be saying goodbye to the losers.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Now, the team from the University of Warwick
0:00:55 > 0:00:58beat Liverpool University and the University of East London
0:00:58 > 0:01:00in their first two matches.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Having lost to Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
0:01:02 > 0:01:04in their first quarterfinal,
0:01:04 > 0:01:07they narrowly beat Bristol University in their second
0:01:07 > 0:01:09to find themselves here.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Now playing their reserve member,
0:01:11 > 0:01:13let's meet the Warwick team again.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Hello, I'm Jamie Keschner-Lycett,
0:01:15 > 0:01:17I'm from Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire,
0:01:17 > 0:01:19and I'm studying French and history.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Hiya, I'm Sophie Rudd, I'm from Parts of Lindsey,
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and I'm studying computer science and its applications.
0:01:25 > 0:01:26And this is their captain.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29Hello, I'm Giles Hutchings, I'm from Farnham in Surrey,
0:01:29 > 0:01:30and I'm studying maths.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Hello, I'm Thomas Van, I'm from Geneva in Switzerland,
0:01:33 > 0:01:34and I'm studying history.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37APPLAUSE
0:01:39 > 0:01:41The team Wolfson College, Cambridge, arrived here
0:01:41 > 0:01:45by beating the School of Oriental and African Studies in round one,
0:01:45 > 0:01:48Jesus College, Cambridge, in round two,
0:01:48 > 0:01:51and Balliol College, Oxford, in their first quarterfinal.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54But they followed that with a narrow defeat
0:01:54 > 0:01:56at the hands of Edinburgh University.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58Let's meet the Wolfson team again.
0:01:58 > 0:01:59Hi, my name is Justin Yang,
0:01:59 > 0:02:01I'm from Vancouver, Canada,
0:02:01 > 0:02:04and I'm studying for a PhD in public health and primary care.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Hi, I'm Ben Chaudhri, I'm from near Cockermouth in Cumbria,
0:02:07 > 0:02:09and I'm studying natural sciences.
0:02:09 > 0:02:10And this is their captain.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Hi, my name is Eric Monkman, I'm from Oakville, Canada,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15and I'm studying economics.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Hi, I'm Paul Cosgrove, I'm from Cookstown in Northern Ireland,
0:02:18 > 0:02:21and I'm studying nuclear engineering.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23APPLAUSE
0:02:25 > 0:02:26OK, fingers on the buzzers,
0:02:26 > 0:02:28here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30"He had a large, loving mind
0:02:30 > 0:02:33"and the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes."
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Queen Victoria wrote those words in her diary
0:02:36 > 0:02:40soon after the death of which author in...?
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Disraeli. No, sorry.
0:02:42 > 0:02:43I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45..of which author in 1870?
0:02:47 > 0:02:48Dickens.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50It was Charles Dickens, yes.
0:02:50 > 0:02:51APPLAUSE
0:02:51 > 0:02:54So you get the first set of bonuses, Wolfson College.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57They're on railway architecture.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01Firstly, from its construction in 1837, which London terminus
0:03:01 > 0:03:04was distinguished by a tall Doric entry arch?
0:03:04 > 0:03:08The arch was demolished despite public outcry in the 1960s.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10Euston.
0:03:10 > 0:03:11Euston.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Correct. The counterpart of the Euston Arch
0:03:13 > 0:03:16is now the world's oldest surviving example
0:03:16 > 0:03:18of monumental railway architecture.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21It lies on Curzon Street in which English city?
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Birmingham?
0:03:24 > 0:03:26Say Liverpool?
0:03:26 > 0:03:28- No.- Go for it.- Birmingham?
0:03:28 > 0:03:29Liverpool.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31No, it's Birmingham.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33A statue of which public figure
0:03:33 > 0:03:36stands inside London's St Pancras station?
0:03:36 > 0:03:39From the 1960s he was an outspoken opponent
0:03:39 > 0:03:42of the destruction of station architecture.
0:03:42 > 0:03:43- John Betjeman.- OK.
0:03:43 > 0:03:44John Betjeman.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Correct.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Ten points for this starter question.
0:03:48 > 0:03:49Give the Italian title
0:03:49 > 0:03:51of the Renaissance painting
0:03:51 > 0:03:54that depicts Zephyrus, Flora, the Three Graces,
0:03:54 > 0:03:56Mercury and Venus competing...
0:03:57 > 0:03:58Primavera.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Correct.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02APPLAUSE
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Your bonuses are on the words
0:04:05 > 0:04:08of the early 19th century critic and essayist William Hazlitt.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11In each case, identify the Romantic poet he's describing.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14First, "He has a fire in his eye,
0:04:14 > 0:04:17"a fever in his blood, a maggot in his brain,
0:04:17 > 0:04:19"a hectic flutter in his speech,
0:04:19 > 0:04:22"which mark out the philosophic fanatic."
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Is it Byron, or...?
0:04:25 > 0:04:27- Blake?- Blake? - Is he 19th century, though?
0:04:27 > 0:04:30- But he would've... Blake. - Maybe Shelley.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32- Shelley.- You tell me what to say and I'll say it.
0:04:32 > 0:04:33Shelley.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Shelley.
0:04:35 > 0:04:36Correct.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38"Remote from the passions and events of the great world,
0:04:38 > 0:04:41"he's communicated interest and dignity
0:04:41 > 0:04:43"to the primal movements of the heart of man."
0:04:43 > 0:04:46- Wordsworth?- Wordsworth, or Keats.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50Wordsworth's remoteness, maybe.
0:04:50 > 0:04:51Wordsworth.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Correct. And finally,
0:04:53 > 0:04:55"He makes man after his own image,
0:04:55 > 0:04:57"woman after his own heart.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01"The one is a capricious tyrant, the other a yielding slave."
0:05:01 > 0:05:03- Byron?- Could this be Lord Byron?
0:05:03 > 0:05:04- Sure.- Lord Byron?
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Beginning with the same three letters,
0:05:08 > 0:05:11which two six-letter terms
0:05:11 > 0:05:13are near-synonyms in everyday usage
0:05:13 > 0:05:18but in physics denote one quantity with the dimensions of pressure
0:05:18 > 0:05:20and one dimensionless number?
0:05:20 > 0:05:21For any given substance,
0:05:21 > 0:05:24the ratio of the two gives the modulus of elasticity.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Stress and strain.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Correct.
0:05:28 > 0:05:29APPLAUSE
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Your first bonuses, Warwick, are on China.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day,
0:05:36 > 0:05:41which festival to honour ancestors takes place in early April?
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Meaning "pure brightness" in Chinese,
0:05:43 > 0:05:46its name coincidentally combines the names
0:05:46 > 0:05:49of China's two most-recent imperial dynasties.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52OK, so most recent is Qing.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55- And Ming.- So is it that order?
0:05:55 > 0:05:56No, Qing is the most recent.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58And then Ming.
0:05:58 > 0:05:59Is it Mingqing?
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Mingqing.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03- No, it's Qingming.- Oh!- Bad luck.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06The Qingming Festival in 1976
0:06:06 > 0:06:08saw major demonstration in Tiananmen Square
0:06:08 > 0:06:10following the death of which Chinese Premier?
0:06:10 > 0:06:14He was also foreign minister from 1949-1958.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15OK. Nominate Van.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Zhou Enlai.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Correct. Born in Szechuan in 1904,
0:06:19 > 0:06:22which political figure was formally purged
0:06:22 > 0:06:24after the 1976 demonstrations?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26He was later restored to power
0:06:26 > 0:06:29and presided over wide-ranging economic reforms.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31I'm pretty sure it's Deng Xiaoping, right?
0:06:31 > 0:06:33- Nominate Rudd.- Deng Xiaoping.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Deng Xiaoping is right, yes.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Ten points for this.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39In logic, what three-word English term
0:06:39 > 0:06:44is often used to translate the Latin expression petitio principii?
0:06:46 > 0:06:47Begging the question.
0:06:47 > 0:06:48Correct.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50APPLAUSE
0:06:51 > 0:06:55These bonuses are on physics and astronomy, Wolfson.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58All three answers are two-word terms
0:06:58 > 0:07:00that include the same short adjective.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Firstly, what two-word term
0:07:02 > 0:07:05is used for a hypothetical type of degenerate star
0:07:05 > 0:07:08that's cooled until it is no longer visible?
0:07:08 > 0:07:10This process is thought to take considerably longer
0:07:10 > 0:07:12than the current age of the universe.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14That could be brown dwarf?
0:07:14 > 0:07:16- Yeah, maybe.- Brown dwarf.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18No, it's a black dwarf.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21What apparent phenomenon is seen during planetary transits
0:07:21 > 0:07:25as a dark area that briefly seems to link the limb of the sun
0:07:25 > 0:07:27to the limb of the transiting planet?
0:07:27 > 0:07:29- The...- Black...- The...
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Um...
0:07:31 > 0:07:33It's called a lip or something.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36- Black spot?- No. Black lip... - Black Jupiter?- Black...
0:07:36 > 0:07:38- I don't know.- Black lip.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40No, it's the black drop effect.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44And finally, in physics, what two-word alliterative term
0:07:44 > 0:07:46is used for a hypothetical body
0:07:46 > 0:07:49that absorbs all the radiation falling on it?
0:07:49 > 0:07:50Black body.
0:07:50 > 0:07:51Correct.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54We're going to take a picture round. For your picture starter
0:07:54 > 0:07:56you'll see a well-known quotation from the Bible
0:07:56 > 0:07:58in St Jerome's Latin translation.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02For ten points, I simply want the sense of the quote in English.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Am I my brother's keeper?
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Correct.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10APPLAUSE
0:08:12 > 0:08:14So, you get, Wolfson,
0:08:14 > 0:08:18picture bonuses on more short extracts from the Vulgate.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Again, I want the sense of each quote in English.
0:08:21 > 0:08:22Firstly, for five...
0:08:27 > 0:08:30- Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.- Yes. Yep.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Yes. Secondly...
0:08:39 > 0:08:44I come to bring... All who accept the sword...
0:08:44 > 0:08:47He who will live by the sword will perish by the sword.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50He who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53You would have made a wonderful revivalist preacher, yes.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55LAUGHTER
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Yes, that's the sense of it, perfectly. And finally...
0:09:00 > 0:09:01- Nothing new under the sun.- Yes.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Nothing new under the sun.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05Well done. Yes.
0:09:08 > 0:09:09Right, ten points for this -
0:09:09 > 0:09:12which two consecutive letters of the alphabet
0:09:12 > 0:09:15are the only two consonants in words meaning
0:09:15 > 0:09:18"a man who behaves dishonourably, especially towards women..."
0:09:19 > 0:09:20C and D.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Well done, yes.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25APPLAUSE
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Right, Warwick, your bonuses this time
0:09:27 > 0:09:29are on US Open tennis champions.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33Which Russian won the men's singles title in 2000,
0:09:33 > 0:09:36beating Pete Sampras in straight sets?
0:09:36 > 0:09:39His sister is also a former number one world-ranking tennis player
0:09:39 > 0:09:42who won the women's doubles in 2007.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44Is that the one that came out of nowhere
0:09:44 > 0:09:46- and, like, surprised everybody? - It could be.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49I can't remember his name. Agassi is not Russian, is he?
0:09:49 > 0:09:52- No.- I can't remember. Sorry, pass.
0:09:52 > 0:09:53It's Marat Safin.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56And secondly, on defeating Serena Williams
0:09:56 > 0:09:58in the 2011 women's singles final,
0:09:58 > 0:10:02who became the first Australian woman to win a Grand Slam title
0:10:02 > 0:10:05since Evonne Goolagong won Wimbledon in 1980?
0:10:05 > 0:10:08- Any ideas on Australian tennis players?- No.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10No, sorry, don't know.
0:10:10 > 0:10:11That was Sam Stosur.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14And finally, which men's doubles pair
0:10:14 > 0:10:16has the most team wins in the Open era?
0:10:16 > 0:10:19In 2013 they became the first team
0:10:19 > 0:10:23to hold all four Grand Slam titles and the Olympic gold medal
0:10:23 > 0:10:24at the same time.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26- It's not the Murray brothers? - Perry-Perry or something.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Two brothers called Perry. I could be completely wrong.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32I'll go with that if you want. Perry and Perry.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34No, it's Bob and Mike Bryan.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Ten points for this.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39"Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he laid many a heavy load on thee."
0:10:39 > 0:10:41These words are from an epitaph
0:10:41 > 0:10:44written for which exponent of the English Baroque style,
0:10:44 > 0:10:48the architect of Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace?
0:10:50 > 0:10:51Capability Brown.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53Nope.
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Warwick, one of you buzz.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Inigo Jones.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00No, it was Sir John Vanbrugh.
0:11:01 > 0:11:02Ten points for this.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05The English name of a late 17th century travel account
0:11:05 > 0:11:07by the Japanese haiku master Basho,
0:11:07 > 0:11:10what title did the Australian author Richard Flanagan...?
0:11:12 > 0:11:14The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Correct.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17APPLAUSE
0:11:18 > 0:11:22You get three bonuses, Warwick, on sea birds.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24Balearic, Sooty and Manx
0:11:24 > 0:11:28are species of which genus of long-winged oceanic birds
0:11:28 > 0:11:31named after their ability to glide with rigid wings
0:11:31 > 0:11:33along the troughs of waves?
0:11:33 > 0:11:34Nominate Keschner-Lycett.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Shearwater.
0:11:36 > 0:11:37Correct.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Antarctic, snow and storm
0:11:39 > 0:11:42are among species of which smaller oceanic birds
0:11:42 > 0:11:44related to the shearwaters?
0:11:44 > 0:11:47Nominate Keschner-Lycett.
0:11:47 > 0:11:48Petrel.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Correct. And finally, related to the petrels and shearwaters,
0:11:51 > 0:11:54which bird has a six-letter common name
0:11:54 > 0:11:57combining Norse words meaning foul and gull,
0:11:57 > 0:12:00a reference to the unpleasant smell of its stomach oil?
0:12:00 > 0:12:02It's not puffin, is it?
0:12:02 > 0:12:05- Could be puffin.- I can't think of any six-letter ones?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Shall I go with that? Puffin.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10No, it's the fulmar. Ten points for this.
0:12:10 > 0:12:11The mother of modern dance
0:12:11 > 0:12:14is an epithet that's been given to which dancer and choreographer
0:12:14 > 0:12:16born in San Francisco in the 18...
0:12:17 > 0:12:18Duncan.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21Yes, I'll accept that. Isadora Duncan.
0:12:21 > 0:12:26These bonuses, Wolfson, are now on Brythonic, or Celtic, kingdoms
0:12:26 > 0:12:27of post-Roman Britain.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31Firstly, ruling an indeterminate area of present-day Yorkshire,
0:12:31 > 0:12:34which Brythonic kingdom was conquered by Northumbria
0:12:34 > 0:12:36in the 7th century?
0:12:36 > 0:12:40Its name appears in the names of two villages to the east of Leeds.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Merc... Mercia, maybe?
0:12:44 > 0:12:46It's not Mercia.
0:12:46 > 0:12:47It's...
0:12:47 > 0:12:49No.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51It's... I don't know.
0:12:51 > 0:12:52Pass.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54It's Elmet.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56And secondly, which 6th century kingdom
0:12:56 > 0:12:59is thought to have been centred on the Solway Firth?
0:12:59 > 0:13:03The early Welsh poet Taliesin praised its king, Urien,
0:13:03 > 0:13:06and a discovery centre named after it
0:13:06 > 0:13:07opened in Penrith in 2000.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Rheged.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11Nominate Chaudhri.
0:13:11 > 0:13:12Rheged.
0:13:12 > 0:13:13Rheged is correct.
0:13:13 > 0:13:18The modern name Devon derives from the name of which Brythonic kingdom?
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Its subjugation by Wessex was completed in the 9th century.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27- The Devi, right?- Yeah.
0:13:27 > 0:13:28The Devi.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31No, it's Dumnonia. Ten points for this.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33What seven-letter term
0:13:33 > 0:13:38did Lord John Russell define as "one man's wit and all men's wisdom"?
0:13:38 > 0:13:39A book of the same name...
0:13:41 > 0:13:42A proverb.
0:13:42 > 0:13:43Correct.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45APPLAUSE
0:13:46 > 0:13:49Your bonuses, this time, Wolfson, are on psychology.
0:13:49 > 0:13:53From a 1999 study, which two psychologists at Cornell University
0:13:53 > 0:13:56give their names to a cognitive bias or effect
0:13:56 > 0:14:00by which incompetent people are unaware of their mistakes
0:14:00 > 0:14:02and overstate their abilities as a result?
0:14:02 > 0:14:04Dunning-Kruger.
0:14:04 > 0:14:05Correct.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09In the 1951 work New Hopes for a Changing World,
0:14:09 > 0:14:11which British philosopher observed
0:14:11 > 0:14:14that those who feel certainty are stupid
0:14:14 > 0:14:17and those with any imagination and understanding
0:14:17 > 0:14:20are filled with doubt and indecision?
0:14:20 > 0:14:21Russell.
0:14:21 > 0:14:22Correct.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24"The fool doth think he is wise,
0:14:24 > 0:14:27"but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
0:14:27 > 0:14:29In which play by Shakespeare
0:14:29 > 0:14:32does Touchstone repeat that saying to William?
0:14:32 > 0:14:34THEY CONFER
0:14:34 > 0:14:36It's not Twelfth Night.
0:14:37 > 0:14:41- What's the one in the forest...? - Midsummer Night's Dream?
0:14:41 > 0:14:42No, the other one.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44The one that's set in Ardenne?
0:14:44 > 0:14:48- Erm...- As You Like It. - As You Like It.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50As You Like It.
0:14:50 > 0:14:51Correct.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Right, we're going to take a music round.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55For your music starter, you'll hear an excerpt from an opera.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59For ten points, I want the title of the opera in which it appears.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01OPERATIC CHORUS PLAYS
0:15:04 > 0:15:05Carmen.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08You can hear a little more, Warwick.
0:15:12 > 0:15:13Nabucco.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15No, it's Il Trovatore.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17So, music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20Fingers on the buzzers, here's a starter question.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23Its name deriving from an ancient city on its banks,
0:15:23 > 0:15:26which strait was formerly known as the Hellespont...?
0:15:28 > 0:15:29The Dardanelles.
0:15:29 > 0:15:30Correct.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32APPLAUSE
0:15:33 > 0:15:35So you recall that a moment ago
0:15:35 > 0:15:38none of you recognised Verdi's Anvil Chorus.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41Your music bonuses are excerpts from choruses
0:15:41 > 0:15:43in three more of Verdi's operas.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46For five points, I want the title of the opera
0:15:46 > 0:15:47in which the chorus appears.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49Firstly, for five...
0:15:49 > 0:15:51OPERATIC CHORUS PLAYS
0:15:53 > 0:15:54Aida.
0:15:54 > 0:15:55Correct.
0:15:55 > 0:15:56Secondly...
0:15:56 > 0:16:00OPERATIC CHORUS PLAYS
0:16:02 > 0:16:05THEY CONFER
0:16:07 > 0:16:08Macbeth.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11It is Macbeth. The Chorus of the Scottish Exiles.
0:16:11 > 0:16:12And finally...
0:16:12 > 0:16:15OPERATIC CHORUS PLAYS
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Nabucco.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19It is indeed, the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21Ten points for this.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23In the Wentworth scale,
0:16:23 > 0:16:26used to classify sediment grain sizes in geology,
0:16:26 > 0:16:30what grade comes between granules and cobbles?
0:16:32 > 0:16:33Pebbles.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35Pebbles is correct.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37APPLAUSE
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Your bonuses are on the Nobel Peace Prize, Warwick.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44Which organisation was awarded the 2012 Peace Prize?
0:16:44 > 0:16:46According to the official citation,
0:16:46 > 0:16:49for over six decades it contributed to the advancement
0:16:49 > 0:16:53of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights.
0:16:53 > 0:16:54It's EU.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56EU.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Correct. The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
0:16:58 > 0:17:02was awarded jointly to Al Gore and the IPCC.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05For what do the letters CC stand in that abbreviation?
0:17:05 > 0:17:06Climate Change.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Correct.
0:17:08 > 0:17:101995 Peace Prize was awarded jointly
0:17:10 > 0:17:14to Joseph Rotblat and which series of conferences
0:17:14 > 0:17:18set up to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in international politics?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Oh, it's the disarmament one.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22- START?- Is it?
0:17:22 > 0:17:23Or were they just START treaties?
0:17:23 > 0:17:26It's like the name of a town somewhere.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29Nominate Rudd.
0:17:29 > 0:17:30The START.
0:17:30 > 0:17:31No, Pugwash.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Ten points for this starter question.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36"Who wields a poem huger than the grave?"
0:17:36 > 0:17:39These are the words of which American poet, born in 1894?
0:17:39 > 0:17:42He's generally known by his initials and surname,
0:17:42 > 0:17:44which are often...
0:17:44 > 0:17:45TS Eliot.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47No, you lose five points.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50..which are often rendered solely in lower case.
0:17:51 > 0:17:52E E Cummings.
0:17:52 > 0:17:53Of course.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55APPLAUSE
0:17:56 > 0:18:00Right, you get bonuses on river gorges in France, Warwick.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Firstly for five, a major tourist attraction,
0:18:03 > 0:18:05which gorge lies on the boundary
0:18:05 > 0:18:09of the Var and the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department?
0:18:09 > 0:18:13Its river empties into the artificial Lac de Sainte-Croix.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15I don't know French.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17Southern French rivers.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Loire?
0:18:18 > 0:18:20Loire Valley.
0:18:20 > 0:18:21No, it's the Verdon Gorge.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24Noted for a series of gorges
0:18:24 > 0:18:25between Florac and Millau,
0:18:25 > 0:18:28the River Tarn is a tributary of which river
0:18:28 > 0:18:30which it joins near Moissac?
0:18:30 > 0:18:34THEY CONFER
0:18:35 > 0:18:36Loire.
0:18:36 > 0:18:37No, that's the Garonne.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40And finally, rising in the Jura Mountains,
0:18:40 > 0:18:44the River Doubs flows through gorges for more than 30km
0:18:44 > 0:18:47along the boundary of France and which country?
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Switzerland. The borders.
0:18:49 > 0:18:50OK, Switzerland.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52It is Switzerland, yes.
0:18:53 > 0:18:54Right, ten points for this.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58Shane Smith is the CEO and owner of which magazine
0:18:58 > 0:19:01that he co-founded in Montreal in 19...?
0:19:02 > 0:19:04VICE.
0:19:04 > 0:19:05VICE is correct, yes.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07APPLAUSE
0:19:08 > 0:19:11These bonuses are on the Wars of the Roses, Wolfson.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York,
0:19:13 > 0:19:16was killed at which battle of 1460, fought in Yorkshire?
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Towton.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20- Towton, yeah.- Towton.
0:19:20 > 0:19:21Towton.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24No, it was Wakefield.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick,
0:19:26 > 0:19:30died at which battle of 1471, fought in Hertfordshire?
0:19:32 > 0:19:341471...
0:19:34 > 0:19:36The Battle of...?
0:19:36 > 0:19:39I don't know.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40Pass.
0:19:40 > 0:19:41It's Barnet.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44The Lancastrian Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales,
0:19:44 > 0:19:47was killed at which battle of 1471?
0:19:47 > 0:19:49It took place in Gloucestershire
0:19:49 > 0:19:51a few weeks after the Battle of Barnet.
0:19:51 > 0:19:52Tewkesbury.
0:19:52 > 0:19:53Correct.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Ten points for this. What surname links the directors
0:19:56 > 0:19:58of the films The Naked Spur and El Cid,
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Separate Tables and Marty,
0:20:01 > 0:20:03and Collateral and Heat?
0:20:08 > 0:20:09Scorsese?
0:20:09 > 0:20:11Anyone like to buzz from Wolfson?
0:20:13 > 0:20:14Is it Lee?
0:20:14 > 0:20:15No, it's Mann.
0:20:15 > 0:20:16Ten points for this.
0:20:16 > 0:20:21The Rani of Jhansi, Begum Hazrat Mahal of Awadh and...
0:20:22 > 0:20:24The Indian mutiny?
0:20:24 > 0:20:25Correct, yes.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27APPLAUSE
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Three questions on a Roman emperor for your bonuses, Wolfson College.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36Firstly, the appointed successor of the Emperor Nerva,
0:20:36 > 0:20:39who exceeded peacefully to the throne in AD 98?
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Under him, the Roman Empire reached its greatest extent.
0:20:42 > 0:20:43Trajan.
0:20:43 > 0:20:44Correct.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48Which lawyer and author did Trajan appoint as governor of Bithynia
0:20:48 > 0:20:49in about 110?
0:20:49 > 0:20:52The letters between the two are a major source of information
0:20:52 > 0:20:54on Roman provincial administration.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57- I think it's...- It's Pliny the Younger.- Is it Pliny the Younger?
0:20:57 > 0:20:58Pliny the Younger.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01Correct. Trajan's column in Rome is a pictorial narrative
0:21:01 > 0:21:05of the emperor's campaigns in which reaches north of the Danube?
0:21:05 > 0:21:07It corresponds to much of modern Romania.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09Dacia.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11Dacia is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:21:11 > 0:21:13We're going to take another picture around now.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14For your picture starter,
0:21:14 > 0:21:16you'll see a painting of a historical figure.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Ten points if you can identify the figure.
0:21:21 > 0:21:22Napoleon Bonaparte.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24It is. APPLAUSE
0:21:26 > 0:21:28As depicted by Antoine-Jean Gros.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Your bonuses are three more portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte,
0:21:31 > 0:21:35each by a French artist. I want the artist's name in each case.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Firstly, who did this?
0:21:38 > 0:21:41- I think that's D... Oh, that's David, maybe.- David?
0:21:41 > 0:21:42- Are we OK with David?- Yeah.
0:21:42 > 0:21:43David?
0:21:43 > 0:21:45No, that's by Ingres.
0:21:45 > 0:21:46Secondly...
0:21:47 > 0:21:50- That one's David.- That's David? - That looks like a David to me.
0:21:50 > 0:21:51David again?
0:21:51 > 0:21:53No, that's Delaroche. And, finally...
0:21:55 > 0:21:57- I think that's Delacroix.- Delacroix. - Delacroix.
0:21:57 > 0:21:58Delacroix.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01No, that WAS David. LAUGHTER
0:22:01 > 0:22:03Right, ten points for this. Who was the US president at the time
0:22:03 > 0:22:06of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident
0:22:06 > 0:22:08and the start of the Iran hostage crisis?
0:22:10 > 0:22:11Carter?
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Jimmy Carter's right, yes. APPLAUSE
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Three questions on currency crises for your bonuses.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23In 1944, which Mediterranean country experienced an economic crisis,
0:22:23 > 0:22:28culminating in the issuing of notes to the value of 100,000 million
0:22:28 > 0:22:30of the local currency?
0:22:30 > 0:22:34Oh, they said Mediterranean, I think there was a Hungary one but...
0:22:34 > 0:22:37- Shall we say Turkey?- Spain or Italy... Yeah, I don't know.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39Turkey?
0:22:39 > 0:22:41No, it was Greece.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Secondly, writing in 1979,
0:22:43 > 0:22:46which US economist showed that for a currency crisis to happen,
0:22:46 > 0:22:50all that is needed is for a government to carry out policies
0:22:50 > 0:22:53that are inconsistent with the exchange rate?
0:22:53 > 0:22:55I would say that would probably be Friedman, maybe?
0:22:55 > 0:22:57You're the economist!
0:22:57 > 0:22:58Friedman.
0:22:58 > 0:22:59No, it was Krugman.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01After a period of hyperinflation,
0:23:01 > 0:23:05which southern African government revalued its dollar
0:23:05 > 0:23:09by removing 12 zeros from the old notes in 2009?
0:23:09 > 0:23:10Zimbabwe.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:23:12 > 0:23:14In which city are the Evolution Tower,
0:23:14 > 0:23:17the Mercury City Tower and the Federation Tower,
0:23:17 > 0:23:19on which work began in 2003?
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Dubai?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25Nope. Wolfson, one of you buzz.
0:23:26 > 0:23:27Abu Dhabi.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30No, it's Moscow. Ten points for this.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32"Rugged, mountainous, volcanic,
0:23:32 > 0:23:36"he was himself more a French Revolution than any of his volumes."
0:23:36 > 0:23:40These words of Walt Whitman refer to which Scottish historian,
0:23:40 > 0:23:42born in 1795?
0:23:44 > 0:23:45Carlyle.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Carlyle is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:23:49 > 0:23:53These bonuses are on physical chemistry, Warwick.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Named after a 19th-century Scottish chemist,
0:23:55 > 0:23:58which law states that under identical conditions
0:23:58 > 0:24:02the rate at which gases diffuse is inversely proportional
0:24:02 > 0:24:04to the square root of their densities?
0:24:04 > 0:24:05- Raoult?- Oh, it might be...
0:24:05 > 0:24:07- Was he Scottish?- Er... - I think he was.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Raoult?
0:24:09 > 0:24:11No, it's Graham. Graham's law.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15Which Italian scientist's law states that equal volumes of ideal gases
0:24:15 > 0:24:18at equal temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of particles?
0:24:18 > 0:24:20- Avogadro?- Yeah.- Avogadro.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23Correct. After a scientist born in Cumberland in 1766,
0:24:23 > 0:24:27which law states that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases
0:24:27 > 0:24:30is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the component gases?
0:24:30 > 0:24:31Henry.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33No, that's Dalton. Dalton's law.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Ten points for this. Three and a half minutes to go.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39Which estuary is the location of two South American capitals,
0:24:39 > 0:24:41named in Spanish after a precious...?
0:24:42 > 0:24:43Rio de la Plata.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Correct. Yes, the River Plate. APPLAUSE
0:24:47 > 0:24:49Your bonuses are on political figures.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53All three answers are a number that is a multiple of 13.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57Cleopatra, firstly, is generally cited as having been what age
0:24:57 > 0:24:58when she died in 30 BC?
0:24:58 > 0:25:01- 39, 52 or 26?- 39.
0:25:01 > 0:25:0239.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Correct. How old was Mahatma Gandhi
0:25:04 > 0:25:07when he was assassinated in Delhi in 1948?
0:25:07 > 0:25:10- 78?- 78.- Well, he was in...
0:25:10 > 0:25:1178.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15Correct. At what age was Abraham Lincoln first inaugurated
0:25:15 > 0:25:16as President of the United States?
0:25:16 > 0:25:17He was like the youngest.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19- Right, so...- Was it 26 or 52?- 39. - Or 39?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- 52?- That's quite old.- After that...
0:25:21 > 0:25:2252.
0:25:22 > 0:25:2352 is correct.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:25:25 > 0:25:29"He brought a major art to a minor vision of life."
0:25:29 > 0:25:31These words of the critic Alfred Kazin
0:25:31 > 0:25:35refer to which US Nobel laureate born in 1899?
0:25:38 > 0:25:39Hemingway.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Ernest Hemingway is right. APPLAUSE
0:25:41 > 0:25:45Your bonuses this time, Warwick, are on zoology.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47In each case, name the taxonomic rank, for example,
0:25:47 > 0:25:50genus of which the following are representative.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54Firstly - Nematode, Porifera, Arthropoda and Chordata.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57- Is that kingdom or phylum? - I think it's phylum.- Phylum.
0:25:57 > 0:25:58Phylum is right.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02Secondly - Diptera, Crocodilia, Rodentia and Octopoda.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04That'll be class or order. It's one of those, I think.
0:26:04 > 0:26:05- Order.- Order.
0:26:05 > 0:26:06Order is right.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09Finally - Corvidae, Ranidae and Hominidae.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11- Genus?- Genus...
0:26:11 > 0:26:12Yeah. Genus.
0:26:12 > 0:26:13No, it's family.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16Ten points for this. In anatomy,
0:26:16 > 0:26:18which bone articulates with the odontoid process?
0:26:21 > 0:26:22The jaw?
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Anyone like to buzz from Warwick?
0:26:25 > 0:26:27The zygomatic bone?
0:26:27 > 0:26:29No, it's the atlas.
0:26:29 > 0:26:30Ten points for this.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32First performed in 1942,
0:26:32 > 0:26:35Capriccio was the final opera of which German composer?
0:26:35 > 0:26:39His other works include Elektra, Salome and Der Rosen...
0:26:40 > 0:26:41Richard Strauss.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Correct. APPLAUSE
0:26:45 > 0:26:47These bonuses are on astronomy, Warwick.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50Which constellation of the northern sky holds the Veil Nebula,
0:26:50 > 0:26:54a section of the Great Rift and the Northern Cross asterism?
0:26:55 > 0:26:56I don't know.
0:26:56 > 0:26:57Ursa Minor?
0:26:57 > 0:26:58No, it's Cygnus.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01The Veil Nebula is part of the Cygnus Loop,
0:27:01 > 0:27:04an expanding remnant of what type of astronomical event?
0:27:04 > 0:27:05- Supernova.- Supernova.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Correct. Also known as Alpha Cygni,
0:27:08 > 0:27:11what five-letter name is given to the brightest star in Cygnus?
0:27:11 > 0:27:12Deneb.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:27:14 > 0:27:16In 1337, Edward the Black Prince
0:27:16 > 0:27:20became the first holder of which dukedom traditionally held...?
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Duke of Albany.
0:27:22 > 0:27:23No, you lose five points.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27..traditionally held by the eldest son of the reigning...?
0:27:28 > 0:27:29Cornwall.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Cornwall is correct. APPLAUSE
0:27:32 > 0:27:36These bonuses are on 20th-century British Prime Ministers, Warwick.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39The final four letters of which Prime Minister's surname
0:27:39 > 0:27:41spell the French word for oven?
0:27:41 > 0:27:43Oven, "four". Is it F-O-U-R?
0:27:43 > 0:27:44- So, Balfour.- Balfour.
0:27:44 > 0:27:45Balfour is correct.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Which Prime Minister's surname may be expressed in French
0:27:48 > 0:27:50as Artisan Chaumier?
0:27:50 > 0:27:53C-H-A-U-M-I-E-R.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55- Is it Chamberlain? - GONG
0:27:55 > 0:27:56Chamberlain.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58No, it's Thatcher. APPLAUSE
0:28:02 > 0:28:06Well, Warwick, at the gong, you were coming back strongly
0:28:06 > 0:28:08but you didn't come back quickly enough, I think.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11So there's no shame in going out in the quarterfinals,
0:28:11 > 0:28:13- none whatsoever.- Thanks.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15It's been a pleasure having you with us. Thanks very much.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Wolfson, many congratulations to you.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21Congratulations, you will go through to the semifinal.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24I bet you're pleased about that.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26I hope you can join us next time for the last quarterfinal match.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29But until then, it's goodbye from Warwick University.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31- ALL:- Bye.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33- It's goodbye from Wolfson College, Cambridge. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:35 > 0:28:39APPLAUSE