0:00:17 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:18 > 0:00:20University Challenge.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. So far, Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Edinburgh University and Wolfson College, Cambridge
0:00:34 > 0:00:37are through to the semifinals of this year's University Challenge.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39Whichever team wins tonight's match
0:00:39 > 0:00:42will take the last available place in the semis.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45Now, the team from Corpus Christi College, Oxford,
0:00:45 > 0:00:47have beaten Jesus College, Cambridge,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50the reigning champions Peterhouse, Cambridge,
0:00:50 > 0:00:52and Bristol University.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55The fly in their ointment was losing to Emmanuel College, Cambridge
0:00:55 > 0:00:57in their second quarterfinal,
0:00:57 > 0:00:59so let's see if they can put that behind them
0:00:59 > 0:01:01and earn themselves a semifinal place tonight.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Let's meet the team again.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Hello. I'm Tom Fleet, I'm from Pendoggett in Cornwall
0:01:06 > 0:01:07and I study English.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Hi. I'm Emma Johnson, I'm from North London,
0:01:09 > 0:01:11and I study medicine.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13- This is their captain. - Hi. I'm Nikhil Venkatesh,
0:01:13 > 0:01:17I'm from Derby and I study philosophy, politics and economics.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Hi. I'm Adam Wright, from Winnersh in Berkshire,
0:01:19 > 0:01:22and I'm studying for a DPhil in physics.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25APPLAUSE
0:01:25 > 0:01:30Now, the path taken by the team from Balliol College, Oxford
0:01:30 > 0:01:32saw them beat Imperial College, London
0:01:32 > 0:01:35and Robinson College, Cambridge. Their first quarterfinal
0:01:35 > 0:01:38was a narrow defeat at the hands of Wolfson College, Cambridge
0:01:38 > 0:01:42but they won their next match against the University of Birmingham
0:01:42 > 0:01:44by a 200-point margin.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Let's meet the Balliol team again.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Hi, I'm Freddy Potts, I'm from Newcastle
0:01:49 > 0:01:51and I'm reading history.
0:01:51 > 0:01:52Hello, I'm Jacob Lloyd,
0:01:52 > 0:01:55I'm from London, and I'm reading for a DPhil in English.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58- And here's their captain. - Hi. I'm Joey Goldman,
0:01:58 > 0:02:00I'm from London and I'm reading philosophy and theology.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03Hi. I'm Ben Pope, I'm from Sydney, Australia,
0:02:03 > 0:02:05and I'm doing a DPhil in physics.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07APPLAUSE
0:02:09 > 0:02:12OK, let's just get on with it. Fingers on the buzzers,
0:02:12 > 0:02:13here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16What name links three kings of Bavaria,
0:02:16 > 0:02:20the author of the 1953 work Philosophical Investigations...
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Ludwig.
0:02:22 > 0:02:23Ludwig is right.
0:02:26 > 0:02:31Right. Your bonuses are on a London building, Balliol College.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34"Participants are free to use the information received
0:02:34 > 0:02:38"but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker
0:02:38 > 0:02:41"nor that of any other participant may be revealed."
0:02:41 > 0:02:43This is the standard formulation of a rule
0:02:43 > 0:02:46named after which building in St James's Square?
0:02:46 > 0:02:47- Chatham House.- Correct.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Which two words follow "Royal Institute Of"
0:02:50 > 0:02:55in the name of the nongovernmental organisation based at Chatham House?
0:02:56 > 0:02:58THEY CONFER
0:03:02 > 0:03:03Public Policy?
0:03:03 > 0:03:05No, it's International Affairs.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09And finally, Chatham House takes its name from the title of nobility
0:03:09 > 0:03:12granted in 1766 to which prime minister?
0:03:12 > 0:03:14It was his residence for several years.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17THEY CONFER
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Could be Walpole. North, maybe?
0:03:19 > 0:03:20He was around then.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23THEY CONFER
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Walpole.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27No, it was Pitt the Elder.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Right, ten points for this.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Which play by Shakespeare contains the lines,
0:03:31 > 0:03:34"Oh, Lord! Methought, what pain it was to drown!
0:03:34 > 0:03:36"What dreadful noise of..."?
0:03:36 > 0:03:38The Tempest?
0:03:38 > 0:03:39No, you lose five points.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42"What dreadful noise of water in my ears! What sights..."?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Richard III.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Correct.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Balliol College, your bonuses this time are on squandering.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53Quote, "Don't squander the gold of your days
0:03:53 > 0:03:58"listening to the tedious trying to improve the hopeless failure."
0:03:58 > 0:04:02Who wrote that in a work of 1890, earlier in which he stated that,
0:04:02 > 0:04:05"the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07- Oscar Wilde.- Yeah. Oscar Wilde.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10Correct. Usually referring to a style of art
0:04:10 > 0:04:12associated with the 17th century,
0:04:12 > 0:04:16what term did Jorge Luis Borges apply to his own writing,
0:04:16 > 0:04:19defining it as, "The final stage in all art,
0:04:19 > 0:04:23"when art flaunts and squanders its resources"?
0:04:23 > 0:04:25- Baroque.- Correct.
0:04:25 > 0:04:30The Earl of Squander and his son Viscount Squanderfield
0:04:30 > 0:04:33are characters in which satirical series of paintings by William Hogarth?
0:04:33 > 0:04:36This is Marriage A-la-Mode, right?
0:04:36 > 0:04:37- Marriage A-la-Mode.- Correct.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Ten points for this starter question.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43In ecology, what term from the Greek for "well-nourished"
0:04:43 > 0:04:46denotes the process by which aquatic...
0:04:46 > 0:04:49- Eutrophic?- Yes, I'll accept that.
0:04:49 > 0:04:54Yes. You get a set now of bonuses on scientific terms, Balliol College.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57In each case, give the two terms from the definitions.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00The two words in each case differ by a single letter.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03First, any of a class of cyclic organic esters
0:05:03 > 0:05:06usually formed by the reaction of a carboxylic acid group
0:05:06 > 0:05:11with a hydroxyl group or halogen atom present in the same molecule,
0:05:11 > 0:05:13and a disaccharide sugar present in milk?
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Is it lactose and...?
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Galactose?
0:05:17 > 0:05:20- No, one letter.- One letter.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Actose? Or latose? Lacose?
0:05:23 > 0:05:25OK, we'll go for lactose and actose.
0:05:25 > 0:05:26No, it's lactone and lactose.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Secondly, the SI unit of magnetic flux density
0:05:30 > 0:05:32and the outer coat of a seed.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Shell and...?
0:05:35 > 0:05:38THEY CONFER
0:05:38 > 0:05:40What's the outer shell of a seed?
0:05:42 > 0:05:43THEY CONFER
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Tesla and testa?
0:05:47 > 0:05:50Correct. Finally, a small, autonomously replicating
0:05:50 > 0:05:53piece of DNA in bacteria
0:05:53 > 0:05:55and a group of plant organelles surrounded by a double membrane.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58THEY CONFER
0:06:02 > 0:06:05- Could be plasmids and plastids? I don't know.- Yeah.
0:06:05 > 0:06:06Plasmid and plastid?
0:06:06 > 0:06:09Correct. Ten points for this.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Listen carefully. According to Harold Macmillan in 1981,
0:06:13 > 0:06:17there are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21One is the Brigade of Guards. Name either of the other two.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26The House of Lords?
0:06:26 > 0:06:28No.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32The House of Commons?
0:06:32 > 0:06:35No, it's the Catholic Church and the National Union of Mineworkers.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Ten points at stake for this.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40Listen carefully. Concatenate in chronological order
0:06:40 > 0:06:43the regnal numbers of the monarchs of Great Britain
0:06:43 > 0:06:47who followed Queen Victoria up to the present day.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49The resulting five-digit number
0:06:49 > 0:06:52is closest to the area in square kilometres
0:06:52 > 0:06:55of which of the home nations of the UK?
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Scotland.
0:07:01 > 0:07:02Correct, yes!
0:07:05 > 0:07:1075862, and it's about 78,000 square kilometres in Scotland.
0:07:10 > 0:07:16So you get a set of bonuses now on Mary of Guise, Queen of Scotland.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20Which widowed Scottish monarch did Mary marry in 1538
0:07:20 > 0:07:23on the orders of the French king Francis I?
0:07:23 > 0:07:26- James IV?- Yeah... that sounds about right.
0:07:26 > 0:07:27James IV?
0:07:27 > 0:07:29No, it was James V.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32Which royal suitor had Mary previously rejected
0:07:32 > 0:07:35with the words, "I may be big in person,
0:07:35 > 0:07:37"but my neck is small."
0:07:37 > 0:07:39He'd indicated he wished to marry her
0:07:39 > 0:07:41because he needed a big wife.
0:07:41 > 0:07:42Henry VIII?
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Yes - a real charmer, wasn't he?
0:07:44 > 0:07:48In 1559, Mary mustered an army and rose to Perth
0:07:48 > 0:07:50to disperse Protestants who were rioting
0:07:50 > 0:07:54after an inflammatory sermon by which religious reformer?
0:07:55 > 0:07:58- John Knox.- Correct. We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01For your picture starter, you're going to see a flag
0:08:01 > 0:08:04of a constituent country of a European kingdom.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08Ten points if you can identify the territory this flag represents.
0:08:11 > 0:08:12Greenland.
0:08:12 > 0:08:13It is Greenland, yes!
0:08:16 > 0:08:18That's the official flag of Greenland,
0:08:18 > 0:08:23known in Greenlandic as Erfalasorput or "our flag".
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Your picture bonuses are three flags of indigenous peoples
0:08:26 > 0:08:28that have co-official status.
0:08:28 > 0:08:32Firstly, in which country does this flag have co-official status
0:08:32 > 0:08:33with the national flag?
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Do we have any idea?
0:08:42 > 0:08:44OK. Interesting.
0:08:44 > 0:08:49THEY CONFER
0:08:49 > 0:08:50- Going to go for Canada.- OK.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51Canada?
0:08:51 > 0:08:53No, it's Bolivia.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56Secondly, this time I want the name of the people
0:08:56 > 0:08:57that this flag represents.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01- The Sami people.- Yeah?- Yeah.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04- The Sami?- It is the Sami people, yes.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07And finally, in which country does this flag have co-official status
0:09:07 > 0:09:09with the national flag?
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Oh, I recognise it.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21- I think it's Australia.- OK.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24- Australia?- It is Australia. That's the flag of the Aboriginal people.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30Right. Ten points for this. An open door is part of the logo
0:09:30 > 0:09:34of an organisation named after which social reformer?
0:09:34 > 0:09:38In 1921, she founded the UK's first instructional clinic
0:09:38 > 0:09:39for contraception.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43- Marie Stopes?- Correct.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49These bonuses, Corpus Christi, are on prisons.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52In 1791, which English utilitarian philosopher
0:09:52 > 0:09:54published plans for a Panopticon,
0:09:54 > 0:09:57a prison in which guards in a central rotunda
0:09:57 > 0:09:59could observe the cells of all inmates?
0:09:59 > 0:10:01- Jeremy Bentham.- Correct.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Built in the Panopticon style in the 1920s,
0:10:03 > 0:10:06in which country is the Presidio Modelo?
0:10:06 > 0:10:09Now a museum, two of its former inmates
0:10:09 > 0:10:11later became consecutive heads of state,
0:10:11 > 0:10:14having been imprisoned after an attack on the Moncada Barracks
0:10:14 > 0:10:16in 1953?
0:10:16 > 0:10:17South Africa?
0:10:17 > 0:10:21I was thinking South America. It sounds Spanish, the name.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Oh, wait!
0:10:23 > 0:10:26It may be Brazil...
0:10:30 > 0:10:31Argentina.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33No, it was Cuba - it was the Castro brothers.
0:10:33 > 0:10:37And finally, which French philosopher examined the idea
0:10:37 > 0:10:38of the Panopticon in his 1975 work
0:10:38 > 0:10:42Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison?
0:10:42 > 0:10:44- Michel Foucault.- Correct.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Ten points for this.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Points on the celestial sphere can be indicated
0:10:49 > 0:10:53using the two co-ordinates declination and right ascension.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56What shared value do these co-ordinates take
0:10:56 > 0:10:59at the vernal equinox, the point on the celestial sphere
0:10:59 > 0:11:01where the sun...?
0:11:01 > 0:11:02Zero.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Zero is correct, yes.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09These bonuses, Balliol, are on physics.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12In the standard model of particle physics,
0:11:12 > 0:11:15particles formed of quark-antiquark pairs
0:11:15 > 0:11:17are known by what term?
0:11:17 > 0:11:19They form a large subclass of the hadrons.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21- Mesons.- Correct.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Which particles constitute the lightest mesons?
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Their neutral and charged forms
0:11:27 > 0:11:32have masses of 135 and 140 mega electron volts over C squared.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34- Pions?- Correct.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37Formerly considered as a meson, what particle
0:11:37 > 0:11:41with a mass of about 106 mega electron volts over C squared
0:11:41 > 0:11:44is now known to be a lepton and not formed of quarks?
0:11:44 > 0:11:47- Muon.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Differing only in that one has an additional letter,
0:11:50 > 0:11:53which two words, easily mistyped,
0:11:53 > 0:11:56mean "the process of attempting to settle a dispute
0:11:56 > 0:12:00"without recourse to litigation through negotiation conducted by..."
0:12:02 > 0:12:04Mediation and meditation?
0:12:04 > 0:12:05Correct, yes.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Here are your bonuses. They're on South Korean cinema, Corpus Christi.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14In a move that saw major domestic corporations
0:12:14 > 0:12:16begin to invest in film,
0:12:16 > 0:12:20which conglomerate part-financed the 1992 South Korean box-office hit
0:12:20 > 0:12:22The Marriage Story?
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Conglomerate? OK, what's a South Korean conglomerate?
0:12:27 > 0:12:29It's not necessarily South Korean.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31It could be, like, American.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Warner Brothers?
0:12:33 > 0:12:34Warner Brothers?
0:12:34 > 0:12:36No, it's Samsung.
0:12:36 > 0:12:41The 2011 film My Way is based on the life of Yang Kyoungjong,
0:12:41 > 0:12:46a Korean soldier captured in German uniform in Normandy in 1944.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50He had previously been conscripted into which two other armies?
0:12:51 > 0:12:54- It must be the Japanese...- 1944.
0:12:54 > 0:12:55..and?
0:12:57 > 0:12:58- The Soviet?- Yeah.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02The Japanese and Soviet armies?
0:13:02 > 0:13:06Correct! Which film by Kim Ki-duk
0:13:06 > 0:13:10won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2012?
0:13:10 > 0:13:13Its title denotes a depiction of the Virgin Mary
0:13:13 > 0:13:14cradling the dead Jesus.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Pieta.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18That's a pieta, I'm pretty sure.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20- Pieta?- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24Born in 1884, which Italian statistician
0:13:24 > 0:13:27gives his name to an index or coefficient
0:13:27 > 0:13:28used by the United Nations...?
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Gini?
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Gini is correct, yes.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Balliol, these bonuses are on pairs of books
0:13:38 > 0:13:41in which the shorter title forms the beginning of the longer,
0:13:41 > 0:13:43for example Cormac McCarthy's The Road
0:13:43 > 0:13:46and George Orwell's The Road To Wigan Pier.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48In each case, give both titles.
0:13:48 > 0:13:52Firstly, two Booker prize-winning novels by John Banville
0:13:52 > 0:13:54and Iris Murdoch respectively.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56The Sea, The Sea, The Sea.
0:13:56 > 0:13:57Correct.
0:13:57 > 0:14:01Secondly, the English title of a 1926 work by Franz Kafka
0:14:01 > 0:14:03and a gothic novel...
0:14:03 > 0:14:06- The Castle and The Castle of Otranto.- Correct.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09And finally, the English title of a major work by Machiavelli
0:14:09 > 0:14:12and a children's novel by Mark Twain set in Tudor England.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14The Prince and The Prince And The Pauper.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Correct.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Right. Ten points for this.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22Jebel Musa in Morocco and Monte Hacho in Ceuta
0:14:22 > 0:14:26have both been suggested as the southerly of which two promontories
0:14:26 > 0:14:28named after a figure in Greek myth?
0:14:29 > 0:14:31Pillars of Hercules.
0:14:31 > 0:14:32Correct.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37These bonuses are on South America, Corpus Christi.
0:14:37 > 0:14:42In 1971, Jose Mujica was imprisoned for his involvement
0:14:42 > 0:14:46in the leftist urban guerrilla movement known as the Tupamaros.
0:14:46 > 0:14:51Freed in 1985, he became president of which country in 2010?
0:14:53 > 0:14:55- I don't know this.- Bolivia?
0:14:55 > 0:14:58THEY CONFER
0:15:02 > 0:15:03Peru?
0:15:03 > 0:15:04No, it's Uruguay.
0:15:04 > 0:15:09Second, the ELN, the FARC and the M19 have been among
0:15:09 > 0:15:12the armed insurgent groups in which South American country?
0:15:12 > 0:15:14- Colombia.- Correct.
0:15:14 > 0:15:18Often described as Maoist, the Shining Path insurgent movement
0:15:18 > 0:15:22was founded in which country in 1970 and was active until the 1990s?
0:15:22 > 0:15:23- Peru.- That's correct.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26Right, we're going to take a music round. For your music starter
0:15:26 > 0:15:29you'll hear part of an opera by an American composer.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31Ten points if you can say who the composer is.
0:15:31 > 0:15:32MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Glass?
0:15:36 > 0:15:39It is Philip Glass, it's from Einstein On The Beach.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45Philip Glass only made a living as a composer
0:15:45 > 0:15:48from his early forties. He wrote his major early works
0:15:48 > 0:15:51while working as a plumber or taxi driver.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Your music bonuses are works by three more composers
0:15:54 > 0:15:57who held down day jobs while writing some of their best-known works.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00Five points for each composer you can name.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Firstly for five, this English composer
0:16:03 > 0:16:05who worked as a schoolteacher to support himself.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:09 > 0:16:13- Purcell?- No, that's Holst, it's his St Paul's Suite.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15Secondly, this American composer
0:16:15 > 0:16:18who ran an insurance company for much of his working life.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Barber or Ives, I guess.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Samuel Barber?
0:16:31 > 0:16:33No, it was Ives, it was Charles Ives.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36And finally, this Russian composer, chemist and doctor.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:39 > 0:16:41THEY CONFER
0:16:50 > 0:16:52We need someone who's famous for being a chemist.
0:16:54 > 0:16:55Tchaikovsky.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59No, that's Borodin, that was from Prince Igor. Ten points for this.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02Produced by the repeated cleavage of a fertilised egg,
0:17:02 > 0:17:06which embryonic stage consists of a epithelial layer
0:17:06 > 0:17:09enclosing a fluid-filled cavity? It...
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Blastocyst.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14Yes, that is a type of blastula, which is what I was looking for.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16So you get a set of bonuses now, Corpus Christi,
0:17:16 > 0:17:19on rapidly orbiting moons.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22Taking just over seven hours to complete an orbit,
0:17:22 > 0:17:26Metis is an inner moon of which planet?
0:17:26 > 0:17:28- It's going to be Jupiter or Saturn. - Do you think?
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Yeah? One of the big guys?
0:17:30 > 0:17:32Yeah. Saturn...
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Yeah, actually, I haven't heard of it,
0:17:34 > 0:17:36and aren't most of Jupiter's ones...?
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Do we like Saturn, yeah?
0:17:38 > 0:17:40- Saturn.- No, it's Jupiter.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45Naiad takes slightly longer than seven hours to complete an orbit
0:17:45 > 0:17:46of which planet?
0:17:46 > 0:17:50Naiads? That could be Neptune, I think there's some kind of a sea...
0:17:50 > 0:17:52Oh, yeah, cos there's a sea whole thing. Neptune.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Correct. Taking over seven and a half hours to orbit,
0:17:55 > 0:17:57what is the inner of the two moons of Mars?
0:17:57 > 0:17:59They're Phobos and Deimos, right?
0:17:59 > 0:18:01I think Phobos is...
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Yeah? Phobos?
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Phobos is right, yes. Ten points for this.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08"The first and greatest masterpiece of modern art."
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Those words refer to which painting?
0:18:10 > 0:18:13Created in Montmartre in 1907,
0:18:13 > 0:18:16it depicts five naked figures against a...
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20Correct. The Young Women of Avignon.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26So you get set of bonuses, Balliol College,
0:18:26 > 0:18:28on writers' block.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31"You beat your pate and fancy wit will come
0:18:31 > 0:18:33"Knock as you please - there's nobody at home."
0:18:33 > 0:18:38Those lines are attributed to which poet, born in 1688?
0:18:38 > 0:18:391688...
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Pope. Must be Alexander Pope.
0:18:41 > 0:18:42Pope?
0:18:42 > 0:18:43Alexander Pope is right.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47"Poetry is a distinct faculty. It won't come when called.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49"You may as well whistle for a wind."
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Which Romantic poet said that to the writer Edward John Trelawny?
0:18:55 > 0:18:57I think it might be Keats, but I'm not sure.
0:18:57 > 0:18:58John Keats?
0:18:58 > 0:19:00No, it was Byron.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03"All things content me from this craft of verse."
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Which Irish poet wrote that
0:19:05 > 0:19:08in a poem first published in 1909?
0:19:08 > 0:19:10- That's Yeats.- OK. Er, WB Yeats.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Correct. Ten points for this.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16The title of an award-winning 2014 Swedish film
0:19:16 > 0:19:20about a family on a ski holiday, what two-word French term...?
0:19:21 > 0:19:22Force majeure.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Force majeure is right.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29Your bonuses, Corpus Christi, are on some of England's
0:19:29 > 0:19:32more obscurely named administrative districts.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34In each case, name the ceremonial county -
0:19:34 > 0:19:38for example, West Sussex - in which the following are located.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42Firstly, Eden District Council is in which ceremonial county?
0:19:42 > 0:19:45THEY CONFER
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Eden Project, Cornwall?
0:19:49 > 0:19:50Cornwall?
0:19:50 > 0:19:52No, it's Cumbria.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55Secondly, in which county is Bassetlaw?
0:19:55 > 0:19:57- Nottinghamshire.- Correct.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00Finally, in which county is the district of Swale?
0:20:00 > 0:20:01Swale...
0:20:01 > 0:20:05- There's Swaledale is in Yorkshire, isn't it?- That's something.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07- Am I making that up? - No, I think that sounds right.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Er, North Yorkshire?
0:20:09 > 0:20:10Er, no, it's Kent.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14You're thinking of Swaledale, which isn't an administrative district.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Right. We're going to take another picture round now.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19For your picture starter, you're going to see one of
0:20:19 > 0:20:22the original costume designs for an early 20th-century ballet.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Ten points if you can name the ballet.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26You can give the title in English or French.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32The Afternoon of a Faun?
0:20:32 > 0:20:33Correct.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40Right. Nijinsky's costume for the Faun
0:20:40 > 0:20:43was one of Leon Bakst's designs for the Ballet Russe.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Your picture bonuses are three more examples of
0:20:45 > 0:20:48his costume and set design for that company.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Again, in each case, I want the title of the ballet
0:20:50 > 0:20:52for which each was created.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55Firstly for five, this is part of Bakst's set design
0:20:55 > 0:20:58for which ballet by a French composer?
0:21:05 > 0:21:07- No idea.- Um...
0:21:07 > 0:21:09This isn't leaping out at me.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13- You don't know?- Sheep and stuff? I've got no idea.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14No, we don't know.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16That's Daphnis and Chloe by Ravel.
0:21:16 > 0:21:21Secondly, this is a costume for which ballet by a Russian composer?
0:21:25 > 0:21:27It could be one of the dancers from Swan Lake,
0:21:27 > 0:21:30you know, the country dancers.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33- Is that Tchaikov... - Tchaikovsky, yeah.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Er, Swan Lake by...
0:21:35 > 0:21:37No, it's Firebird, Stravinsky.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40Finally, this is part of the set design for which ballet,
0:21:40 > 0:21:42again by a Russian composer?
0:21:48 > 0:21:49I don't know.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51No? OK.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56No, it's Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov.
0:21:56 > 0:21:57Ten points for this.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59What two-word term denotes the sound
0:21:59 > 0:22:02represented in the international phonetic alphabet
0:22:02 > 0:22:04by a dotless question mark?
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Made by bringing together the vocal cords tightly
0:22:07 > 0:22:10and releasing them suddenly.
0:22:10 > 0:22:11A glottal stop?
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Glo'al stop's right, yeah.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18Right, Balliol, these bonuses are on physiology.
0:22:18 > 0:22:23Which tropane alkaloid is extracted from deadly nightshade?
0:22:30 > 0:22:31Hemlock.
0:22:31 > 0:22:32No, it's atropine.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Atropine is cycloplegic,
0:22:35 > 0:22:38meaning that it paralyses which specific muscle ring?
0:22:38 > 0:22:41What's the name? Cycloplegic?
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Muscle ring?
0:22:43 > 0:22:45- Diaphragm or something?- Yeah.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48- Diaphragm?- No, it's ciliary muscle.
0:22:48 > 0:22:54And finally, cycloplegia is accompanied by mydriasis,
0:22:54 > 0:22:56a term denoting what symptom?
0:22:56 > 0:22:58THEY CONFER
0:22:59 > 0:23:02Cramps? I don't know.
0:23:02 > 0:23:03Cramping?
0:23:03 > 0:23:06No, it's dilation of the pupils. Ten points for this.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10Having established a reputation as a concert pianist by her teens,
0:23:10 > 0:23:13Clara Wieck married which composer...?
0:23:13 > 0:23:14Robert Schumann.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16Robert Schumann is right.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22These bonuses are on postwar works from the shortlist
0:23:22 > 0:23:24of academic books that changed the world
0:23:24 > 0:23:27compiled by UK publishers in 2015.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Name the author in each case.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33First, the 1963 work The Making Of The English Working Class.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Er, EP Thompson?
0:23:38 > 0:23:42Correct. Secondly, the 1972 work Ways of Seeing.
0:23:42 > 0:23:43John Berger.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46- John Berger.- Correct.
0:23:46 > 0:23:50And finally, the 1978 work Orientalism.
0:23:50 > 0:23:51- Said.- Edward Said.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Correct. Four minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:23:54 > 0:23:59Answer promptly. Give any two of the three modern-day names
0:23:59 > 0:24:01of European capitals whose Latin names
0:24:01 > 0:24:05are the origins of the names of chemical elements.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Copenhagen and Stockholm?
0:24:16 > 0:24:17Correct. Paris is the other one.
0:24:20 > 0:24:25Right. These bonuses are on the Danish colonial empire, Balliol.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28In 1620, Denmark established a training station
0:24:28 > 0:24:33at Tranquebar on the Bay of Bengal in which present-day Indian state?
0:24:38 > 0:24:39THEY CONFER
0:24:45 > 0:24:47- Odisha, you say?- Yeah.- Odisha?
0:24:47 > 0:24:49No, it was Tamil Nadu.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53Built by Denmark in 1659 and sold to the UK, in 1850,
0:24:53 > 0:24:56Fort Christiansborg houses the offices
0:24:56 > 0:24:59of the president of which West African country?
0:25:00 > 0:25:01Oh!
0:25:01 > 0:25:05THEY CONFER
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Come on, chaps.
0:25:10 > 0:25:11- Ghana?- It is Ghana, yes.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Including the islands Saint Croix and Saint Thomas,
0:25:14 > 0:25:18the Danish West Indies were sold to which country in 1917?
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Either the US or the British Virgin Islands.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23- OK. The United States. - The United States is correct.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Ten points for this.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Which three letters begin the names
0:25:27 > 0:25:30of the closest national capital to Vienna,
0:25:30 > 0:25:34the German state that surrounds Berlin, and...?
0:25:35 > 0:25:36B-R-A.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38B-R-A is correct.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42You get a set of bonuses on a shared name, Balliol.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44The English name of which waterfall
0:25:44 > 0:25:47comes from the surname of an American aviator
0:25:47 > 0:25:49who crash-landed nearby in 1937?
0:25:49 > 0:25:53It drops nearly 1,000m from Devil's Mountain in Venezuela.
0:25:53 > 0:25:54- Angel Falls.- Correct.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56In which novel by Thomas Hardy
0:25:56 > 0:25:59does Angel Clare reject his wife on their wedding night
0:25:59 > 0:26:01when she tells him she is not a virgin?
0:26:01 > 0:26:02Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06Correct. The Angel Islington is a character who lives below London
0:26:06 > 0:26:10and is the city's protector in which novel by Neil Gaiman?
0:26:11 > 0:26:14- Coraline?- No, no, no.
0:26:14 > 0:26:15- I know this.- Neverwhere?
0:26:15 > 0:26:17- Yes!- Neverwhere.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Conceived by the philosopher Henry Sidgwick in 1874,
0:26:22 > 0:26:26which paradox asserts that anyone who actively seeks happiness
0:26:26 > 0:26:28for their own sake will always be denied it?
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Paradox of hedonism.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Correct.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38These bonuses are on world capitals.
0:26:38 > 0:26:39In each case, name the capital city
0:26:39 > 0:26:42that precedes the following in dictionary entries.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45For example, "airlift" and "wall" gives "Berlin".
0:26:45 > 0:26:49Often using a historical spelling, the name of which capital
0:26:49 > 0:26:53appears before the words "opera", "man" and "duck"?
0:26:53 > 0:26:57THEY CONFER
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Come on.
0:27:01 > 0:27:02Beijing?
0:27:02 > 0:27:07Correct. Which capital can precede the words "circle", "sausage",
0:27:07 > 0:27:09"coffee", and "secession"?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Viennese?
0:27:15 > 0:27:16Oh, yeah. Vienna?
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Vienna is right. Which capital
0:27:18 > 0:27:21can precede the words "tar" and "syndrome"?
0:27:21 > 0:27:23- Stockholm.- Correct.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27Ten points for this. Between 2005 and 2012,
0:27:27 > 0:27:30four small moons of Pluto were discovered.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32Name any one.
0:27:32 > 0:27:33Nix.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Nix - the others are Hydra, Styx and Kerberos.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39You get a set of bonuses now on English and Sanskrit.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Meaning "sacred knowledge", which short Sanskrit word
0:27:41 > 0:27:44comes from the same Indo-European root
0:27:44 > 0:27:47as the English words "wit" and "history"?
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Quickly.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53- Veda?- Correct. Denoting the emblem on the Indian flag,
0:27:53 > 0:27:55which Sanskrit word is etymologically related
0:27:55 > 0:27:58to the English words "cycle", "circle" and "wheel"?
0:27:58 > 0:28:00GONG
0:28:00 > 0:28:04And at the gong, Corpus Christi College, Oxford have 160,
0:28:04 > 0:28:06but Balliol College, Oxford have 240.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09APPLAUSE
0:28:09 > 0:28:12Well, it was a strong performance from you,
0:28:12 > 0:28:14but sadly we're going to have to say goodbye to you, Corpus Christi.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16Balliol, many congratulations -
0:28:16 > 0:28:19that was a terrific performance again from you
0:28:19 > 0:28:21and we look forward to seeing you in the semifinals.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24I hope you can join me next time for the first of the semifinals,
0:28:24 > 0:28:27but until then, it's goodbye from Corpus Christi College, Oxford...
0:28:27 > 0:28:28- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31- It's goodbye from Balliol College, Oxford... ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.