0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29APPLAUSE
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Hello. 28 teams qualified for this contest,
0:00:32 > 0:00:3416 made it to the second round,
0:00:34 > 0:00:37and eight have been through the mill of the quarterfinals.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Now only the four best remain,
0:00:40 > 0:00:44competing in two semifinal matches, the first of which is tonight.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47The winners will, of course, go through to the final.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49The team from Emmanuel College, Cambridge
0:00:49 > 0:00:51have a flawless record so far.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54The opponents whose hopes they so cheerfully dashed were
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Nottingham University, the School of Oriental and African Studies,
0:00:58 > 0:00:59and in the quarterfinals,
0:00:59 > 0:01:03the University of Warwick and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
0:01:03 > 0:01:08With an average age of 22, let's meet the Emmanuel team again.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12Hello, I'm Tom Hill, I'm from London, and I'm reading History.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14Hello, my name's Leah Ward,
0:01:14 > 0:01:17I'm originally from Oxfordshire, and I'm studying Maths.
0:01:17 > 0:01:18And this is their captain.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Hello, my name's Bobby Seagull.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22I'm from East Ham in the London Borough of Newham.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26I'm studying for a Masters in Education, specialising in Maths.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Hi, I'm Bruno, I'm from Wandsworth in south-west London,
0:01:28 > 0:01:30and I'm studying Physics.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32APPLAUSE
0:01:35 > 0:01:39The team from Wolfson College, Cambridge, also had a victory
0:01:39 > 0:01:41against the School of Oriental and African Studies,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43and then beat Jesus College, Cambridge,
0:01:43 > 0:01:46followed by Balliol College, Oxford,
0:01:46 > 0:01:48although Balliol are also through to this stage.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51They then lost to Edinburgh University
0:01:51 > 0:01:55before redeeming themselves with a win over the University of Warwick.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59With an average age of 25, let's meet the Wolfson team again.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02Hi, my name is Justin Yang, I'm from Vancouver, Canada,
0:02:02 > 0:02:05and I'm studying for a PhD in Public Health and Primary Care.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Hi, I'm Ben Chaudhri, I'm from near Cockermouth in Cumbria,
0:02:08 > 0:02:10and I'm studying Natural Sciences.
0:02:10 > 0:02:11And this is their captain.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15Hello, my name is Eric Monkman, and I'm from Oakville, Canada,
0:02:15 > 0:02:16and I'm studying Economics.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20Hi, I'm Paul Cosgrove. I'm from Cookstown in Northern Ireland,
0:02:20 > 0:02:22and I'm doing an MPhil in Nuclear Energy.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25APPLAUSE
0:02:28 > 0:02:29Well, you all know the rules.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36The discovery of a lost will at the end of a novel
0:02:36 > 0:02:38is an example of what plot-resolving...?
0:02:38 > 0:02:40BELL RINGS
0:02:40 > 0:02:41Deus ex machina?
0:02:41 > 0:02:42Correct.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44APPLAUSE
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Your bonuses, the first set of bonuses in this contest, Emmanuel,
0:02:48 > 0:02:53are on the German-born art historian Erwin Panofsky.
0:02:53 > 0:02:54Firstly, for five points,
0:02:54 > 0:02:58Panofsky was a major exponent of which field of art history,
0:02:58 > 0:03:01defined as the identification and interpretation of
0:03:01 > 0:03:04the subject matter of the figurative arts?
0:03:04 > 0:03:05Subject matter, what...?
0:03:05 > 0:03:08- I actually don't know. - No idea.- Subject matter.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11- Say realist.- Realist. - Just like some random "ist!"
0:03:11 > 0:03:12Yeah, erm, realist.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14No, it's iconography.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Secondly, in an essay of 1934,
0:03:16 > 0:03:20Panofsky made a noted analysis of the symbolism of which
0:03:20 > 0:03:2315th-century painting in the National Gallery, identifying it as
0:03:23 > 0:03:27a visual contract testifying to an act of marriage?
0:03:27 > 0:03:28Is it the Arnolfini...?
0:03:28 > 0:03:30Of course it is, yeah. The Arnolfini Portrait.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33That's correct. And, finally, in 1943,
0:03:33 > 0:03:37Panofsky published a work on which artist of the Northern Renaissance?
0:03:37 > 0:03:41His prints include Melencolia and Knight, Death and the Devil.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Of course. Durer.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Correct. 10 points for this.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Holbeche House near Dudley is now a nursing home.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49In the early 17th century it was surrounded by
0:03:49 > 0:03:52a posse led by the Sheriff of Worcestershire.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55Robert Catesby and several others were killed in the ensuing...
0:03:55 > 0:03:56BUZZ
0:03:56 > 0:03:57The Gunpowder Plot?
0:03:57 > 0:04:00Correct. APPLAUSE
0:04:02 > 0:04:05So, your first bonuses, Wolfson, are on property.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08"So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of
0:04:08 > 0:04:10"either property or honour, they are satisfied."
0:04:10 > 0:04:14Which political philosopher made that statement in a work of 1513?
0:04:14 > 0:04:18- Oh, is...?- Hobbes?- No, it can't be Hobbes, it's too early.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21- I would say Thomas More. - Yeah.- Thomas More?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23No, it was Machiavelli.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27"The great and chief end of men's uniting into commonwealths is
0:04:27 > 0:04:29"the preservation of their property."
0:04:29 > 0:04:33Who wrote this in his Second Treatise of civil government?
0:04:33 > 0:04:34- Locke.- Locke.- Locke.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36John Locke is right.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Finally, "There is something that governments care far more for
0:04:39 > 0:04:42"than human life, and that is the security of property,
0:04:42 > 0:04:46"and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy."
0:04:46 > 0:04:49Who said that in a speech at the Albert Hall in 1912?
0:04:49 > 0:04:511912, Albert Hall? Erm...
0:04:51 > 0:04:53- Some communist?- That's probably...
0:04:53 > 0:04:55- Lenin? - No, it's probably Lloyd George.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Lloyd George? The Slimehouse Speech? Lloyd George?
0:04:58 > 0:05:01No, it wasn't, he was a victim of it, actually.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03It was Emmeline Pankhurst. 10 points for this.
0:05:03 > 0:05:08What name was shared by the NASA space probes designated 1 and 2,
0:05:08 > 0:05:10and launched in 1977 within...?
0:05:10 > 0:05:11BUZZ
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Er, Voyager.
0:05:13 > 0:05:14Voyager is correct.
0:05:14 > 0:05:15APPLAUSE
0:05:15 > 0:05:19You take the lead, and you get a set of bonuses on terms
0:05:19 > 0:05:21that begin with the same Greek prefix.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24In each case, give the term from the definition.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28Firstly, an informal term for extreme anger.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Formerly it served as a generic term for
0:05:30 > 0:05:33a cerebro-vascular accident or stroke.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36- Trauma?- Extreme anger, er, Greek term, so...
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Erm, extreme anger, erm...
0:05:39 > 0:05:42- Extreme anger... - Apoplectic.- Apoplexia.
0:05:42 > 0:05:43Apoplexia?
0:05:43 > 0:05:44I'll accept that, yes.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47Apoplexy is what we normally render it in English.
0:05:47 > 0:05:48So, secondly, for five points,
0:05:48 > 0:05:52a grammatical term for the main clause of a conditional sentence.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55For example, the last two words of the sentence,
0:05:55 > 0:05:59"If you want to please the viewers, confer audibly."
0:05:59 > 0:06:03- Is this apostrophe? - No, I think it's an appositive.- OK.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05- Nominate Yang.- Appositive?
0:06:05 > 0:06:07No, it's an apodosis.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Finally, a term for the New Testament Book of Revelation
0:06:10 > 0:06:12from its opening words in the Vulgate.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Is it Apocalypsis Johannis?
0:06:16 > 0:06:18Apocalypsis Johannis?
0:06:18 > 0:06:21Apocalypse was all I wanted, that's correct.
0:06:21 > 0:06:22Right, 10 points for this.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25In a phrase coined by G.E. Moore
0:06:25 > 0:06:27in his 1903 work Principia Ethica,
0:06:27 > 0:06:31what adjective is used to describe the fallacy of treating
0:06:31 > 0:06:33the term "good" as if it were the name of an...?
0:06:33 > 0:06:35BELL RINGS
0:06:35 > 0:06:36Naturalistic fallacy?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Correct. APPLAUSE
0:06:41 > 0:06:45These bonuses, Emmanuel, are on Davis Cup tennis.
0:06:45 > 0:06:51France won six consecutive Davis Cup titles from 1927-32
0:06:51 > 0:06:55through the combined efforts of the so-called Four Musketeers.
0:06:55 > 0:06:59Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon, Henri Cochet, and which player,
0:06:59 > 0:07:01nicknamed "the Crocodile"?
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Is it Lacoste, like, you know the crocodile on the shirts?
0:07:04 > 0:07:05- I've no idea.- Lacoste?
0:07:05 > 0:07:07It was Jean Rene Lacoste.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10Before Andy Murray in 2015,
0:07:10 > 0:07:14who was the last player to win three live rubbers in a Davis Cup final?
0:07:14 > 0:07:19He achieved this feat in 1995 when the United States played Russia.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21- So it's either going to be Sampras or Agassi.- Yeah.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25- More likely to be...- Sampras? - Yeah, Sampras, yeah. Sampras?
0:07:25 > 0:07:26Pete Sampras is right.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29When Great Britain won the Davis Cup in 2015,
0:07:29 > 0:07:32it did so for the first time since what year?
0:07:32 > 0:07:34- You can have a year either way. - So it'd be like the...
0:07:34 > 0:07:38- '30, Fred Perry.- '36, '37, like, around Austin, Perry, '36?
0:07:38 > 0:07:41- I reckon '36.- '36, yeah?
0:07:41 > 0:07:42Er, 1936?
0:07:42 > 0:07:44- That's correct.- Oh!
0:07:44 > 0:07:46APPLAUSE
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Right, 10 points for this starter question.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Using Planck's Quantum Theory,
0:07:51 > 0:07:55which French physicist proposed in 1923 that electrons exist...?
0:07:55 > 0:07:57BUZZ
0:07:57 > 0:07:58De Broglie.
0:07:58 > 0:07:59De Broglie is correct, yes.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01APPLAUSE
0:08:03 > 0:08:05That puts you on level pegging again, and you get a set of
0:08:05 > 0:08:10bonuses on a scientific constant and a list of units of measurement.
0:08:10 > 0:08:14You should answer with the numerical exponents of the units
0:08:14 > 0:08:16used to measure the constant.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20So, for speed of light, metres and seconds, you would answer
0:08:20 > 0:08:24one, minus one, corresponding to metres per second.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27- Understand? - It's in the dimensions...- Good, OK.
0:08:27 > 0:08:32Firstly, the ideal gas constant, joules, kelvins and moles.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36It's joules per mole per kelvin, so it's one, minus one, minus one.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39- Can I nominate you?- Yeah, sure. - Nominate Cosgrove.
0:08:39 > 0:08:40One, minus one, minus one?
0:08:40 > 0:08:43Correct. Secondly, the Stefan-Boltzmann constant,
0:08:43 > 0:08:45watts, metres and kelvins.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47It's temperatures...
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Watts per metre, or is it per square metre,
0:08:50 > 0:08:52- per kelvin to the four?- Yeah.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55So it's one, minus one, minus four.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56Yeah, one, minus one, minus four.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59- Plus four. - No, minus four, cos it's...
0:08:59 > 0:09:02- You're getting watts at the end. - OK.- Nominate Cosgrove.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04One, minus two, minus four.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08That's correct, yes, you caught yourself there, well done.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12And finally the Planck constant, joules and seconds.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14- It's joules-seconds, so it's one, one.- Yeah.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16- Nominate Cosgrove.- One, one.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18One, one is right, yes.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20APPLAUSE
0:09:21 > 0:09:24We're going to take a picture round. For your picture starter,
0:09:24 > 0:09:26you'll see a map of the world with two cities marked.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29For 10 points, what is the single English word that translates
0:09:29 > 0:09:33the name element that these cities have in common?
0:09:35 > 0:09:37BUZZ
0:09:37 > 0:09:38Peace?
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Peace is right, yes, it's La Paz and Dar es Salaam.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45So you get picture bonuses. They are three more maps,
0:09:45 > 0:09:48this time with three cities or towns highlighted,
0:09:48 > 0:09:51all of which have names whose meanings or etymological roots
0:09:51 > 0:09:55when translated into English have a word or concept in common.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59You have to identify them for five points apiece. Firstly...
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Erm, that's, that's...
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Capital city, capital city and capital...
0:10:07 > 0:10:11- It's Amsterdam.- Amsterdam. That's Vladivostok, and...
0:10:11 > 0:10:16- Is that Kyoto?- Kyoto? That's probably, like, Belgium, Brussels.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18- No, Tokyo, sorry.- Er...
0:10:18 > 0:10:20- What do you think?- Vladivostok?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22That isn't what I asked you for.
0:10:22 > 0:10:27- What I asked you for was the concept they had in common.- Oh, east.
0:10:27 > 0:10:28Well, east is right,
0:10:28 > 0:10:31- but that isn't the answer you gave me first off, I'm afraid.- OK.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35So it was Vladivostok, Ostend and Tokyo. So, secondly...
0:10:37 > 0:10:41- Is that Rome?- Rome. No, it can't be, it's Addis...
0:10:41 > 0:10:45- It's not?- St Petersburg, is it, erm...?
0:10:45 > 0:10:48I think that's St Petersburg, so is it, erm...
0:10:48 > 0:10:51- I mean, Rome is like the eternal city.- Eternal city? Eternal?
0:10:51 > 0:10:53Yeah, eternal? Eternal city?
0:10:53 > 0:10:55No, that's Naples, in fact, anyway.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57- It's new.- Oh.- Oh!
0:10:57 > 0:11:01Novgorod, Naples and Addis Ababa. And finally...
0:11:03 > 0:11:04OK, so that's...
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Hull or something?
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Erm... Sarajevo?
0:11:11 > 0:11:15- Marrakech?- Marrakech? It's like...
0:11:16 > 0:11:17Market town? Market town?
0:11:17 > 0:11:19- I think just say market.- Market?
0:11:19 > 0:11:21No, it's white.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25They were in fact Casablanca, Belgrade and Whitby in the UK.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Right, 10 points for this.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30I need a precise seven-letter name in this answer.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32What is described on its official website as
0:11:32 > 0:11:35"neither tower nor pyramid, a little bit cubic,
0:11:35 > 0:11:39"a little bit spherical, halfway between sculpture and architecture"?
0:11:39 > 0:11:42102 metres high and made of steel,
0:11:42 > 0:11:47it was designed by Andre Waterkeyn for the 1958 World Fair in Brussels.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49BUZZ
0:11:49 > 0:11:50The Atomium?
0:11:50 > 0:11:52That is correct, yes.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54APPLAUSE
0:11:56 > 0:12:00Your bonuses are on stained glass in north-west England.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Firstly, for five points, St Leonard's Church in Middleton,
0:12:03 > 0:12:07near Rochdale, has an early 16th-century window,
0:12:07 > 0:12:11once thought to be an early war memorial depicting a row of archers.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15It's popularly named after which battle of 1513,
0:12:15 > 0:12:17at which James IV of Scotland was killed?
0:12:17 > 0:12:19- Flodden Field?- Yeah.
0:12:19 > 0:12:20Flodden Field?
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Flodden is correct, yes.
0:12:22 > 0:12:23Lauded by Nikolaus Pevsner,
0:12:23 > 0:12:27the windows of St Martin's Church in Brampton, Cumbria,
0:12:27 > 0:12:30are a collaboration between Sir Edward Burne-Jones
0:12:30 > 0:12:34and the firm of which artist, the founder of the Kelmscott Press?
0:12:34 > 0:12:37- Is this, erm, is this, like, Morris? - William Morris?- Morris?
0:12:37 > 0:12:39- Sure, go for it.- Morris?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41It is William Morris, yes.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44And finally, All Saints' Church in Daresbury, Cheshire, has a stained
0:12:44 > 0:12:49glass memorial of which writer, born in the village parsonage in 1832?
0:12:49 > 0:12:53Its images include a rabbit, a dodo, and a stylised royal figure.
0:12:53 > 0:12:54Lewis Carroll.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56Correct. 10 points for this...
0:12:56 > 0:12:58APPLAUSE
0:12:58 > 0:13:03Lady Of Quality, Venetia, and Regency Buck...
0:13:03 > 0:13:04BELL RINGS
0:13:04 > 0:13:05Georgette Heyer?
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Yes. APPLAUSE
0:13:10 > 0:13:14Right, these bonuses are on silent comedy now, Emmanuel College.
0:13:14 > 0:13:19Which prominent star of the silent era is noted for the 1923 film
0:13:19 > 0:13:22Safety Last, in which he is seen hanging from a clock
0:13:22 > 0:13:24several storeys above a city street?
0:13:24 > 0:13:26- Buster Keaton, yeah?- Yeah. - Er, Buster Keaton.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28No, that was Harold Lloyd.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32Released in 1931, after the arrival of films with sound,
0:13:32 > 0:13:36which silent romantic comedy stars Charlie Chaplin as the Little Tramp,
0:13:36 > 0:13:40and Virginia Cherrill as the flower girl he befriends?
0:13:40 > 0:13:44Er, so it's not Modern Times. What's the other one? Er...
0:13:45 > 0:13:47- I can't remember. - Oh, I can't remember.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49- Say Modern Times, then. - Modern Times?
0:13:49 > 0:13:50No, it's City Lights.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54Who starred in and co-directed the 1920s silent comedies
0:13:54 > 0:13:58Our Hospitality, The Navigator and The General?
0:13:58 > 0:14:01His deadpan expression earned him the nickname "the Great Stoneface".
0:14:01 > 0:14:04I guess you've got to say Buster Keaton this time.
0:14:04 > 0:14:05Yeah, go for it? Buster Keaton?
0:14:05 > 0:14:08Buster Keaton is correct. 10 points for this.
0:14:08 > 0:14:13Fully assembled by the early Permian period about 290 million years ago,
0:14:13 > 0:14:15which super...? BELL RINGS
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Pangaea.
0:14:17 > 0:14:18Pangaea is right, yes.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20APPLAUSE
0:14:21 > 0:14:25These bonuses are on criticisms, Emmanuel College.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28The Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski
0:14:28 > 0:14:31was a fierce critic of which body of doctrine named in the title of
0:14:31 > 0:14:35his three-volume work first published in 1976,
0:14:35 > 0:14:39and described by him as "the greatest fantasy of our century"?
0:14:39 > 0:14:42I don't know, like, is it a political movement?
0:14:42 > 0:14:45- Communism, or...? - Doctrine like communism, maybe?
0:14:45 > 0:14:48You know, '76, communism was still around then? Communism?
0:14:48 > 0:14:50No, it's Marxism.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53Distrusting the official Marxism of theorists such as
0:14:53 > 0:14:57Louis Althusser, which French thinker attacked classical Marxism
0:14:57 > 0:15:02in his 1973 work The Mirror Of Production?
0:15:02 > 0:15:05- French thinker.- We don't know this. - You don't know this, yeah?- No.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07No, nothing?
0:15:07 > 0:15:08Er, Henri.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10No, that was Jean Baudrillard.
0:15:10 > 0:15:14And finally, which Russian anarchist believed that Marxist regimes
0:15:14 > 0:15:18would lead to what he called "the despotic control of the populace
0:15:18 > 0:15:21"by a new and not-at-all numerous aristocracy"?
0:15:21 > 0:15:25- So, is this, like...? Russian, is it? Lenin? No, anarchist.- Anarchist.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28- Chomsky, but...- Is he...? - No, he's not Russian.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31- Was Tolstoy kind of anarchist? - Tolstoy, yeah, let's go for that?
0:15:31 > 0:15:35- He was kind of like... It's not really anarchist, but...- Tolstoy?
0:15:35 > 0:15:38No, it was Bakunin. Mikhail Bakunin.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41We're going to take a music round. For your music starter,
0:15:41 > 0:15:44you're going to hear part of a song cycle by a British composer.
0:15:44 > 0:15:4710 points if you can identify the composer.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51# In the third class seat
0:15:51 > 0:15:59# Sat the journeying boy... #
0:15:59 > 0:16:01BELL RINGS
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Britten?
0:16:03 > 0:16:04It is Benjamin Britten, yes.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06APPLAUSE
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Midnight On The Great Western.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12It was a setting by Britten of a poem by Thomas Hardy.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15Your music bonuses are three more settings by Britten
0:16:15 > 0:16:18of well-known poems. This time, in each case,
0:16:18 > 0:16:21I want the name of the poet whose work has been set.
0:16:21 > 0:16:22Firstly, for five...
0:16:22 > 0:16:28# Death be not proud... #
0:16:28 > 0:16:29Oh, er, Death Be Not Proud.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31So, that's Donne. Donne.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34John Donne is right. Secondly...
0:16:34 > 0:16:41# I wander thro' each charter'd street
0:16:42 > 0:16:50# Near where the charter'd Thames does flow... #
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Near where the what?
0:16:52 > 0:16:56# And mark in every face I meet... #
0:16:56 > 0:17:00Oh, yeah. It is Blake, definitely. No, it's, "In every...
0:17:00 > 0:17:03- "Signs of weakness, signs of woe." - Yeah, I...
0:17:03 > 0:17:04- Is that Blake?- I don't know.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Blake? We'll just have to... Blake.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10- It was William Blake, yes. - Excellent, Bruno.- Finally...
0:17:10 > 0:17:17# What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
0:17:20 > 0:17:24# Only the monstrous anger of the guns
0:17:27 > 0:17:31# Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle... #
0:17:31 > 0:17:34- I don't recognise it at all. - Shakespeare?
0:17:34 > 0:17:37No, it was Wilfred Owen, part of his Anthem For Doomed Youth,
0:17:37 > 0:17:41in his War Requiem, Britten's War Requiem. 10 points for this.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Often known by a three-letter abbreviation,
0:17:43 > 0:17:49what term denotes the area roughly 240km long and 4km wide,
0:17:49 > 0:17:51lying roughly along the 38th parallel...?
0:17:51 > 0:17:53BUZZ
0:17:53 > 0:17:55The demilitarised zone?
0:17:55 > 0:17:56Correct, the DMZ, yes.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59APPLAUSE
0:17:59 > 0:18:04Right, you get a set of bonuses on early 20th-century Nobel laureates.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07In each case, I need the specific prize
0:18:07 > 0:18:10and the nationality of the recipient.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14Firstly, Baroness Bertha von Suttner, the winner in 1905.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17- She was from Austria-Hungary and she won it for Peace.- Yeah.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21She was from Austria-Hungary and she won it for Peace.
0:18:21 > 0:18:22That is correct.
0:18:22 > 0:18:27Secondly, Selma Lagerlof, the winner in 1909.
0:18:27 > 0:18:32- I don't know whether that would be Literature.- I think she's, erm...
0:18:32 > 0:18:36- Swedish?- I think she's Swedish. - OK. Literature and Swedish?
0:18:36 > 0:18:42Correct. And finally Grazia Deledda, the winner in 1926.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46- Not Peace.- No, no, I think this... Physiology?- Italian and Medicine?
0:18:46 > 0:18:49- I think it was... I think so. - Italian and Medicine?
0:18:49 > 0:18:52No, it's Literature and Italian. 10 points for this.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56Because of its ease of cultivation and anatomical simplicity,
0:18:56 > 0:18:59which transparent soil nematode has been used...?
0:18:59 > 0:19:01BUZZ
0:19:01 > 0:19:02C. elegans.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04C. elegans is correct, yes.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06APPLAUSE
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Your bonuses are on mathematics, Wolfson.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14What is the name of the two-dimensional cellular automaton
0:19:14 > 0:19:16invented by John Conway
0:19:16 > 0:19:20and popularised by Scientific American magazine in 1970?
0:19:20 > 0:19:21Game of Life?
0:19:21 > 0:19:24Correct. In the Game of Life, what is the two-word term for
0:19:24 > 0:19:28a pattern that does not change from one generation to the next?
0:19:28 > 0:19:30- Oh...- Stable pattern? Cycle?
0:19:30 > 0:19:33- No, no.- Stable pattern?- Er...
0:19:33 > 0:19:37Extinction? I don't know. I'll say stable pattern, maybe?
0:19:37 > 0:19:38Stable pattern?
0:19:38 > 0:19:39No, it's still life.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41And finally, again in the Game of Life,
0:19:41 > 0:19:44a life pattern with no father pattern is known by
0:19:44 > 0:19:50what three-word term referring to a concept in Abrahamic religions?
0:19:50 > 0:19:51No father? Erm...
0:19:51 > 0:19:54- Adam and Eve.- Oh, yeah, sure. - Adam and Eve?
0:19:54 > 0:19:57No, it's the Garden of Eden. 10 points for this.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00From an Italian form of the name John,
0:20:00 > 0:20:04what short word does Shakespeare use in Love's Labour's Lost
0:20:04 > 0:20:06to indicate an assistant clown or buffoon?
0:20:06 > 0:20:08BUZZ
0:20:08 > 0:20:09Er, zany?
0:20:09 > 0:20:10Yes.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12APPLAUSE
0:20:14 > 0:20:18Right, you get a set of bonuses this time on hill forts
0:20:18 > 0:20:19in Britain, Wolfson.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Overlooking the Vale of Edale,
0:20:21 > 0:20:25Mam Tor is a hill fort in which national park?
0:20:26 > 0:20:29- Dartmoor?- Dartmoor?- Don't know.
0:20:29 > 0:20:30Dartmoor?
0:20:30 > 0:20:31No, it's the Peak District.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Secondly, Uffington Castle and Ivinghoe Beacon hill fort
0:20:35 > 0:20:40both lie on or close to which national trail?
0:20:40 > 0:20:42Is it, er, the Scottish...? It's the Scottish, erm...
0:20:42 > 0:20:45Would there be a hill fort up there? Scottish northern trail?
0:20:45 > 0:20:48- It could be the West Highland Way. - West Highland Way?
0:20:48 > 0:20:49West Highland Way?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51No, it's the Ridgeway.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55And, lastly, Hod Hill, Maiden Castle and Badbury Rings are hill forts
0:20:55 > 0:20:58- in which English county? - Could it be Wiltshire?
0:20:58 > 0:21:00That's where a lot of the....
0:21:00 > 0:21:02- OK.- Wiltshire?
0:21:02 > 0:21:06No, it's Dorset. We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09For your picture starter you'll see a painting by a Dutch artist.
0:21:09 > 0:21:1210 points if you can identify the artist.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14BUZZ
0:21:14 > 0:21:15Er, Rembrandt.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17No. Anyone...? BELL RINGS
0:21:17 > 0:21:18Hooch?
0:21:18 > 0:21:20No, it's by Franz Hals.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22So, picture bonuses in a moment or two,
0:21:22 > 0:21:2510 points at stake with this starter question.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29Listen carefully, I need two answers here in the given order.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32Give the standard five-letter English spelling
0:21:32 > 0:21:36first of the capital of Senegal, then of the capital of Bangladesh.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38BELL RINGS
0:21:38 > 0:21:39D-A-K-A-R.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41D-H-A-K-A.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Correct.
0:21:43 > 0:21:44APPLAUSE
0:21:45 > 0:21:49You'll recall a moment ago that we saw a painting by Franz Hals.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51It's one of many works of art mentioned in Proust's
0:21:51 > 0:21:53In Search Of Lost Time.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56Your picture bonuses are three more works that are substantially
0:21:56 > 0:21:58referenced in that novel sequence.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01I want the artists in each case - all are Italians.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03- Firstly, for five...- Oh, is that...?
0:22:03 > 0:22:06Is that what's-his-name, the one who did The Birth of Venus?
0:22:06 > 0:22:08- Botticelli.- Botticelli?
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Botticelli is right. The Youth of Moses. Secondly...
0:22:13 > 0:22:18Ooh. Is that...? Could it be, like, Raphael? No, I don't think...
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- Er...- Erm... Oh, I don't know...
0:22:21 > 0:22:24- I've no idea. - Oh, I don't know, Giotto...
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Raphael?
0:22:26 > 0:22:28No, it's Giotto. And finally...
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Is that, like, is that Michelangelo, one of the sculptors?
0:22:33 > 0:22:36- Oh!- Oh, horned Moses, that's Michelangelo!- Michelangelo.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Michelangelo is right, yes.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Right, we're going to take another starter question now.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45Rendered in German, an inscription meaning "We must know, we will know"
0:22:45 > 0:22:49appears on the tombstone of which mathematician who died in 1943?
0:22:49 > 0:22:53He gives his name to a vector that's used in functional analysis.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55BUZZ
0:22:55 > 0:22:56Hilbert?
0:22:56 > 0:22:58Hilbert is right, yes.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00APPLAUSE
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Your bonuses are on contemporary figures who appear
0:23:03 > 0:23:06in Byron's poem Don Juan.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10Whom does Byron call firstly "the best of cut-throats", observing
0:23:10 > 0:23:15that "war's a brain-spattering, windpipe-slitting art"?
0:23:15 > 0:23:16Napoleon, maybe?
0:23:16 > 0:23:18- Sure.- Napoleon? Napoleon?
0:23:18 > 0:23:21No, it was Wellington, Arthur Wellesley.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25Which politician does Byron call an "intellectual eunuch"
0:23:25 > 0:23:30and a "tinkering slave maker" who became Foreign Secretary in 1812?
0:23:30 > 0:23:32- Charles James Fox?- Fox, yeah.
0:23:32 > 0:23:33Charles James Fox?
0:23:33 > 0:23:34No, it's Castlereagh.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38Which literary figure does Byron dismiss as "quaint and mouthy"?
0:23:38 > 0:23:43He was Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death in 1843.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46- That's Wordsworth.- Wordsworth? - Yeah.- Wordsworth?
0:23:46 > 0:23:49No, it's Southey. Four minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52The team captain, a fair-minded person,
0:23:52 > 0:23:54readily accepted the referee's decision.
0:23:54 > 0:23:58From the Latin for "placing beside," what term describes the phrase
0:23:58 > 0:24:01"a fair-minded person" in this sentence?
0:24:01 > 0:24:03BUZZ
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Apothe... Apostrophe.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08No, you lose five points. One of you may buzz from Emmanuel.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13BELL RINGS
0:24:13 > 0:24:14Apposite?
0:24:14 > 0:24:15It's apposition.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18Right, we're going to take another starter question now.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22"Like my cat, I often simply do what I want to do.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25"I am not then using an ability that only persons have."
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Which British philosopher wrote those words to introduce
0:24:28 > 0:24:32his 1984 work Reasons and Persons?
0:24:32 > 0:24:34BUZZ
0:24:34 > 0:24:35Berlin?
0:24:35 > 0:24:37No. Anyone like to buzz from Emmanuel...?
0:24:37 > 0:24:38Freddie Ayer?
0:24:38 > 0:24:41No, it was Derek Parfit. 10 points for this.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46How many millimetres of water would you add to a 100ml
0:24:46 > 0:24:510.5 molar solution to make a 50-millimolar solution?
0:24:53 > 0:24:55BELL RINGS
0:24:55 > 0:24:57100?
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Anyone like to buzz from Wolfson?
0:24:59 > 0:25:01BUZZ
0:25:01 > 0:25:0250!
0:25:02 > 0:25:03No, it's 900.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Right, 10 points for this.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08Which English National Park is the location of noted caves
0:25:08 > 0:25:11including Stump Cross, White Scar, Gaping Gill, and...?
0:25:11 > 0:25:13BELL RINGS
0:25:13 > 0:25:15The Yorkshire Dales.
0:25:15 > 0:25:16Correct.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19APPLAUSE
0:25:19 > 0:25:20Right, Emmanuel College,
0:25:20 > 0:25:25these bonuses are on the Galilean moons of Jupiter.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28Firstly, slightly larger than Earth's moon and noted for its
0:25:28 > 0:25:32unusually smooth surface, which is the smallest of the Galilean moons?
0:25:32 > 0:25:37- Ooh...- Galileo?- So, it's Europa, Io, Callisto, Ganymede, right?
0:25:37 > 0:25:39- So, Callisto is smooth? - I think Ganymede is the smallest.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42- Ganymede's the biggest.- Ganymede's the biggest. Try Callisto.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Callisto?
0:25:43 > 0:25:47No, it's Europa. Secondly, the most volcanically active body
0:25:47 > 0:25:48- in the Solar System...- Io!
0:25:48 > 0:25:49Io is correct.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Which of the Galilean moons
0:25:51 > 0:25:54is the only moon known to have its own magnetosphere?
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Would that be Ganymede because it's so big?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58- Er, yeah, go for it. - Yeah? Ganymede?
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Ganymede is right. 10 points for this.
0:26:00 > 0:26:05Which film of 1950 by Akira Kurosawa gives its name to an effect
0:26:05 > 0:26:07in which the same event...? BUZZ
0:26:07 > 0:26:08Rashomon.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Rashomon is correct.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12APPLAUSE
0:26:13 > 0:26:16Your bonuses this time, Wolfson College, are on Latin terms.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19All three include a verb in the present subjunctive.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Firstly, a safeguard against arbitrary imprisonment, which law
0:26:22 > 0:26:27of 1679 requires a defendant to be brought physically before a court?
0:26:27 > 0:26:29- Habeas corpus?- Yeah.- Habeas corpus?
0:26:29 > 0:26:33Correct. Widely used in mottos by educational institutions,
0:26:33 > 0:26:35which two short Latin words from the Vulgate
0:26:35 > 0:26:39are rendered in the King James Bible as "Let there be light"?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41- Fiat lux?- Yeah.
0:26:41 > 0:26:42Fiat lux?
0:26:42 > 0:26:45Correct. Used as a direction in a proof or manuscript,
0:26:45 > 0:26:49- what short single word means "let it stand"?- Stet.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51- Yeah.- Stet. Stet.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Stet is correct. 10 points for this.
0:26:53 > 0:26:58In what was his most sustained effort on a single site, from 1892,
0:26:58 > 0:27:03Claude Monet painted more than 30 views of which French cathedral?
0:27:03 > 0:27:05- BELL RINGS - Rouen.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Rouen is right.
0:27:07 > 0:27:08APPLAUSE
0:27:08 > 0:27:12Your bonuses are on the Second South African War.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15All three answers can be found in UK street names.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19Firstly, the Boer siege of which diamond mining centre,
0:27:19 > 0:27:21now in Northern Cape,
0:27:21 > 0:27:24was relieved by General John French in February 1900?
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Is that Kimberley or Mafeking? Mafeking?
0:27:26 > 0:27:28No, it was Kimberley.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Named after the wife of the Governor of Cape Colony,
0:27:30 > 0:27:32which town in KwaZulu-Natal...?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34GONG
0:27:34 > 0:27:37And at the gong, Emmanuel College have 140,
0:27:37 > 0:27:40Wolfson College, Cambridge have 170.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42APPLAUSE
0:27:44 > 0:27:48Well, I will say only that you guys, all of you,
0:27:48 > 0:27:52of whatever gender, you're very, very clever.
0:27:52 > 0:27:56And it was a pleasure to watch this match. Thank you very much indeed.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58Emmanuel, sadly you have to go home now.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01Wolfson, congratulations, you're now through to the final.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03We'll look forward to seeing you there.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06And I hope you can join us next time for the second semifinal,
0:28:06 > 0:28:09but until then it's goodbye from Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
0:28:09 > 0:28:10- ALL:- Bye.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12It's goodbye from Wolfson College, Cambridge.
0:28:12 > 0:28:13- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.