0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:22University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. Last time, we saw Wolfson College, Cambridge,
0:00:31 > 0:00:34take the first place in the final of this year's competition.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38Whichever team wins tonight will play them.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41The team from Edinburgh University have arrived here without
0:00:41 > 0:00:42having lost a match.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45The opponents they have beaten along the way were
0:00:45 > 0:00:49the University of Durham, the Open University in the first two rounds,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52and then in the quarterfinals they beat both Birmingham University
0:00:52 > 0:00:55and Wolfson College, Cambridge, who have still managed to make it
0:00:55 > 0:00:57through to the final next week.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01With an average age of 23, let's meet the Edinburgh team again.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04My name is Luke, I'm from York and I'm taking late antique,
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Islamic and Byzantine studies.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Hi, I'm Ewan, I'm from Aberdeen and I study classics.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11This is their captain.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Hi, I'm Joe, I'm from Brighton, and I study ecology
0:01:13 > 0:01:15and environmental science.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Hello, I'm Emily, I'm from Wilmslow, Cheshire,
0:01:17 > 0:01:19and I'm studying chemistry.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20APPLAUSE
0:01:24 > 0:01:28The career to date of the team from Balliol College, Oxford,
0:01:28 > 0:01:30includes wins over Imperial College, London,
0:01:30 > 0:01:32and Robinson College, Cambridge,
0:01:32 > 0:01:36a defeat at the hands of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and then
0:01:36 > 0:01:40victories over Birmingham University and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
0:01:40 > 0:01:44The Balliol team also have an average age of 23.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Let's reacquaint ourselves with them.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50Hi, I'm Franny Potts, I'm from Newcastle and I'm reading history.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54I'm Jacob Lloyd, I'm from London and I'm reading for
0:01:54 > 0:01:55a DPhil in English.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57And this chap is their captain.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Hi, I'm Joey Goldman, I'm from London and I'm reading
0:01:59 > 0:02:01philosophy and theology.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03I'm Ben Pope, I'm from Sydney, Australia,
0:02:03 > 0:02:05and I am doing a DPhil in physics.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07APPLAUSE
0:02:10 > 0:02:12Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:12 > 0:02:17What everyday object links a suite of piano pieces by Ravel
0:02:17 > 0:02:20that includes The Valley Of The Bells,
0:02:20 > 0:02:24a website that acts as an exact local replication of another site
0:02:24 > 0:02:26and the hall...?
0:02:26 > 0:02:27Mirror.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Mirror is right. APPLAUSE
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Your first set of bonuses, Balliol,
0:02:32 > 0:02:35are on the imperial cities of Morocco.
0:02:35 > 0:02:36Firstly, for five points,
0:02:36 > 0:02:40which city west of Rabat was the capital of Morocco until 1912?
0:02:40 > 0:02:43It's the site of the Quaraouiyine Mosque, the seat of
0:02:43 > 0:02:47a university founded in 859, which is sometimes described
0:02:47 > 0:02:48as the oldest in the world.
0:02:48 > 0:02:49- Fes.- Correct.
0:02:49 > 0:02:5160km from Fes,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54which city became the capital of Morocco in 1673?
0:02:54 > 0:02:58It's noted for its high ramparts and Spanish Moorish architecture.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06We will go for Essaouira.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08No, it's Meknes.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12In which city south of Casablanca is the Jemaa el-Fnaa square?
0:03:12 > 0:03:16The capital of the Almoravids the 12th and 13th century, it's known as
0:03:16 > 0:03:18the Red City from its distinctively coloured buildings.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21- Marrakech.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25Quote, "It is nonsense to talk of fascist tendencies in his books.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28"There are no post-1918 tendencies at all."
0:03:28 > 0:03:33These words of George Orwell refer to which author, born in 1881?
0:03:33 > 0:03:36His works include Pearls, Girls And Monty Bodkin,
0:03:36 > 0:03:41A Few Quick Ones and The Code Of The Woosters?
0:03:41 > 0:03:42- PG Wodehouse.- Correct.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44APPLAUSE
0:03:45 > 0:03:50These bonuses, Balliol, are on an English poet born in about 1552.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Which poet did Alexander Pope compare
0:03:53 > 0:03:56to a mistress whose faults we see but love her with them all?
0:04:00 > 0:04:03THEY CONFER
0:04:10 > 0:04:11Philip Sidney.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13No, it's Edmund Spenser.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Identify the poet who wrote these words
0:04:16 > 0:04:18in about 1941 when at university.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20"First I thought Troilus and Criseyde
0:04:20 > 0:04:23"was the most boring poem in English.
0:04:23 > 0:04:28"Now I know the Faerie Queene is the dullest thing out. Blast it."
0:04:29 > 0:04:32- What was the dates?- '41.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35It could be Larkin.
0:04:35 > 0:04:36- Philip Larkin.- Correct.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40In 1902, which poet said of Spenser's time as secretary
0:04:40 > 0:04:44to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, "He was the first of many Englishmen
0:04:44 > 0:04:47"to see nothing but what he was desired to see?"
0:04:47 > 0:04:48THEY CONFER
0:04:50 > 0:04:51OK, we will go with Yeats.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53It was WB Yeats.
0:04:53 > 0:04:54Ten points for this.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58Examples being the Square of Pegasus, the Summer Triangle
0:04:58 > 0:05:02and the Winter Hexagon, what eight-letter term denotes a...?
0:05:02 > 0:05:03Asterism.
0:05:03 > 0:05:04Asterism is correct.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06APPLAUSE
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Your bonuses now are on pairs of words, Balliol.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15They differ only by the addition of the initial letter P,
0:05:15 > 0:05:17for example "robe" and "probe."
0:05:17 > 0:05:21In each case I want you to give me both words described.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Firstly, two terms in astronomy.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Firstly, a motion away from the observer and
0:05:26 > 0:05:30a change in the axis of rotation of a rotating body such as that
0:05:30 > 0:05:33which causes a gradual drift in the timing of the equinoxes.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Recession and precession.
0:05:39 > 0:05:43Correct. Secondly, the number of operands to which a mathematical
0:05:43 > 0:05:47operator applies and a term used in quantum physics to describe
0:05:47 > 0:05:50the behaviour of a wave function when all of its spatial
0:05:50 > 0:05:53coordinates are reversed in direction.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59THEY CONFER
0:06:00 > 0:06:01Arity and parity.
0:06:01 > 0:06:06Correct. Finally a rheumatic pain in the lower back and an alternative
0:06:06 > 0:06:08name for the mineral graphite?
0:06:12 > 0:06:14- Carbon...- Pencil lead.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23Lumbar and plumbar.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25No, it's lumbago and plumbago.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28Ten points for this.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31An author of the Great Reform Act, Sir James Graham,
0:06:31 > 0:06:35said that only dirty and hypocritical cowards would wish
0:06:35 > 0:06:37which specific voting practice?
0:06:37 > 0:06:42A persistent radical demand from the 18th century, it was introduced...
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Universal male suffrage.
0:06:44 > 0:06:45I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:06:45 > 0:06:50It was introduced by WE Forster in an act of 1872.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54- Secret ballots.- Correct.
0:06:54 > 0:06:55APPLAUSE
0:06:56 > 0:06:58OK, you're off the mark, Edinburgh,
0:06:58 > 0:07:00here are a set of bonuses on European history.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01Firstly, for five points,
0:07:01 > 0:07:06the miracle of the Marne refers to a major battle in which year
0:07:06 > 0:07:10when an invading force was stopped before it could reach Paris?
0:07:11 > 0:07:14THEY CONFER
0:07:17 > 0:07:191871.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22No, it was 1914, the early days of the First World War.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26Secondly, Russia's sudden withdrawal from which war was termed
0:07:26 > 0:07:28the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg?
0:07:28 > 0:07:32The Russian empress died and was succeeded by Peter III,
0:07:32 > 0:07:34an admirer of Frederick the Great.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41- The Seven Years War.- Correct.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44The Miracle on the Vistula is a name sometimes given
0:07:44 > 0:07:48to a Soviet defeat of 1920 near which present day capital?
0:07:51 > 0:07:53THEY CONFER
0:07:57 > 0:07:58- Warsaw.- Warsaw is correct.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Ten points for this.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05Name any one of the three men who appear in the title of
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Douglas Hofstadter's 1970...?
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Godel.
0:08:10 > 0:08:11Godel. Do you remember the others?
0:08:11 > 0:08:13- Escher and Bach.- Well done.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15An Eternal Golden Braid is the subtitle.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Right, your bonuses are on Latin words.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23All three answers have the same initial letter.
0:08:23 > 0:08:27Firstly, commonly used as the first part of compound nouns
0:08:27 > 0:08:29referring to titles of office, which short word is
0:08:29 > 0:08:33the ablative singular of a Latin word meaning change or stead?
0:08:35 > 0:08:38- Vice.- Vice is correct.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41From the Latin words for "to see" and "it is permissible,"
0:08:41 > 0:08:44what is the full form of the Latin expression commonly
0:08:44 > 0:08:48abbreviated to viz, used to indicate a more precise explanation
0:08:48 > 0:08:50of a foregoing statement?
0:08:50 > 0:08:52- Nominate Pope.- Videlicet.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Correct, or videre licet.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57And, finally, the Latin for "go with me,"
0:08:57 > 0:08:59which term, often hyphenated,
0:08:59 > 0:09:02is used for a portable guidebook or manual?
0:09:02 > 0:09:04- Nominate Pope.- Vade mecum.
0:09:04 > 0:09:05Vade mecum is correct.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07APPLAUSE
0:09:09 > 0:09:10We're going to take a picture round now.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14For your picture starter you will see an abridged family tree.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16For ten points, I want you to identify the Greek deity
0:09:16 > 0:09:17who is missing.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26- Poseidon.- Poseidon is correct.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28APPLAUSE
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Your picture bonuses are three more sections of the Greek Theogony
0:09:32 > 0:09:35according to Hesiod and other ancient sources.
0:09:35 > 0:09:39In each case, I simply want the name of the deity or hero who is missing.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Firstly for five.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47- Aphrodite.- Correct. Secondly.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Cyrene.
0:10:02 > 0:10:03I'm afraid it's Mnemosyne.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Finally.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17Heracles?
0:10:21 > 0:10:22We'll go with Ganymede.
0:10:22 > 0:10:23- It was Heracles.- Sorry.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Ten points for this.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28When Horatio Nelson married Frances Nisbet on Nevis
0:10:28 > 0:10:33in the Caribbean in 1787, which of his fellow officers gave away
0:10:33 > 0:10:35the bride, called home the following year
0:10:35 > 0:10:38when his father became mentally incapacitated?
0:10:38 > 0:10:41He later became Duke of Clarence and acceded to the throne
0:10:41 > 0:10:44on the death of his brother in 1830.
0:10:45 > 0:10:46- William IV.- Correct.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48APPLAUSE
0:10:50 > 0:10:53You get three bonuses on physics, Balliol.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56The oscillation period of a simple pendulum has what mathematical
0:10:56 > 0:11:00dependence on the local acceleration due to gravity, G?
0:11:02 > 0:11:03One over route G.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06That's correct, G to the minus one half.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Secondly, to the nearest whole number,
0:11:08 > 0:11:10Earth's surface gravity is how many times greater
0:11:10 > 0:11:12than that of the moon?
0:11:14 > 0:11:16- Six.- Correct.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19If you take a pendulum clock that is calibrated to standard Earth
0:11:19 > 0:11:23gravity and install it on the surface of the moon,
0:11:23 > 0:11:26how long will the hour hand take to move from noon to two,
0:11:26 > 0:11:27to the nearest hour?
0:11:31 > 0:11:33THEY CONFER
0:11:35 > 0:11:36We will go for five hours.
0:11:36 > 0:11:37Five is correct, yes.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39APPLAUSE
0:11:40 > 0:11:41Ten points for this.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45Which play by Shakespeare includes the line,
0:11:45 > 0:11:47"The better part of valour is discretion?"
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Henry IV, Part 1.
0:11:52 > 0:11:53Correct, it's Falstaff.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55APPLAUSE
0:11:57 > 0:12:02These bonuses, Balliol, are on the feminist reformer Josephine Butler.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05In the 1880s, Butler's campaigns ensured the repeal of which
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Acts known by the letters CD?
0:12:08 > 0:12:12The Acts discriminated against women suspected of working
0:12:12 > 0:12:15as prostitutes while prescribing no sanctions against men.
0:12:18 > 0:12:19Common decency.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22No, they were the Contagious Diseases Acts.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25Butler was influential in securing the passage
0:12:25 > 0:12:29of an Act of 1885 that raised the age of consent for women to 16.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31What had it been previously?
0:12:32 > 0:12:34THEY CONFER
0:12:37 > 0:12:39- 12.- No, it was 13.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43In 1878, Butler published a life of which mystic
0:12:43 > 0:12:47and doctor of the church whom she regarded as a model?
0:12:47 > 0:12:50The saint in question was born in Siena in 1347.
0:12:52 > 0:12:53Catherine.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Saint Catherine is correct. Ten points for this.
0:12:55 > 0:13:00Born in Anatolia circa 240BC, Apollonius of Perga
0:13:00 > 0:13:05was the author of a treatise on what aspect of solid geometry?
0:13:05 > 0:13:08It concerns, among other things, the properties of curves,
0:13:08 > 0:13:10such as the ellipse, parabola and hyperbola?
0:13:12 > 0:13:13Conic sections.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14Conics is correct.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16APPLAUSE
0:13:18 > 0:13:22Your bonuses this time are on qualitative research methods.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25In each case, name the method from the description.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28Firstly, a method used in anthropology in which
0:13:28 > 0:13:32a researcher typically collates observational data about an intact
0:13:32 > 0:13:36cultural group in a natural setting over a prolonged period of time.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44- Ethnography.- Correct.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47A method that includes a group of approaches that rely on
0:13:47 > 0:13:49the written or spoken words
0:13:49 > 0:13:52or visual representation of individuals.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Typically, these approaches focus on the lives of individuals
0:13:55 > 0:13:57as told through their own stories.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01THEY CONFER
0:14:03 > 0:14:04Oral history.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06No, it's narrative research.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09And, finally, a method in which researchers conduct in-depth
0:14:09 > 0:14:11analysis of a programme, an event, an activity,
0:14:11 > 0:14:16a process in an individual or a group, bounded by time and activity.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21THEY CONFER
0:14:31 > 0:14:32Deep play.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35No, it's a case study. Ten points for this.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37It's a music question.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40For your music starter you will hear a piece of classical music -
0:14:40 > 0:14:43ten points, if you can identify the composer.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:47 > 0:14:49- Liszt.- No.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53Anyone like to buzz from Balliol? You may hear a little more.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13- Gounod.- No, It is Berlioz.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15So, music bonuses in a moment or two.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18Fingers on the buzzers, here's another starter question.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20Dated to the 1390s,
0:15:20 > 0:15:23which work of art in the International Gothic style
0:15:23 > 0:15:26is named after the house near Salisbury
0:15:26 > 0:15:28where it was kept from 1705 to 1929?
0:15:28 > 0:15:31It's two gilded panels...
0:15:31 > 0:15:32The Wilton Diptych.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Correct. APPLAUSE
0:15:35 > 0:15:41A moment ago, you heard a little bit of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45It quotes the melody of the medieval part of the mass known as
0:15:45 > 0:15:47the Dies Irae or the Day of Wrath.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50For your music bonuses, you're going to hear three more excerpts
0:15:50 > 0:15:53from classical works that quote the Dies Irae.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56In each case, I would like to know the composer.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58Firstly...
0:15:58 > 0:16:00CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:06 > 0:16:07Holst.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09No, that's Rachmaninov from his Symphonic Dances.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11Secondly...
0:16:11 > 0:16:12CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Prokofiev.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30No, that's from Mahler's Second Symphony.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32And finally.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:43 > 0:16:46- Liszt.- It is Liszt, yes.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Ten points for this.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Used as a thermal insulator and a horticultural growing medium,
0:16:52 > 0:16:55which clay mineral has a Latin...?
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Vermiculite.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Correct. APPLAUSE
0:17:00 > 0:17:03Your bonuses, Edinburgh, are on the history of Belgium.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05In each case, give the decade
0:17:05 > 0:17:07in which the following events took place.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Firstly, an international conference in London declared Belgium
0:17:10 > 0:17:13to be an independent, neutral state, although the Dutch government
0:17:13 > 0:17:16didn't recognise that until the end of the decade.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21THEY CONFER
0:17:30 > 0:17:311910s.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33No, it was the 1830s.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36Secondly, the Belgian government took over control
0:17:36 > 0:17:38of the Congo from King Leopold.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41The following year, the former Prime Minister Auguste Beernaert
0:17:41 > 0:17:44shared the ninth Nobel Peace Prize.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59- 1900s.- Correct.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02And, finally, Belgium officially became a federal monarchy.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04The following year, Eurostar services began
0:18:04 > 0:18:06between London and Brussels.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16- 1990s.- Correct.
0:18:16 > 0:18:17Ten points for this.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21In which Indian state is the Gir National Park,
0:18:21 > 0:18:24the natural habitat of the Asiatic lion?
0:18:24 > 0:18:28The state is also the location of Surat, the site of the first British
0:18:28 > 0:18:33trading post in India and of Porbandar, the birthplace of Gandhi.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39- Gujarat.- Correct.
0:18:39 > 0:18:40APPLAUSE
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Your bonuses this time, Balliol,
0:18:44 > 0:18:47are on Shakespeare and US state capitals.
0:18:47 > 0:18:51In each case, I need the name of the capital and its state.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Firstly, mentioned in the first line of Shakespeare's King Lear,
0:18:54 > 0:18:58which Duke shares his name with a US state capital?
0:18:58 > 0:18:59He is the husband of Goneril.
0:19:03 > 0:19:04- Albany, New York.- Correct.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07Secondly, which of the four young lovers in
0:19:07 > 0:19:11A Midsummer Night's Dream shares her name with a US state capital?
0:19:14 > 0:19:16- Helena, Montana.- Correct.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19And, finally, in Richard III, the earldom of the future
0:19:19 > 0:19:24King Henry VII shares its name with which US state capital?
0:19:24 > 0:19:26- Richmond, Virginia.- Correct.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Ten points for this.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32In grammar, what term denotes a word or phrase to which
0:19:32 > 0:19:34a relative or other pronoun refers?
0:19:34 > 0:19:37In logic, the same term indicates the first part
0:19:37 > 0:19:39of a hypothetical proposition.
0:19:39 > 0:19:40Predicate.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46..hypothetical proposition usually introduced by the word "if".
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Does one of you want to buzz, Edinburgh?
0:19:53 > 0:19:55Conditional.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57No, it's the antecedent. Ten points for this.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00The early history of which language family is often identified
0:20:00 > 0:20:02with the prehistoric Kurgan or...?
0:20:04 > 0:20:05Proto-Indo-European.
0:20:05 > 0:20:06Correct, yes.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08APPLAUSE
0:20:08 > 0:20:12Your bonuses are on trees and shrubs this time, Balliol,
0:20:12 > 0:20:13of the olive family.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16In each case, give the common name from the description.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19Firstly, a genus of shrubs whose flowers are cultivated
0:20:19 > 0:20:22for use in perfumery or for flavouring tea.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26It is associated with the Tunisian revolution that began in 2010.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33- Jasmine.- Correct.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36Secondly, an evergreen shrub of the genus ligustrum,
0:20:36 > 0:20:38commonly used in Britain for hedging.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47- Privet.- Correct.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50And, finally, a genus of ornamental shrubs also known
0:20:50 > 0:20:53as golden bell and named after a British botanist.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00THEY CONFER
0:21:04 > 0:21:07- Banksia.- No, it's Forsythia.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09We're going to take a picture round now.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11For your picture starter you'll see a photograph
0:21:11 > 0:21:14of two political figures. For ten points, I want you to give me
0:21:14 > 0:21:16the given names and surname of both.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Correct. APPLAUSE
0:21:26 > 0:21:28According to Transparency International,
0:21:28 > 0:21:33Ferdinand Marcos embezzled between five and ten billion US dollars
0:21:33 > 0:21:35during his time as dictator of the Philippines.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39For your bonuses, three photographs of national leaders who,
0:21:39 > 0:21:42according to the same source, allegedly embezzled sums
0:21:42 > 0:21:44exceeding one billion US dollars.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Five points for each you can name.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Firstly, this dictator who is alleged to have embezzled
0:21:49 > 0:21:52between 15 billion and 35 billion.
0:22:07 > 0:22:08Pol Pot.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10No, it doesn't look anything like Pol Pot.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12No, it's Suharto of Indonesia.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16Secondly, who is this, alleged to have embezzled up to 5 billion?
0:22:22 > 0:22:26- Mobutu.- It is Mobutu of the Congo... Zaire.
0:22:26 > 0:22:30Finally, this leader who was alleged to have embezzled up to 1 billion.
0:22:32 > 0:22:33Ceausescu.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36No, that's Milosevic, President of Serbia.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Ten points at stake for this. The title of a novel
0:22:39 > 0:22:45of 1940, what precise five words continue these words of John Donne?
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Any man...
0:22:47 > 0:22:48For Whom The Bell Tolls.
0:22:48 > 0:22:49Correct.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51APPLAUSE
0:22:52 > 0:22:56Your bonuses this time are on European universities, Balliol.
0:22:56 > 0:23:01In 1386, the Elector Palatine Rupert I founded which university
0:23:01 > 0:23:03at a city on the River Neckar?
0:23:04 > 0:23:05- Heidelberg.- Correct.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Tartu is home to the oldest university in which country?
0:23:08 > 0:23:12It was founded by Gustavus Adolphus II in 1632.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14- Estonia.- Correct.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17And, finally, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV gives his name
0:23:17 > 0:23:21to a university he founded in 1348 in which European capital?
0:23:29 > 0:23:31THEY CONFER
0:23:33 > 0:23:34Vienna.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36No, it's Prague.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37Ten points for this.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41Chessmen and tweed are...
0:23:41 > 0:23:42Lewis.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Chessmen and tweed are common associations of each of which two
0:23:48 > 0:23:52place names, usually referred to as separate islands, even though...
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Lewis and Harris.
0:23:53 > 0:23:54Lewis and Harris is correct, yes.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56APPLAUSE
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Your bonuses, Edinburgh,
0:23:59 > 0:24:01are on acronyms used in information technology.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05In each case, simply identify what they stand for.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07Firstly, MIDI,
0:24:07 > 0:24:11a standard for connecting musical instruments to computers.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Musical input digital interface.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21No, it's musical instrument digital interface.
0:24:21 > 0:24:26Secondly, FLOPS, a measure of computer performance.
0:24:33 > 0:24:34We don't know.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36It's floating-point operations per second.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40And finally, DRAM, a form of data storage.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Digital random access memory.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47No, it's dynamic random access memory.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50There are three and a bit minutes to go and ten points at stake for this.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53Often cited as an example of the Italian verismo style,
0:24:53 > 0:24:56which composition premiered in 1890
0:24:56 > 0:24:59and was the first major work of Pietro Mascagni?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03- Cavalleria Rusticana.- Correct.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07You get a set of bonuses on national parks.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10In each case, name the Canadian province in which all of
0:25:10 > 0:25:11the following are located.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15First, Yoho, Glacier and Kootenay.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19- The Yukon. - No, it's British Columbia.
0:25:19 > 0:25:23Secondly, Thousand Islands, Point Pelee and Pukaskwa.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25- Ontario.- Correct.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27And finally, Banff, Jasper and...
0:25:27 > 0:25:29- Alberta.- Correct.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30Ten points for this.
0:25:30 > 0:25:34Staphylococcus aureus is a common cause of which disease
0:25:34 > 0:25:36known by the initials TSS?
0:25:38 > 0:25:39Toxic shock syndrome.
0:25:39 > 0:25:44Correct. You get a set of bonuses on would-be rulers of England.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46Which heir-presumptive of Henry I lost her throne
0:25:46 > 0:25:48when her cousin launched a coup,
0:25:48 > 0:25:51initiating the period sometimes known as The Anarchy?
0:25:51 > 0:25:53- Matilda.- Correct.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Henry the Young King was a son of which English monarch, crowned...?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58- Henry II.- Correct.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02Barons rebelling against which king offered the throne of England
0:26:02 > 0:26:03to Prince Louis of France?
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Louis abandoned his claim the following year and was crowned
0:26:06 > 0:26:07King of France in 1223.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- Henry III.- No, it was John.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Ten points for this.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17What name links a town in south-west England with a title
0:26:17 > 0:26:20of nobility created for a prominent minister of Charles II,
0:26:20 > 0:26:24and later held by a social reformer whose achievements include
0:26:24 > 0:26:26the Mines Act of 1842?
0:26:30 > 0:26:31The Earl of Sandwich.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34No. Anyone like to buzz from Balliol?
0:26:36 > 0:26:37Marlborough.
0:26:37 > 0:26:38No, it's Shaftesbury.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41Ten points for this. What four-letter adjective links
0:26:41 > 0:26:45a short film of 1917 in which Charlie Chaplin becomes
0:26:45 > 0:26:49a policeman, a 1988 science fiction comedy starring Geena Davis,
0:26:49 > 0:26:53and a 1969 road movie starring Peter Fonda and...
0:26:53 > 0:26:54- Easy.- Easy is correct.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56APPLAUSE
0:26:58 > 0:27:00These bonuses are on astronomy, Edinburgh.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03For what does the letter M stand in astronomical designations
0:27:03 > 0:27:06such as M11 and 20, representing the Wild Duck Cluster...
0:27:06 > 0:27:07Nominate Dale.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09- Messier.- Correct.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12In the Messier catalogue of assorted astronomical objects,
0:27:12 > 0:27:16M104 is informally identified with what item of headgear?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21- Sombrero.- Correct.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24Finally, what aquatic arthropod gives its name to M1,
0:27:24 > 0:27:26a supernova remnant in Taurus?
0:27:26 > 0:27:28- Crab.- Crab is correct.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29Ten points for this.
0:27:29 > 0:27:33Yasodhara and Rahula were the wife and son respectively of which
0:27:33 > 0:27:36religious figure born in Lumbini in Nepal
0:27:36 > 0:27:39between the sixth and fourth century BCE?
0:27:39 > 0:27:41- Dalai Lama.- No.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- Anyone like to buzz?- The Buddha.
0:27:44 > 0:27:45The Buddha is correct.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49And I'm afraid, Edinburgh, you lose five points for interruption.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53We're going to take a set of bonuses for you now, Balliol, on a country.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55In 1999, Saparmurat Niyazov was named as President...
0:27:55 > 0:27:57GONG
0:27:57 > 0:28:00At the gong, Edinburgh have 140 but Balliol have 215.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02APPLAUSE
0:28:05 > 0:28:08Well, Edinburgh, you were coming back pretty well there from
0:28:08 > 0:28:12a pretty disastrous gap, but you didn't just have enough time to come
0:28:12 > 0:28:15back but thank you very much indeed for joining us.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16We have to say goodbye to you now.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18Balliol, many congratulations.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21We shall look forward to seeing you in the final.
0:28:21 > 0:28:25Terrific performance, 215 is a great score. Thanks.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28I hope you can join us next time for the final match of this series
0:28:28 > 0:28:31but, until then, it's goodbye from Edinburgh University.
0:28:31 > 0:28:32- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34- It's goodbye from Balliol College, Oxford. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38APPLAUSE