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University Challenge. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
Hello. Last time, we saw Wolfson College, Cambridge, | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
take the first place in the final of this year's competition. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
Whichever team wins tonight will play them. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
The team from Edinburgh University have arrived here without | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
having lost a match. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:42 | |
The opponents they have beaten along the way were | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
the University of Durham, the Open University in the first two rounds, | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
and then in the quarterfinals they beat both Birmingham University | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
and Wolfson College, Cambridge, who have still managed to make it | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
through to the final next week. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
With an average age of 23, let's meet the Edinburgh team again. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:01 | |
My name is Luke, I'm from York and I'm taking late antique, | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
Islamic and Byzantine studies. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
Hi, I'm Ewan, I'm from Aberdeen and I study classics. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
This is their captain. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
Hi, I'm Joe, I'm from Brighton, and I study ecology | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
and environmental science. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
Hello, I'm Emily, I'm from Wilmslow, Cheshire, | 0:01:15 | 0:01:17 | |
and I'm studying chemistry. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:01:19 | 0:01:20 | |
The career to date of the team from Balliol College, Oxford, | 0:01:24 | 0:01:28 | |
includes wins over Imperial College, London, | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
and Robinson College, Cambridge, | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
a defeat at the hands of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and then | 0:01:32 | 0:01:36 | |
victories over Birmingham University and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:40 | |
The Balliol team also have an average age of 23. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
Let's reacquaint ourselves with them. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
Hi, I'm Franny Potts, I'm from Newcastle and I'm reading history. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:50 | |
I'm Jacob Lloyd, I'm from London and I'm reading for | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
a DPhil in English. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:55 | |
And this chap is their captain. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
Hi, I'm Joey Goldman, I'm from London and I'm reading | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
philosophy and theology. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
I'm Ben Pope, I'm from Sydney, Australia, | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
and I am doing a DPhil in physics. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:02:05 | 0:02:07 | |
Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
What everyday object links a suite of piano pieces by Ravel | 0:02:12 | 0:02:17 | |
that includes The Valley Of The Bells, | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
a website that acts as an exact local replication of another site | 0:02:20 | 0:02:24 | |
and the hall...? | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
Mirror. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:27 | |
Mirror is right. APPLAUSE | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
Your first set of bonuses, Balliol, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
are on the imperial cities of Morocco. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
Firstly, for five points, | 0:02:35 | 0:02:36 | |
which city west of Rabat was the capital of Morocco until 1912? | 0:02:36 | 0:02:40 | |
It's the site of the Quaraouiyine Mosque, the seat of | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
a university founded in 859, which is sometimes described | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
as the oldest in the world. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:48 | |
-Fes. -Correct. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:49 | |
60km from Fes, | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
which city became the capital of Morocco in 1673? | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
It's noted for its high ramparts and Spanish Moorish architecture. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:58 | |
We will go for Essaouira. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
No, it's Meknes. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
In which city south of Casablanca is the Jemaa el-Fnaa square? | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
The capital of the Almoravids the 12th and 13th century, it's known as | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
the Red City from its distinctively coloured buildings. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:18 | |
-Marrakech. -Correct. Ten points for this. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
Quote, "It is nonsense to talk of fascist tendencies in his books. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
"There are no post-1918 tendencies at all." | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
These words of George Orwell refer to which author, born in 1881? | 0:03:28 | 0:03:33 | |
His works include Pearls, Girls And Monty Bodkin, | 0:03:33 | 0:03:36 | |
A Few Quick Ones and The Code Of The Woosters? | 0:03:36 | 0:03:41 | |
-PG Wodehouse. -Correct. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:42 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
These bonuses, Balliol, are on an English poet born in about 1552. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:50 | |
Which poet did Alexander Pope compare | 0:03:50 | 0:03:53 | |
to a mistress whose faults we see but love her with them all? | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
Philip Sidney. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:11 | |
No, it's Edmund Spenser. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
Identify the poet who wrote these words | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
in about 1941 when at university. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:18 | |
"First I thought Troilus and Criseyde | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
"was the most boring poem in English. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
"Now I know the Faerie Queene is the dullest thing out. Blast it." | 0:04:23 | 0:04:28 | |
-What was the dates? -'41. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
It could be Larkin. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
-Philip Larkin. -Correct. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:36 | |
In 1902, which poet said of Spenser's time as secretary | 0:04:36 | 0:04:40 | |
to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, "He was the first of many Englishmen | 0:04:40 | 0:04:44 | |
"to see nothing but what he was desired to see?" | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:04:47 | 0:04:48 | |
OK, we will go with Yeats. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:51 | |
It was WB Yeats. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:54 | |
Examples being the Square of Pegasus, the Summer Triangle | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
and the Winter Hexagon, what eight-letter term denotes a...? | 0:04:58 | 0:05:02 | |
Asterism. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:03 | |
Asterism is correct. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:04 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
Your bonuses now are on pairs of words, Balliol. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:11 | |
They differ only by the addition of the initial letter P, | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
for example "robe" and "probe." | 0:05:15 | 0:05:17 | |
In each case I want you to give me both words described. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:21 | |
Firstly, two terms in astronomy. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
Firstly, a motion away from the observer and | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
a change in the axis of rotation of a rotating body such as that | 0:05:26 | 0:05:30 | |
which causes a gradual drift in the timing of the equinoxes. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
Recession and precession. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
Correct. Secondly, the number of operands to which a mathematical | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
operator applies and a term used in quantum physics to describe | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
the behaviour of a wave function when all of its spatial | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
coordinates are reversed in direction. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
Arity and parity. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:01 | |
Correct. Finally a rheumatic pain in the lower back and an alternative | 0:06:01 | 0:06:06 | |
name for the mineral graphite? | 0:06:06 | 0:06:08 | |
-Carbon... -Pencil lead. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:14 | |
Lumbar and plumbar. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:23 | |
No, it's lumbago and plumbago. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:28 | |
An author of the Great Reform Act, Sir James Graham, | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
said that only dirty and hypocritical cowards would wish | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
which specific voting practice? | 0:06:35 | 0:06:37 | |
A persistent radical demand from the 18th century, it was introduced... | 0:06:37 | 0:06:42 | |
Universal male suffrage. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:45 | |
It was introduced by WE Forster in an act of 1872. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:50 | |
-Secret ballots. -Correct. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:06:54 | 0:06:55 | |
OK, you're off the mark, Edinburgh, | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
here are a set of bonuses on European history. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
Firstly, for five points, | 0:07:00 | 0:07:01 | |
the miracle of the Marne refers to a major battle in which year | 0:07:01 | 0:07:06 | |
when an invading force was stopped before it could reach Paris? | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
1871. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
No, it was 1914, the early days of the First World War. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
Secondly, Russia's sudden withdrawal from which war was termed | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg? | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
The Russian empress died and was succeeded by Peter III, | 0:07:28 | 0:07:32 | |
an admirer of Frederick the Great. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:34 | |
-The Seven Years War. -Correct. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
The Miracle on the Vistula is a name sometimes given | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
to a Soviet defeat of 1920 near which present day capital? | 0:07:44 | 0:07:48 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
-Warsaw. -Warsaw is correct. | 0:07:57 | 0:07:58 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:01 | |
Name any one of the three men who appear in the title of | 0:08:01 | 0:08:05 | |
Douglas Hofstadter's 1970...? | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
Godel. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:10 | |
Godel. Do you remember the others? | 0:08:10 | 0:08:11 | |
-Escher and Bach. -Well done. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
An Eternal Golden Braid is the subtitle. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:15 | |
Right, your bonuses are on Latin words. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
All three answers have the same initial letter. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:23 | |
Firstly, commonly used as the first part of compound nouns | 0:08:23 | 0:08:27 | |
referring to titles of office, which short word is | 0:08:27 | 0:08:29 | |
the ablative singular of a Latin word meaning change or stead? | 0:08:29 | 0:08:33 | |
-Vice. -Vice is correct. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
From the Latin words for "to see" and "it is permissible," | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
what is the full form of the Latin expression commonly | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
abbreviated to viz, used to indicate a more precise explanation | 0:08:44 | 0:08:48 | |
of a foregoing statement? | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
-Nominate Pope. -Videlicet. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
Correct, or videre licet. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
And, finally, the Latin for "go with me," | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
which term, often hyphenated, | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
is used for a portable guidebook or manual? | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
-Nominate Pope. -Vade mecum. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:04 | |
Vade mecum is correct. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:05 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:09:05 | 0:09:07 | |
We're going to take a picture round now. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:10 | |
For your picture starter you will see an abridged family tree. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:14 | |
For ten points, I want you to identify the Greek deity | 0:09:14 | 0:09:16 | |
who is missing. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:17 | |
-Poseidon. -Poseidon is correct. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:09:26 | 0:09:28 | |
Your picture bonuses are three more sections of the Greek Theogony | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
according to Hesiod and other ancient sources. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
In each case, I simply want the name of the deity or hero who is missing. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
Firstly for five. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
-Aphrodite. -Correct. Secondly. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:47 | |
Cyrene. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
I'm afraid it's Mnemosyne. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:03 | |
Finally. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
Heracles? | 0:10:16 | 0:10:17 | |
We'll go with Ganymede. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:22 | |
-It was Heracles. -Sorry. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:23 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
When Horatio Nelson married Frances Nisbet on Nevis | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
in the Caribbean in 1787, which of his fellow officers gave away | 0:10:28 | 0:10:33 | |
the bride, called home the following year | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
when his father became mentally incapacitated? | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
He later became Duke of Clarence and acceded to the throne | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
on the death of his brother in 1830. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:44 | |
-William IV. -Correct. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:46 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
You get three bonuses on physics, Balliol. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
The oscillation period of a simple pendulum has what mathematical | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
dependence on the local acceleration due to gravity, G? | 0:10:56 | 0:11:00 | |
One over route G. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:03 | |
That's correct, G to the minus one half. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:06 | |
Secondly, to the nearest whole number, | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
Earth's surface gravity is how many times greater | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
than that of the moon? | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
-Six. -Correct. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
If you take a pendulum clock that is calibrated to standard Earth | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
gravity and install it on the surface of the moon, | 0:11:19 | 0:11:23 | |
how long will the hour hand take to move from noon to two, | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
to the nearest hour? | 0:11:26 | 0:11:27 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
We will go for five hours. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:36 | |
Five is correct, yes. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:37 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:11:37 | 0:11:39 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:41 | |
Which play by Shakespeare includes the line, | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
"The better part of valour is discretion?" | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
Henry IV, Part 1. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
Correct, it's Falstaff. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:53 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
These bonuses, Balliol, are on the feminist reformer Josephine Butler. | 0:11:57 | 0:12:02 | |
In the 1880s, Butler's campaigns ensured the repeal of which | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
Acts known by the letters CD? | 0:12:05 | 0:12:08 | |
The Acts discriminated against women suspected of working | 0:12:08 | 0:12:12 | |
as prostitutes while prescribing no sanctions against men. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:15 | |
Common decency. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:19 | |
No, they were the Contagious Diseases Acts. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
Butler was influential in securing the passage | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
of an Act of 1885 that raised the age of consent for women to 16. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
What had it been previously? | 0:12:29 | 0:12:31 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:12:32 | 0:12:34 | |
-12. -No, it was 13. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
In 1878, Butler published a life of which mystic | 0:12:39 | 0:12:43 | |
and doctor of the church whom she regarded as a model? | 0:12:43 | 0:12:47 | |
The saint in question was born in Siena in 1347. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
Catherine. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:53 | |
Saint Catherine is correct. Ten points for this. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:55 | |
Born in Anatolia circa 240BC, Apollonius of Perga | 0:12:55 | 0:13:00 | |
was the author of a treatise on what aspect of solid geometry? | 0:13:00 | 0:13:05 | |
It concerns, among other things, the properties of curves, | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
such as the ellipse, parabola and hyperbola? | 0:13:08 | 0:13:10 | |
Conic sections. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:13 | |
Conics is correct. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:14 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:13:14 | 0:13:16 | |
Your bonuses this time are on qualitative research methods. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
In each case, name the method from the description. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:25 | |
Firstly, a method used in anthropology in which | 0:13:25 | 0:13:28 | |
a researcher typically collates observational data about an intact | 0:13:28 | 0:13:32 | |
cultural group in a natural setting over a prolonged period of time. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:36 | |
-Ethnography. -Correct. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
A method that includes a group of approaches that rely on | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
the written or spoken words | 0:13:47 | 0:13:49 | |
or visual representation of individuals. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
Typically, these approaches focus on the lives of individuals | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
as told through their own stories. | 0:13:55 | 0:13:57 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:13:59 | 0:14:01 | |
Oral history. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:04 | |
No, it's narrative research. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
And, finally, a method in which researchers conduct in-depth | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
analysis of a programme, an event, an activity, | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
a process in an individual or a group, bounded by time and activity. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:16 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
Deep play. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:32 | |
No, it's a case study. Ten points for this. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:35 | |
It's a music question. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:37 | |
For your music starter you will hear a piece of classical music - | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
ten points, if you can identify the composer. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:43 | |
CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS | 0:14:43 | 0:14:45 | |
-Liszt. -No. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:49 | |
Anyone like to buzz from Balliol? You may hear a little more. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
-Gounod. -No, It is Berlioz. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:13 | |
So, music bonuses in a moment or two. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:15 | |
Fingers on the buzzers, here's another starter question. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:18 | |
Dated to the 1390s, | 0:15:18 | 0:15:20 | |
which work of art in the International Gothic style | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
is named after the house near Salisbury | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
where it was kept from 1705 to 1929? | 0:15:26 | 0:15:28 | |
It's two gilded panels... | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
The Wilton Diptych. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:32 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
A moment ago, you heard a little bit of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:41 | |
It quotes the melody of the medieval part of the mass known as | 0:15:41 | 0:15:45 | |
the Dies Irae or the Day of Wrath. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
For your music bonuses, you're going to hear three more excerpts | 0:15:47 | 0:15:50 | |
from classical works that quote the Dies Irae. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
In each case, I would like to know the composer. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
Firstly... | 0:15:56 | 0:15:58 | |
CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS | 0:15:58 | 0:16:00 | |
Holst. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:07 | |
No, that's Rachmaninov from his Symphonic Dances. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
Secondly... | 0:16:09 | 0:16:11 | |
CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS | 0:16:11 | 0:16:12 | |
Prokofiev. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
No, that's from Mahler's Second Symphony. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
And finally. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS | 0:16:32 | 0:16:34 | |
-Liszt. -It is Liszt, yes. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
Used as a thermal insulator and a horticultural growing medium, | 0:16:48 | 0:16:52 | |
which clay mineral has a Latin...? | 0:16:52 | 0:16:55 | |
Vermiculite. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:56 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
Your bonuses, Edinburgh, are on the history of Belgium. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
In each case, give the decade | 0:17:03 | 0:17:05 | |
in which the following events took place. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:07 | |
Firstly, an international conference in London declared Belgium | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
to be an independent, neutral state, although the Dutch government | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
didn't recognise that until the end of the decade. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:16 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:17:19 | 0:17:21 | |
1910s. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:31 | |
No, it was the 1830s. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
Secondly, the Belgian government took over control | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
of the Congo from King Leopold. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
The following year, the former Prime Minister Auguste Beernaert | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
shared the ninth Nobel Peace Prize. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
-1900s. -Correct. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:59 | |
And, finally, Belgium officially became a federal monarchy. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:02 | |
The following year, Eurostar services began | 0:18:02 | 0:18:04 | |
between London and Brussels. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
-1990s. -Correct. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:17 | |
In which Indian state is the Gir National Park, | 0:18:17 | 0:18:21 | |
the natural habitat of the Asiatic lion? | 0:18:21 | 0:18:24 | |
The state is also the location of Surat, the site of the first British | 0:18:24 | 0:18:28 | |
trading post in India and of Porbandar, the birthplace of Gandhi. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:33 | |
-Gujarat. -Correct. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:39 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:18:39 | 0:18:40 | |
Your bonuses this time, Balliol, | 0:18:42 | 0:18:44 | |
are on Shakespeare and US state capitals. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:47 | |
In each case, I need the name of the capital and its state. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:51 | |
Firstly, mentioned in the first line of Shakespeare's King Lear, | 0:18:51 | 0:18:54 | |
which Duke shares his name with a US state capital? | 0:18:54 | 0:18:58 | |
He is the husband of Goneril. | 0:18:58 | 0:18:59 | |
-Albany, New York. -Correct. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:04 | |
Secondly, which of the four young lovers in | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream shares her name with a US state capital? | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
-Helena, Montana. -Correct. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
And, finally, in Richard III, the earldom of the future | 0:19:16 | 0:19:19 | |
King Henry VII shares its name with which US state capital? | 0:19:19 | 0:19:24 | |
-Richmond, Virginia. -Correct. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:26 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:28 | |
In grammar, what term denotes a word or phrase to which | 0:19:28 | 0:19:32 | |
a relative or other pronoun refers? | 0:19:32 | 0:19:34 | |
In logic, the same term indicates the first part | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
of a hypothetical proposition. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
Predicate. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:40 | |
No, I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
..hypothetical proposition usually introduced by the word "if". | 0:19:42 | 0:19:46 | |
Does one of you want to buzz, Edinburgh? | 0:19:51 | 0:19:53 | |
Conditional. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:55 | |
No, it's the antecedent. Ten points for this. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
The early history of which language family is often identified | 0:19:57 | 0:20:00 | |
with the prehistoric Kurgan or...? | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
Proto-Indo-European. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:05 | |
Correct, yes. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:06 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
Your bonuses are on trees and shrubs this time, Balliol, | 0:20:08 | 0:20:12 | |
of the olive family. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:13 | |
In each case, give the common name from the description. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
Firstly, a genus of shrubs whose flowers are cultivated | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
for use in perfumery or for flavouring tea. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
It is associated with the Tunisian revolution that began in 2010. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:26 | |
-Jasmine. -Correct. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
Secondly, an evergreen shrub of the genus ligustrum, | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
commonly used in Britain for hedging. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
-Privet. -Correct. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
And, finally, a genus of ornamental shrubs also known | 0:20:47 | 0:20:50 | |
as golden bell and named after a British botanist. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
-Banksia. -No, it's Forsythia. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:07 | |
We're going to take a picture round now. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:09 | |
For your picture starter you'll see a photograph | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
of two political figures. For ten points, I want you to give me | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
the given names and surname of both. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:22 | |
Correct. APPLAUSE | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
According to Transparency International, | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
Ferdinand Marcos embezzled between five and ten billion US dollars | 0:21:28 | 0:21:33 | |
during his time as dictator of the Philippines. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:35 | |
For your bonuses, three photographs of national leaders who, | 0:21:35 | 0:21:39 | |
according to the same source, allegedly embezzled sums | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
exceeding one billion US dollars. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
Five points for each you can name. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:46 | |
Firstly, this dictator who is alleged to have embezzled | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
between 15 billion and 35 billion. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:52 | |
Pol Pot. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:08 | |
No, it doesn't look anything like Pol Pot. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:10 | |
No, it's Suharto of Indonesia. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:12 | |
Secondly, who is this, alleged to have embezzled up to 5 billion? | 0:22:12 | 0:22:16 | |
-Mobutu. -It is Mobutu of the Congo... Zaire. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:26 | |
Finally, this leader who was alleged to have embezzled up to 1 billion. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
Ceausescu. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:33 | |
No, that's Milosevic, President of Serbia. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:36 | |
Ten points at stake for this. The title of a novel | 0:22:36 | 0:22:39 | |
of 1940, what precise five words continue these words of John Donne? | 0:22:39 | 0:22:45 | |
Any man... | 0:22:45 | 0:22:47 | |
For Whom The Bell Tolls. | 0:22:47 | 0:22:48 | |
Correct. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:49 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:22:49 | 0:22:51 | |
Your bonuses this time are on European universities, Balliol. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:56 | |
In 1386, the Elector Palatine Rupert I founded which university | 0:22:56 | 0:23:01 | |
at a city on the River Neckar? | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
-Heidelberg. -Correct. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:05 | |
Tartu is home to the oldest university in which country? | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
It was founded by Gustavus Adolphus II in 1632. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:12 | |
-Estonia. -Correct. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:14 | |
And, finally, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV gives his name | 0:23:14 | 0:23:17 | |
to a university he founded in 1348 in which European capital? | 0:23:17 | 0:23:21 | |
THEY CONFER | 0:23:29 | 0:23:31 | |
Vienna. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:34 | |
No, it's Prague. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:36 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:37 | |
Chessmen and tweed are... | 0:23:37 | 0:23:41 | |
Lewis. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:42 | |
I'm afraid you lose five points. | 0:23:42 | 0:23:45 | |
Chessmen and tweed are common associations of each of which two | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
place names, usually referred to as separate islands, even though... | 0:23:48 | 0:23:52 | |
Lewis and Harris. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:53 | |
Lewis and Harris is correct, yes. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:54 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:23:54 | 0:23:56 | |
Your bonuses, Edinburgh, | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
are on acronyms used in information technology. | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
In each case, simply identify what they stand for. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:05 | |
Firstly, MIDI, | 0:24:05 | 0:24:07 | |
a standard for connecting musical instruments to computers. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:11 | |
Musical input digital interface. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
No, it's musical instrument digital interface. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:21 | |
Secondly, FLOPS, a measure of computer performance. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:26 | |
We don't know. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:34 | |
It's floating-point operations per second. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:36 | |
And finally, DRAM, a form of data storage. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:40 | |
Digital random access memory. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
No, it's dynamic random access memory. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
There are three and a bit minutes to go and ten points at stake for this. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
Often cited as an example of the Italian verismo style, | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
which composition premiered in 1890 | 0:24:53 | 0:24:56 | |
and was the first major work of Pietro Mascagni? | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
-Cavalleria Rusticana. -Correct. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
You get a set of bonuses on national parks. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:07 | |
In each case, name the Canadian province in which all of | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
the following are located. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:11 | |
First, Yoho, Glacier and Kootenay. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
-The Yukon. -No, it's British Columbia. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
Secondly, Thousand Islands, Point Pelee and Pukaskwa. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:23 | |
-Ontario. -Correct. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:25 | |
And finally, Banff, Jasper and... | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
-Alberta. -Correct. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:30 | |
Staphylococcus aureus is a common cause of which disease | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
known by the initials TSS? | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
Toxic shock syndrome. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:39 | |
Correct. You get a set of bonuses on would-be rulers of England. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:44 | |
Which heir-presumptive of Henry I lost her throne | 0:25:44 | 0:25:46 | |
when her cousin launched a coup, | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
initiating the period sometimes known as The Anarchy? | 0:25:48 | 0:25:51 | |
-Matilda. -Correct. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:53 | |
Henry the Young King was a son of which English monarch, crowned...? | 0:25:53 | 0:25:56 | |
-Henry II. -Correct. | 0:25:56 | 0:25:58 | |
Barons rebelling against which king offered the throne of England | 0:25:58 | 0:26:02 | |
to Prince Louis of France? | 0:26:02 | 0:26:03 | |
Louis abandoned his claim the following year and was crowned | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
King of France in 1223. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:07 | |
-Henry III. -No, it was John. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:12 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:14 | |
What name links a town in south-west England with a title | 0:26:14 | 0:26:17 | |
of nobility created for a prominent minister of Charles II, | 0:26:17 | 0:26:20 | |
and later held by a social reformer whose achievements include | 0:26:20 | 0:26:24 | |
the Mines Act of 1842? | 0:26:24 | 0:26:26 | |
The Earl of Sandwich. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:31 | |
No. Anyone like to buzz from Balliol? | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
Marlborough. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:37 | |
No, it's Shaftesbury. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:38 | |
Ten points for this. What four-letter adjective links | 0:26:38 | 0:26:41 | |
a short film of 1917 in which Charlie Chaplin becomes | 0:26:41 | 0:26:45 | |
a policeman, a 1988 science fiction comedy starring Geena Davis, | 0:26:45 | 0:26:49 | |
and a 1969 road movie starring Peter Fonda and... | 0:26:49 | 0:26:53 | |
-Easy. -Easy is correct. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:54 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
These bonuses are on astronomy, Edinburgh. | 0:26:58 | 0:27:00 | |
For what does the letter M stand in astronomical designations | 0:27:00 | 0:27:03 | |
such as M11 and 20, representing the Wild Duck Cluster... | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
Nominate Dale. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:07 | |
-Messier. -Correct. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:09 | |
In the Messier catalogue of assorted astronomical objects, | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
M104 is informally identified with what item of headgear? | 0:27:12 | 0:27:16 | |
-Sombrero. -Correct. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:21 | |
Finally, what aquatic arthropod gives its name to M1, | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
a supernova remnant in Taurus? | 0:27:24 | 0:27:26 | |
-Crab. -Crab is correct. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:28 | |
Ten points for this. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:29 | |
Yasodhara and Rahula were the wife and son respectively of which | 0:27:29 | 0:27:33 | |
religious figure born in Lumbini in Nepal | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
between the sixth and fourth century BCE? | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
-Dalai Lama. -No. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:41 | |
-Anyone like to buzz? -The Buddha. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:44 | |
The Buddha is correct. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:45 | |
And I'm afraid, Edinburgh, you lose five points for interruption. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:49 | |
We're going to take a set of bonuses for you now, Balliol, on a country. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:53 | |
In 1999, Saparmurat Niyazov was named as President... | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
GONG | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
At the gong, Edinburgh have 140 but Balliol have 215. | 0:27:57 | 0:28:00 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:28:00 | 0:28:02 | |
Well, Edinburgh, you were coming back pretty well there from | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
a pretty disastrous gap, but you didn't just have enough time to come | 0:28:08 | 0:28:12 | |
back but thank you very much indeed for joining us. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:15 | |
We have to say goodbye to you now. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:16 | |
Balliol, many congratulations. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:18 | |
We shall look forward to seeing you in the final. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:21 | |
Terrific performance, 215 is a great score. Thanks. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:25 | |
I hope you can join us next time for the final match of this series | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
but, until then, it's goodbye from Edinburgh University. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:31 | |
-ALL: -Goodbye. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:32 | |
-It's goodbye from Balliol College, Oxford. ALL: -Goodbye. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:34 | |
And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:36 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:28:36 | 0:28:38 |