0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello. It's a Cambridge derby tonight,
0:00:30 > 0:00:32with one of the university's largest colleges
0:00:32 > 0:00:34taking on one of the smallest.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38There's a place in the second round for whichever team triumphs.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41Queens' College, Cambridge was founded in the mid-15th century
0:00:41 > 0:00:44by Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI,
0:00:44 > 0:00:46and Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49hence the placing of its apostrophe.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Alumni include the journalist Emily Maitlis,
0:00:51 > 0:00:55the Labour politician Liz Kendall and the ubiquitous Stephen Fry.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58The college is rightly proud of the five years
0:00:58 > 0:01:00that the humanist scholar Erasmus
0:01:00 > 0:01:02spent there in the early 16th century,
0:01:02 > 0:01:06despite his endless grumbling about the awful weather,
0:01:06 > 0:01:09bad beer and unacceptable wine.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Tonight's four are, we hope, a little happier there.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13With an average age of 20,
0:01:13 > 0:01:16they are playing on behalf of around 900 students.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Let's meet the Queens' team.
0:01:18 > 0:01:19Hello, I'm Sam Booth.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22I'm from Greenford in West London and I'm studying maths.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Hello, I'm Lorenzo Venturini.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26I'm from Italy and I'm reading engineering
0:01:26 > 0:01:28with a special interest in x-raying cheese.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31- Their captain.- Hi, I'm Frank Syvret.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33I'm from Evesham and I'm studying physics.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Hello, my name's Daniel Adamson.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38I'm from Cambridge and I'm reading history.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40APPLAUSE
0:01:44 > 0:01:47Now, playing them is the team from Peterhouse, Cambridge,
0:01:47 > 0:01:50who are, of course, the reigning University Challenge champions.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52It's said to be the oldest Cambridge college,
0:01:52 > 0:01:54having been founded in 1284,
0:01:54 > 0:01:57and received its Royal Charter from Edward I.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01It's also one of the smallest, with around 370 students
0:02:01 > 0:02:04who, in the past, have included the poet Thomas Gray,
0:02:04 > 0:02:06the scientists Lord Kelvin, James Clerk Maxwell,
0:02:06 > 0:02:09Charles Babbage and Sir Frank Whittle.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12The director Sam Mendes and the actor and comedian David Mitchell
0:02:12 > 0:02:14also studied there.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18With an average age of 19, let's meet the Peterhouse team.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Hello, my name's Ephraim Jacob Jacobus Levinson.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24I'm from London and I'm reading English.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Hello, my name is Oliver Sweetenham. I'm from Hinksey in Oxfordshire
0:02:28 > 0:02:30and I'm also studying English literature.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33- And this is their captain. - Hello, I'm Natasha Voake.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36I'm originally from New York and I'm reading linguistics.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39Hi, I'm Xiao Lin. I'm from Loughborough in Leicestershire
0:02:39 > 0:02:41and I'm reading chemical engineering.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43APPLAUSE
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Well, the rules don't change on this show,
0:02:47 > 0:02:49so let's just get on with it, shall we?
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Released with much publicity in 2015,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54which author took the title of her second published novel
0:02:54 > 0:02:57from the 21st chapter of Isaiah?
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Go Set a... Harper Lee.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Harper Lee is correct, yes.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04APPLAUSE
0:03:05 > 0:03:07You get the first set of bonuses, Peterhouse.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09They are on fictional detectives.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13Described as "a young gentleman of an illustrious family
0:03:13 > 0:03:15"reduced to such poverty
0:03:15 > 0:03:18"that the energy of his character succumbed beneath it",
0:03:18 > 0:03:21which French detective features in Edgar Allan Poe's
0:03:21 > 0:03:24The Murders In The Rue Morgue?
0:03:24 > 0:03:26- Dupin. Dupin.- Dupin.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Auguste Dupin is correct.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29The detective Mr Bucket,
0:03:29 > 0:03:32described as having a face as unchanging
0:03:32 > 0:03:35as the great mourning ring on his little finger,
0:03:35 > 0:03:38investigates the murder of the lawyer Tulkinghorn
0:03:38 > 0:03:39in which novel by Charles Dickens?
0:03:39 > 0:03:40Bleak House.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44Correct. Which detective is described in a novel of 1868
0:03:44 > 0:03:49by Wilkie Collins as a grizzled elderly man so miserably lean
0:03:49 > 0:03:52that he looked as if he hadn't got an ounce of flesh on his bones?
0:03:54 > 0:03:56We don't know.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59It's Sergeant Cuff in The Moonstone. Ten points for this.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01What four-letter word appears in the names
0:04:01 > 0:04:03of a historic county of Galloway,
0:04:03 > 0:04:05the chief town of the Orkney Islands
0:04:05 > 0:04:08and the Stirlingshire town where William Wallace
0:04:08 > 0:04:10was defeated by the English in 1298?
0:04:12 > 0:04:13Burn.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15No, you lose five points.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18It denotes a place of worship.
0:04:22 > 0:04:23Temple.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27No, it's Kirk, as in Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall and Falkirk.
0:04:27 > 0:04:28Right, ten points for this.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32In medicine, what term denotes a combination of signs and symptoms
0:04:32 > 0:04:35occurring together and indicating a particular disorder?
0:04:35 > 0:04:38It derives from the Greek for concurrence.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46Syndrome.
0:04:46 > 0:04:47Correct.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49APPLAUSE
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Right, your bonuses are on the Russian composers
0:04:53 > 0:04:57known as the Mighty Handful or the Mighty Five.
0:04:57 > 0:04:58Firstly, for five points,
0:04:58 > 0:05:02graduating from the St Petersburg Naval Academy in 1862,
0:05:02 > 0:05:05which composer included sea or ocean-set scenes
0:05:05 > 0:05:07in many of his works,
0:05:07 > 0:05:11including Scheherazade, Sadko, and The Tale of Tsar Saltan?
0:05:11 > 0:05:12Rimsky-Korsakov.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16Correct. Also a scientist noted for his research on aldehydes,
0:05:16 > 0:05:18which composer's opera Prince Igor
0:05:18 > 0:05:22was completed posthumously by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov?
0:05:22 > 0:05:23Borodin.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Correct. Formerly holding a commission
0:05:25 > 0:05:27in the Russian Imperial Guard,
0:05:27 > 0:05:31who, in 1868, began his opera Boris Godunov to his own libretto
0:05:31 > 0:05:33based on the drama by Pushkin?
0:05:33 > 0:05:35- I think it's Mussorgsky.- Mussorgsky.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Correct. Ten points for this.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40In chemistry, what two-word term denotes a molecule
0:05:40 > 0:05:44with one or more unpaired electrons available to form a bond?
0:05:46 > 0:05:47Free radical.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Correct.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51APPLAUSE
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Right, your first bonuses, Queens', are on southern Africa.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58In each case, name the country from the description.
0:05:58 > 0:05:59Firstly, for five points,
0:05:59 > 0:06:04formerly known as Nyasaland, this country became independent in 1964.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07It shares its name with one of Africa's Great Lakes.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Is that Malawi?
0:06:10 > 0:06:11OK. Malawi.
0:06:11 > 0:06:12Correct.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15This country gained independence from Portugal in 1975
0:06:15 > 0:06:18and joined the Commonwealth in 1995.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21It shares its name with the channel between Africa and Madagascar.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25- I'm pretty sure that's Mozambique. - Yeah, that would make sense.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26Mozambique.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Correct. Much of this country lies on a high plateau
0:06:29 > 0:06:32between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35It gained independence from Britain in 1980.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Is that Zimbabwe?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39- Yeah.- Yeah, I think you're right.
0:06:40 > 0:06:41Zimbabwe.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45Correct. Right, ten points for this.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Which figure of Greek mythology
0:06:47 > 0:06:51has inspired operas by Monteverdi and Gluck, a symphonic poem by...?
0:06:51 > 0:06:52Orpheus.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Orpheus is correct.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57APPLAUSE
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Your bonuses, Peterhouse, are on an English mathematician.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Firstly, born 1903,
0:07:01 > 0:07:04which mathematician gives his name to the branch of the subject
0:07:04 > 0:07:08dealing with the existence and size of organised substructures
0:07:08 > 0:07:10within larger mathematical structures?
0:07:10 > 0:07:13- Is that sets?- Who did set theory?
0:07:13 > 0:07:17Well, it's Cantor, but he's not British.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21- British mathematicians... - Russell?- Do you think?
0:07:21 > 0:07:23- I don't know. - British mathematician?- Yes.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Russell does sound kind of fine.
0:07:25 > 0:07:26Russell.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29No, it's Ramsey, Frank Plumpton Ramsey.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32According to a corollary of Ramsey's theorem,
0:07:32 > 0:07:34what is the minimum number of people required to ensure
0:07:34 > 0:07:37that there is a subset of either three people
0:07:37 > 0:07:39who are mutually acquainted
0:07:39 > 0:07:42or three who are mutually strangers?
0:07:43 > 0:07:47- Isn't that the pigeonhole? - Is it a number?- Yes.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50- Six?- Ooh.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Five? Six? Or nine?
0:07:54 > 0:07:57- I don't know.- I think people who share a thing...
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Could just go for five.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02- Maybe like seven?- Seven.
0:08:02 > 0:08:03No, it's six.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05In 1922, at the age of 19,
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Ramsey provided the first translation from German into English
0:08:08 > 0:08:11of a major work by which philosopher
0:08:11 > 0:08:13whom he met in Austria the following year?
0:08:13 > 0:08:14Wittgenstein.
0:08:14 > 0:08:15Correct.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18Right, we're going to take our first picture round now.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19For your picture starter,
0:08:19 > 0:08:21you are going to see a hydrographic map of Europe
0:08:21 > 0:08:23displaying not its rivers
0:08:23 > 0:08:26but the areas of its major rivers' drainage systems
0:08:26 > 0:08:30grouped by the seas into which they flow.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32One of those rivers' basins has been highlighted.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34For ten points, I want you to identify
0:08:34 > 0:08:37the river into which surface water converges
0:08:37 > 0:08:39in the area highlighted in red.
0:08:42 > 0:08:43The Rhine.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Anyone like to buzz?
0:08:47 > 0:08:48The Danube.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49No, it's the Elbe.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52So we're going to take the picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Born in County Durham in 1806,
0:08:56 > 0:08:58which poet was at one time considered
0:08:58 > 0:09:02to be Tennyson's rival for the post of Poet Laureate?
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Her works include a sequence of love poems she...
0:09:05 > 0:09:06Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Of course.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Right, you get the picture bonuses, then.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14Areas of three more European rivers' drainage basins.
0:09:14 > 0:09:18Five points for each river you can identify from its catchment area.
0:09:18 > 0:09:19Firstly...
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Could be the Tagus or the Douro.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23- It's not the Tagus, maybe the Douro. - OK.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25- Do you think...?- I've no idea.
0:09:25 > 0:09:26The Douro.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28No, that's the Tagus.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Secondly...
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Could be the Dnieper or the Volga.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Dnieper or the Volga.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Maybe the Volga.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41- Does the Volga go out of Russia? - Well, maybe the Dnieper, then.- OK.
0:09:41 > 0:09:42The Dnieper?
0:09:42 > 0:09:44No, that's the Don. And finally...
0:09:46 > 0:09:48- That's the Garonne, isn't it? - Yes, it is.
0:09:48 > 0:09:49The Garonne.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51The Garonne is correct, yes.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52Ten points for this.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55Signed into law by George W Bush in October 2001,
0:09:55 > 0:09:58which act has a...?
0:09:58 > 0:09:59Patriot Act.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Correct.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04The USA Patriot Act.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07So you get the set of bonuses on a mountain, then, Queens' College.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Known as the Beast of Provence, which mountain
0:10:10 > 0:10:13has frequently presented one of the most gruelling challenges
0:10:13 > 0:10:14of the Tour de France?
0:10:14 > 0:10:16The British cyclist Tom Simpson
0:10:16 > 0:10:20died near the summit during the 1967 event.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23- Any mountains in the area! - I don't know.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Can't even make a guess.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Somewhere in the Alps. That doesn't narrow it down.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30OK. Nominate Booth.
0:10:30 > 0:10:31The Eiger?
0:10:31 > 0:10:33The Eiger!
0:10:33 > 0:10:34On the Tour de France! No.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36It's Mont Ventoux.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Secondly, the name Ventoux is often said to refer
0:10:39 > 0:10:41to the strong winds the mountain experiences,
0:10:41 > 0:10:43including which cold north-westerly wind?
0:10:43 > 0:10:47Its name is a Languedoc dialect term meaning masterly.
0:10:47 > 0:10:48Mistral.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Mistral.
0:10:50 > 0:10:51Spot on.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53And finally, calling it Ventosum,
0:10:53 > 0:10:57which Italian poet wrote of an ascent of Mont Ventoux
0:10:57 > 0:10:59he claimed to have made in 1336?
0:10:59 > 0:11:03He gives his name to a form of sonnet.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06- Petrarch.- Petrarch's a... Yeah.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Petrarch.
0:11:08 > 0:11:09Petrarch is right. Ten points for this.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13What two-word term did the English psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott
0:11:13 > 0:11:15introduce in the early 1950s
0:11:15 > 0:11:21for something comforting, familiar and tangible, considered to lie...?
0:11:21 > 0:11:22Safety blanket?
0:11:22 > 0:11:24No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Familiar and tangible, considered to lie
0:11:27 > 0:11:28between the thumb and the teddy bear
0:11:28 > 0:11:31in terms of its inseparability from the infant.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39One of you buzz, Queens'. You've got...
0:11:39 > 0:11:40Comfort blanket.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43No, it's a transitional object. Ten points for this.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45What is the only consonant in the surnames
0:11:45 > 0:11:49of the 14th-century German author of the Little Book Of Eternal Wisdom,
0:11:49 > 0:11:52the composer of the Washington Post March and...?
0:11:53 > 0:11:54S.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56S is correct, yes.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58APPLAUSE
0:11:58 > 0:12:01So you get a set of bonuses this time, Queens' College,
0:12:01 > 0:12:02on Gore Vidal.
0:12:02 > 0:12:07Born in New Jersey in 1923 and twice winner of a Pulitzer Prize,
0:12:07 > 0:12:10which novelist and journalist was once described by Vidal
0:12:10 > 0:12:14as a fat boy from South Africa with a doting mother?
0:12:14 > 0:12:17- JM Coetzee?- OK.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19- Nominate Adamson.- JM Coetzee.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21No, it was Norman Mailer.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23His father was from Cape Town.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Secondly, born in Pennsylvania in 1932,
0:12:25 > 0:12:29of which Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet did Vidal say,
0:12:29 > 0:12:33"He comes on like the worker's son, like a modern-day DH Lawrence,
0:12:33 > 0:12:36"but he's just another boring little middle-class boy
0:12:36 > 0:12:38hustling his way to the top if he can do it"?
0:12:40 > 0:12:43- What should I guess?- Allen Ginsberg. - You think? OK.
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Allen Ginsberg?
0:12:44 > 0:12:45No, that was John Updike.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Finally, born in New Orleans in 1924,
0:12:48 > 0:12:52of which novelist and playwright did Vidal say on his death in 1984
0:12:52 > 0:12:55that it was a good career move?
0:12:55 > 0:12:58He also said, in reference to the author's diminutive stature,
0:12:58 > 0:13:03"Each generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves."
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Is that someone who died quite young?
0:13:05 > 0:13:09- Arthur Miller?- Could be.
0:13:09 > 0:13:10Arthur Miller.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12No, it's Truman Capote.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Ten points for this. Used in a poetic sense for a grassy field,
0:13:15 > 0:13:18what word of four letters may also denote an alcoholic drink
0:13:18 > 0:13:21made in northern Europe since prehistoric times?
0:13:21 > 0:13:24In the latter case, the word...
0:13:24 > 0:13:25Mead.
0:13:25 > 0:13:26Mead is right, yes.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28APPLAUSE
0:13:30 > 0:13:34These bonuses are on internet firsts, Peterhouse.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36On March 15th 1985,
0:13:36 > 0:13:39what became the world's first registered domain name?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41It is now a museum site
0:13:41 > 0:13:45that presents a visual timeline of internet history.
0:13:45 > 0:13:50CERN, because they did the world wide web there.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53Oh, first domain name.
0:13:53 > 0:13:54CERN...
0:13:54 > 0:13:56CERN.com?
0:13:57 > 0:13:59CERN.com.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01No, it's symbolics.com.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Secondly, 2011 saw the first installation of a Skype call booth
0:14:04 > 0:14:07in an airport in which European country,
0:14:07 > 0:14:11where much of the development of Skype had been conducted?
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Is it Scandinavian or Estonian?
0:14:13 > 0:14:15I think it's Finnish or like Estonian or something.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Is it Estonian?
0:14:17 > 0:14:20- I think it's Finland. - I thought it was Estonia.
0:14:20 > 0:14:21No, the city.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Finland.
0:14:23 > 0:14:24No, it's Estonia.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26And finally, Joel Furr,
0:14:26 > 0:14:29an administrator on the Usenet chat system,
0:14:29 > 0:14:33is credited with coining in 1993 what now ubiquitous internet term
0:14:33 > 0:14:36inspired by a Monty Python sketch?
0:14:36 > 0:14:37- Spam.- Yes.
0:14:37 > 0:14:38Spam.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Spam is correct. A music round now.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43For your music starter, you'll hear a well-known piece from an opera.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Ten points if you can identify the opera.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48OPERA MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:49 > 0:14:50The Barber Of Seville.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53The Barber Of Seville is correct, yes.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55APPLAUSE
0:14:55 > 0:14:59Largo Al Factotum from The Barber Of Seville by Rossini
0:14:59 > 0:15:01was one of the pieces performed in 1895
0:15:01 > 0:15:05on the first night of the first season of Promenade Concerts.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Your music bonuses are three more pieces
0:15:07 > 0:15:10on the programme of that first Proms concert.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13This time, in each case, I simply want you to identify the composer.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17Firstly, for five, this central European composer.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:34 > 0:15:35Dvorak.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38No, that's Chopin, Polonaise In A Major.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41Secondly, the French composer of this aria
0:15:41 > 0:15:43sung in English on the night.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45ARIA PLAYS
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Gounod.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00No, it was Saint-Saens.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02And finally...
0:16:02 > 0:16:04PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:07 > 0:16:08Liszt.
0:16:08 > 0:16:09It is.
0:16:09 > 0:16:10Ten points for this.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13Which monarch wrote the manual of kingship
0:16:13 > 0:16:16known as the Basilikon Doron?
0:16:16 > 0:16:17James I.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19Correct, James VI, James I.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22James VI, I think, at the time he wrote it.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Right, your bonuses are on women's football, Peterhouse.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Firstly, for five points, in 1921,
0:16:28 > 0:16:31the Football Association banned women's football games
0:16:31 > 0:16:33from the grounds used by its member clubs.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35In what year was the ban lifted?
0:16:35 > 0:16:37You can have five years either way.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40I'm sure it would be quite... '60s? The '60s were...
0:16:40 > 0:16:43They were a liberal time.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46Shall we go 1964?
0:16:46 > 0:16:49Isn't it better to have 1970 because then you have...?
0:16:52 > 0:16:54- '67.- '69 is a good guess.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Five years either way.
0:16:57 > 0:16:581969.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01I'll accept that, yes. It was 1971.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05Secondly, in which year did the USA beat Norway
0:17:05 > 0:17:09in the final of the inaugural FIFA Women's World Cup played in China?
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Again, you can have five years either way.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Presumably later.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17I don't know. Yeah, '92?
0:17:17 > 0:17:20No, let's go between World Cup years because whatever...
0:17:20 > 0:17:221992.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25I'll accept that. It was 1991, in fact.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27And finally, in 2011,
0:17:27 > 0:17:29which team beat the United States on penalties
0:17:29 > 0:17:33to become the first Asian side to win the women's football World Cup?
0:17:33 > 0:17:35I think Japan.
0:17:35 > 0:17:36Japan.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Correct. Ten points for this.
0:17:40 > 0:17:44Common or Eurasian, water, and pygmy are British species
0:17:44 > 0:17:49of which small insectivorous mammals...
0:17:49 > 0:17:50Vole.
0:17:50 > 0:17:51No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54..of the family Soricidae?
0:17:54 > 0:17:57Their long, pointed snouts distinguish them from mice.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Shrew.
0:17:59 > 0:18:00Shrew is correct, yes.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02APPLAUSE
0:18:02 > 0:18:06These bonuses are on engineers and inventors, Queens' College.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09In partnership with Thomas Savery from around 1712,
0:18:09 > 0:18:13which Devon-born engineer constructed a steam engine
0:18:13 > 0:18:16that was widely used for pumping water from coal mines?
0:18:16 > 0:18:19- That's Newcomen. - Nominate Venturini.
0:18:19 > 0:18:20Newcomen.
0:18:20 > 0:18:21Correct. Which Cornish engineer
0:18:21 > 0:18:24designed successful high-pressure stationary engines
0:18:24 > 0:18:27and, from 1800, built a number of steam carriages,
0:18:27 > 0:18:29including the first steam locomotive?
0:18:29 > 0:18:33- Trevelyan. - I've never heard of him. OK.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35- Nominate Adamson.- Trevelyan.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37No, it was Trevithick.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39You were nearly there, but you didn't get it correct.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42With his son Robert, who built the Rocket,
0:18:42 > 0:18:45a locomotive used on the Liverpool to Manchester railway
0:18:45 > 0:18:47when it opened in 1830?
0:18:47 > 0:18:48Was it George...? OK.
0:18:48 > 0:18:49Stephenson.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52Stephenson is correct. George Stephenson, yes.
0:18:52 > 0:18:53Ten points for this.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57Clov, Hamm, Nagg and Nell are characters in which play by...?
0:18:58 > 0:18:59Endgame.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Endgame is right, Fin De Partie.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03APPLAUSE
0:19:03 > 0:19:06Your bonuses this time are on microbiology, Peterhouse.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09The number of viable bacteria in a culture
0:19:09 > 0:19:13is sometimes expressed as CFU.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15For what do those letters stand?
0:19:15 > 0:19:18- Something...- Culture? Culture, it's cultured.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20- Formation?- Formation?
0:19:20 > 0:19:23Formation unit?
0:19:23 > 0:19:25Yeah, cultured formation unit, maybe.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27Cultured formation unit.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29No, it's colony-forming units.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32And secondly, the number of virus particles
0:19:32 > 0:19:35can be similarly expressed as PFU.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38For what do those letters stand?
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Virus...
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Forming units.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44What do viruses form?
0:19:44 > 0:19:46- Peripheries?- Prions?
0:19:46 > 0:19:49No, prions are proteins, they're not viruses.
0:19:50 > 0:19:51Parasite?
0:19:53 > 0:19:54I don't think parasites.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57P? Let's go for prion.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Prion-forming units.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01No, they are plaque-forming units.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05And finally, the effectiveness of an antimicrobial agent
0:20:05 > 0:20:07may be expressed as MIC.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09For what does that abbreviation stand?
0:20:09 > 0:20:11It's, erm...
0:20:13 > 0:20:16- Something-inhibition.- Control.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Minimum...
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Shall we just go for that?
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Inhibition...
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Let's just pass.
0:20:28 > 0:20:29No, we don't pass.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Micro...
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Microorganism...
0:20:33 > 0:20:35What did I say for I?
0:20:35 > 0:20:36We don't know.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39You were arguing yourself away from it there. You were nearly there.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42It was minimum inhibitory concentration. Ten points for this.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44Writing of events in 1916,
0:20:44 > 0:20:47which city did Winston Churchill describe as
0:20:47 > 0:20:51"the great advanced citadel of France, the anvil upon which
0:20:51 > 0:20:54"French military manhood was to be hammered to death"?
0:20:56 > 0:20:57Verdun?
0:20:57 > 0:20:58Verdun is correct.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01APPLAUSE
0:21:01 > 0:21:05These bonuses are on an Australian cricket ground, Peterhouse.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Named after a suburb, The Gabba ground is in which Australian city?
0:21:08 > 0:21:11The first Ashes Test between Australia and England
0:21:11 > 0:21:13is usually played there.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16Is it Sydney or Melbourne? I've no idea.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18- Melbourne.- OK.
0:21:18 > 0:21:19Melbourne.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21No, it's Brisbane.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24Secondly, which Australian captain holds the record
0:21:24 > 0:21:27for the highest individual Test score at The Gabba
0:21:27 > 0:21:30for his 259 not-out against South Africa in 2012?
0:21:33 > 0:21:37Ricky Ponting is Australian, but I don't know when.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39Why not?
0:21:39 > 0:21:40Ricky Ponting.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43No. Do you know any other Australians?
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Michael Clarke was the person I was looking for.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48And finally, which Australian spinner
0:21:48 > 0:21:50became the highest Test wicket-taker at The Gabba
0:21:50 > 0:21:54when he took four wickets in the second innings against England
0:21:54 > 0:21:55in 2006?
0:21:55 > 0:21:57- Just pass.- OK.
0:21:57 > 0:21:58We don't know.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01Surely you know Shane Warne.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04Bad luck. Right, we're going to take another picture round now.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07For your picture starter, you're going to see a photographic portrait
0:22:07 > 0:22:09of a notable author whose work was published
0:22:09 > 0:22:10under a more famous pen-name.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14For ten points, I want the real name of the author you will see.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Mary Ann Evans.
0:22:20 > 0:22:21That is correct. Whose pen-name was...?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23- George Eliot.- Well done, yes.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26APPLAUSE
0:22:26 > 0:22:29You're going to see picture bonuses of three portraits or photographs
0:22:29 > 0:22:32of authors who wrote under well-known pen names.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Five points for each if you can give me
0:22:34 > 0:22:36both the real name and the pen-name of the following.
0:22:36 > 0:22:37Firstly...
0:22:39 > 0:22:40That's...
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Who is that?
0:22:45 > 0:22:47No! No! That's Lewis Carroll.
0:22:48 > 0:22:49Lewis Carroll.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52- Charles...- Lud...- Charles Dodgson.
0:22:52 > 0:22:53Charles Dodgson.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55I'll accept that, yes.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Secondly, who's this? And the pen-name.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59- Oh, that's Voltaire. - Oh, what's his name?
0:22:59 > 0:23:02Jean-Marie Arouet. Jean-Marie Arouet and Voltaire.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06It's Francois-Marie Arouet and Voltaire so I can't accept that.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08You were slightly wrong on his first name.
0:23:08 > 0:23:09And finally...
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Mark Twain.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16Correct. Right, ten points for this.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19In physics, the words amplitude, frequency and phase
0:23:19 > 0:23:21may precede what term?
0:23:23 > 0:23:24Modulation.
0:23:24 > 0:23:30Modulation is right. Your bonuses are on political figures.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34All three answers are a number that is a multiple of 13.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Firstly, how old was Henry V
0:23:36 > 0:23:40when he acceded to the English throne in 1413?
0:23:40 > 0:23:42- 26.- 26 sounds reasonable.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- Are you sure it's not 13? - No, 26.- OK.
0:23:45 > 0:23:4626.
0:23:46 > 0:23:47Correct.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50At what age did Winston Churchill first become Prime Minister?
0:23:51 > 0:23:56- It was his 60s so...- 52 or 65.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59You think? When he was first... OK.
0:24:01 > 0:24:0265.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03Correct.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05How old was Che Guevara
0:24:05 > 0:24:07when he was executed by the Bolivian army in 1967?
0:24:07 > 0:24:10That'll be 39.
0:24:10 > 0:24:1139.
0:24:11 > 0:24:1239 is correct.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16With about four minutes to go, ten points at stake for this.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18In which country is the point at which
0:24:18 > 0:24:21the Tropic of Cancer crosses the Greenwich Meridian?
0:24:21 > 0:24:23It lies in the Sahara desert
0:24:23 > 0:24:26almost 1,000 kilometres north-west of Tamanrasset.
0:24:29 > 0:24:30Algeria?
0:24:30 > 0:24:34Correct. You get a set of bonuses this time on chemistry.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36In each case, provide the chemical formula
0:24:36 > 0:24:39and charge of the named ion or ligand.
0:24:39 > 0:24:43For example, for hydroxide you would answer OH-.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Firstly, for five points, thiosulphate.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52It's...
0:24:52 > 0:24:54- It's not SO4.- No.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Shall I say like SO2? SO3?
0:24:57 > 0:24:58You could do.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01- SO-.- OK. Yeah.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04- I think it's minus. - I think it might be...
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Isn't sulphate SO32- a possible...?
0:25:07 > 0:25:09- Sulphate is...- It's thiosulphate.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13SO3-?
0:25:13 > 0:25:16No, it's S2O32-.
0:25:16 > 0:25:21And second, dichromate, also known as dichromate(VI).
0:25:21 > 0:25:25There is a dichromate that's like Cr2O7.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Cr2O7? OK.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31- Minus?- 2-, I think.- Maybe.
0:25:31 > 0:25:32Cr2O72-.
0:25:32 > 0:25:33Correct.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Finally, permanganate, or manganate(VII).
0:25:38 > 0:25:41MnO5?
0:25:41 > 0:25:42Or is it MnO6?
0:25:42 > 0:25:45- That would be -3.- That would be 2-.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47MnO52-.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49No, it's MnO4-,
0:25:49 > 0:25:50Ten points for this.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54Europe Before The War, The Treaty And Reparation
0:25:54 > 0:25:58are chapters in which 1919 work by John May...?
0:25:58 > 0:26:00The Economic Consequences Of The Peace.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Correct.
0:26:02 > 0:26:03APPLAUSE
0:26:03 > 0:26:06By Keynes. Your bonuses this time, Queens' College,
0:26:06 > 0:26:08are on the novels of Agatha Christie.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10In each case, simply name the play by Shakespeare
0:26:10 > 0:26:12from which Christie took her title.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Firstly, By The Pricking Of My Thumbs.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17Do you know at all?
0:26:18 > 0:26:20- I think...- Macbeth.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22It is Macbeth, the second witch.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Secondly, Sad Cypress.
0:26:24 > 0:26:25Othello, probably.
0:26:25 > 0:26:26Othello.
0:26:26 > 0:26:30No, that's from Twelfth Night. Finally, Taken At The Flood.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32The Tempest.
0:26:32 > 0:26:33The Tempest.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35No, it's Julius Caesar. Ten points for this.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37In addition to tympanum or tympanic cavity,
0:26:37 > 0:26:41which common two-word name is given to the cavity in the temporal bone
0:26:41 > 0:26:43that contains the ossicles?
0:26:46 > 0:26:48The ear canal.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51No, anyone like to buzz from Queens' quickly?
0:26:51 > 0:26:52The middle ear.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Correct. You get a set of bonuses this time, Queens',
0:26:55 > 0:26:56on kings of France.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00Louis VI, known as The Fat, Louis VII, or The Young,
0:27:00 > 0:27:03and Philip Augustus were successive kings of France
0:27:03 > 0:27:05during which century?
0:27:06 > 0:27:08- 14th.- OK.- Why not?
0:27:08 > 0:27:0914th.
0:27:09 > 0:27:10No, it's the 12th.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14Known as the Universal Spider for his constant plotting and intrigues,
0:27:14 > 0:27:17Louis XI was an adversary of which Duke of Burgundy
0:27:17 > 0:27:20killed in battle in 1477?
0:27:20 > 0:27:24- Do you know?- Any famous Dukes of Burgundy?- Anything?
0:27:24 > 0:27:26- Come on.- We don't know.
0:27:26 > 0:27:27It's Charles The Bold.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29The reigns of Louis VIII, known as The Lion,
0:27:29 > 0:27:31and Louis IX, or Saint Louis,
0:27:31 > 0:27:34both occurred during that of which king of England?
0:27:36 > 0:27:38Edward III because that's a long one.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Edward III.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42No, it was Henry III. Ten points for this.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45In compound nouns, the name of what common foodstuff
0:27:45 > 0:27:50may precede nut, cup, milk, cream, fly...?
0:27:50 > 0:27:51Butter.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Butter is correct. A set of bonuses now
0:27:54 > 0:27:56on novels published since 2001.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59In each case, identify the author from the list of their works.
0:27:59 > 0:28:04Firstly, A God In Ruins, Life After Life and...
0:28:04 > 0:28:05Kate Atkinson.
0:28:05 > 0:28:06Correct.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Secondly, Seveneves, The Mongoliad...
0:28:08 > 0:28:09GONG And at the gong,
0:28:09 > 0:28:13Queens' College have 150. Peterhouse, though, have 160.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16APPLAUSE
0:28:16 > 0:28:18Well, you were coming back well at the end there.
0:28:18 > 0:28:19If we'd gone on another five minutes,
0:28:19 > 0:28:22who knows what might have happened? But 150 may be enough to come back
0:28:22 > 0:28:25as one of the highest scoring losing teams, Queens',
0:28:25 > 0:28:27but thank you very much for joining us for sure.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29Peterhouse, that was a very storming performance.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32You faded a bit towards the end but you did terribly well earlier.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35Thank you very much for playing with us and we'll look forward
0:28:35 > 0:28:37to seeing you in round two. I hope you can join us next time
0:28:37 > 0:28:39for another first-round match
0:28:39 > 0:28:41but, until then, it's goodbye from Queens' College, Cambridge.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44- ALL:- Goodbye.- It's goodbye from Peterhouse, Cambridge.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47- ALL:- Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.