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Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

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Hello. It's a Cambridge derby tonight,

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with one of the university's largest colleges

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taking on one of the smallest.

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There's a place in the second round for whichever team triumphs.

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Queens' College, Cambridge was founded in the mid-15th century

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by Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI,

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and Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV,

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hence the placing of its apostrophe.

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Alumni include the journalist Emily Maitlis,

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the Labour politician Liz Kendall and the ubiquitous Stephen Fry.

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The college is rightly proud of the five years

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that the humanist scholar Erasmus

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spent there in the early 16th century,

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despite his endless grumbling about the awful weather,

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bad beer and unacceptable wine.

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Tonight's four are, we hope, a little happier there.

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With an average age of 20,

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they are playing on behalf of around 900 students.

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Let's meet the Queens' team.

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Hello, I'm Sam Booth.

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I'm from Greenford in West London and I'm studying maths.

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Hello, I'm Lorenzo Venturini.

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I'm from Italy and I'm reading engineering

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with a special interest in x-raying cheese.

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-Their captain.

-Hi, I'm Frank Syvret.

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I'm from Evesham and I'm studying physics.

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Hello, my name's Daniel Adamson.

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I'm from Cambridge and I'm reading history.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, playing them is the team from Peterhouse, Cambridge,

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who are, of course, the reigning University Challenge champions.

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It's said to be the oldest Cambridge college,

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having been founded in 1284,

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and received its Royal Charter from Edward I.

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It's also one of the smallest, with around 370 students

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who, in the past, have included the poet Thomas Gray,

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the scientists Lord Kelvin, James Clerk Maxwell,

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Charles Babbage and Sir Frank Whittle.

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The director Sam Mendes and the actor and comedian David Mitchell

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also studied there.

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With an average age of 19, let's meet the Peterhouse team.

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Hello, my name's Ephraim Jacob Jacobus Levinson.

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I'm from London and I'm reading English.

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Hello, my name is Oliver Sweetenham. I'm from Hinksey in Oxfordshire

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and I'm also studying English literature.

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-And this is their captain.

-Hello, I'm Natasha Voake.

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I'm originally from New York and I'm reading linguistics.

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Hi, I'm Xiao Lin. I'm from Loughborough in Leicestershire

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and I'm reading chemical engineering.

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APPLAUSE

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Well, the rules don't change on this show,

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so let's just get on with it, shall we?

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Released with much publicity in 2015,

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which author took the title of her second published novel

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from the 21st chapter of Isaiah?

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Go Set a... Harper Lee.

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Harper Lee is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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You get the first set of bonuses, Peterhouse.

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They are on fictional detectives.

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Described as "a young gentleman of an illustrious family

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"reduced to such poverty

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"that the energy of his character succumbed beneath it",

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which French detective features in Edgar Allan Poe's

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The Murders In The Rue Morgue?

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-Dupin. Dupin.

-Dupin.

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Auguste Dupin is correct.

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The detective Mr Bucket,

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described as having a face as unchanging

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as the great mourning ring on his little finger,

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investigates the murder of the lawyer Tulkinghorn

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in which novel by Charles Dickens?

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Bleak House.

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Correct. Which detective is described in a novel of 1868

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by Wilkie Collins as a grizzled elderly man so miserably lean

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that he looked as if he hadn't got an ounce of flesh on his bones?

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We don't know.

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It's Sergeant Cuff in The Moonstone. Ten points for this.

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What four-letter word appears in the names

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of a historic county of Galloway,

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the chief town of the Orkney Islands

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and the Stirlingshire town where William Wallace

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was defeated by the English in 1298?

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Burn.

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No, you lose five points.

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It denotes a place of worship.

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Temple.

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No, it's Kirk, as in Kirkcudbright, Kirkwall and Falkirk.

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Right, ten points for this.

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In medicine, what term denotes a combination of signs and symptoms

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occurring together and indicating a particular disorder?

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It derives from the Greek for concurrence.

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Syndrome.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, your bonuses are on the Russian composers

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known as the Mighty Handful or the Mighty Five.

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Firstly, for five points,

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graduating from the St Petersburg Naval Academy in 1862,

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which composer included sea or ocean-set scenes

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in many of his works,

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including Scheherazade, Sadko, and The Tale of Tsar Saltan?

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Rimsky-Korsakov.

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Correct. Also a scientist noted for his research on aldehydes,

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which composer's opera Prince Igor

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was completed posthumously by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov?

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Borodin.

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Correct. Formerly holding a commission

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in the Russian Imperial Guard,

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who, in 1868, began his opera Boris Godunov to his own libretto

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based on the drama by Pushkin?

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-I think it's Mussorgsky.

-Mussorgsky.

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Correct. Ten points for this.

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In chemistry, what two-word term denotes a molecule

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with one or more unpaired electrons available to form a bond?

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Free radical.

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Correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Right, your first bonuses, Queens', are on southern Africa.

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In each case, name the country from the description.

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Firstly, for five points,

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formerly known as Nyasaland, this country became independent in 1964.

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It shares its name with one of Africa's Great Lakes.

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Is that Malawi?

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OK. Malawi.

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Correct.

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This country gained independence from Portugal in 1975

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and joined the Commonwealth in 1995.

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It shares its name with the channel between Africa and Madagascar.

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-I'm pretty sure that's Mozambique.

-Yeah, that would make sense.

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Mozambique.

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Correct. Much of this country lies on a high plateau

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between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers.

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It gained independence from Britain in 1980.

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Is that Zimbabwe?

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-Yeah.

-Yeah, I think you're right.

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Zimbabwe.

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Correct. Right, ten points for this.

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Which figure of Greek mythology

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has inspired operas by Monteverdi and Gluck, a symphonic poem by...?

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Orpheus.

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Orpheus is correct.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses, Peterhouse, are on an English mathematician.

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Firstly, born 1903,

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which mathematician gives his name to the branch of the subject

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dealing with the existence and size of organised substructures

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within larger mathematical structures?

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-Is that sets?

-Who did set theory?

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Well, it's Cantor, but he's not British.

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-British mathematicians...

-Russell?

-Do you think?

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-I don't know.

-British mathematician?

-Yes.

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Russell does sound kind of fine.

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Russell.

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No, it's Ramsey, Frank Plumpton Ramsey.

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According to a corollary of Ramsey's theorem,

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what is the minimum number of people required to ensure

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that there is a subset of either three people

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who are mutually acquainted

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or three who are mutually strangers?

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-Isn't that the pigeonhole?

-Is it a number?

-Yes.

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-Six?

-Ooh.

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Five? Six? Or nine?

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-I don't know.

-I think people who share a thing...

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Could just go for five.

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-Maybe like seven?

-Seven.

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No, it's six.

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In 1922, at the age of 19,

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Ramsey provided the first translation from German into English

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of a major work by which philosopher

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whom he met in Austria the following year?

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Wittgenstein.

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Correct.

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Right, we're going to take our first picture round now.

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For your picture starter,

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you are going to see a hydrographic map of Europe

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displaying not its rivers

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but the areas of its major rivers' drainage systems

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grouped by the seas into which they flow.

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One of those rivers' basins has been highlighted.

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For ten points, I want you to identify

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the river into which surface water converges

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in the area highlighted in red.

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The Rhine.

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Anyone like to buzz?

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The Danube.

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No, it's the Elbe.

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So we're going to take the picture bonuses in a moment or two.

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Ten points at stake for this starter question.

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Born in County Durham in 1806,

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which poet was at one time considered

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to be Tennyson's rival for the post of Poet Laureate?

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Her works include a sequence of love poems she...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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Of course.

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Right, you get the picture bonuses, then.

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Areas of three more European rivers' drainage basins.

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Five points for each river you can identify from its catchment area.

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Firstly...

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Could be the Tagus or the Douro.

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-It's not the Tagus, maybe the Douro.

-OK.

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-Do you think...?

-I've no idea.

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The Douro.

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No, that's the Tagus.

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Secondly...

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Could be the Dnieper or the Volga.

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Dnieper or the Volga.

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Maybe the Volga.

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-Does the Volga go out of Russia?

-Well, maybe the Dnieper, then.

-OK.

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The Dnieper?

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No, that's the Don. And finally...

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-That's the Garonne, isn't it?

-Yes, it is.

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The Garonne.

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The Garonne is correct, yes.

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Ten points for this.

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Signed into law by George W Bush in October 2001,

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which act has a...?

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Patriot Act.

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Correct.

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The USA Patriot Act.

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So you get the set of bonuses on a mountain, then, Queens' College.

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Known as the Beast of Provence, which mountain

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has frequently presented one of the most gruelling challenges

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of the Tour de France?

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The British cyclist Tom Simpson

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died near the summit during the 1967 event.

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-Any mountains in the area!

-I don't know.

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Can't even make a guess.

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Somewhere in the Alps. That doesn't narrow it down.

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OK. Nominate Booth.

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The Eiger?

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The Eiger!

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On the Tour de France! No.

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It's Mont Ventoux.

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Secondly, the name Ventoux is often said to refer

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to the strong winds the mountain experiences,

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including which cold north-westerly wind?

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Its name is a Languedoc dialect term meaning masterly.

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Mistral.

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Mistral.

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Spot on.

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And finally, calling it Ventosum,

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which Italian poet wrote of an ascent of Mont Ventoux

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he claimed to have made in 1336?

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He gives his name to a form of sonnet.

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-Petrarch.

-Petrarch's a... Yeah.

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Petrarch.

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Petrarch is right. Ten points for this.

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What two-word term did the English psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott

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introduce in the early 1950s

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for something comforting, familiar and tangible, considered to lie...?

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Safety blanket?

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No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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Familiar and tangible, considered to lie

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between the thumb and the teddy bear

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in terms of its inseparability from the infant.

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One of you buzz, Queens'. You've got...

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Comfort blanket.

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No, it's a transitional object. Ten points for this.

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What is the only consonant in the surnames

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of the 14th-century German author of the Little Book Of Eternal Wisdom,

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the composer of the Washington Post March and...?

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S.

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S is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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So you get a set of bonuses this time, Queens' College,

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on Gore Vidal.

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Born in New Jersey in 1923 and twice winner of a Pulitzer Prize,

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which novelist and journalist was once described by Vidal

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as a fat boy from South Africa with a doting mother?

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-JM Coetzee?

-OK.

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-Nominate Adamson.

-JM Coetzee.

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No, it was Norman Mailer.

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His father was from Cape Town.

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Secondly, born in Pennsylvania in 1932,

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of which Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet did Vidal say,

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"He comes on like the worker's son, like a modern-day DH Lawrence,

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"but he's just another boring little middle-class boy

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hustling his way to the top if he can do it"?

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-What should I guess?

-Allen Ginsberg.

-You think? OK.

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Allen Ginsberg?

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No, that was John Updike.

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Finally, born in New Orleans in 1924,

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of which novelist and playwright did Vidal say on his death in 1984

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that it was a good career move?

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He also said, in reference to the author's diminutive stature,

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"Each generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves."

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Is that someone who died quite young?

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-Arthur Miller?

-Could be.

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Arthur Miller.

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No, it's Truman Capote.

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Ten points for this. Used in a poetic sense for a grassy field,

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what word of four letters may also denote an alcoholic drink

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made in northern Europe since prehistoric times?

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In the latter case, the word...

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Mead.

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Mead is right, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on internet firsts, Peterhouse.

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On March 15th 1985,

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what became the world's first registered domain name?

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It is now a museum site

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that presents a visual timeline of internet history.

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CERN, because they did the world wide web there.

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Oh, first domain name.

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CERN...

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CERN.com?

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CERN.com.

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No, it's symbolics.com.

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Secondly, 2011 saw the first installation of a Skype call booth

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in an airport in which European country,

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where much of the development of Skype had been conducted?

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Is it Scandinavian or Estonian?

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I think it's Finnish or like Estonian or something.

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Is it Estonian?

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-I think it's Finland.

-I thought it was Estonia.

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No, the city.

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Finland.

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No, it's Estonia.

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And finally, Joel Furr,

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an administrator on the Usenet chat system,

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is credited with coining in 1993 what now ubiquitous internet term

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inspired by a Monty Python sketch?

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-Spam.

-Yes.

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Spam.

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Spam is correct. A music round now.

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For your music starter, you'll hear a well-known piece from an opera.

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Ten points if you can identify the opera.

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OPERA MUSIC PLAYS

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The Barber Of Seville.

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The Barber Of Seville is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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Largo Al Factotum from The Barber Of Seville by Rossini

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was one of the pieces performed in 1895

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on the first night of the first season of Promenade Concerts.

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Your music bonuses are three more pieces

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on the programme of that first Proms concert.

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This time, in each case, I simply want you to identify the composer.

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Firstly, for five, this central European composer.

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ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS

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Dvorak.

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No, that's Chopin, Polonaise In A Major.

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Secondly, the French composer of this aria

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sung in English on the night.

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ARIA PLAYS

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Gounod.

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No, it was Saint-Saens.

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And finally...

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PIANO MUSIC PLAYS

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Liszt.

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It is.

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Ten points for this.

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Which monarch wrote the manual of kingship

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known as the Basilikon Doron?

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James I.

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Correct, James VI, James I.

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James VI, I think, at the time he wrote it.

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Right, your bonuses are on women's football, Peterhouse.

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Firstly, for five points, in 1921,

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the Football Association banned women's football games

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from the grounds used by its member clubs.

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In what year was the ban lifted?

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You can have five years either way.

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I'm sure it would be quite... '60s? The '60s were...

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They were a liberal time.

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Shall we go 1964?

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Isn't it better to have 1970 because then you have...?

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-'67.

-'69 is a good guess.

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Five years either way.

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1969.

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I'll accept that, yes. It was 1971.

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Secondly, in which year did the USA beat Norway

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in the final of the inaugural FIFA Women's World Cup played in China?

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Again, you can have five years either way.

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Presumably later.

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I don't know. Yeah, '92?

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No, let's go between World Cup years because whatever...

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1992.

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I'll accept that. It was 1991, in fact.

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And finally, in 2011,

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which team beat the United States on penalties

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to become the first Asian side to win the women's football World Cup?

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I think Japan.

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Japan.

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Correct. Ten points for this.

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Common or Eurasian, water, and pygmy are British species

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of which small insectivorous mammals...

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Vole.

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No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

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..of the family Soricidae?

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Their long, pointed snouts distinguish them from mice.

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Shrew.

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Shrew is correct, yes.

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APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on engineers and inventors, Queens' College.

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In partnership with Thomas Savery from around 1712,

0:18:060:18:09

which Devon-born engineer constructed a steam engine

0:18:090:18:13

that was widely used for pumping water from coal mines?

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-That's Newcomen.

-Nominate Venturini.

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Newcomen.

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Correct. Which Cornish engineer

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designed successful high-pressure stationary engines

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and, from 1800, built a number of steam carriages,

0:18:240:18:27

including the first steam locomotive?

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-Trevelyan.

-I've never heard of him. OK.

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-Nominate Adamson.

-Trevelyan.

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No, it was Trevithick.

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You were nearly there, but you didn't get it correct.

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With his son Robert, who built the Rocket,

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a locomotive used on the Liverpool to Manchester railway

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when it opened in 1830?

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Was it George...? OK.

0:18:470:18:48

Stephenson.

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Stephenson is correct. George Stephenson, yes.

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Ten points for this.

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Clov, Hamm, Nagg and Nell are characters in which play by...?

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Endgame.

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Endgame is right, Fin De Partie.

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APPLAUSE

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Your bonuses this time are on microbiology, Peterhouse.

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The number of viable bacteria in a culture

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is sometimes expressed as CFU.

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For what do those letters stand?

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-Something...

-Culture? Culture, it's cultured.

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-Formation?

-Formation?

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Formation unit?

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Yeah, cultured formation unit, maybe.

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Cultured formation unit.

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No, it's colony-forming units.

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And secondly, the number of virus particles

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can be similarly expressed as PFU.

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For what do those letters stand?

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Virus...

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Forming units.

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What do viruses form?

0:19:420:19:44

-Peripheries?

-Prions?

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No, prions are proteins, they're not viruses.

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Parasite?

0:19:500:19:51

I don't think parasites.

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P? Let's go for prion.

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Prion-forming units.

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No, they are plaque-forming units.

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And finally, the effectiveness of an antimicrobial agent

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may be expressed as MIC.

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For what does that abbreviation stand?

0:20:070:20:09

It's, erm...

0:20:090:20:11

-Something-inhibition.

-Control.

0:20:130:20:16

Minimum...

0:20:190:20:21

Shall we just go for that?

0:20:220:20:24

Inhibition...

0:20:240:20:26

Let's just pass.

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No, we don't pass.

0:20:280:20:29

Micro...

0:20:290:20:31

Microorganism...

0:20:310:20:33

What did I say for I?

0:20:330:20:35

We don't know.

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You were arguing yourself away from it there. You were nearly there.

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It was minimum inhibitory concentration. Ten points for this.

0:20:390:20:42

Writing of events in 1916,

0:20:420:20:44

which city did Winston Churchill describe as

0:20:440:20:47

"the great advanced citadel of France, the anvil upon which

0:20:470:20:51

"French military manhood was to be hammered to death"?

0:20:510:20:54

Verdun?

0:20:560:20:57

Verdun is correct.

0:20:570:20:58

APPLAUSE

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These bonuses are on an Australian cricket ground, Peterhouse.

0:21:010:21:05

Named after a suburb, The Gabba ground is in which Australian city?

0:21:050:21:08

The first Ashes Test between Australia and England

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is usually played there.

0:21:110:21:13

Is it Sydney or Melbourne? I've no idea.

0:21:130:21:16

-Melbourne.

-OK.

0:21:160:21:18

Melbourne.

0:21:180:21:19

No, it's Brisbane.

0:21:190:21:21

Secondly, which Australian captain holds the record

0:21:210:21:24

for the highest individual Test score at The Gabba

0:21:240:21:27

for his 259 not-out against South Africa in 2012?

0:21:270:21:30

Ricky Ponting is Australian, but I don't know when.

0:21:330:21:37

Why not?

0:21:370:21:39

Ricky Ponting.

0:21:390:21:40

No. Do you know any other Australians?

0:21:400:21:43

Michael Clarke was the person I was looking for.

0:21:430:21:45

And finally, which Australian spinner

0:21:450:21:48

became the highest Test wicket-taker at The Gabba

0:21:480:21:50

when he took four wickets in the second innings against England

0:21:500:21:54

in 2006?

0:21:540:21:55

-Just pass.

-OK.

0:21:550:21:57

We don't know.

0:21:570:21:58

Surely you know Shane Warne.

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Bad luck. Right, we're going to take another picture round now.

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For your picture starter, you're going to see a photographic portrait

0:22:040:22:07

of a notable author whose work was published

0:22:070:22:09

under a more famous pen-name.

0:22:090:22:10

For ten points, I want the real name of the author you will see.

0:22:100:22:14

Mary Ann Evans.

0:22:180:22:20

That is correct. Whose pen-name was...?

0:22:200:22:21

-George Eliot.

-Well done, yes.

0:22:210:22:23

APPLAUSE

0:22:230:22:26

You're going to see picture bonuses of three portraits or photographs

0:22:260:22:29

of authors who wrote under well-known pen names.

0:22:290:22:32

Five points for each if you can give me

0:22:320:22:34

both the real name and the pen-name of the following.

0:22:340:22:36

Firstly...

0:22:360:22:37

That's...

0:22:390:22:40

Who is that?

0:22:410:22:43

No! No! That's Lewis Carroll.

0:22:450:22:47

Lewis Carroll.

0:22:480:22:49

-Charles...

-Lud...

-Charles Dodgson.

0:22:490:22:52

Charles Dodgson.

0:22:520:22:53

I'll accept that, yes.

0:22:530:22:55

Secondly, who's this? And the pen-name.

0:22:550:22:57

-Oh, that's Voltaire.

-Oh, what's his name?

0:22:570:22:59

Jean-Marie Arouet. Jean-Marie Arouet and Voltaire.

0:22:590:23:02

It's Francois-Marie Arouet and Voltaire so I can't accept that.

0:23:020:23:06

You were slightly wrong on his first name.

0:23:060:23:08

And finally...

0:23:080:23:09

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain.

0:23:100:23:12

Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Mark Twain.

0:23:120:23:14

Correct. Right, ten points for this.

0:23:140:23:16

In physics, the words amplitude, frequency and phase

0:23:160:23:19

may precede what term?

0:23:190:23:21

Modulation.

0:23:230:23:24

Modulation is right. Your bonuses are on political figures.

0:23:240:23:30

All three answers are a number that is a multiple of 13.

0:23:300:23:34

Firstly, how old was Henry V

0:23:340:23:36

when he acceded to the English throne in 1413?

0:23:360:23:40

-26.

-26 sounds reasonable.

0:23:400:23:42

-Are you sure it's not 13?

-No, 26.

-OK.

0:23:420:23:45

26.

0:23:450:23:46

Correct.

0:23:460:23:47

At what age did Winston Churchill first become Prime Minister?

0:23:470:23:50

-It was his 60s so...

-52 or 65.

0:23:510:23:56

You think? When he was first... OK.

0:23:560:23:59

65.

0:24:010:24:02

Correct.

0:24:020:24:03

How old was Che Guevara

0:24:030:24:05

when he was executed by the Bolivian army in 1967?

0:24:050:24:07

That'll be 39.

0:24:070:24:10

39.

0:24:100:24:11

39 is correct.

0:24:110:24:12

With about four minutes to go, ten points at stake for this.

0:24:120:24:16

In which country is the point at which

0:24:160:24:18

the Tropic of Cancer crosses the Greenwich Meridian?

0:24:180:24:21

It lies in the Sahara desert

0:24:210:24:23

almost 1,000 kilometres north-west of Tamanrasset.

0:24:230:24:26

Algeria?

0:24:290:24:30

Correct. You get a set of bonuses this time on chemistry.

0:24:300:24:34

In each case, provide the chemical formula

0:24:340:24:36

and charge of the named ion or ligand.

0:24:360:24:39

For example, for hydroxide you would answer OH-.

0:24:390:24:43

Firstly, for five points, thiosulphate.

0:24:430:24:46

It's...

0:24:500:24:52

-It's not SO4.

-No.

0:24:520:24:54

Shall I say like SO2? SO3?

0:24:540:24:57

You could do.

0:24:570:24:58

-SO-.

-OK. Yeah.

0:24:590:25:01

-I think it's minus.

-I think it might be...

0:25:010:25:04

Isn't sulphate SO32- a possible...?

0:25:040:25:06

-Sulphate is...

-It's thiosulphate.

0:25:070:25:09

SO3-?

0:25:110:25:13

No, it's S2O32-.

0:25:130:25:16

And second, dichromate, also known as dichromate(VI).

0:25:160:25:21

There is a dichromate that's like Cr2O7.

0:25:210:25:25

Cr2O7? OK.

0:25:250:25:27

-Minus?

-2-, I think.

-Maybe.

0:25:270:25:31

Cr2O72-.

0:25:310:25:32

Correct.

0:25:320:25:33

Finally, permanganate, or manganate(VII).

0:25:330:25:36

MnO5?

0:25:380:25:41

Or is it MnO6?

0:25:410:25:42

-That would be -3.

-That would be 2-.

0:25:420:25:45

MnO52-.

0:25:450:25:47

No, it's MnO4-,

0:25:470:25:49

Ten points for this.

0:25:490:25:50

Europe Before The War, The Treaty And Reparation

0:25:500:25:54

are chapters in which 1919 work by John May...?

0:25:540:25:58

The Economic Consequences Of The Peace.

0:25:580:26:00

Correct.

0:26:000:26:02

APPLAUSE

0:26:020:26:03

By Keynes. Your bonuses this time, Queens' College,

0:26:030:26:06

are on the novels of Agatha Christie.

0:26:060:26:08

In each case, simply name the play by Shakespeare

0:26:080:26:10

from which Christie took her title.

0:26:100:26:12

Firstly, By The Pricking Of My Thumbs.

0:26:120:26:15

Do you know at all?

0:26:150:26:17

-I think...

-Macbeth.

0:26:180:26:20

It is Macbeth, the second witch.

0:26:200:26:22

Secondly, Sad Cypress.

0:26:220:26:24

Othello, probably.

0:26:240:26:25

Othello.

0:26:250:26:26

No, that's from Twelfth Night. Finally, Taken At The Flood.

0:26:260:26:30

The Tempest.

0:26:300:26:32

The Tempest.

0:26:320:26:33

No, it's Julius Caesar. Ten points for this.

0:26:330:26:35

In addition to tympanum or tympanic cavity,

0:26:350:26:37

which common two-word name is given to the cavity in the temporal bone

0:26:370:26:41

that contains the ossicles?

0:26:410:26:43

The ear canal.

0:26:460:26:48

No, anyone like to buzz from Queens' quickly?

0:26:480:26:51

The middle ear.

0:26:510:26:52

Correct. You get a set of bonuses this time, Queens',

0:26:520:26:55

on kings of France.

0:26:550:26:56

Louis VI, known as The Fat, Louis VII, or The Young,

0:26:560:27:00

and Philip Augustus were successive kings of France

0:27:000:27:03

during which century?

0:27:030:27:05

-14th.

-OK.

-Why not?

0:27:060:27:08

14th.

0:27:080:27:09

No, it's the 12th.

0:27:090:27:10

Known as the Universal Spider for his constant plotting and intrigues,

0:27:100:27:14

Louis XI was an adversary of which Duke of Burgundy

0:27:140:27:17

killed in battle in 1477?

0:27:170:27:20

-Do you know?

-Any famous Dukes of Burgundy?

-Anything?

0:27:200:27:24

-Come on.

-We don't know.

0:27:240:27:26

It's Charles The Bold.

0:27:260:27:27

The reigns of Louis VIII, known as The Lion,

0:27:270:27:29

and Louis IX, or Saint Louis,

0:27:290:27:31

both occurred during that of which king of England?

0:27:310:27:34

Edward III because that's a long one.

0:27:360:27:38

Edward III.

0:27:380:27:40

No, it was Henry III. Ten points for this.

0:27:400:27:42

In compound nouns, the name of what common foodstuff

0:27:420:27:45

may precede nut, cup, milk, cream, fly...?

0:27:450:27:50

Butter.

0:27:500:27:51

Butter is correct. A set of bonuses now

0:27:510:27:54

on novels published since 2001.

0:27:540:27:56

In each case, identify the author from the list of their works.

0:27:560:27:59

Firstly, A God In Ruins, Life After Life and...

0:27:590:28:04

Kate Atkinson.

0:28:040:28:05

Correct.

0:28:050:28:06

Secondly, Seveneves, The Mongoliad...

0:28:060:28:08

GONG And at the gong,

0:28:080:28:09

Queens' College have 150. Peterhouse, though, have 160.

0:28:090:28:13

APPLAUSE

0:28:130:28:16

Well, you were coming back well at the end there.

0:28:160:28:18

If we'd gone on another five minutes,

0:28:180:28:19

who knows what might have happened? But 150 may be enough to come back

0:28:190:28:22

as one of the highest scoring losing teams, Queens',

0:28:220:28:25

but thank you very much for joining us for sure.

0:28:250:28:27

Peterhouse, that was a very storming performance.

0:28:270:28:29

You faded a bit towards the end but you did terribly well earlier.

0:28:290:28:32

Thank you very much for playing with us and we'll look forward

0:28:320:28:35

to seeing you in round two. I hope you can join us next time

0:28:350:28:37

for another first-round match

0:28:370:28:39

but, until then, it's goodbye from Queens' College, Cambridge.

0:28:390:28:41

-ALL:

-Goodbye.

-It's goodbye from Peterhouse, Cambridge.

0:28:410:28:44

-ALL:

-Goodbye.

-And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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