0:00:17 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. Two more teams of students are preparing to show true grit
0:00:32 > 0:00:35and whichever of them is the grittier will get through to the second round.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37The losers will fall by the wayside
0:00:37 > 0:00:41unless their score is among the four highest losing scores
0:00:41 > 0:00:43from these first-round matches.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Balliol College, Oxford, was founded
0:00:45 > 0:00:47in the 13th century by John de Balliol,
0:00:47 > 0:00:49an adviser to Henry III.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52The college has made several appearances on this series,
0:00:52 > 0:00:54but winning the trophy has so far eluded them.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Perhaps they've been distracted by seeking glory in other fields
0:00:57 > 0:01:01of public life, with three of their alumni, Asquith,
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Macmillan and Heath, becoming Prime Minister.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06The Labour bigwig Denis Healey went to Balliol,
0:01:06 > 0:01:10as did the economist Adam Smith and the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14JM Barrie sent Captain Hook there and it's where Dorothy L Sayers
0:01:14 > 0:01:17educated her sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey.
0:01:17 > 0:01:22Representing around 615 students and with an average age of 23,
0:01:22 > 0:01:24let's meet the Balliol team.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Hi. I'm Freddy Potts.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28I'm from Newcastle and I'm reading history.
0:01:30 > 0:01:31Hello, I'm Jacob Lloyd.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34I'm from London and am reading for a DPhil in English.
0:01:34 > 0:01:35And their captain.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Hi, I'm Jay Goldman, I'm from London
0:01:37 > 0:01:40and I'm reading for a degree in philosophy and theology.
0:01:40 > 0:01:41Hi, I'm Ben Pope,
0:01:41 > 0:01:44I'm from sunny Sydney and I'm doing a DPhil in astrophysics.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46APPLAUSE
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Now, their opponents represent Imperial College London,
0:01:52 > 0:01:56which won this series in 1996 and 2001.
0:01:56 > 0:02:01Imperial was founded in 1907 and was part of the University of London
0:02:01 > 0:02:02for much of its existence,
0:02:02 > 0:02:06becoming independent again on its centenary in 2007.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Its main campus is in South Kensington,
0:02:08 > 0:02:11where the area's skyline is dominated
0:02:11 > 0:02:13by its copper-domed Queen's Tower,
0:02:13 > 0:02:16saved from demolition by Sir John Betjeman.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18With over 16,000 students,
0:02:18 > 0:02:21its past high achievers include the writer HG Wells,
0:02:21 > 0:02:24the inventor of penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming,
0:02:24 > 0:02:28and Darwin's bulldog, the biologist Thomas Huxley.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32With an average age of 21, let's meet the Imperial team.
0:02:32 > 0:02:33Hello, I'm Rupert Belsham,
0:02:33 > 0:02:37I'm from London and I'm studying physics.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Hi, I'm Lottie Whittingham.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41I'm from Tincleton in Dorset and I'm studying medicine.
0:02:41 > 0:02:42And this is their captain.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Hello, I'm Jasper Menkus, I'm from San Francisco, California
0:02:45 > 0:02:47and I'm reading physics.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Hi, I'm Nas Andriopoulos, I'm from Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire
0:02:50 > 0:02:53and I'm studying chemistry with molecular physics.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55APPLAUSE
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Well, you all know the rules, so I won't bother reciting them.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07"Books always speak of other books
0:03:07 > 0:03:10"and every story tells a story that has already been told."
0:03:10 > 0:03:14These are the words of which writer, who died in 2016?
0:03:14 > 0:03:16They appear in the postscript to his debut novel...
0:03:18 > 0:03:19Umberto Eco.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Umberto Eco is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Right, you get a set of bonuses. The first lot are on Germany,
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Imperial College. Firstly for five points,
0:03:29 > 0:03:32a founder of the Christian Democratic Union
0:03:32 > 0:03:35who was instrumental in negotiating West Germany's membership of NATO,
0:03:35 > 0:03:39who was the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic?
0:03:44 > 0:03:46- We don't know. Sorry. - That's Konrad Adenauer.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50Secondly, born Herbert Frahm, which Chancellor took
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Norwegian citizenship for the duration of World War II?
0:03:53 > 0:03:56He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971
0:03:56 > 0:03:59for his work on improving relations between East and West Germany.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06- Best guess?- No.- Anything?- No.
0:04:08 > 0:04:09We don't know that either.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12That was Willy Brandt. And finally, which Christian Democrat
0:04:12 > 0:04:15served as the first Chancellor of the reunited Germany
0:04:15 > 0:04:18and became the longest-serving Chancellor after Bismarck?
0:04:21 > 0:04:24- Anything?- No, I can't remember any German Chancellors.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26- No, sorry.- It's Helmut Kohl.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Ten points for this.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29In an act of the same name,
0:04:29 > 0:04:33a 1713 Parliament voted to provide a public reward for such person
0:04:33 > 0:04:36or persons as shall discover within...
0:04:38 > 0:04:39- Longitude?- Correct.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41APPLAUSE
0:04:44 > 0:04:49Your first bonuses, Balliol College, are on internet encyclopaedias.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Firstly, the wiki community and online wiki encyclopaedia,
0:04:52 > 0:04:58known by the acronym Ganfyd, G-A-N-F-Y-D,
0:04:58 > 0:05:02was founded in 1925 by a group of British people working in
0:05:02 > 0:05:05or training for which profession?
0:05:05 > 0:05:06It sounds sort of Welsh.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09No, it's not something Welsh.
0:05:09 > 0:05:10What do we think?
0:05:12 > 0:05:14- Mining.- No, it's medicine.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17It stands for "get a note from your doctor". LAUGHTER
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Secondly, also known as Hudong,
0:05:20 > 0:05:23which social network includes China's largest wiki?
0:05:23 > 0:05:25It's name means encyclopaedia.
0:05:27 > 0:05:28Chinese.
0:05:31 > 0:05:32Could be.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35- What's it?- Is it Weibo or something? I can't remember.
0:05:35 > 0:05:36Weibo?
0:05:36 > 0:05:37No, it's Baike.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40And Memory Alpha is a wiki encyclopaedia
0:05:40 > 0:05:45devoted to the universe of which science-fiction franchise?
0:05:45 > 0:05:46- Star Trek.- Correct.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:05:48 > 0:05:51The packaging for a perfume launched in the 1930s
0:05:51 > 0:05:53by the designer Elsa Schiaparelli
0:05:53 > 0:05:56is the origin of the two-word name of which colour,
0:05:56 > 0:05:59described in a contemporary publication
0:05:59 > 0:06:01as a crude, cruel shade of rose?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Chanel pink?
0:06:10 > 0:06:12No. Anyone like to buzz from Balliol?
0:06:12 > 0:06:15One of you can buzz. You can't confer but one of you can buzz.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19- Flame red.- No, it's shocking pink.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Ten points for this. Considered a global threat
0:06:22 > 0:06:24and one of the key indicators of social development
0:06:24 > 0:06:26by the World Health Organization,
0:06:26 > 0:06:30which illness is an acute intestinal infection caused by the ingestion
0:06:30 > 0:06:32of food or water...
0:06:34 > 0:06:35E. coli.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36No, you lose five points.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40Contaminated with various strains of the Vibrio bacterium.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44- Cholera?- Cholera is correct, yes.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46APPLAUSE
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Right, your bonuses are on the French author and poet
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Christine de Pizan.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56Firstly, for five points, after the death of her husband,
0:06:56 > 0:06:57a royal secretary,
0:06:57 > 0:07:01Christine de Pizan turned to writing to support her family.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Her prose work The Book Of The City Of Ladies
0:07:04 > 0:07:06is based on a work by Boccaccio
0:07:06 > 0:07:10and appeared in the first decade of which century?
0:07:10 > 0:07:1118th?
0:07:13 > 0:07:1418th or 19th, I'm not sure.
0:07:14 > 0:07:15I'd go with 18th.
0:07:15 > 0:07:1718th.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20No, it's the 15th century, the 1400s.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22Christine wrote a noted biography of which French king,
0:07:22 > 0:07:24known as the wise?
0:07:24 > 0:07:27He led a recovery after the disasters of the early part
0:07:27 > 0:07:29of the Hundred Years' War.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32It's not like Henri I or something? Henri II?
0:07:33 > 0:07:35- Henri I.- No, it's Charles V.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38And finally, written in 1429,
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Christine's last work is a celebration of the early victories
0:07:41 > 0:07:43of which contemporary military figure?
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Martel? No, it's too late, isn't it?
0:07:50 > 0:07:52- Which century are we talking?- 14.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Martel?
0:07:54 > 0:07:57- Martel.- No, it was Joan of Arc. We're going to take a picture round.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59For your picture starter,
0:07:59 > 0:08:00you'll see a map of the world
0:08:00 > 0:08:02with four countries highlighted.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05The two-letter ISO codes
0:08:05 > 0:08:07of these countries can be combined
0:08:07 > 0:08:09to form the name of a capital city.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Ten points if you can work out which one.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Vilnius?
0:08:25 > 0:08:27No, anyone like to buzz from Balliol?
0:08:29 > 0:08:30Oslo.
0:08:30 > 0:08:31No, it's Brussels.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33It's Brazil, the United States,
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Sweden and Lesotho.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36So, picture bonuses in a moment or two,
0:08:36 > 0:08:38ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42"There might not be a presenter as gleefully unselfconscious
0:08:42 > 0:08:46"working today. He got his job because undiluted joy for railways
0:08:46 > 0:08:48"radiates from his very being."
0:08:48 > 0:08:50These words refer to which broadcaster?
0:08:50 > 0:08:52In the 1990s, he was chief secretary...
0:08:53 > 0:08:54Michael Portillo.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Correct. Yes. APPLAUSE
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Right, you get a set of picture bonuses, three more maps.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Again, in each case, the two-letter ISO codes
0:09:05 > 0:09:07of the countries highlighted can be combined
0:09:07 > 0:09:09to give the name of a capital city.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Five points for each you can work out.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12Firstly, for five...
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Morocco. It's like M-O.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22What's that - Cambodia? CA?
0:09:22 > 0:09:23C-A-M-O-H.
0:09:26 > 0:09:27Yeah, M-O-N-I.
0:09:28 > 0:09:32- Is it Honduras or something? Or Nicaragua?- Yeah.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33Nimoca?
0:09:34 > 0:09:36- I don't know.- Monaco?
0:09:36 > 0:09:39- Yeah, that could be. - If it's M-O.- Monaco?
0:09:39 > 0:09:40No, it's Manila.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42It was Morocco, Nicaragua -
0:09:42 > 0:09:45and Laos was one you failed to identify in Southeast Asia.
0:09:45 > 0:09:46Secondly...
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Bolivia. Gabon.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53- Mauritania. Or Niger.- B-O-G-A.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57- What's that one? That's... - Did you say B-O-G-A?
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Niger.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02Bolivia, Niger...Bulgaria?
0:10:02 > 0:10:04- Romania.- Romania, sorry.
0:10:04 > 0:10:05And Gabon.
0:10:05 > 0:10:06Ga-nig-ro-ni-ga.
0:10:08 > 0:10:09Gaborone? No.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13- Gaborone?- Nominate Andriopoulos.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16- Gaborone?- Correct, well done. APPLAUSE
0:10:18 > 0:10:20Gabon, Bolivia, Romania and Niger.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23And finally...
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Australia.
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Namibia or Mozambique?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Namibia.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30- Australia.- Or South Sudan.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33S-S-A-U-N-A.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34Nassau.
0:10:34 > 0:10:35Nassau.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37Correct. Well done. APPLAUSE
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Ten points for this. In biology,
0:10:40 > 0:10:42what Greek-derived term denotes the process
0:10:42 > 0:10:45sometimes known as self-digestion?
0:10:45 > 0:10:47That is the destruction of...
0:10:47 > 0:10:49Autophagy?
0:10:49 > 0:10:50No, you lose five points.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52That is the destruction of cells or tissues
0:10:52 > 0:10:54by enzymes present within them.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Endophagy.
0:10:57 > 0:10:58No, it's autolysis.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02Ten points for this. Located in the West Bank near the River Jordan,
0:11:02 > 0:11:04which city is among those claiming to be
0:11:04 > 0:11:06the world's oldest continually-inhabited city?
0:11:06 > 0:11:08In biblical history,
0:11:08 > 0:11:12it was the first town attacked by the Israelites...
0:11:12 > 0:11:14- Jericho.- Jericho is correct.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16APPLAUSE
0:11:18 > 0:11:20Your bonuses are on astronomy, Balliol.
0:11:20 > 0:11:25Which celestial body was discovered on July 23rd 1995,
0:11:25 > 0:11:27later known as the Great Comet of 1997?
0:11:27 > 0:11:31Its home page became the first NASA website
0:11:31 > 0:11:33to receive over one million hits a day.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41- Haley-Bopp.- No, it's Hale-Bopp, but you've identified the right comet.
0:11:41 > 0:11:46Hale-Bopp reached its closest point to the sun on April 1st 1997,
0:11:46 > 0:11:50at a distance of 0.91AU.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53By what term is this point known?
0:11:53 > 0:11:56- Periapsis.- Perihelion, perihelion.
0:11:56 > 0:11:57- Distance to the sun, right?- Yeah.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59OK, the perihelion.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00Perihelion is right.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03At the time of its discovery by two amateur astronomers,
0:12:03 > 0:12:07Hale-Bopp was at a distance of over seven astronomical units from the sun.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10That is between the orbits of which two planets?
0:12:14 > 0:12:16- Jupiter and Saturn?- Correct.
0:12:20 > 0:12:21Ten points for this.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Which public figure shares a surname with the Irish-born author of
0:12:24 > 0:12:27A Modest Proposal, while her first...
0:12:27 > 0:12:28Swift.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32..while her first name is the surname of the actress
0:12:32 > 0:12:36who won Academy Awards for performances in Butterfield 8
0:12:36 > 0:12:38and Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Taylor Swift.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Taylor Swift is correct, yes.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46Right, your bonuses are on cultural studies in Britain, Balliol.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50Which Jamaican-born sociologist and theorist was associated with
0:12:50 > 0:12:55Britain's first cultural studies programme at Birmingham University from 1964?
0:12:55 > 0:12:58He's noted for his paper Encoding, Decoding.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01He's one of the New Left Review guys.
0:13:07 > 0:13:08Just pass.
0:13:08 > 0:13:09Williams?
0:13:09 > 0:13:10No, it's Stuart Hall.
0:13:10 > 0:13:11For his thinking on race,
0:13:11 > 0:13:15Stuart Hall is often called the godfather of which body of thought
0:13:15 > 0:13:16in political philosophy?
0:13:16 > 0:13:18It centres on the proper way to respond
0:13:18 > 0:13:20to cultural and religious diversity.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Multiculturalism.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Correct. Hall is often said to have coined what term?
0:13:33 > 0:13:38He used it in an article in Marxism Today in January 1979
0:13:38 > 0:13:43to denote the politics of a specific politician born in 1925.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53In '75 of someone born in '25.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55So I'm presuming he's opposed to it?
0:13:55 > 0:13:56Do you think it's some sort of...
0:13:58 > 0:13:591925.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03No, cos I think it's a reference to a person.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Let's go for that. Neoliberalism?
0:14:05 > 0:14:06No, it's Thatcherism.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08- Oh.- Ten points for this.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Which group of five or six species
0:14:11 > 0:14:14form the largest of the perissodactyls,
0:14:14 > 0:14:17an order of hoofed mammals that includes horses and zebras?
0:14:17 > 0:14:21All are either threatened or endangered, and are restricted to
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Eastern and Southern Africa, and to parts of tropical Asia.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Rhinoceros.
0:14:29 > 0:14:30Correct.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37These bonuses are on novels published in 2015.
0:14:37 > 0:14:41Punished as a child by her mother for her midnight-black skin,
0:14:41 > 0:14:45Lula Ann Bridewell is the central character in God Help The Child,
0:14:45 > 0:14:48the 11th novel by which Nobel prize-winning author?
0:14:50 > 0:14:53Best guess? Anything.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55Zora Neale Hurston, but it's not.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57- Nominate Whittingham. - Zora Neale Hurston.
0:14:57 > 0:14:58No, it's Toni Morrison.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01Secondly, set in 1994 during the Balkan wars,
0:15:01 > 0:15:05Love, Sex And Other Foreign Policy Goals is the debut novel
0:15:05 > 0:15:08of which author and co-writer of the television comedies
0:15:08 > 0:15:10Peep Show and The Thick Of It?
0:15:10 > 0:15:13THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:15:13 > 0:15:14Armando Iannucci?
0:15:14 > 0:15:16No, it's Jesse Armstrong.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18And finally, concerning Teddy,
0:15:18 > 0:15:21a would-be poet and bomber pilot in the Second World War,
0:15:21 > 0:15:24A God In Ruins is the companion piece to which author's
0:15:24 > 0:15:28bestselling 2013 novel, Life After Life?
0:15:29 > 0:15:31- Oh, God.- I don't know.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Smith.
0:15:36 > 0:15:37Kate Atkinson.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music
0:15:41 > 0:15:45by a German composer. Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:51 > 0:15:53VIOLIN JOINS IN
0:15:57 > 0:15:58Beethoven.
0:15:58 > 0:15:59It was Beethoven, yes.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Part of his Violin Sonata, Opus Number 12.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08He dedicated that violin sonata to the composer Antonio Salieri,
0:16:08 > 0:16:11with whom he studied between 1800 and 1802.
0:16:11 > 0:16:16Salieri was an influence on the careers of many now well-known composers.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19For your music bonuses, works by three more of them.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22Five points for each composer you can identify.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Firstly for five, this Austrian composer.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26PIANO AND STRINGS PLAY
0:16:31 > 0:16:32Mozart?
0:16:32 > 0:16:33No, that's Schubert.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35Salieri brought him to the Imperial Seminary.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39Secondly, the German composer of this operatic overture.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Hindemith?
0:16:55 > 0:16:56No, that's Meyerbeer.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58He was an adviser to Meyerbeer early in his career.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01And finally, this Central European composer?
0:17:01 > 0:17:04PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Dvorak.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30No, that's Liszt. Salieri taught him at one point.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Ten points for this. The son of the King of Thessaly,
0:17:33 > 0:17:36which Greek hero was the only one of his father's children
0:17:36 > 0:17:40to survive when his uncle, Pelias, usurped the throne?
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Given the centaur...
0:17:42 > 0:17:43Achilles.
0:17:43 > 0:17:44I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47..given to the centaur Chiron to tutor,
0:17:47 > 0:17:51his later desertion of Medea is the subject of a play by Euripides.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58One of you can buzz, Imperial.
0:17:59 > 0:18:00Heracles.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02No, it's Jason. Ten points for this.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06In North America, what specific Latin-derived adjective is used
0:18:06 > 0:18:10to describe an election for the Chief Executive Officer of a
0:18:10 > 0:18:12US state and to refer generally...
0:18:13 > 0:18:14Gubernatorial?
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Gubernatorial is correct, yes.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22These bonuses, Balliol, are on the sciences.
0:18:22 > 0:18:27In physics, the Cyclotron Principle involves using an electric field
0:18:27 > 0:18:31to accelerate charged particles across a gap between two magnetic field regions
0:18:31 > 0:18:33in the shape of what letter?
0:18:38 > 0:18:39An O?
0:18:39 > 0:18:40No, it's a D.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43In Earth science, the D double prime layer
0:18:43 > 0:18:45is a two-hundred-kilometre-thick layer
0:18:45 > 0:18:49in which part of the Earth between the crust and the core?
0:18:49 > 0:18:50Mantle.
0:18:50 > 0:18:51Correct.
0:18:51 > 0:18:56In 1570, John Dee edited the first English translation
0:18:56 > 0:18:58of which Ancient Greek mathematical treatise?
0:18:58 > 0:19:00I need the title and the author.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02- Euclid's Elements? - That's geometry. No.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Hm? Euclid's Elements? Well, it could be.
0:19:04 > 0:19:05Euclid's Elements?
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Correct. Ten points for this.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Born in western Germany in 1820,
0:19:10 > 0:19:13who moved to Manchester to work for his family business in 1840...?
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Friedrich Engels.
0:19:16 > 0:19:17Correct.
0:19:20 > 0:19:25Balliol, these bonuses are on painters described by the art historian EH Gombrich
0:19:25 > 0:19:27as "Three desperately lonely men".
0:19:27 > 0:19:30All three were born in the mid-19th century.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Firstly, "Proud to be called a barbarian"
0:19:32 > 0:19:36is Gombrich's description of which former stockbroker?
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Feeling himself misunderstood in Europe,
0:19:38 > 0:19:41he spent several years living in the South Sea Islands.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43It's Gauguin. Gauguin?
0:19:43 > 0:19:44Correct.
0:19:44 > 0:19:48"He had decided to start from scratch as if no painting had been done before him."
0:19:48 > 0:19:51Gombrich wrote those words of which French artist,
0:19:51 > 0:19:54whom he described as "The father of modern art"?
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0:19:57 > 0:19:59Cezanne?
0:19:59 > 0:20:00It is Cezanne, yes.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02And finally, according to Gombrich,
0:20:02 > 0:20:06which Dutch artist used brushstrokes "To convey his excitement
0:20:06 > 0:20:09"and to tell us something of the state of his mind?"
0:20:09 > 0:20:10THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Van Gogh?
0:20:12 > 0:20:13Correct.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Right, we're going to take another picture round.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20For your picture starter, you're going to see a still from a film.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22For ten points, I want you to identify the film, please.
0:20:26 > 0:20:27Metropolis.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29It is Metropolis, yes.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32That was Fritz Lang's expressionist work.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35It was made in 1927, and it features an early example
0:20:35 > 0:20:37of that staple of science fiction, the robot.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40For your bonuses, stills from three more films,
0:20:40 > 0:20:43each depicting robots, androids, or synthetic people.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46Five points for each, if you can identify the film.
0:20:46 > 0:20:47Firstly...
0:20:53 > 0:20:54Lost In Space?
0:20:54 > 0:20:57No, that's Forbidden Planet. Secondly...
0:21:01 > 0:21:02Blade Runner.
0:21:02 > 0:21:03Correct. And finally...
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Ex Machina?
0:21:10 > 0:21:11Correct.
0:21:11 > 0:21:12Right, ten points for this.
0:21:12 > 0:21:17What object features in the artwork Black Kites by Gabriel Orozco,
0:21:17 > 0:21:20forms a pyramid in a painting by Paul Cezanne,
0:21:20 > 0:21:23and can be seen in anamorphic form at the base of...
0:21:24 > 0:21:25A skull.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Skull is correct, yes. Human skulls.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33These bonuses, Balliol College, are on Britain and Japan.
0:21:33 > 0:21:38Which decade saw the signing of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty Of Amity And Commerce?
0:21:38 > 0:21:42The start of the Second Opium War and the suppression of the Indian Mutiny
0:21:42 > 0:21:44occurred earlier in the same decade.
0:21:44 > 0:21:451850s.
0:21:45 > 0:21:46Correct.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50Which decade saw the signing of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in London?
0:21:50 > 0:21:53The terms of the treaty would discourage French participation
0:21:53 > 0:21:55in the Russo-Japanese War which began two years later.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:21:58 > 0:22:001900s.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04Correct. The Anglo-Japanese Alliance lapsed during which decade?
0:22:04 > 0:22:07The same decade saw the Washington Naval Conference
0:22:07 > 0:22:08and the Locarno Treaties.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:22:10 > 0:22:111920s.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Correct. Ten points for this.
0:22:14 > 0:22:19In zoology, Mollusca and Chordata are examples of which tax...
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Phyla.
0:22:21 > 0:22:22Yes, I'll accept that.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25That's the plural of phylum, which is what I was getting towards,
0:22:25 > 0:22:29so, yes, that's fine. Your bonuses are on people whose lives spanned
0:22:29 > 0:22:32a similar period to that of Sir Winston Churchill,
0:22:32 > 0:22:35who lived from 1874 to 1965.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37In each case, name the person from the description.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40Firstly, the 31st President of the United States.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Before his political career,
0:22:42 > 0:22:45he'd been a mining engineer in China and organised relief work in Europe
0:22:45 > 0:22:47during the First World War.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50Truman? No.
0:22:53 > 0:22:54- Herbert Hoover.- Yeah.
0:22:54 > 0:22:55Hoover.
0:22:55 > 0:22:56Correct.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59Secondly, a Polish-American business magnate,
0:22:59 > 0:23:02the company that bears her name is a leading manufacturer and distributor
0:23:02 > 0:23:04of beauty products.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Polish-American. What was her name?
0:23:08 > 0:23:09Could be Bulgari, I don't know.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11Oh, yeah. Bulgari?
0:23:11 > 0:23:13No, it's Helena Rubinstein.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17And finally, a writer who won a record four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21Associated with New England, his works include Dust Of Snow,
0:23:21 > 0:23:25A Winter Eden and The Road Less Travelled.
0:23:25 > 0:23:26Robert Frost.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29Correct. Four and a half minutes to go, ten points at stake for this.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33The Zone Of Interest is the second Holocaust-themed novel by which
0:23:33 > 0:23:37British writer whose Booker shortlisted work, Time's Arrow...
0:23:38 > 0:23:39Martin Amis.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Correct.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47Your bonuses are on chemistry, Balliol.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51In each case, give the oxidation state of the named element in its
0:23:51 > 0:23:54given compound. Firstly, what is the oxidation state of silicon
0:23:54 > 0:23:56in a molecule of silicon dioxide?
0:23:56 > 0:23:58THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:24:05 > 0:24:06Plus four.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Plus four is correct.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11What is the oxidation state of carbon in a molecule of ethane?
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0:24:19 > 0:24:21We'll go plus four again.
0:24:21 > 0:24:22No, it's minus three.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26And finally, what is the oxidation state of oxygen in a molecule
0:24:26 > 0:24:28of hydrogen peroxide?
0:24:28 > 0:24:29This is an unusual one.
0:24:29 > 0:24:30It's...
0:24:34 > 0:24:36- Minus one, I think.- Yeah, that sounds good.
0:24:37 > 0:24:38Minus one?
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Correct.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Ten points for this. In chemistry, what term denotes the number of
0:24:43 > 0:24:46atoms, ions or molecules that a central atom or ion holds
0:24:46 > 0:24:48as its nearest neighbours in...
0:24:50 > 0:24:51Valence?
0:24:51 > 0:24:53No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56..as its nearest neighbours in a complex or crystal.
0:24:58 > 0:24:59Coordination number?
0:24:59 > 0:25:00Correct.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07Imperial, your bonuses are on philosophy in the early 20th century.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09In each case, name the author of the following.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11All were originally published in English.
0:25:11 > 0:25:16Firstly, Democracy And Education and Experience And Nature.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17Quickly. Anything.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19Wittgenstein?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- Nominate Belsham.- Wittgenstein?
0:25:21 > 0:25:23No, it's John Dewey.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27Secondly, Principia Ethica and A Defence Of Common Sense.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:25:31 > 0:25:32Russell.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34No, it's GE Moore.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37And finally, On Denoting, The Problems Of Philosophy
0:25:37 > 0:25:39and The Analysis Of Mind.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:25:43 > 0:25:44Russell again.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46That was Russell, yes. Bertrand Russell.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Ten points for this. For what the letters R, E, F stand
0:25:49 > 0:25:52when describing a system for assessing the quality...
0:25:52 > 0:25:54Research Excellence Framework.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Correct.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58It determines how universities get money.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03Right, your bonuses are on oases, Balliol College.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Al-Hasa is the largest oasis in which country?
0:26:06 > 0:26:10Incorporated into the principality of Najd before World War I,
0:26:10 > 0:26:15it lies close to Al-Dammam, its country's main oil-producing area.
0:26:15 > 0:26:16Saudi Arabia.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17Correct.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19In which country is the Siwa Oasis?
0:26:19 > 0:26:24In antiquity it was the location of the Oracle Temple of the god Amun,
0:26:24 > 0:26:25visited by Alexander the Great.
0:26:25 > 0:26:26Egypt?
0:26:26 > 0:26:28Correct.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Rising in the Karakoram Mountains, the River Yarkand irrigates
0:26:31 > 0:26:35a large oasis south-east of Kashgar in the far west of which country?
0:26:35 > 0:26:37- China.- Kashgar?
0:26:37 > 0:26:39It's in Xinjiang.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40OK.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42China.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43China is correct.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44Ten points for this.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49What surname links the English scientist who, in 1774,
0:26:49 > 0:26:52claimed to have discovered dephlogisticated air...
0:26:53 > 0:26:54Priestley.
0:26:54 > 0:26:55Priestley is correct, yes.
0:26:58 > 0:26:59Your bonuses this time, Balliol,
0:26:59 > 0:27:02are on seven-letter terms in the sciences.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04In each case, give the term from the definition.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06All three begin with the same letter.
0:27:06 > 0:27:07Firstly, in physics,
0:27:07 > 0:27:11a term from an SI-derived unit that denotes the potential difference
0:27:11 > 0:27:13in a direct current circuit.
0:27:13 > 0:27:14Voltage.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Correct.
0:27:15 > 0:27:19In chemistry, a word that may follow blue, green, white, or rose
0:27:19 > 0:27:22in the trivial names of metal sulphates.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29Pass.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31It's vitriol. And finally, in medicine,
0:27:31 > 0:27:35a substance used clinically for immunisation against a pathogen?
0:27:35 > 0:27:36Vaccine.
0:27:36 > 0:27:37Correct. Ten points for this.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40The Strait of Belle Isle and the Cabot Strait
0:27:40 > 0:27:43link which Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean?
0:27:43 > 0:27:45The Gulf shares its name with the river that's...
0:27:46 > 0:27:47Hudson?
0:27:47 > 0:27:49No, you lose five points.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51..that is the outlet of the North American Great Lakes.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56It's the St Laurence. GONG
0:27:56 > 0:28:00And at the gong, Imperial College, London, have 55.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Balliol College, Oxford, have 220.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Well, you were a bit unlucky with the fall of questions.
0:28:08 > 0:28:12I can see you kicking yourselves at some of the science questions that they got that you didn't get.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15But I'm afraid we're going to have to say goodbye to you, Imperial.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Balliol, that was a terrific performance.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19We shall look forward to seeing you in round two.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match,
0:28:21 > 0:28:24but until then, it's goodbye from Imperial College, London.
0:28:24 > 0:28:25ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27It's goodbye from Balliol College, Oxford.
0:28:27 > 0:28:28ALL: Goodbye.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.