Episode 8

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0:00:20 > 0:00:22University Challenge.

0:00:22 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:27 > 0:00:30Hello. Oxford plays Cambridge tonight

0:00:30 > 0:00:33in the fixture that will undoubtedly put to rest once and for all

0:00:33 > 0:00:37the rivalry that's existed between these universities for centuries.

0:00:37 > 0:00:40More to the point, it'll secure one of the teams

0:00:40 > 0:00:41a place in the second round.

0:00:41 > 0:00:46Robinson College, Cambridge was founded in 1977 by the British

0:00:46 > 0:00:48philanthropist Sir David Robinson,

0:00:48 > 0:00:50who had made much of his money on the gee-gees.

0:00:50 > 0:00:52Something of a stranger to this contest,

0:00:52 > 0:00:55having only appeared three times since 1994,

0:00:55 > 0:00:58tonight's team are proud to tell us that the college boasts the highest

0:00:58 > 0:01:01loo to undergraduate ratio in Cambridge,

0:01:01 > 0:01:04which no doubt appealed just as much to its alumni,

0:01:04 > 0:01:07the TV presenter Konnie Huq,

0:01:07 > 0:01:10the former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and the comedian Robert Webb.

0:01:10 > 0:01:15Representing around 560 students and with an average age of 20,

0:01:15 > 0:01:17let's meet the Robinson team.

0:01:17 > 0:01:18Hi, I'm David Verghese,

0:01:18 > 0:01:20I'm from Hertfordshire and I'm reading English.

0:01:20 > 0:01:22Hi, I'm Catherine Hodge.

0:01:22 > 0:01:25I'm from Birmingham and I'm studying theology and religious studies.

0:01:25 > 0:01:27And their captain.

0:01:27 > 0:01:28Hi, I'm James Pinder.

0:01:28 > 0:01:32I'm from Hampshire and I'm reading for a degree in natural sciences.

0:01:32 > 0:01:35Hi, I'm George Barton, I come from Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire,

0:01:35 > 0:01:37and I'm studying physics.

0:01:37 > 0:01:40APPLAUSE

0:01:42 > 0:01:46Playing them, the team from Wadham College, Oxford.

0:01:46 > 0:01:49It was founded in 1610 by the heiress Dorothy Wadham,

0:01:49 > 0:01:52using the provisions of her late husband's will,

0:01:52 > 0:01:55making her the first woman outside the Royal Family

0:01:55 > 0:01:58and titled aristocracy to found an Oxbridge college.

0:01:58 > 0:02:02Distinguished alumni include Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke,

0:02:02 > 0:02:04and more recently the former Labour leader Michael Foot,

0:02:04 > 0:02:07the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

0:02:07 > 0:02:09and the writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg.

0:02:09 > 0:02:13Representing around 600 students with an average age of 24,

0:02:13 > 0:02:15let's meet the Wadham team.

0:02:17 > 0:02:18Hi, I'm Vivian Holmes.

0:02:18 > 0:02:21I'm from Cambridge and I'm studying mathematics and philosophy.

0:02:21 > 0:02:24Hi, I'm Edward Lucas, originally from Manchester.

0:02:24 > 0:02:26I'm studying political theory.

0:02:26 > 0:02:29- Their captain.- Hi, I'm Vivek Ramakrishna from Hyderabad in India.

0:02:29 > 0:02:32I'm reading for a DPhil in chemistry.

0:02:32 > 0:02:34Hi, I'm Thomas Veness, I'm from Kingston upon Thames

0:02:34 > 0:02:37and I'm reading for a DPhil in theoretical physics.

0:02:37 > 0:02:39APPLAUSE

0:02:42 > 0:02:44You all know the rules, so fingers on the buzzers.

0:02:44 > 0:02:46Here's your first starter for ten.

0:02:46 > 0:02:49Albums including The Painter by Paul Anka,

0:02:49 > 0:02:51The Academy In Peril by John Cale,

0:02:51 > 0:02:53Silk Electric by Diana Ross

0:02:53 > 0:02:57and The Velvet Underground & Nico all have covers designed...

0:02:59 > 0:03:01- Andy Warhol.- Correct.

0:03:05 > 0:03:08Your bonuses, Robinson, are on words.

0:03:08 > 0:03:10Firstly for five points, in the OED,

0:03:10 > 0:03:14the earliest citation of the verb "twitter" comes from the work

0:03:14 > 0:03:18of which literary figure in his translation into Middle English

0:03:18 > 0:03:22of The Consolation Of Philosophy by Boethius?

0:03:24 > 0:03:26- Chaucer?- Correct.

0:03:26 > 0:03:30Which 17th-century English poet is credited with coinages

0:03:30 > 0:03:35including debauchery, fragrant, jubilant, impassive and lovelorn?

0:03:39 > 0:03:40Milton?

0:03:40 > 0:03:42Milton is correct.

0:03:42 > 0:03:44Born in Boston in 1809,

0:03:44 > 0:03:48which literary figure is credited with coinages including quotability,

0:03:48 > 0:03:52multicolour and tintinnabulation, the latter from his poem The Bells?

0:03:55 > 0:03:58- Twain?- That was the only one that springs to mind.

0:04:00 > 0:04:02Could it be Whitman?

0:04:07 > 0:04:10- Walt Whitman? - No, it was Edgar Allen Poe.

0:04:10 > 0:04:12Ten points for this. In 1541,

0:04:12 > 0:04:16the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto became the first

0:04:16 > 0:04:19documented European to cross which major river?

0:04:19 > 0:04:21He died the following year during the same expedition...

0:04:24 > 0:04:26The Amazon?

0:04:26 > 0:04:27No, you lose five points.

0:04:27 > 0:04:30..probably in present-day Arkansas or Louisiana?

0:04:32 > 0:04:34You may not confer. One of you may buzz.

0:04:37 > 0:04:38The Missouri?

0:04:38 > 0:04:40No, it's the Mississippi, bad luck.

0:04:40 > 0:04:43Ten points for this. A former military surgeon,

0:04:43 > 0:04:47Alphonse Laveran received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1907

0:04:47 > 0:04:49for his discovery of the protozoan

0:04:49 > 0:04:52that causes which insect-borne disease?

0:04:52 > 0:04:54The organism...

0:04:54 > 0:04:56- Malaria.- Malaria is correct.

0:04:59 > 0:05:02Your bonuses are on members of the Lunar Society,

0:05:02 > 0:05:07a group of thinkers whose meetings in and around Birmingham from 1765

0:05:07 > 0:05:10were scheduled to reflect the lunar calendar.

0:05:10 > 0:05:13Identify each person from the description.

0:05:13 > 0:05:16Firstly, a master potter with interests in the arts,

0:05:16 > 0:05:18geology and chemistry,

0:05:18 > 0:05:22he invented the pyrometer to measure heat in kilns and developed

0:05:22 > 0:05:24Jasperware pottery.

0:05:31 > 0:05:34- Pass.- That was Josiah Wedgwood.

0:05:34 > 0:05:38Secondly, a leading entrepreneur of the Industrial Revolution

0:05:38 > 0:05:40known for his partnership with James Watt

0:05:40 > 0:05:42and the manufacture of steam engines.

0:05:42 > 0:05:44- Matthew Boulton.- Correct.

0:05:44 > 0:05:47Finally, a Yorkshire-born polymath noted for his part in the

0:05:47 > 0:05:52identification and isolation of a number of gases including oxygen?

0:05:54 > 0:05:56- Joseph Priestley.- Correct.

0:05:56 > 0:05:58Ten points for this starter question.

0:05:58 > 0:06:01Words meaning the fruit of Cydonia oblonga,

0:06:01 > 0:06:02a woodwind instrument,

0:06:02 > 0:06:05the protruding portion of an animal's face,

0:06:05 > 0:06:08the condition of being warm and enclosed,

0:06:08 > 0:06:10an undernourished person

0:06:10 > 0:06:12and a popular term for the buttocks

0:06:12 > 0:06:16are linked by characters in which play by Shakespeare?

0:06:16 > 0:06:18A Midsummer Night's Dream.

0:06:18 > 0:06:20Correct, they're the Mechanicals.

0:06:23 > 0:06:26You get a set of bonuses, this time on plants.

0:06:26 > 0:06:30What seven-letter Greek-derived term denotes an underground horizontal

0:06:30 > 0:06:33stem that bears both roots and shoots?

0:06:33 > 0:06:36It may play a part in food storage or propagation,

0:06:36 > 0:06:38for example in the case of bamboo.

0:06:42 > 0:06:45- Tuber, try tuber.- Seven letters.

0:06:45 > 0:06:47I don't know.

0:06:51 > 0:06:53- Pass.- It's rhizome.

0:06:53 > 0:06:57Its rhizome widely used as a culinary spice and in beverages,

0:06:57 > 0:07:00which plant is known in Hindi as adrak?

0:07:00 > 0:07:03Its generic name and common English name both derive via Greek

0:07:03 > 0:07:05from a Sanskrit word.

0:07:05 > 0:07:06- Ginger.- Correct.

0:07:06 > 0:07:11A member of the ginger family, Curcuma longa has what common name?

0:07:11 > 0:07:13Its ground rhizome is a key ingredient of curry powder

0:07:13 > 0:07:17and may also be used as a dyestuff and as a test for alkalinity?

0:07:17 > 0:07:19- Turmeric.- Turmeric is right.

0:07:19 > 0:07:20Ten points for this.

0:07:20 > 0:07:24Listen carefully. Around 1540, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey,

0:07:24 > 0:07:28translated books two and four of The Aeneid.

0:07:28 > 0:07:31In an attempt to emulate Virgil's prosody,

0:07:31 > 0:07:35he made the first documented use of which rhymeless verse form,

0:07:35 > 0:07:38later used in Elizabethan drama and narrative poetry?

0:07:40 > 0:07:41Blank verse?

0:07:41 > 0:07:43Blank verse is correct, yes.

0:07:46 > 0:07:49These bonuses are on Britain in 1908.

0:07:49 > 0:07:51Firstly for five points, in 1908,

0:07:51 > 0:07:55Edith Morley became the first female professor at a British university

0:07:55 > 0:07:59or university college when she was appointed to the chair

0:07:59 > 0:08:01of English language at which university

0:08:01 > 0:08:04which had been founded in 1892?

0:08:04 > 0:08:07Manchester? That was founded pretty late.

0:08:10 > 0:08:12- Manchester?- No, it was Reading.

0:08:12 > 0:08:18Out of 2008 athletes competing in the 1908 Olympics in London,

0:08:18 > 0:08:1937 were female.

0:08:19 > 0:08:25Among these, Sybil Newall and Lottie Dod won gold and silver for Britain

0:08:25 > 0:08:27in what sport, the only women's event

0:08:27 > 0:08:30held within the Olympic Stadium?

0:08:32 > 0:08:35Swimming? Inside the Olympic Stadium.

0:08:35 > 0:08:36Two-person sport.

0:08:38 > 0:08:39They both won gold?

0:08:39 > 0:08:43No, one won gold and one won silver.

0:08:43 > 0:08:46Could be archery.

0:08:48 > 0:08:50- Archery?- Correct.

0:08:50 > 0:08:54In 1908, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was elected mayor of Aldeburgh

0:08:54 > 0:08:57in Suffolk, the first female mayor in England.

0:08:57 > 0:09:00Earlier in 1865, she'd become the first woman

0:09:00 > 0:09:02licensed to practise what profession?

0:09:02 > 0:09:05- Medicine?- Probably.

0:09:05 > 0:09:07- Medicine.- Correct.

0:09:07 > 0:09:08We're going to take a picture round now.

0:09:08 > 0:09:11For your picture starter, you'll see a map of the United States,

0:09:11 > 0:09:13showing the location of the 12 cities

0:09:13 > 0:09:17in which Federal Reserve banks are located. For ten points,

0:09:17 > 0:09:20I want you to identify the city highlighted in orange.

0:09:24 > 0:09:26Savannah?

0:09:26 > 0:09:27Anyone like to buzz from Wadham?

0:09:27 > 0:09:29You may not confer.

0:09:29 > 0:09:30One of you can buzz, quickly.

0:09:32 > 0:09:34- Atlanta?- It is Atlanta, yes.

0:09:34 > 0:09:37You get the bonuses, then, also on the same theme.

0:09:37 > 0:09:40You'll need to identify three more of the American cities

0:09:40 > 0:09:42that are homes of the Federal Reserve banks.

0:09:42 > 0:09:44Five points for each you can identify.

0:09:44 > 0:09:45Firstly, the city marked at A.

0:09:47 > 0:09:48Is that Indiana?

0:09:50 > 0:09:51Iowa?

0:09:51 > 0:09:54Indiana?

0:09:54 > 0:09:58Des Moines? Do you want to say it?

0:09:59 > 0:10:00Des Moines?

0:10:02 > 0:10:04Des Moines?

0:10:04 > 0:10:05No, it's St Louis.

0:10:05 > 0:10:07Secondly, the city marked B.

0:10:11 > 0:10:13Michigan?

0:10:14 > 0:10:16- That is... I think it's Ohio.- Ohio?

0:10:19 > 0:10:21- Come on.- Pittsburgh?

0:10:21 > 0:10:23No, it's Cleveland. Finally, the city at C.

0:10:25 > 0:10:28- Where's New York? - New York's further up.

0:10:28 > 0:10:30Is that Pennsylvania?

0:10:32 > 0:10:34I think it's Philadelphia.

0:10:34 > 0:10:36Philadelphia?

0:10:36 > 0:10:37It is Philadelphia, yes.

0:10:37 > 0:10:42Ten points for this. Commissioned in 2003 and entitled Empty Suit,

0:10:42 > 0:10:46Jaroslav Rona's sculptural depiction of a man riding the shoulders

0:10:46 > 0:10:50of a giant is Prague's monument to which literary figure?

0:10:50 > 0:10:51The image comes from...

0:10:51 > 0:10:54- Kafka?- Kafka is right, yes.

0:10:57 > 0:11:00Your bonuses are on astronomy.

0:11:00 > 0:11:06Firstly, the Pistol Nebula lies at about 25,000 light-years from Earth,

0:11:06 > 0:11:07near the centre of the galaxy.

0:11:07 > 0:11:09It contains the Pistol Star,

0:11:09 > 0:11:14a massive body considered to be a candidate LBV.

0:11:14 > 0:11:18For what do the letters LBV stand in that context?

0:11:21 > 0:11:23Light... Vector? I don't know.

0:11:23 > 0:11:26- I've no idea.- I can't think of a V-word related to stars at all.

0:11:26 > 0:11:29Velocity? Vortex.

0:11:29 > 0:11:33I've got no clue.

0:11:33 > 0:11:37- Light bearing vortex. - No, it's luminous blue variable.

0:11:37 > 0:11:40Secondly, the Bullet Cluster is a collision between

0:11:40 > 0:11:43two galaxy clusters about 3.8 billion light-years from Earth.

0:11:43 > 0:11:46Its structure has been cited as evidence

0:11:46 > 0:11:48for what hypothetical substance?

0:11:48 > 0:11:50Dark matter or dark energy?

0:11:50 > 0:11:52Dark matter.

0:11:52 > 0:11:54- Dark matter.- Correct.

0:11:54 > 0:11:57The name of what mythological weapon is given to the specific

0:11:57 > 0:11:59south-pointing asterism

0:11:59 > 0:12:03that includes the star-forming nebula M42?

0:12:03 > 0:12:07Mythical weapon? Trident?

0:12:08 > 0:12:10If we don't have anything else.

0:12:10 > 0:12:13Other than Thor's Hammer, I can't think of any other mythical weapons.

0:12:13 > 0:12:16- Trident?- No, it's Orion's Sword.

0:12:16 > 0:12:18Ten points at stake for this.

0:12:18 > 0:12:21An essential component of the cell walls of plants,

0:12:21 > 0:12:24which element appears above aluminium in the periodic table?

0:12:24 > 0:12:26Non-metallic...

0:12:27 > 0:12:28- Boron.- Boron is correct, yes.

0:12:31 > 0:12:33You've taken the lead.

0:12:33 > 0:12:35You get a set of bonuses on African flags.

0:12:35 > 0:12:37Which African country's flag bears

0:12:37 > 0:12:40a gold 12-pointed sun in the upper left triangle?

0:12:40 > 0:12:43The country became independent in 1990,

0:12:43 > 0:12:46and the colours of the flag are said to be influenced

0:12:46 > 0:12:49by those of the liberation movement SWAPO.

0:12:49 > 0:12:50Liberia?

0:12:50 > 0:12:53SWAPO's Namibia. SWAPO's south-west Africa.

0:12:53 > 0:12:56Namibia then? Namibia's very new.

0:12:56 > 0:12:57- Namibia.- Correct.

0:12:57 > 0:13:02Which country's flag is a blue, yellow, green horizontal tricolour

0:13:02 > 0:13:05with a yellow sun on the upper fly side?

0:13:05 > 0:13:09This flag replaced the former flag in 2001.

0:13:11 > 0:13:13Could it be an island nation?

0:13:13 > 0:13:14Could be Madagascar.

0:13:17 > 0:13:19- Go for that.- Sierra Leone?

0:13:19 > 0:13:20No, it's Rwanda.

0:13:20 > 0:13:24Finally, a red half sun appears on the upper band of which country's

0:13:24 > 0:13:25tricolour flag?

0:13:25 > 0:13:29A flag with a white full sun was in use briefly

0:13:29 > 0:13:31from 2010 to 2012.

0:13:31 > 0:13:32Niger?

0:13:32 > 0:13:36It could be Sudan, because they got South Sudan relatively recently.

0:13:39 > 0:13:41Or Niger. I don't know.

0:13:41 > 0:13:42South Sudan?

0:13:42 > 0:13:44South Sudan.

0:13:44 > 0:13:45No, it's Malawi.

0:13:45 > 0:13:48Ten points for this. St Hilda of Whitby

0:13:48 > 0:13:52and the Northumbrian St Cuthbert both lived and died during...

0:13:52 > 0:13:55Henry I.

0:13:55 > 0:13:56No, I'm afraid you lose five points.

0:13:56 > 0:13:59..during which century of the Christian era?

0:13:59 > 0:14:03The same century saw the founding of the Tang dynasty in China

0:14:03 > 0:14:06and the death of the Prophet Muhammad.

0:14:06 > 0:14:10You may not confer. One of you may buzz.

0:14:11 > 0:14:12The eighth century.

0:14:12 > 0:14:15No, it's the seventh century, the 600s.

0:14:15 > 0:14:17Ten points for this.

0:14:17 > 0:14:18In space exploration,

0:14:18 > 0:14:25for what does the letter G stand in the abbreviations GSC or CSG,

0:14:25 > 0:14:28both denoting a spaceport that benefits

0:14:28 > 0:14:31from the slingshot effect caused by the earth's...

0:14:32 > 0:14:34Gravitational.

0:14:34 > 0:14:36No, you lose five points.

0:14:36 > 0:14:38..rapid rotation at the equator?

0:14:38 > 0:14:42It's based at Kourou in an overseas department of France.

0:14:44 > 0:14:47- Guadalupe?- No, it's Guyana.

0:14:47 > 0:14:50So we take another starter question.

0:14:50 > 0:14:51Ten points at stake for this.

0:14:51 > 0:14:55Larger hairy, screaming hairy and nine banded

0:14:55 > 0:14:57are species of which mammal?

0:14:57 > 0:14:58Armadillo.

0:14:58 > 0:15:00Armadillo is right, yes.

0:15:03 > 0:15:08Your bonuses are on works by Western novelists set in Japan.

0:15:08 > 0:15:11Firstly, which 1997 work by Arthur Golden

0:15:11 > 0:15:14told us of the transformation of the young girl Chiyo

0:15:14 > 0:15:16into the hostess Sayuri?

0:15:18 > 0:15:19Memoirs Of A Geisha?

0:15:19 > 0:15:21Correct, that gives you the lead.

0:15:21 > 0:15:25Secondly, set in the Dutch trading concession in Japan

0:15:25 > 0:15:28in the late 18th century, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

0:15:28 > 0:15:31is a work of 2010 by which British author?

0:15:39 > 0:15:40Go for it.

0:15:40 > 0:15:42Will Self?

0:15:42 > 0:15:45Will Self! No, it's David Mitchell.

0:15:45 > 0:15:48Published only in Japan and with a little English text,

0:15:48 > 0:15:52God Hates Japan is a graphic novel by Mike Howatson

0:15:52 > 0:15:54and which Canadian author,

0:15:54 > 0:15:58also noted for Worst Person Ever and Generation X?

0:16:05 > 0:16:07- Alan Moore.- No! Canadian.

0:16:10 > 0:16:12Garry Trudeau?

0:16:12 > 0:16:14No, it's Douglas Coupland.

0:16:14 > 0:16:16We're going to take a music round now.

0:16:16 > 0:16:17For your music starter,

0:16:17 > 0:16:20you'll hear part of a well-known orchestral composition.

0:16:20 > 0:16:24For ten points, I want you to tell me both the name of the composer

0:16:24 > 0:16:28and the title of this specific movement.

0:16:28 > 0:16:31MUSIC PLAYS

0:16:34 > 0:16:36Holst, and Mars.

0:16:36 > 0:16:38Correct, from The Planets.

0:16:41 > 0:16:44That was chosen by the BBC for their Ten Pieces initiative,

0:16:44 > 0:16:48a large-scale programme of events and resources that aims to introduce

0:16:48 > 0:16:52primary age children to classical music via ten key works.

0:16:52 > 0:16:55Your music bonuses are three more of those ten.

0:16:55 > 0:16:56Let's see how many you can identify.

0:16:56 > 0:16:58This time, for five points in each case,

0:16:58 > 0:17:00I simply want the name of the composer.

0:17:00 > 0:17:02Firstly, for five, this British composer.

0:17:02 > 0:17:08MUSIC PLAYS

0:17:38 > 0:17:40- Britten?- It is Benjamin Britten.

0:17:40 > 0:17:42It's Storm, from Peter Grimes.

0:17:42 > 0:17:44Secondly, this American composer.

0:17:44 > 0:17:47MUSIC PLAYS

0:17:52 > 0:17:54I think it's Copland.

0:17:56 > 0:17:59Aaron Copland, I think.

0:18:04 > 0:18:05Copland?

0:18:05 > 0:18:09Copland? No, that's John Adams, Short Ride In A Fast Machine.

0:18:09 > 0:18:10And finally...

0:18:10 > 0:18:13MUSIC PLAYS

0:18:15 > 0:18:17- Mozart.- It is Mozart, yes.

0:18:19 > 0:18:23Ten points for this. Shipping Intelligence and Office Business,

0:18:23 > 0:18:26Further Adventures of Captain Edward Cuttle, Mariner,

0:18:26 > 0:18:29and Paul's Education are chapter titles

0:18:29 > 0:18:31in which novel by Charles Dickens?

0:18:37 > 0:18:38Tale Of Two Cities?

0:18:38 > 0:18:42Anyone like to buzz from Robinson?

0:18:42 > 0:18:43Bleak House?

0:18:43 > 0:18:44No, it's Dombey And Son.

0:18:44 > 0:18:47Ten points for this. Its name derived from an old

0:18:47 > 0:18:49Dutch diminutive of the word "fourth,"

0:18:49 > 0:18:53what traditional measure of cask beer is the equivalent

0:18:53 > 0:18:56of a quarter of a barrel, or 72 pints?

0:18:58 > 0:19:00Keg?

0:19:00 > 0:19:03No, anyone like to buzz from Wadham?

0:19:03 > 0:19:05- Quart.- It's a firkin.

0:19:05 > 0:19:07Ten points for this.

0:19:07 > 0:19:10Which English monarch first authorised The Book of Common Prayer

0:19:10 > 0:19:11in the Church of England?

0:19:13 > 0:19:16James I of England.

0:19:16 > 0:19:17No, you lose five points.

0:19:17 > 0:19:20He became king at the age of nine on the death of his father

0:19:20 > 0:19:23and died less than seven years later in 1553.

0:19:27 > 0:19:30Come on, Wadham. One of you buzz.

0:19:30 > 0:19:32- Henry V?- No, it was Edward VI.

0:19:32 > 0:19:33Ten points for this.

0:19:33 > 0:19:37What three-letter abbreviation links the political union

0:19:37 > 0:19:40of Egypt and Syria from 1958-61...

0:19:42 > 0:19:43UAR.

0:19:43 > 0:19:44Correct.

0:19:47 > 0:19:49The United Arab Republic.

0:19:49 > 0:19:52You get a set of bonuses on oils now.

0:19:52 > 0:19:55Referring to the patient who inspired its development,

0:19:55 > 0:20:00what name is given to a mixture of oleic and erucic acids?

0:20:00 > 0:20:04It's a controversial but now scientifically validated treatment

0:20:04 > 0:20:08for the metabolic disorder known as ALD.

0:20:11 > 0:20:12Could be that.

0:20:14 > 0:20:16That's poisonous.

0:20:16 > 0:20:18- Say that.- Castor oil?

0:20:18 > 0:20:20No, it's Lorenzo's Oil.

0:20:20 > 0:20:22Occurring in essential oils,

0:20:22 > 0:20:25what term denotes a large and diverse class of organic compounds

0:20:25 > 0:20:27of two or more units of hydrocarbons,

0:20:27 > 0:20:30with each unit consisting of five carbon atoms

0:20:30 > 0:20:32arranged in a specific pattern?

0:20:34 > 0:20:36You're the one who knows.

0:20:36 > 0:20:37Isoprenoids?

0:20:37 > 0:20:39Correct.

0:20:39 > 0:20:44By what name is the medieval alchemist's oil of vitriol now known?

0:20:44 > 0:20:45- Sulphuric acid.- Correct.

0:20:45 > 0:20:47Ten points for this.

0:20:47 > 0:20:50Meaning "holy faith", what name links two cities,

0:20:50 > 0:20:52one in north-eastern Argentina,

0:20:52 > 0:20:54the other founded by Spanish settlers

0:20:54 > 0:20:58in the early 17th century in what is now New Mexico?

0:20:59 > 0:21:01Sacrafido?

0:21:02 > 0:21:06- Santa Fe.- Santa Fe is right, yes.

0:21:09 > 0:21:10Your bonuses this time

0:21:10 > 0:21:14are on technology billionaires born since 1975.

0:21:14 > 0:21:17Firstly, having dropped out of San Jose University,

0:21:17 > 0:21:20which Ukrainian-born entrepreneur began WhatsApp,

0:21:20 > 0:21:23now the world's biggest mobile messaging service?

0:21:27 > 0:21:29Alexei something.

0:21:33 > 0:21:36- Pass.- It's Jan Koum.

0:21:36 > 0:21:40Secondly, founder of the company DJI,

0:21:40 > 0:21:43the Chinese-born Frank Wang is the world's first billionaire

0:21:43 > 0:21:47to make his fortune from what type of device?

0:21:50 > 0:21:51Virtual reality?

0:21:51 > 0:21:55- Yeah, virtual reality. - Virtual reality.

0:21:55 > 0:21:57No, it's drones, unmanned aerial vehicles.

0:21:57 > 0:22:01Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp founded which transportation network

0:22:01 > 0:22:03company in 2009?

0:22:03 > 0:22:06Its short name resembles a German preposition.

0:22:06 > 0:22:08- Uber.- Uber is correct.

0:22:08 > 0:22:10We're going to take a second picture round.

0:22:10 > 0:22:14You're going to see a still from a film adaptation

0:22:14 > 0:22:15of a well-known play.

0:22:15 > 0:22:18Ten points if you can identify both the actor you see

0:22:18 > 0:22:20and the role she's playing.

0:22:23 > 0:22:25Blanche Dubois, Vivien Leigh.

0:22:25 > 0:22:27Correct.

0:22:30 > 0:22:34Robinson, you get a set of picture bonuses showing three more actors

0:22:34 > 0:22:38in the role of Blanche Dubois, this time all in stage productions.

0:22:38 > 0:22:40Five points for each actor you can identify.

0:22:40 > 0:22:42Firstly for five...

0:22:42 > 0:22:45That isn't Winona Ryder, is it?

0:22:45 > 0:22:47If it's Winona Ryder, she looks very different.

0:22:47 > 0:22:50- I've no idea.- I have no idea.

0:22:50 > 0:22:53- I don't know who it is. - Might as well say it.

0:22:53 > 0:22:54Winona Ryder.

0:22:54 > 0:22:55No, it's Rachel Weisz.

0:22:55 > 0:22:58Secondly...

0:23:00 > 0:23:02I've seen her face before.

0:23:02 > 0:23:04But I can't remember where from.

0:23:04 > 0:23:06It's not...Vanessa Redgrave.

0:23:06 > 0:23:09I don't know who it is, I'm sorry.

0:23:09 > 0:23:11Could be one of the family.

0:23:11 > 0:23:12Go for Joely Richardson?

0:23:12 > 0:23:14Joely Richardson.

0:23:14 > 0:23:15No, it's Jessica Lange.

0:23:15 > 0:23:17Finally, who's this?

0:23:19 > 0:23:21Oh, it's Gillian Anderson.

0:23:21 > 0:23:23Yeah.

0:23:23 > 0:23:25- Gillian Anderson.- Correct.

0:23:25 > 0:23:26Ten points for this.

0:23:26 > 0:23:29Answer promptly. To the nearest factor of ten,

0:23:29 > 0:23:33what is the ratio of the mass of the Earth to the mass of the moon?

0:23:36 > 0:23:38Two.

0:23:38 > 0:23:40No.

0:23:41 > 0:23:42Eight?

0:23:42 > 0:23:44No, it's 80.

0:23:44 > 0:23:47Ten points for this. Ezra Pound, Joseph Brodsky,

0:23:47 > 0:23:49Sergey Diaghilev and Igor Stravinsky

0:23:49 > 0:23:53are all buried in the cemetery of which European city?

0:23:54 > 0:23:56- Venice.- Venice is correct, yes.

0:24:00 > 0:24:04These bonuses are on Unesco World Heritage Sites

0:24:04 > 0:24:06in south-eastern Europe.

0:24:06 > 0:24:10Firstly, the Durmitor National Park and the natural and cultural

0:24:10 > 0:24:15historical region of Kotor are the two World Heritage Sites

0:24:15 > 0:24:17in which former Yugoslav Republic?

0:24:17 > 0:24:19Slovenia?

0:24:19 > 0:24:22Was that the one we were talking about the other day?

0:24:22 > 0:24:24Anyway...

0:24:25 > 0:24:27Just say Slovenia.

0:24:27 > 0:24:29- Slovenia.- No, it's Montenegro.

0:24:29 > 0:24:33The World Heritage Sites at Rila in Bulgaria

0:24:33 > 0:24:35and Meteora in northern Greece

0:24:35 > 0:24:38centre on what specific institutions?

0:24:38 > 0:24:40Orthodox church, I don't know.

0:24:40 > 0:24:42Franciscans? I don't know.

0:24:45 > 0:24:46Pick one of them.

0:24:46 > 0:24:49What George Said. Knights Templar.

0:24:53 > 0:24:55- Churches?- No, that's not specific enough.

0:24:55 > 0:24:57They're Orthodox monasteries.

0:24:57 > 0:25:00Located in the historical region of Epirus Vetus,

0:25:00 > 0:25:04Butrint is an archaeological site in which present-day country?

0:25:06 > 0:25:08Could be Macedonia.

0:25:08 > 0:25:10Could be Macedonia. Go for Macedonia.

0:25:10 > 0:25:13- Macedonia?- No, it's Albania.

0:25:13 > 0:25:16Two-and-a-half minutes to go. Secreted by the pituitary gland,

0:25:16 > 0:25:21somatotropin is also known by the abbreviation GH.

0:25:21 > 0:25:23For what...

0:25:23 > 0:25:25- Growth hormone.- Correct.

0:25:27 > 0:25:30These bonuses are on the muscular system in humans.

0:25:30 > 0:25:34The internal and external oblique muscles form part of the wall

0:25:34 > 0:25:36of what broad part of the body?

0:25:38 > 0:25:40- The abdomen.- Correct.

0:25:40 > 0:25:44The masseter, the temporal and the medial and lateral pterygoid muscles

0:25:44 > 0:25:47are primarily employed in what action?

0:25:48 > 0:25:50- Chewing, mastication.- Correct.

0:25:50 > 0:25:52The biceps femoris,

0:25:52 > 0:25:56semitendinosus and semimembranosus muscles are commonly known

0:25:56 > 0:25:58by what collective name?

0:26:01 > 0:26:03The pectoral muscles?

0:26:03 > 0:26:05No, they're hamstrings. Ten points for this.

0:26:05 > 0:26:08The Prime Minister of which G20 member state

0:26:08 > 0:26:11has an official residence at 24 Sussex Drive?

0:26:12 > 0:26:14- Canada.- Correct.

0:26:14 > 0:26:19You get a set of bonuses now on the 1918 general election.

0:26:19 > 0:26:22The general election of December 1918 was the first

0:26:22 > 0:26:25at which all men over the age of 21 had the right to vote.

0:26:25 > 0:26:27How old did women have to be?

0:26:27 > 0:26:2930.

0:26:29 > 0:26:31It was 30 originally and then 25.

0:26:31 > 0:26:33What were you going to say?

0:26:33 > 0:26:35Come on.

0:26:35 > 0:26:36- 30.- Correct.

0:26:36 > 0:26:41Which prominent suffragette stood as the women's party candidate

0:26:41 > 0:26:44in Smethwick? She lost to Labour by only 778 votes.

0:26:45 > 0:26:48One of them... Is it Christabel?

0:26:48 > 0:26:51I feel like it might be Christabel Pankhurst.

0:26:51 > 0:26:52It's not Emmeline.

0:26:52 > 0:26:53Christabel Pankhurst?

0:26:53 > 0:26:57Correct. Constance Markievicz became the first woman to be elected

0:26:57 > 0:26:59to Parliament, but did not take her seat because she was

0:26:59 > 0:27:01a member of which party?

0:27:01 > 0:27:02Sinn Fein.

0:27:02 > 0:27:05- Sinn Fein.- Sinn Fein is correct. Ten points for this.

0:27:05 > 0:27:08Littlewit, Grace Wellborn, Morose and Dull Common

0:27:08 > 0:27:12are all characters in plays by which dramatist?

0:27:15 > 0:27:17- Harold Pinter?- No.

0:27:17 > 0:27:20Anyone like to buzz from Robinson?

0:27:20 > 0:27:21Thomas Hardy.

0:27:21 > 0:27:23No, it's Ben Jonson. Ten points for this.

0:27:23 > 0:27:25With the atomic number 28,

0:27:25 > 0:27:28which ferromagnetic element is often alloyed with copper...

0:27:29 > 0:27:32- Chromium.- No, that is an incorrect interruption.

0:27:32 > 0:27:34You lose five points.

0:27:34 > 0:27:36..in the manufacture of coinage?

0:27:38 > 0:27:40- Nickel.- Nickel is correct,

0:27:40 > 0:27:42so you get the points... GONG ..and at the gong,

0:27:42 > 0:27:47Wadham College, Oxford have 95 and Robinson College Cambridge have 155.

0:27:47 > 0:27:50Bad luck, Wadham. I don't think you'll be coming back.

0:27:50 > 0:27:53I don't think that will be one of the highest scoring losing teams.

0:27:53 > 0:27:55Congratulations to you, Robinson. Well done, 155.

0:27:55 > 0:27:57We look forward to seeing you in round two.

0:27:57 > 0:28:00I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match,

0:28:00 > 0:28:03but until then, it's goodbye from Wadham College, Oxford.

0:28:03 > 0:28:05- Goodbye.- It's goodbye from Robinson College, Cambridge.

0:28:05 > 0:28:07- Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from me.

0:28:07 > 0:28:08Goodbye.