0:00:19 > 0:00:25University Challenge. Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. There's a place in the second round at stake tonight.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34It'll go to whichever team is ahead at the gong,
0:00:34 > 0:00:39and if the losers come away with one of the four highest losing scores,
0:00:39 > 0:00:41they'll also qualify for the play-offs and
0:00:41 > 0:00:43a final chance to stay in the contest.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46The Open University was founded by Harold Wilson
0:00:46 > 0:00:49and his Minister of State for Education, Jennie Lee,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52as the University of the Air, with the aim of widening access
0:00:52 > 0:00:55to higher education through distance learning.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57It's based in Milton Keynes,
0:00:57 > 0:00:59although only a fraction of its students are lucky enough
0:00:59 > 0:01:03ever to go there, and alumni include the comedian and actor,
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Lenny Henry, the former Monkee, Micky Dolenz,
0:01:06 > 0:01:10and the Labour politicians, Vera Baird and John Reid.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Representing 168,000 students,
0:01:13 > 0:01:18and an institution which won this competition in 1984 and 1999,
0:01:18 > 0:01:22tonight's team has an average age of 52.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Let's meet them.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Hello, I'm Rob Mitchell, I live in Leicestershire,
0:01:26 > 0:01:29and I'm studying for an MSc in Maths.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31Hello, I'm Dale Crawford, I live in Shropshire,
0:01:31 > 0:01:33and I'm also reading Maths.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35And this is their captain.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Hello, I'm Sarah Banks from North Uist in the Western Isles,
0:01:38 > 0:01:40and I'm studying Maths.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Hello, I'm Mags Adamson, I'm from Gloucester,
0:01:42 > 0:01:45and I'm reading Music as part of an Open degree.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48APPLAUSE
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Now, playing them is the team representing
0:01:53 > 0:01:56the University of Salford, whom we haven't seen in this competition
0:01:56 > 0:02:01since 2002. Its university status dates back to 1967,
0:02:01 > 0:02:04granted following the Robbins Report of a few years earlier.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07Alumni include the actors Ben Kingsley
0:02:07 > 0:02:10and Christopher Eccleston, the weather presenter, John Hammond,
0:02:10 > 0:02:13and the comedians Jason Manford and Peter Kay.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15It can also claim the artist L S Lowry,
0:02:15 > 0:02:18who was a student in the university's earlier incarnation,
0:02:18 > 0:02:21and it's awarded an honorary doctorate to the poet,
0:02:21 > 0:02:24John Cooper Clarke, who's with them tonight in mascot form.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27Representing around 19,000 students,
0:02:27 > 0:02:31some of whom are based only a stone's throw from this studio,
0:02:31 > 0:02:34and with an average age of 38, let's meet the Salford team.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37How do?
0:02:37 > 0:02:41I'm Robert White, I'm from Halifax, and I'm taking Civil Engineering.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Hello, my name is Mark Sanders. I'm from London and Manchester.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47I'm doing an MSc in Information Systems Management.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49And this is their captain. Hi, I'm Bradley Wakefield.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51I'm from Bradford in West Yorkshire,
0:02:51 > 0:02:55and I'm studying for a master's in Aeronautical Engineering.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58Hi, my name's Peter Smith, I'm from Durham City,
0:02:58 > 0:03:00and I'm reading for a master's in Real Estate Management.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03APPLAUSE
0:03:06 > 0:03:08Well, the rules never change on this programme.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10Starter questions are worth ten points.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12They have to be answered individually on the buzzer.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Bonuses are worth 15 points, they're team efforts,
0:03:14 > 0:03:16and you can confer on those.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18There's a five-point penalty
0:03:18 > 0:03:20for incorrect interruptions to starter questions.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26"We have no conviction that this is the right point of view from
0:03:26 > 0:03:30"which to criticise the political situation at the current time."
0:03:30 > 0:03:34Written by T S Eliot in a 1944 rejection letter,
0:03:34 > 0:03:36as a director of Faber And Faber,
0:03:36 > 0:03:40these words refer to the "generally Trotskyite politics"
0:03:40 > 0:03:42of which novel by George Or...?
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Animal Farm. Correct.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48APPLAUSE
0:03:48 > 0:03:52Your bonuses are on varieties of apple, Salford.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55Tracing its origins to an apple pip planted
0:03:55 > 0:03:59by Mary Ann Brailsford in Nottinghamshire in 1809,
0:03:59 > 0:04:03which variety of cooking apple is named after the local butcher,
0:04:03 > 0:04:07who purchased the resulting tree in 1846?
0:04:07 > 0:04:10Bramley? Bramley, Bramley seedling, is correct.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14Introduced in 2004, which cross between a Braeburn and a Gala
0:04:14 > 0:04:18has a trademarked name meaning "hidden treasure" in Swahili?
0:04:22 > 0:04:25Any ideas?
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Sorry, pass. It's a Kanzi.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29And finally, which variety of apple was raised by
0:04:29 > 0:04:33a retired brewer in Colnbrook near Slough in 1825?
0:04:33 > 0:04:38It now accounts for over 50% of the UK acreage of dessert apples.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42Granny Smith's? No, it's a Cox's Orange Pippin.
0:04:42 > 0:04:43Ten points for this.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46The English natural philosopher, William Whewell,
0:04:46 > 0:04:48is generally credited with the introduction
0:04:48 > 0:04:53of what everyday term when, in an article of 1834, he observed
0:04:53 > 0:04:56"The want of any name by which we can designate the students
0:04:56 > 0:04:58"of the knowledge of the material world."
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Scientist? Correct.
0:05:02 > 0:05:06APPLAUSE
0:05:06 > 0:05:10Your bonuses, Open, are on an Elizabethan writer and dramatist.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Firstly, for five points,
0:05:12 > 0:05:15which dramatist is best known for his play The Shoemaker's Holiday,
0:05:15 > 0:05:18and for his collaborations with playwrights such as
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Thomas Middleton and John Webster?
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Middleton and Rowley, perhaps?
0:05:24 > 0:05:30Rowley is all I can think of.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33Rowley. No, it's Thomas Dekker.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36Secondly, in the 1601 play Poetaster,
0:05:36 > 0:05:39which playwright mocked Dekker, describing him as
0:05:39 > 0:05:43"a very simple, honest fellow, a dresser of plays"?
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Dekker responded by making him
0:05:45 > 0:05:48the subject of his comedy, Satiromastix.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Couldn't be Shakespeare that time, could it?
0:05:53 > 0:05:551601? 1601.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58Shakespeare? It's Ben Jonson.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Dekker's prose work, The Wonderful Year,
0:06:00 > 0:06:04is a vivid account of life in London during the plague of 1603.
0:06:04 > 0:06:08Some of its scenes appear to have been used over 100 years later
0:06:08 > 0:06:11by which author in the historical fiction,
0:06:11 > 0:06:14A Journal Of The Plague Year?
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Defoe. Defoe? Defoe.
0:06:16 > 0:06:17Daniel Defoe. Correct.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth,
0:06:21 > 0:06:25which 2005 British/American film concerns the alliance between
0:06:25 > 0:06:28a struggling Northampton shoe manufacturer and a dra...?
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Kinky Boots. Kinky Boots is right, yes.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35APPLAUSE
0:06:35 > 0:06:37These bonuses, Open, are on physics.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40The total angular momentum of an atom is determined
0:06:40 > 0:06:43by vector addition of its electron orbital
0:06:43 > 0:06:46and what other angular momentum?
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Er, it's... spin. Spin angular momentum.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Spin angular momentum. Spin is correct, yes.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55In 1992, what experiment confirmed the quantisation of electron spin
0:06:55 > 0:06:59through the use of a non-uniform magnetic field?
0:06:59 > 0:07:02It's named after two German scientists.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03Sten-Gerlach.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07Yes. Yes, it is. Sten-Gerlach. Nominate Mitchell.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Sten-Gerlach Experiment. Correct.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13In 1928, which English physicist produced a wave equation
0:07:13 > 0:07:15for the electron that combined relativity with quantum mechanics?
0:07:15 > 0:07:18What do you reckon? Dirac. Paul Dirac.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20Paul Dirac. Paul Dirac is correct.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22APPLAUSE We're going to take a picture round.
0:07:22 > 0:07:23For your picture starter,
0:07:23 > 0:07:25you'll see a map showing the location of a model village,
0:07:25 > 0:07:28that is, a village purpose-built to house workers.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Ten points if you can identify the village.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Saltaire. It is Saltaire, yes.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39APPLAUSE
0:07:39 > 0:07:41It was built 1851 by Titus Salt,
0:07:41 > 0:07:44to house the employees of his textile mills.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46Your picture bonuses show the locations
0:07:46 > 0:07:49of three more model villages around the UK.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Five points for each you can name.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Firstly, for five...
0:07:58 > 0:08:00It's Port Sunlight. Yeah, it is Port Sunlight.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03Port Sunlight. It is Port Sunlight, just down the road, that's right.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Built by the Lever Brothers for their soap factory. Secondly...
0:08:09 > 0:08:11That's... Is it Cumbernauld? It's near Glasgow.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Is it Cumbernauld? I thought it was New Lanark.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17No, that's south of Glasgow, it's not Cumbernauld. New Lanark?
0:08:17 > 0:08:18Go for it. New Lanark.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19New Lanark?
0:08:19 > 0:08:22New Lanark is correct, built by Robert Owen. And finally...
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Bournville. Bournville, yeah.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Bournville. Bournville by the Cadbury family, yes.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Glucinium is a former name of which toxic metallic element,
0:08:34 > 0:08:37found in emerald and aquamarine?
0:08:37 > 0:08:40First isolated in 1828, it is the lightest of the...
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Beryllium? Beryllium is correct, yes.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47APPLAUSE
0:08:47 > 0:08:50These bonuses are on Lord Chancellors of England.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Firstly, for five points, who succeeded Thomas Wolsey
0:08:52 > 0:08:57as Lord Chancellor in 1529, and was later executed by Henry VIII?
0:08:57 > 0:09:00In 2000, Pope John Paul II pronounced him
0:09:00 > 0:09:01the patron saint of politicians.
0:09:03 > 0:09:04Thomas More?
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Thomas More. Correct.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Who became Lord Chancellor in 1618?
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Two years later,
0:09:10 > 0:09:13he published the philosophical work known as The Novum Organum.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Don't know. That was Francis Bacon.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29And finally, which Lord Chancellor gives his name
0:09:29 > 0:09:32to a code of laws that restricted non-conformists?
0:09:32 > 0:09:37His daughter, Anne, married the future King James II in 1660.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Any idea? No. No, we don't know.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51It was Edward Hyde, the first Earl of Clarendon. Ten points for this.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55Who was the author of the work first published in 1861,
0:09:55 > 0:09:58the opening chapter of which book is entitled The Mistress?
0:09:58 > 0:10:02It contains advice on how much to pay domestic servants and how
0:10:02 > 0:10:04to make a will...
0:10:04 > 0:10:05Mrs Beaton.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Correct. APPLAUSE
0:10:08 > 0:10:12You get a set of bonuses, Salford, on Germanic tribes.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15Which Germanic tribe gives its name to the historic region that covers
0:10:15 > 0:10:19parts of Bavaria, the Black Forest, and the source of the River Danube?
0:10:19 > 0:10:22It settled there in the third century.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28I could say it's Bohemia, but I'm not sure. That's maybe Czech.
0:10:28 > 0:10:32That's Czech. We've got the Huns, the Visigoths, or the...
0:10:32 > 0:10:34Bohemians sounds good to me, Visigoths don't,
0:10:34 > 0:10:36but you're probably right.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38You reckon? No, that's more Czech.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41I think Bohemia's in Czechoslovakia. So, pass?
0:10:41 > 0:10:42I'd say it's Czech, but...
0:10:42 > 0:10:44Just guess. Bohemian?
0:10:44 > 0:10:45No, it's the Swabians.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49Secondly, which Germanic tribe flourished in central Germany
0:10:49 > 0:10:52until around the sixth century, and gives its name to the modern
0:10:52 > 0:10:54German state whose capital is Erfurt?
0:10:57 > 0:10:58Saxons? Saxons?
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Yeah. Er, Saxons?
0:10:59 > 0:11:01No, they're Thuringians.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03And finally, which Germanic tribe gave its name,
0:11:03 > 0:11:05both to a chain of islands
0:11:05 > 0:11:08on the north coast of the Netherlands and Germany,
0:11:08 > 0:11:10and to a common breed of dairy cattle?
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Frisians. Correct. APPLAUSE.
0:11:13 > 0:11:14Ten points for this.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16What six-letter word links two-word terms meaning
0:11:16 > 0:11:18"an assessment of how an intervention or policy
0:11:18 > 0:11:21"affects outcomes in academic publishing,
0:11:21 > 0:11:25"a measure of the citations a journal receives, and...?
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Impact. Impact is correct, yes.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31APPLAUSE That gives you the lead,
0:11:31 > 0:11:36and you get a set of bonuses on the US author and essayist, Joan Didion.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39Firstly, for five, Joan Didion's 1968 essay collection,
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Slouching Towards Bethlehem, takes its title from the final line
0:11:42 > 0:11:46of The Second Coming, a work of 1920 by which Irish poet?
0:11:48 > 0:11:51Yeats? W B... W B Yeats? Correct.
0:11:51 > 0:11:56The name of which 1979 work by Didion is often also given by
0:11:56 > 0:11:58a 1968 studio double album,
0:11:58 > 0:12:02whose songs include Back In The USSR and Sexy Sadie?
0:12:04 > 0:12:10THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:12:10 > 0:12:12What was the year he said?
0:12:12 > 0:12:131968. The White Album.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15The White Album. The White Album? Correct.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18And finally, which 1987 work by Didion
0:12:18 > 0:12:21is a study of Cuban exile and immigration?
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Its single word title is the name of a city in Florida.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27Is it Tampa?
0:12:27 > 0:12:31You've got Miami, Tampa, Boca Raton...
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Jacksonville? I don't know.
0:12:33 > 0:12:34Is Fort Lauderdale one?
0:12:34 > 0:12:36I'd go for Miami, that's the main city.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Miami? Correct. APPLAUSE
0:12:38 > 0:12:39Ten points for this.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43Born in Derbyshire in 1964, which sporting figure is credited
0:12:43 > 0:12:48with developing the improvement concept known as marginal gains?
0:12:48 > 0:12:50He was the British Cycling performance director
0:12:50 > 0:12:52for 11 years before...
0:12:52 > 0:12:53Dave Brailsford.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57Dave Brailsford is correct. APPLAUSE
0:12:58 > 0:13:00These bonuses are on presidents of the Royal Society.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02Which president of the Royal Society
0:13:02 > 0:13:05established that electrons are part of the atom?
0:13:05 > 0:13:07He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10J J Thomson? J J Thomson?
0:13:10 > 0:13:11It was, yes.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Which Australian-born president of the Royal Society contributed
0:13:14 > 0:13:17to the successful small-scale manufacture of penicillin?
0:13:17 > 0:13:19He was a joint recipient
0:13:19 > 0:13:23of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1945.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26It's not Fleming, is it? Was Fleming Australian? I don't know.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29He could have been, but... It's worth a guess. I don't know.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32Fleming? No, that was Sir Howard Florey, and finally,
0:13:32 > 0:13:36which recent president of the Royal Society won the Nobel Prize
0:13:36 > 0:13:39for Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for his work
0:13:39 > 0:13:41on the fish and yeast cell cycle?
0:13:44 > 0:13:46THEY CONFER QUIETLY Smith?
0:13:46 > 0:13:49Sorry, we've no idea. That's Sir Paul Nurse.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51We're going to take a music round now.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Ten points if you can identify the singer you hear.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59# Give me a kiss to... #
0:14:00 > 0:14:02Louis Armstrong. It is Louis Armstrong, yes.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05A Kiss To Build A Dream On. APPLAUSE
0:14:06 > 0:14:11He was one of several people sent overseas by the United States
0:14:11 > 0:14:14during the Cold War to try to encourage
0:14:14 > 0:14:19the more benign view of the United States by the propagation of jazz.
0:14:19 > 0:14:20For your music bonuses,
0:14:20 > 0:14:24I want you to identify three more of these so-called jazz ambassadors.
0:14:24 > 0:14:28In each case, five points if you can give me the name of the band leader.
0:14:28 > 0:14:29Firstly, for five...
0:14:29 > 0:14:33JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Benny Goodman. No, that was Dizzy Gillespie. Secondly...
0:14:58 > 0:15:02PIANO JAZZ PLAYS
0:15:04 > 0:15:08Take The "A" Train. Was that Glen Miller? Yeah.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Glen Miller. No, that's Duke Ellington. Take The "A" Train.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13And finally...
0:15:13 > 0:15:17UP-TEMPO JAZZ PLAYS
0:15:30 > 0:15:34Glen Miller. No, that was Benny Goodman. Sing Sing Sing.
0:15:34 > 0:15:35LAUGHTER Ten points for this.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38Both around 1,600 metres in height,
0:15:38 > 0:15:44Ben Lomond and Mount Ossa are among the highest points of which island?
0:15:44 > 0:15:45Slightly smaller than Scotland,
0:15:45 > 0:15:49it's named after the Dutch navigator who, in 1642,
0:15:49 > 0:15:52became the first European to sight it.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57Tasmania? Correct. APPLAUSE
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Your bonuses, Open University, are on constitutional legislation.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04In each case, give the decade in which
0:16:04 > 0:16:07the following acts were passed.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11Firstly, passed during the Exclusion Crisis, the Habeas Corpus Act,
0:16:11 > 0:16:15which defined the process for checking illegal imprisonment.
0:16:17 > 0:16:18The year?
0:16:18 > 0:16:19Way back, wasn't it?
0:16:21 > 0:16:24The decade. Any idea? Didn't that come in with Magna Carta?
0:16:25 > 0:16:26I don't know.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Round about 1680s. OK. 1680s?
0:16:29 > 0:16:321680s. No, it's the 1670s.
0:16:32 > 0:16:33Secondly, the Act Of Settlement,
0:16:33 > 0:16:36which provided for Protestant succession
0:16:36 > 0:16:38through the Hanoverian line.
0:16:38 > 0:16:39So that's 17...
0:16:41 > 0:16:4417... 1700s, it was united.
0:16:44 > 0:16:461700s? Yeah.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48The 1700s. 1700s? Yeah.
0:16:48 > 0:16:511700s. Correct, it was 1701.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54And, lastly, the second of two Parliament Acts,
0:16:54 > 0:16:58it reduced the time the House of Lords could delay legislation
0:16:58 > 0:16:59from two years to one.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04The 1910s? Is that more recent?
0:17:04 > 0:17:10I don't think so. 1918, it was maybe that. 1910s? Why not?
0:17:10 > 0:17:141910s. No, it was the 1940s. 1949, in fact.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Right, ten points for this.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20Described as a "modern Philip Sidney or Lord Byron,"
0:17:20 > 0:17:23which British officer organised the kidnap of the German commander
0:17:23 > 0:17:25in Crete in 1944?
0:17:25 > 0:17:27He later became a noted travel writer,
0:17:27 > 0:17:29with works including A Time Of Gifts...
0:17:31 > 0:17:34Leigh Fermor. Patrick Leigh Fermor's correct.
0:17:34 > 0:17:35APPLAUSE
0:17:35 > 0:17:38These set of bonuses are on opera. Get them, and you take the lead.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41In each case, listen to the description and name the composer
0:17:41 > 0:17:45of the opera and the Italian title by which it is best known.
0:17:45 > 0:17:50Firstly, an opera bouffe, first performed in Vienna in 1790,
0:17:50 > 0:17:54a somewhat formal translation of the title is Thus Do All Women.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Cosi Fan Tutte. Cosi Fan Tutte.
0:17:56 > 0:17:57And Mozart.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Cosi Fan Tutte, by Mozart. Correct.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Secondly, first performed in Venice in 1853,
0:18:03 > 0:18:06an opera based on a story by Dumas the younger.
0:18:06 > 0:18:11Its title is usually rendered in English as The Fallen Woman.
0:18:11 > 0:18:12La Traviata.
0:18:12 > 0:18:13La Traviata, and that's Verdi.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16La Traviata, Verdi. Correct.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20And finally, a one-act opera first performed in Rome in 1890.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Its title means rustic chivalry.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Cavalleria Rusticana. Mascagni. Oh, it's Mascagni.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Cavalleria Rusticana, by Mascagni. Correct.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34APPLAUSE Ten points for this.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37What term denotes the early form of writing
0:18:37 > 0:18:40particularly associated with the Sumerian civilisation?
0:18:40 > 0:18:41The term...
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Cuneiform. Cuneiform is correct, yes.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47APPLAUSE
0:18:47 > 0:18:51These bonuses are on a city in central Asia, Open University.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55Thought to be named after a third century Sassanid ruler, the city
0:18:55 > 0:19:00of Nishapur lies west of Mashhad in which present day country?
0:19:01 > 0:19:06Asia, so we're looking for something that stands out. Yeah.
0:19:07 > 0:19:12Kyrgyzstan? Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan. Mm? Kyrgyzstan.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Kyrgyzstan. No, it's Iran.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19Secondly, born in Nishapur in 1048, which astronomer and poet
0:19:19 > 0:19:21is best-known in the English-speaking world
0:19:21 > 0:19:23for his quatrains or rubaiyat,
0:19:23 > 0:19:26translated by Edward FitzGerald in 1859?
0:19:26 > 0:19:29Omar Khayyam. Correct.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Nishapur is also noted for which semi-precious stone?
0:19:32 > 0:19:35Its name derives from that of a country to the west of Iran,
0:19:35 > 0:19:38through which it was transported to the Mediterranean.
0:19:38 > 0:19:39Turquoise, Turkey?
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Yeah? Oh, could be, yeah.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Turquoise. Correct. APPLAUSE
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Ten points for this.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47The preface to which early 20th century stage work includes
0:19:47 > 0:19:50the assertion that, "It is impossible for an Englishman
0:19:50 > 0:19:55"to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."
0:19:56 > 0:19:59Pygmalion? Pygmalion, by Shaw, is correct.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01APPLAUSE
0:20:01 > 0:20:04These bonuses are on biology, Open University.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08Bacteria and eukaryote are among three fundamental groups
0:20:08 > 0:20:10sometimes given what taxonomic rank?
0:20:10 > 0:20:13The term derives ultimately from the Latin for "lord".
0:20:16 > 0:20:19Is that kingdom? Kingdom. Kingdom, isn't it? The top one.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22I'd say kingdom. Yeah. Kingdom. No, it's domains.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Secondly, what domain of life includes methane-producing
0:20:26 > 0:20:30single-celled prokaryotes distinct from bacteria?
0:20:30 > 0:20:31Archaea?
0:20:31 > 0:20:34Archaea. Archaea. Correct.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37One group of Archaea is categorised as halophilic,
0:20:37 > 0:20:41meaning they grow in or tolerate what conditions?
0:20:41 > 0:20:43Salt. Correct. We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:20:43 > 0:20:44APPLAUSE
0:20:44 > 0:20:46For your picture starter, you'll see an engraving.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49For ten points, I want you to identify both the artist
0:20:49 > 0:20:53who made it, and the biblical figure depicted in the centre of the piece.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00Albrecht Durer, and Satan? No.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Open University, one of you buzz.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Durer, and Jacob.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08No, it's Dore and Jacob,
0:21:08 > 0:21:11so we'll come to the picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Fingers on the buzzers. Another starter question.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18In Mathematics, negative e to the i pi is equal to what?
0:21:20 > 0:21:23Minus one? No, anyone want to buzz from the Open?
0:21:24 > 0:21:28Plus one. Exactly, yes. Plus one. APPLAUSE
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Right, following on from Dore's depiction of Jacob wrestling
0:21:31 > 0:21:33with the angel, which none of you managed to identify,
0:21:33 > 0:21:36we're going to see three more artistic interpretations
0:21:36 > 0:21:40of this theme. In each case, I want you to identify the artist.
0:21:40 > 0:21:41Firstly, this French artist.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47Poissant? Poissant, maybe. Is it French? French, yeah. Fragonard?
0:21:47 > 0:21:50I don't really know.
0:21:50 > 0:21:51I think it's older, though.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54I think it's older than Fragonard. Poissant. Don't know.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Poissant. No, that's Delacroix.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59Secondly, this artist, who's also French.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Might be Fragonard for that one. Fragonard? Might be Fragonard.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Fragonard. No, that's Claude Lorrain.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10And, finally, this Dutch artist.
0:22:13 > 0:22:14Rubens, perhaps.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Yeah, could be. Yeah.
0:22:18 > 0:22:19Rubens? Yeah, yeah.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23Rubens. No, that's Rembrandt. Ten points for this.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27Sir Robert May, Sir David King, Sir John Beddington and Sir Mark Walport
0:22:27 > 0:22:31are among recent holders of which specific government...?
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Government Scientific Adviser?
0:22:34 > 0:22:37Yes, it's the Government CHIEF Scientific Adviser, that's correct.
0:22:37 > 0:22:38APPLAUSE
0:22:38 > 0:22:39You get a set of bonuses this time
0:22:39 > 0:22:43on the films of the Czech-born British director, Karel Reisz.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Karel Reisz's first feature in 1960
0:22:45 > 0:22:49starred Albert Finney as a Midlands factory worker
0:22:49 > 0:22:52in an adaptation of which novel by Alan Sillitoe?
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Saturday Night And Sunday Morning.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Isn't it Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner?
0:22:56 > 0:22:59No, no, that was Tom Courtenay. OK, you're right. Saturday Night And...?
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Sunday Morning.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03Saturday Night And Sunday Morning. Correct.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07A biopic of 1968 by Reisz starred Vanessa Redgrave
0:23:07 > 0:23:10in the title role of which controversial dancer,
0:23:10 > 0:23:12born in California in 1877?
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Er... Isadora Duncan. Isadora Duncan.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17Isadora Duncan. Correct.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons,
0:23:19 > 0:23:24which film of 1981 by Reisz was based on a novel by John Fowles?
0:23:24 > 0:23:25The French Lieut... Yeah.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28The French Lieutenant's woman. Correct. Ten points for this.
0:23:28 > 0:23:29APPLAUSE
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Often encountered in 19th century literature,
0:23:31 > 0:23:36what word for the French for a pack or bundle indicates the garments
0:23:36 > 0:23:39and household items collected by a bride for her marriage?
0:23:41 > 0:23:44Dowry? No, you lose five points.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47In the dictionary, it appears between "trousers" and "trout".
0:23:47 > 0:23:49You may not confer! One of you may buzz.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Trousseau. Trousseau is correct, yes.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55APPLAUSE
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Right, you get a set of bonuses this time on religious terminology.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00In each case, give the one or two-word term
0:24:00 > 0:24:02from the words of the Catholic Encyclopaedia
0:24:02 > 0:24:04which relate to the following.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07All three begin with the same letter.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09Firstly, a two-word term.
0:24:09 > 0:24:14"The Blessed Virgin Mary was preserved exempt from all
0:24:14 > 0:24:15"stain of original sin."
0:24:21 > 0:24:22Any idea?
0:24:23 > 0:24:26Something to do with innocence. Er...
0:24:28 > 0:24:29Nominate Sanders.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Innocence? No, it's the Immaculate Conception.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Secondly, what word means
0:24:35 > 0:24:38"A remission of the temporal punishment due to sin,
0:24:38 > 0:24:40"the guilt of which has been forgiven?"
0:24:41 > 0:24:44It begins with I.
0:24:44 > 0:24:45Begins with I.
0:24:45 > 0:24:46No, that's not it.
0:24:48 > 0:24:49Absolution.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51It's got to begin with I.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53It begins with I. Yeah. Any idea?
0:24:53 > 0:24:57Just come up with something Catholic beginning with I.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00Sorry, we don't know. It's indulgence.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03And finally, what word means
0:25:03 > 0:25:06"A censure or prohibition, excluding the faithful
0:25:06 > 0:25:09"from participating in certain holy things?"
0:25:13 > 0:25:18Intervention? Could it be intervention? We could try, yeah.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Intervention? No, it's interdict.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23There are about three minutes to go, and ten points at stake for this.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26"The whole is other than the sum of the parts."
0:25:26 > 0:25:29Which school of psychology is based on...?
0:25:29 > 0:25:33Gestalt. Gestalt is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:25:34 > 0:25:38Your bonuses are on G20 member states in Asia, Open University.
0:25:38 > 0:25:42The President of which Asian G20 member state has a residence
0:25:42 > 0:25:46known in English as The Blue House, or House Of The Blue Roof Tiles?
0:25:49 > 0:25:52I'm guessing it's China, because blue is the emperor's colour.
0:25:52 > 0:25:53Probably.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Maybe. OK, yeah. China. No, it's South Korea.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00Secondly, a palace named Merdeka, meaning "independence,"
0:26:00 > 0:26:04is the residence of the President of which G20 member state?
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Malaysia, no.
0:26:09 > 0:26:10Japan, Indonesia.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12Who's won independence?
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Indonesia is Dutch, wasn't it? And they became independent. Worth a go.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Why not? Indonesia, is that one of the G20...? Yeah.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Indonesia. Correct.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23And finally, the residence of which Asian country's Prime Minister
0:26:23 > 0:26:25is known as the Kantei?
0:26:27 > 0:26:28Sounds like Japan.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Japan? Yeah. Must be Japan.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Japan. Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:26:34 > 0:26:38Atenolol, bisoprolol and propranolol
0:26:38 > 0:26:41are all examples of medication...
0:26:41 > 0:26:46Beta blockers. Correct. APPLAUSE
0:26:46 > 0:26:51Your bonuses, Open University, are on fear in the titles of novels.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55In each case, I want you to name the work from the description.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Firstly, resulting from a journalistic assignment
0:26:57 > 0:27:00to cover a motorcycle race in Nevada,
0:27:00 > 0:27:03a work of 1972 by Hunter S Thompson.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. That's correct.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Secondly, a 1914 work by Arthur Conan Doyle.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Part of the novel is a narrative by an undercover Pinkerton agent
0:27:13 > 0:27:14in the United States.
0:27:16 > 0:27:17Erm...
0:27:18 > 0:27:21It wasn't Fear Of The Key, was it? Is that...? What?
0:27:21 > 0:27:24Fear Of The Key? It's not The Sign Of Four?
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Come on, let's have it, please. I don't know, Fear Of The Key.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30Fear Of The Key. No, it's The Valley Of Fear.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33And finally, a novel of 1905 by E M Forster.
0:27:33 > 0:27:37Its title comes from an epigram in Alexander Pope's Essay On Criticism.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43No. No, nothing. No? No, we don't know.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46It's Where Angels Fear To Tread. Ten points for this.
0:27:46 > 0:27:50Tomanivi is the highest point and Viti Levu and Vanua Levu
0:27:50 > 0:27:53are the two largest of the numerous islands of which country?
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Its...
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Fiji. Fiji is correct. You get a set of bonuses...
0:27:57 > 0:28:00GONG SOUNDS And at the gong, the...
0:28:00 > 0:28:02APPLAUSE AND CHEERS ..University of Salford have 115,
0:28:02 > 0:28:04but the Open University have 210.
0:28:04 > 0:28:08APPLAUSE
0:28:08 > 0:28:09Well, bad luck, Salford.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12I think we'll probably be saying goodbye to you,
0:28:12 > 0:28:15but thank you very much for joi... You certainly lost. Yes.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16It's fair enough.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19And I don't think you're one of the four highest-scoring losing teams,
0:28:19 > 0:28:21so I think we probably will be saying goodbye to you,
0:28:21 > 0:28:23but thank you very much for joining us.
0:28:23 > 0:28:24And Open, congratulations to you.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26We shall look forward to seeing you in round two.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28Very good performance indeed,
0:28:28 > 0:28:30considering you hadn't even met before tonight.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33I hope you can join us next time, but until then,
0:28:33 > 0:28:35it's goodbye from Salford University.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37Goodbye. It's goodbye from the Open University.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40Goodbye. And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:29:10 > 0:29:11Start the clock. Name this show.
0:29:11 > 0:29:13BUZZER Top Class.
0:29:13 > 0:29:14What is it?
0:29:14 > 0:29:15BUZZER A new quiz show.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17Which channel is it on?
0:29:17 > 0:29:18BUZZER CBBC.
0:29:18 > 0:29:19Yes!
0:29:19 > 0:29:22The search for the UK's smartest school is on.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24It's a triumph!