0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:26 > 0:00:29APPLAUSE
0:00:29 > 0:00:34Hello. Welcome to the 2017-18 University Challenge.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37About 130 institutions applied to take part,
0:00:37 > 0:00:40and we'll be meeting 28 teams who acquitted themselves well
0:00:40 > 0:00:43on our test paper over the next few weeks.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46They do it for a few fleeting moments of fame,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49a year's stewardship of the University Challenge trophy,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52and whatever soggy crisps are left in the laughingly-named
0:00:52 > 0:00:54hospitality suite.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Each first round winner goes through to the next
0:00:56 > 0:00:59stage of the competition, and the four teams with the highest
0:00:59 > 0:01:03losing scores will also come back in play-offs.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Now, Edinburgh University is a 16th century foundation whose alumni
0:01:06 > 0:01:10have included the politicians Gordon Brown, Amber Rudd and Ruth Davidson,
0:01:10 > 0:01:14the philosopher David Hume, and the writer Sir Walter Scott.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Conan Doyle studied there and modelled Sherlock Holmes on
0:01:17 > 0:01:21Joseph Bell, a surgeon and lecturer in the university's medical school.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25More recently, its Roslin Institute saw the cloning of Dolly the Sheep,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28and in 2013 its Emeritus Professor, Peter Higgs,
0:01:28 > 0:01:31was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34With an average age of 22, and representing around
0:01:34 > 0:01:3736,000 students, let's meet the Edinburgh team.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Hi, I'm John, I'm from Edinburgh,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43and I'm studying Russian and History.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Hi, I'm Stanley, I'm from Edinburgh,
0:01:46 > 0:01:50and I'm studying for an MSc in Speech and Language Processing.
0:01:50 > 0:01:51And their captain...
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Hi, I'm Innis, I'm from Glasgow,
0:01:53 > 0:01:54and I'm doing a PhD in Chemistry.
0:01:56 > 0:02:00Hi, I'm Philippa, I'm from Oxford, and I'm studying Biology.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02APPLAUSE
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Ulster University's origins lie in the mid-19th century with
0:02:08 > 0:02:10the Belfast School of Design,
0:02:10 > 0:02:14and the present institution received its Royal Charter in 1984.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18With 27,000 students, it is Ireland's largest university,
0:02:18 > 0:02:21and the team's members are drawn from its four campuses
0:02:21 > 0:02:25in Belfast, Jordanstown, Coleraine, and Derry/Londonderry,
0:02:25 > 0:02:30where the university's conflict resolution centre, INCORE, is based.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33With a mixed blessing of being the most senior team in the
0:02:33 > 0:02:37competition, with an average age of 50, let's meet the Ulster team.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Hello, I'm Cathal McDaid from Buncrana in County Donegal,
0:02:41 > 0:02:44and I'm studying for a Masters in English Literature.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47Hi, I'm Kate Ritchie, I'm from Waringstown, County Armagh,
0:02:47 > 0:02:48and I'm studying Fine Art.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50And this is their captain...
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Hi, I'm Ian Jack. I'm originally from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire,
0:02:53 > 0:02:56and I'm reading for a PhD in Pharmacy.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59Hi, I'm Matthew Milliken, from Cumber in County Down,
0:02:59 > 0:03:03and I'm studying for a PhD in Education.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05APPLAUSE
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Right, the rules are the same as ever.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11Starter questions are solo efforts,
0:03:11 > 0:03:14they're worth 10 points, you answer them on the buzzer,
0:03:14 > 0:03:17and bonuses are worth 15 points, and you can confer on those.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19There's a five-point penalty
0:03:19 > 0:03:21if you interrupt a starter question incorrectly.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for 10.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28The white witch moth, at up to 30 centimetres,
0:03:28 > 0:03:32the large flying fox at 1.5 metres or more,
0:03:32 > 0:03:36the wandering albatross at 3.63 metres,
0:03:36 > 0:03:38and the Hughes H-4 Hercules Spruce Goose...
0:03:38 > 0:03:40BUZZ
0:03:40 > 0:03:41Wingspan.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Wingspan is correct, yes.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45APPLAUSE
0:03:45 > 0:03:49The first set of bonuses are on travel guides, Ulster.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51"All you've got to do is decide to go
0:03:51 > 0:03:54"and the hardest part is over - so go."
0:03:54 > 0:03:58This is the self-stated philosophy of which travel guide publisher,
0:03:58 > 0:04:01founded in the 1970s by Maureen and Tony Wheeler?
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Lonely Planet?
0:04:03 > 0:04:04Er, Lonely Planet? Lonely Planet?
0:04:04 > 0:04:06Rough Guide? Lonely Planet?
0:04:08 > 0:04:09Lonely Planet, maybe?
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Lonely Planet?
0:04:11 > 0:04:12Lonely Planet is right.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15Secondly, the choice of name for which series of
0:04:15 > 0:04:19boutique hotel guides was described by one of its founders as, quote,
0:04:19 > 0:04:22"A sort of two fingers up at the other guidebooks,
0:04:22 > 0:04:25"which were all a bit 'No sex, please, we're British'"?
0:04:28 > 0:04:30The, erm, the Blue Guide, is it?
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Which one? I never get to these places now.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Er, what do you think? No idea.
0:04:36 > 0:04:37The Blue Guide?
0:04:37 > 0:04:40No, it's certainly not, it's Mr Mrs Smith!
0:04:40 > 0:04:44And finally, founded in Germany in 1827, the name of which
0:04:44 > 0:04:48publisher is synonymous with early 20th century European travel?
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Nominate Milliken. Baedeker?
0:04:52 > 0:04:53Baedeker is correct, yes.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Right, 10 points for this.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58An Ancient Greek word meaning "a steersman"
0:04:58 > 0:05:01is the source of what five-letter prefix, now commonly used in
0:05:01 > 0:05:05words relating to computers and virtual reality,
0:05:05 > 0:05:09and specifically forming terms relating to the internet?
0:05:09 > 0:05:10BUZZ
0:05:10 > 0:05:11Cyber?
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Cyber is correct, yes.
0:05:13 > 0:05:14APPLAUSE
0:05:16 > 0:05:18These bonuses are on fate, fortune and destiny.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21In each case, identify the tragedy by Shakespeare
0:05:21 > 0:05:24in which the following lines occur.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Firstly - "An admirable evasion of whoremaster man,
0:05:27 > 0:05:31"to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!"
0:05:34 > 0:05:38Tragedies, tragedies... Tragedies. Lear?
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Sure? King Lear?
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Correct.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Secondly - "Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well
0:05:45 > 0:05:48"when our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us
0:05:48 > 0:05:50"there's a divinity that shapes our ends.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52"Rough-hew them how we will."
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Julius Caesar, or... Will we try that, then? Yeah.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Julius Caesar.
0:06:01 > 0:06:02No, it's Hamlet.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05And finally - "Men at some time are masters of their fates.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08"The fault is not in our stars but in ourselves,
0:06:08 > 0:06:10"that we are underlings."
0:06:11 > 0:06:13So, it's tragedies...
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Troilus...
0:06:19 > 0:06:20Troilus and Cressida?
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Troilus and Cressida.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26No, that's Cassius to Brutus in Julius Caesar. 10 points for this...
0:06:26 > 0:06:27"If I had been rich,
0:06:27 > 0:06:31"I probably would not have devoted myself to mathematics."
0:06:31 > 0:06:33These are the words of which French scientist,
0:06:33 > 0:06:36the author of Analytic Mechanics?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38A contemporary of Laplace and Lavoisier,
0:06:38 > 0:06:42he gives his name to an equilibrium point in astronomy.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46BELL RINGS
0:06:46 > 0:06:47Lagrange?
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Lagrange is correct, yes.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52APPLAUSE
0:06:52 > 0:06:54So your first set of bonuses, Edinburgh,
0:06:54 > 0:06:56are on Britain and Australia.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Firstly for five, in 1908
0:06:58 > 0:07:02the Summer Olympics were held in London for the first time.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06In which year did Melbourne become the first Australian city to
0:07:06 > 0:07:07host the Summer Olympics?
0:07:09 > 0:07:12'60s or something, or...? I'm not sure. Not sure.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15Try '60, yeah. Erm, shall we just try...?
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Do you have any idea? I don't know. 1960.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19No, it was 1956.
0:07:19 > 0:07:24On February 14th, 1966, Australia replaced pounds, shillings
0:07:24 > 0:07:27and pence with dollars and cents.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29To the nearest year, how many years
0:07:29 > 0:07:33elapsed before the introduction of decimal currency in the UK?
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Well, that was what...? '70... It was 1973, wasn't it?
0:07:35 > 0:07:38I thought '71. Oh, go with '71. So, five, then.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39Five.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43Correct. How many full decades passed between the appointment
0:07:43 > 0:07:47of Margaret Thatcher and Julia Gillard as the first
0:07:47 > 0:07:50women to become Prime Minister of their respective countries?
0:07:50 > 0:07:53So, '79, and then probably about 2009, roughly.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55I would say three decades. Three decades.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Did he ask decades or years? Decades. Decades, right.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Full decades. Three.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03Three is correct. 10 points for this.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06In the 1870s, the Governor-General of India, Lord Lytton, described
0:08:06 > 0:08:11which country as "an earthen pipkin between two metal pots"?
0:08:11 > 0:08:14British forces made two interventions there...
0:08:14 > 0:08:15BELL RINGS
0:08:15 > 0:08:16Afghanistan.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Correct.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19APPLAUSE
0:08:21 > 0:08:24Your bonuses this time are on biochemistry.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27Firstly, which molecule is the basic building block for
0:08:27 > 0:08:29fatty acid synthesis?
0:08:29 > 0:08:34Er, glycerol? Yeah. Is that...? That's right. Is that right?
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Glycerol.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38No, it's acetyl coenzyme A. Oh, OK, fair enough.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42And secondly, the first reaction of the fatty acid biosynthetic
0:08:42 > 0:08:48pathway involves the carboxylation of acetyl-CoA to form malonyl-CoA.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Which B vitamin acts as a coenzyme in this reaction?
0:08:51 > 0:08:56I really don't know. Erm, do you have any ideas? No.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59It's down to guessing. 12, erm... I don't know.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01B12.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03No, it's B7, Biotin.
0:09:03 > 0:09:07The elongation of the fatty acid chain to 16 or 18 carbons
0:09:07 > 0:09:10occurs with the help of the protein cofactor ACP.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13For what do the letters ACP stand?
0:09:13 > 0:09:17Erm, is it going to be acetyl-Co-something?
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Protein...! It doesn't sound right.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20Erm... Sorry, don't know.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Shall we just guess something? Go for it.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Acetyl-colon-estuary protein?
0:09:24 > 0:09:26No, no, it's acyl carrier protein.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28OK. Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30For your picture starter, you'll see a map
0:09:30 > 0:09:34marked with a simplified route of an outbound notable expedition.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37For 10 points, I want you to name either of the people
0:09:37 > 0:09:40principally noted for making this journey in the 1830s.
0:09:42 > 0:09:43BUZZ
0:09:43 > 0:09:44Charles Darwin.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47Charles Darwin, and he was on the ship the Beagle, of course,
0:09:47 > 0:09:49captained by Robert Fitzroy.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53So following on from the Beagle's expedition to the Galapagos,
0:09:53 > 0:09:55your picture bonuses are three more maps
0:09:55 > 0:09:58showing the routes of significant expeditions.
0:09:58 > 0:09:59Again, I want you to name
0:09:59 > 0:10:02the person or persons noted for making the journey.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Firstly, for five, I want the group of people
0:10:05 > 0:10:07who set out on this journey in 1846.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10Was it the...
0:10:10 > 0:10:13settlers for the Wild West, for the West? What were they?
0:10:13 > 0:10:16What were the people called? People heading to...
0:10:16 > 0:10:181846. So...
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Klondikers, maybe? The Klondikers?
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Klondikers.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26No, those are the Donner Party, or the Donner-Reed Party.
0:10:26 > 0:10:30Secondly, who led this expedition, which ended in mutiny in 1611?
0:10:31 > 0:10:34Erm, what's the name of that bay?
0:10:34 > 0:10:37Hudson Bay. Henry Hudson. Hudson.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39So, Hudson? Hudson?
0:10:39 > 0:10:40It is Henry Hudson, yes.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43And finally, I want the person famous for this journey,
0:10:43 > 0:10:45which began in 1577.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Oh, er... Is it, er, right round the world, that's Magellan, isn't it?
0:10:52 > 0:10:54No, it's from Britain, though. 1577...
0:10:54 > 0:10:56Sir Francis Drake. Francis Drake.
0:10:56 > 0:10:57Sir Francis Drake.
0:10:57 > 0:10:58It was Sir Francis Drake, yes.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Right, 10 points for this.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Paolo Veronese, Tintoretto, and the British artist
0:11:02 > 0:11:07Winifred Knights are among those who've painted which Biblical feast?
0:11:07 > 0:11:09BELL RINGS
0:11:09 > 0:11:10The Last Supper?
0:11:10 > 0:11:12I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15It is the occasion of the first miracle attributed to Jesus
0:11:15 > 0:11:17in St John's Gospel. BUZZ
0:11:17 > 0:11:19Wedding Day at Cana.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21The Wedding at Cana is correct, yes.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23APPLAUSE
0:11:24 > 0:11:26Ulster, these bonuses are on works composed
0:11:26 > 0:11:28while their author was in prison.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31In each case, name the work and the author.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34Firstly, a Latin work translated into English by both
0:11:34 > 0:11:36Alfred the Great and Elizabeth I,
0:11:36 > 0:11:40and written when its author was imprisoned by Theodoric the Great.
0:11:44 > 0:11:45No.
0:11:45 > 0:11:46No, no idea.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Sorry, no idea.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51It's The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55Secondly, an English prose narrative printed by Caxton in 1485
0:11:55 > 0:11:57and believed to have been written by
0:11:57 > 0:12:00an incarcerated Warwickshire knight before 1470.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04Was that, erm...?
0:12:04 > 0:12:08No, no, no, erm, Miller's Tale and all that.
0:12:08 > 0:12:09Geoffrey Chaucer?
0:12:09 > 0:12:12Was it Geoffrey Chaucer? Chaucer?
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Is it the author? Geoffrey Chaucer.
0:12:15 > 0:12:16Geoffrey Chaucer.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18No, it's Malory's Morte d'Arthur.
0:12:18 > 0:12:23And finally, an English prose work published posthumously in 1905.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26It takes its title from the first two words of a psalm in the Vulgate.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:12:31 > 0:12:33A psalm in the Vulgate.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35When did Wilde die?
0:12:35 > 0:12:36De Profundis?
0:12:36 > 0:12:40Is that it? De Profundis? Try it anyway.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42De Profundis. By Oscar Wilde? Yeah.
0:12:42 > 0:12:43Yes, good.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45OK, 10 points for this.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48The wide tract of forest and saltwater swamp known as
0:12:48 > 0:12:51the Sundarbans forms the lower part of the delta of which river?
0:12:51 > 0:12:54BELL RINGS
0:12:54 > 0:12:55The Ganges Brahmaputra?
0:12:55 > 0:12:57The Ganges is correct.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59APPLAUSE
0:13:00 > 0:13:02Right, these bonuses are on Mexico.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07Coahuila, the third largest Mexican state,
0:13:07 > 0:13:10is about twice the size of Scotland and similar in size to which
0:13:10 > 0:13:14Asian country, one of the most densely populated in the world?
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Bangladesh. Bangladesh. Yeah? Er, Bangladesh?
0:13:16 > 0:13:19Correct. What is the second largest Mexican state?
0:13:19 > 0:13:21It shares its name with a major desert
0:13:21 > 0:13:24and is bounded to the west by the Gulf of California.
0:13:25 > 0:13:26Do you have an idea?
0:13:26 > 0:13:30Sono... Sonora? Yeah, that's it. Is that, yeah, Sonora? Try it.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33Is that how you say it? I think that's right.
0:13:33 > 0:13:34OK, er, Sonora.
0:13:34 > 0:13:35Sonora is correct.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39And finally, situated between Sonora and Coahuila,
0:13:39 > 0:13:41what is the largest state of Mexico?
0:13:41 > 0:13:42It's about the size of the UK.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Is it Chihuahua? That was one that I had in my head.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Yeah, come on, let's see. I'll try it. Chihuahua.
0:13:50 > 0:13:51Correct. 10 points for this.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53In mathematics, what six-letter term is
0:13:53 > 0:13:57defined as the attribute of being either odd or even?
0:13:57 > 0:14:01In economics, the same term is denoted by one of the letters
0:14:01 > 0:14:05in the abbreviation of the theory of exchange rates known as PPP.
0:14:05 > 0:14:06BELL RINGS
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Parity.
0:14:08 > 0:14:09Parity is correct, yes.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11APPLAUSE
0:14:12 > 0:14:15You get a set of bonuses, Edinburgh, on football and poetry.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19In 2010, who wrote the poem Achilles,
0:14:19 > 0:14:22after David Beckham sustained an injury to his Achilles tendon
0:14:22 > 0:14:25that kept him out of that year's World Cup?
0:14:25 > 0:14:26Is it Pam Ayres or something?
0:14:26 > 0:14:29It's the kind of thing she might write about. Is it Carol Ann Duffy?
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Does she not write about...? I think it might be, unless she's dead.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33Do you want to try that?
0:14:33 > 0:14:36She isn't dead, no, you're OK. Carol Ann Duffy.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39Correct. Which Scottish poet tells the story of a declining football
0:14:39 > 0:14:43club in his 1993 collection Nil Nil?
0:14:43 > 0:14:47His other works include God's Gift To Women and The Book Of Shadows.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49No idea, sorry.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Erm...
0:14:51 > 0:14:52The Book Of Shadows...
0:14:52 > 0:14:55Did you have an idea? The year, what was the year?
0:14:55 > 0:14:59Oh, I can't even remember. '93, '93. Sorry, I don't know. Fielding?
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Come on. Fielding.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02No, it's Don Paterson.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05Finally, who said, "I liked the idea that poetry was unpopular,
0:15:05 > 0:15:08"that it was like being the goalkeeper..."?
0:15:08 > 0:15:11In 2015, he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17I have really no idea, sorry, I don't know any poetry.
0:15:17 > 0:15:18Any living poet?
0:15:18 > 0:15:21I don't think there's any point, we'll just pass. Sorry.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23That was Simon Armitage. OK.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27For your music starter you're going
0:15:27 > 0:15:30to hear a version of a theme song of a television show.
0:15:30 > 0:15:3210 points if you can tell me its composer.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36JAUNTY FLUTE TUNE PLAYS
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Howard Goodall. Yes.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49The theme from Blackadder.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54So, Ulster, you get a set of music bonuses.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Three more of Howard Goodall's themes for television.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59This time for the points I'll need the title of the programme
0:15:59 > 0:16:01each was written for.
0:16:01 > 0:16:02Firstly for five...
0:16:02 > 0:16:09# The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want... #
0:16:09 > 0:16:12It's the Vicar of Dibley.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14It is. Very enjoyable. Secondly.
0:16:16 > 0:16:22CHORAL SINGING
0:16:22 > 0:16:24THEY CONFER
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Mr Bean?
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Mr Bean. Mr Bean is correct.
0:16:30 > 0:16:31And finally...
0:16:31 > 0:16:33DRUM INTRO
0:16:33 > 0:16:36# It's cold outside... #
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Red Dwarf. Red Dwarf is right.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42APPLAUSE
0:16:42 > 0:16:4310 points for this.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46After a long-legged and long-necked bird,
0:16:46 > 0:16:50what name is given to the dwarf shrub Vaccinium Oxycoccus?
0:16:50 > 0:16:51Originally known...
0:16:53 > 0:16:55Crane. No. You lose five points.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59Originally known in England as marshwort or fenberry.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03It is cultivated commercially for its dark red acidic fruit.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10Cranberry. Correct.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17Right, these bonuses are on animals whose common name closely
0:17:17 > 0:17:19resembles their scientific name,
0:17:19 > 0:17:23for example the Western gorilla known as Gorilla gorilla.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26In each case identify the animal from the description.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29A single word answer is sufficient in each case.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32Firstly, the largest land mammal of North America,
0:17:32 > 0:17:34hunted almost to extinction in the 19th century?
0:17:34 > 0:17:36I need a precise five-letter name.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38THEY CONFER
0:17:38 > 0:17:40It's five letters.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42What's another... Bison? Bison.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Bison. Bison is correct.
0:17:45 > 0:17:49Secondly, a common green lizard of Central and South America,
0:17:49 > 0:17:52mostly herbivorous, they may grow to over two metres in length?
0:17:56 > 0:17:59How close is chameleon? I don't think they are really...
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Try it. Shall we just try that?
0:18:01 > 0:18:03Chameleon. No, it's iguana.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07And finally, a medium-sized cat with distinctive tufted ears,
0:18:07 > 0:18:10native to the forests of Europe and Asia?
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Lynx? Yeah. Lynx.
0:18:12 > 0:18:13Lynx. Lynx is correct.
0:18:13 > 0:18:1510 points for this.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17Born in 1772, the utopian thinker
0:18:17 > 0:18:21Charles Fourier made many unusual predictions,
0:18:21 > 0:18:26among them that, once the rain of universal harmony began,
0:18:26 > 0:18:29the seas would lose their salinity...
0:18:31 > 0:18:34Lemonade? ..and turn into pink lemonade. You are right.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40Right, your bonuses this time, Edinburgh, are on physics.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44In each case I will read a fragment of the full
0:18:44 > 0:18:47definition of an SI base unit, simply name the unit, please.
0:18:47 > 0:18:52Firstly, between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the
0:18:52 > 0:18:53caesium 133 atom.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Seconds, yeah?
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Second. Correct.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01Next, a force equal to 2 x 10 to the -7 Newton per meter of length.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07THEY CONFER
0:19:07 > 0:19:11There is a very discrete number for base units, I can't really think.
0:19:11 > 0:19:12Erm... Ampere perhaps.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Ampere.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Ampere is correct.
0:19:16 > 0:19:21And finally, 1/683 watt per steradian.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Probably...be candela.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26The others don't seem to have much relevance.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Candela. Correct.
0:19:28 > 0:19:3010 points for this, that gives you the lead.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35In biology, what term describes a solution that has the same
0:19:35 > 0:19:39osmotic pressure as another particular solution...
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Isotonic.
0:19:41 > 0:19:42Correct.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47These bonuses could let you retake the lead.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51They are on the US Nobel laureate Jody Williams.
0:19:51 > 0:19:56Jody Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999 for her
0:19:56 > 0:20:00work in the ICBL, the international campaign to ban what?
0:20:00 > 0:20:01Erm...
0:20:01 > 0:20:03Land mines!
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Land mines. Correct.
0:20:05 > 0:20:10From 1986 to 1992, Williams was deputy director of a medical
0:20:10 > 0:20:14aid organisation in which Central American country?
0:20:16 > 0:20:19THEY WHISPER
0:20:21 > 0:20:22El Salvador.
0:20:22 > 0:20:23Correct.
0:20:23 > 0:20:28In 1999, 120 states signed a convention banning the use,
0:20:28 > 0:20:33production, sale and stockpiling of antipersonnel mines.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36After which Commonwealth capital is it named?
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Commonwealth capital?
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Yeah, try that.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Ottawa. Ottawa is correct.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47That gives you the lead. 10 points for this.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Literally meaning to show a fig,
0:20:49 > 0:20:53what word for a type of informer in ancient Athens entered
0:20:53 > 0:20:57English in the 16th century with the meaning of a false accuser?
0:20:57 > 0:21:00It has since come to mean a servile flatterer...
0:21:02 > 0:21:03Sycophant.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Sycophant is correct, yes.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08You retake the lead
0:21:08 > 0:21:12and your bonuses this time are on a Yorkshire landowning family.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16Born in 1826, Sir Tatton Sykes is described as an inveterate
0:21:16 > 0:21:18restorer of what?
0:21:18 > 0:21:21He spent much of his own money on projects for which
0:21:21 > 0:21:25his employees included GE Street and Temple Moore.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28I'd be guessing, I don't know.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Any sensible guesses? Furniture? No. Erm...
0:21:31 > 0:21:35Castles. No, they were churches, mainly in the East Riding.
0:21:35 > 0:21:40Sykes's son Mark was a diplomat who give his name, in part, to
0:21:40 > 0:21:45a secret accord of 1916 concerning the dismemberment of which Empire?
0:21:45 > 0:21:46The Ottoman.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Ottoman. Correct.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52Sir Mark Sykes's son Christopher produced the authorised biography
0:21:52 > 0:21:55of which major novelist, born in London in 1903?
0:21:55 > 0:21:59Born 1903?
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Somerset Maugham, I don't know.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Do you have any idea? No.
0:22:07 > 0:22:08Let's have it, please.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Somerset Maugham.
0:22:10 > 0:22:11No, it's Evelyn Waugh.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Right, we're going to take a second picture round.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16For your picture starter you'll see a photograph of an actor,
0:22:16 > 0:22:1810 points if you can give me his name, please.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Yul Brynner.
0:22:21 > 0:22:22Yul Brynner is correct.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24APPLAUSE
0:22:27 > 0:22:30No-one is saying anything.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Yul Brynner was one of a select few to have won both a Tony
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Award and an Academy Award for playing the same role on stage
0:22:36 > 0:22:38and then on screen.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40For your bonuses, three more actors who achieved the same
0:22:40 > 0:22:43distinction, five points for each you can name.
0:22:43 > 0:22:44Firstly...
0:22:46 > 0:22:49THEY CONFER
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Joel somebody... Oh...
0:22:54 > 0:22:56I can't remember his name. No.
0:22:56 > 0:22:57Joel Edwards.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59It was Joel Grey, I'm afraid.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02Secondly, the actor on the right in this picture.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06A Man For All Seasons.
0:23:06 > 0:23:07No, no...
0:23:07 > 0:23:12THEY WHISPER
0:23:13 > 0:23:15Richard Harris.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17No, that's Paul Schofield.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21And finally, the actor on the right here.
0:23:21 > 0:23:22Rex Harrison.
0:23:22 > 0:23:23Rex Harrison.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Rex Harrison, indeed. He played Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29Right, 10 points at stake for this.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Known in English by a two-word name, which historical German
0:23:33 > 0:23:38province was divided between the Soviet Union and Poland in 1945?
0:23:38 > 0:23:39It's capital was...
0:23:41 > 0:23:43East Prussia.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45East Prussia is correct, yes.
0:23:45 > 0:23:51You take the lead and your bonuses are on the films of Martin Scorsese.
0:23:51 > 0:23:56Which 1974 comedy drama concerns a widow who heads to California
0:23:56 > 0:23:59with her young son in search of a better life
0:23:59 > 0:24:02but ends up waitressing in Arizona?
0:24:02 > 0:24:05Ellen Burstyn won the Best Actress Academy Award for her
0:24:05 > 0:24:06title performance.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08I don't know. Does anyone know?
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Quiz Show, did you say? Yeah.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Erm...Quiz Show.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16No, it's Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Secondly, in Scorsese's controversial film adaptation of
0:24:19 > 0:24:22Nikos Kazantzakis's book, The Last Temptation Of Christ,
0:24:22 > 0:24:24which British singer songwriter
0:24:24 > 0:24:26and actor played Pontius Pilate?
0:24:26 > 0:24:29No idea. Does anyone have any ideas?
0:24:29 > 0:24:30Pass. It was David Bowie.
0:24:30 > 0:24:35Finally, Scorsese's first film to be shot in 3D,
0:24:35 > 0:24:38what is the title of the 2011 story of a boy who
0:24:38 > 0:24:41lives in the Gare Montparnasse in Paris in the 1930s?
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Hugo? Are we happy with that? Yep.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Hugo. Hugo is correct.
0:24:45 > 0:24:4610 points for this.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48APPLAUSE
0:24:48 > 0:24:51Minor characters in which Victorian novel include the auctioneer
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Borthrop Trumbull, Mrs Cadwallader,
0:24:54 > 0:24:56wife of the Rector of Tipton and Freshitt,
0:24:56 > 0:25:00the Tory lawyer Frank Hawley and the lady's maid Tantrip?
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Pickwick Papers.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Anyone like to buzz from Ulster?
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Middlemarch.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Middlemarch is correct, yes.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19These bonuses could give you the lead again.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22They are on words that contain the Latin word "ergo"
0:25:22 > 0:25:23meaning therefore.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26For example, undergod, overgoes and ergophobia.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30In each case give the word from the definition.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32First an arbour or covered walk
0:25:32 > 0:25:36formed of horizontal trellis work supported on columns.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38Pergola.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Pergola. Correct.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44Secondly, one who squanders money on possessions,
0:25:44 > 0:25:46a wastrel or spendthrift.
0:25:53 > 0:25:54Sorry, we don't have it.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56That's a scattergood.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58And finally, a disease of cereal grasses,
0:25:58 > 0:26:01it's particularly associated with rye.
0:26:02 > 0:26:03Ergotism.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Yes, ergotism, correct.
0:26:05 > 0:26:0710 points for this.
0:26:07 > 0:26:08The reign of which British monarch
0:26:08 > 0:26:11saw the publication of Robinson Crusoe
0:26:11 > 0:26:13and Gulliver's Travels, the death of Sir Isaac Newton
0:26:13 > 0:26:17and the bursting of the South Sea Bubble?
0:26:17 > 0:26:19James II.
0:26:19 > 0:26:20No, anyone like to buzz from Ulster?
0:26:20 > 0:26:22You may not confer.
0:26:23 > 0:26:24George II.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27No, it was George I. 10 points for this.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29What Greek derived term
0:26:29 > 0:26:33describes a fast heart rate above 100 beats a minute?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Tachycardia.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Tachycardia is correct.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41These bonuses could give you the lead again.
0:26:41 > 0:26:45They are on the seven summits as defined by the Italian
0:26:45 > 0:26:47mountaineer Reinhold Messner.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50That is the highest mountain on each continent.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53In each case, name the peak from it's geographical coordinates.
0:26:53 > 0:26:58First, 3.06 degrees south, 37.36 degrees east.
0:26:58 > 0:26:59Kilimanjaro.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02Kilimanjaro. Correct.
0:27:02 > 0:27:07Secondly, 32.65 degrees south, 70.02 degrees west.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Aconcagua. Correct.
0:27:10 > 0:27:16Finally, 27.99 degrees north and 89.93 degrees east.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Everest.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Correct. 10 points for this.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas, only
0:27:23 > 0:27:26"I don't know exactly what they are."
0:27:26 > 0:27:29In Through The Looking Glass, Alice says this of which poem?
0:27:33 > 0:27:34Jabberwocky.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Jabberwocky is correct. GONG!
0:27:37 > 0:27:41APPLAUSE
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Who knows, if we'd had another five minutes you might have
0:27:44 > 0:27:46gone on to answer all the bonuses correctly
0:27:46 > 0:27:48and take the lead again, but 160,
0:27:48 > 0:27:51I would guess, is probably one of the highest-losing scores
0:27:51 > 0:27:53and you will probably come back, I would have
0:27:53 > 0:27:56thought, for one of the play-offs, so congratulations to you.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58Edinburgh, it was pretty tight. Yeah.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02Nip and tuck all the way, I thought, but you did it in the end,
0:28:02 > 0:28:05congratulations. I hope you can join us next time for another first-round
0:28:05 > 0:28:09match, but until then it's goodbye from Ulster University... Goodbye.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12It's goodbye from Edinburgh University... Goodbye.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16APPLAUSE