0:00:17 > 0:00:20APPLAUSE
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. It's the last of the first-round matches tonight.
0:00:31 > 0:00:3513 teams have gone through to the next stage of the competition,
0:00:35 > 0:00:39and whichever of tonight's two is ahead at the gong will join them.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42If the losers are to have a chance of staying alive,
0:00:42 > 0:00:44they'll need a score of 140 or more.
0:00:44 > 0:00:49Merton College, Oxford was founded in 1264 by Walter de Merton,
0:00:49 > 0:00:52the Bishop of Rochester, and was the first college in Oxford
0:00:52 > 0:00:55to receive a charter as a self-governing body.
0:00:55 > 0:01:00Its Mob Quadrangle is said to be the oldest court in the university,
0:01:00 > 0:01:03and its library, dating from 1373, claims to be
0:01:03 > 0:01:07the world's oldest academic library in continuous daily use.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10Sir Christopher Wren and Sir Gilbert Scott have contributed
0:01:10 > 0:01:12to its architecture.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Its fellows have included JRR Tolkien,
0:01:15 > 0:01:17and alumni include the poet TS Eliot,
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Sir Thomas Bodley, the founder of the Bodleian library,
0:01:20 > 0:01:22and the writer Max Beerbohm,
0:01:22 > 0:01:25whose time there inspired his novel Zuleika Dobson.
0:01:25 > 0:01:30With an average age of 23, representing around 580 students,
0:01:30 > 0:01:32let's meet the Merton team.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34Hello, my name's Edward Thomas.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37I'm originally from Oxford, though I now live in Kent,
0:01:37 > 0:01:39and I'm reading ancient and modern history.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Hello, I'm Alexander Peplow. I'm from Amersham in Buckinghamshire,
0:01:44 > 0:01:47and I'm reading for a master's in medieval studies.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49And this is their captain.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Hello, I'm Leonie Woodland. I'm originally from Cambridge,
0:01:51 > 0:01:53and I'm studying physics.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57Hello, my name's Akira Wiberg. I'm from Sweden and Japan,
0:01:57 > 0:02:01and I'm reading for a doctorate in molecular and cellular medicine.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05APPLAUSE
0:02:06 > 0:02:10Now, King's College London was founded in 1828 under George IV
0:02:10 > 0:02:12as a Church of England alternative
0:02:12 > 0:02:15to the more secular University College London
0:02:15 > 0:02:17which had been set up a couple of years earlier.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20The Duke of Wellington's support for the institution
0:02:20 > 0:02:24was one of the reasons he and the Earl of Winchelsea fought a duel
0:02:24 > 0:02:26in 1829, which they both survived,
0:02:26 > 0:02:29and which the college still commemorates every March.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32The college remains part of the University of London,
0:02:32 > 0:02:36although, since 2007, it's awarded degrees in its own right.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40Famous King's people include the poet John Keats,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, Joseph Lister,
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Florence Nightingale and, more recently, Archbishop Desmond Tutu
0:02:47 > 0:02:50and the theoretical physicist Peter Higgs.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54With an average age of 40 and representing nearly 29,000 students,
0:02:54 > 0:02:57let's meet the King's - London team.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Hello, I'm Marta. I'm from Lisbon in Portugal,
0:03:00 > 0:03:04and I'm studying for a postgraduate certificate in academic practice.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Hello, I'm Richard Senior. I'm originally from Lincolnshire,
0:03:07 > 0:03:11and I'm studying for an MA in 18th-century studies.
0:03:11 > 0:03:12And this is their captain.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15Hello, I'm Caroline Spearing. I'm from London,
0:03:15 > 0:03:19and I'm doing a PhD in 17th-century Latin poetry.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23Hi, I'm Lochlan Pryer, I'm from the Wirral, and I'm studying geography.
0:03:23 > 0:03:28APPLAUSE
0:03:28 > 0:03:30OK, the rules are the same as ever.
0:03:30 > 0:03:3310 points for starters, 15 for bonuses.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38"A revolution is not a bed of roses.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future
0:03:41 > 0:03:43"and the past."
0:03:43 > 0:03:48Who said that in a speech of 1961 on the second anniversary
0:03:48 > 0:03:51of the revolution that made him Prime Minister of his country?
0:03:51 > 0:03:55He became President in 1976 and died...
0:03:56 > 0:03:58- Fidel Castro.- Yes.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00APPLAUSE
0:04:02 > 0:04:05You get a set of bonuses, the first set, Merton.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07They're on world religions.
0:04:07 > 0:04:12In which present-day country is the city of Nankana Sahib,
0:04:12 > 0:04:15the birthplace of Guru Nanak, the first guru of the Sikhs?
0:04:15 > 0:04:20That's in the Punjab, but I don't know if it's Pakistan or India.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Could be either. Punjab in Pakistan is bigger. Shall we go for that...?
0:04:23 > 0:04:25Pakistan.
0:04:25 > 0:04:26Correct.
0:04:26 > 0:04:32Born in about the sixth century BCE in Bihar state in north-east India,
0:04:32 > 0:04:35Mahavira is a major figure in which religion?
0:04:35 > 0:04:39It advocates nonviolence in all circumstances.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41- Jainism.- Jainism, yeah.- Jainism.
0:04:41 > 0:04:42Correct.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46Which religious teacher is believed to have been born in Lumbini,
0:04:46 > 0:04:48a grove near the southern border of Nepal,
0:04:48 > 0:04:52in about the sixth or fifth century BCE?
0:04:52 > 0:04:53- Is that Siddhartha? - Yeah, the Buddha.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55- The Buddha, yeah. - The Buddha.
0:04:55 > 0:04:56The Buddha is right.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59Ten points for this. In taxonomy, human beings
0:04:59 > 0:05:01are classed in the genus Homo.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04In which order is this genus placed?
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Primates.
0:05:07 > 0:05:08Primates is right.
0:05:08 > 0:05:09APPLAUSE
0:05:11 > 0:05:14You get three questions on the Fifa World Cup.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18In the 2002 World Cup, which unfancied African team beat
0:05:18 > 0:05:21the holders France in the opening match?
0:05:21 > 0:05:26France were later eliminated in the group stage after losing to Denmark.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28It's a former colony in West Africa.
0:05:28 > 0:05:34It's...either Cameroon or...
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Ivory Coast. Try that...?
0:05:36 > 0:05:38- I don't know.- Try Ivory Coast...
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Ivory Coast.
0:05:40 > 0:05:41No, it was Senegal.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44In the 2010 tournament, which European team beat
0:05:44 > 0:05:47the holders Italy 3-2 in their final group match,
0:05:47 > 0:05:49knocking them out of the competition?
0:05:50 > 0:05:52France or Germany.
0:05:52 > 0:05:57- You sure it's not the Netherlands? - No, I don't think so.- OK.- Go for...
0:05:57 > 0:05:59- Who won it in 2010?- I don't know.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03Go for Fra... Germany.
0:06:03 > 0:06:04Germany.
0:06:04 > 0:06:05No, it's Slovakia.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08And finally, in the 2014 World Cup, the holders, Spain, were
0:06:08 > 0:06:11knocked out in the group stage after losing twice.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Name either of the teams that beat them.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20- That might be the Netherlands.- Try.
0:06:20 > 0:06:21The Netherlands.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Correct. The other one was Chile.
0:06:24 > 0:06:2510 points for this. Who's this?
0:06:25 > 0:06:28Born in the West Indies in the 1750s,
0:06:28 > 0:06:30he played a major role in the American Revolution
0:06:30 > 0:06:33and became the first Secretary of the United States...
0:06:34 > 0:06:36Alexander Hamilton.
0:06:36 > 0:06:37Correct.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39APPLAUSE
0:06:41 > 0:06:44These bonuses, Merton, are on diseases named after
0:06:44 > 0:06:47the location in which they were first identified.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Firstly for five points, having a high mortality rate,
0:06:49 > 0:06:54which acute febrile viral disease is named after the village
0:06:54 > 0:06:58in north-eastern Nigeria where it was first reported in 1969?
0:06:59 > 0:07:02- That's Lassa fever.- Lassa fever.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03Correct.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06Named after a major East African landform,
0:07:06 > 0:07:09which viral fever can be transmitted to humans by mosquitoes
0:07:09 > 0:07:13or by the tissues or secretions of infected animals?
0:07:13 > 0:07:18- Zika, I think, is from Uganda... - So, like the West Nile virus...?
0:07:18 > 0:07:21- But he said East African.- Yeah.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Oh, I suppose that could be West Nile...
0:07:25 > 0:07:27- Is Zika landform?- No, it's not. Go for West Nile.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29The West Nile virus.
0:07:29 > 0:07:30No, it's the Rift Valley fever.
0:07:30 > 0:07:35And finally, which haemorrhagic fever is caused by a filovirus
0:07:35 > 0:07:37named after the river in the northern Congo Basin
0:07:37 > 0:07:39where it first emerged in 1976?
0:07:39 > 0:07:43- Ebola.- Ebola.- Correct.
0:07:43 > 0:07:44We're going to take a picture round.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47For your picture starter, you're going to see the first four lines
0:07:47 > 0:07:51of one of Shakespeare's sonnets with two words missing.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54For 10 points, give me both those missing words.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Minds, finds.
0:08:00 > 0:08:01Correct.
0:08:01 > 0:08:02APPLAUSE
0:08:04 > 0:08:07For your picture bonuses, three more of Shakespeare's sonnets with
0:08:07 > 0:08:10a pair of rhyming words removed.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13Again, please give me both missing words for the points.
0:08:13 > 0:08:14Firstly...
0:08:16 > 0:08:18- Sun...- Sun, dun. Yeah?
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Sun and dun.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Sun and dun is correct, yes. Secondly...
0:08:28 > 0:08:32I would say find and wind would be a good guess.
0:08:32 > 0:08:33Find and wind.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35No, it's behold and cold.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37And finally...
0:08:39 > 0:08:43- Eyes... Hang on. Eyes and cries. - Eyes and cries.
0:08:43 > 0:08:44Eyes and cries.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Correct. Right, 10 points for this.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51Originally introduced in a series of children's books from the 1940s,
0:08:51 > 0:08:54which group of characters reappeared in 2016...?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58The Famous Five.
0:08:58 > 0:08:59The famous five is correct, yes.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02APPLAUSE
0:09:02 > 0:09:06You get a set of bonuses on events of 1907, this time, Merton.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10Thought to be the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book,
0:09:10 > 0:09:13a copy of the Diamond Sutra was discovered in a cave
0:09:13 > 0:09:16in Western China in 1907.
0:09:16 > 0:09:23It dates to 868 in the latter part of which Chinese dynasty?
0:09:23 > 0:09:24Is that Song? Tang?
0:09:24 > 0:09:27HE WHISPERS
0:09:27 > 0:09:32- Sui... I mean, I think Song.- Song. - Song.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34The Song dynasty.
0:09:34 > 0:09:35No, it's the Tang dynasty.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Secondly, under the suzerainty of the Russian Empire,
0:09:38 > 0:09:40which territory became the first in Europe to hold
0:09:40 > 0:09:43a parliamentary election by universal suffrage
0:09:43 > 0:09:46and with women candidates?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48It became independent in 1918.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Finland. Finland, yeah.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52Finland.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Correct. Along with New Zealand,
0:09:54 > 0:09:58which colony became a dominion of the British Empire in 1907?
0:09:58 > 0:10:00It joined Canada in 1949.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04That's Newfoundland and Labrador. Newfoundland.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Newfoundland.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Newfoundland is correct, yes.
0:10:08 > 0:10:09Right, 10 points for this.
0:10:09 > 0:10:14In mathematics, what alternative name is given to the box principle
0:10:14 > 0:10:19first stated in 1834 by the German Peter Dirichlet...?
0:10:21 > 0:10:22The pigeonhole principle.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Correct. APPLAUSE
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Merton College, you get another set of bonuses,
0:10:29 > 0:10:31this time on an expression.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34The words "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth"
0:10:34 > 0:10:36appear which book of the Old Testament?
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Often cited as an example of wisdom literature,
0:10:39 > 0:10:42it presents an explanation of the existence of evil
0:10:42 > 0:10:45and suffering in the presence of God.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Is that Job?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- I was going to guess Job.- Yeah.
0:10:49 > 0:10:50Job.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52Job is right.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55The Skin Of Our Teeth is a stage work by which US author
0:10:55 > 0:11:00also noted for the 1927 novel The Bridge Of San Luis Rey?
0:11:01 > 0:11:04- Any idea what this is?- No.- No.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08- No.- We don't know.
0:11:08 > 0:11:09That's Thornton Wilder.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12"Insofar as we are the heirs of Greece and Rome,
0:11:12 > 0:11:14"we got through by the skin of our teeth."
0:11:14 > 0:11:17Which broadcaster and art historian wrote those words
0:11:17 > 0:11:22in the opening chapter of the 1969 work Civilisation?
0:11:22 > 0:11:23Kenneth Clark.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Correct. 10 points at stake for that.
0:11:25 > 0:11:32Which peninsula extends south about 1,000 kilometres to Cape Piai,
0:11:32 > 0:11:34the southernmost point of the Asian continent?
0:11:36 > 0:11:37The Malay Peninsula.
0:11:37 > 0:11:38Correct.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41APPLAUSE
0:11:41 > 0:11:44These bonuses are on serial publications
0:11:44 > 0:11:46of the 19th century, Merton.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49Established in 1928, which political magazine borrowed its title
0:11:49 > 0:11:54from an 18th-century publication by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele?
0:11:54 > 0:11:57- Is that The Spectator? - I was thinking The Spectator.- Yeah.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59The Spectator?
0:11:59 > 0:12:00Correct.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03The Tracts For The Times were a series of 90 works published
0:12:03 > 0:12:09between 1833 and 1841 by the members of which theological group named
0:12:09 > 0:12:11after the city with which its founders were closely associated?
0:12:11 > 0:12:14- Oxford Movement.- Yeah.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16The Oxford Movement.
0:12:16 > 0:12:17Correct.
0:12:17 > 0:12:22Surviving for only four issues between January and April 1850,
0:12:22 > 0:12:25The Germ was a periodical established by which group
0:12:25 > 0:12:28of English painters, poets and critics?
0:12:28 > 0:12:31- ALL:- The Pre-Raphaelites. - The Pre-Raphaelites.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32Correct.
0:12:32 > 0:12:3410 points for this. What initial letter
0:12:34 > 0:12:38links a unit of length equivalent to one tenth of a nautical mile,
0:12:38 > 0:12:44a unit of radioactivity replaced in 1975 by the becquerel,
0:12:44 > 0:12:48and the SI units of electrical charge and luminous intensity?
0:12:50 > 0:12:51C.
0:12:51 > 0:12:52C is correct, yes.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Right, these bonuses are on astronomy, Merton College.
0:12:59 > 0:13:04Firstly, for five points, which comet bears the designation 1P
0:13:04 > 0:13:07to indicate that it was the first periodic comet
0:13:07 > 0:13:09to have its period established?
0:13:09 > 0:13:11- That Halley's?- Halley's Comet.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Halley's Comet.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14Correct.
0:13:14 > 0:13:19Which two surnames designate comets including 118P, 129P
0:13:19 > 0:13:22and the periodic comet that hit Jupiter in 1994?
0:13:26 > 0:13:29- Hale-Bopp...I suppose.- Hale-Bopp.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32No, it's Shoemaker and Levy.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34Since its mission ended in 2016
0:13:34 > 0:13:37in a gentle collision with the comet's nucleus,
0:13:37 > 0:13:43which European Space Agency probe is now part of the periodic comet 67P?
0:13:43 > 0:13:46So, that must be Philo. Philo.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48No, it was Rosetta.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51We're going to take a music round now. For your music starter,
0:13:51 > 0:13:52you'll hear a piece of popular music.
0:13:52 > 0:13:5510 points if you can give me the name of the artist.
0:13:57 > 0:14:01SNARE DRUM ROLL
0:14:01 > 0:14:03- # War, huh - Yeah
0:14:03 > 0:14:06# What is it good for?
0:14:06 > 0:14:08- # Absolutely - Nothing
0:14:08 > 0:14:09# Uh-huh.. #
0:14:11 > 0:14:13T. Rex.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16No. Anyone like to buzz from King's? You can hear a little more.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18- #- ..huh - Yeah
0:14:18 > 0:14:20# Was it good for?
0:14:20 > 0:14:22- # Absolutely - Nothing
0:14:22 > 0:14:23# Say it again, y'all
0:14:23 > 0:14:27- # War, huh - Good God!
0:14:27 > 0:14:29# What is...? #
0:14:29 > 0:14:30Is it Tom Jones?
0:14:30 > 0:14:34No, it's not. It's Edwin Starr, his War.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38So we'll take the music bonuses in a moment or two. 10 points for this.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42The Moth, The Poker Night and Blanche's Chair In The Moon were
0:14:42 > 0:14:45among the titles given by Tennessee Williams
0:14:45 > 0:14:47to early drafts of which...?
0:14:48 > 0:14:50- A Streetcar Named Desire.- Correct.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52APPLAUSE
0:14:54 > 0:14:55That means you get the music bonuses.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58Edwin Starr's War was banned from broadcast on BBC radio
0:14:58 > 0:15:00during the Gulf War.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03For your music bonuses, three more songs banned by the BBC
0:15:03 > 0:15:05during that period.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08Five points for each artist you can name. Firstly...
0:15:08 > 0:15:10# Help me make the
0:15:10 > 0:15:14# Most of freedom and of pleasure... #
0:15:14 > 0:15:15Tears For Fears.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18It is. Everybody Wants To Rule The World. Secondly...
0:15:19 > 0:15:22# Strumming my pain with his fingers... #
0:15:22 > 0:15:24Roberta Flack.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26It is, yes, Killing Me Softly With His Song.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28What a ridiculous organisation it is!
0:15:28 > 0:15:29LAUGHTER Finally...
0:15:31 > 0:15:33# Saturday, Saturday, Saturday
0:15:33 > 0:15:36# Saturday, Saturday, Saturday... #
0:15:36 > 0:15:37Elton John.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40It is Elton John, Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting.
0:15:40 > 0:15:44APPLAUSE Right, another starter question.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48In the variant of football called futsal,
0:15:48 > 0:15:52originating in South America, each team has several substitutes
0:15:52 > 0:15:56and a maximum of how many players on the field, including the goalkeeper?
0:15:59 > 0:16:00Five.
0:16:00 > 0:16:01Five is right, yes.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04APPLAUSE
0:16:04 > 0:16:07Three questions on the British physicist and engineer Hertha Ayrton
0:16:07 > 0:16:09for your bonuses.
0:16:09 > 0:16:14In 1902, Ayrton published a standard work on what form of lighting?
0:16:14 > 0:16:18Its name comes from the shape formed by the high-density current
0:16:18 > 0:16:21between two separate conductors.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- Arc.- Arc.
0:16:24 > 0:16:25Correct.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28"The police soon traced me to the house of my friend,
0:16:28 > 0:16:31"Mrs Hertha Ayrton, and the place straightaway
0:16:31 > 0:16:34"became a besieged fortress."
0:16:34 > 0:16:39Which campaigner wrote that in an autobiographical work of 1914?
0:16:39 > 0:16:41THEY WHISPER
0:16:41 > 0:16:43- Emmeline Pankhurst.- Correct.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47When a young woman in the 1870s, Ayrton was an inspiration for
0:16:47 > 0:16:50the character of Mirah Cohen in Daniel Deronda,
0:16:50 > 0:16:51a novel by which author?
0:16:51 > 0:16:53George Eliot.
0:16:53 > 0:16:54Correct.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Ten points for this. William Cowper's lines,
0:16:56 > 0:17:00"I am monarch of all I survey, my right, there is none to dispute,"
0:17:00 > 0:17:04described which man during his time living alone on a remote island
0:17:04 > 0:17:05in the South Pacific?
0:17:07 > 0:17:08Alexander Selkirk.
0:17:08 > 0:17:09Correct.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12APPLAUSE
0:17:12 > 0:17:15You get a set of bonuses this time on the Cold War, Merton College.
0:17:15 > 0:17:21Often referring to the thaw in US-Soviet relations from the 1960s,
0:17:21 > 0:17:26what French term means the easing of strained relations between states?
0:17:26 > 0:17:27Detente.
0:17:27 > 0:17:28Correct.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32A form of detente, what German term is used of the approach of
0:17:32 > 0:17:34the West German leader Willy Brandt
0:17:34 > 0:17:37who sought to improve ties with East Germany?
0:17:37 > 0:17:39Gestalt.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41No, it's Ostpolitik.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44Meaning "openness", what Russian term denotes the practice
0:17:44 > 0:17:49initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved greater openness
0:17:49 > 0:17:51in debate and in the reporting of events.
0:17:51 > 0:17:52Glasnost.
0:17:52 > 0:17:53Glasnost is correct.
0:17:53 > 0:17:5410 points for this.
0:17:54 > 0:17:59A 60km canal linking which two major rivers enables ships
0:17:59 > 0:18:01from the Caspian Sea to reach the Black Sea?
0:18:01 > 0:18:04The rivers are the two longest of European Russia.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10The Volga and the Don.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Correct.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14APPLAUSE
0:18:14 > 0:18:19These bonuses are on two-letter ISO codes for languages.
0:18:19 > 0:18:24Firstly, which major language shares a two-letter ISO abbreviation
0:18:24 > 0:18:27with a major sporting body founded in 1863?
0:18:27 > 0:18:32Its recent executives have included Greg Dyke and Adam Crozier.
0:18:32 > 0:18:33That's the FA.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35What's that...?
0:18:35 > 0:18:37- ..a language?- FA.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40And French is FR.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43- Farsi maybe.- Yeah.- Try that.
0:18:43 > 0:18:44Farsi.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Farsi, or Persian is correct, yes.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Which major language shares a two-letter abbreviation
0:18:49 > 0:18:52with the canton of Zurich in Switzerland?
0:18:54 > 0:18:58- Zulu? Zulu?- Try that.
0:18:58 > 0:18:59Zulu.
0:18:59 > 0:19:00No, it's Chinese.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04And finally, the two-letter ISO abbreviation of which major language
0:19:04 > 0:19:08corresponds to the postal abbreviation of the US state
0:19:08 > 0:19:10whose capital is Honolulu?
0:19:10 > 0:19:12So HI. So...
0:19:12 > 0:19:15- Hindu?- Hindi.- Hindi.
0:19:15 > 0:19:16Hindi is right.
0:19:16 > 0:19:1810 points for this. Which character
0:19:18 > 0:19:22in Melville's Moby-Dick shares his name with a biblical outcast...?
0:19:24 > 0:19:27- Ahab. - No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29..the son of Abraham and Hagar?
0:19:29 > 0:19:32The character is the only one to survive...
0:19:32 > 0:19:33Ishmael.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Indeed. "Call me Ishmael."
0:19:35 > 0:19:37APPLAUSE
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Your bonuses are on the cavalier poets, Merton College.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Having been imprisoned for presenting a Royalist petition
0:19:44 > 0:19:48to a hostile House of Commons, which poet wrote the lines,
0:19:48 > 0:19:53"Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage."
0:19:53 > 0:19:56THEY CONFER
0:19:59 > 0:20:01THEY CONFER
0:20:07 > 0:20:08We don't know.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10That's Richard Lovelace.
0:20:10 > 0:20:14And secondly, the Cavalier poet and dramatist Sir John Suckling,
0:20:14 > 0:20:17who was a gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I,
0:20:17 > 0:20:20is credited with the invention of which card game?
0:20:22 > 0:20:24- Bridge?- Bridge?
0:20:24 > 0:20:26- I thought that was way later.- OK...
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Or contract bridge is way later, anyway.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31- Whist?- Yeah. Whist.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33No, it's cribbage.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36And finally, which cleric wrote the poem which opens,
0:20:36 > 0:20:38"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may."
0:20:38 > 0:20:41- That's Robert Herrick, I think. - Yeah.- Robert Herrick.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42Correct.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45We're going to take a picture round. For your picture starter,
0:20:45 > 0:20:47you're going to see a photograph.
0:20:47 > 0:20:4910 points if you can identify the subject.
0:20:51 > 0:20:52Mata Hari.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54It is Mata Hari, yes.
0:20:54 > 0:20:55APPLAUSE
0:20:56 > 0:21:01Executed in 1917 on charges of espionage for Germany
0:21:01 > 0:21:03during the First World War.
0:21:03 > 0:21:04For your bonuses, three more figures
0:21:04 > 0:21:06known for their involvement in spy craft.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Five points for each you can identify.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Firstly...
0:21:12 > 0:21:15- That is Francis Walsingham, I think. - Francis Walsingham.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17It is Francis Walsingham, yes.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19He was Elizabeth I's spymaster, of course.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Secondly...
0:21:21 > 0:21:22..Harriet Tubman.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24- But was she a spy?- No.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27THEY CHUCKLE
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Just pass? We don't know.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33That's Harriet Tubman, who was a scout for the Union Army
0:21:33 > 0:21:34during the American Civil War.
0:21:34 > 0:21:35And finally...
0:21:37 > 0:21:40- Oh, is that one of the Cambridge Five?- Yeah.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44- Blunt?- Philby, or...Blunt? - I don't know.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48- Shall we go for Blunt?- OK.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Blunt.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52No, that is Kim Philby.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55Part of that same ring, of course, but that was Philby.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57Right, 10 points for those.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01Answer promptly. In degrees, what is the value of two Pi radians?
0:22:03 > 0:22:04360.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Correct.
0:22:06 > 0:22:07APPLAUSE
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Three questions on playing the violin for your bonuses, this time.
0:22:12 > 0:22:13When playing the violin,
0:22:13 > 0:22:17what technical term denotes the rapid repetition of a single note?
0:22:17 > 0:22:19It's usually represented in musical notation
0:22:19 > 0:22:23by three thick parallel diagonal lines.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26- That's tremolo.- Tremolo.- Yeah. Tremolo.
0:22:26 > 0:22:27Correct.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31Meaning hammered, what French term denotes a percussive strokes
0:22:31 > 0:22:34produced by increasing the finger pressure of the index finger
0:22:34 > 0:22:37on the bow at the beginning of each note?
0:22:37 > 0:22:38Male?
0:22:38 > 0:22:41THEY CONFER
0:22:41 > 0:22:44Oh, hammered in French... Yeah, something like that.
0:22:44 > 0:22:45Malle?
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Male.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49No, it's martele.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52And finally, what Italian musical direction indicates that
0:22:52 > 0:22:55the strings of the instrument should be plucked with the fingers
0:22:55 > 0:22:57rather than played with the bow?
0:22:57 > 0:22:58Pizzicato.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Correct. Another starter question.
0:23:00 > 0:23:04Gower, Cannock Chase, the Northumberland Coast and Quantocks
0:23:04 > 0:23:08were, in the 1950s, among the first regions of England and Wales
0:23:08 > 0:23:10to be given what designation?
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16That is correct, yes.
0:23:16 > 0:23:17APPLAUSE
0:23:19 > 0:23:21These bonuses are on income tax, Merton College.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25During which decade did William Pitt the Younger introduce
0:23:25 > 0:23:29income tax as a temporary measure to cover the cost of war with France?
0:23:29 > 0:23:31THEY CONFER
0:23:31 > 0:23:34- 1790 rings a bell. - Was there a war...?
0:23:34 > 0:23:36THEY CONFER
0:23:36 > 0:23:39..French Revolutionary Wars, so if it's actually Napoleonic Wars...
0:23:39 > 0:23:40- OK.- Well, actually...
0:23:40 > 0:23:43I don't know, somewhere, somewhere in my guts, I've got 1790s.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46- Yeah, go for 1790s.- 1790s.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Correct.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50As part of a programme of free trade and tariff reduction,
0:23:50 > 0:23:54which Prime Minister reintroduced income tax in 1842?
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Is that going to be...Peel? Or...?
0:24:00 > 0:24:01Peel.
0:24:01 > 0:24:02It was.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04In the People's Budget of 1909,
0:24:04 > 0:24:08which Chancellor brought in income tax with varying rates
0:24:08 > 0:24:10and a supertax for higher levels of income?
0:24:10 > 0:24:12- Lloyd George.- Correct.
0:24:12 > 0:24:1510 points for this. Dating from the 1620s,
0:24:15 > 0:24:18to which post was Judith Weir appointed...?
0:24:20 > 0:24:23- The Master of the King's Music. - Yes, or Queen's Music.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25APPLAUSE
0:24:25 > 0:24:28Your bonuses this time are on stately homes.
0:24:28 > 0:24:33Begun in 1687, which stately home in the Derbyshire Dales is
0:24:33 > 0:24:35the principal seat of the Dukes of Devonshire?
0:24:37 > 0:24:40SHE STUTTERS
0:24:40 > 0:24:42They're called... Ch...Chatsworth.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45- Chatsworth. - That's in Derbyshire, yeah.
0:24:45 > 0:24:46- Chatsworth.- Correct.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50Which restored medieval castle in West Sussex is
0:24:50 > 0:24:52the seat of the Dukes of Norfolk?
0:24:52 > 0:24:55- Is that Arundel Castle? - Arundel Castle.- Arundel.
0:24:55 > 0:24:56Correct.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59Rebuilt from a Cistercian abbey in the 18th century,
0:24:59 > 0:25:03which stately home is the seat of the Dukes of Bedford?
0:25:03 > 0:25:06Um... Abbey...
0:25:06 > 0:25:08HE WHISPERS
0:25:08 > 0:25:10It's...
0:25:10 > 0:25:12No...
0:25:13 > 0:25:16- I think we'd better have an answer, please.- We don't know.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18That's Woburn Abbey. 10 points for this.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Lying mainly in the constellations
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Dorado and Tucana respectively,
0:25:22 > 0:25:26the two major irregular companion galaxies in the Milky Way
0:25:26 > 0:25:28are known by what...?
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Magellanic Clouds.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Magellanic Clouds is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:25:33 > 0:25:35You're probably pronouncing it better than I am.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Right, you get a set of bonuses on
0:25:37 > 0:25:40the tag lines of British films, King's.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44Released in 2000, which British animated film featured the voices
0:25:44 > 0:25:50of Mel Gibson, among others, and had the tag line "Escape or die frying"?
0:25:50 > 0:25:52THEY CONFER
0:25:52 > 0:25:53- Chicken Run.- Chicken Run.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Correct.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58Secondly, "A romantic comedy with zombies" is the tag line
0:25:58 > 0:26:03of which 2004 British film directed and co-written by Edgar Wright?
0:26:03 > 0:26:06- Shaun Of The Dead.- Shaun Of The Dead? Shaun Of The Dead.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07Correct.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10Which 1987 cult black comedy follows
0:26:10 > 0:26:13the adventures of two unemployed actors, and had the tag line
0:26:13 > 0:26:16"If you don't remember the '60s, don't worry, neither did they."
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Withnail And I.
0:26:18 > 0:26:19That's correct.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22APPLAUSE
0:26:22 > 0:26:23Another study question.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26What surname links Jacob, a deceased character
0:26:26 > 0:26:29in a short novel of 1843, with Bob...?
0:26:29 > 0:26:31Marley.
0:26:31 > 0:26:32Marley is right, yes.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34APPLAUSE
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Your bonuses are on tea, King's.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39In each case, identify the tea-growing area
0:26:39 > 0:26:40from the description.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44Firstly, a state of north-eastern India with its capital at Dispur.
0:26:44 > 0:26:45Darjeeling.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47No, it's Assam.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Secondly, an upland area in Tamil Nadu state.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Its name means "blue mountains".
0:26:54 > 0:26:56- Nilgiri.- Correct.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00And finally, a city in West Bengal about 500km north of Kolkata.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Its name means "place of the thunderbolt".
0:27:07 > 0:27:08- Darjeeling.- Correct.
0:27:08 > 0:27:1010 points for this.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12In the standard model of
0:27:12 > 0:27:15particle physics, what general name is given to particles
0:27:15 > 0:27:17with half-integer spin...?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20- Fermion.- Fermions is correct, yes.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23APPLAUSE
0:27:23 > 0:27:26Your bonuses this time are on pairs of titles that differ
0:27:26 > 0:27:27only in their final word.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30For example, Life Of Pi and Life Of Brian.
0:27:30 > 0:27:34In each case, listen to the description and give both titles.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Firstly, two novels published in 1957,
0:27:36 > 0:27:39one by Jack Kerouac, the other by Nevil Shute.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41GONG
0:27:41 > 0:27:43APPLAUSE
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Well, they are, of course, On The Road and On The Beach.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49But, King's, I could hear you sighing with frustration
0:27:49 > 0:27:51when they just beat you to the buzzer so often.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54But Merton, that was a terrific performance from you,
0:27:54 > 0:27:55very well done,
0:27:55 > 0:27:58we shall look forward to seeing you in round two of the competition.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00Thank you for joining us. Thank you both for joining us.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03I hope you can join us next time when we'll have the first
0:28:03 > 0:28:06of the play-offs between the highest-scoring losers.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08But until then, it's goodbye from King's College London.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12- It's goodbye from Merton College, Oxford. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17APPLAUSE