0:00:18 > 0:00:21- APPLAUSE - University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:33Hello, 28 teams entered this contest and 12 have already made their exit.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36Only two places remain in the second round
0:00:36 > 0:00:39and playing for those are four institutions
0:00:39 > 0:00:43who lost their first round matches, but did so with scores
0:00:43 > 0:00:45that were close to, or even exceeding,
0:00:45 > 0:00:48the winning totals in other fixtures.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50They all know that teams who've survived
0:00:50 > 0:00:53by this apparent act of clemency in the past
0:00:53 > 0:00:55have gone on to be series champions.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57So, they've got to everything to play for.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59Now, the team from the University of Ulster
0:00:59 > 0:01:01lost to Edinburgh University in their first round match,
0:01:01 > 0:01:04despite being in the lead for the first 10 minutes
0:01:04 > 0:01:07and on level pegging for much of the remainder.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10They did well in diverse areas such as the music of Howard Goodall,
0:01:10 > 0:01:14the Nobel Peace Prize, and mountain peaks.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16They also picked up a highly commended
0:01:16 > 0:01:20in the Yul Brynner look-alikes stakes and were on 160 at the gong,
0:01:20 > 0:01:23losing by a mere five points.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25With an average age of a sprightly 50,
0:01:25 > 0:01:27let's meet the Ulster team again.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Hello, I'm Cal McDaid from Buncrana in County Donegal
0:01:30 > 0:01:33and I'm studying for a Masters in English literature.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Hi, I'm Kate Ritchie from the Waringstown, County Armagh,
0:01:36 > 0:01:38and I'm studying fine art.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41- And this is their captain. - Hi, I'm Iain Jack.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43I'm originally from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire
0:01:43 > 0:01:46and I'm reading for a PhD in pharmacy.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Hi, I'm Matthew Milliken, I'm from Comber in County Down
0:01:49 > 0:01:52and I'm studying for a PhD in education.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Their opponents from St Anne's College, Oxford
0:01:59 > 0:02:01lost to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
0:02:01 > 0:02:05despite it being a pretty close match up to the halfway stage,
0:02:05 > 0:02:08when they allowed Corpus to run riot with the buzzer.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11They still managed to chip in with what they knew about
0:02:11 > 0:02:15sustainable development, the Meiji Restoration and electronegativity,
0:02:15 > 0:02:18and were on 135 points at the gong.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20The team have an average age of 22,
0:02:20 > 0:02:23which you don't need a degree in mathematics to work out
0:02:23 > 0:02:25is less than half that of their opponents.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Let's meet them again.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Hi, I'm Ramani Chandramohan.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33I'm from Canterbury in Kent and I'm reading classics and French.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37My name's Cameron, I'm from Fleet in Hampshire and I read chemistry.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Their captain.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Hi, I'm Kanta Dihal, I'm from Eindhoven in the Netherlands,
0:02:41 > 0:02:43and I'm reading for a DPhil in literature.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45Hi, I'm Andrew,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48from Northampton I'm reading for a Masters in earth sciences.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54OK, you can doubtless all recite the rules in your sleep,
0:02:54 > 0:02:58so fingers on the buzzers. Here's the first starter for ten.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01A necklace, a monkey, curly hair, cropped hair
0:03:01 > 0:03:04and the portrait of Dr Farill
0:03:04 > 0:03:07all feature in self portraits by which...?
0:03:09 > 0:03:10- Frida Kahlo.- Correct.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17You get a set of bonuses on Japanese innovations.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20Firstly for five points, known by a three-letter abbreviation
0:03:20 > 0:03:26and as E621, what food additive was created in 1908
0:03:26 > 0:03:29by the Japanese biochemist Kikunae Ikeda?
0:03:30 > 0:03:32- Japanese foods, anybody? - Three letters.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38- Soy or something like that.- Soy?
0:03:38 > 0:03:40No, it's monosodium glutamate.
0:03:40 > 0:03:45In 1969, Daisuke Inoue was an almost penniless drummer
0:03:45 > 0:03:48when he invented the Juke 8,
0:03:48 > 0:03:51the prototype for a device now known by what name?
0:03:51 > 0:03:52Drum machine?
0:03:52 > 0:03:54- Nominate Milliken.- Drum machine.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56No, it's a karaoke machine.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00And finally, working on i-mode, the world's first major mobile
0:04:00 > 0:04:04internet platform, what did Shigetaka Kurita invent
0:04:04 > 0:04:08when he created a set of 176 characters,
0:04:08 > 0:04:10each of 12 pixels by 12?
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Emojis?
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Try that. Emojis.
0:04:17 > 0:04:18Emojis is correct, yes.
0:04:18 > 0:04:2110 points for this. According to one version
0:04:21 > 0:04:23of a 17th-century rhyme,
0:04:23 > 0:04:28what thick, woollen fabric came into England all in one year?
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Along with hops, heresies and beer.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35The fabric is often dyed green and used to cover the tops of snooker...
0:04:37 > 0:04:38Baize.
0:04:38 > 0:04:39Baize is correct, yes.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44These bonuses are on stars, Ulster.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47In astronomy, what adjective is used to describe stars
0:04:47 > 0:04:51whose brightness, as observed from Earth, appears to change
0:04:51 > 0:04:54over relatively short periods of time?
0:04:55 > 0:04:59Blinking, or something like that. Yeah.
0:04:59 > 0:05:00Blinking.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02No, it's variable stars.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05Which star system in the constellation Perseus
0:05:05 > 0:05:08is an example of an eclipsing binary,
0:05:08 > 0:05:11a pair of stars whose apparent brightness varies
0:05:11 > 0:05:13as they orbit their mutual centre of gravity?
0:05:13 > 0:05:17It shares its name with a computer programming language.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Computer programming language?
0:05:19 > 0:05:21- DOS.- No, it's Algol.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25And finally, Polaris is an example of a star in what broad category
0:05:25 > 0:05:28of variable stars, named after the constellation
0:05:28 > 0:05:33in which the first known example was observed by John Goodricke in 1784?
0:05:34 > 0:05:36No idea.
0:05:36 > 0:05:37Pole Star.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39No, they're Cepheid variables.
0:05:39 > 0:05:4010 points for this.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42What is the four-letter title
0:05:42 > 0:05:47of the US author and academic Charles Seife's non-fiction work
0:05:47 > 0:05:50subtitled The Biography Of A Dangerous Idea?
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Depending on the precise definition,
0:05:52 > 0:05:55the mathematical concept in question is variously held to...
0:05:57 > 0:05:58- Zero.- Zero is right.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04These bonuses are on Scottish artists, St Anne's.
0:06:04 > 0:06:08Which Glasgow-born artist won the Turner Prize in 2010
0:06:08 > 0:06:09for her work Lowlands?
0:06:09 > 0:06:13It was the first time the award had been given to a sound installation.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22No idea, don't know.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27- Kate McDonald? - No, it was Susan Philipsz.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Secondly, the Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art
0:06:29 > 0:06:33houses a reconstruction of the studio of which Scottish artist
0:06:33 > 0:06:37of Italian descent, who donated a substantial collection
0:06:37 > 0:06:40to the gallery before his death in 2005?
0:06:40 > 0:06:44His larger sculptures include Vulcan and Osaka Steel.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47No, I was going to say Rennie Mackintosh,
0:06:47 > 0:06:48but I don't think so.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Mackintosh?
0:06:51 > 0:06:53No, it's Eduardo Paolozzi.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57And finally, Ken Currie's works include Three Oncologists,
0:06:57 > 0:07:00on display in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery,
0:07:00 > 0:07:04and a 2008 portrait of which theoretical physicist,
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Nobel Laureate and Emeritus Professor
0:07:06 > 0:07:08of the University of Edinburgh?
0:07:10 > 0:07:15- It could be Pauling.- Sorry? - Linus Pauling.- He wasn't there.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Yeah, he's a physicist.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Linus Pauling.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21No, it's Peter Higgs of the Higgs boson.
0:07:21 > 0:07:2210 points for this.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24In physiology, which chemical is released
0:07:24 > 0:07:27into the neuromuscular junction when a nerve impulse
0:07:27 > 0:07:29reaches the end of a motor neuron?
0:07:29 > 0:07:31It's responsible...
0:07:31 > 0:07:32A neurotransmitter.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34No, you lose five points.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37It's responsible for muscle contraction,
0:07:37 > 0:07:40blood vessel dilation and slowing down the heart rate.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44- Acetylcholine.- Correct.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48These bonuses are on composers, Ulster.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52Which composer's works include four pieces for solo piano,
0:07:52 > 0:07:56written between 1831-42, to which he gave the title Ballade?
0:07:59 > 0:08:03- Debussy?- It's a bit early for Debussy.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05- Erm, is it Chopin?- Try that.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07- Chopin.- Correct.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11His works including the 1901 opera Manru, which composer
0:08:11 > 0:08:14and politician represented Poland as Prime Minister
0:08:14 > 0:08:17and Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Paris Peace Conference
0:08:17 > 0:08:19following the First World War?
0:08:19 > 0:08:21- Paderewski.- Correct.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24Born 1933, which Polish composer is particularly noted
0:08:24 > 0:08:27for his Third Symphony, known as the Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs?
0:08:27 > 0:08:28- Gorecki.- Correct.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30We're going to take a picture round now.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32For your picture starter,
0:08:32 > 0:08:35you're going to see the floor plan of a historic building in London.
0:08:35 > 0:08:3710 points if you can give me the name of the building.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41St Pauls?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43It is St Pauls Cathedral, yes.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49OK, Ulster, your picture bonuses are three more floor plans
0:08:49 > 0:08:51of public buildings in London.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Again for five points, in each case, simply give me
0:08:53 > 0:08:55the name of the building. Firstly...
0:09:00 > 0:09:04The Tate, the new bit? The Tate Modern.
0:09:04 > 0:09:05The Tate Modern.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07No, that's the National Gallery. Secondly...
0:09:10 > 0:09:13That could be the Tate Modern. That's the engine room.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16- That's the Tate Modern. - You think so?
0:09:17 > 0:09:19- The Tate Modern.- Correct.
0:09:19 > 0:09:20And finally...
0:09:22 > 0:09:25- Any ideas for this one, people? - That's Buckingham Palace, isn't it?
0:09:25 > 0:09:27I don't know.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30- Buckingham Palace.- You sure?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32Could be, try it.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33Buckingham Palace.
0:09:33 > 0:09:34No, that's the British library.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37So, 10 points at stake for this.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40What seven-letter name links the first British translator
0:09:40 > 0:09:44of Virgil's Aeneid, a Scottish botanist after whom...?
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Dryden.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51A Scottish botanist after whom a coniferous evergreen is named,
0:09:51 > 0:09:56and the actors whose screen roles include Spartacus and Gordon Gekko.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00- Douglas.- Correct.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06These bonuses are on modern feminism, Ulster.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Founder of the Everyday Sexism Project,
0:10:10 > 0:10:13who is the author of the 2016 book Girl Up,
0:10:13 > 0:10:15which concerns such issues
0:10:15 > 0:10:18as false representation of women in the media?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22- Caitlin Moran.- Try her anyway.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25- Caitlin Moran.- No, it's Laura Bates.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Secondly, the US author Rebecca Solnit is linked
0:10:28 > 0:10:32to which neologism, meaning to explain without regard to the fact
0:10:32 > 0:10:36that the explainee may know more than the explainer?
0:10:36 > 0:10:37Mansplain.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40- Mansplain. - Mansplaining is correct.
0:10:40 > 0:10:45In 2015, the Swedish Women's Lobby and the publisher Albert Bonnier
0:10:45 > 0:10:48announced their plan to give every 16-year-old in Sweden
0:10:48 > 0:10:51a copy of which Nigerian author's book,
0:10:51 > 0:10:53We Should All Be Feminists?
0:10:55 > 0:10:59Chimamanda...Ngozi...
0:10:59 > 0:11:02- Nominate Ritchie.- No! - LAUGHTER
0:11:02 > 0:11:06Chimamanda Ngozi...Achebe.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08- No, it's Adichie.- Adichie!
0:11:08 > 0:11:10I can't give you the points. 10 points for this.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Matthew Arnold in his 1869 work
0:11:12 > 0:11:17Culture And Anarchy designated the aristocracy as the Barbarians,
0:11:17 > 0:11:19and gave the middle-class what name,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22after a non-Semitic people of Ancient Palestine,
0:11:22 > 0:11:24who were the enemies of Samson?
0:11:27 > 0:11:28- The Philistines.- Correct.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34You get three bonuses on an art critic.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38Whom did John McNeill Whistler sue for libel
0:11:38 > 0:11:42after an attack on his 1875 painting Nocturne In Black And Gold -
0:11:42 > 0:11:45The Falling Rocket, in which he was accused of flinging
0:11:45 > 0:11:48a pot of paint in the public's face?
0:11:48 > 0:11:52Roger Fry, I think. Roger Fry or...
0:11:52 > 0:11:54- Roger Fry, I think.- Roger Fry.
0:11:54 > 0:11:55No, it was John Ruskin.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58After reading Ruskin's critique of capitalism
0:11:58 > 0:12:02entitled Unto This Last, which Indian lawyer was prompted to set up
0:12:02 > 0:12:06an idealistic farming community at Phoenix, near Durban?
0:12:11 > 0:12:13- Was it Gandhi?- Gandhi?
0:12:13 > 0:12:15- Gandhi.- It was Gandhi, yes.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19An admirer of Ruskin, which French novelist published translations
0:12:19 > 0:12:23of The Bible Of Amiens and Sesame And Lilies
0:12:23 > 0:12:26between 1904 and 1906?
0:12:26 > 0:12:29French author, early 20th-century.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32- Proust, don't know.- Proust.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34- Proust.- Proust is correct.
0:12:34 > 0:12:3510 points for this.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41What number results from subtracting the number of moons
0:12:41 > 0:12:43in the inner solar system
0:12:43 > 0:12:46from the number of planets in the inner solar system?
0:12:48 > 0:12:49- One.- Correct.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54Three from four,
0:12:54 > 0:12:57and you get a set of bonuses on the fauna of New Zealand.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Which order of mammals comprises
0:12:59 > 0:13:01the only non-marine mammals native to New Zealand?
0:13:01 > 0:13:05You can give the scientific or the common English name.
0:13:05 > 0:13:06The non-marine mammals...
0:13:11 > 0:13:14- Mammals?- Try monotremes.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16Monotremes.
0:13:16 > 0:13:17No, it's bats.
0:13:17 > 0:13:22Secondly, resembling a large lizard, which is the only surviving reptile
0:13:22 > 0:13:25of the Rhynchocephalia, or "beak head" order?
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Once widespread on several islands of New Zealand,
0:13:27 > 0:13:31it's noted for its low metabolic rate and tolerance of cold.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38- Some kind of chameleon, iguana? - Yeah, don't know.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Any idea? Iguana.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42No, it's tuatara.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45And finally, once native to New Zealand but now extinct,
0:13:45 > 0:13:50large flightless birds of the order Dinornithiformes,
0:13:50 > 0:13:52are known by what collective name?
0:13:53 > 0:13:54- Kiwis.- Kiwis.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57No, they're moas. 10 points for this.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00Now meaning out of control with anger or excitement,
0:14:00 > 0:14:03what term is thought to derive from the Old Norse for...?
0:14:04 > 0:14:06- Berserk.- Berserk is right.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12These bonuses are on Roman history, Ulster.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16Against which city state did Rome fight the three Punic Wars
0:14:16 > 0:14:18in the Third and Second Centuries BC?
0:14:21 > 0:14:23- I think it was Carthage. - Carthage.
0:14:23 > 0:14:24Correct.
0:14:24 > 0:14:28During the second Punic War in 217 BC, Hannibal's Carthaginian Army
0:14:28 > 0:14:32won a significant ambush victory over the Romans in a battle
0:14:32 > 0:14:36fought on the shores of which lake in Umbria, not far from Perugia?
0:14:38 > 0:14:40- A lake in Perugia...- Como?
0:14:40 > 0:14:43- That's a bit further north. - Maggiore?
0:14:43 > 0:14:46No, I didn't think it's right.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49- But don't know any others. - No?- Go for it.
0:14:49 > 0:14:50Maggiore.
0:14:50 > 0:14:51No, it's Lake Trasimene.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53And finally, which Roman general led the army
0:14:53 > 0:14:57that won the decisive battle of the Second Punic War
0:14:57 > 0:15:00at Zama in North Africa in 202 BC?
0:15:02 > 0:15:07- 202 BC...- Might be Marcus Crassus?
0:15:07 > 0:15:09- I don't really know.- So, generals?
0:15:10 > 0:15:13It's too early for Pompey.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15- Go ahead.- Marcus Crassus.
0:15:15 > 0:15:16No, it's Scipio.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Plenty of time yet to get going, St Anne's.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20We're going to take a music round now.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26For 10 points, please give me the name of the composer.
0:15:27 > 0:15:31BOSSA NOVA PLAYS
0:15:33 > 0:15:35- Quincy Jones. - Quincy Jones is correct, yes.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40It was Quincy Jones's Soul Bossa Nova,
0:15:40 > 0:15:43later used by Mike Myers as the opening theme music
0:15:43 > 0:15:45for the Austin Powers trilogy.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48Your music bonuses are three more pre-existing compositions
0:15:48 > 0:15:52later used as the opening title music for a film.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55Firstly for five, name this artist and the 1996 film
0:15:55 > 0:15:58in which this track appeared in the opening sequence.
0:16:00 > 0:16:01ROCK MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Trainspotting, Iggy Pop.
0:16:03 > 0:16:07- # Here comes Johnny... # - Trainspotting, Iggy Pop.
0:16:07 > 0:16:08Correct.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11Secondly, name this artist and the film released in 2003.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15# I was five and he was six
0:16:15 > 0:16:17# We rode on horses made of sticks...
0:16:17 > 0:16:19I don't know the film. But it's Nancy Sinatra.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22# He wore a black and I wore white
0:16:22 > 0:16:25- Atonement? I don't know. - # He would always win the fight
0:16:25 > 0:16:26- Don't know the film - # Bang, bang... #
0:16:26 > 0:16:30Nancy Sinatra and Atonement?
0:16:30 > 0:16:33No, it was Nancy Sinatra, it's Kill Bill, Volume 1.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36And finally, give me the original composer of this work
0:16:36 > 0:16:40and the film released in the UK in 1972,
0:16:40 > 0:16:43in which an adapted version of this music appeared?
0:16:44 > 0:16:48FUNERAL MARCH PLAYS
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Some kind of historical drama...
0:17:00 > 0:17:05- No idea.- Gladiator?- Any idea?
0:17:08 > 0:17:09Pass.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12That's Henry Purcell, and A Clockwork Orange.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14So, 10 points at stake for this, fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17Lake Manzala, Lake Timsah, the Great Bitter Lake
0:17:17 > 0:17:21and the Little Bitter Lake form part of which waterway
0:17:21 > 0:17:24constructed between 1859 and 1869?
0:17:24 > 0:17:26It's a nationalisation in 1956...
0:17:28 > 0:17:30- The Suez Canal.- Correct.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37Three questions for you, Ulster, now, linked by a present participle.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40An accusation of witchcraft made against a character
0:17:40 > 0:17:43named Jennet Jourdemayne is the focus of the plot
0:17:43 > 0:17:46of which play by Christopher Fry set in the 15th century?
0:17:52 > 0:17:56- Any Christopher Fry plays? - No, don't know.- Sorry, pass.
0:17:56 > 0:17:57It's The Lady's Not For Burning.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00Secondly, referring to the sound of the French captain
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Louis de Casabianca, which seven-word phrase
0:18:03 > 0:18:06forms the first line of a poem by Felicia Hemans,
0:18:06 > 0:18:07inspired by an incident
0:18:07 > 0:18:10that occurred in the Battle of the Nile in 1798?
0:18:14 > 0:18:18That's... Nelson lost an arm.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Go ahead.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25"Nelson has lost his left arm."
0:18:25 > 0:18:27No. LAUGHTER
0:18:29 > 0:18:32"The boy stood on the burning deck." 10 points for that.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35Who wrote the music to lyrics by Lena Guilbert Ford
0:18:35 > 0:18:40for the 1914 song that includes the line "keep the home fires burning"?
0:18:44 > 0:18:47- One of the famous ones, is it?- No.
0:18:47 > 0:18:51It's a popular beat combo, you would know!
0:18:51 > 0:18:521914.
0:18:52 > 0:18:53Sorry, we've no idea!
0:18:53 > 0:18:56That was Ivor Novello. 10 points for this.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00In 1889, international prototypes of both the metre and the kilogram
0:19:00 > 0:19:04were made of an alloy primarily consisting of what metallic element?
0:19:06 > 0:19:08- Platinum.- Correct.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15Your bonuses are on the Nobel laureate Tawakkol Karman.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18Tawakkol Karman received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011
0:19:18 > 0:19:22for her role in organising pro-democracy protests
0:19:22 > 0:19:24- in which country?- Liberia.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26- Liberia.- No, it's Yemen.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30Karman was the second Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace prize.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Who was the first in 2003?
0:19:34 > 0:19:37Aung San Suu Kyi.
0:19:37 > 0:19:38- Is she a Muslim?- No.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Could be.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45- Aung San Suu Kyi. - It was Shirin Ebadi.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48Karman shared the prize with Leymah Gbowee,
0:19:48 > 0:19:50and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,
0:19:50 > 0:19:53both of whom have promoted peace in which country?
0:19:53 > 0:19:54It's Liberia.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56- Liberia.- Liberia.
0:19:56 > 0:19:57Liberia is correct,
0:19:57 > 0:19:5910 points for this. According to Hinduism,
0:19:59 > 0:20:03the twins Luv and Kush were the sons of which king,
0:20:03 > 0:20:06whose homecoming after defeating the Demon King Ravan...?
0:20:07 > 0:20:08- Rama.- Correct.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15You get a set of bonuses on the provinces of the Netherlands,
0:20:15 > 0:20:18all three answers end in the same four letters.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21How convenient to have a Dutch person on the team! LAUGHTER
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Which province lies around the deltas
0:20:23 > 0:20:25of the Scheldt and Maas rivers?
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Its major towns include Middelburg and Vlissingen.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30- Zeeland.- Zeeland is correct.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Lelystad is the capital of...?
0:20:32 > 0:20:34- Flevoland. - LAUGHTER
0:20:34 > 0:20:35Correct.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Finally, which province lies to the west of Flevoland?
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Its main city is Amsterdam.
0:20:40 > 0:20:41- Nordholland.- Correct.
0:20:45 > 0:20:46Right, 10 points for this.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Name any of the three years in which William Jennings Bryan
0:20:49 > 0:20:52stood as the Democratic Party candidate
0:20:52 > 0:20:53for President of the United States?
0:20:53 > 0:20:57He lost twice, to William McKinley and once to William Howard Taft.
0:21:00 > 0:21:011900.
0:21:01 > 0:21:041900 was one of them, yes. 1896 and 1908 were the others.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09So, you get a set of bonuses this time, Ulster, on a US philosopher.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Having a reputation as an anti-philosopher's philosopher,
0:21:12 > 0:21:16who wrote the 1979 work Philosophy And The Mirror Of Nature?
0:21:17 > 0:21:20- Rosvold? - INDISTINCT SPEECH
0:21:25 > 0:21:27- I've no idea.- Theroux.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29- Theroux. - No, it was Richard Rorty.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33Rorty is said to have sought a pragmatist synthesis
0:21:33 > 0:21:35of historicism and naturalism,
0:21:35 > 0:21:37based on the achievements of Dewey, Darwin
0:21:37 > 0:21:41and which German philosopher born in 1770?
0:21:41 > 0:21:43- Hegel.- Hegel is correct.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47Rorty is noted for his studies of French philosophers
0:21:47 > 0:21:50such as Foucault, Lyotard and which other poststructuralist,
0:21:50 > 0:21:53born in Algiers in 1930?
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- Camus? Camus!- Oh, yeah.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00- Camus, I'll go Camus.- Camus.
0:22:00 > 0:22:01No, it's Derrida.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06For your picture starter, you'll see a photograph of a scientist.
0:22:06 > 0:22:0810 points if you can name him.
0:22:15 > 0:22:16Higgs.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18No, anyone like to buzz from St Anne's?
0:22:21 > 0:22:22Keeling.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24No, that is Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
0:22:24 > 0:22:2610 points at stake then for this starter question,
0:22:26 > 0:22:28picture bonuses when someone gets it.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32What eponymous SI-derived unit is equivalent to one joule
0:22:32 > 0:22:36per cubic metre, or about 10 to the minus-5 bar?
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Kelvin.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42- Anyone like to buzz?- Pascal.
0:22:42 > 0:22:43Pascal is correct.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48So, you recall a moment ago you saw a picture
0:22:48 > 0:22:50which you failed to identify of Tim Berners-Lee.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53He became one of the first recipients of the modern incarnation
0:22:53 > 0:22:55of the Bodley Medal,
0:22:55 > 0:22:58given by the Bodleian Library to people who've made outstanding
0:22:58 > 0:23:01contributions to the world of communications and literature.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04Your picture bonuses are three more people thus honoured.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06Five points for each you can name. Firstly...
0:23:08 > 0:23:09Hilary Mantel.
0:23:09 > 0:23:10Correct. Secondly...
0:23:18 > 0:23:21- Steve Wozniak.- Steve Wozniak?
0:23:21 > 0:23:23No, that's Oliver Sacks. And finally...
0:23:26 > 0:23:28- Dame Maggie Smith.- Correct.
0:23:29 > 0:23:3110 points for this. In zoology,
0:23:31 > 0:23:33the order Siphonaptera
0:23:33 > 0:23:36comprises which wingless parasitic insect?
0:23:36 > 0:23:37Their name appears as a conceit
0:23:37 > 0:23:40in an erotic metaphysical poem by John Donne.
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Mayfly.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49No, Ulster, one of you buzz.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52- Flea.- The flea is correct, yes.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56You get a set of bonuses on physics.
0:23:56 > 0:24:00Also known as a light quantum, which elementary particle
0:24:00 > 0:24:05may be described as a minute energy packet of electromagnetic radiation?
0:24:07 > 0:24:08- Photon...- Photon.
0:24:08 > 0:24:09Correct.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Which German-born scientist's explanation
0:24:12 > 0:24:14of the photoelectric effect in 1905
0:24:14 > 0:24:17is generally cited as being the origin of the photon concept?
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Germans! Come on.
0:24:22 > 0:24:27- No idea.- No. I should, but I don't.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29- Haynes.- No, it was Einstein.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32And finally, what fundamental constant may be expressed
0:24:32 > 0:24:36as the ratio of the energy of a photon to its frequency?
0:24:36 > 0:24:39It is named after a German physicist born in 1858.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Germans, 1850s...
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Come on, let's have it, please.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50I'm sorry, we don't know.
0:24:50 > 0:24:51It's the Planck constant.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54There's about two one half minutes to go and 10 points for this.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57"Enter a messenger with two heads and a hand"
0:24:57 > 0:25:00is a stage direction in which of Shakespeare's tragedies?
0:25:00 > 0:25:05It gives its name to a New Jersey band whose 2008 debut album
0:25:05 > 0:25:07was The Airing Of Grievances.
0:25:10 > 0:25:11Troilus and Cressida.
0:25:12 > 0:25:13Good heavens, no!
0:25:16 > 0:25:17Coriolanus.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20No, it's Titus Andronicus. 10 points for this.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23In statistics, what four-letter term refers to
0:25:23 > 0:25:26a distribution that is asymmetrical about the mean?
0:25:28 > 0:25:30- Skew.- Skew is correct, yes.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36These bonuses are on Hong Kong cinema.
0:25:36 > 0:25:37Firstly for five points,
0:25:37 > 0:25:41which Hong Kong director has explored the theme of doomed romance
0:25:41 > 0:25:44in films such as Chungking Express and In The Mood For Love?
0:25:48 > 0:25:51- Pass.- It's Wong Kar-wai.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55Secondly, the first three films in the Once Upon A Time In China series
0:25:55 > 0:25:58starred which a martial artist as the folk hero Wong Fei Hung?
0:26:00 > 0:26:02- Jackie Chan.- Jackie Chan.
0:26:02 > 0:26:03No, it was Jet Li.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06And finally, which Hong Kong film-maker directed the action films
0:26:06 > 0:26:09The Killer and Hard Boiled before going to Hollywood,
0:26:09 > 0:26:10where he made Face/Off?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Pass.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17That's John Woo. 10 points for this.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19Beldi, Manzanilla, Nicoise and Kalamata
0:26:19 > 0:26:22are among varieties of which fruit?
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Olive.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Olive is correct, here are your bonuses.
0:26:26 > 0:26:27They're on a disease.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29Named after the doctor who developed it,
0:26:29 > 0:26:33the Mantoux test is used to indicate the presence of which disease?
0:26:36 > 0:26:38- Come on.- Gangrene.- Gangrene.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40No, its tuberculosis.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43So-called because of the resemblance of cultures grown
0:26:43 > 0:26:46in controlled conditions to many types of fungi,
0:26:46 > 0:26:50the tuberculosis species belongs to which genus of bacteria?
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Erm, fungiform.
0:26:53 > 0:26:54No, they're mycobacteria.
0:26:54 > 0:26:59The BCG Bacillus used as a vaccine against tuberculosis
0:26:59 > 0:27:01is named after two French bacteriologists.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05- Can you name either?- Pasteur.- BCG...
0:27:06 > 0:27:08- Nominate Chandramohan.- Pasteur.
0:27:08 > 0:27:09No, it's Calmette and Guerin.
0:27:09 > 0:27:1110 points for this.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13After 1815, which city state
0:27:13 > 0:27:17was the only part of Poland to have political independence?
0:27:17 > 0:27:18In 1846...
0:27:19 > 0:27:21Danzig.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22No, you lose five points.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Anyone like to buzz from Ulster?
0:27:24 > 0:27:27I'll give you the rest, in 1846, it was occupied by Austria
0:27:27 > 0:27:28and attached to Galicia.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34- Krakow?- Krakow is correct, yes.
0:27:34 > 0:27:35GONG
0:27:35 > 0:27:38And at the gong, St Anne's College, Oxford have 90,
0:27:38 > 0:27:41the University of Ulster have 175.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45Well, you started coming back a bit towards the end there,
0:27:45 > 0:27:48St Anne's, but you were really comprehensively outplayed.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50But thank you very much for joining us.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52And Ulster, we shall look forward to seeing you
0:27:52 > 0:27:54in the next stage of the competition.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Many congratulations to you. I hope you can join us next time
0:27:57 > 0:28:00for the second highest-scoring losers match, but until then,
0:28:00 > 0:28:02it's goodbye from St Anne's College, Oxford.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05- Goodbye.- It's goodbye from Ulster University.- Goodbye.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.