0:00:23 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. 28 teams qualified to compete in this series, ten of them
0:00:32 > 0:00:34lasted no longer than mayflies.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37But another two who also lost their first-round matches
0:00:37 > 0:00:41survived by winning the losers' playoffs, and they join
0:00:41 > 0:00:45the 14 winning teams in the second round, which starts tonight.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48The winners of this match will take the first place
0:00:48 > 0:00:49in the quarterfinals.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51The losers will go home.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Strathclyde University had a somewhat diffident start to
0:00:54 > 0:00:57their first-round match against Imperial College, London.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01But they managed to win by 145 points to 125,
0:01:01 > 0:01:05revealing on the way that they're good on prime numbers, the poetry of
0:01:05 > 0:01:08John Donne, and mitochondria, and that they were paying rapt
0:01:08 > 0:01:12attention during last year's European Football Championships.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Let's meet the Strathclyde team again.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Hello, my name's Ian Brown.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20I'm from Oban in Argyll, and I'm training to be an English teacher.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Hi, I'm James Flannigan.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26I'm originally from Glasgow, and I'm studying chemical engineering.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28- And this is their captain. - Hi, I'm Alistair Logan.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32I'm from Motherwell in Lanarkshire, and I study mechanical engineering.
0:01:32 > 0:01:37Hi, I'm Paul Dijkman. I'm from Port Glasgow, and I'm studying economics.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39APPLAUSE
0:01:42 > 0:01:46Emmanuel College, Cambridge beat St Hugh's College, Oxford
0:01:46 > 0:01:49by 170 points to 155 in their first-round match.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Their strengths included classical music, rainbows,
0:01:52 > 0:01:56Pyramus and Thisbe, and the domestic life of Socrates.
0:01:56 > 0:01:57Let's meet them again.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01Hi, I'm Ed Derby, I'm from Manchester, and I study physics.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03Hello, I'm Kitty Chevallier.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06I'm from Hampshire, and I'm reading Arabic and Hindi.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08- And this is their captain. - Hi, I'm Alex Mistlin.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11I'm from Islington in North London, and I'm studying politics
0:02:11 > 0:02:13and international relations.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17Hi, I'm James Fraser. I'm from Bristol, and I'm reading medicine.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19APPLAUSE
0:02:20 > 0:02:24Usual rules, 10 points for starter questions, they're solo efforts
0:02:24 > 0:02:28on the buzzer, and bonuses are worth 15, and they're team efforts.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31Right, 10 points at stake for this, fingers on the buzzers,
0:02:31 > 0:02:33your first starter.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Meanings of what five-letter word include
0:02:35 > 0:02:40the singular of anatomical features that may be described as squamous,
0:02:40 > 0:02:45a graded classification system, for example Glasgow Coma or Richter...?
0:02:45 > 0:02:47- BUZZ - Scale?
0:02:47 > 0:02:49Scale is correct, yes.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51APPLAUSE
0:02:51 > 0:02:53You get the first set of bonuses, then, Emmanuel.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56They're on agricultural machinery.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Firstly for five points, its name derived from the Latin
0:02:58 > 0:03:03for knife, a coulter is a component of what large implement?
0:03:04 > 0:03:07- Combine harvester or something? - Plough?- Plough.
0:03:07 > 0:03:08It's got blades, I don't know.
0:03:08 > 0:03:09Plough?
0:03:09 > 0:03:11Plough is correct, yes.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14"Her fallow leas, the darnel, hemlock
0:03:14 > 0:03:16"and rank fumitory doth root upon,
0:03:16 > 0:03:18"while that the coulter rusts
0:03:18 > 0:03:21"that should deracinate such savagery."
0:03:21 > 0:03:24These words appear in which of Shakespeare's histories to
0:03:24 > 0:03:27describe France in the grip of war?
0:03:27 > 0:03:29- THEY CONFER - Henry V?
0:03:29 > 0:03:30Correct.
0:03:30 > 0:03:35Referring to its blade-shaped bill, coulter-neb is a regional name
0:03:35 > 0:03:37for which distinctive sea bird,
0:03:37 > 0:03:40known binomially as Fratercula arctica?
0:03:41 > 0:03:46- Puffin? Or like an... - Albatross, maybe?- Like a razorbill?
0:03:46 > 0:03:50- Is that a thing?- Arctic tern? - It was a large thing, wasn't it?
0:03:50 > 0:03:52- Do you want to go Arctic tern? - No, just...
0:03:52 > 0:03:54- If you want to go puffin... - Puffin?
0:03:54 > 0:03:55Correct.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57APPLAUSE
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Right, 10 points for this.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04Mytiloida and Unionoida are respectively the marine
0:04:04 > 0:04:08and the freshwater families of which bivalve mollusc?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10The common... BELL RINGS
0:04:10 > 0:04:11Oyster?
0:04:11 > 0:04:12No, you lose five points.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16The common edible marine species is cultivated commercially by a
0:04:16 > 0:04:20variety of methods, including the French technique known as "bouchot".
0:04:23 > 0:04:25BUZZ
0:04:25 > 0:04:26Mussel?
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Mussel is correct, yes.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29APPLAUSE
0:04:29 > 0:04:33You get a set of bonuses on the philosopher Hannah Arendt.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36Arendt's work was greatly influenced by which 20th-century German
0:04:36 > 0:04:39philosopher's concept of phenomenology?
0:04:39 > 0:04:44His works include Being And Time, first published in 1927.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46Heidegger?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Heidegger is correct.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51One of the main criticisms levelled against Arendt's work is her
0:04:51 > 0:04:53reliance on a rigid distinction between the private
0:04:53 > 0:04:57and the public spheres, or the oikos and the polis,
0:04:57 > 0:05:00a delineation first made by which ancient Greek philosopher?
0:05:00 > 0:05:03- Aristotle, yeah? - If you say so.- Aristotle?
0:05:03 > 0:05:07Correct. Arendt used the phrase "the banality of evil" to characterise
0:05:07 > 0:05:12the actions of which prominent Nazi, executed in Tel Aviv in 1962?
0:05:12 > 0:05:15- Eichmann? - Is it...? Oh, yeah, probably.
0:05:15 > 0:05:16Eichmann?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Adolf Eichmann is correct, yes.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21APPLAUSE
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Another starter question now.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27Which three initial letters link words meaning a lanthanide element
0:05:27 > 0:05:29named after a village in Sweden,
0:05:29 > 0:05:34an unsaturated hydrocarbon with the formula C10H16,
0:05:34 > 0:05:38and the metric prefix that denotes 10 to the power 12?
0:05:39 > 0:05:41BUZZ
0:05:41 > 0:05:42T-E-R?
0:05:42 > 0:05:43Correct.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46APPLAUSE
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Right, your bonuses are on astronomy this time, Emmanuel College.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52What two-word term refers specifically to the
0:05:52 > 0:05:56brightness of a celestial body, as it is seen by an observer on Earth?
0:05:56 > 0:05:59It is often denoted by a lower case letter M.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03- It's like apparent magnitude or something.- Magnitude, could be.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06- It's two-word, try apparent magnitude.- Apparent magnitude?
0:06:06 > 0:06:08That's correct.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11The absolute magnitude of a star is equal to the value of its apparent
0:06:11 > 0:06:16magnitude as viewed by an observer at a distance of how many parsecs?
0:06:16 > 0:06:19THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:06:19 > 0:06:22- Could be, it could be. I don't know.- One?
0:06:22 > 0:06:23No, it's ten.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26Magnitude is a logarithmic scale.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28A star whose apparent magnitude is one
0:06:28 > 0:06:33is how many times brighter than one whose apparent magnitude is six?
0:06:33 > 0:06:35THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:06:37 > 0:06:40- Can I nominate you? Nominate Fraser.- 100,000?
0:06:40 > 0:06:42No, it's 100 times as bright.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Another starter question. According to the historian AJP Taylor,
0:06:45 > 0:06:49until which year could a sensible law-abiding Englishman pass
0:06:49 > 0:06:53through life and hardly notice the existence of the state
0:06:53 > 0:06:55beyond the post office and the...? BUZZ
0:06:55 > 0:06:571914?
0:06:57 > 0:06:581914 is correct.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00APPLAUSE
0:07:02 > 0:07:06Your bonuses are on historical figures this time, Emmanuel College.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08In each case, give the person from the description.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11All three answers share the same first letter and the same
0:07:11 > 0:07:15final letter, for example, Cameron, Callaghan and Clinton.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Firstly, one of the most radical voices of the French Revolution.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22He was murdered in his bath in an event later
0:07:22 > 0:07:25depicted in a work by Jacques-Louis David.
0:07:25 > 0:07:26- Marat.- Maret.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28- Maret?- Er...
0:07:28 > 0:07:29Marat.
0:07:29 > 0:07:30Yes, exactly.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34Secondly, a 20th-century minister of war who gave his name to
0:07:34 > 0:07:36a string of concrete fortifications
0:07:36 > 0:07:39and obstacles along France's eastern borders.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42- Maginot.- Yes. - Maginot?
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Correct. Finally, a painter born in 1832,
0:07:45 > 0:07:49noted for works including Olympia and Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51- Manet.- Manet?
0:07:51 > 0:07:52Manet is right.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54We're going to take a picture round.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56You're going to see a sequence of flags.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59What in a sporting context does the sequence represent?
0:08:05 > 0:08:07BUZZ
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Is it the Six Nations?
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Very odd Six Nations. No.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Come on, Strathclyde, one of you buzz.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21You can't work it out?
0:08:21 > 0:08:24I'll tell you, then - they're the nationalities of Premier League
0:08:24 > 0:08:28winning managers, so we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Another starter question in the meantime.
0:08:30 > 0:08:34Which country opened the Centenario Stadium in its capital city
0:08:34 > 0:08:38in July 1930 to commemorate the 100th anniversary
0:08:38 > 0:08:41of the approval of its first constitution?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43It hosted the first final of the Fifa...
0:08:43 > 0:08:44BUZZ
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Uruguay?
0:08:46 > 0:08:47Uruguay is right, yes.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50APPLAUSE
0:08:50 > 0:08:54So, we follow that sequence of flags with more flag sequences,
0:08:54 > 0:08:57each representing the nationalities of recent winners of specific
0:08:57 > 0:08:59individual sporting competitions.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03Five points for each competition you can identify. Firstly...
0:09:05 > 0:09:06Formula 1?
0:09:06 > 0:09:10Like, Vettel, Hamilton, and then Rosberg?
0:09:10 > 0:09:11Formula 1 World Champion?
0:09:11 > 0:09:14The Drivers' Championship, yes.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Secondly, what's this?
0:09:16 > 0:09:17Is that Northern Ireland?
0:09:17 > 0:09:22- It's golf.- Golf, I think. - The Open or the Masters, I reckon.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27No, no, it's not the Masters. The Open? Say the Open?
0:09:27 > 0:09:28Winner of the Open golfing?
0:09:28 > 0:09:32Indeed it is, it's the Open Golf Championship. And finally...
0:09:35 > 0:09:37- What's that...? - Is it Wimbledon? Wimbledon?
0:09:39 > 0:09:40Yeah, Wimbledon.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43Wimbledon. Er, Men's Singles Champion.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44That's correct, yes.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47APPLAUSE
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Right, 10 points for this. Identify the poet who wrote these lines.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55The mountains look on Marathon - and Marathon looks on the sea
0:09:55 > 0:09:56And musing there an hour alone
0:09:56 > 0:09:59I dreamed that Greece might yet be free.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01- BELL RINGS - Byron?
0:10:01 > 0:10:03Byron is right, yes.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06APPLAUSE
0:10:06 > 0:10:09You get a set of bonuses, Strathclyde, on a peninsula.
0:10:09 > 0:10:14Firstly, about 15 miles long, which peninsula is situated between
0:10:14 > 0:10:18two estuaries in the north-west of the historical county of Cheshire?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:10:22 > 0:10:23Er, the Wirral?
0:10:23 > 0:10:25The Wirral is right.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29Secondly, which eponymous figure of a 14th-century poem travels to
0:10:29 > 0:10:32"the wilds of the Wirral, whose wayward people
0:10:32 > 0:10:34"both God and good men have quite given up on"?
0:10:34 > 0:10:37These lines appear in Simon Armitage's
0:10:37 > 0:10:38translation from Middle English.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43I think it's either Piers Plowman or, er...
0:10:43 > 0:10:44Yeah, I think it's...
0:10:44 > 0:10:45Er, Piers Plowman?
0:10:45 > 0:10:49No, it's Sir Gawain, as in him and the Green Knight.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51And born on the Wirral, finally, in 1961,
0:10:51 > 0:10:56Steven Hough is a leading classical performer on which instrument?
0:10:58 > 0:11:00THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:11:05 > 0:11:06The violin?
0:11:06 > 0:11:08No, he's a pianist.
0:11:08 > 0:11:09Ten points for this.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13In a paper of 1965, the German zoologists Friedrich Merkel
0:11:13 > 0:11:17and Wolfgang Wiltschko demonstrated that the European robin
0:11:17 > 0:11:20could be manipulated into changing its migratory orientation
0:11:20 > 0:11:25by being exposed under experimental conditions to what?
0:11:25 > 0:11:27BELL RINGS
0:11:27 > 0:11:29A magnetic field?
0:11:29 > 0:11:30That's correct.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32APPLAUSE
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Your bonuses this time, Strathclyde, are on physics.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39In a synchotron particle accelerator, such as the Lawrence
0:11:39 > 0:11:43Berkeley Laboratory's 1954 Bevatron,
0:11:43 > 0:11:46what geometrical figure approximates the path that particles follow?
0:11:48 > 0:11:50THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:11:55 > 0:11:56A figure of eight?
0:11:56 > 0:11:57No, it's a circle.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01And what path do particles follow in a cyclotron accelerator,
0:12:01 > 0:12:04invented by the US physicist Ernest Lawrence?
0:12:07 > 0:12:09THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:12:11 > 0:12:12Is that a figure of eight?
0:12:12 > 0:12:14No, that's a spiral.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18Finally, what geometrical figure do particles trace out in a linac?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Probably the straight line.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22Linear.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24THEY CONFER QUIETLY
0:12:26 > 0:12:30- Geometric shapes.- A line? A straight line?
0:12:30 > 0:12:31A straight line is correct, yes.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34APPLAUSE
0:12:34 > 0:12:37OK, ten points for this, I need a two-word answer.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39According to Carl Friedrich Gauss,
0:12:39 > 0:12:42mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45What did he say was the queen of mathematics?
0:12:45 > 0:12:48BELL RINGS
0:12:48 > 0:12:49Er, sorry, I don't know.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Anyone like to buzz from Emmanuel College?
0:12:52 > 0:12:54- BUZZ - Number theory?
0:12:54 > 0:12:56Number theory's right, yes.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58APPLAUSE
0:12:58 > 0:13:03You get three questions on diseases and their symptoms, Emmanuel.
0:13:03 > 0:13:08An abnormal grin caused by facial spasms, Risus sardonicus is
0:13:08 > 0:13:12a sign of which acute bacterial disease also known as lockjaw?
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Is it tetanus?
0:13:15 > 0:13:17- Oh, yeah.- Tetanus?
0:13:17 > 0:13:18Tetanus is right.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20Appearing inside the mouth,
0:13:20 > 0:13:24Koplik spots indicate what infectious viral disease?
0:13:24 > 0:13:29A dose of the MMR vaccine is more than 90% effective in preventing it.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32- What did that stop? Was it measles, mumps or rubella?- Rubella, yeah.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34Which one, is rubella the virus?
0:13:34 > 0:13:35I should know this.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38- But it might not even be... - Is it measles?- Measles might be it.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41- I don't know. - Just go measles.- Measles?
0:13:41 > 0:13:42Measles is right.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46TOFI are crystalline deposits under the skin characteristic of
0:13:46 > 0:13:50what disease caused by the deposition of uric acid salts?
0:13:50 > 0:13:53- Gout? - Yeah, I think so.- Gout.
0:13:53 > 0:13:54Gout is right.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56We're going to take a music round now.
0:13:56 > 0:13:57For your music starter you'll hear
0:13:57 > 0:14:00a piece of classical music by a German composer.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06SWIRLING ELECTRONIC SOUNDS
0:14:10 > 0:14:12BUZZ
0:14:12 > 0:14:13Stockhausen?
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Stockhausen is right, yes.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18APPLAUSE
0:14:18 > 0:14:21He was criticised by the British composer and communist activist
0:14:21 > 0:14:28Cornelius Cardew in the 1974 book, Stockhausen Serves Imperialism.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31For your music bonuses, works by three more composers reviewed
0:14:31 > 0:14:35unfavourably by Cardew in that book. Five points for each you can name.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37Firstly, which composer wrote this?
0:14:37 > 0:14:39Cardew stated that virtually everything
0:14:39 > 0:14:41written and said about him and his music is
0:14:41 > 0:14:45"extremely boring and irrelevant to the present time."
0:14:45 > 0:14:47ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:15:04 > 0:15:05Bernstein?
0:15:05 > 0:15:09No, that's Richard Wagner's Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Secondly, name this French composer.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14He's accused by Cardew of converting his fragmented material
0:15:14 > 0:15:17"into a semblance of musical form,
0:15:17 > 0:15:20"just as a mass of string can be shaped into the
0:15:20 > 0:15:22"semblance of a human being."
0:15:22 > 0:15:24PIANO AND FLUTE
0:15:29 > 0:15:31THEY CONFER
0:15:52 > 0:15:53Messiaen?
0:15:53 > 0:15:56No, it was Pierre Boulez. And finally, identify this composer.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58In Cardew's opinion, his music was
0:15:58 > 0:16:01"abstract, authoritarian, definitely elitist,
0:16:01 > 0:16:04"uncompromisingly bourgeois and anti-people."
0:16:04 > 0:16:06PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:09 > 0:16:11THEY CONFER
0:16:27 > 0:16:29Berg?
0:16:29 > 0:16:30No, that's Schoenberg.
0:16:30 > 0:16:31Ten points for this.
0:16:31 > 0:16:36What first name links the inventor in 1884 of the compound steam
0:16:36 > 0:16:39turbine, the Scottish chemist who gave his surname to
0:16:39 > 0:16:41a waterproof garment, and the English...?
0:16:41 > 0:16:43BUZZ
0:16:43 > 0:16:44Macintosh?
0:16:44 > 0:16:46No, you lose five points.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49And the English mathematician who developed the difference engine.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53- BELL RINGS - Rankine?
0:16:53 > 0:16:58No, it's Charles. Parsons, Macintosh and Babbage.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00So, 10 points at stake for this starter question.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03Which of Shakespeare's plays includes the song that begins,
0:17:03 > 0:17:08"Take, oh take those lips away, that so sweetly were foresworn"?
0:17:08 > 0:17:11Its title alludes to a line found in St Matthew's version of
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Christ's Sermon on the Mount.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17BELL RINGS
0:17:17 > 0:17:18Measure For Measure.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Correct.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21APPLAUSE
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Right, these bonuses are on cities in California, Strathclyde.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Built on the site of the Mexican settlement of Yerba Buena,
0:17:29 > 0:17:32which city is named after a saint who was born in central
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Italy in around 1181?
0:17:35 > 0:17:36San Francisco?
0:17:36 > 0:17:37Correct.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40The first capital of the state of California,
0:17:40 > 0:17:42which city is named after the saint who is variously
0:17:42 > 0:17:46described as the son of Heli in St Luke's Gospel,
0:17:46 > 0:17:49and as the son of Jacob in St Matthew's Gospel?
0:17:49 > 0:17:51San...Diego?
0:17:52 > 0:17:54- Yeah?- Yeah.- San Diego?
0:17:54 > 0:17:56No, it's San Jose.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59And finally, which city in Orange County, California,
0:17:59 > 0:18:03derives its two-word name from the saint named in the apocryphal
0:18:03 > 0:18:07first Gospel of James as the mother of the Virgin Mary?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Santa Ana.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11- Sure?- Yes.- Santa Ana?
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Santa Ana is correct, yes.
0:18:13 > 0:18:1510 points for this.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18The People's Crusade, led by Peter the Hermit,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21was an impatient vanguard of which specific expedition,
0:18:21 > 0:18:24proclaimed at the Council of Clermont by Pope Urban...?
0:18:24 > 0:18:27- BELL RINGS - The First Crusade.
0:18:27 > 0:18:28Correct.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31APPLAUSE
0:18:31 > 0:18:34Strathclyde, these bonuses are on calculus.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37In calculus, what term is used for the rate of change of one
0:18:37 > 0:18:39variable compared to another?
0:18:39 > 0:18:40- Differential.- Differential?
0:18:40 > 0:18:42No, it's derivative.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Differentiation is the process of finding
0:18:45 > 0:18:47the derivative of a function.
0:18:47 > 0:18:48What is the reverse process called?
0:18:48 > 0:18:51- Integrating.- Integration?
0:18:51 > 0:18:56Correct. Calculus always uses which unit of plain angle measurement?
0:18:56 > 0:18:59This makes it possible to relate a linear measure and an angle measure?
0:18:59 > 0:19:00The radian?
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Correct. 10 points for this.
0:19:02 > 0:19:06Does the set of all those sets that do not contain themselves
0:19:06 > 0:19:08contain itself?
0:19:08 > 0:19:10This is a formulation of a paradox
0:19:10 > 0:19:12or antinomy named after which English philosopher...?
0:19:12 > 0:19:14- BUZZ - Bertrand Russell.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Correct.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18APPLAUSE
0:19:18 > 0:19:22You get a set of bonuses, Emmanuel, on Africa.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25With a combined area somewhat smaller than that of Scotland,
0:19:25 > 0:19:28which two neighbouring countries have the highest population
0:19:28 > 0:19:30density in sub-Saharan Africa?
0:19:31 > 0:19:33THEY CONFER
0:19:34 > 0:19:36Small countries...
0:19:38 > 0:19:40- Togo, or...?- Do you reckon?
0:19:40 > 0:19:43- Equatorial Guinea... - Are they next to each other?
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Yeah, they are. But which one?
0:19:45 > 0:19:46Come on.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48Equatorial Guinea and Gabon?
0:19:48 > 0:19:50No, it's Rwanda and Burundi.
0:19:50 > 0:19:54Secondly, what cash crop is the main agricultural export of both
0:19:54 > 0:19:55Rwanda and Burundi?
0:19:57 > 0:20:00THEY CONFER
0:20:00 > 0:20:01Cassava?
0:20:03 > 0:20:04Cassava?
0:20:04 > 0:20:06No, it's coffee.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09Rwanda and Burundi both gained independence on the same day.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Give the decade and the colonial power that granted independence.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Britain...
0:20:16 > 0:20:17I thought Britain might have done.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19'50s, '60s?
0:20:19 > 0:20:21'60s, '70s? '60s?
0:20:21 > 0:20:25THEY CONFER
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Maybe France... What do you think?
0:20:27 > 0:20:29France, '60s? Don't know.
0:20:29 > 0:20:30France, 1960s?
0:20:30 > 0:20:32No, it was Belgium in the 1960s,
0:20:32 > 0:20:35so you don't get the points. We're going to take another
0:20:35 > 0:20:37picture round. For your picture starter, you're going to see
0:20:37 > 0:20:39a painting of a person playing a musical instrument
0:20:39 > 0:20:42popular in the Renaissance and early Baroque period.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45For 10 points, simply give me the name of the instrument
0:20:45 > 0:20:48they are playing, as mentioned in the painting's title.
0:20:51 > 0:20:52Clavichord?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54No, anyone want to buzz from Emmanuel?
0:20:58 > 0:20:59Harpsichord?
0:20:59 > 0:21:02No, it's a virginal.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04It's Young Woman Seated At A Virginal, by Vermeer.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06So, picture bonuses in a moment or two,
0:21:06 > 0:21:09we're going to take another starter question in the meantime.
0:21:09 > 0:21:1110 points for this.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14During the mid-fifth century BC, Kallikrates and Iktinos
0:21:14 > 0:21:18were the architects of which prominent Doric temple?
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Um, the, um, Parthenon?
0:21:20 > 0:21:21That is correct, yes.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26OK, you'll recall a moment ago,
0:21:26 > 0:21:29we saw a virginal in the painting of Vermeer, it's one of many
0:21:29 > 0:21:33instruments that might be played in early music ensembles.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Your music bonuses are three more images of musical instruments,
0:21:36 > 0:21:40this time popular in the Renaissance era and earlier.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Five points for each you can name.
0:21:42 > 0:21:43Firstly, what's this?
0:21:44 > 0:21:47THEY CONFER
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Nominate Brown.
0:21:54 > 0:21:55A drone?
0:21:55 > 0:21:57A drone?! LAUGHTER
0:21:57 > 0:22:01No, it's a hurdy-gurdy. Sounds a bit drone-like!
0:22:01 > 0:22:02Secondly, what's this?
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Any ideas?
0:22:06 > 0:22:08THEY CONFER
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Is it a...
0:22:16 > 0:22:17a curved flute?
0:22:17 > 0:22:19Er, well, in a manner of speaking,
0:22:19 > 0:22:21I suppose it is, but that's not what I wanted.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24No, it's a crumhorn.
0:22:24 > 0:22:25And finally...
0:22:27 > 0:22:29THEY CONFER
0:22:33 > 0:22:34- No idea?- No, nothing.
0:22:36 > 0:22:37Pass.
0:22:37 > 0:22:38That's a dulcimer.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Right, 10 points for this.
0:22:40 > 0:22:41Which Whig Prime Minister
0:22:41 > 0:22:45did David Starkey describe as "charming, worldly wise
0:22:45 > 0:22:49"and with the faint whiff of the danger of an ex-roue -
0:22:49 > 0:22:52"he was the perfect mentor for the inexperienced young Queen"?
0:22:55 > 0:22:56Disraeli.
0:22:56 > 0:22:57No.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02One of you buzz, Emmanuel?
0:23:02 > 0:23:03Palmerston.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06No, it's Melbourne, who was Prime Minister
0:23:06 > 0:23:08when she acceded to the throne.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10OK, we'll take another starter question.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13What is the correct botanical term for the pips on the outside
0:23:13 > 0:23:15of the swollen receptacle of a strawberry plant?
0:23:19 > 0:23:21They are achenes.
0:23:21 > 0:23:2210 points for this.
0:23:22 > 0:23:27The Minch and the Little Minch are bodies of water that separate...
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Skye and the Outer Hebrides.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Yes, it's the Outer Hebrides and the Western Isles.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37So, you get a set of bonuses, Strathclyde, on questions in poetry.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41In each case, identify the poet who wrote the following.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44First - "Shall I part my hair behind?
0:23:44 > 0:23:45"Do I dare to eat a peach?"
0:23:49 > 0:23:52THEY CONFER
0:23:54 > 0:23:56Emily Dickinson?
0:23:56 > 0:23:59No, that's TS Eliot in The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01"Was he free, was he happy? The question is absurd.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05"Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard."
0:24:09 > 0:24:13THEY CONFER
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Edward Lear?
0:24:16 > 0:24:18No, that's Auden, The Unknown Citizen.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22And finally - "In what distant deeps or skies
0:24:22 > 0:24:24"Burnt the fire of thine eyes?"
0:24:28 > 0:24:29Browning?
0:24:29 > 0:24:31No, that's William Blake,
0:24:31 > 0:24:33in The Tyger. Three minutes to go, 10 points for this.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Which Mediterranean country
0:24:35 > 0:24:37is the world's largest producer of apricots,
0:24:37 > 0:24:40ahead of Algeria, Uzbekistan and Iran?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43It shares a border with the latter country.
0:24:45 > 0:24:46Turkey.
0:24:46 > 0:24:47Turkey is correct, yes.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52You're going to be pleased - you've got bonuses on kings of Scotland.
0:24:52 > 0:24:56Described as "a masterful ruler who consolidated his power
0:24:56 > 0:24:58"throughout the kingdom", which king
0:24:58 > 0:25:00died at the siege of Roxburgh in 1460?
0:25:02 > 0:25:03James the...
0:25:04 > 0:25:06..the fourth?
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Was it the fourth? James IV? I don't know.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Go for the fourth.
0:25:11 > 0:25:12James IV.
0:25:12 > 0:25:13No, it was James II.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16Described as having established "the first strong monarchy
0:25:16 > 0:25:18"the Scots had known in nearly a century",
0:25:18 > 0:25:23which king was assassinated by a group of conspirators in 1437?
0:25:25 > 0:25:29THEY CONFER
0:25:36 > 0:25:37James I.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39That was James I, yes.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Described as having "aspired to the ideal of the Renaissance prince",
0:25:42 > 0:25:47which king died at the Battle of Flodden in Northumberland in 1513?
0:25:47 > 0:25:49- That was James IV. - James IV.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50Correct.
0:25:50 > 0:25:5110 points for this.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53"It was love at first sight."
0:25:53 > 0:25:55These words begin which 1961 novel,
0:25:55 > 0:25:59the object of the love being the chaplain and the lover in...
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Catch-22.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Catch-22 is right.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Right, your bonuses this time, Emmanuel College,
0:26:08 > 0:26:10are on overland explorers. In each case,
0:26:10 > 0:26:13give the two surnames that match the following given names.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17Firstly, Robert O'Hara and William John, both of whom died
0:26:17 > 0:26:22while attempting a North-South crossing of Australia in 1861.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26- Do they want one surname? - It was two surnames, wasn't it?
0:26:28 > 0:26:29Smith and Brown?
0:26:29 > 0:26:31I just don't know.
0:26:31 > 0:26:32Smith and Brown.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34No, it's Burke and Wills.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Secondly, John Hanning and James Augustus,
0:26:37 > 0:26:39who explored the source of the Nile in the early 1860s.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43I did this the other day!
0:26:45 > 0:26:47Um...
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Pass.
0:26:49 > 0:26:50That was Speke and Grant.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52And finally, Meriwether and William,
0:26:52 > 0:26:56who led an expedition to explore the lands west of the Mississippi
0:26:56 > 0:26:59from 1804 to 1806.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02- Um, Lewis and... - Lewis and Clark?
0:27:02 > 0:27:03Yes. Lewis and Clark.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Correct. 10 points for this.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06In chemistry, Nessler's reagent
0:27:06 > 0:27:10is used in the analysis of water to detect the presence
0:27:10 > 0:27:12of what soluble gas?
0:27:16 > 0:27:18I'll tell you...
0:27:18 > 0:27:19Carbon dioxide.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22No, anyone want to buzz from Emmanuel, quickly?
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Sulphur dioxide?
0:27:24 > 0:27:25No, it's ammonia.
0:27:25 > 0:27:26GONG 10 points for this...
0:27:26 > 0:27:28And at the gong,
0:27:28 > 0:27:29Strathclyde have 105,
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Emmanuel College, Cambridge have 170.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Well, you started badly, Strathclyde,
0:27:37 > 0:27:39then you started coming back, then you faded a bit.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41I don't quite know what happened there,
0:27:41 > 0:27:44maybe you were just unlucky with the way the questions fell.
0:27:44 > 0:27:45Emmanuel College, congratulations,
0:27:45 > 0:27:48we look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals, well done.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51I hope you can join us next time for another second-round match,
0:27:51 > 0:27:54but until then, it's goodbye from Strathclyde University...
0:27:54 > 0:27:56- ALL:- Bye-bye.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58..it's goodbye from Emmanuel College, Cambridge...
0:27:58 > 0:27:59- ALL:- Goodbye.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.