0:00:22 > 0:00:23APPLAUSE
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Hello.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Two Cambridge colleges, Emmanuel and St John's,
0:00:32 > 0:00:35have already gone through to the quarterfinals of this competition.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Six places remain to be taken,
0:00:37 > 0:00:40and one of them will go to tonight's winners.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43For the losers though, it's curtains.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45The University of Warwick had something of a walkover
0:00:45 > 0:00:48in their first-round match against the team from York University,
0:00:48 > 0:00:51winning by 240 points to 80.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55In a fixture that gave them ample opportunity to shine on
0:00:55 > 0:01:00the events of 1817, US presidential elections and Robert Baden Powell.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03We'll see if tonight's match can give them some stiffer competition.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07With an average age of 24, let's meet the Warwick team again.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Hi, I'm Flora Jackson, I'm originally from York,
0:01:11 > 0:01:14and I'm studying English with creative writing.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19Hello, I'm Daniel Arribas, I'm from Madrid, and I'm studying maths.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20This is their captain.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Hi, I'm Ben Salter, I'm originally from Wiveliscombe in Somerset,
0:01:23 > 0:01:25and I'm reading mathematics.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Hello, I'm Charlotte Symons, I'm from the Welsh Borders area,
0:01:28 > 0:01:31and I'm studying for an MA in writing.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33APPLAUSE
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Now, the team from Ulster University lost their first-round match
0:01:39 > 0:01:43against the University of Edinburgh, but only by a five-point margin,
0:01:43 > 0:01:47and survived as one of the highest-scoring losing teams,
0:01:47 > 0:01:50and then beat St Anne's College Oxford in their play-off
0:01:50 > 0:01:52by a margin of 175-90.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56They were impressive on Polish composers, the Suez Canal
0:01:56 > 0:02:00and the erotic conceits of John Donne. Let's meet them again.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Hello, I'm Cathal McDaid from Buncrana in County Donegal,
0:02:04 > 0:02:07and I'm studying for a Masters in English literature.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10Hi, I'm Kate Ritchie, I'm from Waringstown, County Armagh,
0:02:10 > 0:02:12and I study fine art.
0:02:12 > 0:02:13This is their captain.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17Hi, I'm Iain Jack, I'm originally from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire,
0:02:17 > 0:02:20and I'm reading for a PhD in pharmacy.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23Hi, my name's Matthew Milliken, I'm from Comber in County Down,
0:02:23 > 0:02:26and I'm doing a PhD in education.
0:02:26 > 0:02:27APPLAUSE
0:02:30 > 0:02:32The rules, as you know, never change,
0:02:32 > 0:02:36so fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40The Story Of The Malakand Field Force and The River War -
0:02:40 > 0:02:44An Historical Account Of The Reconquest Of The Soudan,
0:02:44 > 0:02:48were early published works by which major figure of the 20th century?
0:02:48 > 0:02:51In 1953, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature...
0:02:53 > 0:02:55- Winston Churchill.- Correct.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56APPLAUSE
0:02:58 > 0:03:01The first set of bonuses are on a French region, Ulster.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05The composer Joseph Canteloube is most closely associated with
0:03:05 > 0:03:09which historical region of France through his collections
0:03:09 > 0:03:13of folk songs published between 1923 and 1954?
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Its cities include Vichy and Claremont-Ferrand.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18- Auvergne.- Correct.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21The Auvergne is named after the Arverni tribe.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25Which leader of the Arverni was defeated by Julius Caesar
0:03:25 > 0:03:27at Alesia in 52 BC?
0:03:29 > 0:03:30- No idea.- Asterix!
0:03:32 > 0:03:33No idea.
0:03:34 > 0:03:35Erm...
0:03:36 > 0:03:38I'm sorry, we've no idea.
0:03:38 > 0:03:39That's Vercingetorix.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43And finally, the majority of the Auvergne region lies on which large,
0:03:43 > 0:03:49upland plateau, which includes the Dore and Forez mountain ranges?
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Isn't the Massif Central in France?
0:03:52 > 0:03:55- Nominate Ritchie.- Massif Central?
0:03:55 > 0:03:56Correct.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58Right, another starter question -
0:03:58 > 0:04:01what eight-letter word is thought
0:04:01 > 0:04:04to derive from the Arabic for hashish eater?
0:04:05 > 0:04:07- Assassin.- Assassin is correct.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09APPLAUSE
0:04:10 > 0:04:14You get a set of bonuses this time, Ulster, on monkeys.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Firstly, for five points -
0:04:16 > 0:04:19what is the common name of Nasalis larvatus,
0:04:19 > 0:04:25a Borneo monkey that has the largest nose by far of any primate?
0:04:25 > 0:04:26Proboscis monkey.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28- Proboscis.- Correct.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Living in the Shimokita Peninsula in Japan,
0:04:31 > 0:04:35the northernmost population of nonhuman primates belongs to
0:04:35 > 0:04:37which large genus of old-world monkey?
0:04:40 > 0:04:42What are the ones that live in Japan?
0:04:42 > 0:04:45- Macaque?- I think you're right.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47- Macaque.- Correct.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51Mantled and Venezuelan red are species of which monkeys
0:04:51 > 0:04:53in the genus Alouatta?
0:04:53 > 0:04:56They have greatly enlarged lower jaws that help make them
0:04:56 > 0:04:58one of the noisiest of all primates.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Howler?
0:05:00 > 0:05:02- Howler monkeys.- Correct.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05Ten points for this - of the space missions
0:05:05 > 0:05:07that have had a close encounter with Jupiter,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10only two have gone into orbit around the planet.
0:05:10 > 0:05:11Name either?
0:05:12 > 0:05:14- Juno.- Correct. Yes.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16APPLAUSE The other one was Galileo.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Well done.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20OK, Warwick, your first set of bonuses are on
0:05:20 > 0:05:23the first sentences of well-known works of thought.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27In each case, identify the work and its author or co-authors.
0:05:27 > 0:05:32Firstly, from a work of 1936, "The traditional disputes of philosophers
0:05:32 > 0:05:37"are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful."
0:05:37 > 0:05:40'36, what would this be?
0:05:40 > 0:05:42It sounds like Wittgenstein...
0:05:42 > 0:05:44I'll give you Wittgenstein.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47- Philosophical Investigations, maybe. - Or Tractatus...?
0:05:47 > 0:05:48No, it's not Tractatus.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Philosophical Investigations?
0:05:50 > 0:05:54No, it's Language, Truth And Logic by AJ Ayer.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Secondly, from a work of 1762,
0:05:56 > 0:06:00"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."
0:06:00 > 0:06:03- The Social Contract. - Who's it by?- Rousseau.
0:06:03 > 0:06:04Correct.
0:06:04 > 0:06:09Finally, the co-authors and title of the work of 1848 which begins,
0:06:09 > 0:06:11"A spectre is haunting Europe."
0:06:11 > 0:06:14- The Communist Manifesto, by Marx and Engels.- Correct.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Another starter question - the name of which light shoe originates
0:06:17 > 0:06:21from the resemblance of the side of its sole to a ship's load line...
0:06:24 > 0:06:25- Plimsoll.- Correct.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27APPLAUSE
0:06:28 > 0:06:31Your bonuses are on colours listed on Wikipedia.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34In each case, name the colour from the description.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37All three begin with the same letter.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Firstly, a shade of pale, greyish-green,
0:06:39 > 0:06:42often used to refer to Chinese pottery.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45It takes its name from a character in a French pastoral novel
0:06:45 > 0:06:46of the early 17th century.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Pastoral novel, colours?
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Pale green/grey...
0:06:54 > 0:06:55Sage? No?
0:06:56 > 0:06:57Sage...
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Shall I try that?
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Chinese pottery, jade?
0:07:03 > 0:07:05No, no, that's not it.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Try sage.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Sage.
0:07:11 > 0:07:12No, it's celadon.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15Secondly, a bright shade of orange red.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19It's name is the French for a species of poppy.
0:07:19 > 0:07:20C... Cerise.
0:07:20 > 0:07:21Cerise.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23No, it's coquelicot.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27And finally, a shade of mid-blue, named after a wildflower.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30In France, this flower plays a similar role to the
0:07:30 > 0:07:32poppy as a symbol of remembrance.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Cornflower, is it?
0:07:34 > 0:07:36What letter does it begin with?
0:07:36 > 0:07:38- Cornflower.- Coinflower?- Cornflower.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40- Cornflower.- Cornflower is correct.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43We're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:43 > 0:07:44For your picture starter,
0:07:44 > 0:07:47you'll see the court of arms of a European capital city.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49Ten points if you can name the city?
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Berlin.
0:07:53 > 0:07:54Berlin is right.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56APPLAUSE
0:07:58 > 0:08:02The phonetic similarity between Berlin and the German word for bear
0:08:02 > 0:08:05makes that coat of arms an example of canting arms, where the
0:08:05 > 0:08:09images presented make a reference to or pun on the city's name.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13Your picture bonuses are three more examples of canting arms
0:08:13 > 0:08:15from German state capitals.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Five points for each you can name. Firstly...
0:08:19 > 0:08:22- What's the word for horse in German? - Pferd.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24So, what city?
0:08:24 > 0:08:25Stuttgart, Leipzig...
0:08:28 > 0:08:31- Come on. - Frankfurt, go for Frankfurt.
0:08:31 > 0:08:32Frankfurt.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35No, it's Stuttgart, it's related to Stute, the German for mare.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36Secondly...
0:08:38 > 0:08:40- Tor...- Castle, tower...
0:08:43 > 0:08:44Gate?
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Potsdam?
0:08:46 > 0:08:47Shall I try? Potsdam?
0:08:47 > 0:08:49No, it's Magdeburg.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Magde being German for maiden and Burg, of course, meaning castle.
0:08:52 > 0:08:53Finally...
0:08:56 > 0:09:00- It's a monk. What's the word for monk?- A monk or friar?
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Is that Munich? No?
0:09:02 > 0:09:04- What's the word for monk?- Monch.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07- Munich?- Munich is correct, well done.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10Ten points for this - Hongwu was the first emperor
0:09:10 > 0:09:13of which Chinese dynasty?
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Born a poor peasant, he entered a monastery to avoid starvation
0:09:16 > 0:09:20during a famine, and later rose to prominence in a rebel army.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22He established his capital at Nanjing
0:09:22 > 0:09:25and overthrew the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29- Ming.- Ming is correct.
0:09:29 > 0:09:30APPLAUSE
0:09:32 > 0:09:35Right, your bonuses this time, Warwick, are on the tenth-century
0:09:35 > 0:09:40Latin document known as the Annales Cambriae, or Annals Of Wales.
0:09:40 > 0:09:45A record of the year AD 570 in the Annals marks the death
0:09:45 > 0:09:50of which monk, the author of The Overthrow And Conquest Of Britain?
0:09:50 > 0:09:52- SALTER MAKES A MUMBLED SUGGESTION - No, no.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55I've absolutely no idea, so...
0:09:55 > 0:09:56- Gildas.- Gildas?
0:09:56 > 0:09:58- He was a monk.- All right.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00- Gildas?- Correct.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03Gildas describes which battle of the early sixth century as having
0:10:03 > 0:10:07given the Britons some respite against the invading Anglo-Saxons?
0:10:07 > 0:10:11Usually known by a five-letter name, its site is unknown.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Erm...
0:10:14 > 0:10:16- Pardon?- Something Arthurian, probably.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19- OK, so not Camlann then... - Could be, if that's five letters.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22It's not five letters. That's, like, seven.
0:10:22 > 0:10:23I've got absolutely no idea.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25What's a nice five-letter word?
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Bulge.
0:10:27 > 0:10:28Bulge, yeah, let's go with that.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31- Bulge.- No, it's Badon Hill.- Oh!
0:10:31 > 0:10:35And finally, whom does the Annals mention as a leading figure
0:10:35 > 0:10:39at Badon and at the Battle of Camlann, some 20 years later?
0:10:39 > 0:10:41- Gildas makes no mention of him. - That's got to be Arthur.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43- Surely Arthur.- Arthur? - Arthur is correct.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46Ten points for this - this Swiss chemist
0:10:46 > 0:10:49and physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
0:10:49 > 0:10:51is more commonly known by...
0:10:52 > 0:10:54Paracelsus.
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Paracelsus is correct.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58APPLAUSE
0:10:58 > 0:11:02Your bonuses are on physics. In each case, give the optical term defined.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06All three answers are French words or names.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10Firstly, what six-letter word denotes a device formed of
0:11:10 > 0:11:14two parallel reflectors, which, by the effects of interference,
0:11:14 > 0:11:17will allow only a narrow range of wavelengths to pass through?
0:11:17 > 0:11:20Oh, it's from a French word, so it's not a polariser.
0:11:20 > 0:11:21Mmm.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23Polariseur?
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Je ne sais pas.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27I don't know, no idea.
0:11:27 > 0:11:28A polariser.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30No, it's an etalon.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34Secondly, for five points, a seven-letter term that may
0:11:34 > 0:11:36precede grating or spectrograph,
0:11:36 > 0:11:39indicating respectively a diffraction grating with
0:11:39 > 0:11:43widely spaced lines and a device based on such a grating?
0:11:44 > 0:11:47- Do we know? - I've absolutely no idea.
0:11:47 > 0:11:48Just pass?
0:11:48 > 0:11:49Pass.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52- It's echelle, or echelon.- OK.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55And finally, a type of lens formed of annular steps,
0:11:55 > 0:12:00named after its inventor, a French physicist, born 1788?
0:12:00 > 0:12:01- Fresnel?- Correct.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Ten points for this - what is the common name
0:12:04 > 0:12:07for the Echinoids of the Echinoidea phylum?
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Characterised by tubed feet...
0:12:11 > 0:12:13- Starfish?- No, you lose five points.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16..and a mouth structure called Aristotle's lantern?
0:12:16 > 0:12:20Their common name comes in part from an old word for a hedgehog.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27- Sea urchin.- Correct.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29APPLAUSE
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Right, your bonuses this time are on economics.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36Drawing heavily on psychology, which branch of economics forms the
0:12:36 > 0:12:40title of a work of 2017 by Michelle Baddeley
0:12:40 > 0:12:43and is concerned with understanding human decision-making
0:12:43 > 0:12:47more broadly than as a simple, irrational process?
0:12:53 > 0:12:55In Principle? I don't know.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58- Beyond Thought? - No, it's Behavioural Economics.
0:12:58 > 0:12:59And secondly,
0:12:59 > 0:13:02an adviser to the Behavioural Insights Team in Downing Street,
0:13:02 > 0:13:06which US academic and theorist the wrote the 2015 book,
0:13:06 > 0:13:10Misbehaving - The Making Of Behavioural Economics?
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Who's the one that wrote the book...?
0:13:15 > 0:13:18I'm thinking of Daniel Kahneman. Try Daniel Kahneman.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20- Daniel...?- Kahneman.
0:13:20 > 0:13:21Daniel Kahneman.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23No, it's Richard Thaler.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27Which 2008 book did Thaler co-author with Cass Sunstein?
0:13:27 > 0:13:31It argues that small changes in the choice architecture of society
0:13:31 > 0:13:34can lead to significant shifts in behaviour?
0:13:36 > 0:13:37Tipping Point.
0:13:37 > 0:13:38No, it's Nudge.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Ten points for this - what a word entered the language
0:13:41 > 0:13:46in the late 19th century as a translation of the German term
0:13:46 > 0:13:49used by Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra?
0:13:49 > 0:13:51It appears in the title of a 19...
0:13:52 > 0:13:53Ubermensch.
0:13:53 > 0:13:54No, you lose five points.
0:13:54 > 0:13:59..it appears in the title of 1903 stage work by George Bernard Shaw.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02Superman.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Superman is correct, which is of course, what you are getting at,
0:14:05 > 0:14:08but Ubermensch doesn't appear in the title of the play, of course.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Your bonuses are on astronomy. In each case,
0:14:11 > 0:14:14I want the name of one of the 24 stars in the sky with
0:14:14 > 0:14:17the greatest apparent magnitude or brightness, Ulster,
0:14:17 > 0:14:23after the sun, according to the 20th addition of Norton's Star Atlas.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26Which star in the constellation Lyra has the shortest name amongst
0:14:26 > 0:14:28these 24 bright stars?
0:14:28 > 0:14:30The name has four letters.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34- A star with four letters. - Don't know any.
0:14:39 > 0:14:40Pass.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42It's Vega.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45Which star in Cygnus has the greatest intrinsic luminosity
0:14:45 > 0:14:49among the 24 and is at the greatest distance from our solar system?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Try Sirius.
0:14:51 > 0:14:52Sirius.
0:14:52 > 0:14:53No, it's Deneb.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56And finally, there are two red supergiants in the list
0:14:56 > 0:14:58with spectral class M.
0:14:58 > 0:14:59Name either.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Sirius again.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03No, it's Betelgeuse or Antares.
0:15:03 > 0:15:04We're going to take a music round now.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06For your music starter, you're going to
0:15:06 > 0:15:08hear a duet from an opera.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12GENTLE ARIA
0:15:14 > 0:15:15Oh, Offenbach?
0:15:15 > 0:15:16Offenbach is correct, of course.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18APPLAUSE
0:15:18 > 0:15:20That was from his Tales Of Hoffmann, which is
0:15:20 > 0:15:25based on three short stories by the romantic author, ETA Hoffmann.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Your music bonuses are three more classical works
0:15:28 > 0:15:30inspired by Hoffmann's tales.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32I'd like the composer in each case, please.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Firstly, for five, from a ballet...
0:15:35 > 0:15:37FLOWING STRINGS
0:15:41 > 0:15:44Do we just need the composer? Oh, OK.
0:15:44 > 0:15:45Tchaikovsky.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48No, that's Delibes, that was the waltz from Coppelia, which is
0:15:48 > 0:15:50- based on Hoffmann's The Sandman. - Whoops!
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Secondly, I want the composer of this work, please.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55STRIDENT PIANO SOLO
0:16:05 > 0:16:08I don't think it is, but I've got nothing better.
0:16:10 > 0:16:11Dvorak?
0:16:11 > 0:16:12Would it be, though?
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Chopin didn't really do programmatic pieces.
0:16:16 > 0:16:17There are Dvorak piano pieces.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20I could believe Liszt or I could believe...
0:16:20 > 0:16:23- Do you want to go Chopin? - It could be Debussy.
0:16:23 > 0:16:24Liszt?
0:16:24 > 0:16:27No, that's by Schumann, that was part of his Kreisleriana,
0:16:27 > 0:16:31inspired by Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler.
0:16:31 > 0:16:32And finally...
0:16:32 > 0:16:34LIVELY, UNISON STRINGS
0:16:39 > 0:16:40Tchaikovsky.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43Indeed, that was a bit of the Nutcracker.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45Right, ten points for this - answer promptly -
0:16:45 > 0:16:49counting antiparticles and different colour charges
0:16:49 > 0:16:53and flavours as distinct particles, how many types of quark...
0:16:54 > 0:16:5612.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59No. And you lose five points.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02..exist in the standard model of particle physics?
0:17:04 > 0:17:05Four.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07No, it's 36.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Another starter question now.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12The light brown cane sugar Demerara is named after a
0:17:12 > 0:17:16historical region in which present-day South American country?
0:17:16 > 0:17:20It was called land of water by indigenous peoples,
0:17:20 > 0:17:23and is the only English-speaking country...
0:17:23 > 0:17:24Guyana.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26Guyana is right.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28APPLAUSE
0:17:29 > 0:17:33Right, Warwick, your bonuses are on women born in 1917.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36In each case, name the person from the description.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39Firstly, the chair of the board of the Washington Post
0:17:39 > 0:17:44from 1973 to 1991, during which time the paper did much to uncover
0:17:44 > 0:17:45the Watergate scandal?
0:17:45 > 0:17:48I've no idea.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50- You know, Daniel?- No.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52Smith.
0:17:52 > 0:17:53That was Katharine Graham.
0:17:53 > 0:17:57Secondly, a literary figure born in 1917, her works include
0:17:57 > 0:18:01The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter and The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe.
0:18:01 > 0:18:03- Carson McCullers.- Correct.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07And finally, an exponent of the scat style of jazz singing,
0:18:07 > 0:18:09born in Virginia, with Louis Armstrong
0:18:09 > 0:18:12she produced a notable duet version of Porgy And Bess.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14- Ella Fitzgerald.- Correct.
0:18:14 > 0:18:15Ten points for this -
0:18:15 > 0:18:17by Greenwich Mean Time,
0:18:17 > 0:18:21the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere has, in every year
0:18:21 > 0:18:23since 2008, fallen on what date?
0:18:23 > 0:18:28It'll switch to the preceding day in the calendar in 2044.
0:18:30 > 0:18:3128th October.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35Anyone like to buzz...?
0:18:35 > 0:18:3621st of September.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38No, it's the 20th of March.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Right, ten points for this -
0:18:40 > 0:18:43a 1960 news report about two Portuguese students
0:18:43 > 0:18:47sent to prison for seven years for raising glasses in a toast
0:18:47 > 0:18:50to freedom spurred the barrister Peter Benenson
0:18:50 > 0:18:53to found which human rights organisation?
0:18:54 > 0:18:56- Amnesty International.- Correct.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58APPLAUSE
0:18:59 > 0:19:00You get a set of bonuses on
0:19:00 > 0:19:03the autobiographies of rock stars, Ulster.
0:19:03 > 0:19:04Subtitled Volume One,
0:19:04 > 0:19:08what was the title of the memoir published by Bob Dylan in 2004?
0:19:15 > 0:19:16Don't Look Back?
0:19:16 > 0:19:19I mean, that was the film, but it might be the book as well?
0:19:19 > 0:19:20Don't Look Back?
0:19:20 > 0:19:22No, it's Chronicles.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25What three-word title is shared by Bruce Springsteen's
0:19:25 > 0:19:29third studio album and his 2016 autobiography?
0:19:29 > 0:19:30Born To Run.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32- Born To Run.- Correct.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36The Dirt - Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band,
0:19:36 > 0:19:39recounts 20 years of rather wearisome behaviour
0:19:39 > 0:19:43of Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx and other members of which group?
0:19:43 > 0:19:44Motley Crue.
0:19:44 > 0:19:45- Motley Crue.- Correct.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47Ten points for this -
0:19:47 > 0:19:52what three-letter abbreviation links a common name for Scandium, yttrium
0:19:52 > 0:19:56and the lanthanide elements with a phase of sleep characterised by...
0:19:57 > 0:19:59- REM.- Correct.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02You get a set of bonuses on place names.
0:20:02 > 0:20:03Around 20 miles long,
0:20:03 > 0:20:08the Black Isle is a peninsula lying closest to which Scottish city?
0:20:08 > 0:20:10- Inverness.- Correct.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13The River Blackwater flows for more than 100 miles
0:20:13 > 0:20:16and enters the Atlantic at Youghal in County Cork.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19It's often known by name of which historical province
0:20:19 > 0:20:21to distinguish it from other rivers of the same name?
0:20:21 > 0:20:24WHISPERING
0:20:24 > 0:20:27Must be Munster.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29- Munster.- Correct.
0:20:29 > 0:20:33And finally, a series of ridges between Abergavenny and Hay-on-Wye,
0:20:33 > 0:20:37the Black Mountains lie largely within which National Park?
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Brecon Beacons.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41- Brecon Beacons.- Correct.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44We're going to take a picture round. For your starter,
0:20:44 > 0:20:47you'll see a painting. Ten points if you can identify the artist.
0:20:54 > 0:20:55Rossetti.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57No, anyone like to buzz from Warwick?
0:20:59 > 0:21:00William Holman Hunt.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02No, it's by Raphael.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Right, we're going to take picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07Ten points for this starter question -
0:21:07 > 0:21:09the alphanumeric designation KV62,
0:21:09 > 0:21:13with the letters standing for the Valley of the Kings,
0:21:13 > 0:21:16denotes the tomb of which figure of the 14th...?
0:21:17 > 0:21:19- Tutankhamen.- Correct.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21APPLAUSE
0:21:22 > 0:21:24You just saw, a moment ago,
0:21:24 > 0:21:28one of Raphael's depictions of St George to slaying the dragon.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30For your bonuses, three more paintings of St George,
0:21:30 > 0:21:33in each case, I want the name of the artist.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Firstly...
0:21:35 > 0:21:37- Chagall.- OK, you reckon? OK.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38Chagall.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40No, that's Kandinsky.
0:21:40 > 0:21:41Secondly...
0:21:44 > 0:21:46It looks medieval.
0:21:46 > 0:21:47Or Renaissance, even.
0:21:47 > 0:21:48So, Rossetti?
0:21:52 > 0:21:54So, Titian?
0:21:56 > 0:21:57Titian?
0:21:57 > 0:22:00No, that's by Lucas Cranach, Cranach the Elder.
0:22:00 > 0:22:01And finally...
0:22:03 > 0:22:06That's also not...
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Yeah, Rubens, surely?
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Oh, you reckon Rubens? I've got one vote for Rubens.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14I think it looks a bit Rubens.
0:22:14 > 0:22:15Rubens?
0:22:15 > 0:22:17It is Peter Paul Rubens, yes.
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Ten points for this - on the periodic table,
0:22:18 > 0:22:22if boron plus carbon is sodium,
0:22:22 > 0:22:24what is nitrogen plus oxygen?
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Fluorine?
0:22:31 > 0:22:32Anyone like to buzz from Ulster?
0:22:34 > 0:22:37- Calcium.- No, it's phosphorus.
0:22:37 > 0:22:38Ten points for this -
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Logical Investigations is a major work by which philosopher,
0:22:41 > 0:22:47born in Moravia in 1859, he founded the movement known as phenomenology.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51- Edmund Husserl.- Correct.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53APPLAUSE
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Right, your bonuses are on microbiology.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00What genus of gram-negative bacteria causes cholera?
0:23:00 > 0:23:01Do we know?
0:23:01 > 0:23:04No. Let's go with...
0:23:04 > 0:23:06C elegans.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08No, it's Vibrio.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10What short, Latin term denotes the hair-like
0:23:10 > 0:23:14appendages on bacterial cells by means of which, for example,
0:23:14 > 0:23:18Vibrio cholerae is able to colonise the small intestine?
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Is it pili?
0:23:20 > 0:23:21- Psyllia?- Isn't it pili?
0:23:21 > 0:23:24- I think it's psyllium.- You reckon?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Pili?
0:23:26 > 0:23:27Correct, yes.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30And finally, the term Vibrio may also be used generally to
0:23:30 > 0:23:32describe a particular shape of bacterium.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34What is that shape?
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Vibrio, I don't know, like, straight...
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Just go with it.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Straight.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42- No, they're curved rod.- Oh, OK.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44OK, Four minutes to go, ten points for this -
0:23:44 > 0:23:47what four-letter name links the highest mountain of Switzerland
0:23:47 > 0:23:51with a civil rights activist, born in Alabama in 1913?
0:23:52 > 0:23:54- Rosa.- Correct.
0:23:54 > 0:23:55APPLAUSE
0:23:56 > 0:24:00You get a set of bonuses on Robert Burns, Warwick.
0:24:00 > 0:24:05Born in 1759 in Alloway, Burns' first attempt at poetry is
0:24:05 > 0:24:07believed to have been made at the age of 15,
0:24:07 > 0:24:10after he'd followed his father into what occupation?
0:24:12 > 0:24:14- Carpentry?- Go for it.- Carpentry?
0:24:14 > 0:24:16No, it was farming.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Secondly, in his 1791 poem, Tam O'Shanter,
0:24:19 > 0:24:22based on a folk legend, what nickname is given to the
0:24:22 > 0:24:26witch Nannie who chases Tam and rips the tail from his horse?
0:24:26 > 0:24:28- Any ideas?- No idea. - Charlotte, do you know?- Any ideas?
0:24:30 > 0:24:32If not... Erm...
0:24:32 > 0:24:33Mother?
0:24:33 > 0:24:34No, it's Cutty-sark.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38In 1785, to what animal did Burns dedicate the poem beginning,
0:24:38 > 0:24:40- "Wee, sleekit..."- A mouse.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42A mouse is correct.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45Ten points for this - the Titan, the resurrection...
0:24:46 > 0:24:48- Mahler.- Mahler is right.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50APPLAUSE
0:24:50 > 0:24:52If you get these bonuses, you'll take the lead.
0:24:52 > 0:24:53They're on China and its neighbours.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55In each case, name the country and its capital.
0:24:55 > 0:25:00The Araniko Highway runs for more than 100km, from which capital
0:25:00 > 0:25:05to the Friendship Bridge at Zhangmu, in the Tibet autonomous region?
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Nepal, Kathmandu.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09- Nepal, Kathmandu.- Correct.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13Which capital is about 400km north of the Torugart Pass,
0:25:13 > 0:25:17which links its country to the China over the Tian Shan Mountains?
0:25:17 > 0:25:21- Oh, Tian Shan, erm...- Tajikistan? - I'd say Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23- Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.- Correct.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26And finally, the shortest overland route between Beijing
0:25:26 > 0:25:29and Moscow passes through which other national capital?
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Kazakhstan, Astana.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Or Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, which do you think?
0:25:33 > 0:25:35- I don't know, which one? - Kazakhstan, Astana.
0:25:35 > 0:25:36Kazakhstan and Astana?
0:25:36 > 0:25:39No, it was Ulaanbaatar and Mongolia. AUDIENCE GROANS
0:25:39 > 0:25:40Ten points for this - answer promptly -
0:25:40 > 0:25:43to the nearest degree, at what temperature Celsius
0:25:43 > 0:25:46does liquid water achieve its maximum density?
0:25:48 > 0:25:50-4.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52No...
0:25:52 > 0:25:53- Six.- No, it's four.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Ten points for this - the author of the 2016 book
0:25:56 > 0:26:00The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo, which US comedian made her
0:26:00 > 0:26:04debut as a screenwriter with the 2015 film, Trainwreck?
0:26:06 > 0:26:07Tina Fey?
0:26:07 > 0:26:09No, anyone want to buzz from Ulster?
0:26:11 > 0:26:12- Amy Schumer?- Correct.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14APPLAUSE
0:26:14 > 0:26:17You get the lead and your bonuses are on phobias.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20Using a jocular coinage that depends on wordplay rather than Greek
0:26:20 > 0:26:25etymology, what would you fear if you suffered from aibohphobia?
0:26:25 > 0:26:30That is A-I-B-O-H-P-H-O-B-I-A.
0:26:33 > 0:26:34Come on.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Flying, is it? Flying.
0:26:36 > 0:26:37No, it's palindromes.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Xanthophobia is a fear of what colour?
0:26:39 > 0:26:41- Yellow.- Yellow.
0:26:41 > 0:26:46Correct. What would you fear if you suffered from omphalophobia?
0:26:46 > 0:26:47Omphalo is the bellybutton.
0:26:49 > 0:26:50Fear of bellybuttons?
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Correct, yes!
0:26:52 > 0:26:54Ten points for this - in chemistry,
0:26:54 > 0:26:57what term denotes the process by which a substance absorbs
0:26:57 > 0:27:01moisture from the atmosphere until it dissolves and forms a solution?
0:27:03 > 0:27:04- Deliquescence.- Correct.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06APPLAUSE
0:27:06 > 0:27:07These bonuses are on theatre.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11First staged in 1958 in a production directed by John Gielgud,
0:27:11 > 0:27:16Five Finger Exercise is an early work by which British playwright?
0:27:16 > 0:27:18- Five Finger Exercise...- Come on. - John Osborne?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20- John Osborne. - No, it's Peter Shaffer.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24Which 1964 play by Peter Shaffer portrays the conflict
0:27:24 > 0:27:28between the Spanish and the Inca in the early 16th century?
0:27:28 > 0:27:29- Empire Of The Sun? - Let's have it.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32- Empire Of The Sun. - No, it's The Royal Hunt Of The Sun.
0:27:32 > 0:27:33GONG
0:27:33 > 0:27:36And at the gong, Warwick have 140, but Ulster have 170.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39APPLAUSE
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Well, you very nearly did it, Warwick, very, very nearly indeed.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48You had some terrific interventions,
0:27:48 > 0:27:50but we're going to have to say goodbye to you, I'm afraid.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Ulster, congratulations, you storm onto the next stage
0:27:53 > 0:27:56of the competition, we shall look forward to seeing you then.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58I hope you can join us next time for another second-round match,
0:27:58 > 0:28:01but until then, it's goodbye from Warwick University...
0:28:01 > 0:28:04- Goodbye.- ..it's goodbye from Ulster University...- Goodbye.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06..and it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08APPLAUSE