0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions - Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. Two more teams are at the start of a journey
0:00:31 > 0:00:33which might last several months over numerous matches,
0:00:33 > 0:00:37and which could culminate with them lifting the Champions' Trophy
0:00:37 > 0:00:39to deafening cheers.
0:00:39 > 0:00:40Or it could all end tonight.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Now, Trinity College, Cambridge was founded by Henry VIII
0:00:43 > 0:00:45in the mid-16th century,
0:00:45 > 0:00:49and it's now one of the University's biggest and richest colleges.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53Its 17th-century Great Court famously tempts students to
0:00:53 > 0:00:56try to run around it in less time than it takes the college's
0:00:56 > 0:00:58clock to strike 12. LAUGHTER
0:00:58 > 0:01:01That is, when they're not spending time in the library
0:01:01 > 0:01:03designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06A long list of alumni includes Isaac Newton, the philosopher
0:01:06 > 0:01:10Francis Bacon, the poets Marvell, Dryden, Byron and Tennyson,
0:01:10 > 0:01:13and more recently, the actor Eddie Redmayne,
0:01:13 > 0:01:16the comedian and presenter Mel Giedroyc,
0:01:16 > 0:01:21and, of course, the teams who won this competition in 1995 and 2014.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25With an average age of 21 and representing around 1,000 students,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28let's meet the Trinity Cambridge team.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Hi, I'm Matthew Kingston,
0:01:30 > 0:01:33I'm from green Ireland, in County Antrim,
0:01:33 > 0:01:34and I study physics.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Hi, I'm Owen Petrie, I'm from Clawddnewydd in north Wales
0:01:38 > 0:01:41and I'm studying for a PhD in applied maths.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43And this is their captain.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46I'm Maya Bear, I'm from London and I'm reading English.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Hi, I'm Rahu Dev, I'm from Chiswick in west London,
0:01:49 > 0:01:51and I'm studying history.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53APPLAUSE
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Bristol University dates back to
0:01:57 > 0:02:00the observation of the 19th-century headmaster John Percival of
0:02:00 > 0:02:05Clifton College that the provinces lacked a university culture.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Benjamin Jowett, master of Balliol College, Oxford,
0:02:08 > 0:02:10took up the cause and won the support of the local Fry family,
0:02:10 > 0:02:12of chocolate fame,
0:02:12 > 0:02:15and later, of the Wills family, of tobacco notoriety,
0:02:15 > 0:02:18which helped secure the Royal Charter in 1909.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21Alumni include the actors Emily Watson, Simon Pegg
0:02:21 > 0:02:24and David Walliams, the commentator Will Hutton
0:02:24 > 0:02:26and the broadcaster Sue Lawley.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29With an average age of 22,
0:02:29 > 0:02:31and representing over 21,000 students,
0:02:31 > 0:02:33let's meet the Bristol team.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Hi, I'm Oliver Bowes from Market Harborough in Leicestershire,
0:02:37 > 0:02:39and I'm studying music.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43Hi, I'm Kirsty Biggs, I'm originally from Southampton,
0:02:43 > 0:02:45and I'm doing a PhD in mathematics.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47And this is their captain.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51Hi, I'm Sam Hosegood, I'm from Bedford and I do chemical physics.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Hi, I'm Tom Hewett, I'm from Stroud in Gloucestershire,
0:02:54 > 0:02:55and I'm studying English.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58APPLAUSE
0:03:00 > 0:03:03Well, the rules are constant as the Northern Star,
0:03:03 > 0:03:05so it's ten points for starter questions,
0:03:05 > 0:03:07which are solo efforts, answer on the buzzer.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10And bonuses are worth 15, which are team efforts.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13Now, fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17What natural phenomenon links a 1915 novel by DH Lawrence,
0:03:17 > 0:03:21a 1998 work by Richard Dawkins whose title...?
0:03:21 > 0:03:22Rainbow.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Rainbow is right, yes.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26APPLAUSE
0:03:26 > 0:03:30Three questions on a number for the first set of bonuses, Bristol.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33What nickname did its publicist Emil Gutmann give
0:03:33 > 0:03:36to Mahler's Symphony No 8 in E flat major,
0:03:36 > 0:03:39first performed in full in Munich in 1910?
0:03:39 > 0:03:40You do music.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42I'd go with Titan.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Titan.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46No, it was the Symphony Of A Thousand.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Garibaldi's Expedition Of The Thousand
0:03:49 > 0:03:53landed at the port of Marsala in May 1860,
0:03:53 > 0:03:56and later led to the overthrow of which kingdom of southern Italy?
0:03:57 > 0:04:00Is it...
0:04:00 > 0:04:03- Papal States?- Papal States.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05- Naples.- Naples?
0:04:05 > 0:04:06Naples.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08- No, it's the Kingdom Of The Two Sicilies.- Oh.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12And named after the British Major General, Wolf Island is the
0:04:12 > 0:04:15largest of the group known as the Thousand Islands,
0:04:15 > 0:04:17located within which river?
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Amazon, maybe...?
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Or Canada...
0:04:22 > 0:04:23Canada, OK.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27So, Yukon, or...? What do you reckon?
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Yukon.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31No, it's the Saint Lawrence River in Canada.
0:04:31 > 0:04:32Ten points for this.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35"Thank God I should have lived to witness a day
0:04:35 > 0:04:38"in which England is willing to give 20 million sterling
0:04:38 > 0:04:40"for the abolition of slavery."
0:04:40 > 0:04:43These were the words of which parliamentarian,
0:04:43 > 0:04:45shortly before his death in 1833?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Pitt the Younger.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50No, I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Trinity?
0:04:52 > 0:04:53William Wilberforce?
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Correct.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57APPLAUSE
0:04:57 > 0:04:59You get a set of bonuses, Trinity College,
0:04:59 > 0:05:02on dogs in children's literature.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05Firstly, which eponymous dog features in the 1956 novel
0:05:05 > 0:05:08by the US author Fred Gibson?
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Adopted as a stray by the young Travis Coates,
0:05:11 > 0:05:14he saves Travis's family on numerous occasions
0:05:14 > 0:05:16before his death after contracting rabies.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19- Lassie...?- I don't know... - No, she's a girl.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22Do you have any ideas?
0:05:23 > 0:05:24Lassie.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26No, it's Old Yeller.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30Secondly, 1963 saw the first of a series of children's books
0:05:30 > 0:05:34by Norman Bridwell, the hero of which soon became a mascot
0:05:34 > 0:05:36for the Scholastic Books publishing company.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39What is the name of the big, red dog?
0:05:39 > 0:05:41Clifford.
0:05:41 > 0:05:42Correct.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44In the first of the Harry Potter books,
0:05:44 > 0:05:46what is the name of the giant, three-headed dog
0:05:46 > 0:05:49guarding the Philosopher's Stone in Hogwarts school...?
0:05:49 > 0:05:50- Fluffy.- Fluffy is correct, yes.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53APPLAUSE
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Right, ten points for this.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59What non-orientable surface was the form of a conveyor belt
0:05:59 > 0:06:02patented by the US industrialist BF Goodrich...?
0:06:02 > 0:06:03Mobius strip.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Mobius strip is right, yes.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07APPLAUSE
0:06:08 > 0:06:10You get a set of bonuses on physics.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Firstly, Gong, the Global Oscillation Network Group,
0:06:14 > 0:06:19is a programme studying the internal structural dynamics of what body?
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Um...
0:06:21 > 0:06:23I can't remember.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25What body...?
0:06:26 > 0:06:27Um... The sun.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Correct. LAUGHTER
0:06:29 > 0:06:33Chime, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment,
0:06:33 > 0:06:36is designed to study the traces of primordial cosmic waves
0:06:36 > 0:06:40in hydrogen gas by detecting what form of electromagnetic radiation?
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Microwave.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45It's radio waves.
0:06:45 > 0:06:46And finally, Haarp,
0:06:46 > 0:06:50the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Programme,
0:06:50 > 0:06:54has been used to transmit radio waves to study the behaviour
0:06:54 > 0:06:57of what specific region of the Earth's atmosphere?
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Um... I don't know.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05The stratosphere.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08No, it's the ionosphere, the specific term I wanted.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Right, ten points for this.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13JD Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye refers to which of Dickens's
0:07:13 > 0:07:15characters in its opening sentence?
0:07:15 > 0:07:16David Copperfield.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18Correct.
0:07:18 > 0:07:19APPLAUSE
0:07:20 > 0:07:23You get a set of bonuses on the cricketer Hanif Mohammad,
0:07:23 > 0:07:25who died in August 2016.
0:07:25 > 0:07:31In 1958, Hanif made 337 for Pakistan against the West Indies
0:07:31 > 0:07:33in what was the longest Test innings.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35For how many minutes did he bat?
0:07:35 > 0:07:37You can have 10% either way.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40A few hundred...?
0:07:40 > 0:07:42- Yeah.- Um...
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Rough guess?
0:07:48 > 0:07:49700.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50700.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53No, it's 970 so I can't accept that.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57Hanif had three brothers who played Test cricket for Pakistan.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Name any one of the three.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02All of Pakistan's first 101 Tests featured at least
0:08:02 > 0:08:04one of the four brothers.
0:08:05 > 0:08:06So, Hanif...
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Mohammed.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Um...
0:08:12 > 0:08:14Mohsin.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17- Nominate Hewett.- Mohsin?
0:08:17 > 0:08:20No, they were Wazir, Mushtaq and Sadiq.
0:08:20 > 0:08:24And finally, in 1959, Hanif scored 499
0:08:24 > 0:08:26for Karachi against Bahawalpur.
0:08:26 > 0:08:31This was the highest first-class individual score until 1994,
0:08:31 > 0:08:33when it was broken by which west Indian?
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Brian Lara?
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:08:37 > 0:08:39OK, I think it's time for a picture round, now.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41For your picture starter, you're going to see
0:08:41 > 0:08:43an artist's impression of the entrance to a public lavatory.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45LAUGHTER For ten points, I want you
0:08:45 > 0:08:47to identify the language in which the signs are written.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51Welsh.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53It is Welsh, yes.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55APPLAUSE
0:08:55 > 0:08:58The signs, of course, said "Men" and "Women".
0:08:58 > 0:09:00For your picture bonuses, you'll see toilet signs
0:09:00 > 0:09:01in three more languages. LAUGHTER
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Again, in each case, I simply want you to identify the language.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07Firstly, for five, this Mediterranean language.
0:09:13 > 0:09:14Turkish.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Turkish is correct. Secondly, this European language.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22- Hungarian?- Maybe.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25- Hungarian?- No, it's Albanian.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27And finally, a European language.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30- Could that be, like...? - That could be Hungarian.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33I don't know, it looks too much...
0:09:33 > 0:09:37It looks too Latinate to be Hungarian cos it's got "femei".
0:09:37 > 0:09:40- Yeah.- Could it be, like, Macedonian?
0:09:41 > 0:09:44- Macedonian.- No, it's Romanian.
0:09:44 > 0:09:45Ten points for this.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48What collective name has been given to these figures?
0:09:48 > 0:09:50The first carried a bow and was given a crown,
0:09:50 > 0:09:52the second was given a sword...
0:09:53 > 0:09:56- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. - That's correct.
0:09:56 > 0:09:57APPLAUSE
0:09:59 > 0:10:03You get a set of bonuses on potatoes in art, Bristol.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06Largely abstract, although derived from a female figure,
0:10:06 > 0:10:11Potato is a work of 1928 by which Spanish artist?
0:10:11 > 0:10:13Born in Barcelona in 1893,
0:10:13 > 0:10:16he's commonly associated with the surrealist movement.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17Dali.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19- Dali.- No, it wasn't, it was Miro.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23The Potato Harvest is an oil painting of 1885
0:10:23 > 0:10:24by which French artist?
0:10:24 > 0:10:27One of the founders of the Barbizon school,
0:10:27 > 0:10:29his other notable works include The Angelus.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33THEY WHISPER
0:10:38 > 0:10:39Marcel Duchamp.
0:10:39 > 0:10:40No, it's Millet.
0:10:40 > 0:10:45And finally, The Potato Eaters is an oil painting of 1885 by
0:10:45 > 0:10:49which artist who was born in Zundert in The Netherlands?
0:10:51 > 0:10:56Dutch. Rembrandt? 1885, too late. No, it's too late.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Vermeer, maybe. Vermeer?
0:10:58 > 0:11:01- No, in 1885, no, it's Van Gogh.- Oh!
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Ten points for this. Answer promptly.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07Name any two of the four chemical elements discovered by
0:11:07 > 0:11:10William Hyde Wollaston and Smithson Tennant
0:11:10 > 0:11:12in the early years of the 19th century.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14All four are in the platinum group.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19Iridium and palladium.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22Correct. The other two are osmium and rhodium.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25APPLAUSE
0:11:25 > 0:11:29You get a set of bonuses on films about writer's block, Bristol.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32The 1987 film Throw Momma From The Train starred
0:11:32 > 0:11:36Billy Crystal as a creative writing teacher suffering
0:11:36 > 0:11:40from writer's block and marked the directorial debut of which actor?
0:11:43 > 0:11:45These bonuses are not going well!
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Tom Hanks.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51- Tom Hanks?- No, it was Danny DeVito.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55Secondly for five points, the 1991 Palme d'Or winner,
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Barton Fink, in which the eponymous playwright
0:11:58 > 0:12:02suffers from an acute block, was born out of the Coen brothers'
0:12:02 > 0:12:05struggle with the making of which film of 1990?
0:12:05 > 0:12:08It stars Gabriel Byrne and John Turturro.
0:12:10 > 0:12:15The Big Lebowski or something like that? Are you sure?
0:12:15 > 0:12:17I think that might be them. The Big Lebowski?
0:12:17 > 0:12:20No, I think that was later. It was Miller's Crossing.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23And finally, the 2004 film Secret Window stars
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Johnny Depp as a blocked writer and is an adaptation of the novella
0:12:27 > 0:12:31Secret Window, Secret Garden by which US author?
0:12:31 > 0:12:35THEY WHISPER
0:12:38 > 0:12:40- Truman Capote. - Truman Capote?
0:12:40 > 0:12:42No, it's Stephen King.
0:12:42 > 0:12:43Ten points for this.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47The works of the US author Walter Tevis include the novels
0:12:47 > 0:12:49The Hustler and The Color Of Money,
0:12:49 > 0:12:53as well as which science fiction novel of 1963?
0:12:53 > 0:12:56It formed the basis of a film of 1976,
0:12:56 > 0:12:59directed by Nicholas Roeg and starring David Bowie.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04- The Man Who Fell To Earth.- Correct.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07APPLAUSE
0:13:07 > 0:13:08Your bonuses this time are on
0:13:08 > 0:13:11Lloyd George's coalition government, Trinity.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15Who was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in December 1916?
0:13:15 > 0:13:20Born in Canada, he was briefly Prime Minister in 1922 and '23.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23- Bonar Law.- Bonar Law.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24Bonar Law is right.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28Secondly, the half-brother of a future Prime Minister,
0:13:28 > 0:13:31who was Secretary of State for India from 1915-17?
0:13:31 > 0:13:35He was a joint winner of the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his role
0:13:35 > 0:13:37in bringing about the Locarno Pact.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41- Locarno Pact...- Austen Chamberlain. - Austen Chamberlain.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44Correct. Which former Prime Minister
0:13:44 > 0:13:47became Foreign Secretary in December 1916?
0:13:47 > 0:13:49The following year, he issued a declaration in favour
0:13:49 > 0:13:52of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54- Balfour.- Balfour.
0:13:54 > 0:13:55It was Arthur James Balfour, yes.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57APPLAUSE
0:13:58 > 0:14:01Giving you the lead. And we're going to take a music round now.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07Ten points if you can name the composer.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10FRENCH HORN PLAYS
0:14:10 > 0:14:13- Mozart. - Mozart's Horn Concerto is correct.
0:14:13 > 0:14:14APPLAUSE
0:14:16 > 0:14:18You're going to hear three more pieces of music in which
0:14:18 > 0:14:23horns feature prominently. In each case, simply name the composer.
0:14:23 > 0:14:24First, the composer of this piece...
0:14:24 > 0:14:28HORN PLAYS
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Haydn.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39It is Haydn, his Horn Concerto in D.
0:14:39 > 0:14:40And secondly...
0:14:40 > 0:14:42BRASS INSTRUMENTS PLAY
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Mahler.
0:14:56 > 0:14:57Mahler?
0:14:57 > 0:15:01It is Gustav Mahler, Symphony No 1. And finally, this...
0:15:01 > 0:15:04HARPSICHORD AND STRINGS ACCOMPANY HORNS
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Bach.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15It is Bach, yes, the Brandenburg Concerto No 1.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17APPLAUSE
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Right, ten points for this.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22Which decade saw the completion of Saint Anselm's Monologion,
0:15:22 > 0:15:24the Seljuk defeat at...?
0:15:25 > 0:15:29- 1080.- No. You lose five points.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31The Seljuk defeat at the Byzantine Empire at the Battle
0:15:31 > 0:15:35of Manzikert, Emperor Henry IV's penance at Canossa
0:15:35 > 0:15:38and the Revolt of the Earls against William the Conqueror.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41The 11th.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43No, it's the 1070s,
0:15:43 > 0:15:45so we're going to take another starter question now.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49What two-word collective name is given to Mintaka,
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Alnilam and Alnitak?
0:15:51 > 0:15:54They form part of a constellation named after a figure sometimes
0:15:54 > 0:15:56identified as a son of Poseidon.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00Orion's Belt?
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Correct. APPLAUSE
0:16:04 > 0:16:07You get three questions on the Victorian writer
0:16:07 > 0:16:09and illustrator Kate Greenaway.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12A noted illustration by Greenaway depicts angelic children
0:16:12 > 0:16:14following which distinctive figure?
0:16:14 > 0:16:17The title character of a narrative poem by Robert Browning.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20- Pied Piper.- The Pied Piper.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Correct.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25In the 1880s, Greenaway became a protege of which leading art critic?
0:16:25 > 0:16:29One biographer notes that her images of young girls ministered
0:16:29 > 0:16:33to his obsession for Rose La Touche, who was nearly 30 years his junior.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39Was that John Ruskin? I'm not sure.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41- John Ruskin?- It is.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44In a 1952 story, which enduring children's character is dragooned
0:16:44 > 0:16:49into wearing what he calls a green cataway costume for a village event?
0:16:49 > 0:16:52It's torn to rags by a Scottie and a mastiff.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02Just William.
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Just William.
0:17:03 > 0:17:04It is Just William, yes.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06APPLAUSE
0:17:08 > 0:17:09Right, another starter question now.
0:17:09 > 0:17:13Mentioned in the Avesta and the biblical Book of Tobit,
0:17:13 > 0:17:17the city of Rey, known in Latin as Rhagae,
0:17:17 > 0:17:20was a predecessor of which populous world capital?
0:17:20 > 0:17:24It's located about 100km south of the Caspian Sea.
0:17:29 > 0:17:30Tehran.
0:17:30 > 0:17:31Tehran is correct, yes.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33APPLAUSE
0:17:35 > 0:17:37Right, your bonuses are on biology this time, Bristol.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39From the Greek for wave-writer,
0:17:39 > 0:17:43what instrument consists of a revolving drum on which a pen
0:17:43 > 0:17:47moves, recording changes in various physiological measurements?
0:17:53 > 0:17:56- A spirograph or something like that. - A spirograph.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58No, it's a kymograph.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01Secondly, what does a sphygmomanometer measure?
0:18:03 > 0:18:04THEY LAUGH
0:18:04 > 0:18:05Um...
0:18:09 > 0:18:13- What?- I don't know. - It's biology.- Oh, yeah.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16- Blood alcohol level. - No, it's blood pressure.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18And finally, a myograph measures the force
0:18:18 > 0:18:21produced by contraction in what body tissue?
0:18:25 > 0:18:28- The eye?- No, it's muscle. Ten points for this.
0:18:28 > 0:18:33In the abbreviation HDL cholesterol, for what do the letters HDL...?
0:18:35 > 0:18:36High density lipoprotein.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38That's correct, or high density lipid.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:18:41 > 0:18:45You get a set of bonuses on King Zog of Albania.
0:18:45 > 0:18:46Firstly for five points,
0:18:46 > 0:18:48after serving as president for several years,
0:18:48 > 0:18:53Ahmed Bey Zogu proclaimed himself King of Albania during which decade?
0:18:55 > 0:18:57- 1930s.- 1930s.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01No, it was the 1920s, 1928, to be precise.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04Zog's regime drew heavily on the myth of which Albanian
0:19:04 > 0:19:07national hero, born in 1405?
0:19:07 > 0:19:10He's known in Turkish as Iskender Bey.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13Who knows any Albanian national hero?
0:19:13 > 0:19:15Alexander, but...
0:19:15 > 0:19:17Alexander who?
0:19:17 > 0:19:19- King Alexander?- King Alexander.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21No, it's Skanderbeg.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24Zog went into exile in 1939
0:19:24 > 0:19:26when Albania became a protectorate of which country?
0:19:26 > 0:19:28- Italy.- Italy.
0:19:28 > 0:19:29Italy is correct.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Ten points for this.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33Of which artistic movement did Kenneth Clark say
0:19:33 > 0:19:35"they did not set out to be popular.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38"On the contrary, they became resigned to public ridicule,
0:19:38 > 0:19:42"but in the end they achieved a modest measure of success"?
0:19:45 > 0:19:46Pop art.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48No. Anyone like to buzz from Bristol?
0:19:50 > 0:19:52- Impressionists.- Correct.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55APPLAUSE
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Your bonuses are on cosmology this time.
0:19:57 > 0:20:02In 1931, which astronomer at the Catholic University of Leuven
0:20:02 > 0:20:05in Belgium published a paper on the primeval atom,
0:20:05 > 0:20:08usually cited as the first assertion of the Big Bang theory?
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Oh, who was the Big Bang theory?
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Oh, I should know that.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16THEY WHISPER
0:20:19 > 0:20:21No, pass, sorry.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23That was Georges Lemaitre.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Lemaitre later spoke of the vanished brilliance of
0:20:25 > 0:20:27the origin of the world.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31Patrick Moore likened this vanished brilliance to what
0:20:31 > 0:20:34form of radiation, known by the abbreviation CMB?
0:20:34 > 0:20:38Cosmic microwave background, yeah. Cosmic microwave background.
0:20:38 > 0:20:39Correct.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42CMB radiation was discovered accidentally by the US scientists
0:20:42 > 0:20:46Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson during which decade?
0:20:49 > 0:20:511940s or something like that?
0:20:51 > 0:20:54- 1940s?- No, it's the 1960s.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56We're going to take a second picture round.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58For your picture starter, you're going to see a political cartoon.
0:20:58 > 0:21:03For ten points, I want you to identify the two figures depicted.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09George III and Napoleon Bonaparte.
0:21:09 > 0:21:10That's correct.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12APPLAUSE
0:21:14 > 0:21:19That 1803 cartoon, depicting George III as the King of Brobdingnag
0:21:19 > 0:21:23from Swift's Gulliver's Travels, was by James Gillray,
0:21:23 > 0:21:26who has been called the father of the political cartoon, as you know.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29For your bonuses, you're going to see three more of his cartoons.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32Firstly, who's the political figure depicted prominently here?
0:21:37 > 0:21:40- Pitt the Younger.- Pitt the Younger, yeah?- Yeah.- Pitt the Younger?
0:21:40 > 0:21:41That is Pitt the Younger.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43And secondly, who's the political writer
0:21:43 > 0:21:45and theorist depicted on the right?
0:21:49 > 0:21:51He riding Britannia?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59- John Locke, maybe?- John Locke? - Go for it, yeah.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02- John Locke?- No, it's Thomas Paine.
0:22:02 > 0:22:06He was often depicted as a corset maker to discredit him.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Finally, what event is depicted here?
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Some helpful wording has been nicely removed.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16- Is that the Battle of the Nile? - No, the Battle of the Nile.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19- Oh, no, sorry, Battle of the Nile, yeah.- It's crocodiles.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21- The Battle of the Nile. - It is the Battle of the Nile,
0:22:21 > 0:22:25The Extirpation Of The Plagues Of Egypt.
0:22:25 > 0:22:26Right, ten points for this.
0:22:26 > 0:22:31"Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance."
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Which play by Shakespeare includes those words
0:22:33 > 0:22:35of the roguish Autolycus?
0:22:37 > 0:22:38- The Winter's Tale.- Correct.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40APPLAUSE
0:22:42 > 0:22:45Your bonuses are on European history, Bristol.
0:22:45 > 0:22:49In each case, give the century in which the named monarchs held power.
0:22:49 > 0:22:53Firstly, King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway,
0:22:53 > 0:22:54Charles I of Spain
0:22:54 > 0:22:56and William the Silent of The Netherlands.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05- Century?- Yeah, century.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09- 15th.- The 15th.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12No, it was the 16th century, the 1500s.
0:23:12 > 0:23:16Secondly, King Philip VI of France, Peter I of Portugal
0:23:16 > 0:23:18and Dmitriy Donskoi of Russia.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26- Shall I just go 17th?- Yeah.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28- 17th?- No, that was the 14th century.
0:23:28 > 0:23:33And finally, King Gustaf V of Sweden, Haakon VII of Norway
0:23:33 > 0:23:35and Boris III of Bulgaria.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37- 20th.- The 20th?
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Correct. Four minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44In physics, what seven-letter term describes one of two or more
0:23:44 > 0:23:47atomic nuclei that contain the same number of neutrons...
0:23:49 > 0:23:52- Isotone.- Isotone is correct.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54APPLAUSE
0:23:54 > 0:23:57These bonuses are on paradoxes, Bristol.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00"The slower will never be overtaken by the quicker" is one formulation
0:24:00 > 0:24:05of a paradox named after which Greek philosopher of the fifth century BC?
0:24:05 > 0:24:06Zeno.
0:24:06 > 0:24:07Correct.
0:24:07 > 0:24:12The Greek seer Epimenides is associated with the liar's paradox.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15This commonly refers to inhabitants of which island?
0:24:17 > 0:24:18Crete.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21Correct. "I know that I know nothing."
0:24:21 > 0:24:24These words state a paradox usually named after which
0:24:24 > 0:24:27Greek philosopher who died in 399 BC?
0:24:27 > 0:24:29399, that was Socrates.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32- Socrates.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36The name of which country appears within words meaning
0:24:36 > 0:24:39"underwater breathing apparatus" and to "keep eggs warm"?
0:24:40 > 0:24:42- Cuba.- Cuba is correct, yes.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44APPLAUSE
0:24:46 > 0:24:49You get three bonuses on science, Bristol.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52What is the predominant geometric shape of cross-sections of
0:24:52 > 0:24:56the columns of basalt such as those that form the Giant's Causeway?
0:24:56 > 0:24:59- Is that a hexagon?- Hexagon.
0:24:59 > 0:25:00I think it is.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02- A hexagon.- Correct.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06What is the sum of the internal angles of a regular hexagon?
0:25:06 > 0:25:08THEY WHISPER
0:25:12 > 0:25:13- 720.- Correct.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17The polar cloud of which planet has been observed to form
0:25:17 > 0:25:19a hexagonal vortex?
0:25:19 > 0:25:20Oh...
0:25:23 > 0:25:25Venus, maybe?
0:25:25 > 0:25:27- Venus?- No, it's Saturn.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29There are two minutes to go and ten points for this.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Which alkali feldspar mineral
0:25:31 > 0:25:34appears on the Mohs scale of hardness...?
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Orthoclase feldspar.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38That is correct, yes.
0:25:38 > 0:25:42Your bonuses this time are on words or names that end in the letter I.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45In each case, give the word from the definition.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48All three answers have the same number of letters.
0:25:48 > 0:25:52First, the surname of the track athlete known as The Flying Finn.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56He won nine gold medals in the Olympics during the 1920s.
0:25:56 > 0:25:57Pass.
0:25:57 > 0:25:58That was Nurmi.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01Secondly, Chinese ideographs that are used in Japanese writing
0:26:01 > 0:26:04in addition to the kana syllabary.
0:26:04 > 0:26:05- Kanji.- Correct.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Finally, a hoofed mammal with striped legs that's a close relative
0:26:08 > 0:26:10of the giraffe.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- Okapi.- Correct. Ten points for this.
0:26:12 > 0:26:13Answer in English or German.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17Which loose association of 39 states was formed at the Congress of Vienna
0:26:17 > 0:26:21in 1815 to replace the Holy Roman Empire?
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Confederation of the Rhine.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28No, anyone want to buzz from Trinity quickly?
0:26:31 > 0:26:34It's the Deutscher Bund, or German Confederation.
0:26:34 > 0:26:35Ten points for this.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Gondar, Mekele and Dire Dawa
0:26:37 > 0:26:39are among the cities of which African country?
0:26:39 > 0:26:42It's the world's most populous landlocked sovereign state.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Nigeria?
0:26:45 > 0:26:47No, anyone want to buzz from Trinity?
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Ethiopia.
0:26:49 > 0:26:50Ethiopia is correct.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Nigeria is not landlocked.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55A set of bonuses on monasteries for you.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Referring to sections of monastic rules that were read aloud,
0:26:57 > 0:27:01what two-word term denotes a formal meeting room in a monastery?
0:27:03 > 0:27:05- Pass.- It's a chapter house.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08What six-letter term denotes the communal dining room of a monastery?
0:27:08 > 0:27:10It is also the Latin for brother.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12- Frater.- Correct.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14What is a reredorter?
0:27:14 > 0:27:17The ruined priory of Castle Acre in Norfolk, for example,
0:27:17 > 0:27:20has one of the best-preserved examples in England.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22- Pass.- They were lavatories.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25Ten points for this. Answer promptly with a single word.
0:27:25 > 0:27:29What is the second noun in the first line of Milton's Paradise Lost?
0:27:33 > 0:27:34Disobedience.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Disobedience is correct. You get a set of bonuses...
0:27:36 > 0:27:38GONG And that's the gong.
0:27:38 > 0:27:42Trinity College, Cambridge have 95, but Bristol University have 230.
0:27:42 > 0:27:47Well, bad luck, Trinity. You didn't disgrace yourselves, it's fine.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50Bristol, you were on fire - it was a terrific performance.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52We shall look forward to seeing you in round two.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55I hope you can join us next time for another first-round match,
0:27:55 > 0:27:58but until then, it's goodbye from Trinity College, Cambridge...
0:27:58 > 0:28:01- Goodbye.- ..it's goodbye from Bristol University...
0:28:01 > 0:28:03- Goodbye.- ..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.