0:00:17 > 0:00:18APPLAUSE
0:00:20 > 0:00:23University Challenge.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Hello. By the end of tonight's match,
0:00:30 > 0:00:34we'll be halfway through the second round of this competition,
0:00:34 > 0:00:38and whichever team wins will join Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
0:00:38 > 0:00:39St John's College, Cambridge
0:00:39 > 0:00:42and Ulster University in the quarterfinals.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45For the losers, though, it'll be thank you and goodnight.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49Now, the team from University College, London narrowly
0:00:49 > 0:00:51lost their first-round match to Trinity College, Oxford
0:00:51 > 0:00:53by a margin of 15 points
0:00:53 > 0:00:59but then beat St Hugh's College, Oxford by a whopping 315 to 45,
0:00:59 > 0:01:01when, as well as being quick to the buzzer,
0:01:01 > 0:01:04they had clean sweeps on bonus sets on biochemistry,
0:01:04 > 0:01:09transuranium elements and the roles of John Hurt.
0:01:09 > 0:01:10Let's meet them again.
0:01:10 > 0:01:15Hi, I'm Tom, I'm from Whitchurch in Hampshire and I'm studying history.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Hi, I'm Charlie, I'm from Chelmsford
0:01:17 > 0:01:21- and I'm studying for an MSc in neuroscience.- Here's their captain.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Hi, I'm Robert Gray, I'm from Kingston upon Thames
0:01:23 > 0:01:27and I'm doing a PhD in cell biology.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Hello, my name's Omar, I'm originally from Kabul
0:01:29 > 0:01:31and I study mathematics.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33APPLAUSE
0:01:35 > 0:01:38The team from the University of Edinburgh like to live dangerously,
0:01:38 > 0:01:41at least if their first-round match against Ulster University
0:01:41 > 0:01:43is anything to go by,
0:01:43 > 0:01:46when they were neck and neck almost throughout.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48They struggled somewhat on characters in Middlemarch
0:01:48 > 0:01:50and the films of Martin Scorsese
0:01:50 > 0:01:55but were on stronger form on the states of Mexico, SI units
0:01:55 > 0:01:58and the prospect of the world's seas turning into pink lemonade,
0:01:58 > 0:02:02all of which was enough to give them a five-point lead at the gong.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05With an average age of 22, let's meet the Edinburgh team again.
0:02:06 > 0:02:11Hi, I'm John, I'm from Edinburgh and I'm studying Russian and history.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Hi, I'm Stanley, I'm from Edinburgh
0:02:13 > 0:02:17and I'm studying for an MSc in speech and language processing.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21- And here's their captain. - Hi, I'm Innes, I'm from Glasgow,
0:02:21 > 0:02:23and I'm doing a PhD in chemistry.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27Hi, I'm Philippa, I'm from Oxford and I'm studying biology.
0:02:27 > 0:02:28APPLAUSE
0:02:31 > 0:02:34OK, we'll not waste any time reciting the rules.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Fingers on the buzzers. Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:37 > 0:02:41What short adjective links a student mass paramilitary movement
0:02:41 > 0:02:44mobilised by Mao from 1966,
0:02:44 > 0:02:48volunteer followers of Garibaldi...?
0:02:48 > 0:02:49Red?
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Red is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:02:51 > 0:02:54- Well done!- Yes, Stanley! - Red Guard, Shirts and so on.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58You get a set of bonuses, Edinburgh, on lost treasure.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02The treasure of which Aztec ruler is said to have been swallowed up
0:03:02 > 0:03:08by the waters of Lake Texcoco during a night retreat in 1520?
0:03:08 > 0:03:09Montezuma.
0:03:09 > 0:03:14Correct. The many thousand gold Louis coins that formed the lost
0:03:14 > 0:03:18treasure of Loch Arkaig were intended to support which rebellion?
0:03:20 > 0:03:23- Loch Arkaig, yeah? - Yeah.- The Jacobite?
0:03:23 > 0:03:25- Yeah. Shall we try that?- Yeah.
0:03:25 > 0:03:26Jacobite.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28- Which one?- Oh!
0:03:28 > 0:03:31- What's he mean by that? The first?- The first.
0:03:31 > 0:03:32The first Jacobite rebellion.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36No, it was the second, 1745. Five points for this one if you get it.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40In which county in 2009 did Terry Herbert discover the largest
0:03:40 > 0:03:43hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold- and silverwork found to date?
0:03:43 > 0:03:46- I didn't hear about that. I don't know.- I'm not sure.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Could be Suffolk.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50- I felt like it was something south-east.- Shall we try that?
0:03:50 > 0:03:51Suffolk.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54No, it was Staffordshire. Ten points for this -
0:03:54 > 0:03:56the modern version of which sport
0:03:56 > 0:04:00is believed to have evolved largely from sphairistike, a ball game
0:04:00 > 0:04:05patented in 1874 by the Welshman Major Walter Clopton Wingfield?
0:04:05 > 0:04:07The original patent stipulated
0:04:07 > 0:04:11an hourglass-shaped court, which is no longer used...
0:04:11 > 0:04:12Tennis.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Tennis is correct. APPLAUSE
0:04:16 > 0:04:20You get a set of bonuses on the song Waltzing Matilda.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Firstly for five points, the coolabah tree, under which the
0:04:22 > 0:04:28swagman rests, is a species of what large genus of the myrtle family?
0:04:28 > 0:04:30- Eucalyptus?- Yeah!
0:04:30 > 0:04:31Eucalyptus?
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Correct. A billabong is a backwater or stagnant pool,
0:04:34 > 0:04:38often formed when a meander of a river is cut off.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41By what term, after the collar of a domestic animal,
0:04:41 > 0:04:43is this formation also known?
0:04:43 > 0:04:44Oxbow lake.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Correct. The swagman is challenged by troopers
0:04:47 > 0:04:50when, somewhat improbably, he puts
0:04:50 > 0:04:54a jumbuck in his tucker bag. What is a jumbuck?
0:04:54 > 0:04:57It's like a baby kangaroo, maybe?
0:04:57 > 0:04:59No, that's joey.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02- Or a baby sheep.- A gun?
0:05:02 > 0:05:04- A gun? Maybe.- Well, I don't know. It's a guess.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07I have a feeling it might be. Go for it.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09A gun?
0:05:09 > 0:05:11No, it's a sheep. Ten points
0:05:11 > 0:05:14for this - I need two answers here - what crime
0:05:14 > 0:05:17and what author link the actress Arlena Marshall,
0:05:17 > 0:05:22the hotel dancer Ruby Keane, the businessman Samuel Ratchett,
0:05:22 > 0:05:24the aristocrat Lord Edgware
0:05:24 > 0:05:27and the industrialist Roger Ackroyd?
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Murder and Agatha Christie?
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Correct! They're all murder victims. APPLAUSE
0:05:39 > 0:05:44Right, these bonuses are on literary works and paintings, UCL.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48The title poem of John Ashbery's Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror
0:05:48 > 0:05:53is named after a work by which Italian painter born in 1503?
0:05:53 > 0:05:56He's also noted for the Madonna With The Long Neck.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01Oh, didn't Botticelli always draw people with long necks?
0:06:01 > 0:06:04- 1503. Too early.- Are you sure?
0:06:04 > 0:06:06He always drew people with long necks.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08- Sarto?- Hm?- Sarto.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10No, that's not famous enough. I'd say Botticelli.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12- Come on. - Titian, then.- Titian.
0:06:12 > 0:06:13No, it's Parmigianino.
0:06:13 > 0:06:18And born 1643, the Dutch genre and portrait painter Godfried Schalcken
0:06:18 > 0:06:23became the title character of a Gothic horror story of 1839
0:06:23 > 0:06:25by which Irish writer?
0:06:25 > 0:06:28Bram Stoker. Irish, Gothic...
0:06:28 > 0:06:30- Yeah. Just say that.- OK.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Bram Stoker?
0:06:32 > 0:06:33No, it's Sheridan Le Fanu.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37And in which novel of 1813 is the heroine's opinion of
0:06:37 > 0:06:41her future husband affected by seeing his portrait in a gallery
0:06:41 > 0:06:43at Pemberley, his family home?
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Pride And Prejudice. Pride And Prejudice.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Yeah, you're right. Pride And Prejudice.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:06:49 > 0:06:50In astronomy, what term
0:06:50 > 0:06:54means the loss of starlight as it passes through Earth's atmosphere
0:06:54 > 0:06:57or another absorbing or scattering medium?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59In biology and ecology,
0:06:59 > 0:07:03the same term refers to the final disappearance of a taxon or species.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06Extinction?
0:07:06 > 0:07:07- Correct. - Well done.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09APPLAUSE
0:07:09 > 0:07:13Your bonuses, Edinburgh, are on African mammals.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17Large antelopes of what genus appear on the coat of arms of Namibia?
0:07:17 > 0:07:20Its four-letter name is thought to derive from the Greek for
0:07:20 > 0:07:23"pickaxe" on account of their long, pointed horns.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27- Is it oryx?- Yeah. - Oryx is a good shout.
0:07:27 > 0:07:28Oryx.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30- Oryx is correct, yes. - Well done.- Cheers.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Secondly, a kob antelope and a crested crane
0:07:33 > 0:07:37appear on the coat of arms of which landlocked African country?
0:07:37 > 0:07:40It gained independence from Britain in 1962.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43'62, Britain...
0:07:43 > 0:07:47- Ghana? Is that right? - No, that's not landlocked.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49- Zambia, maybe?- Let's just try it.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50Zambia.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52No, it's Uganda. And finally,
0:07:52 > 0:07:56which hoofed mammal appears on the coat of arms of Eritrea?
0:07:56 > 0:08:00I need the species and not simply the genus.
0:08:00 > 0:08:01Can't help you there.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07I'm sorry, I don't know.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11- Reebok?- Thomson's gazelle? Is that one?
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Yeah, we'll try that. We'll just try that.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Thomson's gazelle.
0:08:15 > 0:08:16- No, it's a dromedary.- Oh.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19Right, we're going to take a picture round now. For your picture starter,
0:08:19 > 0:08:22you'll see a map showing the location of two
0:08:22 > 0:08:25art galleries that both bear the name of a single artist.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27For ten points, I want that artist's name, please.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Barbara Hepworth?
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Correct. APPLAUSE
0:08:36 > 0:08:39For your picture bonuses, I want you to identify three more
0:08:39 > 0:08:42artists from the locations of museums dedicated to their works.
0:08:42 > 0:08:47Firstly, five points if you can tell me about this artist, born 1928.
0:08:49 > 0:08:53- Two, so...- Is that Poland? - Southern Poland.- Kandinsky?
0:08:53 > 0:08:58- And what's that?- Pennsylvania. - Not Kandinsky, then.- So, erm...
0:08:58 > 0:09:02Polish. Probably Russian.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04- Chagall? Marc Chagall.- Chagall?
0:09:04 > 0:09:08No, it was Andy Warhol. One's in Pittsburgh, the other in Slovakia,
0:09:08 > 0:09:09where his mother was born.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12Secondly, this artist, born 1869.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16- Cezanne?- Yeah.- You reckon?
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Sounds a bit late for Cezanne.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Degas?
0:09:21 > 0:09:24- But Degas's too late.- Born in 1869.
0:09:24 > 0:09:25Cezanne?
0:09:25 > 0:09:27Cezanne?
0:09:27 > 0:09:30No, that's Matisse. One's in his birthplace of Le Cateau,
0:09:30 > 0:09:32and one's in Nice, where he spent the end of his life.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35Finally, this artist, born 1904.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38- Florida... - And France. And Spain.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40- When was he born?- 1904.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43Miro was born in Catalonia. That's like Catalonia.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- What did you say?- Miro?
0:09:46 > 0:09:47Miro?
0:09:47 > 0:09:48No, it's Dali.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52- Dali. Oh!- Paris and his home town of Figueres and St Petersburg, Florida.
0:09:52 > 0:09:53Ten points for this -
0:09:53 > 0:09:57what five-letter term, taken from Latin, is used in literature
0:09:57 > 0:10:00to denote the return of a previously seen character?
0:10:00 > 0:10:03In the titles of works by John Dryden, Anthony Trollope and
0:10:03 > 0:10:05John Updike, it follows the words
0:10:05 > 0:10:08"Astraea", "Phineas" and "Rabbit".
0:10:12 > 0:10:13Run?
0:10:13 > 0:10:16- No!- No. Edinburgh, one of you like to buzz?
0:10:20 > 0:10:21Redux?
0:10:21 > 0:10:24Redux is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:10:24 > 0:10:27Right, your bonuses are on medieval history.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29In each case, name the year from the events.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33All three answers include at least three identical digits,
0:10:33 > 0:10:37for example 1171 or 1555.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41Firstly, the establishment of the Rinzai Zen sect in Japan
0:10:41 > 0:10:46and Richard the Lionheart's defeat of Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52QUIET DISCUSSION
0:10:52 > 0:10:53Was it 1180s?
0:10:53 > 0:10:561181? Try that?
0:10:56 > 0:10:59- Triple digits. Triple consecutive... - No, not consecutive.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02- Oh, right, OK. - It might be 1191.- Try 1191.
0:11:02 > 0:11:041191.
0:11:04 > 0:11:05Correct!
0:11:05 > 0:11:09Secondly, the birth of the Japanese Buddhist sage Nichiren and the
0:11:09 > 0:11:12traditional date of the foundation of the University of Padua.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14I've got no idea.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Could it be, like, 14 something?
0:11:17 > 0:11:191333?
0:11:19 > 0:11:23Wait, how old's Bologna, though? That's older than Padua, isn't it?
0:11:23 > 0:11:28- 1444. I'm very sorry if it's wrong. - That's all right.
0:11:28 > 0:11:291444?
0:11:29 > 0:11:31- Come on!- 1444.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33- No, it's 1222.- Oh!
0:11:33 > 0:11:37And finally, the end of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan
0:11:37 > 0:11:41and Edward III's victory over the Scots at Halidon Hill.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Edward III... Halidon Hill...
0:11:44 > 0:11:46- 1300s.- Mm-hm.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50So, must be 1333.
0:11:50 > 0:11:51Yeah. 1333?
0:11:51 > 0:11:531333?
0:11:53 > 0:11:54Correct! APPLAUSE
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Ten points for this -
0:11:56 > 0:12:00the evergreen tree Taxus baccata has what common name?
0:12:00 > 0:12:02The specific epithet...
0:12:02 > 0:12:03Yew.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05Yew is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Your bonuses are on cities in British India
0:12:09 > 0:12:12mentioned in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15In each case, name the city from the description.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Firstly, in A Study In Scarlet,
0:12:17 > 0:12:22the city to which Watson was removed after being wounded in Afghanistan.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25It's a major city of Pakistan not far from the Khyber Pass.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29- That's Peshawar?- Yeah.
0:12:29 > 0:12:30Peshawar?
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Peshawar is correct.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35Mentioned in The Sign Of The Four, the capital of the Andaman Islands.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37It shares its two-word name in part
0:12:37 > 0:12:41with a post-Thatcher British Prime Minister.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Port Blair? I think so.
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Port Blair?
0:12:44 > 0:12:45Correct. A city mentioned
0:12:45 > 0:12:47in connection with Colonel Sebastian Moran,
0:12:47 > 0:12:51the second most dangerous man in London. The capital of Karnataka
0:12:51 > 0:12:55state, it is the location of India's equivalent of Silicon Valley.
0:12:55 > 0:12:56Bangalore.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:12:59 > 0:13:03Analogous to disruptive coloration shown by animals such as zebras,
0:13:03 > 0:13:07what name is given to the form of camouflage adopted in the...?
0:13:07 > 0:13:08Dazzle.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Dazzle is correct. APPLAUSE
0:13:12 > 0:13:15You get a set of bonuses on German terms in physics.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Firstly for five, what six-letter German word is applied to the
0:13:18 > 0:13:22principle that electrons orbiting an atom fill the lowest-energy
0:13:22 > 0:13:24orbitals first?
0:13:24 > 0:13:25Aufbau principle.
0:13:25 > 0:13:26Correct.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30Meaning "braking radiation", what German terms denotes the X-rays
0:13:30 > 0:13:33emitted by an electron or other charged particle
0:13:33 > 0:13:35when it is rapidly slowed down?
0:13:36 > 0:13:39- I don't know what that is. - Do we know any German?
0:13:39 > 0:13:42- No.- Erm...
0:13:42 > 0:13:43Helmholtz.
0:13:43 > 0:13:44No, it's Bremsstrahlung.
0:13:44 > 0:13:49And finally, what short German word meaning "own" or "inherent" can be
0:13:49 > 0:13:53prefixed to English words such as "frequency", "function" or "value"?
0:13:53 > 0:13:54- Eigen.- OK.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Eigen.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:13:58 > 0:14:01North Dakota, Washington and Idaho were among
0:14:01 > 0:14:03the six states admitted to the Union
0:14:03 > 0:14:06during the administration of which US president?
0:14:06 > 0:14:10His grandfather had earlier served as President...
0:14:11 > 0:14:12John Adams?
0:14:12 > 0:14:14I'm sorry, you lose five points.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18..served as President, dying in his 32nd day in office in 1841.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Benjamin Harrison.
0:14:21 > 0:14:22Correct. APPLAUSE
0:14:25 > 0:14:28You get three bonuses on Eleanor Roosevelt.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady
0:14:31 > 0:14:32of the United States.
0:14:32 > 0:14:36To the nearest whole year, how many years did she serve?
0:14:36 > 0:14:41- Three full terms. - He was elected in 1929.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43No, later than that.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Sorry, maybe you're right.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48- It was three terms and a year, wasn't it?- I'm sorry, no, '32.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51'33 to '45.
0:14:51 > 0:14:52Yeah, so approximately 12.
0:14:52 > 0:14:5412.
0:14:54 > 0:14:5512 is correct.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58In 1939, Roosevelt resigned her membership of which patriotic
0:14:58 > 0:15:02organisation when it refused to allow the African-American
0:15:02 > 0:15:05singer Marian Anderson to perform at Constitution Hall?
0:15:05 > 0:15:08The organisation is known by the abbreviation DAR.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11- Daughters of the American Revolution?- That's a good shout.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Daughters of the American Revolution.
0:15:13 > 0:15:14Correct.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17In 1948, Roosevelt chaired the United Nations committee
0:15:17 > 0:15:22that drafted which document, often abbreviated to UDHR?
0:15:22 > 0:15:25She described it as "humanity's Magna Carta".
0:15:25 > 0:15:28- Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Is that right?- Yeah.
0:15:28 > 0:15:29Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31Correct. APPLAUSE
0:15:31 > 0:15:33We're going to take a music round now. For your starter,
0:15:33 > 0:15:35you'll hear a recording of a traditional song.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39For ten points, identify the singer.
0:15:39 > 0:15:43# I went into his prison cell... #
0:15:46 > 0:15:47Dolly Parton?
0:15:47 > 0:15:49Dolly Parton, yes. APPLAUSE
0:15:49 > 0:15:51On The Banks Of The Ohio.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53It's a 19th-century example of a murder ballad,
0:15:53 > 0:15:56a traditional subgenre of the ballad form.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59Your music bonuses are three contemporary takes on this
0:15:59 > 0:16:02traditional genre. Five points for each artist you can identify.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Firstly, for five, name the group performing.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09# The cops came by to bring Earl in
0:16:09 > 0:16:12# They searched the house high and low
0:16:13 > 0:16:17# And they tipped their hats And said, "Thank you, ladies..." #
0:16:17 > 0:16:18The Dixie Chicks?
0:16:18 > 0:16:20It is the Dixie Chicks, Goodbye Earl.
0:16:20 > 0:16:24Secondly, here I'll need the names of both singers in this duet.
0:16:25 > 0:16:31# They call me the Wild Rose
0:16:32 > 0:16:37# But my name was Elisa Day
0:16:37 > 0:16:41# Why they call me that I do not know
0:16:44 > 0:16:48# For my name was Elisa Day
0:16:48 > 0:16:52# On the second day I brought her a flower
0:16:53 > 0:16:58# She was more beautiful than any woman I've seen
0:16:58 > 0:17:02# I said, "Do you know where the wild roses...?" #
0:17:02 > 0:17:06- Johnny Cash and June Carter?- Yeah, maybe.- I don't think it is.- Come on.
0:17:06 > 0:17:07Er, Johnny Cash and June Carter?
0:17:07 > 0:17:09No, it's Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12And finally, this singer, please.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15# I didn't mean to end his life I know it wasn't right... #
0:17:15 > 0:17:16Rihanna.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Rihanna is right, yes! APPLAUSE
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Too easy! Ten points for this -
0:17:20 > 0:17:24which is the only one of the 88 modern constellations
0:17:24 > 0:17:28to occupy two non-contiguous regions of the celestial sphere?
0:17:28 > 0:17:32The two regions are respectively named Caput and Cauda,
0:17:32 > 0:17:33or the Head and the Tail.
0:17:36 > 0:17:37Hydra?
0:17:37 > 0:17:39No. Anyone like to buzz from Edinburgh?
0:17:41 > 0:17:42Great Bear?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45No, it's the Serpent, the Serpent or Snake.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Ten points for this - in the last seven years
0:17:47 > 0:17:51of his life, Francis Poulenc composed sonatas for the flute,
0:17:51 > 0:17:53for the clarinet and for the oboe.
0:17:53 > 0:17:57All three feature which other instrument?
0:17:59 > 0:18:00Violin?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Nope.
0:18:02 > 0:18:03The piano.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05The piano is correct. APPLAUSE
0:18:07 > 0:18:10We're on level pegging as you get these bonuses, UCL,
0:18:10 > 0:18:13on words that contain the name of a country, in the way that the
0:18:13 > 0:18:17name Cuba appears in the word "incubate".
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Firstly for five points, the name of which South American country
0:18:20 > 0:18:25begins a word meaning "an act of examining, reading or viewing"?
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Peru? Peruse.
0:18:27 > 0:18:28Yeah, OK. Peru.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Peru is correct.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33The name of which landlocked African country appears within
0:18:33 > 0:18:38the name of the Babylonian king who captured Jerusalem in 597BC?
0:18:38 > 0:18:41He's the subject of an opera by Verdi.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45Do you know the opera? Could be Chad. Something like...
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Nebuchadnezzar! Chad.
0:18:47 > 0:18:48Chad?
0:18:48 > 0:18:49Correct.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52The name of which country on the Black Sea appears within
0:18:52 > 0:18:56a word meaning "one within an obsessive desire to start fires"?
0:18:56 > 0:18:57Pyromaniac.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02- Romania!- Romania, pyromaniac, yeah, yeah. Romania, yeah.
0:19:02 > 0:19:03Romania?
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Romania's correct. Well done. APPLAUSE
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Ten points for this - of the regnal names
0:19:07 > 0:19:12of the monarchs of England and Great Britain since 1066,
0:19:12 > 0:19:17what is the only one that is also the name of an SI derived unit?
0:19:18 > 0:19:19Henry.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Henry is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:19:23 > 0:19:26Right, these bonuses are on ancient Greek dramatists.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30Which dramatist fought at the Battle of Marathon in 490BC?
0:19:30 > 0:19:34His works include Seven Against Thebes and Persians,
0:19:34 > 0:19:36which includes an account of the Battle of Salamis.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Aeschylus.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Correct. Who at the age of 16 led
0:19:40 > 0:19:44the choral chant celebrating the Greek victory at Salamis?
0:19:44 > 0:19:48His plays include Ajax, Antigone and Oedipus At Colonus.
0:19:48 > 0:19:49Sophocles.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51Correct. According to legend,
0:19:51 > 0:19:55which dramatist was born on the day of the Battle of Salamis?
0:19:55 > 0:19:59His works include Alcestis, Medea and The Trojan Women.
0:19:59 > 0:20:00Euripides.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02Correct. Ten points for this... APPLAUSE
0:20:02 > 0:20:04"We came into the world like brother and brother;
0:20:04 > 0:20:07"And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another."
0:20:07 > 0:20:10These words, spoken by Dromio of Ephesus,
0:20:10 > 0:20:13end which of Shakespeare's plays?
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Love's Labours Lost?
0:20:17 > 0:20:19No. Anyone like to buzz from Edinburgh?
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Timon Of Athens?
0:20:22 > 0:20:25No, it's The Comedy Of Errors. Ten points for this -
0:20:25 > 0:20:28the 19th-century German physician Alfred Volkmann gives his name
0:20:28 > 0:20:31to canals in which tissue of the body?
0:20:36 > 0:20:37Bone?
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Bone is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:20:40 > 0:20:43You get a set of bonuses on the heart, Edinburgh.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47What nine-letter name is given to the valve in the human heart that
0:20:47 > 0:20:50allows the flow of blood from the right atrium to the right ventricle?
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Sure. Is that right? Yeah?
0:20:52 > 0:20:53Tricuspid.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Correct. Also known as the pacemaker,
0:20:55 > 0:20:58what name is given to the area of cardiac muscle on the upper
0:20:58 > 0:21:01wall of the right atrium that provides the impulse that
0:21:01 > 0:21:03initiates the heartbeat?
0:21:03 > 0:21:06- Is it sinoatrial node?- I've no idea. Do you mind if I nominate you?
0:21:06 > 0:21:08- Go for it.- OK with that?
0:21:08 > 0:21:11- Nominate Stone. - Sinoatrial node?
0:21:11 > 0:21:12- Correct.- Well done!
0:21:12 > 0:21:15What name is given to the two veins carrying deoxygenated blood
0:21:15 > 0:21:18that enter the right atrium of the heart?
0:21:18 > 0:21:20QUIET DISCUSSION
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Wait. Deoxygenated?
0:21:24 > 0:21:26- Yeah.- So vena cava...
0:21:26 > 0:21:30- That's one of them.- OK. Is it inferior and superior vena cavas?
0:21:30 > 0:21:32- Oh, yeah, yeah.- Shall we try that?
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Inferior and superior vena cava.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Correct. APPLAUSE
0:21:36 > 0:21:38We're going to take another picture round now.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41For your picture starter, you'll see a photograph of a figure
0:21:41 > 0:21:44prominent in the 20th century. Ten points if you can name him.
0:21:47 > 0:21:48Edmund Hillary?
0:21:48 > 0:21:51It is Sir Edmund Hillary, yes. APPLAUSE
0:21:51 > 0:21:55He appears on the New Zealand five-dollar note, which won the
0:21:55 > 0:21:59International Bank Note Society's Banknote of the Year award for 2015.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02For your bonuses, you're going to see pictures of three more people
0:22:02 > 0:22:05who appear on banknotes around the world.
0:22:05 > 0:22:06Five points for each you can identify.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08I want the name of the person you see
0:22:08 > 0:22:12and the names of both the currency and the country that issues it.
0:22:12 > 0:22:13Firstly...
0:22:16 > 0:22:18- Greta Garbo?- Yeah.- Is it?
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- Probably.- Where's she from?- Germany?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23No Greta Garbo, isn't she Swedish?
0:22:23 > 0:22:24Maybe, yeah.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26OK. Krona.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Greta Garbo, Swedish krona?
0:22:28 > 0:22:31Correct. Secondly...
0:22:31 > 0:22:34- Um, Ho Chi Minh. Vietnam. - Vietnamese...
0:22:34 > 0:22:36- Dong?- Is it dong?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38- Yeah.- Dong, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh.- Yeah.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese dong?
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Correct. And finally, who is this?
0:22:42 > 0:22:44He appears on the currency of two countries.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47You can name either currency, but give its country, as well.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52- Simon Bolivar.- Venezuelan...
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Might be Colombia.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56- Peso.- Peso. Colombia?
0:22:56 > 0:23:00Colombian peso? Could be. Could be Bolivia. He's everywhere.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Let's go for that. Simon Bolivar, Colombian peso.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04No. Bad luck!
0:23:04 > 0:23:08He appears on the Venezuelan bolivar and the Argentine peso.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11So you don't get that. Ten points for this -
0:23:11 > 0:23:14which two letters begin the names of a tributary of the River Nile,
0:23:14 > 0:23:18a large desert of northern Chile and the US state capital...?
0:23:18 > 0:23:19A-T?
0:23:19 > 0:23:21A-T is correct. APPLAUSE
0:23:22 > 0:23:25These bonuses could give you the lead again.
0:23:25 > 0:23:29They're on Renaissance humanists. Which 14th-century poet
0:23:29 > 0:23:32and humanist wrote a critique of contemporary scholastic philosophy
0:23:32 > 0:23:36entitled On His Own Ignorance And That Of Many Others?
0:23:37 > 0:23:40- Erasmus?- 14th century...
0:23:40 > 0:23:44- Is that a bit later?- No.- No idea.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46- Failing that, Thomas More? - We'll go with that.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48Erasmus?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50No, it's Petrarch. The subject of a noted portrait
0:23:50 > 0:23:54by Raphael, which humanist and diplomat wrote The Courtier,
0:23:54 > 0:23:58one of the 16th century's greatest literary successes?
0:23:58 > 0:24:01- I think...- Painted by Raphael?
0:24:01 > 0:24:03- What is he?- 16th century. Raphael.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05- The Courtier. - Erasmus met Thomas More.- OK.
0:24:05 > 0:24:10- Could be Thomas More. - Raphael?!- PAINTED by Raphael.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12We'll try Erasmus again.
0:24:12 > 0:24:17No, it's Castiglione. And finally, in his 1524 work on free will,
0:24:17 > 0:24:21which Dutch scholar attacked Martin Luther's central doctrine
0:24:21 > 0:24:24that human will is enslaved by sin?
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Is that Erasmus?
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Can't think of any Dutch ones, can you?
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Spinoza? No. No, that's way later.
0:24:31 > 0:24:32Erasmus.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Erasmus is right, in the end! APPLAUSE
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Right, ten points for this -
0:24:36 > 0:24:40what is the first noun in Rudyard Kipling's poem "If-"?
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Man.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47No. UCL, one of you can buzz.
0:24:48 > 0:24:49Boy?
0:24:49 > 0:24:51No, it's "head". "If you can keep your head when all about you
0:24:51 > 0:24:54"Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...."
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Right, we get another starter question, then. Answer promptly.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Name two of the three constitutional
0:24:59 > 0:25:01monarchies of mainland South-East Asia.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Cambodia and...Thailand?
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Correct. The other one is Malaysia, of course. Well done.
0:25:08 > 0:25:09APPLAUSE
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Bonuses on the ancient Near East.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17Muwatallis and Mursilis were among the rulers of which ancient people?
0:25:17 > 0:25:19Speakers of an Indo-European language,
0:25:19 > 0:25:24they appeared in Anatolia during the second millennium BCE.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Hittites? I think they were Indo-Europeans.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28OK. Hittites?
0:25:28 > 0:25:29Hittites is correct.
0:25:29 > 0:25:35Shutruk-Nahhunte ruled which ancient state during the 12th century BCE?
0:25:35 > 0:25:39It is also known as Susiana after its capital, Susa,
0:25:39 > 0:25:42in the south-west of present-day Iran.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44- Sumeria?- I was thinking that.
0:25:44 > 0:25:45Sumeria?
0:25:45 > 0:25:48No, it's Elam. And finally, Shulgi, Shu-Sin
0:25:48 > 0:25:52and Naram-Sin were rulers of which Sumerian city state
0:25:52 > 0:25:56during its third dynasty in the later second millennium BCE?
0:25:56 > 0:25:58THEY ALL SPEAK AT ONCE
0:26:02 > 0:26:05- Ur. What? - Ur. Ur.- U-R.
0:26:05 > 0:26:06Ur.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Ur is correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE
0:26:08 > 0:26:09What seven-letter term
0:26:09 > 0:26:11may be used in mechanics to denote
0:26:11 > 0:26:14a quantity with the same dimensions as force?
0:26:14 > 0:26:16It is also a synonym for "voltage".
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Potential?
0:26:20 > 0:26:22No. Edinburgh, one of you can buzz.
0:26:24 > 0:26:25Impulse?
0:26:25 > 0:26:27No, it's "tension". Ten points for this -
0:26:27 > 0:26:32the Treaty of Breda in 1667 resulted in an exchange of territory
0:26:32 > 0:26:36that established a Dutch monopoly over trade in which spice?
0:26:37 > 0:26:38Nutmeg.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41Nutmeg is correct, yes. APPLAUSE
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Your bonuses are on islands. They could give you the lead again.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47Baffin Island and Ellesmere Island, two of the three largest
0:26:47 > 0:26:51islands of Canada, are part of which Canadian territory?
0:26:51 > 0:26:53- Nunavut.- Nunavut.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56Correct. Skye, the second-largest island of Scotland,
0:26:56 > 0:27:00is within which Scottish council area?
0:27:00 > 0:27:02- Highlands?- No, no, no. Erm...
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Ross-shire, I think.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Um, Ross-shire.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08- No, it's Highland.- Sorry.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11Finally, Kangaroo Island, the third-largest island of Australia,
0:27:11 > 0:27:13is part of the territory of which state?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16Oh, I think it's...
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Come on.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23- What's the one in the south-east? - New South Wales?- New South Wales.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24No, it's South Australia.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29Ten points for this - Explosion, Varoom! and As I Opened Fire
0:27:29 > 0:27:32are the titles of paintings created between 19...
0:27:32 > 0:27:33Lichtenstein?
0:27:33 > 0:27:35Roy Lichtenstein is correct.
0:27:35 > 0:27:36- Yes! - APPLAUSE
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Your bonuses are on the Romantic poets. In each case,
0:27:39 > 0:27:43identify the work from phrases that appear in its opening lines.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45GONG And at the gong,
0:27:45 > 0:27:48UCL have 165, Edinburgh have 170. APPLAUSE
0:27:52 > 0:27:55Well, it was, as the Duke of Wellington said,
0:27:55 > 0:27:56a damn close-run thing!
0:27:56 > 0:27:59But thank you both very much for taking part.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03And, UCL, you nearly did it, but you didn't in the end.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05Sadly, we have to say goodbye to you, but you've been a great team.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08Thank you for playing with us. And, Edinburgh, congratulations to you.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10You left it till the last minute, but you did it!
0:28:10 > 0:28:13I hope you can join us next time for another second-round match,
0:28:13 > 0:28:14but until then, it's goodbye
0:28:14 > 0:28:17- from University College, London... ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19- ..it's goodbye from Edinburgh University... ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21..and it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.