Episode 21

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0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE

0:00:19 > 0:00:22University Challenge.

0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.

0:00:27 > 0:00:32Hello, time to do or die for another two teams in the second

0:00:32 > 0:00:33round of the competition.

0:00:33 > 0:00:36There are eight places in the quarterfinals and four of them

0:00:36 > 0:00:38have already been taken.

0:00:38 > 0:00:40Tonight's winners will take the fifth place

0:00:40 > 0:00:42but the losers will head home.

0:00:42 > 0:00:45The team from Bristol University had something of a stroll

0:00:45 > 0:00:47in the park in their first-round match.

0:00:47 > 0:00:49They gained an early lead and kept it,

0:00:49 > 0:00:52completely dominating the second half, and had 230 points

0:00:52 > 0:00:57at the gong to the 95 of Trinity College, Cambridge.

0:00:57 > 0:01:00Their strengths on that occasion included the French horn,

0:01:00 > 0:01:04philosophical paradoxes and the illustrator Kate Greenaway.

0:01:04 > 0:01:08Although they were completely unmoved by some other topics,

0:01:08 > 0:01:11including writer's block and paintings of potatoes.

0:01:11 > 0:01:15With an average age of 22, let's meet the Bristol team again.

0:01:15 > 0:01:18Hi, I'm Ollie Bowes from Market Harborough in Leicestershire

0:01:18 > 0:01:20and I'm studying music.

0:01:20 > 0:01:22Hi. I'm Kirsty Biggs.

0:01:22 > 0:01:26I'm originally from Southampton and I'm doing a PhD in mathematics.

0:01:26 > 0:01:27This is their captain.

0:01:27 > 0:01:29Hi, I'm Sam Hosegood.

0:01:29 > 0:01:32I'm from Bedford and I do chemical physics.

0:01:32 > 0:01:34Hi, I'm Don Hewitt, I'm from Stroud in Gloucestershire

0:01:34 > 0:01:35and I'm studying English.

0:01:35 > 0:01:38APPLAUSE

0:01:40 > 0:01:43The team from Trinity College, Oxford faced tough

0:01:43 > 0:01:44opposition in their first-round

0:01:44 > 0:01:46match against University College London,

0:01:46 > 0:01:50but they too took an early lead and kept it, although they allowed

0:01:50 > 0:01:55their opponents to come within 15 points of their final score of 160.

0:01:55 > 0:01:57They didn't have a great deal of time for John Dryden or

0:01:57 > 0:02:01pineapples, but they were more than familiar with anglerfish,

0:02:01 > 0:02:04matrices and the musical Hamilton.

0:02:04 > 0:02:07With an average age of 19, let's meet the Trinity, Oxford team again.

0:02:07 > 0:02:10Hi. I'm Maxim. I'm from Olney in Buckinghamshire

0:02:10 > 0:02:13and I'm reading for a BA in history and politics.

0:02:13 > 0:02:14Hi. I'm Nicole.

0:02:14 > 0:02:16I'm from Hertfordshire and I'm studying maths.

0:02:16 > 0:02:18And this is their captain...

0:02:18 > 0:02:21Hi, I'm James. I'm from Melbourne, Australia and I'm studying classics.

0:02:21 > 0:02:24Hi, I'm Ben. I'm from Hadlow in Kent and I'm studying philosophy,

0:02:24 > 0:02:26politics and economics.

0:02:26 > 0:02:28APPLAUSE

0:02:30 > 0:02:33OK. We're not going to waste time reciting the rules,

0:02:33 > 0:02:34so let's crack on.

0:02:34 > 0:02:37With fingers on the buzzers, here is your first starter for ten.

0:02:37 > 0:02:42In 1915, what did the Salisbury resident Cecil Chubb purchase

0:02:42 > 0:02:46at auction from the Antrobus family for the sum of £6,600?

0:02:46 > 0:02:48He donated...

0:02:48 > 0:02:49Stonehenge.

0:02:49 > 0:02:50Correct.

0:02:50 > 0:02:53APPLAUSE

0:02:53 > 0:02:56You get bonuses on a US president, Trinity.

0:02:56 > 0:02:59In a speech given after the death of a major world leader

0:02:59 > 0:03:03and antagonist, which president likened arms spending to

0:03:03 > 0:03:04theft from the people

0:03:04 > 0:03:08and as humanity hanging from a cross of iron?

0:03:08 > 0:03:11THEY CONFER

0:03:11 > 0:03:12OK. Truman?

0:03:12 > 0:03:14Truman?

0:03:14 > 0:03:15No, it was Eisenhower.

0:03:15 > 0:03:18Secondly, often used during the Eisenhower administration,

0:03:18 > 0:03:23what foreign policy theory presumed that if one country fell

0:03:23 > 0:03:26to communism, then its neighbours must ineluctably follow?

0:03:26 > 0:03:28- Domino theory?- Domino.

0:03:28 > 0:03:30Domino theory? Domino theory.

0:03:30 > 0:03:31Correct.

0:03:31 > 0:03:35In his farewell address in 1961, Eisenhower warned against

0:03:35 > 0:03:39the acquisition of unwarranted influence by which vested interest?

0:03:39 > 0:03:42I need the precise three-word term he used.

0:03:42 > 0:03:43- Military-industrial complex?- Yes.

0:03:43 > 0:03:45- Military-industrial complex. - Correct.

0:03:45 > 0:03:46APPLAUSE Ten points for this.

0:03:46 > 0:03:50What prefix of either five or six letters begins terms meaning

0:03:50 > 0:03:54the study of fossil plants, the early part of the Stone Age,

0:03:54 > 0:03:56and the geological...?

0:03:56 > 0:03:57Paleo.

0:03:57 > 0:03:58Paleo is correct. Yes.

0:03:58 > 0:04:01APPLAUSE

0:04:01 > 0:04:04So your first bonuses, Bristol, are on composers

0:04:04 > 0:04:06who served as kapellmeister,

0:04:06 > 0:04:10a German term designating a person in charge of music-making.

0:04:10 > 0:04:13Firstly, at the age of 25 in 1710,

0:04:13 > 0:04:18which composer became kapellmeister to George, Elector of Hanover?

0:04:18 > 0:04:19Handel.

0:04:19 > 0:04:20Correct.

0:04:20 > 0:04:24From 1766, Joseph Haydn was kapellmeister for which aristocratic

0:04:24 > 0:04:30Hungarian family with whom he was associated until his death in 1809?

0:04:30 > 0:04:31- Esterhazys?- Nominate Bowes.

0:04:31 > 0:04:33- Esterhazys.- Correct.

0:04:33 > 0:04:36Who was appointed kapellmeister or conductor of the Court Opera

0:04:36 > 0:04:40at the Dresden court of the King of Saxony in 1843?

0:04:40 > 0:04:44His most successful opera before that date was Rienzi.

0:04:44 > 0:04:45Wagner.

0:04:45 > 0:04:46Yes, Richard Wagner.

0:04:46 > 0:04:48Ten points for this. APPLAUSE

0:04:48 > 0:04:51Which Nobel Laureate is the title figure of The Lady And The Peacock

0:04:51 > 0:04:55and The Lady And The Generals by the journalist Peter Popham?

0:04:55 > 0:04:57She spent more than ten years under house

0:04:57 > 0:05:00arrest in the city of her birth, Rangoon.

0:05:02 > 0:05:04Aung San Suu Kyi.

0:05:04 > 0:05:06Aung San Suu Kyi is correct. Yes.

0:05:06 > 0:05:08APPLAUSE

0:05:08 > 0:05:11Your bonuses are on a Latin word this time, Bristol.

0:05:11 > 0:05:13What short name is that of an enigmatic

0:05:13 > 0:05:16sea captain in a novel of 1870 and is the Latin

0:05:16 > 0:05:21rendering of the alias used by Odysseus to outwit Polyphemus?

0:05:21 > 0:05:22Was it Nemo?

0:05:22 > 0:05:25- Nemo.- Nemo is correct.

0:05:25 > 0:05:27Under the alias Nemo, James Hawdon,

0:05:27 > 0:05:31a former army officer addicted to opium, lodged with the rag and

0:05:31 > 0:05:34bottle merchant Mr Krook in which novel by Dickens?

0:05:34 > 0:05:35- Bleak House.- Bleak house.

0:05:35 > 0:05:38Correct. "Nemo me impune lacessit",

0:05:38 > 0:05:42meaning no-one provokes me with impunity, is the motto

0:05:42 > 0:05:48of which order of chivalry revived by James VII and II in 1687?

0:05:48 > 0:05:49THEY CONFER

0:05:49 > 0:05:50The Thistle?

0:05:50 > 0:05:51Correct.

0:05:51 > 0:05:54APPLAUSE

0:05:54 > 0:05:55Ten points for this.

0:05:55 > 0:05:57A self-confessed professional dilettante,

0:05:57 > 0:06:02which US proponent of self-help is the author of The 4-Hour Chef

0:06:02 > 0:06:05and The 4-Hour Work Week?

0:06:05 > 0:06:08He is the title host of a show which on iTunes has regularly been

0:06:08 > 0:06:11ranked the number one business podcast.

0:06:12 > 0:06:13Tim Ferriss.

0:06:13 > 0:06:14Correct.

0:06:14 > 0:06:17APPLAUSE

0:06:17 > 0:06:20These bonuses are on snakes, Trinity.

0:06:20 > 0:06:23What term for a hard substance formed from the skeletons

0:06:23 > 0:06:26of certain marine invertebrates appears in the common names

0:06:26 > 0:06:29of several species of brightly-coloured venomous snakes?

0:06:30 > 0:06:32Rock? Something...

0:06:32 > 0:06:34- Stone?- It's got to be a specific rock, surely?

0:06:34 > 0:06:36- Yeah, coral?- Coral?- Yeah.

0:06:36 > 0:06:38- Coral?- Coral is correct.

0:06:38 > 0:06:42Meaning spearhead, what French name is given to several

0:06:42 > 0:06:47venomous pit vipers including the Central American jumping viper?

0:06:47 > 0:06:48Spearhead...

0:06:48 > 0:06:50Head is "tete" in French, but I don't know what spear is.

0:06:50 > 0:06:54Yeah, I'm thinking, spear... hasta, cuspis...

0:06:54 > 0:06:55I don't know.

0:06:55 > 0:06:57- Cuspid?- No, it's fer-de-lance.

0:06:57 > 0:06:59Known by the Romans as metal of Cyprus,

0:06:59 > 0:07:03the name of which element appears in the names of several snakes

0:07:03 > 0:07:04referring to the colour of their heads?

0:07:04 > 0:07:06- Cyprus.- Copper, maybe?- Yeah.

0:07:06 > 0:07:08- Copper.- Correct.

0:07:08 > 0:07:10APPLAUSE We go to the picture round now.

0:07:10 > 0:07:12For your picture starter, you're going to see a table

0:07:12 > 0:07:14which represents a scale of measurement.

0:07:14 > 0:07:16For ten points, name the scale.

0:07:19 > 0:07:21The Mohs scale.

0:07:21 > 0:07:22It is the Mohs scale of hardness.

0:07:22 > 0:07:25APPLAUSE

0:07:25 > 0:07:27That's an eponymous ordinal scale.

0:07:27 > 0:07:29For your picture bonuses, three more

0:07:29 > 0:07:32eponymous ordinal scales, five points for each you can name.

0:07:32 > 0:07:33Firstly...

0:07:36 > 0:07:39- Oh...- It's the Kinsey scale. That is the Kinsey scale.

0:07:39 > 0:07:41Secondly, which two psychiatrists

0:07:41 > 0:07:44gave their names to this scale in 1967?

0:07:46 > 0:07:50We're not going to get two psychiatrists, are we?

0:07:50 > 0:07:52- THEY CONFER - Yeah.

0:07:52 > 0:07:53No, pass.

0:07:53 > 0:07:56That's the Holmes and Rahe social stress scale.

0:07:56 > 0:08:00And finally, name this scale shown here in an abridged form.

0:08:00 > 0:08:02It's taken from the version published in 1832.

0:08:04 > 0:08:06THEY CONFER

0:08:06 > 0:08:07Oh, what...?

0:08:08 > 0:08:10- Beaufort, maybe?- Maybe.

0:08:10 > 0:08:13- Beaufort scale? - It is the Beaufort scale.

0:08:13 > 0:08:14Wind force. APPLAUSE

0:08:14 > 0:08:15Yes. Ten points for this.

0:08:15 > 0:08:18What six-letter word comes from the old French for

0:08:18 > 0:08:22to cover a fire in the first line of Thomas...

0:08:22 > 0:08:23Curfew.

0:08:23 > 0:08:24Curfew is correct.

0:08:24 > 0:08:27APPLAUSE

0:08:27 > 0:08:30You get a set of bonuses on scientific discoveries.

0:08:30 > 0:08:34Which non-metallic element was discovered in 1669 by the German

0:08:34 > 0:08:38merchant and alchemist Hennig Brand, who distilled it from urine?

0:08:39 > 0:08:41- Nitrogen, maybe?- Sulphur?

0:08:41 > 0:08:43No, they probably knew about sulphur a long time before that.

0:08:43 > 0:08:46- I think...- Nitrogen?- Yes. - Could be nitrogen.- OK.

0:08:46 > 0:08:47- Nitrogen.- No, it was phosphorus.

0:08:47 > 0:08:51In his 1812 work, Elements Of Chemical Philosophy,

0:08:51 > 0:08:53who wrote, "I discovered sodium

0:08:53 > 0:08:58"a few days after I discovered potassium, in the year 1807"?

0:09:00 > 0:09:01Lavoisier?

0:09:02 > 0:09:04Yeah, could be.

0:09:04 > 0:09:05Anyone have something else?

0:09:05 > 0:09:08- Lavoisier?- No, Sir Humphrey Davy.

0:09:08 > 0:09:11And finally, in 1860, which element was the first to be

0:09:11 > 0:09:16discovered spectroscopically by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff?

0:09:16 > 0:09:19They named it after the unique blue lines of its spectrum.

0:09:20 > 0:09:23What was the thing about technetium you said before?

0:09:23 > 0:09:26That's not... No, it's a blue. It probably means a word meaning blue.

0:09:27 > 0:09:32Azurium or something like that?

0:09:32 > 0:09:34Blue...

0:09:34 > 0:09:36Cobalt? That is kind of blue. I don't know.

0:09:36 > 0:09:38Cobalt blue or something?

0:09:38 > 0:09:40- Cobalt?- No, it's caesium.

0:09:40 > 0:09:42Ten points for this.

0:09:42 > 0:09:45In a 1971 article for Electronic News,

0:09:45 > 0:09:49the journalist Don C Hoefler popularised which two-word name

0:09:49 > 0:09:52for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area and...?

0:09:53 > 0:09:54Silicon Valley.

0:09:54 > 0:09:59Correct. APPLAUSE

0:09:59 > 0:10:01These bonuses are on modern opera, Bristol.

0:10:01 > 0:10:03First performed in 2005,

0:10:03 > 0:10:07the opera Doctor Atomic concerns Robert Oppenheimer and others at

0:10:07 > 0:10:11Los Alamos during the preparations for the first atomic bomb test.

0:10:11 > 0:10:13It's a work by which US composer?

0:10:13 > 0:10:15Adams.

0:10:15 > 0:10:16- John Adams?- Yeah.- John Adams.

0:10:16 > 0:10:17Correct.

0:10:17 > 0:10:21Scored by Asian Dub Foundation and subtitled The Living Myth,

0:10:21 > 0:10:25the opening work of the English National Opera's 2006 season

0:10:25 > 0:10:28was a portrayal of which North African leader?

0:10:32 > 0:10:34- Leader of Egypt...- Cleopatra, or...?

0:10:34 > 0:10:36- Do you think, Cleopatra? - I don't know.

0:10:36 > 0:10:39- Akhenaten?- Pardon?- It could be Akhenaten.- OK.

0:10:39 > 0:10:41- Which it's not, but...- Akhenaten?

0:10:41 > 0:10:43- No, it was Colonel Gaddafi.- Oh!

0:10:43 > 0:10:47And, finally, a 1997 chamber opera by Michael Doherty begins

0:10:47 > 0:10:50with a happening in Andy Warhol's studio

0:10:50 > 0:10:54and features episodes in the life of which former US First Lady?

0:10:57 > 0:11:00- Jackie?- Do you think Jackie Kennedy? - Go for it.

0:11:00 > 0:11:01Jackie Kennedy?

0:11:01 > 0:11:03Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE

0:11:03 > 0:11:05In which century did construction

0:11:05 > 0:11:07begin on the current external

0:11:07 > 0:11:09gothic structure of Westminster Abbey?

0:11:10 > 0:11:1217th.

0:11:12 > 0:11:14Nope! Er, you lose five points.

0:11:14 > 0:11:17Replacing the church dating from the reign of Edward the Confessor

0:11:17 > 0:11:20that was pulled down on the orders of Henry III.

0:11:23 > 0:11:2514th.

0:11:25 > 0:11:26No, it's the 13th century.

0:11:26 > 0:11:27Ten points for this.

0:11:27 > 0:11:31The highland region known as the Pamir is situated

0:11:31 > 0:11:34largely in which landlocked country?

0:11:34 > 0:11:37Several mountain ranges radiate from the Pamir's,

0:11:37 > 0:11:40including the Kunlun, the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram.

0:11:40 > 0:11:42Kazakhstan.

0:11:42 > 0:11:44Nope. Er, you lose five points.

0:11:44 > 0:11:46Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?

0:11:48 > 0:11:49Nepal?

0:11:49 > 0:11:51No, it's Tajikistan. Ten points for this.

0:11:51 > 0:11:54Which two letters begin the names of the constellation that

0:11:54 > 0:11:56includes the star Altair,

0:11:56 > 0:11:59the only seaport in Jordan,

0:11:59 > 0:12:02and the 13th century author of the Summa Theologica?

0:12:02 > 0:12:04A-Q?

0:12:04 > 0:12:06Correct. APPLAUSE

0:12:08 > 0:12:11OK, your bonuses this time are on the names of English counties

0:12:11 > 0:12:13according to the Oxford Names Companion.

0:12:13 > 0:12:17All three answers end in shire.

0:12:17 > 0:12:20Firstly, one of the few names ending in shire that does NOT

0:12:20 > 0:12:25incorporate the name of a town or city, which southern county's

0:12:25 > 0:12:28name derives from a Celtic word meaning hilly place?

0:12:31 > 0:12:34Not sure.

0:12:34 > 0:12:36- Hampshire, maybe.- Maybe?

0:12:36 > 0:12:37Hampshire? Hampshire?

0:12:37 > 0:12:39- No, it's Berkshire.- Oh.

0:12:39 > 0:12:42Secondly, place name elements meaning army and river crossing

0:12:42 > 0:12:45appear in the name of which western county?

0:12:47 > 0:12:49- Something ford.- Ford, yeah, so...

0:12:49 > 0:12:52- Gloucester?- No, Ford, river, so it's Herefordshire.

0:12:52 > 0:12:54Herefordshire?

0:12:54 > 0:12:55Correct.

0:12:55 > 0:12:58The homestead of the family or followers of a man called

0:12:58 > 0:13:00Snot is the derivation of which county name?

0:13:00 > 0:13:02- It's Nottinghamshire. - Nottinghamshire.

0:13:02 > 0:13:04Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE

0:13:04 > 0:13:06Noted for its distinctive shape,

0:13:06 > 0:13:09the Clyde auditorium in Glasgow is popularly

0:13:09 > 0:13:12known by the name of what New World mammal

0:13:12 > 0:13:16whose species include hairy, giant and nine-banded?

0:13:18 > 0:13:19Armadillo?

0:13:19 > 0:13:21Armadillo is correct, yes.

0:13:21 > 0:13:22APPLAUSE

0:13:24 > 0:13:27Your bonuses are on political leaders in Central America.

0:13:27 > 0:13:31In 1990, Violeta Chamorro became Central America's first female

0:13:31 > 0:13:35president, beating Daniel Ortega in an election in which country?

0:13:36 > 0:13:37Nicaragua?

0:13:37 > 0:13:42Correct. In 1999, Mireya Moscoso was elected the first female

0:13:42 > 0:13:44president of which country?

0:13:44 > 0:13:47She beat Martin Torrijos, the son of the former dictator.

0:13:51 > 0:13:54No idea. Um...

0:13:54 > 0:13:58- Is it all Central American ones? - Let's have it, please.

0:13:58 > 0:13:59- Honduras.- Honduras.

0:13:59 > 0:14:00- No, it's Panama.- Oh.

0:14:00 > 0:14:03In 2010, Laura Chinchilla Miranda succeeded

0:14:03 > 0:14:05Oscar Arias as president of which country?

0:14:05 > 0:14:07She served until 2014.

0:14:09 > 0:14:11Last one was obvious, so maybe Mexico?

0:14:11 > 0:14:13Mexico?

0:14:13 > 0:14:14- No, it's Costa Rica.- Aw! - LAUGHTER

0:14:14 > 0:14:16We're going to take a music round now.

0:14:16 > 0:14:17For your music starter, you'll hear

0:14:17 > 0:14:20a piece of classical music by a British composer.

0:14:20 > 0:14:22Ten points if you can give me the name of its composer.

0:14:22 > 0:14:25ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS

0:14:25 > 0:14:27Purcell?

0:14:27 > 0:14:28It is Purcell, yes.

0:14:28 > 0:14:31APPLAUSE

0:14:31 > 0:14:33It was the first piece played at the coronation of

0:14:33 > 0:14:36Queen Elizabeth II who, in 2017,

0:14:36 > 0:14:40became the first British monarch to reach a sapphire jubilee.

0:14:40 > 0:14:43Your music bonuses are three more works by British composers

0:14:43 > 0:14:45performed at her coronation.

0:14:45 > 0:14:47Five points for each composer you can name.

0:14:47 > 0:14:48Firstly...

0:14:48 > 0:14:50ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS

0:14:50 > 0:14:52Oh, that's, um,...

0:14:52 > 0:14:55- Crown Imperial, by Walton. - Mmm-hmm.- Walton.

0:14:55 > 0:14:56Walton?

0:14:56 > 0:14:58William Walton's Crown Imperial is right.

0:14:58 > 0:15:00Secondly...

0:15:00 > 0:15:03ORGAN AND CHORAL MUSIC PLAYS

0:15:03 > 0:15:05THEY CONFER

0:15:05 > 0:15:06Parry?

0:15:06 > 0:15:09It is, I Was Glad. And finally...

0:15:09 > 0:15:12ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS

0:15:14 > 0:15:18THEY CONFER

0:15:23 > 0:15:24Holst?

0:15:24 > 0:15:27Holst is right. It's Jupiter. APPLAUSE

0:15:27 > 0:15:28Right, ten points for this.

0:15:28 > 0:15:30Which US political scientist was a joint

0:15:30 > 0:15:34winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences for her

0:15:34 > 0:15:37analysis of economic governance, especially the commons?

0:15:37 > 0:15:40She demonstrated how common property can be managed

0:15:40 > 0:15:42successfully by user associations.

0:15:45 > 0:15:47Ostrom?

0:15:47 > 0:15:48Elinor Ostrom is right, yes.

0:15:48 > 0:15:51APPLAUSE

0:15:51 > 0:15:54You get a set of bonuses on tungsten mining, Bristol.

0:15:54 > 0:15:57The major ores of tungsten are associated with which

0:15:57 > 0:15:59intrusive igneous rock?

0:15:59 > 0:16:01Its volcanic equivalent is rhyolite.

0:16:02 > 0:16:04Granite?

0:16:04 > 0:16:07Correct. The Hemerdon tungsten mine is close

0:16:07 > 0:16:09to which English port city, reported

0:16:09 > 0:16:13as being Britain's first new metal mine in more than 40 years?

0:16:13 > 0:16:17It opened in 2015, close to the boundary of a national park.

0:16:17 > 0:16:20Maybe near Exmoor...? I've no idea.

0:16:22 > 0:16:24Port city, near...

0:16:24 > 0:16:26I don't know, Southampton?

0:16:26 > 0:16:28- Yeah.- Southampton?

0:16:28 > 0:16:29- No, it's Plymouth.- Oh.

0:16:29 > 0:16:32And finally, producing more than the next ten countries combined,

0:16:32 > 0:16:35what is the world's largest producer of tungsten,

0:16:35 > 0:16:39with extensive deposits in the Nanling, or south, mountains?

0:16:41 > 0:16:43- China?- Yeah.- China?

0:16:43 > 0:16:46China is correct. Ten points for this.

0:16:46 > 0:16:49Which branch of the Indo-European family included Lepontic,

0:16:49 > 0:16:53a language with inscriptions dating to the first millennium BC,

0:16:53 > 0:16:56and spoken in Switzerland and northern Italy,

0:16:56 > 0:16:59thought by some to be a form of Gaulish?

0:17:03 > 0:17:04Etruscan?

0:17:04 > 0:17:07- No. Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?- Celtic?

0:17:07 > 0:17:08Celtic is correct, yes.

0:17:08 > 0:17:10APPLAUSE

0:17:11 > 0:17:14Your bonuses are on Spain, this time, Trinity.

0:17:14 > 0:17:16Which mountain chain extends along the northern

0:17:16 > 0:17:19coast of Spain for almost 300km?

0:17:19 > 0:17:21It's not on the coast.

0:17:21 > 0:17:22Not on the coast, but, like...

0:17:22 > 0:17:24- I don't know.- Any other ideas?

0:17:24 > 0:17:26- Do you know any mountain ranges in Spain?- Apart from the Pyrenees.

0:17:26 > 0:17:28Is it Sierra something, as well?

0:17:28 > 0:17:30- But no, go on, I don't know what it is.- GUNN:- Go for it.

0:17:30 > 0:17:32Pyrenees?

0:17:32 > 0:17:34No, it's the Cantabrian range.

0:17:34 > 0:17:38Secondly, more than 2,600m in height, Torre de Cerredo is

0:17:38 > 0:17:41the highest point in which range within the Cantabrian mountains?

0:17:41 > 0:17:45Its name probably refers to its status as a landmark

0:17:45 > 0:17:47for seafarers returning from the Americas.

0:17:48 > 0:17:51Columbian, or something?

0:17:51 > 0:17:52Columbian?

0:17:52 > 0:17:54No, it's the Picos de Europa.

0:17:54 > 0:17:55The Europa Mountains.

0:17:55 > 0:17:58And, finally, described as one of the most difficult railway

0:17:58 > 0:18:03passes in Europe, a line over the Pajares pass connects Leon to

0:18:03 > 0:18:05which city, the capital of Asturias?

0:18:07 > 0:18:09Castille, or something?

0:18:09 > 0:18:11- Is Santander around there?- Yeah.

0:18:11 > 0:18:13- Is it?- Could be. - It's on the Northern coast, so...

0:18:13 > 0:18:14I think it might be near here.

0:18:14 > 0:18:17- OK, Santander?- Yeah, go for it. - Santander?

0:18:17 > 0:18:18No, it's Oviedo.

0:18:18 > 0:18:19Ten points for this.

0:18:19 > 0:18:23Which 19th century French physicist gives his name to plane

0:18:23 > 0:18:26curves that have formed by the superposition of two

0:18:26 > 0:18:29vibrations in mutually perpendicular directions?

0:18:31 > 0:18:33Laplace?

0:18:33 > 0:18:36No. Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?

0:18:36 > 0:18:37Lagrange?

0:18:37 > 0:18:39No, it's Lissajous.

0:18:39 > 0:18:40Ten points for this.

0:18:40 > 0:18:44"Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horsemen pass by."

0:18:44 > 0:18:48These words appear on the gravestone of which poet?

0:18:48 > 0:18:52They are taken from his 1939 poem, Under Ben Bulben.

0:18:56 > 0:18:58I'll tell you, it's Yeats. Ten points for this.

0:18:58 > 0:19:03What word follows ultra-low, very low, low, medium, high, very high...

0:19:03 > 0:19:05Frequency?

0:19:05 > 0:19:09Frequency is correct. APPLAUSE

0:19:09 > 0:19:12You get set of bonuses on the solar system, Trinity.

0:19:12 > 0:19:15From the surnames of astronomers who studied them,

0:19:15 > 0:19:20Galle, Le Verrier, Lassell, Arago, and Adams are the names given

0:19:20 > 0:19:23to five of the rings surrounding which planet?

0:19:24 > 0:19:27- ROSENFELD AND GUNN: - Saturn or Uranus.

0:19:27 > 0:19:30- PARR-REID:- Go with Saturn. - Saturn. Why not?- Saturn?

0:19:30 > 0:19:31- No, it's Neptune.- Oh!

0:19:31 > 0:19:33Which Greek letter is used to designate

0:19:33 > 0:19:36the brightest and outermost of the main rings of Uranus?

0:19:38 > 0:19:41- Outermost Omega, or something? - What's your favourite Greek letter?

0:19:41 > 0:19:43LAUGHTER I don't know.

0:19:43 > 0:19:45- Do you want to go Omega or something?- Yeah, go for it.- Omega?

0:19:45 > 0:19:46No, it's Epsilon.

0:19:46 > 0:19:50The rings of Saturn are primarily composed of what compound?

0:19:50 > 0:19:53Ice, I think. Ice?

0:19:53 > 0:19:55- Ice or water is correct, yes.- Ooh! - APPLAUSE

0:19:55 > 0:19:56Ten points for this.

0:19:56 > 0:19:59Featuring a bedridden central character named Andy,

0:19:59 > 0:20:03and described by Blake Morrison as his quintessential play,

0:20:03 > 0:20:08the 1993 drama Moonlight is by which British writer

0:20:08 > 0:20:10who won the Nobel Prize in 2005?

0:20:11 > 0:20:13Pinter.

0:20:13 > 0:20:15Harold Pinter is right, yes. APPLAUSE

0:20:17 > 0:20:20You bonuses are on languages of North America, Bristol.

0:20:20 > 0:20:23More than 200 miles long, which lake in Northern Alberta

0:20:23 > 0:20:26and Saskatchewan gives its name to a widespread language

0:20:26 > 0:20:29group of western North America?

0:20:29 > 0:20:30I've no idea.

0:20:30 > 0:20:32Lake Alberta...

0:20:32 > 0:20:35- Hmm... - HEWETT:- Winnipeg?- No, that's not it.

0:20:35 > 0:20:36That's Manitoba.

0:20:38 > 0:20:40It's worth a guess, I guess. Winnipeg?

0:20:40 > 0:20:42No, it's Athabaska.

0:20:43 > 0:20:44Which Athabaskan language, secondly,

0:20:44 > 0:20:47is known to its speakers as Dine Bizaad?

0:20:47 > 0:20:52It has more than 150,000 speakers, primarily in Arizona,

0:20:52 > 0:20:53New Mexico and Utah.

0:20:57 > 0:21:02- Is it Navaho, or...?- Navaho!

0:21:02 > 0:21:03Navaho?

0:21:03 > 0:21:07Correct. Navaho is closely related to the language of which people?

0:21:07 > 0:21:08In the later 19th century,

0:21:08 > 0:21:12they resisted US rule under Cochise and Geronimo.

0:21:13 > 0:21:14Sioux?

0:21:14 > 0:21:16- No, they were Apaches.- Oh.

0:21:16 > 0:21:17Ten points for this picture starter.

0:21:17 > 0:21:19You're going to see a still from a film.

0:21:19 > 0:21:23Ten points if you can give me the name of the studio that produced it.

0:21:26 > 0:21:27MGM.

0:21:27 > 0:21:29No. Anyone like to buzz from Trinity?

0:21:29 > 0:21:30You may not confer.

0:21:33 > 0:21:35Warner Brothers?

0:21:35 > 0:21:37No, it's Hammer, it's The Curse Of Frankenstein.

0:21:37 > 0:21:38It's inimitable, surely.

0:21:38 > 0:21:41Anyway, we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two.

0:21:41 > 0:21:43Ten points for this starter question.

0:21:43 > 0:21:46Referring to a shape, what ten-letter adjectival

0:21:46 > 0:21:51term for a type of galaxy designated S0 may also...?

0:21:51 > 0:21:53Elliptical?

0:21:53 > 0:21:55No. You lose er... You lose five points.

0:21:55 > 0:21:58- ..may also be used, you can hear a bit more.- OK. Yeah.

0:21:58 > 0:22:00May also be used to describe

0:22:00 > 0:22:01a component of an astronomical instrument?

0:22:01 > 0:22:03Gilligal?

0:22:03 > 0:22:04No, it's lenticular.

0:22:04 > 0:22:06Ten points for this.

0:22:06 > 0:22:09A Slavic tribe who sacrificed a young woman to the cosmic

0:22:09 > 0:22:13forces is the premise behind which modernist ballet?

0:22:13 > 0:22:15Rite of Spring.

0:22:15 > 0:22:16The Rite Of Spring is correct, yes.

0:22:16 > 0:22:19APPLAUSE

0:22:19 > 0:22:22So we follow Hammer's The Curse Of Frankenstein,

0:22:22 > 0:22:24which was the picture starter,

0:22:24 > 0:22:28released 60 years ago this year, with picture bonuses being

0:22:28 > 0:22:31stills from three more film versions of Mary Shelley's novel.

0:22:31 > 0:22:34In each case I want the name of the director, please.

0:22:34 > 0:22:35Firstly...

0:22:38 > 0:22:39It's not Tim Burton.

0:22:39 > 0:22:40ALL LAUGH

0:22:40 > 0:22:42Um... I don't know.

0:22:42 > 0:22:44- I don't know. Del Toro. - What?- Del Toro.

0:22:44 > 0:22:45Del Toro.

0:22:45 > 0:22:47No, that was directed by Kenneth Branagh. Secondly...

0:22:50 > 0:22:51Um...

0:22:54 > 0:22:55No, we don't know, do we?

0:22:55 > 0:22:57- Spielberg. - LAUGHTER

0:22:57 > 0:22:59No, that's James Wells' Frankenstein of 1931.

0:22:59 > 0:23:02And finally, I want the director of this film,

0:23:02 > 0:23:06inspired rather more loosely by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

0:23:07 > 0:23:09That's Gene Wilder.

0:23:09 > 0:23:10- Oh.- Is the guy in...?

0:23:10 > 0:23:13- Maybe he directed it himself. - Yeah, that's what...- Gene Wilder?

0:23:13 > 0:23:15No, it's Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein.

0:23:15 > 0:23:16LAUGHTER

0:23:16 > 0:23:19Ten points for this. Prominent in the 18th and 19th centuries,

0:23:19 > 0:23:23the Ashanti empire occupied a region predominantly located in...

0:23:23 > 0:23:25Ghana?

0:23:25 > 0:23:26Ghana is correct, yes.

0:23:26 > 0:23:29APPLAUSE

0:23:29 > 0:23:32Your bonuses are on French philosophy in the 1960s.

0:23:32 > 0:23:35In 1961, which French philosopher produced a work later

0:23:35 > 0:23:39republished under the title History Of Madness,

0:23:39 > 0:23:44arguing that it's a social construct distinct from mental illness?

0:23:44 > 0:23:45Jean-Paul Sartre, maybe?

0:23:45 > 0:23:46- Yeah?- Um...

0:23:46 > 0:23:48Yeah.

0:23:48 > 0:23:49Jean-Paul Sartre?

0:23:49 > 0:23:51- No, it was Foucault.- Oh!

0:23:51 > 0:23:54Writing And Difference Of Grammatology and

0:23:54 > 0:23:58Speech And Phenomena are 1967 works

0:23:58 > 0:24:01by which leading exponent of deconstruction?

0:24:01 > 0:24:03Derrida?

0:24:03 > 0:24:04Correct.

0:24:04 > 0:24:06During the 1960s, the works of which literary theorist

0:24:06 > 0:24:10and philosopher included The Eiffel Tower And Other Mythologies,

0:24:10 > 0:24:12and The Death of The Author?

0:24:14 > 0:24:15- Bartes.- Bartes?

0:24:15 > 0:24:17- Roland Bartes.- All right, Bartes.

0:24:17 > 0:24:19Correct. Ten points for this. APPLAUSE

0:24:19 > 0:24:21In e-coli, what factor denoted...?

0:24:23 > 0:24:25- P-factor? - No, you lose five points.- Oh, sorry.

0:24:25 > 0:24:26Argh!

0:24:26 > 0:24:27..denoted by a Greek letter

0:24:27 > 0:24:30terminates the transcription of some proteins?

0:24:30 > 0:24:33It's a hexameric, ring-shaped helicase.

0:24:35 > 0:24:37- One of you buzz from Trinity. - Pi factor?

0:24:37 > 0:24:40No, it's the Rho factor. Ten points for this.

0:24:40 > 0:24:43In the order of precedence of the United Kingdom, the individual of

0:24:43 > 0:24:47the highest rank who is not a member of the royal family is

0:24:47 > 0:24:49the holder of which office?

0:24:51 > 0:24:52Lord Chancellor?

0:24:52 > 0:24:54No.

0:24:55 > 0:24:57Speaker of the House of Commons?

0:24:57 > 0:24:59No, it's the Archbishop Of Canterbury.

0:24:59 > 0:25:00What a country we live in! LAUGHTER

0:25:00 > 0:25:04Ten points for this. Used, for example, by Ovid, Mulciber is an

0:25:04 > 0:25:06alternative name for which Roman god,

0:25:06 > 0:25:10identified with the Greek god Hephaestus?

0:25:10 > 0:25:11Vulcan?

0:25:11 > 0:25:12Vulcan is correct.

0:25:12 > 0:25:14APPLAUSE

0:25:14 > 0:25:16Your bonuses are on poetry.

0:25:16 > 0:25:19Identify the work from phrases that appear in its opening lines.

0:25:19 > 0:25:22In each case, I need the title and the poet.

0:25:22 > 0:25:28First, "Long grey beard, glittering eye, and skinny hand."

0:25:28 > 0:25:30Oh, is that Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Coleridge?

0:25:30 > 0:25:32- ROSENFELD:- Go for it. - Yeah, might be.

0:25:32 > 0:25:34- Rime Of the Ancient Mariner? - By?- By Coleridge.

0:25:34 > 0:25:36Correct.

0:25:36 > 0:25:40Secondly, "Long feels, little breezes, and silent isle."

0:25:42 > 0:25:43Albion or something?

0:25:43 > 0:25:45I don't know. Any ideas?

0:25:45 > 0:25:46Oh, is that the one by Yeats,

0:25:46 > 0:25:49the Sceptred Isle one? Or is that a different thing entirely?

0:25:49 > 0:25:51- I'm really confused. - ROSENFELD:- Go for it.- Go for it?

0:25:51 > 0:25:52- Nominate Coker.- Oh, I've no idea.

0:25:52 > 0:25:53Er, Yeats, The Sceptred Isle.

0:25:53 > 0:25:56No, it's not. It's The Lady Of Shallot, by Tennyson. And finally...

0:25:56 > 0:26:01"Mellow fruitfulness, maturing sun and thatch eaves run."

0:26:03 > 0:26:05Hmm. You don't know.

0:26:05 > 0:26:07- Not a clue.- No, we don't know.

0:26:07 > 0:26:10That's Keats' Ode To Autumn. Ten points for this.

0:26:10 > 0:26:14First published in German in 1930, Civilisation And Its Discontents

0:26:14 > 0:26:17is one of the seminal works of which major thinker?

0:26:17 > 0:26:19Said?

0:26:19 > 0:26:21Nope. Er, you lose five points.

0:26:21 > 0:26:24- Anyone want to buzz from Trinity? - Freud?

0:26:24 > 0:26:28Freud is correct, yes. APPLAUSE

0:26:28 > 0:26:30These bonuses are on similar words.

0:26:30 > 0:26:32What collective name is given to the genus of viruses that cause

0:26:32 > 0:26:37diseases including Zika, yellow fever and dengue fever?

0:26:37 > 0:26:39I don't know. Retroviruses.

0:26:39 > 0:26:41- It's a genus, but...- Yeah, go on. - Retroviruses.

0:26:41 > 0:26:43No, they're flaviviruses.

0:26:43 > 0:26:45What name is given to non-nitrogenous pigments,

0:26:45 > 0:26:49including anthocyanins and anthoxanthins?

0:26:49 > 0:26:53They're found, for example, in parsley, blueberries and black tea.

0:26:54 > 0:26:57- What was the first...- Flavonoids or something.- Go for it.- Flavonoids?

0:26:57 > 0:27:00Correct. Which Roman emperor founded the Flavian dynasty?

0:27:00 > 0:27:02He reigned from AD 69 to 79.

0:27:02 > 0:27:04Flavian, Flavius, sorry.

0:27:04 > 0:27:06- No, it was Vespasian.- Oh! - Ten points for this.

0:27:06 > 0:27:10First performed in 1848, Verdi's opera Il Corsaro is

0:27:10 > 0:27:16based on the 1814 work, The Corsair, by which English romantic poet?

0:27:19 > 0:27:21Wordsworth.

0:27:21 > 0:27:23No. Anyone like to buzz from Bristol?

0:27:23 > 0:27:24Byron.

0:27:24 > 0:27:25Byron is correct. APPLAUSE

0:27:25 > 0:27:29And your bonuses are on Russian film directors.

0:27:29 > 0:27:31In each case, name the director from three of their films.

0:27:31 > 0:27:35Firstly, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan The Terrible and October.

0:27:35 > 0:27:37GONG APPLAUSE

0:27:37 > 0:27:39And at the gong, Trinity College, Oxford have 100,

0:27:39 > 0:27:40but Bristol have 205.

0:27:40 > 0:27:43APPLAUSE

0:27:43 > 0:27:45Well, Trinity, I think you're better than that score suggests.

0:27:45 > 0:27:47You were unlucky with some of the questions,

0:27:47 > 0:27:50so, Bristol, you were very lucky in having a musician on your team.

0:27:50 > 0:27:51LAUGHTER

0:27:51 > 0:27:53Congratulations, though, to you.

0:27:53 > 0:27:55We shall look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals.

0:27:55 > 0:27:58So it's goodbye from Trinity College, Oxford... ALL: Goodbye.

0:27:58 > 0:28:00It's goodbye from Bristol University. ALL: Goodbye.

0:28:00 > 0:28:03And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye. APPLAUSE