0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:21University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. Boris Johnson once thought he'd insulted me
0:00:31 > 0:00:32by calling me a swot.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35But it's a rather treasured accolade for the two teams
0:00:35 > 0:00:38competing in this second round match for a place in the quarterfinals.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Only one of them will go through -
0:00:40 > 0:00:43for the losers, it'll be the final good night.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Now, the last time we saw them, the team from Newcastle University
0:00:46 > 0:00:50put themselves on -5 with the first question.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52But when they remembered that the object of the exercise
0:00:52 > 0:00:54is to try to get things right,
0:00:54 > 0:00:57they took the lead and managed to keep it throughout the entire match.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59At the gong, they were ahead of their opponents,
0:00:59 > 0:01:05Sheffield Hallam University, by a margin of 170 to a mere 40.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09With an average age of 29, let's meet the Newcastle team again.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Hi, my name is Jack Reynard, I'm from Leeds
0:01:12 > 0:01:14and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16My name is Molly Nielsen.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18I'm from London and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20And here's their captain.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Hi, I'm Jonathan from Newcastle upon Tyne, studying for a PGCE.
0:01:24 > 0:01:25Hello, my name is Adam Lowery.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28I'm from Sunderland and I'm reading chemistry.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30APPLAUSE
0:01:32 > 0:01:36Playing against them, the team from the University of Southampton,
0:01:36 > 0:01:38who prevented Cardiff University from getting much of a look-in
0:01:38 > 0:01:43during their first round match, finally seeing them off by 280-40,
0:01:43 > 0:01:46making them the second highest-scoring team
0:01:46 > 0:01:48at that stage of the competition.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51With an average age of 20, let's meet the Southampton team again.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Hi, my name is Juan-Paulo Ledesma, I grew up in Hampshire,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58I'm originally from the Philippines and I'm studying medicine.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Hi, my name's Andrew Knighton, I'm from Fareham in Hampshire
0:02:02 > 0:02:03and I'm also studying medicine.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05And this is their captain.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Hello, I'm Lorna Frankel, I'm from Wiltshire
0:02:07 > 0:02:10and I'm studying natural sciences.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13Hello, I'm Niall Jones, I'm from Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire
0:02:13 > 0:02:15and I study English.
0:02:19 > 0:02:20OK, let's just get on with it.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23Fingers on the buzzers, here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25What's being described?
0:02:25 > 0:02:30Depicting 49 trees, 55 dogs, 41 ships and boats
0:02:30 > 0:02:33and 623 human figures...
0:02:35 > 0:02:37- The Bayeux Tapestry.- Correct.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42So you get the first set of bonuses, Newcastle.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44They're on the importance of tea.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47Firstly for five points, "Under certain circumstances,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50"there are few hours in life more agreeable
0:02:50 > 0:02:54"than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
0:02:54 > 0:02:57These words begin which novel by Henry James?
0:02:57 > 0:03:00It's title figure is Isabel Archer.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09It's not... That starts with a ghost story, doesn't it?
0:03:10 > 0:03:12- You know anything else by Henry James?- No, sorry.
0:03:12 > 0:03:13Turn Of The Screw.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16No, it's The Portrait Of A Lady.
0:03:16 > 0:03:17Secondly for five points,
0:03:17 > 0:03:20"My hour for tea is half past five
0:03:20 > 0:03:23"and my buttered toast waits for nobody."
0:03:23 > 0:03:25In which novel by Wilkie Collins does Mrs Catherick
0:03:25 > 0:03:29write a letter to Walter Hartright that ends with these words?
0:03:31 > 0:03:33- Hey?- I don't know, it's Woman In White.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Women In White, yeah?
0:03:35 > 0:03:37- Woman In White.- Correct.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41"The world may go to pot for me, so long as I always get my tea."
0:03:41 > 0:03:44This sentiment appears in Notes From Underground,
0:03:44 > 0:03:48a novella of 1864 by which Russian author?
0:03:48 > 0:03:50- It's Dostoevsky.- Is it?- Yeah.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52- Dostoevsky.- Correct.
0:03:52 > 0:03:53Ten points for this.
0:03:53 > 0:03:54Which chemist gives his name
0:03:54 > 0:03:56to the law stating that the pressure
0:03:56 > 0:03:59exerted by a mixture of perfect gases
0:03:59 > 0:04:02is the sum of the partial pressures that each gas...?
0:04:05 > 0:04:07- Dalton.- Dalton is correct, yes.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13Your bonuses are on a metal ore, Newcastle.
0:04:13 > 0:04:18Hydrargyrum is a former name for which metallic element
0:04:18 > 0:04:21that occurs chiefly in the ore cinnabar?
0:04:21 > 0:04:22Mercury.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24- Mercury.- Correct.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Which scarlet or red pigment was originally
0:04:26 > 0:04:28made from powdered cinnabar?
0:04:28 > 0:04:32It's a name derives ultimately from the Latin for "worm".
0:04:32 > 0:04:34- Vermilion.- Yes.- Yeah?
0:04:34 > 0:04:35- Vermilion.- Correct.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Named because the inside of her sarcophagus
0:04:38 > 0:04:40was covered with cinnabar powder,
0:04:40 > 0:04:44the Red Queen was discovered in 1994 in Palenque,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47a ruined city of which civilisation?
0:04:47 > 0:04:48- Mayans?- Mayans, yeah.
0:04:48 > 0:04:49- Mayans.- Correct.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Ten points for this.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56Known as Ra in ancient Greek and Itil or Atil in Tatar,
0:04:56 > 0:05:00which major European river rises in the Valdai Hills near Moscow
0:05:00 > 0:05:02and discharges into the Caspian Sea?
0:05:04 > 0:05:06- The Volga.- The Volga is correct.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Your bonuses are on physics, Southampton.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14In the theory of wave particle duality,
0:05:14 > 0:05:17which French scientist gives his name to the wavelength
0:05:17 > 0:05:19associated with a moving particle
0:05:19 > 0:05:21that's defined as the Planck constant
0:05:21 > 0:05:24divided by its linear momentum?
0:05:24 > 0:05:25- Louis de Broglie.- De Broglie?
0:05:25 > 0:05:27- De Broglie.- Correct.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Called a matter wave by De Broglie, what name is more commonly given
0:05:31 > 0:05:34to the approximation of the trajectory of a particle
0:05:34 > 0:05:37moving through space like a wave, denoted by the Greek letter psi?
0:05:39 > 0:05:40That's a wave function.
0:05:40 > 0:05:41- Wave function.- Correct.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44The statement that the probability of finding a particle
0:05:44 > 0:05:48in a small region, with volume V as proportional to psi squared
0:05:48 > 0:05:52times V is attributed to which German-born scientist?
0:05:52 > 0:05:56One of the winners of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Physics.
0:05:56 > 0:05:57- Heisenberg?- Um...
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Cos it's so do with... Yeah?
0:06:02 > 0:06:05- Heisenberg.- No, it's Born, Max Born.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Ten points for this.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11"At its best, her poetry is strong, personal and unforced,
0:06:11 > 0:06:15"with a metrical cadence that is unmistakably her own."
0:06:15 > 0:06:19These words refer to which poet who died in London in 1894?
0:06:19 > 0:06:22Her works include Remember and In The Bleak Winter.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26- Christina Rossetti.- Correct.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31You get a set of bonuses on the Palace of Versailles.
0:06:31 > 0:06:32Firstly for five points,
0:06:32 > 0:06:35what name was given to an antechamber
0:06:35 > 0:06:37used by Louis XIV at Versailles,
0:06:37 > 0:06:40referring to the distinctive oval window in one wall?
0:06:40 > 0:06:43In French, the term is also used symbolically
0:06:43 > 0:06:45for a royal household or court.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49- No.- I don't know.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Royal household, so...
0:06:52 > 0:06:56- Was it named after the oval window?- Yeah.- Oriel?
0:06:56 > 0:06:57I don't know.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00- Oriel?- No, it's a bull's-eye, or Oeil-de-boeuf.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Which leading French landscape gardener was responsible
0:07:03 > 0:07:06for the design of the gardens at Versailles in the 1660s?
0:07:06 > 0:07:09His other big commissions included the redesign of the Champs-Elysees
0:07:09 > 0:07:11and the gardens at Fontainebleau?
0:07:12 > 0:07:14Anyone have anything else?
0:07:14 > 0:07:17- It's Tuileries, like the name of a garden, or is that...?- I don't know!
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Tuileries, go for it.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Tuileries?
0:07:21 > 0:07:22No, it was Andre Le Notre.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Finally for five points, in which ornately-decorated room
0:07:25 > 0:07:28was the Treaty of Versailles signed in 1919?
0:07:28 > 0:07:31It's flanked by the Salon Of Peace and the Salon Of War.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33- Hall Of Mirrors?- Yeah?
0:07:33 > 0:07:35- Hall Of Mirrors.- Correct.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37We'll take a picture round now. For your picture starter,
0:07:37 > 0:07:39you'll see the abridged contents page
0:07:39 > 0:07:41of a notable work of non-fiction.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44Ten points if you can give me the title of the work.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51Er, Das Kapital?
0:07:51 > 0:07:54No, you can buzz, one of you from Newcastle, if you know.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57The Wealth Of Nations.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59It is The Wealth Of Nations, yes, by Adam Smith.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02So you get the picture bonuses then, Newcastle.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05I want you to identify three more notable 18th-century works
0:08:05 > 0:08:08from a section of their table of contents.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11This time for the points, I'll need both the title of the work
0:08:11 > 0:08:12and its author.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16Firstly, and note that an appearance of the title has been redacted.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23Emile? By Rousseau, Emile?
0:08:25 > 0:08:26Shall we go with that?
0:08:26 > 0:08:29It could be Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31No, it's non-fiction.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33- Oh, non-fiction.- Yeah.
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Emile, Rousseau.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37No, it's Fielding's Tom Jones. Secondly...
0:08:44 > 0:08:46- I'll nominate you.- No.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49- Mary Wollstonecraft? - Wollstonecraft.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Vindication Of The Rights Of The Woman.
0:08:52 > 0:08:53The Second Sex...
0:08:54 > 0:08:57- Nominate you?- Yeah, sure. - Nominate Reynard.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59The Second Sex, by Simone De Beauvoir.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01No, it's A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman,
0:09:01 > 0:09:04as you heard earlier, by Mary Wollstonecraft.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07And finally, for five points, substantially truncated,
0:09:07 > 0:09:09title and author again here, please.
0:09:14 > 0:09:15Was it Gibbon?
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Gibbon, Fall Of The Roman Empire? Yeah? Um...
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Yeah, Fall Of The Roman Empire by Gibbon.
0:09:24 > 0:09:25I'll accept that,
0:09:25 > 0:09:28it's The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Gibbon.
0:09:28 > 0:09:29Ten points for this.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33Answer promptly. If the atomic number of tungsten is 74,
0:09:33 > 0:09:37what is the sum of the atomic numbers of the three elements
0:09:37 > 0:09:40whose symbols spells the word "pwn", P-W-N.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47225.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49No, anyone like to buzz from Southampton?
0:09:51 > 0:09:5295.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55No, it's 96. Ten points for this. AUDIENCE GROAN
0:09:55 > 0:09:57In the mid-12th century,
0:09:57 > 0:10:01Albert the Bear became the first Margrave of which historic state?
0:10:01 > 0:10:03In 1356...
0:10:04 > 0:10:06- Brandenburg.- Correct.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12These bonuses are on Scotland, Newcastle.
0:10:12 > 0:10:17The population density of England is 413 people per square kilometre,
0:10:17 > 0:10:21Wales is 149, Northern Ireland 135.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23What is the population density of Scotland?
0:10:23 > 0:10:25You can have 10 either way.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29- I think it would be less than 100. - Something like 90 or something?
0:10:29 > 0:10:33- I was going to say about 80.- 80? - 85.- 85?
0:10:33 > 0:10:35- I don't know.- What do you think? - You decide.
0:10:35 > 0:10:3780.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40No, I can't accept that. It's 68, in fact.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43Secondly, which Scottish council area has a population density
0:10:43 > 0:10:45of nine per square kilometre?
0:10:45 > 0:10:48It includes Britain's northernmost city.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52Is that Inverness? Inverness-shire?
0:10:52 > 0:10:56- No, Caithness.- I don't know.
0:10:57 > 0:10:58Shall we go with that?
0:10:58 > 0:10:59Oh, what's it called?
0:11:02 > 0:11:03Let's have it, please.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05- Caithness.- No, it's Highland.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08And within Highland, the County of Sutherland
0:11:08 > 0:11:13has the lowest population density with the 2.3 per square kilometre.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17This is a level similar to that of which US state,
0:11:17 > 0:11:19the most sparsely populated after Alaska?
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Montana.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24- It's...- After, I think, Montana. - Wyoming.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28- I think it's Wyoming.- Yeah?
0:11:28 > 0:11:30- Wyoming.- Correct.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Ten points for this. Born in 1906,
0:11:32 > 0:11:35the Polish-American physician Albert Sabin
0:11:35 > 0:11:40gives his name to an oral vaccine approved for use in the US in 1960,
0:11:40 > 0:11:42and used to confer immunity against which...?
0:11:44 > 0:11:46- Polio.- Polio is correct.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53You get a set of bonuses then, Southampton, on the Mahabharata.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55According to legend, the Sage Vyasa
0:11:55 > 0:11:58dictated the Mahabharata to which Hindu god?
0:11:58 > 0:12:01A son of Shiva, he is traditionally worshipped
0:12:01 > 0:12:05before any major enterprise and is also the patron of intellectuals.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09- Ganesh?- Vishnu. Oh, no...
0:12:10 > 0:12:13- So what do you think?- Vishnu. - No, he's not a son of Shiva.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17- I'm pretty sure Ganesh is a son of Shiva.- Which one's the monkey?
0:12:17 > 0:12:19I don't know. Hanuman's the monkey.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Can I just say?
0:12:21 > 0:12:23- Ganesh.- Correct.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Which revered Hindu text forms an episode in the Mahabharata
0:12:27 > 0:12:31and incorporates basic teachings of the Upanishads and Samkhya yoga?
0:12:31 > 0:12:34It was the subject of a commentary by Mahatma Gandhi?
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Is that the...Bhagavad Gita?
0:12:37 > 0:12:40- Oh, yes! Good shout. - Do you want to...?- Yeah.
0:12:40 > 0:12:41Nominate Knighton?
0:12:41 > 0:12:43- Bhagavad Gita.- Correct, yes.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47And the Bhagavad Gita takes the form of a dialogue on the battlefield
0:12:47 > 0:12:50between Prince Arjuna and which incarnation of the God Vishnu?
0:12:52 > 0:12:54- Rama?- Rama?
0:12:54 > 0:12:56- Rama.- No, it's Krishna.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Ten points for this. Which work of 1781
0:12:58 > 0:13:01presents the concepts of transcendental idealism?
0:13:03 > 0:13:05- Critique Of Pure Reason.- Correct.
0:13:07 > 0:13:11Your bonuses are on terms used in astronomy, Newcastle.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14What term follows the word "inferior" to denote
0:13:14 > 0:13:18the passing of Venus or Mercury between the earth and the sun,
0:13:18 > 0:13:21marking the closest points to Earth in their respective orbits?
0:13:26 > 0:13:28What do you think?
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- I don't know.- Go for transit.
0:13:30 > 0:13:31Transit.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33No, it's conjunction.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36Secondly, as viewed from Earth, the point between the inferior
0:13:36 > 0:13:41and superior conjunctions, at which the angular separation of Venus
0:13:41 > 0:13:43or Mercury from the sun is maximised,
0:13:43 > 0:13:45is known as the greatest what?
0:13:47 > 0:13:50- Elongation?- I don't know.- Yeah?
0:13:50 > 0:13:52- Elongation.- Correct.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55What term is used to refer to a superior planet, such as Mars,
0:13:55 > 0:13:58reaching a location at its widest angle from the sun
0:13:58 > 0:14:01in the celestial sphere as viewed from Earth?
0:14:03 > 0:14:04Maximum elongation?
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Or is it...? Is it...?
0:14:12 > 0:14:13- Is not apogee, is it?- No.
0:14:15 > 0:14:16Yeah, so maximum.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Maxim elongation.
0:14:18 > 0:14:19No, it's opposition.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21We're going to take a music round now.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27For ten points, tell me the title of the ballet from which it's taken.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:31 > 0:14:32Swan Lake.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Swan Lake is right.
0:14:37 > 0:14:41It's one of the works referenced by Susan Sontag in her 1964 attempt
0:14:41 > 0:14:43to define the concept of camp.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Your music bonuses are three more classical works
0:14:46 > 0:14:48mentioned in Sontag's Notes On Camp,
0:14:48 > 0:14:51as illustrating camp's style and sensibility.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55I just want the name of the composer of each.
0:14:55 > 0:15:03# Casta Diva... #
0:15:05 > 0:15:07No, I wouldn't say...
0:15:07 > 0:15:10# Casta Diva... #
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Puccini?
0:15:12 > 0:15:17# Che inargenti... #
0:15:18 > 0:15:20- We'll go Puccini?- Yeah.
0:15:20 > 0:15:21Puccini.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25No, that was from Norma by Bellini. Secondly...
0:15:25 > 0:15:29SOPRANOS SING DUET
0:15:37 > 0:15:38Verdi, maybe?
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Any idea?
0:15:45 > 0:15:46We'll go with that?
0:15:48 > 0:15:50Verdi.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53No, that was from Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss. And finally...
0:15:55 > 0:15:57# Martella?
0:15:58 > 0:16:00# Chi del gitano... #
0:16:00 > 0:16:02This is from Il Trovatore, isn't it?
0:16:02 > 0:16:05So who's that by? Is that Verdi?
0:16:06 > 0:16:07Yeah, I think it is.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10- OK, is this one Verdi? - It is Verdi, yes.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12It's the Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore.
0:16:12 > 0:16:13Ten points for this.
0:16:13 > 0:16:17Which final two letters link the island birthplace
0:16:17 > 0:16:20of Stokely Carmichael and Brian Lara,
0:16:20 > 0:16:22the son of Lancelot and Elaine,
0:16:22 > 0:16:25the SI unit of electrical capacitance...?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28- AD.- AD is correct, yes.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34You get a set of bonuses on compromises in US history.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36Firstly for five points,
0:16:36 > 0:16:39which US state gave its name to a compromise of 1787,
0:16:39 > 0:16:43which determined that all states, regardless of population,
0:16:43 > 0:16:46would have the same representation in the upper house
0:16:46 > 0:16:47of the federal legislature?
0:16:49 > 0:16:50That was...
0:16:50 > 0:16:52No, no, it's the Constitution.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54The Constitution is Virginia or...
0:16:58 > 0:17:01- Yeah, which would make... Virginia?- I'm not sure.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03- Virginia.- No, it's Connecticut.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06Five Bills passed by Congress to defuse a confrontation
0:17:06 > 0:17:10between slave and free states following the Mexican-American War
0:17:10 > 0:17:14are known collectively as the Compromise of what year?
0:17:14 > 0:17:151850. 1850?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17- 1850.- Correct.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Which territory and future state gives its name
0:17:19 > 0:17:23to a compromise of 1820 that regulated the westward extension
0:17:23 > 0:17:25of slavery across the American continent?
0:17:25 > 0:17:27- It's the Missouri Compromise.- Yes.
0:17:27 > 0:17:28- Missouri.- Missouri is correct.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Ten points to this.
0:17:30 > 0:17:31One of the Trois Grande Dames
0:17:31 > 0:17:34of Impressionism, which French artist
0:17:34 > 0:17:37is noted for her paintings of domestic life, such as...?
0:17:39 > 0:17:41Mary Cassatt.
0:17:41 > 0:17:42No, you lose five points.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44..such as The Cradle.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Though never commercially successful, she outsold Monet,
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Renoir and Sisley in her lifetime.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57No-one wants to buzz from Southampton?
0:17:57 > 0:17:58It's Berthe Morisot.
0:17:58 > 0:17:59Ten points for this.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03About 70 miles long, which river of northern England has a name
0:18:03 > 0:18:07that rhymes with words meaning a band of painted decoration
0:18:07 > 0:18:11or sculpture, an involuntary action known as sternutation...?
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Tees.
0:18:13 > 0:18:14Tees is correct, yes.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20Right, this set of bonuses are on the ancient Greek geographer Strabo.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Living in an age without accurate maps,
0:18:22 > 0:18:25Strabo attempted to give a visual idea of regions
0:18:25 > 0:18:28and territories by likening them to familiar shapes.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32Which large peninsula did Strabo liken to an oxhide,
0:18:32 > 0:18:35whose neck parts fall over into the neighbouring Celtica?
0:18:37 > 0:18:39- Italy.- What?- Is that not Italy?
0:18:39 > 0:18:42- Celtic?- Northern Italy was Celtic.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45- Italy.- No, it's the Iberian Peninsula.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Secondly, which peninsula of the Greek world did Strabo
0:18:48 > 0:18:51compare to the leaf of a plane tree?
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Peloponnese? Must be!
0:18:53 > 0:18:55- Peloponnese.- Correct.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58Finally, which large island did he liken to a triangle?
0:18:58 > 0:18:59Er, Sicily.
0:18:59 > 0:19:00- Sicily.- Sicily is correct,
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Ten points for this. What is the seven-letter
0:19:03 > 0:19:06common name of the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius?
0:19:06 > 0:19:08The name is thought...
0:19:08 > 0:19:11- Antares.- Antares is right.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16Your bonuses are on the names of chemical elements
0:19:16 > 0:19:18and words that resemble them in spelling.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21In each case, listen to the explanation and give both words.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Firstly, a noble gas
0:19:23 > 0:19:28and a jargon or slang used by a particular group or class of people.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Argot and argon?
0:19:30 > 0:19:32- Argot and argon?- Yes.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34- Argot and argon.- Correct.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37Secondly, an element of the nitrogen group
0:19:37 > 0:19:39and a consequence of divorce, now known as maintenance.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Alimony and antimony.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47- Alimony and antimony?- I don't know.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49- Yes!- Yeah?
0:19:49 > 0:19:51- Alimony and antimony.- Correct.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54And, finally, a transition metal that occurs in a natural state
0:19:54 > 0:19:57and the meaning of "ori" in the word origami.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02- Fold and gold.- Fold and gold?
0:20:02 > 0:20:03- Fold and gold.- Correct.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Ten points for this.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08A chief European rival of Britain in 18th-century India,
0:20:08 > 0:20:11which country was left with the enclaves of Chanda Nagar...?
0:20:13 > 0:20:15- France.- France is correct, yes.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Right, your bonuses are on south-east Asian history, Newcastle.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23From the late 19th to the mid-20th century,
0:20:23 > 0:20:26what name was given to the Federation of Vietnam,
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Laos and Cambodia under French control?
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Indochina, French Indochina?
0:20:31 > 0:20:34What? French Indochina?
0:20:34 > 0:20:35French Indochina.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Correct, or the Indochinese Union.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41And secondly, what abbreviated two-word name is generally used
0:20:41 > 0:20:45for the coalition formed in May 1941 to seek independence
0:20:45 > 0:20:47for Vietnam from the French Empire?
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Cong. Could be Viet Cong, yes?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54- Viet Cong.- No, it was the Viet Minh.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56The Viet Cong were founded later.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59The name of which European city is given to the accords
0:20:59 > 0:21:03that formally ended the first Indochina War in 1954
0:21:03 > 0:21:07and effectively divided Vietnam along the 17th Parallel?
0:21:09 > 0:21:11- European city.- European city?
0:21:13 > 0:21:16Paris? London?
0:21:16 > 0:21:19- Don't think it's Paris. - No, London? Berlin?
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Berlin.
0:21:21 > 0:21:22No, they were the Geneva Accords.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27For your picture starter, you'll see a promotional still from a film.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30Ten points if you can give me the film's title.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36- Wallace And Gromit, Curse Of The Were-Rabbit.- Correct, yes!
0:21:39 > 0:21:43That won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2006,
0:21:43 > 0:21:45making it the first example of stop-motion animation
0:21:45 > 0:21:46to win the award.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Picture bonuses, three more stop-motion films
0:21:49 > 0:21:51that have been nominated in the category.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Simply give me the title of each. Firstly...
0:21:56 > 0:21:57Oh, that's Coraline!
0:21:57 > 0:22:00- Coraline. - Coraline is correct. Secondly...
0:22:02 > 0:22:06- Amma, Ammalisia?- What? - It's something like that.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08I've seen it on Netflix!
0:22:08 > 0:22:11- What's it called?- Which one is it?
0:22:13 > 0:22:17Otherwise, I'm just going to say that. Ammalisia.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19No, it's not precise enough. It's Anomalisa.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21- Oh, OK!- And finally...
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Oh, Fantastic Mr Fox.
0:22:24 > 0:22:25- Fantastic Mr Fox!- Correct.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Ten points for this.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Work this out before you buzz.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32If X equals pi radians,
0:22:32 > 0:22:37what is the value of sin X plus cos X plus tan X?
0:22:44 > 0:22:46- -1.- Correct.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51Your bonuses are on the novelist George Eliot.
0:22:51 > 0:22:55In the mid-1850s, Eliot spent time translating
0:22:55 > 0:22:59the ethics of which philosopher, who died in 1677?
0:22:59 > 0:23:02Her translation remained unpublished until 1981.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04Spinoza?
0:23:04 > 0:23:06- Spinoza.- Correct.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08What was George Eliot's first full-length novel,
0:23:08 > 0:23:10published in 1859?
0:23:10 > 0:23:14The title character is a carpenter in love with Hetty Sorrel?
0:23:15 > 0:23:17Anything?
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Do you know any George Eliot, apart from Middlemarch?
0:23:20 > 0:23:22- George Eliot apart from Middlemarch? - No.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24It's not Middlemarch. Shall we just pass?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26- Sorry, we don't know. - It's Adam Bede.
0:23:26 > 0:23:30In 1860, Eliot travelled to Italy and later published which novel,
0:23:30 > 0:23:33set in Florence in the late 15th century?
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Again, I don't know. Pass?
0:23:37 > 0:23:38- Sorry, we don't know.- It's Romola.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Four minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Plains, mountain
0:23:42 > 0:23:45and Grevy's are three species of which distinctive...?
0:23:46 > 0:23:51- Zebra.- Zebra is correct, your bonuses are on electronics now.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55In electronics, for what does the C stand in the abbreviation CMOS?
0:23:57 > 0:24:00- Capacitor?- Cathode, I don't know.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05- Let's have it, please.- Capacitor. - No, it's complimentary.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09What two letters of the alphabet denote the two complimentary types
0:24:09 > 0:24:11of transistor in CMOS technology?
0:24:11 > 0:24:14They form a current gate for electrical control.
0:24:15 > 0:24:16- P and S?- Yes.
0:24:16 > 0:24:17P and S?
0:24:17 > 0:24:19No, it's P and N.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23And finally, used in computer logic circuits, the acronym FET,
0:24:23 > 0:24:26F-E-T, stands for what kind of transistor?
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Fixed energy?
0:24:31 > 0:24:34No, it's not that, it's something really weird, but I can't remember.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36- Let's have it.- Fixed energy.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38No, it's a field effect transistor.
0:24:38 > 0:24:39Ten points for this.
0:24:39 > 0:24:44In a calendar year, to the nearest whole number, a hebdomadal event
0:24:44 > 0:24:48occurs how many times more frequently than one that is annual?
0:24:51 > 0:24:52- 52.- Correct.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56A set of bonuses for you on the collection
0:24:56 > 0:24:58of the Prado Museum in Madrid.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01In each case, the artist is a figure of the Northern Renaissance.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Firstly, born 1525,
0:25:03 > 0:25:06which Flemish artist's works in the Prado
0:25:06 > 0:25:10include The Triumph Of Death and The Wine Of St Martin's Day?
0:25:10 > 0:25:11Flemish artist?
0:25:11 > 0:25:12- Could be Bruegel.- Bosch.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- If it's death...- Bosch.
0:25:14 > 0:25:15- No, it's Bruegel.- Sorry.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18The Descent From The Cross is a work by which artist
0:25:18 > 0:25:20born in Tournai in about 1400?
0:25:22 > 0:25:23- 1400.- Tournai, French.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27Belgium, I think. No...
0:25:27 > 0:25:29- 1400s.- Van Eyck.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30Van Eyck?
0:25:30 > 0:25:31No, it's van der Weyden.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34And finally, born in Brabant in about 1450,
0:25:34 > 0:25:37who painted Extracting The Stone Of Madness,
0:25:37 > 0:25:41The Adoration Of The Magi triptych and The Garden Of Earthly Delights?
0:25:41 > 0:25:42- That's Bosch.- That is Bosch,
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Ten points for this. In 19th-century literature,
0:25:44 > 0:25:46Phineas Finn and Phileas Fogg
0:25:46 > 0:25:49were both members of which London gentlemen's club?
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Reform Club.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54The Reform Club is right. 15 points for these bonuses.
0:25:54 > 0:25:55They're on English cities.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57In each case, name the city from the present-day
0:25:57 > 0:25:59local government entities that its borders.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02Firstly, South Tyneside, Gateshead and County Durham?
0:26:02 > 0:26:05- Newcastle.- Newcastle. - No, it's Sunderland.- Ah!
0:26:05 > 0:26:09Second, Walsall, Sandwell, Dudley and South Staffordshire.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12- Birmingham. - South Staffordshire, though?
0:26:12 > 0:26:13- Come on.- Birmingham.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17No, it's Wolverhampton. Finally, Leeds, Kirklees and Calder Vale.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19- Bradford.- Bradford.
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Correct, Ten points for this.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23Which four-letter word links a leading academic and professional
0:26:23 > 0:26:26publishing company, a wise person in history or legend...?
0:26:28 > 0:26:29- Sage.- Sage is right.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Your bonuses are on 19th-century literature, Newcastle.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36In each case, give the title of the novel
0:26:36 > 0:26:38that refers to the character described.
0:26:38 > 0:26:39Firstly, Sir Willoughby Patterne,
0:26:39 > 0:26:41the dashing and arrogant title character
0:26:41 > 0:26:44of a novel of 1879 by George Meredith?
0:26:45 > 0:26:48- I don't know.- Do you know?- Come on. - No, we don't know, sorry.
0:26:48 > 0:26:49It's The Egoist.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52Prince Myshkin, the generous but unworldly title character
0:26:52 > 0:26:54of a novel by Dostoevsky.
0:26:56 > 0:26:57- The Idiot.- Correct.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Finally, a scientist named Griffin,
0:26:59 > 0:27:04the subject of a science-fiction work of 1897 by HG Wells.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06- The Invisible Man. - The Invisible Man is correct,
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Ten points for this. In analytical biochemistry,
0:27:09 > 0:27:13what biopolymers are stained using Coomassie Blue?
0:27:17 > 0:27:19- Lipids.- No.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23- Proteins.- Proteins is correct!
0:27:23 > 0:27:26You get a set of bonuses now on islands of the River Thames.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30Pharaoh's Island at Shepperton was given to Lord Nelson
0:27:30 > 0:27:32following his victory in which battle of 1798?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34- Battle Of The Nile?- I think so.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37- Battle Of The Nile.- Correct. GONG
0:27:37 > 0:27:41And at the gong, Southampton have 130, Newcastle have 215.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44APPLAUSE
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Well, who knows, Southampton?
0:27:47 > 0:27:49You had a good run there towards the end,
0:27:49 > 0:27:52but it's not enough, I'm afraid. We shall have to say goodbye to you.
0:27:52 > 0:27:53Newcastle, many congratulations.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56We shall look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals.
0:27:56 > 0:27:57Congratulations.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00I hope you can join us next time for another second-round match,
0:28:00 > 0:28:02but until then, it's goodbye from Southampton University.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05- Goodbye.- It's goodbye from Newcastle University.- Goodbye.
0:28:05 > 0:28:06And it's goodbye from me, goodbye.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09APPLAUSE