0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28APPLAUSE
0:00:28 > 0:00:32Hello. The universities of Oxford and Cambridge, two institutions who
0:00:32 > 0:00:35readily admit to the merest whiff of rivalry,
0:00:35 > 0:00:37are each fielding a college in this second round
0:00:37 > 0:00:40match for the penultimate place in the quarterfinals.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42There'll be no place for the losers, however,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45who are already beginning their final appearance.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47Now, the team from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,
0:00:47 > 0:00:51pulled off a comfortable first round win against the University
0:00:51 > 0:00:55of Leicester, with 200 points to 105, perhaps surprising
0:00:55 > 0:00:59themselves by knowing as much as they did about banana cultivation.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02US states, the favourites of Elizabeth I,
0:01:02 > 0:01:05and British cities in 1907 were other strengths.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08We'll see what arcane knowledge they can produce tonight.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12With an average age of 20, let's meet the Fitzwilliam team again.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Hi, I'm Theo Tindall, I'm from Bristol,
0:01:15 > 0:01:17and I'm studying Russian and Arabic.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Hi, I'm Theo Howe, I'm from Oxfordshire,
0:01:19 > 0:01:21and I'm reading Japanese Studies.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23And their captain...
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Hello, I'm Hugh Oxlade, I'm from South Woodford in north-east
0:01:26 > 0:01:28London, and I'm reading History.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Hello, I'm Jack Maloney, I'm from Harpenden in Hertfordshire,
0:01:31 > 0:01:33and I'm reading Medicine.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35APPLAUSE
0:01:37 > 0:01:40The team from Magdalen College, Oxford, were neck-and-neck against
0:01:40 > 0:01:43their opponents, St Edmund's College, Cambridge,
0:01:43 > 0:01:46up until the midway point of their first round fixture,
0:01:46 > 0:01:50then pulled away and were ahead by 185 points to 105 at the gong.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53They were fast to the buzzer on questions about Saladin,
0:01:53 > 0:01:56The Lady of Shalott, and the state of Maine,
0:01:56 > 0:01:59and were also very prompt to give us the spelling of the word "Oolong",
0:01:59 > 0:02:02which was a pity because we were actually asking for "aficionado."
0:02:02 > 0:02:07Also with an average age of 20, let's meet the Magdalen team again.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10Hi, I'm Winston Wright, I'm from Seattle, Washington,
0:02:10 > 0:02:12and I study Computer Science.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Hello, my name's Christopher Stern, I'm from Dulwich
0:02:14 > 0:02:16in south-east London, and I'm reading Chemistry.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18And here's their captain...
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Hello there, I'm Johnny Gibson from Glasgow in Scotland,
0:02:20 > 0:02:21and I'm reading History.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Hi, I'm Sarah Parkin, I'm from Hinckley in Leicestershire,
0:02:24 > 0:02:27and I'm reading English and French.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29APPLAUSE
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Well, the rules are the same as they were last time
0:02:32 > 0:02:34you were here, so let's get on with it.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Fingers on the buzzers, your first starter for ten.
0:02:37 > 0:02:41What common adjective links a Viking army subdued by King Alfred...?
0:02:41 > 0:02:44BELL
0:02:44 > 0:02:45Great?
0:02:45 > 0:02:46Correct.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48APPLAUSE
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Your first set of bonuses, Fitzwilliam,
0:02:51 > 0:02:53are on Ducal residences.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Firstly, designed by James Wyatt in the early 19th century,
0:02:56 > 0:02:59which stately home in Leicestershire is the ancestral home of
0:02:59 > 0:03:01the Dukes of Rutland?
0:03:02 > 0:03:04I don't think we know this somehow.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06No, that's the kind of thing you're supposed to know.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10- The Vale of Belvoir, that's all I've got!- We don't know, sadly.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12It is Belvoir Castle, if you listened to your friend,
0:03:12 > 0:03:14but there we are.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17You don't get the points. Five points for this, though.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Designed by Robert Adam in the 1770s,
0:03:19 > 0:03:22which house at Hyde Park Corner is a London residence of the Dukes
0:03:22 > 0:03:27of Wellington and houses a museum named after the first Duke?
0:03:27 > 0:03:30No, its address is 1, London...
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Erm, I can't... Is it Aps...? Apsley House?
0:03:33 > 0:03:34- Go for it. - Apsley House?
0:03:34 > 0:03:35Correct.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38The seat of the Dukes of Beaufort, which Palladian mansion
0:03:38 > 0:03:42in South Gloucestershire gives its name to an Olympic sport?
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Er, badminton, presumably.
0:03:44 > 0:03:45Yeah? Badminton?
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Correct. 10 points for this.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51According to Shakespeare, White Surrey was the horse of which king?
0:03:51 > 0:03:54Its death in battle prompts his final words...
0:03:54 > 0:03:56Richard III?
0:03:56 > 0:03:57Correct.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00APPLAUSE
0:04:00 > 0:04:03You get a set of bonuses, Magdalen, on environmental agreements.
0:04:03 > 0:04:04Firstly for five points,
0:04:04 > 0:04:07the 1979 convention on the conservation of European
0:04:07 > 0:04:12wildlife and natural habitats is named after which capital city?
0:04:12 > 0:04:15- Ohh...- It's not Copenhagen or somewhere...?- Oh, it could be.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Yeah? No? All right, let's go for that. Copenhagen.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19No, it's Bern, the Bern Convention.
0:04:19 > 0:04:24Also agreed in 1979, the CMS, or Convention on Conservation of
0:04:24 > 0:04:28Migratory Species of wild animals, is named after which city?
0:04:28 > 0:04:32At the time, it was also the capital of its country.
0:04:32 > 0:04:36- Oh!- So what's changed capital since then?- Erm, I really can't think.
0:04:36 > 0:04:37- Might be Bonn.- Sure.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Bonn?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41It is Bonn, yes, the Bonn Convention. And finally,
0:04:41 > 0:04:44which two European cities give their names to the so-called
0:04:44 > 0:04:48OSBA Convention of 1992 for the protection of the marine
0:04:48 > 0:04:51environment of the North Atlantic?
0:04:51 > 0:04:54- Any idea?- Could it be Oslo and Barcelona, maybe?- Oh, OK, yeah!
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Yeah, sure. Er, Oslo and Barcelona?
0:04:56 > 0:04:58No, it's Oslo and Paris.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Ten points for this.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03The Barghest of Northern England, the Padfoot of Wakefield,
0:05:03 > 0:05:09the Red-Eyed Cwn Annwn of Wales, the Skriker of Lancashire and
0:05:09 > 0:05:14Black Shuck of East Anglia are all wild or monstrous manifestations...?
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Dogs.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19Dogs is correct, yes. Black dogs, in particular.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22Your bonuses are on English literature.
0:05:22 > 0:05:26Published from 1740 and placed on the Roman Catholic Church's
0:05:26 > 0:05:29index of prohibited books, with epistolary
0:05:29 > 0:05:33novel by Samuel Richardson has the subtitle Virtue Rewarded?
0:05:33 > 0:05:36- Pretty sure that's Pamela. Pamela? - Pamela is right.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Richardson took the title Pamela from the name of a princess
0:05:39 > 0:05:44in the late 16th century prose romance Arcadia by which writer?
0:05:44 > 0:05:46- Philip Sidney.- Correct.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49The satirical imitation An Apology For The Life
0:05:49 > 0:05:53of Mrs Shamela Andrews is usually credited to which writer?
0:05:53 > 0:05:56He used the same surname for the title character of his next
0:05:56 > 0:05:58novel, Joseph Andrews.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01- Joseph Andrews? Oh, is that Henry Fielding?- Er, yeah.
0:06:01 > 0:06:02- Henry Fielding.- Correct.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Ten points for this.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07After uranium and tungsten,
0:06:07 > 0:06:10what is the next heaviest element also to have...?
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Pfft... Iridium. That's wrong.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16I'm going to fine you five points. ..a single letter designation?
0:06:16 > 0:06:20Its name derives from the Greek for violet and it is a non-metal,
0:06:20 > 0:06:23once widely used as a disinfectant and antiseptic.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26- Iodine.- Correct.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Your bonuses are on biology, Fitzwilliam.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Give either of the two general classes of organism that
0:06:35 > 0:06:39comprise the subclass of arachnids known as Acari.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45- Scorpions?- Crabs? - Scorpions...- Crabs?
0:06:45 > 0:06:48They're crustaceans, aren't they? Shall we try scorpions?
0:06:48 > 0:06:51- Scorpions. - No, they're ticks or mites.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55The golden mantled ground squirrel is the main mammalian
0:06:55 > 0:06:58reservoir of mountain fever, a tick-borne disease,
0:06:58 > 0:07:01often known by the name of which landlocked western US state?
0:07:03 > 0:07:06THEY CONFER
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Montana...
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Montana? Shall we try Montana?
0:07:10 > 0:07:11- Try Nevada.- OK, Nevada.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13No, it's Colorado.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17And finally, plants infected with the Eriophyid mites show
0:07:17 > 0:07:20localised swellings and outgrowth.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23By what short, common name are these lesions known?
0:07:25 > 0:07:30- THEY CONFER - The type of like...
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Something on plants. I think we should give up and get on with it.
0:07:33 > 0:07:34Pass.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36They're galls or cecidia. Ten points for this.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38It's a picture round.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40For your picture starter, you're going to see
0:07:40 > 0:07:43a map on which a major British port has been marked.
0:07:43 > 0:07:44Ten points if you can name it.
0:07:48 > 0:07:49Felixstowe.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50Correct.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Felixstowe, Liverpool, London Gateway
0:07:55 > 0:07:57and Southampton are currently the only British ports
0:07:57 > 0:08:00capable of accommodating the largest container ships
0:08:00 > 0:08:05in the world, which are too large even for the expanded Panama Canal.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08For your picture bonuses, I'd like you to identify three more of the
0:08:08 > 0:08:13European ports equipped to handle this latest generation of mega ship.
0:08:13 > 0:08:14Firstly, the port at A.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20- Is that Calais?- Le Havre.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Nominate Maloney.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23Le Havre.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Correct. Secondly, the port at B.
0:08:25 > 0:08:31- Is that...?- Gothenburg is... - OK. Go with that one.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33- Gothenburg sounds good.- Gothenburg. - Correct.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Finally, the port at C.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36So, Gdansk?
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Gdansk.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40Gdansk is correct. Ten points for this.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44"No society can legitimately call itself civilised
0:08:44 > 0:08:47"if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack"...?
0:08:49 > 0:08:50- Nye Bevan.- Correct.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55The architect of the NHS.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59Your bonuses are on novels about dictators, Magdalen.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03Concerning the dictator of a fictional West African country,
0:09:03 > 0:09:07Anthills of the Savannah is a work by which Nigerian author,
0:09:07 > 0:09:09who died in 2013?
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Is that Achebe or Okri?
0:09:11 > 0:09:14I think Okri is a bit more...
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Ben Okri.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18No, it's Chinua Achebe.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22Mario Vargas Llosa's The Feast Of The Goat concerns the dictator
0:09:22 > 0:09:26Rafael Trujillo shortly before his overthrow in 1961.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29Which Caribbean country did he rule for more than 30 years?
0:09:29 > 0:09:30Any idea at all?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32What are you saying? Any idea?
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Dominican Republic.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Correct.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Who is the title figure of The Dictator's Last Night,
0:09:39 > 0:09:43a recent work by the Algerian author Yasmina Khadra?
0:09:43 > 0:09:46The person in question was killed by rebel forces in 2011,
0:09:46 > 0:09:47after ruling for more than 40 years.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49Gaddafi.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Gaddafi is correct. Ten points for this.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55Which ancient region was bordered by the River Oxus in the north...?
0:09:55 > 0:09:58Mesopotamia.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00I'm afraid you lose five points.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03..and the Hindu Kush mountains in the south?
0:10:03 > 0:10:06The religious founder, Zoroaster, is believed to have lived there
0:10:06 > 0:10:09and Alexander the Great's wife Roxana was from that region.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13It gives its name to a species of even-toed...?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Bactria.
0:10:15 > 0:10:16Bactria is correct.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23Bonuses, this time on the works of Goethe, Fitzwilliam.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27What is the single word title of Goethe's 1788 play
0:10:27 > 0:10:30based on the life of a 16th century Dutch count,
0:10:30 > 0:10:32associated with the Counter-Reformation?
0:10:32 > 0:10:36Beethoven wrote incidental music to a later revival of the play.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40Unfortunately, that clue doesn't help, does it?
0:10:40 > 0:10:42- Know any plays that aren't The Robbers?- No.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44- OK. We don't know. - It's Egmont.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46The Damnation of Faust,
0:10:46 > 0:10:50first performed in 1846 and based on Goethe's Faust, is a work
0:10:50 > 0:10:55described as a "legende dramatique" by which French composer?
0:10:55 > 0:10:58Could be Berlioz. Seems like the kind of thing he might do.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00- OK, nominate Tindall.- Berlioz.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Berlioz is correct.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06What is the English title of Goethe's poem Der Zauberlehrling?
0:11:06 > 0:11:10It's also the title of a symphonic poem by Paul Dukas.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Well, "zauber" is clean.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16- OK.- Making Clean? Cleaning?
0:11:16 > 0:11:20- I mean, you're the one who does German.- No, I don't know.
0:11:20 > 0:11:21Cleaning Up.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24No, it's the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Ten points for this.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27The addition of which two letters of the alphabet transforms the
0:11:27 > 0:11:32name of the largest moon of Saturn into that of the largest moon of...?
0:11:32 > 0:11:35IA.
0:11:35 > 0:11:36IA Titan becomes Titania, well done.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Fitzwilliam, these bonuses are on data compression.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45What adjective is applied to forms of non-destructive data
0:11:45 > 0:11:48compression that allow the processes to be reversed,
0:11:48 > 0:11:51recreating the original data exactly?
0:11:52 > 0:11:53- Zipped?- Encrypted?
0:11:57 > 0:12:00- I think it's an adjective. - Zipped.- Zipped.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02No, it's lossless compression or bit preserving.
0:12:02 > 0:12:06Using an adaptive method based on the encoding of sequences
0:12:06 > 0:12:11of data previously encountered, the LZ77 algorithm for lossless data
0:12:11 > 0:12:16compression was created by which two Israeli computer scientists?
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Name your favourite two Israeli computer scientists!
0:12:21 > 0:12:23We can't name one Israeli computer scientist.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Lempel and Ziv.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Five points for this then.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29What term denotes lossless compression in which
0:12:29 > 0:12:33blocks of matching data values are stored as the value and account?
0:12:33 > 0:12:35It is abbreviated to RLE.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41- Real Lossless Encryption? - Real Lossless Encryption.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44No, it's Run Length Encoding. Ten points for this.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46What Biblical structure links an unfinished
0:12:46 > 0:12:50oratoria by Arnold Schoenberg, a stepped path up the side of
0:12:50 > 0:12:52the Cheddar Gorge...?
0:12:52 > 0:12:53Tower of Babel.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57No, you lose five points. ..and a perennial with a binomial...?
0:12:57 > 0:12:59- Jacob's Ladder.- Correct.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05You get a set of bonuses, this time, Fitzwilliam, on football.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09Of the 12 clubs that competed in the first English Football League season
0:13:09 > 0:13:14in 1888-89, six played their home matches on grounds in which
0:13:14 > 0:13:15historic county?
0:13:15 > 0:13:18There are a lot of clubs in Lancashire.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20So...? Lancashire.
0:13:20 > 0:13:21Lancashire is correct.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24A club from which Lancashire town competed in the first
0:13:24 > 0:13:28Football League season, but went out of business just seven years later?
0:13:28 > 0:13:31A different club from the same town was
0:13:31 > 0:13:33promoted into the Football League in 2006.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36Accrington?
0:13:36 > 0:13:37No, no.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41I think Accrington Stanley did come into the league recently.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44- The league...- I'm going with Accrington.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46- Accrington.- Correct.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49In addition to Accrington, the other founder league clubs
0:13:49 > 0:13:53based in Lancashire in 1888 included Everton and Preston North End.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Can you name two of the other three?
0:13:55 > 0:13:59- OK, so it would be Blackburn Rovers, presumably.- And Liverpool?
0:13:59 > 0:14:02Try Liverpool? Blackburn Rovers and Liverpool.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03No, it's Bolton Wanderers
0:14:03 > 0:14:06and Burnley who are the other ones apart from Blackburn Rovers.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11For your music starter, you're going to hear a piece of popular music.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13For ten points, I want you to tell me
0:14:13 > 0:14:16the name of the artist you can hear singing.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19# Grips on your legs Front way, back way... #
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Drake.
0:14:21 > 0:14:22It is Drake. Yes.
0:14:25 > 0:14:30His One Dance is a notable example of a song that employs the dembow
0:14:30 > 0:14:33rhythm, a musical feature that originates from Jamaican dancehall.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36For your music bonuses, three more pieces of music that have been
0:14:36 > 0:14:40influenced by Jamaican dancehall and have made use of the dembow rhythm.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Five points for each artist you can name.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45Firstly, name either of the artists listed as collaborating
0:14:45 > 0:14:47on this track.
0:14:47 > 0:14:48# Hypnotised, pull another one
0:14:48 > 0:14:51# It's all right I know what you want
0:14:51 > 0:14:53# Get the vibe It's gonna be lit tonight
0:14:53 > 0:14:55# No lie
0:14:55 > 0:14:58# Feels how we do it No lie... #
0:14:58 > 0:15:00- Nominate Howe.- Rihanna?
0:15:00 > 0:15:02No, it's Sean Paul and Dua Lipa.
0:15:02 > 0:15:06Secondly, name any one of the three artists listed on this song.
0:15:06 > 0:15:12DANCEHALL INFLUENCED TRACK PLAYS
0:15:12 > 0:15:14Nominate Howe.
0:15:14 > 0:15:15DJ Snake?
0:15:15 > 0:15:18That's correct. Mo and Major Lazer were the others.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20Finally, name this solo artist.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22DANCEHALL INFLUENCED BEAT
0:15:22 > 0:15:24- Justin Bieber.- Yeah, Justin Bieber.
0:15:24 > 0:15:25Justin Bieber.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Indeed, yes!
0:15:28 > 0:15:30Said wonderfully disdainfully!
0:15:30 > 0:15:32Right, ten points for this. Who is this?
0:15:32 > 0:15:34Born in Switzerland in 1879,
0:15:34 > 0:15:38his work as an artist was influenced by Expressionism, Surrealism...?
0:15:38 > 0:15:39Paul Klee.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Paul Klee is correct.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48Three bonuses on the French author Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin,
0:15:48 > 0:15:50better known as George Sand.
0:15:50 > 0:15:55The pen name George Sand first appeared on which 1832 novel,
0:15:55 > 0:15:57in which a wife struggles for independence?
0:15:57 > 0:16:00It shares its name with a US state on Lake Michigan.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03- Nominate Parkin. - FRENCH ACCENT:- Indiana.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05- Er, Indiana. - Indiana is correct.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08In 1838, Sand began a liaison with which composer?
0:16:08 > 0:16:11She said that he made a single instrument speak
0:16:11 > 0:16:12a language of infinity.
0:16:12 > 0:16:13- Chopin.- Correct.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16An autobiographical work by Sand tells of a winter spent with
0:16:16 > 0:16:18Chopin on which Balearic island?
0:16:18 > 0:16:21The author Robert Graves is buried there.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Majorca, Minorca... Which one do you reckon?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Er, Minorca.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31No, it's Majorca. Bad luck. Ten points for this.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34Cladonia rangiferina, or reindeer moss,
0:16:34 > 0:16:38is an example of what form of organism, consisting of a symbiotic
0:16:38 > 0:16:41association between a fungus and an algae or cyanobacterium?
0:16:43 > 0:16:44Lichen.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Lichen is correct.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Your bonuses are on Africa.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53In each case, name all of the countries whose territories
0:16:53 > 0:16:57lie on the shortest straight line between the cities named,
0:16:57 > 0:17:00including those at the start and the end of the route.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03Firstly, Casablanca and Tripoli.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Yeah, it would go through Tunisia.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10So, Morocco...
0:17:10 > 0:17:13- Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia...- Libya.
0:17:13 > 0:17:18- OK, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya.- Correct.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Secondly, Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23- Ethiopia...- Kenya, Tanzania.
0:17:23 > 0:17:27Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, OK.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Correct. Finally Monrovia and Accra.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37- Liberia, Sierra Leone...- No, other side.- Is that the other side?
0:17:37 > 0:17:40- Liberia...- Togo...
0:17:40 > 0:17:43- Cote d'Ivoire. - This is quite a lot of countries.
0:17:43 > 0:17:47No, it's just Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana.
0:17:50 > 0:17:51Correct.
0:17:54 > 0:17:55Right, ten points for this.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59Which British political party was formed in 1934 by the merger
0:17:59 > 0:18:00of two earlier bodies?
0:18:00 > 0:18:03It has its headquarters at Gordon Lamb House.
0:18:06 > 0:18:07The Scottish National Party.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10- Correct.- Oh, is it? Oh, right!
0:18:10 > 0:18:11APPLAUSE
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Your bonuses are on physiology, Magdalen.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18In addition to the thyroid hormones, which hormone plays a role
0:18:18 > 0:18:21in calcium homeostasis and is secreted by the thyroid gland?
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Er...
0:18:23 > 0:18:24Anyone?
0:18:24 > 0:18:27- We have no idea. - That's calcitonin, apparently.
0:18:27 > 0:18:32Thyroid hormones are synthesised from iodine and which amino acid?
0:18:33 > 0:18:35What are amino acids?
0:18:35 > 0:18:36- Let's say glycine.- Glycine.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38No, it's tyrosine.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42Secretion of thyroid hormones is regulated by TSH.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46What two-word term denotes the specific endocrine gland
0:18:46 > 0:18:47that secretes TSH?
0:18:48 > 0:18:51- Uh...- Pituitary?
0:18:51 > 0:18:53- Might be, might be. - Go for that.
0:18:53 > 0:18:54Pituitary gland.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57It's, no, it's the anterior pituitary gland.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59- I needed both words.- Oh, right. - Ten points for this.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02In physics, what term is used to describe quantities
0:19:02 > 0:19:05such as weight, force, velocity and acceleration...?
0:19:05 > 0:19:07- Vector?- Vector is right.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10APPLAUSE
0:19:10 > 0:19:13Your bonuses are on 17th and 18th century philosophers.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15In each case, identify the person
0:19:15 > 0:19:17from the English titles of their works.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20Firstly, An Essay Towards A New Theory Of Vision
0:19:20 > 0:19:24and Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous.
0:19:24 > 0:19:25Oh, no.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27LAUGHTER
0:19:27 > 0:19:29Oh, is...? Is it Berkeley?
0:19:29 > 0:19:30Try it.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32- Berkeley?- Correct.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34The Monadology, secondly, the Theodicy,
0:19:34 > 0:19:36and the Discourse On Metaphysics.
0:19:36 > 0:19:38Oh...
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Any ideas?
0:19:42 > 0:19:44I've got Locke in my head, for some reason.
0:19:44 > 0:19:45We could say...
0:19:45 > 0:19:47No, that's not 18th and 19th century.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Oh, 19th century...
0:19:49 > 0:19:50Um...OK, Locke.
0:19:50 > 0:19:51No, it's Leibniz.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54And finally, the Principles Of Cartesian Philosophy
0:19:54 > 0:19:56and the Ethics.
0:19:56 > 0:19:57Must be...
0:19:57 > 0:19:58Spinoza.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Spinoza is right. Ten points for this.
0:20:00 > 0:20:01APPLAUSE
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Name either of the two French rivers that may precede the word
0:20:04 > 0:20:07maritime in the names of administrative departements.
0:20:08 > 0:20:09Rhone.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12No, you lose five points. Anyone want to buzz from...?
0:20:12 > 0:20:13Seine.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Seine is one, and the other one is Charente.
0:20:15 > 0:20:16APPLAUSE
0:20:16 > 0:20:19So you get the points. Your bonuses are on an insect.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Imitative in origin, what common name is given to insects
0:20:22 > 0:20:26in the family Gryllidae of the order Orthoptera?
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Species include ant-loving and sword-bearing.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35- Beetles?- Go for it.
0:20:35 > 0:20:36Beetle.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38No, they're crickets.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Divided into chapters called chirps,
0:20:40 > 0:20:42The Cricket On The Hearth is a Christmas novella
0:20:42 > 0:20:44of the 1840s by which author?
0:20:44 > 0:20:45Dickens.
0:20:45 > 0:20:46Correct.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49Published in his first collection in 1817,
0:20:49 > 0:20:54On The Grasshopper And The Cricket is a work by which English poet?
0:20:54 > 0:20:55Any ideas?
0:20:55 > 0:20:59- Um...1817... - 1817, what would that sound like?
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Say a name.
0:21:01 > 0:21:02Browning?
0:21:02 > 0:21:04- Browning?- No, it's Keats.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07We're going to take a picture round. For your picture starter,
0:21:07 > 0:21:09you'll see a painting. Ten points if you can identify the artist.
0:21:12 > 0:21:13- Vermeer.- Vermeer is right, yes.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16APPLAUSE
0:21:16 > 0:21:19That painting was stolen in 1990 and remains missing.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22It was one of the earliest major acquisitions by the US art patron
0:21:22 > 0:21:25and collector Isabella Stewart Gardner.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Your picture bonuses are three more works from Gardner's collection
0:21:28 > 0:21:30which can still be seen in Boston today.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33Five points for each artist you can identify. Firstly...
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Oh, what does that look like?
0:21:37 > 0:21:39I think this is, like... It looks like...
0:21:39 > 0:21:40I think it's a Spanish artist.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42- Yeah...- I think...
0:21:42 > 0:21:44- We can say Goya?- Go for it. - Goya?
0:21:44 > 0:21:46No, that's by John Singer Sargent.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Gardner was a friend and patron of his. Secondly...
0:21:52 > 0:21:55- So this is, like, really old. - Very old.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Do you have any ideas?
0:21:58 > 0:22:01THEY CONFER
0:22:01 > 0:22:02Giotto?
0:22:02 > 0:22:04No, that's by Fra Angelico.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Gardner was the first to introduce Fra Angelico's work to the US.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09And finally...
0:22:10 > 0:22:12- Is that Botticelli?- Hmm...
0:22:12 > 0:22:14- I would...- Go for it.- Right.
0:22:14 > 0:22:15Might not be. Botticelli?
0:22:15 > 0:22:18It was Botticelli. That was the first Botticelli...
0:22:18 > 0:22:23Ten points for this. What vowel links the Swahili word for freedom,
0:22:23 > 0:22:26an official language of Pakistan and the giant monolith known...?
0:22:26 > 0:22:28U?
0:22:28 > 0:22:29U is correct.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32APPLAUSE
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Your bonuses are on place names this time.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36In each case, name the town or city from the description.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38All three names begin with the same two letters.
0:22:38 > 0:22:43Firstly, a city in south-west Germany, the location of the tallest
0:22:43 > 0:22:44church steeple in the world,
0:22:44 > 0:22:46and the birthplace of Einstein.
0:22:46 > 0:22:47Ulm.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50Correct. Secondly, a city on the River Volga,
0:22:50 > 0:22:52formerly known as Simbirsk.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55It was renamed in 1924 after the family name of Lenin
0:22:55 > 0:22:57who was born there in 1870.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59- Oh! Ulyanov, isn't it?- Go for it.
0:22:59 > 0:23:00Ulyanov?
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Ulyanovsk was the name of the town.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07And finally, a town in South Lakeland, close to Morecambe Bay.
0:23:07 > 0:23:11The comedian Stan Laurel was born there in 1890.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Ooh, no!
0:23:13 > 0:23:15- Ah, no!- Don't say that.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17Um, Ulthorpe.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19- No, it's Ulverston.- Ah! - Ten points for this.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22From an Algonquian language, what five-letter word denotes
0:23:22 > 0:23:25the largest extant member of the deer family?
0:23:25 > 0:23:28In North America it's a nickname for a person of unusual size
0:23:28 > 0:23:30or strength.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32- Fitzwilliam, Howe.- Moose?
0:23:32 > 0:23:33Moose is correct.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35APPLAUSE
0:23:35 > 0:23:37These bonuses are on a writer, Fitzwilliam.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41First published in 1857, two years after its author's death,
0:23:41 > 0:23:44The Professor is a novel by which literary figure?
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Is that Charlotte Bronte?
0:23:46 > 0:23:49She's... Cos she wrote one originally, didn't she, and scrapped it?
0:23:49 > 0:23:51- I'll go with that. - Charlotte Bronte?
0:23:51 > 0:23:52Correct.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56Like The Professor, Charlotte Bronte's novel Villette draws on her
0:23:56 > 0:24:01experiences of teaching English in the 1840s in which European country?
0:24:03 > 0:24:05France, Switzerland?
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Shall we try Switzerland?
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Switzerland?
0:24:10 > 0:24:13No, it's Belgium. Which Victorian novelist wrote the biography
0:24:13 > 0:24:17The Life Of Charlotte Bronte, also published in 1857?
0:24:17 > 0:24:19Ooh, goodness me. That doesn't ring a bell.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23- George Eliot, that's more... - Come on!
0:24:23 > 0:24:25- Eliot?- No, it's Mrs Gaskell.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28We've got about three and a half minutes to go. Ten points for this.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Referring to a centre for the robotic exploration of the solar
0:24:31 > 0:24:34system, the letters JPL...
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
0:24:37 > 0:24:38That's correct, yes.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40APPLAUSE
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Your bonuses now are on Greek civilisation, Fitzwilliam.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Meaning "great Greece", what Latin term refers to the
0:24:45 > 0:24:49regions of southern Italy that were colonised by Greek settlers from
0:24:49 > 0:24:51the eighth century BC?
0:24:51 > 0:24:55- Nominate Tindall.- Magno Graecia?
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Magna Graecia, yes.
0:24:57 > 0:24:58The wrestler Milo,
0:24:58 > 0:25:01reputed to have won events at six Olympic games, was a native of
0:25:01 > 0:25:06which city of Magna Graecia, located in the modern region of Calabria?
0:25:08 > 0:25:11- Calabria's... - There's Reggio-Calabria.
0:25:11 > 0:25:12Reggio?
0:25:12 > 0:25:15No, it's Crotone. And finally, denoting a person with a fondness
0:25:15 > 0:25:19for luxury or pleasure, what term is derived from the name of an ancient
0:25:19 > 0:25:23city of Magna Graecia, lying on the Gulf of Taranto?
0:25:24 > 0:25:27- Syracuse, is that...?- No, that's in Sicily.- Oh, er, Sybarite.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29- Sybarite, yeah.- Sybarite?
0:25:29 > 0:25:32Sybarite is correct. Ten points for this.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Arms And The Man I Sing is John...
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Fitzwilliam, Tindall!
0:25:36 > 0:25:37The Aeneid?
0:25:37 > 0:25:38The Aeneid is correct! Yes.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41APPLAUSE
0:25:41 > 0:25:44These bonuses are on birthplaces of British monarchs.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47George II was born in 1683 in the Schlossel Castle
0:25:47 > 0:25:50at Herrenhausen in which German city?
0:25:51 > 0:25:52I don't know that.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55- I'd say Hanover, but that's...- Hanover?
0:25:55 > 0:26:00Correct. George VI, born in 1895, is the only British monarch to have
0:26:00 > 0:26:02been born at which royal residence?
0:26:03 > 0:26:04Balmoral?
0:26:04 > 0:26:08No, it's Sandringham. And, finally, two British monarchs were born at
0:26:08 > 0:26:09Buckingham Palace.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11For five points, name either of them.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18I think she was born... We could try it. Elizabeth II?
0:26:18 > 0:26:21No, it's William IV and Edward VII.
0:26:21 > 0:26:22Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26In terms of internet country codes, if Comoros is kilometre,
0:26:26 > 0:26:29what metric unit is Madagascar?
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Metre?
0:26:33 > 0:26:35- No. Anyone want to buzz from Magdalen?- Milligram?
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Milligram is correct, yes.
0:26:37 > 0:26:38APPLAUSE
0:26:38 > 0:26:42Your bonuses are on asteroids classified according to their spectral class.
0:26:42 > 0:26:45Discovered in 1849, firstly, which is the largest of the dark,
0:26:45 > 0:26:47C-type asteroids?
0:26:47 > 0:26:50It shares its name with the Greek goddess of health.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52- THEY CONFER Come on!- Um, Sairwees.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54No, it's Hygeia.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56With a diameter of roughly 200km,
0:26:56 > 0:26:59what is the largest known M-class asteroid?
0:26:59 > 0:27:01It's named after a lover of Cupid in classical mythology.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Is that Psyche? Psyche?
0:27:03 > 0:27:07Correct. What S-type asteroid was the fifth to be discovered and
0:27:07 > 0:27:10shares its name with the mythological virgin goddess of purity?
0:27:12 > 0:27:13Um, Vester?
0:27:13 > 0:27:14No, it's Astraea. Ten points for this.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18In birds, what is produced by the organ called the syrinx?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21The call?
0:27:21 > 0:27:23I'll accept that, yes, it's the song or the sound.
0:27:23 > 0:27:24APPLAUSE
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Right, you get a set of bonuses on Scotland. In each case,
0:27:27 > 0:27:30give the council area whose name corresponds to the following.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33First, the noble title of John Graham of Claverhouse,
0:27:33 > 0:27:37a Jacobite general killed at the battle of Killiecrankie in 1689?
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Marr? There was certainly a Marr. Let's try Marr.
0:27:42 > 0:27:43No, it's Dundee.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Secondly, the government commander at the 1715 battle
0:27:46 > 0:27:48of Sheriffmuir, followed by the Prime Minister at the end...
0:27:48 > 0:27:51GONG APPLAUSE
0:27:51 > 0:27:53And at the gong, Magdalen College, Oxford have 155,
0:27:53 > 0:27:56but Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge have 200.
0:27:56 > 0:27:57APPLAUSE
0:27:57 > 0:27:59Bad luck, Magdalen, you were very entertaining.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02You can always get a job doing voiceover, any of you, I'm sure.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Fitzwilliam, many congratulations to you.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07We shall look forward to seeing you in the quarterfinals. Congratulations.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10I hope you can join us next time for the last of the second round matches,
0:28:10 > 0:28:13but until then, it's goodbye from Magdalen College, Oxford.
0:28:13 > 0:28:14- Bye-bye.- Goodbye.- Bye.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17- It's goodbye from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. ALL:- Goodbye.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.