0:00:17 > 0:00:19APPLAUSE
0:00:19 > 0:00:22University Challenge.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hello. 28 teams qualified to appear in this series.
0:00:31 > 0:00:3512 left after their first-round matches, and so far,
0:00:35 > 0:00:38seven have departed during the second round, which ends tonight.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41The winners of this fixture will take the final place
0:00:41 > 0:00:44in the quarterfinals - and the losers won't.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46The team from Oxford Brookes University met
0:00:46 > 0:00:49the art specialists of the Courtauld Institute in round one,
0:00:49 > 0:00:54and came away with a comfortable win by 175 points to 85.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58They did well on British indie bands and theme park roller-coasters,
0:00:58 > 0:01:03they had fun with flags and were impressive on African capitals,
0:01:03 > 0:01:06but appeared never to have listened to the shipping forecast.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09With an average age of 36, let's meet the Oxford Brookes team again.
0:01:11 > 0:01:12Hello, my main is Inigo Purcell,
0:01:12 > 0:01:16I'm from Chiswick in West London, and I'm studying English.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20Hello. I'm Pat O'Shea, I live in Oxford, and I'm studying film.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21And their captain.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Guten tag, hoeijendagh, bonjour.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25I'm Thomas De Bock, I'm from Liege in Belgium,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28and I study motorsport engineering.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32Hi, I'm Emma-Ben Lewis, I'm from Woodford Green in Northeast London,
0:01:32 > 0:01:34and I'm studying for a masters degree in psychology.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36APPLAUSE
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Now, the team from Merton College, Oxford
0:01:41 > 0:01:44achieved the highest first-round score - 285,
0:01:44 > 0:01:47against the 110 of the spirited but doomed opposition
0:01:47 > 0:01:48of King's College, London.
0:01:48 > 0:01:53They tripped up a couple of times during a round on famous spies,
0:01:53 > 0:01:56but to be fair, that is more of a Cambridge speciality.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58And they were strong on many other subjects,
0:01:58 > 0:02:02from Enid Blyton's Famous Five to income tax and world religions.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04With an average age of 23,
0:02:04 > 0:02:06let's meet the team from Merton College, Oxford.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10Hello. I'm Edward Thomas, I'm originally from Oxford,
0:02:10 > 0:02:14though I now live in Kent, and I'm reading ancient and modern history.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18Hello. I'm Alex Peplow, from Amersham in Buckinghamshire,
0:02:18 > 0:02:20and I'm reading for a masters in medieval studies.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22- Their captain.- Hello.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25I'm Leonie Woodland, I'm from Cambridge and I'm reading physics.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Hello, I'm Akira Wiberg, I'm from Sweden and Japan,
0:02:29 > 0:02:32and I'm reading for a doctorate in molecular and cellular medicine.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34APPLAUSE
0:02:36 > 0:02:39OK, you all know the rules, so, let's just crack on with it.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Ten points at stake for the first starter question, so,
0:02:41 > 0:02:43fingers on the buzzers, please.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47The ceremonial engraving known as the Narmer Palette is a significant
0:02:47 > 0:02:50artefact of which ancient civilisation?
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Thought to depict a ruler's reunification of two kingdoms,
0:02:53 > 0:02:55the Upper and the Lower, it...
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Egypt?
0:02:57 > 0:02:58Egypt is right, yes.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04You get a set of bonuses on a Tudor nobleman, Merton College.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset,
0:03:06 > 0:03:10was the Protector of England early in the reign of which monarch,
0:03:10 > 0:03:14whose mother, Seymour's sister, died shortly after giving birth?
0:03:15 > 0:03:18- Edward VI.- Edward VI is right.
0:03:18 > 0:03:19In the 1540s,
0:03:19 > 0:03:23Seymour commanded the military campaigns known as the Rough Wooing.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27They aimed to force an agreement to a marriage between the young Edward
0:03:27 > 0:03:28and which royal figure?
0:03:28 > 0:03:31- Mary, Queen of Scots. - Mary, Queen of Scots.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35Correct. Which Booker Prize-winning novel of 2009 is named after
0:03:35 > 0:03:38the ancestral home of the Seymours in Wiltshire?
0:03:38 > 0:03:40- Wolf Hall.- Correct.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Ten points for this. Give the two words
0:03:42 > 0:03:44that complete Jowett's translation
0:03:44 > 0:03:47of a quotation from the works of Aristotle.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51"Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature,
0:03:51 > 0:03:54"and that man is by nature..."
0:03:54 > 0:03:55A political animal.
0:03:55 > 0:03:56Correct.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03Your bonuses are on classical music this time, Merton College.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06In a collection completed in 1802,
0:04:06 > 0:04:08which composer set to music
0:04:08 > 0:04:11six poems by the German writer Christian Gellert?
0:04:15 > 0:04:16Beethoven?
0:04:19 > 0:04:21- It could be Beethoven. - Beethoven? Beethoven.
0:04:21 > 0:04:22It was Beethoven, yes.
0:04:22 > 0:04:28Beethoven's Violin Sonata Opus No.47 is commonly known by what name,
0:04:28 > 0:04:32the surname of the French-born virtuoso violinist to whom it was dedicated?
0:04:32 > 0:04:33Kreutzer.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37Correct. From the title of nobility of his patron, Rudolph of Austria,
0:04:37 > 0:04:41what name is given to Beethoven's Piano Trio Opus No.97?
0:04:41 > 0:04:43The Archduke.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45- Archduke.- Just Archduke?
0:04:45 > 0:04:47- The Archduke.- Correct.
0:04:47 > 0:04:48Ten points for this.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52A location of noctilucent clouds and characterised by very
0:04:52 > 0:04:57low temperatures, which layer of the atmosphere lies between around 50
0:04:57 > 0:05:01and 85km in altitude above the stratosphere, and...
0:05:01 > 0:05:03The mesosphere.
0:05:03 > 0:05:04Mesosphere is correct, yes.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06APPLAUSE
0:05:08 > 0:05:11You get a set of bonuses on animals protected in the UK by Schedule 5
0:05:11 > 0:05:15of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Firstly, Barbary Carpet,
0:05:17 > 0:05:22Sussex Emerald and Slender Scotch Burnet are all examples of protected
0:05:22 > 0:05:26species of what insect of the order Lepidoptera?
0:05:26 > 0:05:27Butterflies? Butterfly.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30No, they're moths. Reflecting its striking physical appearance,
0:05:30 > 0:05:34what two-word common name is given to Lucanus cervus,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37a protected insect of the order Coleoptera?
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Is that a stag beetle?
0:05:40 > 0:05:43Or a...?
0:05:43 > 0:05:45- Stag beetle?- Correct.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48What name is commonly given to the protected aquatic annelid worm with
0:05:48 > 0:05:51the binomial Hirudo medicinalis?
0:05:51 > 0:05:52I think that's leech.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Is that protected?
0:05:54 > 0:05:56I don't know. They used to.
0:05:56 > 0:05:57Leech?
0:05:57 > 0:05:58It is the leech, yes.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01Ten points for this. Which composer adapted the folk melody
0:06:01 > 0:06:04The March Of The Kings for his incidental music
0:06:04 > 0:06:07to Alphonse Daudet's play, L'Arlesienne?
0:06:07 > 0:06:09It dates from 1872...
0:06:09 > 0:06:10Bizet.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11Bizet is right.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Your bonuses are on cities in the United States.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21All three answers share the same initial letter.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25Firstly, with a recent population estimate of around 140,000,
0:06:25 > 0:06:28which city in the state of Virginia shares its name with an ancient
0:06:28 > 0:06:31seaport on Egypt's Mediterranean coast?
0:06:33 > 0:06:35- Alexandria?- Yeah, Alexandria.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37- Alexandria?- Correct.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39Having a current population of just over 100,000,
0:06:39 > 0:06:43which city to the east of San Francisco shares its name with an
0:06:43 > 0:06:45ancient city in southern Turkey
0:06:45 > 0:06:48that was a major centre of the Seleucid kingdom?
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Anaheim is in California, but...
0:06:52 > 0:06:55- That doesn't sound...- No?
0:06:55 > 0:06:58But do we have anything else? Anaheim?
0:06:58 > 0:06:59No, it's Antioch.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01With a population of around 120,000,
0:07:01 > 0:07:04which city in Clarke County, Georgia,
0:07:04 > 0:07:06also shares its name with one of the major cities
0:07:06 > 0:07:08of classical civilisation?
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Atlanta's much bigger. Augusta's in Georgia.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15- Is there a city that...? - Athens is in Georgia.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17- Isn't Athens in Georgia?- Oh.
0:07:17 > 0:07:18- Yeah.- Athens?
0:07:18 > 0:07:20Athens is correct. Right, picture round for you.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24For your picture starter, you'll see a simplified family tree.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28For ten points, what is the family name of this fictional dynasty?
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Oh, no, sorry.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Anyone like to buzz from Oxford Brookes?
0:07:42 > 0:07:43Buendia.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47Buendia is correct, from Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude,
0:07:47 > 0:07:51which tells the story of six generations of the Buendia family.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53For your picture bonuses, you'll see the members
0:07:53 > 0:07:55of three more notable family sagas.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Again, for the points, I want you to give me the family name
0:07:58 > 0:08:00of each fictional dynasty.
0:08:00 > 0:08:01Firstly, for five.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Oh, is it an American one?
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Is it from Grapes of Wrath?
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Yeah, go for that.
0:08:13 > 0:08:14We need a family, so Joad?
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- Joad?- Joad is correct, and it was The Grapes of Wrath.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19Secondly...
0:08:24 > 0:08:26That's the DH Lawrence, Women in Love.
0:08:26 > 0:08:27What's the surname?
0:08:29 > 0:08:31It's German-sounding...
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Yeah.
0:08:33 > 0:08:34Gudrun is the first name.
0:08:37 > 0:08:38Schmidt.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Bad luck. You've identified the family and the work - of course,
0:08:41 > 0:08:45it was also in The Rainbow - but the family name was Brangwen.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46Finally.
0:08:49 > 0:08:50- This is...- Flyte, is it?
0:08:50 > 0:08:53- Flyte, yes.- So the name is Flyte?
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Flyte, or Brideshead...
0:08:55 > 0:08:56- Flyte, yeah.- Flyte.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Flyte is correct, it is from Brideshead Revisited.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03Ten points for this. Which 1955 novel appears in the title of
0:09:03 > 0:09:06a 2003 memoir by the Iranian-born author...
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Lolita?
0:09:08 > 0:09:09Lolita is correct.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12APPLAUSE
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Your bonuses, Merton College, are on French words used in English.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19In each case, the answer ends with the same four letters.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23Firstly, Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller is
0:09:23 > 0:09:26an early example of what literary genre?
0:09:26 > 0:09:27It's a type of fictional biography,
0:09:27 > 0:09:31described by Sir Walter Scott as a "romance of roguery".
0:09:33 > 0:09:34Roman-fleuve.
0:09:36 > 0:09:37I feel like it's one word, but...
0:09:37 > 0:09:39- OK.- But do we have anything else?
0:09:39 > 0:09:42- It could be.- Roman-fleuve.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44No, it's picaresque.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Secondly, what term was used
0:09:46 > 0:09:48for a female slave in a harem when depicted
0:09:48 > 0:09:52in art, such as in the title of a painting in the Louvre by Ingres?
0:09:52 > 0:09:53- Odalisque?- Yeah.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55- Odalisque.- Correct.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58What word can mean both a caricature in literature and,
0:09:58 > 0:10:00particularly in the United States,
0:10:00 > 0:10:03a variety show that is intended for an adult audience?
0:10:03 > 0:10:05- Burlesque.- Burlesque.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Burlesque is right. Ten points for this.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12The 18th-century French scientist Reaumur and the 19th-century
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Scottish engineer William Rankine...
0:10:14 > 0:10:17- Temperature. - Temperature is correct, yes.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19APPLAUSE
0:10:19 > 0:10:22These bonuses are on Italian physicists, Oxford Brookes.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26Which physicist, born in Italy in 1905, discovered two elements
0:10:26 > 0:10:28and also the antiproton?
0:10:28 > 0:10:32He was awarded a share of the 1959 Nobel Prize for physics.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35- It was probably Fermi. - Go for that.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38- Fermi?- No, it's Emilio Segre.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42And who was awarded a share of the 1984 prize for his part in
0:10:42 > 0:10:47discovering the W and Z particles, carriers of the weak nuclear force?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49That's not Fermi, it's too late for that.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51- I can't think of... - It's not Avogadro?
0:10:51 > 0:10:53No, that was a lot, a lot earlier.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58- No, sorry, pass. - That's Carlo Rubbia.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01And finally, who was awarded the 1938 prize, unshared,
0:11:01 > 0:11:05for discovering radioactive elements created by neutron bombardment?
0:11:05 > 0:11:08He gives his name to a group of subatomic particles and a unit
0:11:08 > 0:11:11of distance equal to 10 to the -15 metres.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13- Fermi.- Fermi is right.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Ten points for this.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Give two answers as soon as your name is called.
0:11:17 > 0:11:18Alaska, Kansas,
0:11:18 > 0:11:23Maryland and New Jersey are among the eight US states with names
0:11:23 > 0:11:29that contain only one of the five vowels, for example, A and E.
0:11:29 > 0:11:30Utah.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34No, I'm afraid you're going to lose five points.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36The other four states are contiguous, name two of them.
0:11:41 > 0:11:42Tennessee and Kentucky.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45Tennessee is one, Kentucky is not, of course.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48The others are Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Ten points at stake for this starter question.
0:11:50 > 0:11:54Who said this? "I will not seek to set up that which Providence
0:11:54 > 0:11:56"hath destroyed and laid in the dust.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58"I would not build Jericho again."
0:12:00 > 0:12:02- Cromwell.- Oliver Cromwell's right, yes.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05APPLAUSE
0:12:05 > 0:12:09Your bonuses are on dominions of the British Empire during World War I.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13Firstly, which dominion defeated a pro-German rebellion in 1914
0:12:13 > 0:12:16and soon after annexed a neighbouring German colony,
0:12:16 > 0:12:19which it ruled until the 1990s?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21South Africa?
0:12:21 > 0:12:22- South Africa.- Correct.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Along with South Africa,
0:12:24 > 0:12:27which dominion was one of the few belligerents not to introduce
0:12:27 > 0:12:29conscription in World War I?
0:12:29 > 0:12:32The Prime Minister, Billy Hughes, introduced two referendums
0:12:32 > 0:12:34on the issue, but both were defeated.
0:12:34 > 0:12:35- Australia.- Correct.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39Which dominion occupied German Samoa in 1914?
0:12:39 > 0:12:42It introduced conscription in 1916, the same year as Britain.
0:12:42 > 0:12:47Australia? New Zealand?
0:12:47 > 0:12:50- Geographically, because it's near Samoa...- New Zealand.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52New Zealand is right. Ten points for this.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55What surname links the Scottish geologist
0:12:55 > 0:12:58who wrote the 18th-century work Theory Of The Earth,
0:12:58 > 0:13:00the political economist whose works include Them And Us
0:13:00 > 0:13:02and The State We're In,
0:13:02 > 0:13:07and the Yorkshire batsman who made 364 against Australia...
0:13:07 > 0:13:09- Hutton.- Hutton is correct, yes.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11APPLAUSE
0:13:13 > 0:13:15These bonuses are on a shared prefix, Oxford Brookes.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Coined in the 1940s,
0:13:17 > 0:13:20what eight-letter term denotes a variety of language unique to an
0:13:20 > 0:13:24individual which differs in some details from that of other speakers
0:13:24 > 0:13:26- of the same language?- It's idiolect.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28- Idiolect?- Yeah.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- Idiolect.- Correct.
0:13:30 > 0:13:31The term idiopt,
0:13:31 > 0:13:36coined in the 1830s but rejected because of its similarity to idiot,
0:13:36 > 0:13:39referred to a person with what visual defect,
0:13:39 > 0:13:41also called daltonism?
0:13:41 > 0:13:42- Colour blindness.- Yes, go.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44- Colour blindness.- Correct.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47Known by a four-letter onomatopoeic name from Malay,
0:13:47 > 0:13:50what percussion instrument is classed as an idiophone because
0:13:50 > 0:13:54its resonant, solid body produces its sound?
0:13:54 > 0:13:56The gamelan's from around there.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Yeah, go for it.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01- Gamelan.- No, it's gong.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03- Ah!- Right, we're going to take a music round now.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06For your music starter you're going to hear the overture of an opera.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Ten points if you can identify the composer.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11MUSIC PLAYS, IMMEDIATE BUZZ
0:14:11 > 0:14:14- Wagner.- It is Richard Wagner, it's the Overture to The Flying Dutchman.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16APPLAUSE
0:14:17 > 0:14:21Which, as you know, tells the story of that legendary ghost ship and its
0:14:21 > 0:14:24cursed captain. Your music bonuses are three more notable phantoms of
0:14:24 > 0:14:28the opera, I just need the composer's name in each case.
0:14:28 > 0:14:29Firstly, for five.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31OPERATIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Strauss?
0:14:45 > 0:14:47It could be Walton. Walton or Britten.
0:14:47 > 0:14:48Walton.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55No, I think it sounds more Britten.
0:14:57 > 0:14:58- Britten.- It is Benjamin Britten, yes,
0:14:58 > 0:15:00it's Peter Quint in The Turn of The Screw.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02Secondly...
0:15:02 > 0:15:04OPERATIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:15 > 0:15:16THEY CONFER
0:15:20 > 0:15:22I don't think they're necessarily English,
0:15:22 > 0:15:24they're just to do with ghosts.
0:15:26 > 0:15:27It could be Purcell.
0:15:27 > 0:15:32- Try Purcell.- What did Purcell write? - Dido and Aeneas...- OK.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34- Purcell.- No, it's Monteverdi,
0:15:34 > 0:15:37it's from the Chorus Of The Infernal Spirits in Orfeo.
0:15:37 > 0:15:38And finally...
0:15:38 > 0:15:41OPERA PLAYS
0:15:41 > 0:15:43It's Don Giovanni.
0:15:43 > 0:15:44Mozart.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46Mozart's Don Giovanni, of course.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Right, ten points for this. In 2015,
0:15:48 > 0:15:51from which launch station did Tim Peake depart when he joined
0:15:51 > 0:15:55the International Space Station ten days before Christmas?
0:15:55 > 0:15:57Dating to the 1950s, it is...
0:15:58 > 0:16:01- Baikonur.- Baikonur Cosmodrome is correct.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05You get a set of bonuses on the brain.
0:16:05 > 0:16:06The Latin for bridge,
0:16:06 > 0:16:09what short name is given to the central section of the brainstem,
0:16:09 > 0:16:12located beneath the midbrain?
0:16:15 > 0:16:16The pons is a thing.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19- Pons.- Correct.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22What name is given to the lower part of the brainstem below the pons?
0:16:22 > 0:16:25It's responsible for controlling autonomic functions,
0:16:25 > 0:16:27such as respiration.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33- Medulla.- Medulla was what I was going to say, yeah.
0:16:33 > 0:16:34- Medulla?- Correct.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37The vermis is a medial structure
0:16:37 > 0:16:39that connects the lateral hemispheres of
0:16:39 > 0:16:43which section of the brain, located behind the brainstem?
0:16:43 > 0:16:45- Cerebellum?- Yes.
0:16:45 > 0:16:46- Cerebellum.- Correct.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50Ten points for this. "The entity which each of us himself is."
0:16:50 > 0:16:53This is Martin Heidegger's definition of what six-letter
0:16:53 > 0:16:58German term, a combination of words meaning "there" and "to be"?
0:16:58 > 0:16:59Dasein.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01Dasein is correct, yes.
0:17:01 > 0:17:02APPLAUSE
0:17:04 > 0:17:06These bonuses are on world rivers, Oxford Brookes.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08At the town of Bourem,
0:17:08 > 0:17:12the River Niger turns to the south-east at a great bend
0:17:12 > 0:17:14in which landlocked country?
0:17:16 > 0:17:18- Possibly Mali? - Yeah, could be in Mali.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20- Mali.- Mali is correct.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24The first bend of the Yangtze lies about 50km from the city of
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Lijiang, in which Chinese province,
0:17:27 > 0:17:29its name meaning "south of the clouds"?
0:17:32 > 0:17:33It's probably not Tibet.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36- Yunnan?- No.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Xinjiang, maybe. Xinjiang.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41No, it's Yunnan. And finally,
0:17:41 > 0:17:43its name referring to a turn on the Rio Grande,
0:17:43 > 0:17:49Big Bend National Park occupies a remote region of which US state?
0:17:49 > 0:17:54So, it's west of Texas, so it could be New Mexico?
0:17:54 > 0:17:56- New Mexico.- New Mexico?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58No, it's Texas. Ten points for this.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Answer as soon as your name is called.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04Of the seven SI base units, how many are eponymous?
0:18:08 > 0:18:12- Two.- Two is correct, the ampere and the kelvin.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Right, your bonuses this time are on mathematics and logic, Merton.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19Which German philosopher and mathematician has been described
0:18:19 > 0:18:21as the founder of modern mathematical logic?
0:18:21 > 0:18:24His works include the 1884 Foundations Of Arithmetic.
0:18:26 > 0:18:27Hilbert.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- Is he German?- Yes, he was German.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31- Hilbert.- No, it's Frege.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34Born in 1858, which Italian mathematician gives his name
0:18:34 > 0:18:37to nine axioms, or postulates, for the natural numbers?
0:18:37 > 0:18:40- Peano.- Correct.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Who collaborated with his former student, Bertrand Russell,
0:18:43 > 0:18:46in the Principia Mathematica which appeared from 1910?
0:18:46 > 0:18:48- Whitehead.- Whitehead is right.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Ten points for this. During the 1960s,
0:18:50 > 0:18:54the US painters Ad Reinhardt and Frank Stella were both noted
0:18:54 > 0:18:56for radical abstract series of works
0:18:56 > 0:18:58denoted by what five-letter adjective,
0:18:58 > 0:19:02also applied to a number of early 19th century paintings by Goya?
0:19:04 > 0:19:06- Black.- Black is correct, yes.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07APPLAUSE
0:19:09 > 0:19:13These bonuses are on the US author Alice Walker, Merton College.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16Which historian and social activist was an influence on Alice Walker
0:19:16 > 0:19:19from her time at university in the early 1960s?
0:19:19 > 0:19:23His works include A People's History Of The United States.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25That's Henry Adams.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27Is it Henry Adams?
0:19:27 > 0:19:30- Henry Adams.- No, it's Howard Zinn.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34Walker successfully revived interest in the writings of which figure of
0:19:34 > 0:19:36the Harlem Renaissance?
0:19:36 > 0:19:40Her noted works include the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46- No idea.- We don't know. - That was Zora Neale Hurston.
0:19:46 > 0:19:50And finally, who directed the 1985 film adaptation of Alice Walker's
0:19:50 > 0:19:51novel The Color Purple?
0:19:53 > 0:19:56- Spielberg.- Spielberg?
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Spielberg is right. Ten points for this.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01No longer in technical use in England and Wales,
0:20:01 > 0:20:05what Latin term denotes a writ that summons a person to court to give
0:20:05 > 0:20:07testimony or produce evidence?
0:20:07 > 0:20:10- Its literal...- Subpoena.
0:20:10 > 0:20:11Subpoena is correct.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Your bonuses are on pairs of words that differ only by the addition of
0:20:16 > 0:20:20the letters "ca" at the beginning of one of them,
0:20:20 > 0:20:22for example bin and cabin.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25In each case, give both words from the definitions.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28Firstly - mammal that terrifies Winston Smith
0:20:28 > 0:20:30and unit of weight for precious stones.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34- Rat and carat.- Rat and carat.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38Correct. Crossing in a wall or fence not usable by animals
0:20:38 > 0:20:42and historical region of central Spain.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45- Stile and Castile. - Stile and Castile.
0:20:45 > 0:20:46Correct. And finally -
0:20:46 > 0:20:48starchy, elongated foodstuff
0:20:48 > 0:20:53and an informal term meaning to kiss and cuddle amorously.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59- Noodle and canoodle. - Noodle and canoodle.
0:20:59 > 0:21:00Correct.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02We're going to take a picture round again.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05For your picture starter, you're going to see a painting of
0:21:05 > 0:21:08a mythological figure. For ten points, I want her name.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13- Europa.- It is Europa by Guido Reni.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15APPLAUSE
0:21:17 > 0:21:19You'll recall that Europa was abducted by Zeus while he was in
0:21:19 > 0:21:21the form of a white bull.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24For your picture bonuses, you're going to see three more paintings
0:21:24 > 0:21:26of the erotic metamorphoses of Zeus.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Again, in each case, I want you to identify
0:21:28 > 0:21:30the object of his attentions.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Firstly, for five, who's this on the left?
0:21:35 > 0:21:37That's Ganymede.
0:21:38 > 0:21:39- It's Ganymede.- Ganymede.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Ganymede by Rubens, that's right.
0:21:41 > 0:21:42Secondly, who's this figure?
0:21:44 > 0:21:46- Perseus's mother.- Yeah.
0:21:46 > 0:21:47What's her name?
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Merope? No.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Merope.
0:21:52 > 0:21:53No, that's Danae by Klimt.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55And finally, who's this?
0:21:56 > 0:21:58- Leda.- Leda.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00It is Leda, of course, by Cezanne.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04Ten points for this. "And so they buried Hector, breaker of horses."
0:22:04 > 0:22:08This, in Robert Fagles' translation, is the last line...
0:22:09 > 0:22:11- Iliad.- ..of the Iliad, that's correct.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13APPLAUSE
0:22:15 > 0:22:20You get a set of bonuses on plants of the Ericaceae or heather family.
0:22:20 > 0:22:21The national flower of Nepal,
0:22:21 > 0:22:24which large genus of woody shrub takes its name
0:22:24 > 0:22:27from the Greek for rose tree?
0:22:27 > 0:22:28Rhododendron?
0:22:28 > 0:22:30No, that might be...
0:22:30 > 0:22:31Rhododendron. Sorry.
0:22:31 > 0:22:36Correct. From the Greek for dry, because it thrives in dry soil,
0:22:36 > 0:22:39what six-letter term denotes a number of species of rhododendron
0:22:39 > 0:22:40with funnel-shaped flowers?
0:22:40 > 0:22:42It'll be xero-something, won't it?
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Possibly, but the name of the flower, that's what you need.
0:22:49 > 0:22:50Um...
0:22:50 > 0:22:53I'm trying to think of the Greek for flower.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56- No, it's six letters. - It's got to begin with what?
0:22:56 > 0:22:58Just because that came up from earlier, but...
0:23:01 > 0:23:03- Pass.- It's azalea.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06And finally, what is the common name of Vaccinium myrtillus,
0:23:06 > 0:23:09a low-growing shrub with small. edible fruit?
0:23:09 > 0:23:12It's commonly found on open moorland.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14It's blueberry, I think.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16- Just blueberry?- Or...
0:23:17 > 0:23:20- Blueberry. - No, it's the bilberry.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23Another starter question. What two-word formal term is used
0:23:23 > 0:23:26both by the government and the people themselves
0:23:26 > 0:23:29for the aboriginal people of Canada, who are neither...
0:23:29 > 0:23:31First Nations.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34First Nations is correct, they're neither Inuit nor Metis.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40So your bonuses this time, Oxford Brookes, are on a film director.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44One of only a small number of film-makers to have won the Palme d'Or twice,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47which British director's early work includes a number of contributions
0:23:47 > 0:23:51to the BBC's Wednesday Play, and the feature film Kes?
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Yeah, Ken Loach. Ken Loach.
0:23:53 > 0:23:58Ken Loach is right. Land and Freedom is a 1995 film by Ken Loach,
0:23:58 > 0:24:00set during which conflict?
0:24:00 > 0:24:02- The Spanish Civil War. - The Spanish Civil War.
0:24:02 > 0:24:07Correct. Cillian Murphy and Padraic Delaney play brothers
0:24:07 > 0:24:10in which 2006 film by Ken Loach, set in rural Ireland?
0:24:10 > 0:24:12The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16Correct. Just two and a half minutes to go, and ten points for this.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20"There is nothing ugly, I never saw an ugly thing in my life."
0:24:20 > 0:24:24These are the words of which artist, born in Suffolk in 1776?
0:24:27 > 0:24:30- Constable.- Constable is correct.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Your bonuses now are on bodies of water.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Euxeinos Pontos, or the Hospitable Sea,
0:24:35 > 0:24:38was the name given in antiquity to which body of water?
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Mediterranean?
0:24:40 > 0:24:42- Possibly.- Go for that.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44- Mediterranean? - No, it's the Black Sea.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47So-called because of its proximity to the Black Sea,
0:24:47 > 0:24:49Propontis was the Latin name of which sea,
0:24:49 > 0:24:52lying between the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54The Sea of Marmara.
0:24:54 > 0:24:55- Go for that.- Sea of Marmara.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59Correct. Known in Latin as Maeotis Palus,
0:24:59 > 0:25:03which inland sea is connected to the Black Sea by the Kerch Strait,
0:25:03 > 0:25:05to the east of the Crimean peninsula?
0:25:05 > 0:25:07This has come up before, it's the Azov Sea.
0:25:07 > 0:25:08- Go.- The Azov Sea.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10Correct. Ten points for this.
0:25:10 > 0:25:15Cassiterite is the chief ore of which metallic element?
0:25:15 > 0:25:16- Tin.- Tin is correct, yes.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21Your bonuses are on German universities, Merton College.
0:25:21 > 0:25:26Founded in 1409, Leipzig is Germany's second oldest university.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28In which federal state is it?
0:25:28 > 0:25:29Saxony.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31- Which one?- No, just...
0:25:33 > 0:25:35- Saxony.- Saxony is correct.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39Secondly, in which state are the universities of Greifswald and Rostock,
0:25:39 > 0:25:40both founded in the 15th century?
0:25:40 > 0:25:43Rostock is in the north, so it must be...
0:25:43 > 0:25:44Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47- Yes.- What's the...?
0:25:47 > 0:25:50- Nominate Wiberg. - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53That's correct. In which federal state are the universities of
0:25:53 > 0:25:57Freiburg and Tubingen, also founded in the 15th century?
0:25:57 > 0:26:01Freiburg's right in the west of Germany, so it's...
0:26:01 > 0:26:02Rhine-Westphalia?
0:26:03 > 0:26:06- Nominate Peplow. - Rhine-Westphalia.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07No, it's Baden-Wurttemberg.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Ten points for this. Belarius,
0:26:09 > 0:26:12Caius Lucius and Imogen are characters
0:26:12 > 0:26:14in which of Shakespeare's later plays?
0:26:14 > 0:26:19- Cymbeline.- Cymbeline is correct. These bonuses are on castles.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Duke Bluebeard's Castle is the only opera by which composer,
0:26:22 > 0:26:26born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1881?
0:26:26 > 0:26:27- Bartok.- Bartok.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31Correct. Lord Weary's Castle is a collection by which US poet?
0:26:31 > 0:26:34It includes The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket,
0:26:34 > 0:26:37inspired by the death of his cousin during World War II.
0:26:40 > 0:26:41Ginsberg? No, it would be later...
0:26:41 > 0:26:44- Frost?- No, it's Robert Lowell.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47Hatter's Castle and The Citadel are early novels by which Scottish
0:26:47 > 0:26:50writer and doctor, born in 1896?
0:26:51 > 0:26:54Robert Louis Stevenson. No, that's not...
0:26:56 > 0:26:58- Come on.- Conan Doyle.
0:26:58 > 0:26:59No...
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Robert Louis Stevenson.
0:27:01 > 0:27:02No, it's AJ Cronin.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Ten points for this, listen carefully.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07In terms of population size and the spelling of their names,
0:27:07 > 0:27:12if O is Liverpool, T is Nottingham and F is Sheffield,
0:27:12 > 0:27:14which English city is E?
0:27:20 > 0:27:22- Leeds.- Leeds is correct, yes.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25APPLAUSE
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Your bonuses this time, Merton College, are on ancient Greece.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30In each case, name the person from the description.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33All three names begin with the same three letters.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Firstly, an Athenian orator and statesman,
0:27:36 > 0:27:38his speeches include the Philippics against Philip II of Macedon...
0:27:38 > 0:27:40GONG
0:27:40 > 0:27:42And at the gong,
0:27:42 > 0:27:45Oxford Brookes University have 175,
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Merton College, Oxford have 255.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52Oxford Brookes, you came back strongly, but you left it
0:27:52 > 0:27:54a bit too late, I think, but never mind. But thank you very much
0:27:54 > 0:27:57for joining us. Merton, we shall look forward to seeing you
0:27:57 > 0:27:59in the quarterfinals. Congratulations to you.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02I hope you can join us for the first of the quarterfinals next time,
0:28:02 > 0:28:05but until then, it's goodbye from Oxford Brookes University.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08- ALL:- Goodbye.- It's goodbye from Merton College, Oxford.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11- ALL:- Goodbye.- And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13APPLAUSE